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  • Hello, Cruel Heart: a new Maureen Johnson story

    May 23, 2021May 23, 2021Book Reviews
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    Hello, Cruel Heart is Maureen Johnson's telling of Cruella De Vil's teenage years. It's a Disney story. Warning given.

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  • An alternative Jack the Ripper story in People of Abandoned Character

    October 25, 2020December 18, 2020Book Reviews
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    In People of Abandoned Character, Clare Whitfield tells the story of a possible wife of Jack the Ripper.

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  • Welcome to the blog tour: Lobizona by Romina Garber

    August 5, 2020December 18, 2020Book Reviews
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    Manu grew up hiding as an undocumented immigrant in Miami. Until she learns more about her story and that she is a Lobizona. Join me on the blog tour of Romina Garber's new book.

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  • My Long List of Impossible Things that can’t be done after a war

    March 2, 2020December 18, 2020Book Reviews
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    We imagine a war ending to be celebrations and champagne, but Michelle Barker's new novel, My Long List of Impossible Things shows that it's anything but.

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  • You Are Awesome… and this book will make you more awesome

    October 28, 2019January 20, 2021Book Reviews
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    You are Awesome is Neil Pasricha's new book and the first I read. It's filled with useful tips and reflections on how you can be more awesome

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  • Producing babies at The Farm

    May 6, 2019December 31, 2020Book Reviews
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    The Farm by Joanne Ramos is a story of women trying to make their way in life. By commercializing childbirth.

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  • Someday Is Not a Day in the Week – new book review

    March 11, 2019January 20, 2021Book Reviews
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    Do you have a dream that needs a nudge? Someday Is Not a Day in the Week is that nudge. Sam Horn tells why you shouldn't delay and chase your dream today.

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  • Wise Guy: wisdom and learnings from Guy Kawasaki

    February 26, 2019December 24, 2020Book Reviews
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    In Wise Guy, Guy Kawasaki shared the wisdom he gained through working with Apple, choosing college, learning from his kids, and surfing.

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  • Living with your family in a van in Roam by CH Armstrong

    February 11, 2019February 11, 2019Book Reviews

    Abby is doing her best to start school afresh, and hide that she lives in a van with family in Roam by CH Armstrong.

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  • The Girls at 17 Swann Street

    February 4, 2019December 31, 2020Book Reviews

    Anna Roux wasn't ill, she was healthy. She ate only apples, and ran daily and had weight to lose. The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib is Anna's story of anorexia.

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  • A Decadent 1889 Paris Fantasy in The Gilded Wolves

    January 27, 2019January 13, 2021Book Reviews
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    1889 Paris with a heist and magic and a charismatic but cursed heir in the Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi.

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  • Would you attend boarding school with your clone? The Similars by Rebecca Hanover

    January 4, 2019September 13, 2020Book Reviews
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    When six clones join Emmaline’s prestigious boarding school, she must confront the heartbreak of seeing her dead best friend’s face each day in class. Technically true but The Similars by Rebecca Hanover is much more complex.

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  • Life Tips I Learned Reading The End of Procrastination by Petr Ludwig

    December 31, 2018January 20, 2021Book Reviews
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    Is your New Year's resolution to get more done? Here are the life tips I learned reading The End of Procrastination by Petr Ludwig.

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  • How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen

    November 12, 2018December 24, 2020Book Reviews
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    How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen is a retelling and modern update of 28 stories.

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  • Deogratias: a Hutu boy in the Rwandan genocide

    November 10, 2018November 10, 2018Book Reviews

    The graphic novel of Deogratias by Jean-Philippe Stassen is released and tells the story of a teen boy in the Rwandan genocide.

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  • Dear Evan Hansen: the Novel

    October 8, 2018October 8, 2018Book Reviews
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    Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen has been converted to a beautifully written novel by Val Emmich. It's deep, and dark: everything a musical isn't.

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  • Time traveling in The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain

    October 2, 2018January 13, 2021Book Reviews
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    Carly's unborn daughter has an incurable heart defect. Well, incurable in 1970. Diane Chamberlain's The Dream Daughter is time travel and love.

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  • Switching Places in The Pretender with Katie Ward

    September 18, 2018November 4, 2019Blog Tours, Book Reviews
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    The poor girl from an abusive home switches with the princess struggling to understand her role in Katie Ward's The Pretender.

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  • Living in a divided Germany in The House of a Thousand Eyes

    September 10, 2018September 10, 2018Book Reviews
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    Who can Lena trust in 1980s Berlin, when she's a cleaner for the Stasi and her uncle is missing? The House of a Thousand Eyes is a new novel by Michelle Barker.

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  • A Key to Treehouse Living

    September 4, 2018December 30, 2020Book Reviews
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    William Tyce shares his knowledge of life in a glossary style guide. Except he's a a boy without parents, who grows up near a river in the rural Midwest, inadvertently shares his life story.

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