Friday, February 28, 2014

The Winner's Curse

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The Winner's Curse By Marie Rutkoski Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014. 368 pages. Young Adult As a member of the ruling Valorian c...

Boxers and Saints

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Boxers and Saints By Gene Luen Yang First Second, 2013. 325 and 170 pages. Graphic Novel In Boxers , bands of Christian missionaries r...

Thrice Told Tales

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Thrice Told Tales By Catherine Lewis Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2013. 136 pages. Young Adult Nonfiction Using the old story of ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The Martian

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The Martian by Andy Weir Crown, 2014. 369 pgs. Science Fiction      When Mark Watney's crew leaves him behind on Mars because they...
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Fallen Women

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Fallen Women By Sandra Dallas St Martin's Press. 2013. Sandra Dallas takes on the city of Denver in 1885 in this book about a sist...

Ignite Me

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Ignite Me By Tahereh Mafi Harper Collins, 2014. 416 pgs. Young Adult. I couldn't finish this fast enough and then I was so sad it ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Jump the Gun

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Jump the Gun By Zoe Burke Poisoned Pen Press, 2013. 180 pages. Mystery. When Annabelle Starkey leaves her Chicago book conference for ...

Hope Springs

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Hope Springs By Sarah M. Eden Shadow Mountain, 2014. 391 pages. Romance. Part two of the Longing for Home saga, Hope Springs follows...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Dark Invasion: 1915 : German's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America

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Dark Invasion: 1915: German's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America by Howard Blum HarperCollins, 2014.  4...

An Officer and a Spy

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An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris Knopf, 2014.  429 pgs.  Historical Fiction  Robert Harris takes on the Dreyfus Affair i...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Courting Greta

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Courting Greta By Ramsey Hootman Gallery Books, 2013. 376 pages. Fiction. When former computer programmer Samuel Cooke starts life as ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Thin Space

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Thin Space By Jodi Casella Simon Pulse, 2013. 243 pages. Young Adult Responsible for the car accident that killed his twin brother, Ma...

A Trick of the Light

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A Trick of the Light By Lois Metzger Balzer + Bray, 2013. 196 pages. Young Adult Mike Welles feels like his life is spiraling out of c...

The Tyrant's Daughter

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The Tyrant's Daughter By J.C. Carleson Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2014. 304 pages. Young Adult When her father is assassinated...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Confessions of a Bad Teacher

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Confessions of a Bad Teacher: the Shocking Truth from the Front Lines of American Public Education by John Owens Sourcebooks, 2013. 244 ...

The Anatomist's Wife

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The Anatomist's Wife By Anna Lee Huber Berkley Prime Crime, 2012. 347 pages. Mystery. After her deceased husband's medical col...
Friday, January 31, 2014

The Golden Day

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The Golden Day By Ursula Dubosarsky Candlewick Press, 2013. 150 pgs.  Young Adult The '70's, a time of turmoil...eleven young ...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

The Cartographer of No Man's Land

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The Cartographer of No Man's Land by P. S. Duffy Liveright, 2013. 371 pgs. Fiction The 2014 centenary of the beginning of World Wa...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The War Within These Walls

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The War Within These Walls by Aline Sax and Caryl Strzelecki, translated by Laura Watkinson Eerdmans, 2013.  175 pgs.  Young Adult The...

Bellman & Black

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Bellman & Black By Diana Setterfield Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 336 pgs. 2013. I listened to this novel in hopes that it would be ...

My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

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My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind By Scott Stossel Kopf, 416 pgs. 2014. Nonfiction Scott Stossel ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

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Amy & Roger's Epic Detour By Morgan Matson Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2010. 343 pg. Young adult fiction. After her father dies...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Ketchup Clouds

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Ketchup Clouds By Annabel Pitcher Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 272 pgs. 2013 This book was unique, unsettling, and I still am...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Before I Die

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Before I Die By Candy Chang St. Martin's Griffin, 2013. 303 pg. Nonfiction. When a close friend of Candy Chang's died, she fel...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Unnatural Selection

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Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men By Mara Hvistendahl PublicAffairs, 2011. 314 p...

Hollow City

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Hollow City By Ransom Riggs Quirk Books, 400 pgs. Young Adult. Hollow City is the second book in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Ch...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

Tatiana

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Tatiana by Martin Cruz Smith Simon & Schuster, 2013.  290 pgs. Mystery Martin Cruz Smith's latest Arkady Renko mystery begins ...
Friday, January 17, 2014

Winger

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Winger  By Andrew Smith Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2013. 448 pgs. After multiple librarians and friends suggesting th...

Not a Drop to Drink

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Not a Drop to Drink By Mandy McGinnis Katherine Tegen Books, 2013. 320 pgs. Young Adult. I finished this in one day. It was intriguin...

The Silent Wife

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The Silent Wife  By A.S.A. Harrison Penguin Books, 2013. 336 pgs. Mystery. The Silent Wife  is being marketed as 2013's Gone Girl ...