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Category Archives: Review
Review: The Next One To Fall by Hilary Davidson
Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Forge Books; First Edition edition (February 14, 2012) ISBN-10: 0765326981 Source: Publisher Three months after the events of The Damage Done, travel writer Lily Moore is still grieving the loss of her sister. Her best friend, … Continue reading
Review: The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Random House (February 21, 2012) ISBN-10: 1400066573 Source: Publisher In 1868 Boston, a new school opens up on a former wasteland: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It promises to study science for the well-being of all, … Continue reading
Review: Night Swim by Jessica Keener
Paperback: 284 pages Publisher: Fiction Studio Books (January 10, 2012) ISBN-10: 1936558262 Source: Publisher Sarah Kunitz, sixteen years old, lives in a suburb of Boston in the 1970s. To those outside her home she has the perfect life. Her parents … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction Studio Books, General Fiction, Review
Tagged 1970s, Boston, coming-of-age
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Review: Bridge of Scarlet Leaves by Kristina McMorris
Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Kensington Books (February 28, 2012) ISBN-10: 0758246854 Source: Author Maddie Kern is a young violinist living in Los Angeles in 1941. She and her brother, TJ, have been on their own since their mother died. Their … Continue reading
Posted in Historical Fiction, Kensington, Review, Women's Fiction
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Review: Partials by Dan Wells
After a war against engineered beings identical to humans, known as Partials, human kind is nearly extinct. Roughly 40,000 individuals have survived the virus known as RM. The Partials have retreated, the timing of their return unknown. The plan to … Continue reading
Posted in Balzer + Bray, Dystopian fiction, Harper Collins Publishers, YA
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Review: The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich
Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Gallery Books (February 14, 2012) ISBN-10: 1451657471 Source: Publisher Hannah Levi is known throughout the Jewish ghetto of Venice as a midwife that can coax the most reluctant babies out of the wombs of their mothers. … Continue reading
Posted in Gallery Books, Historical Fiction, Mystery/Suspense, Review
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Review: What Happened to Hannah by Mary Kay McComas
Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (February 7, 2012) ISBN-10: 006208478X Source: Publisher Twenty years ago, Hannah ran away from her home in a rural Virginia town in order to protect herself. She has a new life … Continue reading
Posted in General Fiction, Review, William Morrow, Women's Fiction
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Reuniting With A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of a book that forever changed my reading experience: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Rather than write a review of this truly epic book, I will instead share my personal experience in reading … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Farrar Straus Giroux, Kid-Lit/Middle Grade, Review
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Review: Prime Suspect 3: Silent Victims by Lynda La Plante
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (January 17, 2012) ISBN-10: 006213441 Source: Publisher Chief Detective Inspector Jane Tennison has finally moved up the ranks; she now leads the Vice Squad. On the first day of her new assignment, she’s presented with … Continue reading
Posted in Crime Fiction, Harper Collins Publishers, Review
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Review: A Good American by Alex George
Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam (February 7, 2012) ISBN-10: 039915759X Source: Publisher It’s 1904. Frederick, a junior clerk in a small bank, falls in love with Jette, the daughter a woman striving to use her daughter’s future husband as a means … Continue reading
Posted in Amy Einhorn Books, Literary Fiction, Putnam, Review
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