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Book Review: Warm Bodies
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Warm Bodies Author: Isaac Marion Publisher: Vintage Pages: Hardcover; 256 Release Date: April 26, 2011 ======================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild zombie gore; mild violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart A zombie who yearns for a better life ends up falling in love—with a human—in this astonishingly original debut novel. R is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He doesn’t enjoy killing people; he enjoys riding escalators and listening to Frank Sinatra. He is a little different from his fellow Dead.…
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Odessa: The Seraphym Wars – Teaser & Giveaway!
Tweet For you today, I have a teaser from Rebecca Ryals Russell’s upcoming book, Odessa: The Seraphym Wars. A little bit steampunk, a lot fantasy, I’m about half way through reading this and can’t wait to share my review with you! In the meantime though, let me give you a taste of what to expect if you choose this book for your TBR pile. “Trembling, I stepped forward and thrust the sword into her chest where I hoped the heart was. I couldn’t imagine how a simple shard of metal could destroy a demon, but I watched in fascinated horror…
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Book Review: Girl Wonder
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Girl Wonder Author: Alexa Martin Publisher: Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: May 3, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ====================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Sexual situations, Cussing, Drug Use HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart As if transferring senior year weren’t hard enough, Charlotte Locke has been bumped to lower level classes at her new school. With no friends, a terrible math SAT score, and looming college application deadlines, the future is starting to seem like an oncoming train for which she has no ticket. Then Amanda enters her orbit like a hot-pink…
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Book Review: Broken
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Broken Author: Susan Bigelow Publisher: Candlemark & Gleam Pages: Ebook; 340 Release Date: January 25, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ======================= Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Cussing, Violence, Sexual Situations HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart In a post-war future world where First Contact has been made, humans are colonizing the stars, and the nations of Earth have been united under a central government, Extrahumans are required by law to belong to the Union. When a young man with visions of the future sets out on a mission to define the course of human history,…
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Book Review: Memento Nora
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Memento Nora Author: Angie Smibert Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Pages: Hardcover; 192 Release Date: April 28, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ==================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Nora, the popular girl and happy consumer, witnesses a horrific bombing on a shopping trip with her mother. In Nora’s near-future world, terrorism is so commonplace that she can pop one little white pill to forget and go on like nothing ever happened. However, when Nora makes her first trip to a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic, she learns what her mother,…
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Book Review: Hickey of the Beast
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Hickey of the Beast Author: Isabel Kunkle Publisher: Candlewick Gleam Pages: Serial Novel Release Date: March 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ===================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing to report! HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Connie thought freshman year might suck. She never thought it’d be literal. Bad dreams? No big deal. After all, Connie Perez is starting her first year in the prep school her mom runs. Anyone would be a little stressed, right? When she starts dreaming about strange creatures and places that don’t make sense, she doesn’t think much about…
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Book Review: Future Imperfect
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Future Imperfect Author: K. Ryer Breese Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Pages: Paperback; 320 Release Date: April 26, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ========================= Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence, language and sexual content HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Ade Patience can see the future and it’s destroying his life. When the seventeen-year-old Mantlo High School student knocks himself unconscious, he can see days and decades into his own future. Ade’s the best of Denver’s “divination” underground and eager to join the heralded Mantlo Diviners, a group of similarly enabled teens. Yet, unlike the…
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Book Review: The Guardians of the Hidden Scepter
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: The Guardians of the Hidden Scepter Author: Frank L. Cole Publisher: Cedar Fort, Inc. Pages: Hardcover; 288 Source: NetGalley ======================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violent situations and mild death scenes. HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Amber never dreamed her archaeology class would turn into a top secret mission that would take her across the globe, but when her teacher goes missing, Amber realizes it’s up to her to protect the Hidden Scepter or risk unleashing an ancient power too terrifying to imagine. This guaranteed page-turner from the bestselling author of the Hashbrown…
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Childhood Memories with Susan J. Bigelow
Tweet Hi everyone! Today I have Susan J. Bigelow, author of Broken here with a guest post. She is sharing with us her favorite book memory from her childhood. Let’s see what she has to say shall we? ********** I have many wonderful memories of books from when I was young, because my childhood was full of them. My mother made sure that both my sister and I had plenty of books to read, always. We were one of those families that instituted a “no reading at the table!” during meals rule, because otherwise we’d read instead of talking with one…
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Book Review: Invincible Summer
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Invincible Summer Author: Hannah Moskowitz Publisher: Simon Pulse Pages: Paperback; 288 Release Date: April 19, 2011 Source: GalleyGrab ======================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Cussing and sexual situations HDB Rating: 5 (Super Shiny) Keys to My Heart Noah’s happier than I’ve seen him in months. So I’d be an awful brother to get in the way of that. It’s not like I have some relationship with Melinda. It was just a kiss. Am I going to ruin Noah’s happiness because of a kiss? Across four sun-kissed, drama-drenched summers at his family’s beach house,…