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Review: The First Lie (Short Story) by Diane Chamberlain
Date Read-June 15, 2013Thirteen year old Ivy Hart lives with her grandmother and sister in a tobacco farm in rural North Carolina. One of the few things Ivy can look forward to is spending time with...
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Review: "A Marker to Measure Drift" by Alexander Maksik
Publication- July 30th, 2013-KnopfDate Read- June 21st, 2013Source- EdelweissIn a remote Greek island, Jacqueline, a young woman, lives in a cave on a beach. Everyday, she drifts from the present...
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Review: Always Watching by Chevy Stevens
Publication-June, 18 2013-St. Martin'sDate Read-June, 25, 2013Source: NetGalleyDr. Nadine Lavoie has made a career out of helping others facing their inner demons. She would rather focus on others than...
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Review: "He's Gone" by Deb Caletti
Publication: May 14, 2013-Bantam (Random House)Read: June 29, 2013Source: NetGalleyOn a Sunday morning, Dani Keller begins the day with a hangover from a party the night before. Dani notices that her...
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Review: "Sacred" by Elana K. Arnold
Publication date: November 13th, 2012- Delacorte PressDate read: July 6th, 2013Source: LibraryLiving on Catalina Island, Scarlet Wenderoth has led an isolated life. After her brother died, Scarlet's...
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Review: The Rest of Us by Jessica Lott
Publication Date: July 2, 2013 - Simon & SchusterDate Read: July 19, 2013Source: Edelwiess (Direct from the publisher)When Terry, a photographer's assistant, stumbles upon the obituary of...
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Review "Chanda's Wars" by Allan Stratton
Publication date: March 8th, 2008 - HarperTeenDate read: August 20th, 2013 (First reading: January, 2009)Source: Public Library For the past six months, Chanda has had to become an adult in caring for...
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Interview with...Allan Stratton
With several award-winning YA novels under his belt (one of them turned into film), Allan Stratton explains why he writes and how it inspired him.In your first book, "Chanda's Secrets", you tackle the...
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Review: "Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital"...
Date Read - September 9th, 2013Date Published - September 10th, 2013 - CrownSource - NetGalleyLike most Americans, I would never forget the haunting images of the destruction of Hurricane Katrina,...
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Review: "Trafficked: My Story of Surviving, Escaping, and Transcending...
Date Read - September 18th, 2013Date Published - September 3th, 2013 - Sourcebooks Source: NetGalley (Direct from the publisher) Sophie Hayes was an average middle class young woman living in England....
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Review: "Exit Wounds: One Australian's War on Terror" by John Cantwell
Date Read - October 3th, 2013Date Published - October 1st, 2013 (Ebook) - Melbourne University PressSource - NetGalley In 1974, John Cantwell, a young boy from Queensland, enlisted into the Australian...
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Review: "Running the Rift" by Naomi Benaron
Date read - October 11th, 2013Date published - January 3rd, 2012 - Algonquin BooksSource - Public Library Since he was a boy, Jean Patrick Nkuba wants more than anything to become Rwanda's first...
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Review: "Falling for You" by Lisa Schroeder
Date read - October 13th, 2013Date published - January 1, 2013 - Simon PulseSource - Personal collectionRae's life is a complete mess: an absent mother, an abusive step-father, and struggling to find...
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Interview with...Deb Caletti
A veteran of YA lit (according to Kirkus), Deb Caletti’s adult debut is likely to expand her fan base.You've been known for writing YA novels (Queen of Everything, Wild Roses, Stay, among others). What...
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Top 10 Reads of 2013
Where has the time flown? What a year it's been as far as books. I haven't read that much since I have been busy with writing and other things. It wasn't easy, but here is my top 10 list of books that...
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Review: "Me Since You" by Laura Wiess
Date Read – January 17th, 2014Date Publish – Feburary 18th, 2014 – MTV BooksSource – Edelwiess For sixteen-year-old Rowan Areno, her life is separated by Before and After. The before was of her growing...
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Interview with...Laura Wiess
Laura Wiess has been commended by critics and readers for giving the world extraordinary heroines, including Meredith (Such A Pretty Girl), Sayre (Ordinary Beauty) and now Rowan (Me Since You). 1. When...
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Book Review: "The Pieces We Keep" by Kristina McMorris
Date Read-February 27th, 2014Date Published - November 26th 2013-KensingtonSource-NetGalleyTwo years ago, Audra Hughes lost her husband and is left to take care of their seven year old son, Jack. Just...
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Book Review: "Inside the Hotel Rwanda" By Edouard Kayihura and Kerry Zukus
Date Read – March 31st 2014Date Published – April 1st, 2014 – BenBella BooksSource: PublisherFor most people who know about the Rwandan genocide in 1994, they first learned about it by the Academy...
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Review: "Rumble" by Ellen HopkinsDate read-April 8, 2014Date published-August, 26 2014-Simon and SchusterSource-Edelwiess Eighteen year old Matthew Turner has no belief in anything. Not of his...
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Review: Melt by Selene Castrovilla
Date read-May 16, 2014Date published-November 6, 2014 Source-PublisherDorothy is a new comer to Highland Park, where all the cool kids congregate Muchkinland (a.k.a. Dunkin Donuts). There, she meets...
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Good Morning Mr. Mandela: A Memoir by Zelda la Grange
Date Read – July, 30 2014Date Published – June 24, 2014 – Viking AdultSource – NetGalleyZelda grew up in apartheid era South Africa, which her family believed and supported the racist government. When...
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Book Review: The In Between by Olivia Pierce
Date Read - January 11th, 2014Date Published - November 26th, 2014Source - NetGalley Since they were children Tara Jenkins has always lad a close friendship with Justin Westcroft. In high school,...
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Review: The Anger Meridian by Kaylie Jones
Date Read – January 18th, 2015Publication Date- July 7th, 2015 – Akashic PressSource - Publisher Merryn Huntley’s life has been turned upside down after her husband Beau is killed in a car...
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Review: Kissing in America by Margo Rabb
Date Read – March 27th, 2015 Publication Date – May 26th, 2015 – HarperCollins Sixteen year old Eva is still reeling from her father’s sudden death. In her...
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