Monday, May 9, 2011

The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future

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The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future By Robert Darnton PublicAffairs, 2009. 218 pgs. Nonfiction This book is a compilation of e...

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

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Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus By Orson Scott Card TOR, 1996. 402 pgs. Sci-Fi This fascinating story really surprised...

The Dark is Rising

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The Dark is Rising By Susan Cooper Atheneum, 1973. 216 pgs. Young Adult Will Stanton turns eleven years old only to discover that he is ...

City of Fallen Angels

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City of Fallen Angels By Cassandra Clare Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2011. 424 pgs. Young Adult Simon, the likeable underdog and Clary'...

I Hope You Know How Much I Love You

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I Hope You Know How Much I Love You By John Bytheway Deseret Book, 2011. 55 pgs. Nonfiction Popular speaker John Bytheway gives some admitte...

Almost Astronauts

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Almost Astronauts By Tanya Lee Stone Candlewick Press, 2009. 133 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction After the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik, the U.S. r...

Sean Griswold's Head

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Sean Griswold's Head By Lindsey Leavitt Bloomsbury, 2011. 276 pgs. Young Adult When Payton Gritas finds out that her father has MS--and ...

The Indigo Notebook

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The Indigo Notebook By Laura Resau Delacorte Press, 2009. 324 pgs. Young Adult Fifteen-year-old Zeeta has lived all over the world, thanks t...

Caleb's Crossing

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Caleb’s Crossing By Geraldine Brooks Viking, 2011. 306 pgs. Fiction Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk was born a Wopanaak chief’s son on the island of ...
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Infertility: Help, Hope and Healing

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Infertility: Help, Hope and Healing By Kerstin Kaynes CFI, 2010. 180 pgs. Nonfiction Full of hope and inspiration, this book will help those...
Friday, May 6, 2011

Please Look After Mom

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Please Look After Mom By Kyung-sook Shin Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 237 pgs. Fiction On a train station platform in Seoul Korea, Park So-nyo dis...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Pinocchio Vampire Slayer and the Great Puppet Theater

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Pinocchio Vampire Slayer and the Great Puppet Theater By Van Jensen SLG Publishing, 2010. 163 pgs. Young Adult Comics More lies! More vampir...

Death Cloud

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Death Cloud By Andy Lane Farrar Straus Giroux, 311 pgs. 2011. Young Adult To his chagrin, fourteen year old Sherlock Holmes is sent to live ...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

The Scarecrow

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The Scarecrow By Michael Connelly Little, Brown and Co., 2009. 419 pgs. Mystery Jack McEvoy is an excellent journalist--but he's given t...

The Chili Queen

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The Chili Queen By Sandra Dallas St. Martin's Press, 2002. 292 pgs. Historical fiction Addie French is a proprietor of a house of ill re...

Courting Miss Lancaster

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Courting Miss Lancaster By Sarah M. Eden Covenant, 2010. 205 pgs. Romance Harry Windover is practically penniless and spends a large portion...

The Last Little Blue Envelope

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The Last Little Blue Envelope By Maureen Johnson Harper Teen, 2011. 282 pgs. Young Adult Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously t...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Battle of Nashville

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The Battle of Nashville By Benson Bobrick Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2010. Bobrick gives a brief overview of the Civil War, in...

Tangled

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Tangled By Carolyn Mackler HarperTeen, 2010. 308 pgs. Young Adult The lives of four teens are tangled as they vacation at a resort in the Ca...

Cloaked

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Cloaked By Alex Flinn HarperTeen, 2011. 341 pgs. Young Adult Johnny is a poor kid who repairs shoes for his family business. When Princess V...

The Remarkable Soul of a Woman

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The Remarkable Soul of a Woman By Dieter F. Uchtdorf Deseret Book, 2010. 55 pgs. Nonfiction In this short book, adapted from the talk Presid...

Ten Miles Past Normal

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Ten Miles Past Normal By Frances O'Roark Dowell Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2011. 211 pgs. Young Adult Janie begged to live on a f...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

The Word Snoop

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The Word Snoop By Ursula Dubosarsky Dial Books, 2009, 246 pgs, Young Adult Nonfiction This book could have been a dry boring look at th...

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary By Simon Winchester Oxford University Press, 2003. 256 pgs. Nonficti...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Please Ignore Vera Dietz

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Please Ignore Vera Dietz By A. S. King Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. 326 pgs. Fiction Vera Dietz isn’t sad about her former best friend’s dea...

Red Glove

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Red Glove By Holly Black Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2011. 325 pgs. Young Adult In book 2 of the Curse Workers series, Cassel is trying...
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The Lost Hero

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The Lost Hero By Rick Riordan Random House/Listening Library, 2010. 14 CDs. Young Adult When Jason Grace wakes up on a school bus on a f...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Stay

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Stay By Deb Caletti Simon Pulse, 2011. 313 pgs. Young Adult Clara's relationship with Christian started out well enough, but as thin...

If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard

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If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard By Sheri Dew Deseret Book, 2005. 3 CDs. Nonfiction After a number of setbacks when she and he...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Between Shades of Gray

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Between Shades of Gray By Ruta Sepetys Philomel Books, 2011. 344 pgs. Young Adult Lina’s life of privilege in 1941 Lithuania comes to ...