Welcome to the book blast for the first in a new middle grade series called Twist My Charm: The Popularity Spell. Random House is putting up a copy of Twist My Charm: The Popularity Spell for one lucky winner, so after you’ve read a little bit about the book and its author, Toni Gallagher, make […]
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Book Blast: Nightmares
In September 2014, actor and multi-talented creative artist Jason Segel broke into children’s publishing with the New York Times bestseller NIGHTMARES!, the first in a trilogy cowritten with Kirsten Miller, to critical praise and the delight of young readers. An engaging and hilariously frightening middle-grade series touted as “delightfully entertaining” by Publishers Weekly and […]
Book Blast: Nightborn by Lou Anders
If you like middle grade or have a middle grade reader in your home, here is a little bit about a series by the critically acclaimed author, Lou Anders. Random House has made screensavers/wallpaper, each sized differently to best fit your screen, so that you can bring a little bit of the Thrones and Bones […]
YOLO Juliet and SRSLY Hamlet
It’s not often that you are pitched a book that is written entirely in text conversations and emojis, so this review isn’t going to be conventional, but I think everything worked out ok. My English teacher friends often ask their students to put Shakespeare into the modern speak of teenagers as a […]
Book Blast: VENGEANCE IS MINE by Harry James Krebs
Driven by a traumatic, violent event in his teenage years, Benjamin Tucker, bestselling true crime author, is obsessed with helping authorities solve savage crimes near his home turf of Holly Springs, North Carolina. When a series of decapitated female victims is found in neighboring communities, he is helplessly drawn in to the […]
Book Blast: The Art Of Lainey By Paula Stokes
Soccer star Lainey Mitchell is gearing up to spend an epic summer with her amazing boyfriend, Jason, when he suddenly breaks up with her—no reasons, no warning, and in public no less! Lainey is more than crushed, but with help from her friend Bianca, she resolves to do whatever it takes to get Jason back. And that’s when the […]
Book Blast: Mistress of Fortune by Holly West
Welcome to the Nerd Blast for Mistress of Fortune by Holly West London, 1678 Isabel, Lady Wilde, a mistress to King Charles II, has a secret: she makes her living disguised as Mistress Ruby, a fortune-teller who caters to London’s elite. It’s a dangerous life among the charlatans, rogues and swindlers who lurk in […]
Book Blast: Blackness Takes Over by Norma Jeanne Karlsson
Welcome to the Nerd Blast for Blackness Takes Over by Norma Jeanne Karlsson Shannon Kelly’s life has been anything but typical. Her life has been altered viciously at the hands of others twice. However horrible they have been, it’s these changes that have given her a family and career…now possibly love. The last thirteen […]
Book Blast: Three Minutes To Happiness
Welcome to the Official Book Blast for Three Minutes to Happiness by Sally Clements Three Minutes To Happiness The Logan Series Book 2 Photographer Valentine Jones doesn’t believe in love, but when her romantic friend Maggie drags her along to a speed dating event, she finds herself reluctantly attracted to architect Finn Logan. Against […]
Book Blast: The Prodigal by Michael Hurley
Pride, betrayal, forgiveness . . . and the eternal sea. The Prodigal tells the mystical tale of four people on Ocracoke Island whose destiny is tied to an abandoned schooner, thought to have been lost at sea more than a century ago, that one day drifts ashore. Marcus O’Reilly, a renegade Catholic priest, must […]