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Book Review: Heavenly
Media Type: Print Book Title: Heavenly (Heavenly #1) Author: Jennifer Laurens Publisher: Grove Creek Pages: Paperback; 296 Release Date: August 15, 2009 Source: Won from author ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ———————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a well written angel story! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N I met someone who changed everything. Matthias. My autistic sister’s guardian angel. Honest. Inspiring. Funny. Hot. And immortal. That was the problem. What could I do? I did what any other…
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Book Review: Cinder
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) Author: Marissa Meyer Publisher: Fiewel & Friends Pages: Hardcover; 387 Release Date: January 3, 2012 Source: NetGalley —————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note —————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fairy tale retellings, mashed with a bit of science fiction! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one…
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Book Review: The Next Shakespeare
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Next Shakespeare Author: Wanda Ernstberger Publisher: Etopia Press Pages: Ebook; 20 Source: Author ———————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ———————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy short stories, or those looking to take a great respite from long books. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Who thought a poem would trigger World War Three? Tristan Gunner—skateboard fanatic, junk food junkie, award-winning poet. But you’d think he just got detention instead of the school’s grand prize for poetry. And even though…
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Book Review: Feyland
Media Type: Ebook Title: Feyland Author: Anthea Sharp Publisher: Self Pages: Kindle; 159 Release Date: December 4, 2011 Source: Author ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence ————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of Fantasy Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N WHEN A GAME… Feyland is the most immersive computer game ever designed, and Jennet Carter is the first to play the prototype. But she doesn’t suspect the virtual world is close enough to touch — or that she’ll be battling for her life against the Dark…
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Book Review: Happy Birthday to Me
Media Type: Ebook Title: Happy Birthday to Me Author: Brian Rowe Publisher: CreateSpace Pages: Kindle; 175 Release Date: April 7, 2011 Source: Author ——————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language ——————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good heartfelt storyline Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Seventeen-year-old Cameron Martin has a huge problem: he’s aging a whole year of his life with each passing day! High school is hard enough; imagine rapidly aging from seventeen to seventy in a matter of weeks, with no logical explanation,…
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Book Review: The Printmaker’s Daughter
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Printmaker’s Daughter Author: Katherine Govier Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: Paperback; 494 Release Date: November 22, 2011 Source: TLC Book Tours ———————————————– Genre: Historical Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy vivid storytelling and historical references. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N A lost voice of old Japan reclaims her rightful place in history in this breathtaking work of imagination and scholarship from award-winning and internationally acclaimed author Katherine Govier. In the evocative tale of 19th century Tokyo, The Printmaker’s Daughter delivers an enthralling tale of…
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Book Review: Mine
Media Type: Print Book Title: Mine Author: Lin Sten Publisher: Create Space Pages: Paperback; 306 Release Date: May 6, 2010 Source: Author ————————————————- Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Science Fiction ————————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy hard core science fiction. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Selena Castillo publicly claims to be an extraterrestrial. Is it a joke, a delusion, a gimmick, or a reality? Tony Sturgess must believe that Selena’s claim is only a publicity stunt, or that she is insane, as he falls in love with her,…
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Book Review: Youth and Other Fictions
Media Type: Ebook Title: Youth and Other Fictions Author: Jonathan M. Cook Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 319 Release Date: September 23, 2011 Source: Author ———————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence; Harsh Language ———————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are okay with tough issues and graphic violence. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Jonathan Cook’s debut novel looks at the horrors of a school shooting and its psychological effects on those involved. Told from two perspectives–one a student’s and one a teacher’s–the story reveals the inner concerns leading…
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Book Review: Can You Survive? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Media Type: Print Book Title: Can You Survive? Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Author: Ryan Jacobson Publisher: Lake 7 Creative Pages: Paperback; 152 Release Date: November 1, 2011 Source: Publisher —————————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note. —————————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Those who enjoy choose your own adventure books, or lovers of Sherlock Holmes! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N He’s the world’s most famous detective, and thanks to this brilliantly adapted book, he’s you! The cases, the clues, the suspects, they’re yours to sort…
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Book Review: Remembrance
Media Type: Ebook Title: Remembrance * Series: Transcend Time Saga Author: Michelle Madow Publisher: Dreamscape Pages: Kindle; 314 Release Date: July 27, 2011 Source: The {Teen} Book Scene —————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note. —————————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy teen romance. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N New Hampshire high school junior Lizzie Davenport has been reincarnated from Regency Era, England … but she doesn’t know it yet. Then Drew Carmichael transfers into Lizzie’s school at the beginning of the…