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    Book Review: Shudder (Stitch Trilogy #2)

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Shudder    *Series: Stitch Trilogy #2 Author: Samantha Durante Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 348 Release Date: June 15, 2013 Source: Author —————————————————— Content Screening: Adult Language; Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who fell in love with the first in the series, Stitch. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N It’s only been three days, and already everything is different. Paragon is behind her, but somehow Alessa’s life may actually have gotten worse. In a wrenching twist of fate, she traded the safety and companionship of her…

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    Book Review: Love Him or Leave Him

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Love Him or Leave Him    *Series: Small Town, Big Dreams #2 Author: Sara Daniel Publisher: Entangled: Bliss Pages: Ebook; 224 Release Date: July 8, 2013 Source: Publisher ———————————————————– Genre: Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of sweet romance novels with great characters! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Sometimes dreams are where you least expect them Connor O’Malley and Becca Sanders were once high school sweethearts, ripped apart by rumors in the small town of Kortville, Illinois. Connor left to join the military, and Becca stayed,…

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    Book Review: A Brand New Ending

    Media Type: Ebook Title: A Brand New Ending Author: S.A. Rolls Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 532 Release Date: April 9, 2013 Source: Author / Promotional Tour ———————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence; Sexual Situations HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy contemporary fiction with a bit of a twist. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N “Phoenix Harper never imagined her life would come to this: A life not worth living anymore. After a failed suicide attempt, Phoenix is sent to be observed at a local psychiatric hospital. There she meets Braeden Harris,…

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    Book Review: A Trick of the Light

    Media Type: Print Book Title: A Trick of the Light Author: Lois Metzger Publisher: Balzer & Bray Pages: Hardcover; 208 Release Date: June 18, 2013 Source: Publisher ————————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are okay with books dealing with tough issues. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Mike Welles had everything under control. But that was before. Now things are rough at home, and they’re getting confusing at school. He’s losing his sense of direction, and he feels like he’s a mess. Then there’s a…

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    Book Review: The Skeleton Key (Code Busters Club #1)

    Media Type: Print Book Title: The Secret of the Skeleton Key    *Series: The Code Busters Club #1 Author: Penny Warner Publisher: EgmontUSA Pages: Hardcover; 224 Release Date: September 13, 2011 Source: Publisher ————————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who love mysteries and solving fun puzzles! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Cody, Quinn, Luke, and M.E. may be really different, but they all share one thing in common: they love playing around with codes. In fact, they love codes so much, they have their own…

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    Book Review: League of Somebodies

    Media Type: Print Book Title: League of Somebodies Author: Samuel Sattin Publisher: Dark Coast Press Pages: Paperback; 400 Release Date: April 9, 2013 Source: TLC Book Tours —————————————————— Genre: Comic Fantasy HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who don’t mind a lot of prose and dense vocabulary. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Lenard Sikophsky’s father has been feeding him plutonium since the age of six in the hopes of making him the world’s first bona fide superhero. First, he must pass the unusual tests of manhood locked in the centuries old…

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    Book Review: Land of the Awoken

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Land of the Awoken Author: Ben Fielder Publisher: Mirador Publishing Pages: Paperback; 262 Release Date: December 2, 2011 Source: Author ————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy fantasy books with sweeping worlds and beautiful writing. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N How would you handle it when your faithful dog started to speak to you after a nasty blow to the head? You’d probably not want to take the event too seriously…However, when that dog is joined by countless others, from…

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    Book Review: Snow Day

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Snow Day Author: Dan Maurer Publisher: Black Rapids Press Pages: Kindle Edition; 100 pages Release Date: April 30, 2013 Source: Pump Up Your Book Promotions —————————————————————– Genre: Horror / Thriller HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good thriller with horror undertones. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon It happens each winter, and has for over 35 years. Every time the snow starts to fall late in the evening before a school day, the dreams begin again for Billy Stone. They are always the same – there’s a…

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    Book Review: The Northern Frights

    Media Type: Print Book Title: The Northern Frights    *Series: Scary School #3 Author: Derek the Ghost Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: Ebook; 272 Release Date: July 1, 2013 Source: Author ————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers, both young and old, who enjoy a silly and adventure driven story with amazing characters! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N In The Northern Frights, the third book in the spooky Scary School series, Charles “New Kid” Nukid and his friends, including Lattie, a girl ninja, must fight an epic battle…

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    Book Review: Monsters on the March (Scary School #2)

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Monsters on the March    * Series: Scary School #2 Author: Derek the Ghost Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: Hardcover; 256 Release Date: June 26, 2012 Source: Author ————————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love to reads that are a bit creepy and a whole lot of fun! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N As winners of last year’s Ghoul Games, the students of Scary School are off to Monster Forest. School may be scary, but the forest has a few frights of its own,…