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Book Review: Happy Birthday to Me
Media Type: Ebook Title: Happy Birthday to Me Author: Brian Rowe Publisher: CreateSpace Pages: Kindle; 175 Release Date: April 7, 2011 Source: Author ——————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language ——————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good heartfelt storyline Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Seventeen-year-old Cameron Martin has a huge problem: he’s aging a whole year of his life with each passing day! High school is hard enough; imagine rapidly aging from seventeen to seventy in a matter of weeks, with no logical explanation,…
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Book Review: The Printmaker’s Daughter
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Printmaker’s Daughter Author: Katherine Govier Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: Paperback; 494 Release Date: November 22, 2011 Source: TLC Book Tours ———————————————– Genre: Historical Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy vivid storytelling and historical references. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N A lost voice of old Japan reclaims her rightful place in history in this breathtaking work of imagination and scholarship from award-winning and internationally acclaimed author Katherine Govier. In the evocative tale of 19th century Tokyo, The Printmaker’s Daughter delivers an enthralling tale of…
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Book Review: Mine
Media Type: Print Book Title: Mine Author: Lin Sten Publisher: Create Space Pages: Paperback; 306 Release Date: May 6, 2010 Source: Author ————————————————- Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Science Fiction ————————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy hard core science fiction. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Selena Castillo publicly claims to be an extraterrestrial. Is it a joke, a delusion, a gimmick, or a reality? Tony Sturgess must believe that Selena’s claim is only a publicity stunt, or that she is insane, as he falls in love with her,…
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Book Review: Youth and Other Fictions
Media Type: Ebook Title: Youth and Other Fictions Author: Jonathan M. Cook Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 319 Release Date: September 23, 2011 Source: Author ———————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence; Harsh Language ———————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are okay with tough issues and graphic violence. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Jonathan Cook’s debut novel looks at the horrors of a school shooting and its psychological effects on those involved. Told from two perspectives–one a student’s and one a teacher’s–the story reveals the inner concerns leading…
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Book Review: Can You Survive? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Media Type: Print Book Title: Can You Survive? Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Author: Ryan Jacobson Publisher: Lake 7 Creative Pages: Paperback; 152 Release Date: November 1, 2011 Source: Publisher —————————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note. —————————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Those who enjoy choose your own adventure books, or lovers of Sherlock Holmes! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N He’s the world’s most famous detective, and thanks to this brilliantly adapted book, he’s you! The cases, the clues, the suspects, they’re yours to sort…
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Book Review: Remembrance
Media Type: Ebook Title: Remembrance * Series: Transcend Time Saga Author: Michelle Madow Publisher: Dreamscape Pages: Kindle; 314 Release Date: July 27, 2011 Source: The {Teen} Book Scene —————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note. —————————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy teen romance. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N New Hampshire high school junior Lizzie Davenport has been reincarnated from Regency Era, England … but she doesn’t know it yet. Then Drew Carmichael transfers into Lizzie’s school at the beginning of the…
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Book Review: Killing Rites
Media Type: Print Book Title: Killing Rites *Series: The Black Sun’s Daughter #4 Author: M.L.N. Hanover Publisher: Pocket Books Pages: Mass Market Paperback; 384 Release Date: November 29, 2011 Source: Publisher —————————————– Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of this series, although I recommend the series to everyone! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N Jayné Heller has discovered the source of her uncanny powers; something else is living inside her body. She’s possessed. Of all her companions, she can only bring herself to confide in Ex, the…
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Book Review: Vicious Grace
Media Type: Print Book Title: Vicious Grace *Series: The Black Sun’s Daughter Author: M.L.N. Hanover Publisher: Pocket Books Pages: Mass Market Paperback; 367 Release Date: November 30, 2010 Source: Publisher ——————————————— Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of the series. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N When you’re staring evil in the eye, don’t forget to watch your back . . . For the first time in forever, Jayné Heller’s life is making sense. Even if she routinely risks her life to destroy demonic parasites that…
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Book Review: Darker Angels
Media Type: Print Book Title: Darker Angels Author: M.L.N. Hanover *Series: The Black Sun’s Daughter #2 Publisher: Pocket Books Pages: Mass Market Paperback; 360 Release Date: September 29, 2009 (Original September 23, 2009) Source: Publisher ——————————————————————– Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of this series! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N In the battle between good and evil, there’s no such thing as a fair fight. When Jayné Heller’s uncle Eric died, she inherited a fortune beyond all her expectations — and a dangerous mission in…
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Book Review: Unclean Spirits
Media Type: Print Book Title: Unclean Spirits * Series: The Black Sun’s Daughter Author: M.L.N. Hanover Publisher: Pocket Books Pages: Mass Market Paperback; 400 Release Date: July 28, 2009 (original December 2, 2008) Source: Publisher ———————————————————— Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of UF. Anyone who loves kick ass heroines. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N Jayné Heller thinks of herself as a realist, until she discovers reality isn’t quite what she thought it was. When her uncle Eric is murdered, Jayné travels to Denver to settle his estate,…