★★★★★ It was dread. It moved under my skin like a sickness. Julie, Elise, Molly and Mae - best friends since college - did everything together. But, then they graduated, and spread across the country. And they began drifting. That is, until Julie disappeared and a rift formed between the remaining three. Their lives were so different… Continue reading The Return – Rachel Harrison
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Bad Day Ice Cream: 50 Recipes That Make Everything Better – Barbara Beery & Kathryn Thompson
★★★★★ Think of this book as a list of "whine pairings" - just the right spoonful of sugar to help the yucky medicine of your bad day go down and, hopefully, stay down. Bad Day Ice Cream is truly the perfect book for any terrible occasion. Because, face it, bad days happen. And they happen a lot. And bad… Continue reading Bad Day Ice Cream: 50 Recipes That Make Everything Better – Barbara Beery & Kathryn Thompson
One Star Review – R.E. Sargent
★★★★ ...her mystery books were wildly popular and sold millions of copies... Lana Brooks - brilliant writer and best selling author - is a fairly average person all in all. She has published 18 books already, writing several per year, so her schedule is pretty tight but the money is just rolling in. She uses a pseudonym… Continue reading One Star Review – R.E. Sargent
Saint X – Alexis Schaitkin
★★ ½ Did you ever wish something terrible would happen to you so the world could see how strong you are? Alison was always the star of the family - beautiful, brilliant and absolutely perfect - and Claire idolized her. But one Caribbean vacation on the island of Saint X later, their family of four became a… Continue reading Saint X – Alexis Schaitkin
Comeback: A K-pop Novel – Lyn Ashwood & Rachel Rose
★★★★ Wide-eyed and pale, she looked at Emery as if he were a ghost, but she was the ghost - an apparition from Emery's past. Emery "M" Jung is one of five members of the insanely popular K-pop band, NEON. It still didn't feel real to Emery, that NEON was actually popular. Everyone thinks that he… Continue reading Comeback: A K-pop Novel – Lyn Ashwood & Rachel Rose
Lit for Little Hands: A Christmas Carol by Brooke Jorden & David Miles (Illustrator)
★★★★ ½ Bah! Humbug! A classic Christmas story re-imagined for the little ones. One of my family's Christmas traditions is to watch (yet another) version of A Christmas Carol (ironically, despite watching almost a dozen different versions, I have yet to read the original.) But let me tell you - this edition is abso-freaking-lutely adorable… Continue reading Lit for Little Hands: A Christmas Carol by Brooke Jorden & David Miles (Illustrator)
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir – Jenny Lawson
★★★★★ In short? It is exhausting being me. Jenny Lawson (the Bloggess) has lit up the literary scene with her debut novel - Let's Pretend This Never Happened. Jenny lives the sort of life where... well... hmm... maybe you will just have to read this book yourself. I really don't think I have anything that can adequately sum… Continue reading Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir – Jenny Lawson
Monty and the Monster – Rhonda Smiley
★★★★ ½ ...I'm paralyzed with disgust as I stand before the ugliest house I've ever seen. Monty, his dog (Watson), his older brother (Kyle) and his dad have moved...again. And Monty is absolutely sick of it. He has to make new friends, deal with a new school and live in a new house. And of course, Kyle… Continue reading Monty and the Monster – Rhonda Smiley
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
★★★★ Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community. Junior, a teenager on the Spokane Indian Reservation (the "rez"), spent his entire life trying to blend in. He was a smallish kid who used to have seizures. He was picked on and bullied almost constantly. And then...something snapped. There… Continue reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
Meet the Planets – John McGranaghan
★★★ Welcome to the first ever, Favorite Planet Competition... In this fun, short book, we see the planets as we've never seen them before. These planets have been around for billions of years ...and yet they have never been in a competition to figure out which of them is best. We go through every planet and… Continue reading Meet the Planets – John McGranaghan
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