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Book Review: Fair Coin
Media Type: Print Book Title: Fair Coin *Series: Coin #1 Author: E.C. Meyers Publisher: Pyr Pages: Hardcover; 250 Release Date: March 27, 2012 Source: Publisher ———————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ———————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Science Fiction nerds! This is for you! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Sixteen-year-old Ephraim Scott is horrified when he comes home from school and finds his mother unconscious at the kitchen table, clutching a bottle of pills. The reason for her suicide attempt is even more disturbing: she thought she’d identified…
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Book Review: Fire Baptized
Media Type: Print Book Title: Fire Baptized (Habitat #1) Author: Kenya Wright Publisher: Dragonfairy Press Pages: Paperback; 276 Release Date: January 28, 2012 Source: Author ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Urban Fantasy ————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love gritty, dark stories with a romantic twist. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Since the 1970s humans have forced supernaturals to live in caged cities. Silver brands embedded in their foreheads identify them by species: a full moon for Vampires, a crescent moon for Shifters, a pair of wings for…
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Graphic Novel Review: Friends With Boys
Title: Friends With Boys Author: Faith Erin Hicks Illustrator: Faith Erin Hicks Publisher: First Second Pages: Paperback; 224 Release Date: February 28, 2012 Source: NetGalley A coming-of-age tale with a spooky twist! Maggie McKay hardly knows what to do with herself. After an idyllic childhood of homeschooling with her mother and rough-housing with her older brothers, it’s time for Maggie to face the outside world, all on her own. But that means facing high school first. And it also means solving the mystery of the melancholy ghost who has silently followed Maggie throughout her entire life. Maybe it even means…
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Children’s Book Review: Up Cat
Title: Up Cat Author: Hazel Hutchins Illustrator: Fanny Publisher: Annick Press Pages: Board Book; 26 Source: NetGalley ————————————– Recommended to: Parents looking for read that promotes new vocabulary and easy repetition of those new words. Difficulty Level: Easy, with a few more advanced words thrown in (i.e., snarled). Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N You’d be surprised at what a cat gets up to all day! A cat can get tangled up in all kinds of fun and mischief between wake-up time and nap time. Follow along with the playful text as Cat laps up milk,…
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Book Review: Partials
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Partials Author: Dan Wells Publisher: Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 472 Release Date: February 28, 2012 Source: NetGalley —————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language; Violence ——————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for dystopian novel that is a little bit different. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with partials–engineered organic beings identical to humans–has decimated the world’s population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction…
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Book Review: The Value of Rain
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Value of Rain Author: Brandon Shire Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 214 Release Date: November 30, 2011 Source: Author —————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Sexual Situations, Harsh Language —————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are comfortable with sexual situations and graphic language. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Charles is 14, and after being discovered with his first love he is forced into a mental hospital to cure his sexuality. For the next ten years he endures mental and physical torture as part…
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Book Review: Matchbox Girls
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Matchbox Girls Author: Chrysoula Tzavelas Publisher: Candlemark & Gleam Pages: Paperback; 326 Release Date: February 21, 2012 Source: Publisher —————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language —————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for a paranormal that is unique. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Marley Claviger is just trying to get her life together. Stumbling into an ancient conflict between celestial forces is going to make that a whole lot harder… When Marley wakes up to a phone call from a pair of terrified…
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Book Review: Undertow
Media Type: Ebook Title: Undertow Author: Callie Kingston Publisher: Carolwood Press Pages: Paperback; 230 Release Date: February 17, 2012 Source: Author ————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language ————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are comfortable with characters who face difficult situations. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon Marissa can’t wait to leave behind her mom and the traumatic life they shared. With Drake, she has it all figured out–until she discovers his betrayal. She flees to a desolate beach on the wild Oregon coast hoping to escape her…
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Book Review: Life Eternal
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Life Eternal *Series: Dead Beautiful (Book 2) Author: Yvonne Wood Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 392 Release Date: January 24, 2012 Source: NetGalley ————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note. ————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who read and loved Dead Beautiful. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Renée Winters has changed. When she looks in the mirror, a beautiful girl with an older, sadder face stares back. Her condition has doctors mystified, but Renée can never reveal the truth: she died…
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Book Review: Trafficked
Media Type: Print Book Title: Trafficked Author: Kim Purcell Publisher: Viking Children’s Books Pages: Hardcover; 352 Release Date: February 16, 2012 Source: Publicity Company ————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Sexual situations; Violence ————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who aren’t afraid of a realistic and gritty read. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Hannah believes she’s being brought from Moldova to Los Angeles to become a nanny for a Russian family. But her American dream quickly spirals into a nightmare. The Platonovs force Hannah to work sixteen-hour days,…