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Audio Book Review: On The Edge
Media Type: Audio Book Title: On The Edge * Series: The Edge #1 Author: Ilona Andrews Narrator: Renee Raudman Publisher: Tantor Media Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 12 hours and 8 minutes Source: Library Download ———————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who like a strong female character and lots of magic to get lost in. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, between the world of the Broken (where people drive cars, shop at Wal-Mart, and magic is a fairy tale) and the Weird (where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the…
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Audio Book Review: Magic Strikes
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Magic Strikes * Series: Kate Daniels #3 Author: Ilona Andrews Narrator: Renee Raudman Publisher: Tantor Media Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 10 hours and 50 minutes Source: Library Download ———————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of the series! Seriously, if you’re not hooked now I just don’t know what to tell you. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to do with. And in…
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Audio Book Review: Magic Burns
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Magic Burns *Series: Kate Daniels #2 Author: Ilona Andrews Narrator: Renee Raudman Publisher: Tantor Media Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 9 hours and 38 minutes Source: Library Download ———————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of the series! It just keeps getting better and better. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Down in Atlanta, tempers-and temperatures-are about to flare… As a mercenary who cleans up after magic gone wrong, Kate Daniels has seen her share of occupational hazards. Normally, waves of paranormal energy ebb…
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Audio Book Review: Magic Bites
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Magic Bites *Series: Kate Daniels #1 Author: Ilona Andrews Narrator: Renee Raudman Publisher: Tantor Media Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 9 hours and 6 minutes Source: Library Download ————————————————– Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a rip roaring Urban Fantasy with a strong female character! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes…
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Book Review: Floors
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Floors Author: Patrick Carman Narrator: Jesse Bernstein Publisher: Scholastic Audio Format: MP3 Digital File Duration: 6 hours and 13 minutes Release Date: September 1, 2011 Source: Library ———————————————- Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade Content Screening: Nothing of note ———————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love quirky adventures! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Charlie had his chocolate factory. Stanley Yelnats had his holes. Leo has the wacky, amazing Whippet Hotel. The Whippet Hotel is a strange place full of strange and mysterious people. Each floor…
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Audio Book Review: Liesl & Po
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Liesl & Po Author: Lauren Oliver Narrator: Jim Dale Publisher: Harper Audio Format: MP3 Digital Download Duration: 5 hours and 55 minutes Release Date: October 4, 2011 Source: Audible ——————————————– Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade Content Screening: Nothing of Note ——————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers looking for a book with a heaping helping of magic! Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N / Book Depository Liesl lives in a tiny attic bedroom, locked away by her cruel stepmother. Her only friends are the shadows and the mice—until one…
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Audio Book Review: If I Stay
Media Type: Audio Book Title: If I Stay *Series: If I Stay #1 Author: Gayle Forman Narrator: Kirsten Potter Publisher: Penguin Group Format: MP3; 5 hours 2 minutes Release Date: April 30, 2009 Source: Audible ——————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ——————————————- Recommended to: Readers who love a good contemporary and aren’t afraid to cry. HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet…
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Audio Book Review: The Whites of Their Eyes
Media Type: Audio Book Title: The Whites of Their Eyes *Series: Keepers of the School #3 Author: Andrew Clements Narrator: Keith Nobbs Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Format: Unabridged Compact Disc; 4 discs Release Date: February 21, 2012 Source: Audiobook Jukebox ———————————————– Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade / YA Content Screening: Nothing of note. ———————————————– Recommended to: Readers who love adventure! HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Andrew Clements delivers the latest in his adventure-filled school series. This could be the last great Memorial Day weekend on Barclay Bay, and…
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Audio Book Review: Blood Red Road
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Blood Red Road *Series: Dust Lands #1 Author: Moira Young Narrator: Heather Lind Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 10 hours 17 minutes Source: Purchased on Audible ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence, Mild Language ————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N A girl goes on an epic journey through a bleak landscape in the first book of this post-Apocalyptic trilogy. Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The…
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Audio Book Review: The Graveyard Book
Media Type: Audio Book Title: The Graveyard Book Author: Neil Gaiman Narrator: Neil Gaiman Publisher: Harper Children’s Audio Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 7 hours 47 minutes Source: Purchased on Audible ————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ————————————- HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own. Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.…