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The Quirks: Welcome to Normal Author: Erin Soderberg Reviewed by: Geoff Habiger Release date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 The Quirks are not your typical family. Sure Molly is a fairly normal 10 year old. But her twin sister Penelope can make her imagination come to life. Her brother Finn has been invisible for years, her mom can control minds, and Grandpa Quirk can... |
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The Quirks: Welcome to Normal by Erin Soderberg On shelves 06/04/2013 |
The Quirks are not your typical family. Sure Molly is a fairly normal 10 year old. But her twin sister Penelope can make her imagination come to... |
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Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson On shelves 09/24/2013 |
David has lived through his adolescence with one goal. He eats, sleeps, breaths that one thing. (And no, it is not that one thing.) He... |
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The Lightning Catcher by Anne Cameron On shelves 05/07/2013 |
The Lightning Catcher is great fun. It begins with showers of amphibians, proceeds quickly to explosions and mysterious strangers... |
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Count the Monkeys by Mac Barnett On shelves 06/25/2013 |
The reader of this fun book is given one simple task - count all the monkeys on the page. Should be simple, that is, if it wasn't for all the... |
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The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson On shelves 03/01/2013 |
June's father is dead. She believes that he died disappointed in her. June's father was a great musician, but June's talents were not his. He... |
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We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo On shelves 05/21/2013 |
We Need New Names a portrait of a childhood — a childhood spent on two continents, in two climates, in two vastly different cultures. A... |
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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler On shelves 03/26/2013 |
I have one complaint against this novel. It is a brilliant portrayal of the Flapper Girl that fueled the Jazz Age writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald... |
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The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker On shelves 04/23/2013 |
The Golem and the Jinni is magnificent. In scale and scope, in lush detail and rich flavor, in intricate characterizations and... |
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Maggot Moon by Susan Gardner On shelves 02/12/2013 |
This is not for the squeamish. Nor is it one for the heartless. Maggot Moon is a dark tale of a future Britain that feels uncomfortably... |
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May B: A Novel by Caroline Starr Rose On shelves 09/01/2011 |
I will admit that at first I was not immediately attracted to this book; for while I enjoy historical fiction, I was not sure if I could be... |
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An Army of Frogs: A Kulipari Novel by Trevor Pryce On shelves 05/07/2013 |
I am embarrassed to admit that I hadn't even considered ordering An Army of Frogs until the ABA picked it for their Celebrating Debut... |
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Rebel Spirits by Lois Ruby On shelves 06/01/2013 |
Lori has a secret. She hasn't even told her best friend. Lori can see ghosts. Not often, and nothing much has happened beyond having brief,... |
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The Clockwork Princess (3 Infernal Devices) by Cassandra Clare On shelves 03/19/2013 |
There is nothing deep or introspective about Cassandra Clare's writing. No higher meaning or hidden truths (though I still think Jewish vampires... |
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The Sasquatch Escape (1 Imaginary Veterinary) by Suzanne Selfors On shelves 04/02/2013 |
I love Suzanne Selfors' sly humor. Every books she writes makes you smile. Guess it's hard not to like that.
The Sasquatch Escape... |
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Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes On shelves 05/07/2013 |
Jewell Parker Rhodes is a master of writing plucky characters that don't feel saccharine and about dark times that don't feel choked by despair.... |
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