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    Book Review: The Ghost Bride

    Media Type: Print Book Title: The Ghost Bride Author: Yangsze Choo Publisher: William Morrow Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: August 6, 2013 Source: Publisher ————————————————— Genre: Historical Fiction HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy historical fiction, especially centering around Chinese culture. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N “One evening, my father asked me if I would like to become a ghost bride…” Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound. Li…

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    Book Review: Welcome to the Darkness

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Welcome to the Darkness    * Series: Darkness Trilogy #1 Author: L.M. Justus Publisher: Taurpio Publishing Pages: Paperback; 349 Release Date: August 5, 2013 Source: Xpresso Book Tours —————————————————– Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy reads with vampire lore, and lots of action. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N A typical teenager, seventeen-year-old Reed Hennessy doesn’t realize how lucky he is to lead a normal life until he loses everything, including his humanity. The attacker who slaughters his family and…

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    Book Review: Wilde Nights in Paradise

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Wilde Nights in Paradise Author: Tonya Burrows Publisher: Entangled: Brazen Pages: Ebook; 250 Release Date: June 10, 2013 Source: Publisher ————————————————— Genre: Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love sweet and spicy romances with awesome characters! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N He’ll guard her body all night long. Former Marine Jude Wilde’s motto has always been “burn bridges and never look back,” so nobody is more surprised when Wilde Security is hired to protect assistant district attorney Libby Pruitt, the woman he loved and left.…

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    Book Review: Mystery Girl

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Mystery  Girl Author: David Gordon Publisher: New Harvest Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: July 16, 2013 Source: Publisher ———————————————- Genre: Mystery / Noir HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy books with a noir flair, and don’t mind a bit of flowery language. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When Sam Kornberg’s wife, Lala, walks out on him, he’s an unemployed used-book store clerk and failed experimental novelist with a broken heart. Desperate to win her back, he takes a job as assistant detective to the enigmatic…

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    Book Review: Infinityglass (Hourglass #3)

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Infinityglass    *Series: Hourglass #3 Author: Myra McEntire Publisher: EgmontUSA Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: August 6, 2013 Source: Publisher ———————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who have loved this series and are waiting to see what happens! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N The stakes have risen even higher in this third book in the Hourglass series. The Hourglass is a secret organization focused on the study of manipulating time, and its members — many of them teenagers -­have uncanny abilities…

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    Book Review: Ashes on the Waves

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Ashes on the Waves Author: Mary Lindsey Publisher: Philomel/Penguin Pages: Hardcover; 373 Release Date: June 27, 2013 Source: Library ————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy dark books, with romance. Also, Edgar Allen Poe references! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Liam MacGregor is cursed. Haunted by the wails of fantastical Bean Sidhes and labeled a demon by the villagers of Dòchas, Liam has accepted that things will never get better for him—until a wealthy heiress named Annabel Leighton arrives on…

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    Book Review: The Family That Stays Together

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Family That Stays Together    *Series: Sister Nun Mystery #2 Author: Deborah Plummer Bussey Publisher: Half Dozen Publications Pages: Paperback; 278 Release Date: July 5, 2013 Source: JKS Communications —————————————————- Genre: Cozy Mystery HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy slow moving, cozy mysteries. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon When a television celebrity becomes suspect in the murder of her ex-fiancé, sister sleuths Kathy and Tina rally to support their family friend. Soon they end up in trouble. Will family ties be strong enough to protect…

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    Book Review: Escape From Eden

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Escape From Eden Author: Elisa Nader Publisher: Merit Press Pages: Hardcover; 272 Release Date: August 18, 2013 Source: Publisher —————————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a haunting read dealing with a cult mindset. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Since the age of ten, Mia has lived under the iron fist of the fundamentalist preacher who lured her mother away to join his fanatical family of followers. In Edenton, a supposed “Garden of Eden” deep in the South American…

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    Book Review: Quarantine: The Loners

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Quarantine: The Loners    *Series: Quarantine #1 Author: Lex Thomas Publisher: EgmontUSA Pages: Hardcover; 416 Release Date: July 10, 2012 Source: Publisher ————————————————– Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love reads like Lord of the Flies and Gone. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High—until a massive explosion devastated the school. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died right in front of him. And…

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    Book Review: Big Girl Panties

    Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Big Girl Panties Author: Stephanie Evanovich Publisher: William Morrow Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: July 9, 2013 Source: Publisher ———————————————– Genre: Women’s Fiction / Romance HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy vibrant female leads and a slow build up of romance Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N They say that big girls don’t cry. But when the chips are down and the dip is gone, what can you do? Pull up your BIG GIRL PANTIES and change your life. Holly Brennan didn’t expect to…