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This week author Maricela Estrada joins us with a guest post about her struggle with bipolar disorder. We also have a review of her memoir, Bipolar Girl and instructions on how to enter to win a copy at the end of this post.
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If you love drama, teen romance, or the show Gossip Girl, then you will love these books written by Cecily von Ziegesar. It all takes place in New York, mainly the Upper East Side, and follows the lives of the rich and fabulous students of two prep schools in Manhattan. There are many characters in this series but the two that are featured are Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf, the queen bees of the Upper East Side.
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It’s a children’s book.
It’s a biographical profile. It’s a graphic novel. It’s a book on film history. It’s a mystery. It’s a thriller.
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Proud Spirit sanctuary began with one horse in need on five acres in rural Florida and evolved into a 320-acre facility in Arkansas, where nearly 200 horses have come to live out their lives in peace. Melanie and Jim Bowles are the founders of Proud Spirit and this book offers incredible stories about the dogs that have also found their forever home at the sanctuary.
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Gossip makes the world go round. We all gossip, read gossip magazines, or listen to gossip on TV. It’s addicting and so is the show all about gossip, Gossip Girl. Gossip Girl follows the lives of teenage Upper East Siders Serena Van Der Woodsen (Blake Lively), Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford), Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), and Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgely). An online blog, Gossip Girl, recalls the events in their lives and the hottest gossip.
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In 1982, Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse was published in Great Britain, becoming a deeply loved horse story to rival Anna Sewell’s nineteenth-century Black Beauty. Later, one American girl read it and begged her father to make a movie of it. Her father was Steven Spielberg. He saw a stage production based on the book, was impressed, and he made that movie.
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With Halloween almost here, we thought we’d share a group of horror/fantasy book reviews for your scary and supernatural enjoyment! We’ve thrown in a sci-fi book too, just to mix it up a little! Enjoy, and be sure to read with the lights one!
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Aloha From Hell was just released today, October 18, 2011! Link below to order your copy!
Aloha From Hell by Richard Kadrey concludes the trilogy he began in Sandman Slim. In it our anti-hero James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, finally gets the chance to finish what he started by killing the man, Mason, who sent him to Hell and murdered his first love.
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Since we weren’t able to get to the movies this weekend, thought it would be fun as the weather begins to cool to share some fun fall mystery reading suggestions. So grab a cup of coffee, or your favorite hot beverage of choice, & check out three mystery novels to consider adding to your list of fall and winter reading!
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Lorie Ham interviews Australian mystery author and KRL writer Diana Hockley about her new book The Celibate Mouse and her love of pet rats, and C.L. Shore reviews the book which is the second one in her series. At the end of this article is a chance to win a copy.
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Timecaster is sci-fi mystery set in the future, Chicago 2067, where Talon Avalon is a timecaster who operates a machine that can see the past. With the widespread use of these machines, crimes have become non-existent.
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As we continue with Halloween month, here you will find some more vampire fun from Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood is based on this book series) creator Charlaine Harris! First a review of Home Improvement: Undead Edition edited by Charlaine Harris/Toni L. P. Kelner and then a review of Charlaine’s companion to her vampire series, The Sookie Stackhouse Companion.
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Anthony Boucher. It’s appropriate the name is an alias, derived from his Grandmother’s maiden name and the name of his favorite saint. He was also known as H. H. Holmes, not from Sherlock Holmes but from Herman W. Mudgett, a famous serial killer, executed in 1896.
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Magic Slays is an urban fantasy that is set in an alternate Atlanta and in a future where technology and magic come in waves, and magic is winning. When magic is in effect, most technology will not work, and spells, monsters and people with magic are at their strongest. The opposite is true when the magic goes down.
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