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Hold Fast by Blue Balliett: Home Is Much More Than a Shelter
Author Blue Balliett has written several very smart young adult mysteries, among them Chasing Vermeer, which won an Edgar Award. She has the wonderful ability to engage and entertain readers (including [...]
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May 19, 2013
Oceans Eleven Comes to the YA Set: Ally Carter’s Perfect Scoundrels
Katarina “Kat” Bishop, a sixteen-year-old version of Danny Ocean himself, has had a 'colorful' past for one so young. The product of a long line of con men and thieves, Kat has seen -- and stolen -- more priceless artifacts than most people see in their lives.
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May 18, 2013
Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett
So glad to be back in Star Harbor for another visit with the 'Bad Boy' Grayson brothers. In books one and two of this series by Elisabeth Barrett, Deep Autumn Heat and Blaze of Winter, Theo and Seb settle into very loving relationships. Long Simmering Spring introduces Cole in a way we’ve never seen him before.
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May 17, 2013
Mark Bittman’s VB6: The Lifestyle Book Everyone’s Talking About
How manageable is the vegan lifestyle? Not very manageable to the newbie? How about the vegan lifestyle -- before six o'clock at night? Now you're talking.
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May 16, 2013
Free Will: A Concise Study in Fact vs Illustion
Author Sam Harris has a theory: The concept of free will is an illusion and 'our wills are simply not of our own making. Read his book on this very subject and then decide, well, for yourself.
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May 15, 2013
A Read for Realists: Jonathan Evison’s The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Jonathan Evison's The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving tells the story of Benjamin Benjamin, a somewhat unremarkable character whose career (if you can call it that) as a caregiver to a young man with muscular dystrophy belies a dark past and its rippling effect on his misery and self-regard.
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May 14, 2013
World War Z: Now Coming to an eReader Near You
Although a number of great zombie novels have come along since World War Z, none have been able to match Max Brooks’s legendary telling.
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May 13, 2013
A Firefly-in-a-Jar Kind of Love Story: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes's Me Before You is that rare and wonderful kind of love story that details a twenty-first century romance that never becomes sentimental or dramatic.
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