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...And maybe some puppy cuddles.the.literary.coffee.faeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11694720350051742563noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4218417771843882207.post-59584837886636909492019-09-18T12:22:00.000-06:002019-09-18T12:22:47.312-06:00Book Promo from YA of the Month: September Sale<div style="text-align: center;">
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Frankly in Love by David Yoon</h2>
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Title: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Frankly in Love</span></h2>
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The blurb is for this book, which is the fifth in the series. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">Home is where the heart is. Or maybe the pizza.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">There’s no better feeling than being back home after a long week exploring the galaxy, though being abandoned by one’s friends and left to fend off a glitching evil robot spoils it. All that’s left is to settle back into life, preparing Marcy’s wedding and job hunting. If only mysterious midnight SWAT teams and crop-circle crafting-sessions weren't constantly getting in Sally’s way.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">When an old foe returns, and Sally is the only person on the planet to recognize it, it’s up to her, her sullen ex, and an overly-excitable FBI agent to save the planet. But first they have to get the president safely out of his favorite sushi bar without starting the war of the worlds.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">It’s hard maintaining a long-distance relationship when your crush is light years away and thinks you died of old age, but that hasn’t stopped anyone yet. Sally must save the planet, the universe, and herself - though maybe she’ll take a nap first.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Picture this: You just came from a harrowing trip where you were lost pretty much up until the last minute. Finally home, riding off the high of actually making it back not just in the right century but the right day of all things—which still made no sense, mind you—you promise them all tea. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">You leave the kitchen with steaming cups, and instead of seeing your alien best friend and his sister, the room is empty. You catch a breath. And, then, in their place, a robot in full </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;">Terminator</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">mode comes bursting out of the bathroom, shattering the door into little white splinters, and your first thought isn't "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;">Oh crap, there's a robot on a killing streak in my home</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">," or "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;">How am I going to explain this to my landlord</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">," but this: “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;">They had left</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And this time there was nothing for them to return for. They were gone, and they weren’t coming back. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This was when I stopped speaking in the hypothetical and realize that, shit, this was actually happening. This wasn't a cute interlude but actually happening to me, as I stood, dumbstruck, in front of my couch with a tray of three steaming mugs and an actual killer robot now traipsing all over my rug. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was exactly how I imagined a killer robot would look, if, say, I were living in the 1950s. While human-shaped, every form was boxy and squat, though the arms ended in a slick point, a tentacle of shiny, deadly metal. It waved the arms around like a wacky inflatable balloon man, either trying to kill me or sell me used cars. What really tuned me into the whole wanting-me-dead bit was the glowing red of its eyes. They meant business—they meant death. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">No Zander in sight. No trace of Blayde, save for the muddy boot prints on my couch I would inevitably spend an hour scrubbing off without her help.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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Our mission for peace continues as our young warriors venture to new lands in serach of majestic beings and their mythical beasts. Atalanta and Marcel have proven to be great leaders among their people, but will they gain new alliances or will this journey bring forth a different path which none of them could have expected?</div>
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T. Douglas Tarenyika was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe with his four older sisters. His mother is from Ethiopia and his father, Zimbabwe. He moved to America in 2004 at the age of 16, where he has not only continued to value and uphold his culture, but has also continued to develop a deep appreciation for other cultures as well.</div>
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His love for different cultures can be seen in the diversity of his friends as well as the characters he has created for his book, from the Zulu-influenced warriors, to the Maori-style fighters. Along with the diversity among his friends, Douglas' deep appreciation for cultures can also be seen in his eclectic taste in music. No matter what country it may be from, you will be hard pressed to find a genre that Douglas won't appreciate. His love for music can also be found in his first novel, Peace is the Mission, from character names to the title of the book itself. Peace is the Mission is Douglas' first published book and hopefully, not his last.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style=" text-align: left;">Kevin Hearne creates the ultimate Atticus O’Sullivan adventure in the grand finale of the New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles: an epic battle royale against the Norse gods of Asgard.</b><br style=" text-align: left;" /><br style=" text-align: left;" /><span style=" text-align: left;">Unchained from fate, the Norse gods Loki and Hel are ready to unleash Ragnarok, a.k.a. the Apocalypse, upon the earth. They’ve made allies on the darker side of many pantheons, and there’s a globe-spanning battle brewing that ancient Druid Atticus O’Sullivan will be hard-pressed to survive, much less win.</span><br style=" text-align: left;" /><br style=" text-align: left;" /><span style=" text-align: left;">Granuaile MacTiernan must join immortals Sun Wukong and Erlang Shen in a fight against the Yama Kings in Taiwan, but she discovers that the stakes are much higher than she thought.</span><br style=" text-align: left;" /><br style=" text-align: left;" /><span style=" text-align: left;">Meanwhile, Archdruid Owen Kennedy must put out both literal and metaphorical fires from Bavaria to Peru to keep the world safe for his apprentices and the future of Druidry.</span><br style=" text-align: left;" /><br style=" text-align: left;" /><span style=" text-align: left;">And Atticus recruits the aid of a tyromancer, an Indian witch, and a trickster god in hopes that they’ll give him just enough leverage to both save Gaia and see another sunrise. There is a hound named Oberon who deserves a snack, after all.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">Before the birth of time, a monk uncovers the Devil's Tongue and dares to speak it. The repercussions will be felt for generations...</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Sixteen-year-old photography enthusiast Zoey has been fascinated by the haunted, burnt-out ruins of Medwyn Mill House for as long as she can remember--so she and her best friend, Poulton, run away from home to explore them. But are they really alone in the house? And who will know if something goes wrong?</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">In 1851, seventeen-year-old Roan arrives at the Mill House as a ward--one of three, all with something to hide from their new guardian. When Roan learns that she is connected to an ancient secret, she must escape the house before she is trapped forever.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">1583. Hermione, a new young bride, accompanies her husband to the wilds of North Wales where he plans to build the largest water mill and mansion in the area. But rumors of unholy rituals lead to a tragic occurrence and she will need all her strength to defeat it.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Three women, centuries apart, drawn together by one Unholy Pact. A pact made by a man who, more than a thousand years later, may still be watching...</span></span></div>
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Title: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Teeth in the Mist</span></h2>
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Author: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Dawn Kurtagich</span></h2>
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Genre: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Horror, Fantasy, Retellings</span></h2>
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Recommended Age: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Young Adult</span></h2>
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Release Date: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">June 11, 2019</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This story was GRIPPING. I was on the edge of my seat constantly and didn't want to put it down. I wanted to know how all the characters fit together and what was going to happen to Roan, Rapley, Emma, Seamus, Po, and most of all Zoey. If it wasn't for the fact I was out of the country I would have gobbled the whole book up in a day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Starting this story, I didn't know that much about the Faust legend. I knew the basic premise of Faust selling his soul to the devil to live longer. The adventure Teeth in the Mist takes you on while retelling this old German legend is mind-blowing. The connections and details that Dawn creates throughout time is expertly written and so uniquely clever that it made you want to read another chapter and another chapter. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This book gave me dark, witchy, devilish vibes the whole way through. It has a lot of occult subjects and may not be suitable for people who have issues with devil worship, witchcraft, and that sort of thing. For people who have no problems with these subjects, I believe it was the perfect dark, spooky, ghost story, mystery. I would recommend this to everyone but especially to anyone who likes a dark, spooky, mystery. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By the time she was eighteen, she had been to fifteen schools across two continents. The daughter of a British globe-trotter and single mother, she grew up all over the place, but her formative years were spent in Africa--on a mission, in the bush, in the city and in the desert.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She has been lucky enough to see an elephant stampede at close range, a giraffe tongue at very close range, and she once witnessed the stealing of her (and her friends') underwear by very large, angry baboons. (This will most definitely end up in a book . . . ) While she has quite a few tales to tell about the jumping African baboon spider, she tends to save these for Halloween! </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Elena Hart arrives in London, bound for a new boarding school operated by her estranged uncle. A fresh start is exactly what she needs. But when strange things begin happening, things she can't explain, she begins to wonder if she has lost her mind. </span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;">Until the night a strange girl appears in her room, claiming to be a fairy from Neverland, come to take her to the fantasy world at the request of its ruler. </span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;">Skeptical, Elena refuses. But the following night, a young man with strange green eyes appears, and though she tries to resist his charms, something about him draws her in and Elena is whisked away from the world she knows, to a world she always thought was make believe. </span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;">But when she arrives in Neverland, it is nothing like the stories and Elena realizes that she must figure out for herself who the true heroes and villains are.</span><br />
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Genre: <span style="color: #f8f4f1;">Fantasy</span></h2>
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Recommended Age: <span style="color: #f8f4f1;">Young Adult</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">You've heard of Neverland and its inhabitants... Fairies, pirates, mermaids and a boy who didn't want to grow up. But you can't always believe the stories.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Elena Hart arrives in London, bound for a new boarding school operated by her estranged uncle. A fresh start is exactly what she needs. But when strange things begin happening, things she can't explain, she begins to wonder if she has lost her mind. </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Until the night a strange girl appears in her room, claiming to be a fairy from Neverland, come to take her to the fantasy world at the request of its ruler. </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Skeptical, Elena refuses. But the following night, a young man with strange green eyes appears, and though she tries to resist his charms, something about him draws her in and Elena is whisked away from the world she knows, to a world she always thought was make believe. </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">But when she arrives in Neverland, it is nothing like the stories and Elena realizes that she must figure out for herself who the true heroes and villains are.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Nicole Knapp was born in Palm Springs, California on May 10th, 1990. She lived in California until the age of 16, when her family relocated to Oklahoma, where she currently resides. Nicole loved books from a very young age, and has been an avid reader all her life. At 24, she started freelance writing, which she continued for two years before deciding it was time to write something she was passionate about. Her first book, The Missing Piece, was released in August 2017. Her newest project, Hook & Crown, a dark and twisted retelling of Peter Pan, will be released Summer 2019 by The Parliament House.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Mothers of Mariah Stark’s Coven insist she possesses an evil power. Mariah’s attempts to pull flowers from the Earth or heal injuries result in killing fields of crops and scorching flesh instead. Called away by a prophecy, the young witch learns she must cloak her magic to protect her Sisters and their secret. But despite her best efforts, Mariah fails at maintaining a low profile in Wicker Creek, North Carolina. Now, as Mariah navigates her senior year of high school, vicious town darling Shelley Stallings and her minions seek to reveal Mariah for the witch they believe her to be. Such exposure could ruin the magical world—if Mariah doesn’t destroy it first.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">While Finn Shepherd may not have magical powers, he’s on his own path to self-destruction. Struggling to cope with his father’s death, he abandons his passions for swimming and sketching and seeks solace in drugs, pissing away his chances at graphic design school as he lashes out at the people who love him most. His tunnel-vision blinds him—so he never sees Mariah coming.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">What follows is a cycle of fated encounters. Mariah’s powers soften as she grows closer to Finn, and she wonders: is he destined to save her from her ravenous inner darkness? And Mariah reminds Finn of who he used to be and the future he might pursue. But as Shelley relentlessly taunts Mariah, the dark side of her magic takes on a mind of its own…threatening anyone in its wake and driving Mariah to a choice that might unleash a force strong enough to shatter both the magical and ordinary worlds…</span></div>
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Title: <span style="color: #f8f4f1;">She's Powerful Trouble</span></h2>
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Author: <span style="color: #f8f4f1;">Taylor Hartley</span></h2>
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Series: <span style="color: #f8f4f1;">The Foul & Fair Series</span></h2>
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Genre: <span style="color: #f8f4f1;">Paranormal Fantasy</span></h2>
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Recommended Age: <span style="color: #f8f4f1;">Adult</span></h2>
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Release Date: <span style="color: #f8f4f1;">May 28, 2019</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Mothers of Mariah Stark’s Coven insist she possesses an evil power. Mariah’s attempts to pull flowers from the Earth or heal injuries result in killing fields of crops and scorching flesh instead. Called away by a prophecy, the young witch learns she must cloak her magic to protect her Sisters and their secret. But despite her best efforts, Mariah fails at maintaining a low profile in Wicker Creek, North Carolina. Now, as Mariah navigates her senior year of high school, vicious town darling Shelley Stallings and her minions seek to reveal Mariah for the witch they believe her to be. Such exposure could ruin the magical world—if Mariah doesn’t destroy it first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">While Finn Shepherd may not have magical powers, he’s on his own path to self-destruction. Struggling to cope with his father’s death, he abandons his passions for swimming and sketching and seeks solace in drugs, pissing away his chances at graphic design school as he lashes out at the people who love him most. His tunnel-vision blinds him—so he never sees Mariah coming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">What follows is a cycle of fated encounters. Mariah’s powers soften as she grows closer to Finn, and she wonders: is he destined to save her from her ravenous inner darkness? And Mariah reminds Finn of who he used to be and the future he might pursue. But as Shelley relentlessly taunts Mariah, the dark side of her magic takes on a mind of its own…threatening anyone in its wake and driving Mariah to a choice that might unleash a force strong enough to shatter both the magical and ordinary worlds…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s difficult taking care of a delusional father by yourself. Sixteen-year-old Shaleigh Mallet would rather explore and photograph dilapidated buildings than cater to her father’s dark episodes. But when she’s kidnapped by a creature who carries her atop a flying bicycle into another world, she realizes this wasn’t the escape she wanted.</span></div>
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In a kingdom known as the Garden, where minotaurs pull carriages and parties are held in hot air balloons, Madam Cloom and her faerie servant, Teagan, rule over the land with incredible but terrifying magic. Shaleigh must prove that she is the reincarnation of a long-dead ruler, not because she believes it, but because it’s her only chance to survive. With the help of a trespassing faerie, a stoatling, and a living statue, Shaleigh hopes to outwit everyone. She aims to break the bonds of servitude and finally make her way home. What she doesn’t realize, however, is that she’s playing right into the hands of a far worse enemy...</div>
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Author: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Marlena Frank</span></h2>
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Series: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">The Stolen Series, #1</span></h2>
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Genre: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Fantasy</span></h2>
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Recommended Age: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Young Adult</span></h2>
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Release Date: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">January 22, 2019</span></h2>
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In a kingdom known as the Garden, where minotaurs pull carriages and parties are held in hot air balloons, Madam Cloom and her faerie servant, Teagan, rule over the land with incredible but terrifying magic. Shaleigh must prove that she is the reincarnation of a long-dead ruler, not because she believes it, but because it’s her only chance to survive. With the help of a trespassing faerie, a stoatling, and a living statue, Shaleigh hopes to outwit everyone. She aims to break the bonds of servitude and finally make her way home. What she doesn’t realize, however, is that she’s playing right into the hands of a far worse enemy...</div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shaleigh thought the party had died down, but she was wrong. The party was even more crowded than when she had left earlier. Professors, staff, and every other person in the department appeared to be stuffed into the three rooms that Hammond put aside for his parties. Shaleigh had put on her nicest black dress and applied coconut oil on her twists to make sure they looked nice. Even though she hated wearing dresses, she always felt underdressed at these parties. She turned to ask Dean Hammond where they had all come from, but he was already engrossed in another conversation. On her way to the punch table she barely avoided a collision with one of the wait staff, who seemed just as anxious about all the people as she was. She sipped on her punch and eyed a corner where she could disappear to when she heard her father's voice over the hum of conversation.</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-9facc9df-7fff-cde9-08e0-37134f76ff85"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A woman’s voice responded with humor, "I don’t mean to stare, but you look so familiar!"</span></span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-9facc9df-7fff-cde9-08e0-37134f76ff85"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"That’s alright, it happens. Dr. Haki Mallet.” Shaleigh looked to see her father shake the woman’s hand, adding, “but you're welcome to call me Haki. I'm afraid I'm usually cloistered up in my office, so I doubt we've met before."</span></span></span></div>
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"Did you come alone?"</div>
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"No, I came here with my daughter. I believe she stepped outside. Her mother couldn't make it, you see, so she was good enough to come instead. I'm afraid Kristen's been home sick the last few days."</div>
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"I'm sorry to hear that!"</div>
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Shaleigh felt her stomach drop to her knees. She studied the serious woman with bleached hair and didn't recognize her. She must be a new hire who hadn't been deterred by the rumors of her dad. At least, not yet.</div>
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"How sweet of your daughter!" The serious woman gave a small smile. "I know my son Charles would never come with me to one of these. He's more mechanically minded. Would likely be bored stiff."</div>
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"Shaleigh loves these parties. She really looks forward to them. I'm just concerned about Kristen. When she's home sick, it's difficult to think of much else."</div>
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Shaleigh ground her molars together to hold back a snarl. She had to get away from them or else she might get dragged into his stupid lies. She darted to an adjoining room and found a chair in a corner opposite the stairwell. She didn't want to hear him continue. She couldn't stand to hear it all again.</div>
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"I assure you, Red, Haki is hardly getting special privileges. He works twice as hard as many of the faculty in this department and has brought in more funding than almost anyone else. In fact, you could take a few pointers from him."</div>
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The bald man gave a nervous laugh. "I don't think making a guest appearance in a single documentary gives him any more clout than—"</div>
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"That single documentary brought in more funding than your research has all year. They've already lined him up for two more series and he's becoming a household name. Do you know of any other expert on ancient European mythology who could do what he's done?"</div>
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Shaleigh recognized the bald man then. It was Roger "Red" Dawkins, who had been a full-fledged professor for years, even chaired multiple committees, but somehow his brisk personality didn't quite catch on with television executives. He'd been passed up by multiple chances according to her dad. </div>
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"I could have. I may not have as many books under my belt, or look as good on television as he does, but I keep busy with the multiple committees I'm on. Perhaps if I could get out of a few of those I could help out with some of these documentaries myself." He polished off his drink. "It just seems like the more work I do, the less research I get done. Haki, on the other hand, somehow manages to get paid more. There's obviously more to it than merely the work. Something I'm missing."</div>
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Dean Hammond shook his head and searched the crowd, hunting for an escape. "You need to be more professional, Red. You sound jealous."</div>
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"Of course I'm jealous!" Red spat, "For all the praise he gets, you think he could share a bit of the limelight with the rest of us. Perhaps contribute to the department instead of squirreling away all his funds and contacts for himself. We both know he’s a time bomb, and when he does blow it'll affect everyone in the department. The man's a regular loon. He can't be trusted with that kind of responsibility. One day he'll simply snap, and that'll be it. I can only imagine the headlines..."</div>
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Shaleigh had never seen Dean Hammond draw himself up to his full height, but the way he stood now with his shoulders blocked off and the anger burning in his eyes, she understood how he had become the dean. "That's enough, Red. Kindly keep your coarse rumors in check."</div>
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: left;">
"No! It's a goddamn fact and everyone knows it. What is it this time? The wife's home sick again, I hear. It's no secret she up and left him fifteen years back. He's a loon and a dangerous liar, Eddie. Everyone knows she's dead after all."</div>
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Shaleigh's fingers were freezing on the glass of punch clutched in her hands, but she couldn't move them. Her face and ears burned with rage. She wanted to believe it; she wanted her mother to be dead. As terrible as it was, it would be easier to accept than if she had willingly abandoned them.</div>
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"You know what I think?" Red swam on, ignorant of Hammond's obvious ire. "I don't think she ran away. That's nonsense.” He scoffed. “I think he killed her. That's why he's so messed up. Something clicked in his head after that, and he'll never be right. I'm just afraid of what will happen should news get out, Eddie. What would they say if a crazy, lying, murderous professor who has become a household name on television was suddenly dragged out into the light with a murder investigation?"</div>
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He was trying to blackmail Hammond. Right here in the middle of a party, right here where anyone could see, where anyone could hear, Red Dawkins was trying to blackmail him using her father. The heat from her face had moved through her body like fire coursing through her veins. She barely felt her frozen fingers as she got to her feet and walked towards them.</div>
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At the sight of her, Dean Hammond's stony expression faded as he realized she must have overheard their conversation. "Shaleigh, don’t..."</div>
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Red, on the other hand, had been drinking and was completely oblivious. He gave her a cocky grin. "Ah Shaleigh, there you are! How are you enjoying the party?"</div>
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Without a word she tossed the icy punch into Red's face and dropped the glass onto the wooden floor. It shattered on impact. A hush descended over the room, numerous pairs of eyes turned towards them, and a scarlet flush lit up Red Dawkins’ bearded cheeks. "Don't you dare say another lie about my father," she growled, keeping her voice low.</div>
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The cold drink to the face seemed to have sobered Red up; he glanced around at the eyes watching them and stammered incoherently. Shaleigh didn't give him a chance to collect himself, but turned to face Dean Hammond, whose fury had subsided into bemused calm.</div>
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: left;">
"Sorry for ruining your party, Mr. Hammond."</div>
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: left;">
"That's not a problem, Shaleigh." He glanced over at Red, who was mopping up his face, then back to Shaleigh. "You certainly didn't ruin a thing for me." He gave her a warm smile and Shaleigh took her cue. It was time to leave. The crowd parted for her as she stalked across the room and back into the previous room. The chatter picked up again as she hunted for her father. Both of them had outworn their welcome.</div>
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She found him still chatting with the serious blond woman near the punch table, oblivious to what had happened. Shaleigh looped her arm around his and tried to steer him to the exit.</div>
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: left;">
"It's time to go, Dad."</div>
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: left;">
"Just a moment," he nearly spilled his drink and gave her a confused smile. "Amelia and I were discussing the conflicting evidence around Stonehenge." He managed to place his glass on a side table as Shaleigh dragged him to the exit. "What in the world is the problem?"</div>
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Amelia, the serious blond woman, called out, "Do give my regards to your wife."</div>
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Shaleigh didn't look up to catch the smirks or the hidden laughter around them, though she knew they were there. Her father, as usual, was completely oblivious as she pushed through the large wooden door and down the steps to the front driveway lined with cars. There must have been dozens of them, parked anywhere they could get an inch of cement, and more were piled nearby, cluttering up the grass yard. Shaleigh was sick of them. She was sick of all of them. She was so focused on reaching their vehicle near the end of the turnabout that she barely noticed her father slip out of her grip.</div>
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: left;">
"Goodness, I suppose I'll have to continue my conversation with Amelia on Monday." He sighed as Shaleigh continued onward. "What in the world happened back there? Do you plan to tell me?"</div>
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Shaleigh hopped into the driver's seat of the silver SUV, avoiding her father's concerned stare as he climbed in on the passenger's side.</div>
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: left;">
"I don't know if I like you driving at night. You do have your learner's permit with you, don't you?"</div>
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: left;">
"Yes, Dad." She grunted as she turned on the car, "Besides you've been drinking." He didn't argue, and she took off down the driveway; her dad barely had enough time to buckle his seatbelt. </div>
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: left;">
"You can't drag your father out of a party without some kind of explanation, young lady. Did someone make you uncomfortable? Did someone hurt you?"</div>
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: left;">
That last question hit too close to the issue, and Shaleigh paused for a moment before turning onto the street. "I did something I...probably shouldn't have."</div>
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: left;">
He nodded, his glasses gleaming from the passing headlights. "Let's hear it then."</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">"They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank-the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. All of them were covered in Alice's now cold and congealed blood, which made them even tastier looking to poor hungry Alice."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span><span style="text-align: left;">When little Alice follows the Black Rat down into the gaping darkness of an open grave, she falls and falls. And soon finds herself in an undead nightmare of rotting flesh and insanity. Venturing further into this land of zombies and monsters, she encounters characters both creepy and madcap along the way. But there's something else troubling poor Alice: her skin is rotting and her hair is falling out. She's cold. And she has the haunting feeling that if she remains in Zombieland any longer, she might never leave.</span></span><br />
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Title: <span style="color: #f8f4f1;">Alice in Zombieland</span></h2>
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Author: <span style="color: #f8f4f1;">Nickolas Cook and Lewis Carroll</span></h2>
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Genre: <span style="color: #f8f4f1;">Fantasy/Retellings, Horror</span></h2>
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Recommended Age: <span style="color: #f8f4f1;">Adult</span></h2>
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Release Date: <span style="color: #f8f4f1;">March 1, 2011</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">"They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank-the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. All of them were covered in Alice's now cold and congealed blood, which made them even tastier looking to poor hungry Alice."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">This was a super cool rewrite of the original story. I being the Alice enthusiast that I am was happy how much original story was in the book. I loved the Cheshire cat and the Duchess especially. I think this is a fun twist to an old tale with some gore involved.</span></div>
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Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), the pen name of Oxford mathematician, logician, photographer, and author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, is famous the world over for his fantastic classics "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," "Through the Looking Glass," "The Hunting of the Snark," "Jabberwocky," and "Sylvie and Bruno." </div>
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Nickolas Cook is an editor, a horror critic and reviewer, and the author of a couple of dozen published short stories and three novels.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">A promising talent makes her electrifying debut with this unforgettable novel, set in the Alaskan wilderness, that is a fusion of psychological thriller and coming-of-age tale in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Chris Bohjalian, and Mary Kubica.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">A natural born trapper and hunter raised in the Alaskan wilderness, Tracy Petrikoff spends her days tracking animals and running with her dogs in the remote forests surrounding her family’s home. Though she feels safe in this untamed land, Tracy still follows her late mother’s rules: Never Lose Sight of the House. Never Come Home with Dirty Hands. And, above all else, Never Make a Person Bleed.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">But these precautions aren’t enough to protect Tracy when a stranger attacks her in the woods and knocks her unconscious. The next day, she glimpses an eerily familiar man emerge from the tree line, gravely injured from a vicious knife wound—a wound from a hunting knife similar to the one she carries in her pocket. Was this the man who attacked her and did she almost kill him? With her memories of the events jumbled, Tracy can’t be sure.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Helping her father cope with her mother’s death and prepare for the approaching Iditarod, she doesn’t have time to think about what she may have done. Then a mysterious wanderer appears, looking for a job. Tracy senses that Jesse Goodwin is hiding something, but she can’t warn her father without explaining about the attack—or why she’s kept it to herself.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">It soon becomes clear that something dangerous is going on . . . the way Jesse has wormed his way into the family . . . the threatening face of the stranger in a crowd . . . the boot-prints she finds at the forest’s edge.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Her family is in trouble. Will uncovering the truth protect them—or is the threat closer than Tracy suspects?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">To start, I feel I need to give you some background about myself. I come from a family of hunters. I have seen my food alive before I ate it and I've seen the heads after/while eating them. </span><span style="text-align: left;">In fact when fishing, I will bait my own hook, catch the fish, take it off the hook, and clean the fish. </span><span style="text-align: left;">I am not a squeamish person. I have no issues with hunting, blood or anything of that nature. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"></span><span style="text-align: left;">That being said, at 46% through this book I quit reading it and refuse to finish it. It is really hard for me to not finish a book but this book made me sick. I literally almost puked while reading this book. First off, the main character is a sociopath who started drinking the blood of the animals she killed at four or five years old. When she was about ten years old, her mother found out and instead of correcting Tracy's behavior, the mother let her continue and just gave her rules to live by. These rules came after her bit her little brother's finger and tasted his blood. Throughout the book, it talks about her need to drink the blood of the creatures she hunts and that she is just a little wild inside. This wildness also drove her to snap the neck and drink the barn cat's blood after not being allowed to go into the woods for a while and when one of the hired helpers saw her, she chased him down and bit his neck drawing blood. The book goes back and forth between before her mother passed away to the current time line of her mother being dead for a while. During one of these flashbacks, she gets her period for the first time and runs away to the woods. She stays out there for a while and at some point DRINKS HER OWN PERIOD BLOOD and says its unlike drinking the blood of others because you only get flashbacks of your own memories unlike with the creatures she hunts where she gets their memories and feelings. That is the point that I had to stop reading. </span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">The characters are well written and you fall in love with them and feel for them quickly. The assassins are assassins but they also are kids so you can see where they are coming from and how they become who they are trying to be. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Barry Griffith doesn’t know it yet, but tonight is the night fate has chosen to be the night of his death… his murder. At a gas station in the middle of nowhere, late at night, his wife Jenny appears… no car… no coat and looking older than when he saw her last. That’s because this is not the woman he received a good-bye kiss from this morning. This woman has been a widow for over four years and has made an impossible journey back in time to try to stop her husband’s murder. Will they be able to escape the killers or does fate only have one plan… one possible outcome… ONE WAY?</span></span></div>
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Release Date: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">November 10, 2013</span></h2>
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The Missing Piece by Nicole Knapp</h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">Leah Knox lives in a world where everyone is guaranteed a soulmate. The only catch? She has to find him first...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Armed with the only tool given to her to help find her soulmate, a puzzle piece charm bracelet, and with the company of her two best friends, Leah sets out on the adventure of a lifetime with the promise of true love at the end.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">But in a world where true love is guaranteed, things aren't always so easy. Leah learns this lesson the hard way as she navigates the world, trying to find her missing piece, as well as trying to find herself.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Follow Leah on her adventures, and her misadventures, as she travels the world looking for love.</span></span><br />
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Title: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">The Missing Piece</span></h2>
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Author: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Nicole Knapp</span></h2>
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Genre: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Contemporary Romance</span></h2>
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Recommended Age: <span style="color: #eeeeee;"> New Adult/Young Adult</span></h2>
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Release Date: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">August 8, 2017</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">Leah Knox lives in a world where everyone is guaranteed a soulmate. The only catch? She has to find him first...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Armed with the only tool given to her to help find her soulmate, a puzzle piece charm bracelet, and with the company of her two best friends, Leah sets out on the adventure of a lifetime with the promise of true love at the end.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">But in a world where true love is guaranteed, things aren't always so easy. Leah learns this lesson the hard way as she navigates the world, trying to find her missing piece, as well as trying to find herself.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Follow Leah on her adventures, and her misadventures, as she travels the world looking for love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">The idea of two people being made for each other and having a way to prove it was sweet. It also made me appreciate not having that because there is no experiments and test relationships. You either know you are meant to be or you aren't. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">I loved the adventure and the idea of free travel for the adventure. I think if I were in that situation I would travel as much as possible before finding my soulmate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">This book really puts the idea of soulmates in love stories in perspective. It was a fun and cute read! I truly enjoyed it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nicole Knapp was born in Palm Springs, California on May 10th, 1990. She lived in California until the age of 16, when her family relocated to Oklahoma, where she currently resides. Nicole loved books from a very young age, and has been an avid reader all her life. At 24, she started freelance writing, which she continued for two years before deciding it was time to write something she was passionate about. Her first book, The Missing Piece, was released in August 2017. Her newest project, Hook & Crown, a dark and twisted retelling of Peter Pan, will be released Summer 2019 by The Parliament House.</span></div>
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Elemental Claim by Miranda Grant</h2>
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Rogan’s dedicated his life to protecting the Seven Planes. So when an ancient evil rises, he doesn't hesitate to volunteer his team. But immediately, things start to go wrong. Their intel is leaked to a gang hunting creatures of the Myth. The woman they grab is the wrong twin and worse, she’s protected by the gods. Drawn into an intricate game where one wrong move means the annihilation of the Seven Planes, Rogan can’t allow himself to be distracted by the soft lips of his captive. Especially since her very existence is a crime. Can Rogan keep his heart from messing up the mission or will he put everything on the line to pursue a life he never realized he wanted?</div>
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Within a few hours, Emma’s safe, little life crashes down around her. Driven off a bridge and drowned in a world of nightmares, Emma instinctively clings to the man that saves her. But when she wakes chained to a bed and interrogated over facts she doesn’t know, she realizes that her sexy savior might not have her best interests at heart after all. Forced to stay by his side, Emma is dragged into a terrifying reality where her twin sister stars as a mass murderer and Emma herself is wanted for being a descendant – a forbidden child of the gods. With so much at stake, does she dare listen to her heart and trust the very man meant to imprison her?</div>
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Title: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Elemental Claim </span></h2>
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Author: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Miranda Grant</span></h2>
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Series: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">War of the Myth</span></h2>
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Genre: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Paranormal Romance</span></h2>
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Recommended Age: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Adult</span></h2>
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Release Date: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">December 21, 2017</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A fast-paced paranormal romance compared to Gena Showalter's "Lord of the Underworld" series.</span><br />
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The mission always came first…until her.</div>
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Rogan’s dedicated his life to protecting the Seven Planes. So when an ancient evil rises, he doesn't hesitate to volunteer his team. But immediately, things start to go wrong. Their intel is leaked to a gang hunting creatures of the Myth. The woman they grab is the wrong twin and worse, she’s protected by the gods. Drawn into an intricate game where one wrong move means the annihilation of the Seven Planes, Rogan can’t allow himself to be distracted by the soft lips of his captive. Especially since her very existence is a crime. Can Rogan keep his heart from messing up the mission or will he put everything on the line to pursue a life he never realized he wanted?<br />
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Within a few hours, Emma’s safe, little life crashes down around her. Driven off a bridge and drowned in a world of nightmares, Emma instinctively clings to the man that saves her. But when she wakes chained to a bed and interrogated over facts she doesn’t know, she realizes that her sexy savior might not have her best interests at heart after all. Forced to stay by his side, Emma is dragged into a terrifying reality where her twin sister stars as a mass murderer and Emma herself is wanted for being a descendant – a forbidden child of the gods. With so much at stake, does she dare listen to her heart and trust the very man meant to imprison her?
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Between the love story and the mythology, it was a fantastic book of waiting for the characters to be together. I was a part of this world while reading it and could not wait to see what was going to happen next. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">This book was full of twists and turns that I did not expect which is right up my alley. I enjoyed the twist on the Greek and Norse Gods and the curses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Overall, it was a great book! I cannot wait for the next book! </span></div>
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806: A Novel by Cynthia Weil</h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-align: left;">Sibling 1 throws blenders and plays guitar. Sibling 2 is allergic to everything and is into magic. Sibling 3 is a varsity swimmer with a group of female fans. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Enough said. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">The only thing they have in common is their biological father, and the only thing they can agree on is that they all want to meet him. </span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">With the help of a broken-down, “borrowed” Jeep, KT, Jesse, and Gabe make their way across the country evading police, trying their luck on the slots, and meeting a life-changing pig, all to track down Donor 806, their father. Any hope of success requires smarts, luck, and ingenuity.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"> Good thing they have each other...even if they don't see it that way.</span></span><br />
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Title: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">806: A Novel</span></h2>
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Author: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Cynthia Weil</span></h2>
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Genre: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Young Adult </span></h2>
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Recommended Age: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Teen</span></h2>
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Release Date: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">March 13, 2018</span></h2>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sibling 1 throws blenders and plays guitar. Sibling 2 is allergic to everything and is into magic. Sibling 3 is a varsity swimmer with a group of female fans.</b> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b>Enough said. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">KT, you feel for almost immediately when you hear about her mom and the life she has grown up in. You can see how she became a realist/a bit pessimistic at such a young age. Her feeling of being half whole is completely understandable. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cynthia Weil is a member of the Rock and Roll and Songwriters Halls of Fame, as well as the multi-Grammy-winning songwriter of classic songs like "On Broadway," "We Gotta Get Out of This Place," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" (the most performed song of the 20th century), and "Somewhere Out There," which was a double Grammy winner and an Oscar nominee. A New Yorker at heart, she has lived in Southern California for many years with her husband and writing partner, Barry Mann. Cynthia's and Barry's younger selves and their songs are featured in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on Broadway. I'm Glad I Did is her first novel.</span></div>
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In the Dark by Becca Fox</h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">How far would you go to save your family?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Movies and books have made being a monster sound cool.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Lindsay can’t wear silver jewelry or get drunk with her friends, but hey, she sprouts fur and fangs during the full moon. Totally rad, right? Not. Forget about exploring the beast within, Lindsay just wants to graduate from nursing school. When a stroll in the park ends with her and her little brother being surrounded by masked goons who want to sell them overseas, Lindsay has no choice but to change.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Despite her best efforts, these kidnappers know how to handle a werewolf inexperienced in hand-to-paw combat. She regains consciousness hours after the scuffle to find her brother gone. In a panic, she turns to the only werewolf she knows: Wayne, Mr. Werewolf Pride, the guy Lindsay rejected none-too-kindly several years ago. Being the forgiving kind of guy he is, Wayne agrees to help. . .so long as Lindsay joins his pack. Living among others of her kind is the last thing Lindsay wants, but for her brother’s sake, she bites her tongue and agrees.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Lindsay learns a few things while traveling through Europe in search of her brother. One: Being a werewolf can be pretty badass when you know how to use your abilities. Two: Being a freak isn’t so bad when you’re surrounded by other freaks. And three: She might have misjudged Wayne.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">When she and Wayne stumble onto the mastermind behind the kidnapping, this werewolf mafia king decides they know too much. Lindsay and Wayne should get out of dodge but, they know that unless this man is stopped, innocent people will die.</span></span><br />
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Genre: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Paranormal</span></h2>
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Recommended Age: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Adult</span></h2>
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Release Date: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">January 17, 2018</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">How far would you go to save your family?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Movies and books have made being a monster sound cool.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Lindsay can’t wear silver jewelry or get drunk with her friends, but hey, she sprouts fur and fangs during the full moon. Totally rad, right? Not. Forget about exploring the beast within, Lindsay just wants to graduate from nursing school. When a stroll in the park ends with her and her little brother being surrounded by masked goons who want to sell them overseas, Lindsay has no choice but to change.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Despite her best efforts, these kidnappers know how to handle a werewolf inexperienced in hand-to-paw combat. She regains consciousness hours after the scuffle to find her brother gone. In a panic, she turns to the only werewolf she knows: Wayne, Mr. Werewolf Pride, the guy Lindsay rejected none-too-kindly several years ago. Being the forgiving kind of guy he is, Wayne agrees to help. . .so long as Lindsay joins his pack. Living among others of her kind is the last thing Lindsay wants, but for her brother’s sake, she bites her tongue and agrees.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Lindsay learns a few things while traveling through Europe in search of her brother. One: Being a werewolf can be pretty badass when you know how to use your abilities. Two: Being a freak isn’t so bad when you’re surrounded by other freaks. And three: She might have misjudged Wayne.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">When she and Wayne stumble onto the mastermind behind the kidnapping, this werewolf mafia king decides they know too much. Lindsay and Wayne should get out of dodge but, they know that unless this man is stopped, innocent people will die.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She lowered her hand, wrestling with panic and anger. <em>He’s barely thirteen. Who could’ve done this to him? Why was he targeted?</em> She immediately thought of her father. <em>Has he made any enemies?</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Surprise jolted Lindsay out of her thoughts. “Kyle?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m okay, I’m okay. I think. . .Holy crap! Lindsay, there’s somebody else in here.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“I don’t remember there being anyone else with us when they came.” He gasped in alarm. “Brody! Brody was with us. Do you think they took him, too?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsay remembered that first swing of the bat and the shriek of the Yellow Lab. She shuddered. They would never see that dog again. “I think he would’ve woken us up earlier if they had.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Oh, right.” He paused. “Um. . .”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“What? What is it?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He sounded uncomfortable. “Well. . .I know it’s a guy. . .”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She laughed, but stopped when pain stabbed at her ribs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kyle’s hesitant footsteps came closer. “What’s going to happen to us?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“They can’t keep us in here forever, munchkin.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kyle stumbled on her ankle. With a shout of triumph, he threw himself down by Lindsay and wrapped his arms around her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Gently,” she grunted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“I thought you said you weren’t hurt.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m not. Not very badly, anyway.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Lindsay.” Kyle brushed a hand across her face. “Why’s your cheek wet?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She wiped her skin and brought her fingers to her nose. <em>Blood? It can’t be mine. I’d recognize the scent. . .I think</em>. “It’s blood, but it’s not mine,” she told Kyle. “I don’t have any cuts on my face.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“You must’ve been lying near someone who was bleeding. Maybe it was that guy I tripped over. No, wait, he wasn’t bleeding. . .”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“There must be a fourth hostage,” Lindsay concluded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kyle’s grip around her tightened. “I’m glad you came back.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“I should’ve visited sooner. I’m sorry,” Lindsay said, giving his shoulder a squeeze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Her brother shifted his weight, suddenly gruff. “That’s okay.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“There were a bunch of things going on between me and Dad. It had nothing to do with you. I—”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsay tensed. “Did you hear that?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“What?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Shush.” There was movement somewhere across the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“God, that hurts!” a man groaned. “What the—? Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A mixture of emotions coursed through her at the sound of his voice: familiarity, longing, frustration, and exasperation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“This doesn’t make any sense. I’m freakin’ broke, people!” The air around Kyle and Lindsay was disturbed as he walked right past where they sat, and ran into something solid. After grumbling more curses, he pounded what sounded like a cement wall. “I don’t have any money for you!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Before you start yelling again,” Lindsay said, causing him to yelp in alarm, “just know that you’re not the only one down here.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Don’t you have a sexy voice?” the man purred, recovering quickly from his scare. “What’s your name and what you in here for?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Shut up and back up, Avery, before I do something stupid,” Lindsay snapped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Oh, great,” Avery Mackenzie said, dropping the act. “I’ve finally been sent to hell, haven’t I? If this is the first stage, I’m never going to get through the rest.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Didn’t I tell you to shut up? What are you doing here?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m obviously being tortured by one of my other exes. All right, I’m a jerk! I’ve learned my lesson.” He started pounding the wall again. “Get me out of here before she eats me alive.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“You know this guy?” Kyle asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Unfortunately, I dated him for ten months,” Lindsay muttered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“You still love me. They all do,” Avery said with an audible smirk in his voice. “Why I didn’t recognize your voice earlier I have no idea. Maybe it’s because you weren’t yelling at me or screaming under me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“I swear, Avery, you say another word and I’ll—”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“What’s he talking about, Linds?” Kyle squeaked. “Did he hurt you?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Repeatedly,” Avery said. “Not that she complained, of course.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsay kicked out with her good foot and made contact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He fell with a grunt. “Often. She didn’t complain often.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Ignore him, Kyle. He’s just an idiot.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Avery chuckled. “So <em>you’re</em> Kyle. Nice to meet you, kiddo. Your sister told me lots about you. Don’t be too hurt that she’s never mentioned me before. She swore I didn’t exist after she ended it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“You ended it,” Lindsay said. “Seriously, who in their right mind would pay a ransom for you?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Your guess is as good as mine, toots. I’m broke.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsay snorted. “Big surprise there. Don’t call me toots.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Whatever you say, sweetheart. All I know is that one minute I’m walking this really cute girl home after a lame party, and then I get hit on the back of the head. I woke up here.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“We were attacked,” Kyle chimed in. “Three dudes in masks appeared out of nowhere and put a sack over my head. Lindsay tried to fight them, but I think they hurt her to keep her quiet.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“What?” Avery said, concern changing his voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m fine,” Lindsay said, irritably. <em>You have no right to be worried about me</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A feminine moan sounded in the distance. “What’s. . .How. . .Where am I?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Becca Fox was that "strange girl" in high school, who always seemed to have her nose in a book. She didn’t talk much because, more often than not, she was daydreaming about different fantasy worlds. During class, under the guise of taking notes, she wrote scenes for her works in progress. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Sasha Stone knows her place—first-chair clarinet, top of her class, and at the side of her oxford-wearing boyfriend. She’s worked her entire life to ensure that her path to Oberlin Conservatory as a star musician is perfectly paved.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">But suddenly there’s a fork in the road, in the shape of Isaac Harver. Her body shifts toward him when he walks by, her skin misses his touch even though she’s never known it, and she relishes the smell of him—smoke, beer, and trouble—all the things she’s avoided to get where she is. Even worse, every time he’s near Sasha, her heart stops, literally. Why does he know her so well—too well—and she doesn’t know him at all?</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Sasha discovers that her by-the-book life began by ending another’s: the twin sister she absorbed in the womb. But that doesn’t explain the gaps of missing time in her practice schedule or the memories she has of things she certainly never did with Isaac. As Sasha loses her much-cherished control, her life—and heart—become more entangled with Isaac. Armed with the knowledge that her heart might not be hers alone, Sasha must decide what she’s willing to do—and who she’s willing to hurt—to take it back.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Edgar Award–winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a dark and gripping psychological thriller about a girl at war with herself, and what it really means to be good or bad.</span><br />
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Genre: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Mystery, Thriller</span></h2>
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Recommended Age: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Young Adult</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">Sasha Stone knows her place—first-chair clarinet, top of her class, and at the side of her oxford-wearing boyfriend. She’s worked her entire life to ensure that her path to Oberlin Conservatory as a star musician is perfectly paved.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">But suddenly there’s a fork in the road, in the shape of Isaac Harver. Her body shifts toward him when he walks by, her skin misses his touch even though she’s never known it, and she relishes the smell of him—smoke, beer, and trouble—all the things she’s avoided to get where she is. Even worse, every time he’s near Sasha, her heart stops, literally. Why does he know her so well—too well—and she doesn’t know him at all?</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Sasha discovers that her by-the-book life began by ending another’s: the twin sister she absorbed in the womb. But that doesn’t explain the gaps of missing time in her practice schedule or the memories she has of things she certainly never did with Isaac. As Sasha loses her much-cherished control, her life—and heart—become more entangled with Isaac. Armed with the knowledge that her heart might not be hers alone, Sasha must decide what she’s willing to do—and who she’s willing to hurt—to take it back.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Edgar Award–winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a dark and gripping psychological thriller about a girl at war with herself, and what it really means to be good or bad.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Okay so this book super messed with me. It took me all day to figure out how I felt about it. It was interesting and definitely not what I expected however, it had a REALLY dark and twisted ending. Now normally I like dark and twisted but this was a bit much for me. I'm truly scared there are people in the world like the main character and we don't know it because they are good at hiding things and lying. Like I said, it messed with my brain but it was a good read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Mindy McGinnis is a YA author who has worked in a high school library for thirteen years. Her debut, NOT A DROP TO DRINK, a post-apocalyptic survival story set in a world with very little freshwater, has been optioned for film my Stephanie Meyer's Fickle Fish Films. The companion novel, IN A HANDFUL OF DUST was released in 2014. Her Gothic historical thriller, A MADNESS SO DISCREET won the Edgar Award in 2015. Her newest release, THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES is available now!</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Rayn Parrington is a twenty-two year old script distribution company owner living in New York City. When her boyfriend Adam Lanes leaves her suddenly, her best friend Oliver (Ollie) Haggard talks her into joining a dating site. When she finds Adam is also on the dating site she decides to pose as Taylor Jones in hopes of winning back his affection. What Rayn doesn’t know is that she’s not the only one pretending to be someone else online. Adam isn’t really Adam.</span><br />
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Title: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Mystery Date</span></h2>
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Author: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Amber Nadine</span></h2>
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Genre: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Mystery, Thriller</span></h2>
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Recommended Age: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Adult</span></h2>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This book was great! It was such a cute story that then turned into a total thriller. The ending was nothing like I was expecting while reading it. I was waiting for the Happily Ever After and then serious plot twist! Though the ending makes the rest of the tidbits of information throughout all come together and make SO MUCH MORE SENSE!!! Read this book it will mess with your brain!</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Amber Nadine is a singer/songwriter from Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. She has written two YA Novella's 'Number 17' and 'Origami Hearts and Purple Buttons; two historical short fiction stories, 'Titanic: The Tragedy of the Sea' and Pompeii: A Fiery Explosion; and a self-help guide, 'U Can Beat This: A Self-Help Guide for those struggling with Anorexia Nervosa and their family members. This is Amber's first novel.</span></span></div>
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<i style="text-align: left;">Only queens with hearts can bleed.</i><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">This is not the story of the Wonderland we know. Alice has not fallen down a rabbit hole. There is no all-knowing cat with a taunting smile. This is a Wonderland where beneath each smile lies a secret, each tart comes with a demand, and only prisoners tell the truth.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Dinah is the princess who will one day reign over Wonderland. She has not yet seen the dark depths of her kingdom; she longs only for her father’s approval and a future with the boy she loves. But when a betrayal breaks her heart and threatens her throne, she is launched into Wonderland’s dangerous political game. Dinah must stay one step ahead of her cunning enemies or she’ll lose not just the crown but her head.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Evil is brewing in Wonderland and maybe, most frighteningly, in Dinah herself.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">This is not a story of happily ever after.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">This is the story of the Queen of Hearts.</span></div>
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Title: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Queen of Hearts</span></h2>
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Author: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Colleen Oakes</span></h2>
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Series: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Queen of Hearts Saga</span></h2>
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Genre: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Fantasy, Retelling</span></h2>
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Release Date: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">May 3, 2016</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="text-align: left;">Only queens with hearts can bleed.</i><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">This is not the story of the Wonderland we know. Alice has not fallen down a rabbit hole. There is no all-knowing cat with a taunting smile. This is a Wonderland where beneath each smile lies a secret, each tart comes with a demand, and only prisoners tell the truth.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Dinah is the princess who will one day reign over Wonderland. She has not yet seen the dark depths of her kingdom; she longs only for her father’s approval and a future with the boy she loves. But when a betrayal breaks her heart and threatens her throne, she is launched into Wonderland’s dangerous political game. Dinah must stay one step ahead of her cunning enemies or she’ll lose not just the crown but her head.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Evil is brewing in Wonderland and maybe, most frighteningly, in Dinah herself.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">This is not a story of happily ever after.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">This is the story of the Queen of Hearts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">This was a very good spin off/retelling of Alice in Wonderland though there is no Alice in it. This is all about the Queen of Hearts and her beginnings. I love Alice in Wonderland so I am always down for reading spin offs and this was a good one. I liked the character development though Dinah got a little whiny sometimes. I think that was the point though. Oakes wanted to show how much of a spoiled little girl Dinah was. I loved the ending and I cannot wait to see where the story goes. This is the first book in a trilogy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">Colleen Oakes is the bestselling author of books for both teens and adults, including The Black Coats, Queen of Hearts Series, and The Wendy Darling Saga. She lives in North Denver with her husband and son. When not writing or plotting new books, Colleen can be found swimming, traveling or immersing herself in nerdy pop culture.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">She currently at work on her third YA fairytale series, a YA thriller and a fantasy collaboration.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">What if the ordinary things in life suddenly…disappeared?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Aila Quinn’s mother, Juliet, has always been a mystery: vibrant yet guarded, she keeps her secrets beyond Aila’s reach. When Juliet dies, Aila and her younger brother Miles are sent to live in Sterling, a rural town far from home--and the place where Juliet grew up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Sterling is a place with mysteries of its own. A place where the experiences that weave life together--scents of flowers and food, reflections from mirrors and lakes, even the ability to dream--vanish every seven years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">No one knows what caused these “Disappearances,” or what will slip away next. But Sterling always suspected that Juliet Quinn was somehow responsible--and Aila must bear the brunt of their blame while she follows the chain of literary clues her mother left behind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">What if the ordinary things in life suddenly…disappeared?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Aila Quinn’s mother, Juliet, has always been a mystery: vibrant yet guarded, she keeps her secrets beyond Aila’s reach. When Juliet dies, Aila and her younger brother Miles are sent to live in Sterling, a rural town far from home--and the place where Juliet grew up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Sterling is a place with mysteries of its own. A place where the experiences that weave life together--scents of flowers and food, reflections from mirrors and lakes, even the ability to dream--vanish every seven years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">No one knows what caused these “Disappearances,” or what will slip away next. But Sterling always suspected that Juliet Quinn was somehow responsible--and Aila must bear the brunt of their blame while she follows the chain of literary clues her mother left behind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">When reading the synopsis, I thought it was people that were disappearing but it wasn't. </span><span style="text-align: left;">This book made me grateful for the things I have in my life. I truly enjoyed reading this book and I feel like I am a better person for reading it. I think it made me value the simple things in life. I also like that it is set in WWII times. It also has fun literary references in it. The poetry in it is incredible some of which Murphy wrote and some she didn't.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Emily Bain Murphy grew up in Indiana, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, and has also called Massachusetts, California, and Connecticut home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Murphy is the author of THE DISAPPEARANCES and SPLINTERS OF SCARLET (2020), both young adult historical fantasies published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She loves books, Japanese karaoke, exploring new cities, and anything with Nutella.</span><br />
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<i style="text-align: left;">Arram. Varice. Ozorne. In the first book in the Numair Chronicles, three student mages are bound by fate . . . fated for trouble.</i><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Arram Draper is a boy on the path to becoming one of the realm’s most powerful mages. The youngest student in his class at the Imperial University of Carthak, he has a Gift with unlimited potential for greatness–and for attracting danger. At his side are his two best friends: Varice, a clever girl with an often-overlooked talent, and Ozorne, the “leftover prince” with secret ambitions. Together, these three friends forge a bond that will one day shape kingdoms. And as Ozorne gets closer to the throne and Varice gets closer to Arram’s heart, Arram begins to realize that one day soon he will have to decide where his loyalties truly lie. </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">In the Numair Chronicles, readers will be rewarded with the never-before-told story of how Numair Salmalín came to Tortall. Newcomers will discover an unforgettable fantasy adventure where a kingdom’s future rests on the shoulders of a talented young man with a knack for making vicious enemies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">Though I would love to join groups, I'm going to turn them all down. I just don't have the time to take part, so please don't be offended if I don't join your group or accept an invitation. I'm not snooty--I'm just up to my eyeballs in work and appearances!</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Also, don't be alarmed by the number of books I've read. When I get bored, I go through the different lists and rediscover books I've read in the past. It's a very evil way to use up time when I should be doing other things. Obviously, I've read a lot of books in 54 years!</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">I was born in South Connellsville, PA. My mother wanted to name me "Tamara" but the nurse who filled out my birth certificate misspelled it as "Tamora". When I was 8 my family moved to California, where we lived for 6 years on both sides of the San Francisco peninsula.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">I started writing stories in 6th grade. My interest in fantasy and science fiction began when I was introduced to ‘The Lord of the Rings’ by J. R. R. Tolkien and so I started to write the kind of books that I was reading. After my parents divorced, my mother took my sisters and me back to Pennsylvania in 1969. There I went to Albert Gallatin Senior High for 2 years and Uniontown Area Senior High School for my senior year.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, I wrote the book that became The Song of the Lioness fantasy quartet. I sold some articles and 2 short stories and wrote reviews for a martial arts movie magazine. At last the first book of the quartet, Alanna: The First Adventure was published by Atheneum Books in 1983.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Tim Liebe, who became my Spouse-Creature, and I lived in New York City with assorted cats and two parakeets from 1982 - 2006. In 2006 we moved to Syracuse, New York, where we live now with assorted cats, a number of squirrels, birds, raccoons, skunks, opossums, and woodchucks visiting our very small yard. As of 2011, I have 27 novels in print, one short story collection, one comic book arc ("White Tiger: A Hero's Compulsion") co-written with Tim, and a short story anthology co-editing credit. There's more to come, including a companion book to the Tortall `verse. So stay tuned!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old—when in actuality, he’s twenty-one centuries old. Not to mention: He draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit, and wields an even sharper magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Unfortunately, a very angry Celtic god wants that sword, and he’s hounded Atticus for centuries. Now the determined deity has tracked him down, and Atticus will need all his power—plus the help of a seductive goddess of death, his vampire and werewolf team of attorneys, a bartender possessed by a Hindu witch, and some good old-fashioned luck of the Irish—to kick some Celtic arse and deliver himself from evil.</span></span><br />
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Title: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Hounded</span></h2>
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Series: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">The Iron Druid Chronicles</span></h2>
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Genre: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Fantasy</span></h2>
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Recommended Age: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Adult</span></h2>
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Release Date: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">March 3, 2011</span></h2>
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<span style="text-align: left;">A secret diary. A forgotten past. Another time. Close cousins Addison and Elissa live in present day New York City and lead somewhat ordinary lives. When uncertain circumstances surrounding a set of antique perfume bottles sends them back to eighteenth-century France, they must uncover the truth behind their travel. Disaster strikes when Addison finds herself in a nearly identical situation to a mishap she experienced in the present-the witnessing of a murder and release of a secret. Only this time the truth could destroy the entire French monarchy. With Addison's head on the line, the young women search for answers before Addison suffers her unlucky fate twice. It is only when they discover the haunting connections to life in the present, that they understand why they both were sent, and why a repeating past...may not always be such a bad thing.</span><br />
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Recommended Age: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Adult</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">Erin Marie Bernardo is an American writer of historical fiction. She has a degree in Communication Studies from the University of Minnesota, and is the author of the time-travel novel, Scent of the Past. A lover of historic places and days forgotten, Erin's novels connect the past with the present. She is currently at work on her second novel, Blackbird's Bounty, set in the bayou of Louisiana.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="text-align: left;"></span><span style="text-align: left;">Erin lives in Tennessee on a small hobby farm, but has roots in both Minnesota and Washington State. She is married with two young children. </span></span></div>
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Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake</h2>
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<i style="font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">When kingdom come, there will be one.</i><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born—three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to spark hungry flames or vicious storms at the snap of her fingers. Katharine is a poisoner, one who can ingest the deadliest poisons without so much as a stomachache. Arsinoe, a naturalist, is said to have the ability to bloom the reddest rose and control the fiercest of lions.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">But becoming the Queen Crowned isn’t solely a matter of royal birth. Each sister has to fight for it. And it’s not just a game of win or lose…it’s life or death. The night the sisters turn sixteen, the battle begins.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">The last queen standing gets the crown.</span><br />
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Title: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Three Dark Crowns</span></h2>
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Author: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Kendare Blake</span></h2>
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Series: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Three Dark Crowns</span></h2>
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Genre: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Fantasy</span></h2>
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Recommended Age: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Young Adult</span></h2>
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Release Date: <span style="color: #eeeeee;">September 20, 2016</span></h2>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This good was SO good! I love Katharine. She is my queen. I think the concept of this book is so sad but the book is cool. Its similar to Hunger Games ideals. The concept of making these triplets kill each other to become queen made me want to cry because I wanted to take care of all of these little girls. The adults in the story scare me especially the prisoners. I would not want to live the life these little girls live but Blake's creation of this twisted world is fantastic. The ending was totally unexpected! This book is dark and twisty but clever.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">So, I write books. The Anna Dressed in Blood duo is horror, The Goddess War trilogy is mythology, and Sleepwalk Society is contemporary, because the world don't move to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for you, may not be right for some. Love to read, too. Fiction, philosophy, good books, bad books, because you take the good you take the bad you take them both and there you have a stack of books and stuff. I mean, you've got to be adventurous. There's more to life that what you're living, so take a chance and face the wind. </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">There's more coming soon like Scary Out There and THREE DARK CROWNS so don't waste another minute on your cryin. We're nowhere near the end. </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">My likes include animals, food, and nostalgia. I mean, whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, the evening TV? Used to be everywhere you look, there's a heart, a hand to hold on to.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Anyway, I love to hear from readers so drop me a line here or at my website and we'll talk about friends to know, and ways to grow, and how if you threw a party you would see that the biggest gift would be from me and the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">We can also talk about all the sitcom theme songs in this bio. Sha la la la.</span></span></div>
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