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5 Favorite Book Picks with Emily Beaver, author of Slipping Reality
Special thanks to Emily Beaver and JKSCommunicatons for this original content! Emily Beaver’s Top 5 Book Picks 5 – In Cold Blood by Truman Capote I read this book for one of my analytical papers in AP Literature, and I just couldn’t put it down. Technically this is a non-fiction book, but I felt like it was fiction with how rich the characters and descriptions were. I’m already a fan of his most famous novel, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, but this book was written so simply and so effortlessly you can’t help but feel aligned with the characters. While much of…
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Book Review: The Nightmare Garden
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Nightmare Garden * Series: Iron Codex (Book 2) Author: Caitlin Kittredge Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 432 Release Date: February 14, 2012 Source: NetGalley ——————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence/Language ——————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who devoured the first book and were eagerly awaiting the next! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Everything Aoife thought she knew about the world was a lie. There is no Necrovirus. And Aoife isn’t going to succumb to madness because…
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Book Review: Slipping Reality
Media Type: Ebook Title: Slipping Reality Author: Emily Beaver Publisher: Authorhouse Pages: Paperback; 272 Release Date: July 11, 2011 Source: JKSCommunications ———————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ———————————– HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good story about dealing with grief and loss. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N In a time of hardship and heartbreak, sometimes, reality just isn’t enough. Slipping Reality is the story of fourteen-year-old Katelyn Emerson, who, when faced with the glaring reality of her brother’s illness, rebels against the truth…
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Emily M. Danforth shares her favorite moments from The Miseducation of Cameron Post
I had a very good time creating and inhabiting and utilizing the character of Grandma Post. In fact, I came to love her scenes so much that she eventually emerged on the page much more fully than I’d probably originally intended. Now that I’ve been done writing about her for quite awhile I actually miss her sometimes. That probably sounds strange, but it’s true. And so, in her honor, I give you: The Top Ten (Funny/Awkward/Old Fashioned/Endearing) Bits of Dialogue from Grandma Post When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief…
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Book Review: Forsaken Harbor
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Forsaken Harbor Author: Laura Kreitzer Publisher: Revolution Publishing Inc. Pages: Ebook; 228 Release Date: February 15, 2012 Source: Publisher ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence; Mild Language ————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoyed the first in the series, and also readers who crave a good action-packed read! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / B&N The Secret Clock Society has infiltrated every aspect of the government. You can’t hide from them, you can’t out run them—the only choice is to surrender or die fighting. Well,…
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Book Review: Phantom Universe
Media Type: Ebook Title: Phantom Universe Author: Laura Kreitzer Publisher: Revolution Press Pages: Ebook; 228 Release Date: February 3, 2011 Source: Purchased at B&N ————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence ————————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are comfortable with the concepts of slavery and torture. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Sold into slavery to pirates at the young age of four, Summer learns to survive the rough seas of subterfuge and thieves through silence. When the boat she’s lived on most of her life is destroyed,…
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Book Review: Illumine
Media Type: Ebook Title: Illumine Author: Alivia Anders Publisher: Self-published Release Date: January 7, 2012 Source: Purchased via Kindle ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence; Mild Language ———————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of paranormal fiction, and those who can stomach a little violence while setting off on an epic adventure! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon For the past five months Essallie Hanley has been trying to forget about the frightening murder of her boyfriend. Haunted by vivid nightmares and hallucinations of the event she does anything she can…
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Book Review: Everneath
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Everneath (Everneath #1) Author: Brodi Ashton Publisher: Harper Collins / Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 370 Release Date: January 24, 2012 Source: Teen Book Scene / Publisher ——————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ——————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Everyone. Really. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where immortals Feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she’s returned- to her old life, her family, her friends- before…
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Book Review: The Butterfly Clues
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Butterfly Clues Author: Kate Ellison Publisher: EgmontUSA Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: February 14, 2012 Source: NetGalley ————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild language; Mild violence ————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who want a thrilling mystery, but can also put up with the character’s OCD tendencies. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Penelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. Her dad’s consulting job means she’s grown up moving from one rundown city to the next, and she’s learned…
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Book Review: Fracture
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Fracture Author: Megan Miranda Publisher: Walker & Company Pages: Hardcover; 264 Release Date: January 27, 2012 Source: NetGalley ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language ———————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for something a bit different. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet…