Anna Dressed In Blood Author: Kendare Blake Category: Young Adult Publisher: Tor Teens Release Date: 8-30-2011 After his father’s death at the hands of a ghost, Cas has taken on the family business and travels the country with his Wiccan mom and ghost detecting cat, getting rid of ghosts that hurt people. When his work […]
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How To Save A Life by Sara Zarr
How To Save A Life Author: Sara Zarr Genre: Young Adult Format: ebook Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Release Date: 10-18-11 Jill lost her father a year ago and is still trying to pick up the pieces and figure out her “new normal”. Mandy is a pregnant teenager who wants Jill’s mom to […]
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Author: Aimee Bender Category: Fiction Publisher: Knopf Release Date: 6-1-10 On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can […]
Hunted by Adam Slater
Hunted (The Shadowing #1) Author: Adam Slater Category: Young Adult Publisher: Egmont Release Date: 9-13-11 Once every century, the barrier between the human world and the demon realm begins to break down. Creatures gather, anxiously waiting to cross the divide, to bring death and destruction from their world to ours. This time is called The […]
Red Glove by Holly Black
Red Glove Author: Holly Black Genre: Young Adult Format: ebook Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Release Date: 4-5-11 Cassel now knows the truth about his abilities and is trying to decide if resisting a life as a Worker is worth it, or if he should just give in and join one of the crime families. His […]
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
The Peach Keeper Author: Sarah Addison Allen Category: Fiction Publisher: Bantam Release Date: 3-22-11 It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s […]
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
I was blown away from beginning to end by this book. I love that Cassie Clare decided to write a prequel to The Mortal Instruments series, which is one of my favorites of all time. As you would expect, there is plenty of action and adventure and we are introduced to some new and very […]
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
In the small town where I grew up, there was one movie theater with two screens. One of the screens was the standard size and the other was very small, and upstairs. The bathrooms were odd, too. As you went into the little alcove where the doors were, there were actually two identical entrances, although […]