Monday, November 19, 2012

YA Fiction: "Personal Effects" by E. M. Kokie

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It's not easy, being a teenage guy. E. M. Kokie reminds us of this in her debut novel, "Personal Effects," which centers on...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Historical Fiction: "The Art Forger" by B. A. Shapiro

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Continuing the recent trend in art-themed novels is B. A. Shapiro's "The Art Forger," published by Algonquin Books. Shapiro...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Historical Fiction: "The Painted Girls" by Cathy Marie Buchanan

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Historical fiction, in my experience, falls along a sliding scale of exactly how much of its content is fact, and how much has been create...
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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Memoir/Environmental: "Into Great Silence" by Eva Saulitis

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It is not often that a book published as a memoir focuses so little on the life of the author. Instead, "Into Great Silence" bri...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

YA Fiction: "Lovely, Dark and Deep" by Amy McNamara

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Looking to steer a teenage female toward falling in love with a character who's neither vampiric, nor lupine? "Lovely, Dark and ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Self-Help: "8 Habits of Love" by Ed Bacon

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There is a growing genre of self-help and spirituality books out there that blend different aspects of Eastern and Western thinking in or...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Historical YA Fiction: "A Thunderous Whisper" by Christina Diaz Gonzales

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Around the time that the Nazis gained power in Germany, Spain was engaged in a brutal civil war that pitted traditionalists against progr...