Amazon/ Barnes & Nobles/Indiebound Thanks to the wonderful people of Wunderkind PR for helping to put together the content below for this blog feature. More about That Crazy Perfect Someday by:Michael Mazza “Feisty hero Mafuri’s first-person narration gives voice to the rarely glamorous and often infuriating world of being a female athlete. This is a beach-bag…
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Interview with Barbara Taylor Bradford and Review of “The Cavendon Women”
After months of non-activity, I am finally prepared to sink back into blogging, and the return is accompanied by a special interview with NY Times bestselling writer, Barbara Taylor Bradford, well-known for her best-selling drama title “A Woman of Substance”
Dani Hoots’ Review of Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead Amazon/Barnes & Noble Published by: Razorbill Review by: Dani Hoots St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a…
Dani Hoots’ Review of Center Ring by Desiree DeOrto
Center Ring (Book 1 of Dark Circus Series) by Desiree DeOrto Amazon/Barnes &Nobles Published by Anchor Group Publishing Review by Dani Hoots Fear runs rampant, horror comes alive, and an ancient curse comes to light in the Dark Circus. As the star of the show, Candace is trapped between what she knows and what her mind…
Review of Kate Morton’s “The Lake House”
Simon & Schuster/ IndieBound/Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Kobo Check out the following enticing synopsis of the book, provided by Simon & Schuster: From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Secret Keeper and The Distant Hours, an intricately plotted, spellbinding new novel of heartstopping suspense and uncovered secrets. Living on her family’s idyllic…
Discovery of Witches, Chapters 1-12 Discussion- Formative Stages of Alchemy
Be sure, if you haven’t already, to obtaina copy of Discovery of Witches from either Indiebound (independant book stores), Kobo, Barnes and Nobles, Amazon, or at your local library. Today, we’ll be mostly focusing our discussion (very brief overview, with some discussion questions) on the first 150 pages of the story, with relation to the beginning stages/ formative…
Greg Wilkey’s “Growing Up Dead” Audiobook Blog Tour Day #3- Review of “Growing Up Dead” Audiobook
Being a part of Bibliophile’s Workshop’s many different blog tours,“ will give you the opportunity to read various novels, spanning many genres and writing styles, along with helping share new, promising titles with readers all across the internet. Growing Up Dead Audiobook Blog Tour Monday, April 27,2014 – Ends Saturday May 2,2015 Information About…
Review of “The Sweetheart: A Novel,” by: Angelina Mirabella
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Simon & Schuster/Goodreads Angelina Mirabella’s aptly- titled historical ficiton novel The Sweetheart, set around the era of the fifties in America, is an exciting, identity-confused perspective of a female wrestler, in a time in America which many attribute as being one of the most idyllic eras in our history. When you read the…
Review of I Don’t Have a Happy Place by Kim Korson
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Goodreads Review Written by: Jessica C. It seems like all good things arise out of unusual circumstances and situations. In Kim Korson’s life this moment comes when her therapists asks her why she can’t be happy. Kim’s explanation comes in the hilarious format of an entire novel titled I Don’t Have a Happy Place….
Review of “We Are Not Ourselves” by Matthew Thomas
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Kobo/ Goodreads Let me preface this review, by saying that Matthew Thomas’ We Are Not Ourselves is not escapist fiction; this is gritty, unsparing realistic fiction that is done magnificently well. It has taken me approximately three months to read this novel, more from the difficulty of some of the later subject matter (not…
Perdita by: Hilary Scharper Spotlight Tour
Perdita By Hilary Scharper Sourcebooks Landmark January 20, 2015 $16.99 Trade Paperback “Stunning… richly complex and unpredictable.” —Historical Novel Review Marged Brice is 134 years old. She’d be ready to go, if it weren’t for Perdita . . . The Georgian Bay lighthouse’s single eye keeps watch over storm and calm, and Marged grew up…
Review of “China Dolls,” by Lisa See
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads In ninth grade (a time that seems eons ago..), I wrote a report on Japanese Internment camps, since the topic completely fascinated me. This was at a time, where history lessons were becoming increasingly more divisive, thus featuring more critical thought and response as a result. Most of my education has…
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