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Youth Fiction Review: Bully by Patricia Polacco
Posted by: GwenythU | Posted on: 04/18/2013 - 2:12pm
Lyla enjoys her new school in San Francisco and excels academically and in cheerleading. Then someone launches a vicious Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and cell phone campaign against her, accusing her of cheating on a standardized test. A friend helps trace the messages to their origin, takes...
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Fiction Review: The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna van Praag
Posted by: GwenythU | Posted on: 04/17/2013 - 12:58pm
A magical story of life and love, loss and renewal. Three desperate women find refuge in an old house where they learn to face their failures and embrace the possibility of living their dearest dreams. Visit the author's website to enjoy the story of how she is achieving her own dreams.
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Fiction Book Review: The Dinner by Herman Koch
Posted by: BarbR | Posted on: 04/11/2013 - 12:00am
This unsettling novel is not for everyone. The plot revolves around a fancy dinner shared by two brothers and their wives and their sons’ secret crime. This book can be explored on many levels—relationships between brothers, cousins and between families, prejudices, snobbery, and morality. The...
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Fiction Book Review: Z by Therese Anne Fowler
Posted by: CarlyT | Posted on: 04/02/2013 - 3:02pm
When southern belle Zelda Sayre meets a young army lieutenant stationed in her hometown of Mobile, Alabama an epic love story begins. Scott Fitzgerald is reckless and charming and convinced that his writing will bring him fortune and fame. Disregarding her father’s objections, Zelda marries Scott...
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Cookbook Review: Wheat Belly Cookbook by William Davis, M.D.
Posted by: GwenythU | Posted on: 03/29/2013 - 3:47pm
Milwaukee cardiologist William Davis follows up on his 2011 book, Wheat Belly, with a cookbook that provides "150 Recipes to Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health." His research and principles for the wheat-free diet that has helped many of his patients are explained...
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Youth Fiction Review: Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin
Posted by: TracieP | Posted on: 03/27/2013 - 12:00am
After a bitter dispute with his father, Rendi runs away from home. He makes his way to the countryside, where a kind innkeeper takes him on as a chore boy. Between chores, Rendi gets to know the innkeeper and his daughter and exchanges stories with the inn's mysterious guests. But all the while, he...
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Non-Fiction Book Review: Once Upon A Flock: Life with My Soulful Chickens by Lauren Scheuer
Posted by: BarbR | Posted on: 03/22/2013 - 3:28pm
Lauren Scheuer's tiny flock consists of three very different chickens: Hatsy, the egg-laying super chicken, Lil' White, the feisty beauty, and Lucy, a gentle, special needs chicken. Each one of them steals her heart as they may steal yours. Want this delightful little book to continue? Don't worry...
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Fiction Review: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Posted by: GwenythU | Posted on: 03/21/2013 - 4:52pm
Clay Jannon, a downsized web designer in desperate need of a job, begins working the night shift at a mysterious bookstore. With the help of his girlfriend who works for Google, Clay pinpoints patterns in the habits of the bookstores's regular customers. They are searching for answers to a puzzle...
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Teen Fiction for Adults: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Posted by: CarlyT | Posted on: 03/20/2013 - 10:28am
Eleanor & Park is one of the best love stories – it’s heartbreaking and true. The story starts in 1986 when Eleanor, the strange new girl, sits next to Park, who is half Korean and half Irish, on the bus to high school. They don’t talk since they are both trying to stay as anonymous as possible...
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DVD Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Posted by: PhilS | Posted on: 03/20/2013 - 9:52am
Peter Jackson returns to Middle Earth in this first installment of the new The Hobbit trilogy. How does one stretch a 300 page children’s book into an epic-length trilogy you may ask? By pulling from Tolkien’s appendices from The Lord of the Rings and by giving the film a more leisurely pace,...
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