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Book Review: Eon’s Door
Media Type: Ebook Title: Eon’s Door Author: J.G. McKenney Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 316 Release Date: July 10, 2011 Source: Author ——————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Fantasy Violence ——————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommend for: Lovers of Fantasy Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N Eon’s Door should not be open. Two thousand years after three clans flee the world of humans through Eon’s Door to find sanctuary in a realm called Erla, a prophecy left to them by the ancient race that created the tree portal is coming…
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Book Review: The Paradise Prophecy
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Paradise Prophecy Author: Robert Browne Publisher: Dutton Adult Pages: Hardcover; 400 Release Date: July 21, 2011 Source: Publisher ———————————– Genre: Psychological Thriller / Mystery HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy psychological thrillers and are fans of mystery novels. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N A spectacular thriller inspired by John Milton’s Paradise Lost in which the final chapter of the War in Heaven is about to play out on Earth, with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance. The Myth When God cast the…
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Book Review: Fury
Media Type: Print Book Title: Fury Author: Elizabeth Miles Publisher: Simon Pulse Pages: Hardcover; 352 Release Date: August 30, 2011 Source: Galley Grab ====================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 2 Keys to My Heart Sometimes sorry isn’t enough…. It’s winter break in Ascension, Maine. The snow is falling and everything looks pristine and peaceful. But not all is as it seems… Between cozy traditions and parties with her friends, Emily loves the holidays. And this year’s even better–the guy she’s been into for months is finally noticing her. But Em knows if she starts things…
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Book Review: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Media Type: Print Book Title: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Author: Alexandra Fuller Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Pages: Hardcover; 256 Release Date: August 18, 2011 Source: TLC Book Tours ——————————————— Genre: Memoir HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good, heartfelt memoir. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N In this sequel to Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy…
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Book Review: Shadow of a Dead Star
Media Type: Ebook Title: Shadow of a Dead Star Author: Michael Shean Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 228 Release Date: June 23, 2011 Source: Author ==================== Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Cyberpunk, Crime Thriller HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Seattle, 2078. The future hasn’t been kind to the spirit of humanity; commercial obsession and technological fetishism rules the day, religion and belief has died screaming in the fires of war, and what remains is moral decrepitude. Cities of glass and exotic metals reach toward the poisoned sky, and every night sees a host of sins played out under glittering…
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Book Review: The Atomic Weight of Secrets
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Atomic Weight of Secrets Author: Eden Unger Bowditch Publisher: Bancroft Press Pages: Hardcover; 339 Release Date: March 15, 2011 Source: NetGalley =================== Intended Reading Group: Upper Middle Grade/Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world’s most important scientists, went about their lives and their work as they always had. . But all that changed the day the men in black arrived. . An amazing story about the wonders of science and the still greater wonders of…
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Graphic Novel Review: Evelyn Evelyn
Media Type: Graphic Novel Title: Evelyn Evelyn Authors: Amanda Palmer, Jason Webley Illustrator: Cynthia von Buhler Publisher: Dark Horse Pages: Hardcover; 144 Release Date: September 14, 2010 Source: NetGalley Enthusiasts of genuine tragedy and celebrity intrique, gird your mental loins for an authentic tale of unbelievable hardship and epic catastrophe! This wholly true and accurate account details the extraordinary lives of Evelyn and Evelyn, a darling but unfortunate pair of conjoined twins who brave extreme circumstances of calamity and adversity, such as the bizarre and bloody night of their birth and subsequent orphaning; their early years on a chicken farm; shocking…
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Book Review: Dark Parties
Media Type: Print Book Title: Dark Parties Author: Sara Grant Publisher: Little, Brown BYR Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: August 3, 2011 Source: NetGalley =================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence; sexual situations HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Sixteen-year-old Neva has been trapped since birth. She was born and raised under the Protectosphere, in an isolated nation ruled by fear, lies, and xenophobia. A shield “protects” them from the outside world, but also locks the citizens inside. But there’s nothing left on the outside, ever since the world collapsed from violent warfare. Or so the…
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Graphic Novel Review: The Last Dragon
Media Type: Graphic Novel Title: The Last Dragon Author: Jane Yolen Illustrator: Rebecca Guay Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pages: Hardcover; 144 Release Date: October 4, 2011 Source: NetGalley Master storyteller Jane Yolen (Owl Moon, Sword of the Rightful King) and celebrated fantasy artist Rebecca Guay (Swamp Thing, Magic: The Gathering) weave a textured and lyrical tale of adventure, homelands, and heroism the hard way. Two hundred years ago, humans drove the dragons from the islands of May. Now, the last of the dragons rises to wreak havoc anew-with only a healer’s daughter and a kite-flying would-be hero standing in its…
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Graphic Novel Review: Secrets, Monsters & Magic Mirrors
Media Type: Graphic Novel Title: Secrets, Monsters & Magic Mirrors Author: Donald B. Lemke Illustrator: Various Publisher: Capstone Pages: Paperback; 176 Release Date: August 1, 2011 Source: NetGalley Five of the world’s greatest fairy tales are retold in the popular and attractive graphic novel format. Beautiful, bold illustrations give these timeless tales a modern edge. The stories include Beauty and the Beast, Rapunzel, Princess and the Pea, Snow White, and Thumbelina. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon Overall, Secrets, Monsters & Magic Mirrors is a pretty nice retelling of fairy tales. What really kept me from…