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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…
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Book Review: Killing Rites
Media Type: Print Book Title: Killing Rites *Series: The Black Sun’s Daughter #4 Author: M.L.N. Hanover Publisher: Pocket Books Pages: Mass Market Paperback; 384 Release Date: November 29, 2011 Source: Publisher —————————————– Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of this series, although I recommend the series to everyone! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N Jayné Heller has discovered the source of her uncanny powers; something else is living inside her body. She’s possessed. Of all her companions, she can only bring herself to confide in Ex, the…
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Book Review: Vicious Grace
Media Type: Print Book Title: Vicious Grace *Series: The Black Sun’s Daughter Author: M.L.N. Hanover Publisher: Pocket Books Pages: Mass Market Paperback; 367 Release Date: November 30, 2010 Source: Publisher ——————————————— Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of the series. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N When you’re staring evil in the eye, don’t forget to watch your back . . . For the first time in forever, Jayné Heller’s life is making sense. Even if she routinely risks her life to destroy demonic parasites that…
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Book Review: Darker Angels
Media Type: Print Book Title: Darker Angels Author: M.L.N. Hanover *Series: The Black Sun’s Daughter #2 Publisher: Pocket Books Pages: Mass Market Paperback; 360 Release Date: September 29, 2009 (Original September 23, 2009) Source: Publisher ——————————————————————– Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of this series! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N In the battle between good and evil, there’s no such thing as a fair fight. When Jayné Heller’s uncle Eric died, she inherited a fortune beyond all her expectations — and a dangerous mission in…
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Book Review: Unclean Spirits
Media Type: Print Book Title: Unclean Spirits * Series: The Black Sun’s Daughter Author: M.L.N. Hanover Publisher: Pocket Books Pages: Mass Market Paperback; 400 Release Date: July 28, 2009 (original December 2, 2008) Source: Publisher ———————————————————— Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of UF. Anyone who loves kick ass heroines. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N Jayné Heller thinks of herself as a realist, until she discovers reality isn’t quite what she thought it was. When her uncle Eric is murdered, Jayné travels to Denver to settle his estate,…
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Book Review: Nightingale
Media Type: Enhanced Ebook Title: Nightingale Author: David Farland Publisher: East India Press Pages: Kindle; 424 Release Date: October 31, 2011 Source: Publisher ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ————————————- HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: EVERYONE. Seriously. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Bron Jones was abandoned as a newborn. Thrown into foster care, he is rejected by one family after another, until he meets Olivia, a gifted and devoted high-school teacher who recognizes him for what he really is—what her people call a “nightingale.” But Bron isn’t…
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Book Review: The Moon Coin
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Moon Coin Author: Richard Due Illustrator: Carolyn Arcabascio Publisher: Gibbering Gnome Press Pages: Ebook; 297 Release Date: August 25, 2011 Source: Publisher ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade/Lower YA Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence ———————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fantasy readers, or those who love a good story. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N For Lily and Jasper Winter, the Moon Realm began with a single secret bedtime tale. As the children grew older, Uncle Ebb enthralled them with thrilling tales of the Dragondain…
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Children’s Book Review: Vunce Upon A Time
Media Type: Hardcover Picture Book Title: Vunce Upon a Time Author: J. Otto Seibold Illustrator: Siobhan Vivian Publisher: Chronicle Books Pages: Hardcover; 40 Release Date: September 1, 2008 Source: Publisher ————————————– Appropriate Age Group: As a read aloud I’d say this is appropriate for any group! Some of the vocabulary is a little advanced though, so independent readers might find it tricky. As an independent read I’d put it somewhere around 2nd or 3rd grade level. HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Dagmar is not like other vampires. He’s shy, he’s afraid of humans, and . . . he’s…
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Book Review: Trick or Treat
Media Type: Ebook Title: Trick or Treat Author: Richie Tankersley Cusick Publisher: Open Road Pages: Kindle Edition; 165 Release Date: October 4, 2011 (Kindle) Source: NetGalley ——————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence; Horror ——————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of R.L. Stine and Christopher Moore Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N A young girl is tormented by her new house’s terrible past Martha wants to be happy for her father. She likes his new wife—even if she’s a terrible cook—but she doesn’t understand why they had to leave…