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Book Review: Breadcrumbs
Media Type: Print Book Title: Breadcrumbs Author: Anne Ursu Publisher: Walden Pond Press Pages: Hardcover; 312 Release Date: September 27, 2011 Source: Library ————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of fairy tales, both young and old. Anyone looking to get lost in a book. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. They had been best friends since they were six, spending hot Minneapolis summers and cold Minneapolis winters together, dreaming of Hogwarts and Oz, superheroes and baseball. Now that they…
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Book Review: The Secret Side of Empty
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Secret Side of Empty Author: Maria E. Andreu Publisher: Running Press Kids Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: March 11, 2014 Source: Publisher ————————————————- Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Everyone. This is a beautiful book and I recommend it to everyone! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes As a straight-A student with a budding romance and loyal best friend, M.T.’s life seems as apple-pie American as her blondish hair and pale skin. But M.T. hides two facts to the contrary: her full name of Monserrat Thalia…
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Book Review: The Cruelty
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Cruelty Author: S. Bergstrom Publisher: JKSCommunications Pages: Paperback; 377 Release Date: March 15, 2014 Source: Publisher ————————————————– Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy deeply written, fast paced thrillers with an amazing protagonist! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes When her diplomat father is kidnapped and the U.S. Government is unable to help, 17 year-old Gwendolyn Bloom sets off across the sordid underbelly of Europe to rescue him. Following the only lead she has—the name of a Palestinian informer living in France—she plunges…
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Book Review: Stim
Media Type: Ebook Title: Stim Author: Kevin Berry Publisher: Waspie Publishing Pages: Kindle; 176 Release Date: October 16, 2013 Source: Xpresso Book Tours ——————————————- Genre: Contemporary Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for an honest glimpse into the inner workings of a person with Asperger’s Syndrome. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Robert is different. He has Asperger’s Syndrome. He experiences the world differently to 99% of the population. Follow his entertaining and highly empathetic story as he struggles to realise and accept who he really is, try to understand other…
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Book Review: Cruelty (Episode: One)
Media Type: Ebook Title: Cruelty (Episode: One) *Series: Cruelty (Serial Novel) Author: Edward Lorn Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; N/A Release Date: October 5, 2013 Source: Purchased ————————————————- Genre: Horror HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love to be scared, and have a strong stomach. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes CRUELTY is a serial novel in ten parts. Episode One. On a lonely stretch of deserted Texas highway, Will Longmire breaks down. But he’s not alone. In the dead of night, Innis Blake hits someone, or something, with her car. The figure…
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Book Review: Side Effects May Vary
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Side Effects May Vary Author: Julie Murphy Publisher: Harper Collins/Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: March 18, 2014 Source: The Fantastic Flying Book Club/Publisher —————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Adult Language HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who want a different take on a character who is dealing with cancer. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / B&N What if you’d been living your life as if you were dying—only to find out that you had your whole future ahead of you? When sixteen-year-old Alice is diagnosed with leukemia, her prognosis is…
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Book Review: Shattered Veil (The Diatous Wars #1)
Media Type: Ebook Title: Shattered Veil * Series: The Diatous Wars #1 Author: Tracy E. Banghart Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 377 Release Date: February 28, 2014 Source: Xpresso Book Tours —————————————————- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy new worlds, with fascinating characters and situations. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / B&N When everything that defines you is stripped away, who do you become? ~ For Aris, a talented wingjet pilot, war means sacrificing everything: her home, her name, her face—and the one promise she swore she’d never break. In the…
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Book Review: Bittersweet Darkness (The Order #3)
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Bittersweet Darkness *Series: The Order #3 Author: Nina Croft Publisher: Entangled: Edge Pages: Kindle; 251 Release Date: February 24, 2014 Source: Publisher ————————————————— Genre: Paranormal Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fast-paced reads with excellently written characters! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes There are no monsters, only good guys and bad guys. That’s the creed by which Detective Inspector Faith Connolly has always lived. When Faith discovers that she has a time bomb counting down in her head, she has one goal; to solve…
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Book Review: The Waking Dark
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Waking Dark Author: Robin Wasserman Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: September 10, 2013 Release Date: Hardcover; 464 Source: Library ————————————————– Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are okay with dark, disturbing reads. This features plenty of violence. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes They called it the killing day. Twelve people dead, all in the space of a few hours. Five murderers: neighbors, relatives, friends. All of them so normal. All of them seemingly harmless. All of them now dead by…
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Book Review: The Rule of Three
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Rule of Three Author: Eric Walters Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Pages: Hardcover; 405 Release Date: January 21, 2014 Source: Library —————————————————- Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy more realistic fiction, and well-written characters Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes One shocking afternoon, computers around the globe shut down in a viral catastrophe. At sixteen-year-old Adam Daley’s high school, the problem first seems to be a typical electrical outage, until students discover that cell phones are down, municipal utilities are failing, and…