Monday, January 31, 2011

Amazing Grace

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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery By Eric Metaxas HarperSanFrancisco, 2007. 281 pgs. Biography M...

Cinderella Ate My Daughter

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Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture By Peggy Orenstein HarperCollins, 2011. 244 pg...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Tablet & Pen : Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East

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Tablet & Pen : Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East By Reza Aslan (Editor) W.W. Norton, and Co., 2010. 657 pgs. Nonfiction ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The Twin's Daughter

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The Twin's Daughter By Lauren Baratz-Logsted Bloomsbury, 2010. 390 pages. Young Adult Lucy’s life seems perfect with an intelligent fa...

Crossing the Tracks

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Crossing the Tracks By Barbara Stuber Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010. 258 pgs. Young Adult Ever since her mother’s death, Iris'...

One Amazing Thing

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One Amazing Thing By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Voice/Hyperion, 2009. 220 pgs. Fiction When nine disparate characters are trapped togeth...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Redeeming Love

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Redeeming Love By Francine Rivers Multnomah, 1997. 480 pgs. Romance Angel was sold into a life of prostitution at the tender age of eight...

Parrot & Olivier in America

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Parrot & Olivier in America By Peter Carey Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. 379 pgs. Fiction Olivier Jean-Baptiste de Clarel de Barfleur, is a...

Wuthering Bites

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Wuthering Bites By Sarah Gray Kensington Pub. 2010. 362 pgs. Fiction I find it surprising that the breakthrough novel of the twisted cla...

The Tiger

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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival By John Vaillant Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. 329 pgs. Nonfiction In 1997, in a small outpos...

Science of Kissing

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Science of Kissing: What Our Lips are Telling Us By Sheril Kirshenbaum Grand Central Pub. 2011. 246 pgs. Nonfiction “Is this a kissing b...

Ring of Solomon

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Ring of Solomon By Jonathan Stroud Disney/Hyperion Books, 2010. 398 pgs. Young Adult Fiction When Jonathan Stroud concluded his ‘Bartima...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Rebecca Skoot Crown Publishers, 2010. 369 pgs. Biography Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with ovar...
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You

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You By Charles Benoit HarperTeen, 2010. 223 pgs. Young Adult Kyle Chase is a tenth grader with anger issues, as well as a tendency to no...

A Long Walk to Water

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A Long Walk to Water By Linda Sue Park Clarion Books, 2009. 121 pgs. Young Adult In 1985, eleven-year-old Salva is caught up in the midd...

I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend

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I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend By Cora Harrison Delacorte Press, 2010. 342 pgs. Young Adult Jenny Cooper and Jane Austen are cousin...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Enchanted Ivy

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Enchanted Ivy By Sarah Beth Durst Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010. 310 pgs. Young Adult Lily thinks she's just accompanying her mo...

Revolution

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Revolution By Jennifer Donnelly Delacorte Press, 2010. 471 pgs. Young Adult Andi isn't dealing well with her younger brother's d...
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Waiting for You

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Waiting for You By Susane Colsanti Viking Children's Books, 2009, 322 pgs. Young Adult Marisa, who suffers from anxiety disorder, is...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Confessions of an Unbalanced Woman

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Confessions of an Unbalanced Woman By Emily Watts Deseret Book, 2006. 58 pgs. Nonfiction We have probably all experienced times when we ...
Friday, January 21, 2011

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007. 624 pgs. Nonfiction Caution: thi...

Across the Universe

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Across the Universe By Beth Revis Razorbill, 2011. 398 pgs. Young Adult Elder is on board the spaceship Godspeed, which left Earth hund...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

What My Mother Doesn't Know

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What My Mother Doesn't Know By Sonya Sones Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2001. 259 pgs. Young Adult In this novel in...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

The Blind Contessa's New Machine

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The Blind Contessa’s New Machine By Carey Wallace Pamela Dorman Books, 2010. 207 pages. Historical Fiction Set in Italy around the turn ...

Troubled Waters

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Troubled Waters By Sharon Shinn Ace Books, 2010. 391 pages. Fantasy A unique new fantasy where the entire kingdom (status, personality, ...

Radiance

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Radiance By Alyson Noel Square Fish, 2010. 183 pgs. Young Adult After crossing the bridge into the afterlife, a place called Here where ...

When Your Prayers Seem Unanswered

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When Your Prayers Seem Unanswered By S. Michael Wilcox Deseret Book, 2006. 62 pgs. Nonfiction We have all had times when we feel that th...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Penelope

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Penelope By Marilyn Kaye St. Martin's Griffin, 2007. 230 pgs. Young Adult Penelope Wilhern was born with a pig's snout instead o...

Hunger

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Hunger By Jackie Morse Kessler Graphia, 2010. 177 pgs. Young Adult Just as she is about to commit suicide, Lisabeth Lewis hears a knock ...

Choosing to SEE

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Choosing to SEE By Mary Beth Chapman with Ellen Vaughn Revell, 2010, 279 pgs. Biography This biography is the heartbreaking story of Ma...