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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.