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  <title><![CDATA[Libyrinth]]></title>
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  <default_description>In her debut novel, Pearl North takes readers centuries into the future, to a forgotten colony of Earth where technology masquerades as magic and wars are fought over books.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Haly is a Libyrarian, one of a group of people dedicated to preserving and protecting the knowledge passed down from the Ancients and stored in the endless maze of books known as the Libyrinth. But Haly has a secret: The books speak to her. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;When the threat of the rival Eradicants drives her from her home, Haly learns that things are not all she thinks they are. Taken prisoner by the Eradicants, who believe the written word to be evil, she sees the world through their eyes and comes to understand that they are not the book-burning monsters that she has known her entire life.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The words of a young girl hiding in an attic&#8212;written hundreds of years before Haly&#8217;s birth&#8212;will spark the interest of her captors and begin the change necessary to end the conflict between the Eradicants and Libyrarians. With the help of her loyal companion Nod, a creature of the Libyrinth, Haly must mend the rift between the two groups before their war for knowledge destroys them all. Haly&#8217;s life&#8212;and the lives of everyone she knows&#8212;will never be the same.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;A powerful adventure that unites the present and future, &lt;I&gt;Libyrinth&lt;/I&gt; is a fresh, magical novel that will draw in young readers of all genres.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pearl North]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pearl North is the pseudonym of another author, but this is apparently her first young adult novel. Thought I'd make that distinction since on Amazon it claims its from a debut author, technically true, but not really.<br/><br/>For a book nut like myself Libyrinth was a really fun read--the book h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73443143">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Books may speak to you sometimes but likely not in the same way they speak to Haly, the protagonist of Libyrinth. In this far future Earth, Haly hears books speaking their stories to her.<br/><br/>Haly works as a Libyrarian clerk in the Libyrinth, a fortress dedicated to preserving books. The book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69621992">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I stumbled across this book while looking for another book in the Just In section of the Young Adult shelves. The title and absolutely gorgeous cover caught my eye, and the summary sold because it sounded like the kind of story a friend of mine would write.<br/><br/>It has a bit of a rough start, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64484688">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Great Potential... Didn't Live Up To It</strong><br/><br/>I can't tell you how excited I was in the beginning of the book: an enormous library that people can get lost in; a girl who can hear the mutterings of books, as though they are reading themselves to her; an ancient race who used music/song to activ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72332932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70555260">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to say that i really enjoyed this book. It probably is not something that I would read over and over again, but it was good. As a person who loves the written word I was really drawn to the idea of a library as large as a city and the fact that though Earth was gone all our knowledge and lite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70555260">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65982570">
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    <location><![CDATA[Lafayette, LA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Original post at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thelilbookworm.blogspot.com/">The Little Bookworm</a> <br/><br/>Haly is a clerk to Libyrarian Selene in the Libyrinth, a vast library containing just about every book ever written. Haly is unique though since she can hear the books talk, they read themselves to her. When she is taken by the Eradicants, an illitera...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65982570">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64444480">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a young adult fiction, so it was a pretty quick read.  Set in the distant future where books are tools of the Ancients, three factions face off on how story should be spread - by written word or lyrical singing.  A young clerk turns into a heroine to unite the two.<br/><br/>Fun book becaus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64444480">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64036656">
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thebooksmugglers.com/2009/08/ya-appreciation-month-post-apocalypsedystopia-day-2.html">Full Review Link</a><br/><br/>Libyrinth is the story of a clerk named Haly, who has a singular skill that she hides from everyone. While she like all of those in the Libyrinth can read and write, the written word speaks to her and only she can hear it. Afraid she will be seen as a witch or punished fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64036656">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63883769">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[it's an alternate world, or maybe our world far in the future, and haly works as a clerk in the libyrinth (enormously vast library with millions of books in crazy twisty passages). every year an illiterate group of people called the eradicants come and have a ceremonial book burning with a few of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63883769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62719648">
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    <name><![CDATA[Beth]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book primarily because of the Maria Snyder endorsement--I found Maria's STUDY books to be so addicting that any endorsement by her was enough for me!<br/><br/>It did strike me as perfect, too, as I read and saw just how addicting North's work is. LIBYRINTH had that same unputdownable...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62719648">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46022908">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Favorite quotes:<br/><br/>&quot;The Song is beautiful, Gyneth. No one could help but love it, no one could help but want to be immersed in it forever but... the situation is like the potatoes in Anne Frank's diary.&quot;<br/><br/>He gave her a puzzled frown.<br/><br/>&quot;Anne's ideas soared....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46022908">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69186398">
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantasy is a tough genre for me. It takes a really, really good book from this genre to capture me. At times, this book completely lost my interest, and I felt like it was not relatable or believable. I found it to be a bit predictable with underdeveloped characters. However, some sections and chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69186398">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61097596">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book dealt with issues of censorship, race and diversity, gender, and destiny. And it didn't follow the beaten path of the usual type of plot. It explored the meaning of music and the written word in a unique way, too. And it moved along nicely. Lately, I've been bored by every YA fantasy novel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61097596">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77096322">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to like this, I really did.  But it's far too uneven, and the ending just devolves into a mess.  In general, I find that these kind of meta books-are-characters-in-the-book kind of things always fall flat for me: that which is meant to be inspiring or amazing just seems trite and annoying i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77096322">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73451612">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mary]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[YA novel, apparently author's first.  Book is set in the future &amp; there is book burning, which is why I picked it up off the lib's New Shelf.&quot;  The book burners obtain knowledge by memorizing it &amp; passing it down thru song.  The others can read &amp; protect the books.  The heroine can hear the boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73451612">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74926611">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was great plane reading, for sure. I like the world, though I wish its history and culture were more developed in the book, and the characters, while sometimes infuriating, felt right. But what is the author doing writing a sequel? This novel is great as a standalone. It doesn't need a sequel.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Underdeveloped characters, setting and plot.  I had to read it for review, or I would have never picked it up.  I am not much of a sci-fi fan, so that could have been the problem.  The message is good - books and learning are important, but the delivery left me cold.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book tells the story of a girl who hears books.  They literally talk to her.  I was intrigued by the concept and had high hopes for this book but I felt like it just turned out to be so-so.  What was fun was reading all the book quotes and trying to place them.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Literate vs illiterate.  Reading vs Memorizing.  How vs Why.  This book seemed to drag in spots, but I can't think of anything that &quot;could&quot; have been cut out...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good fantasy adventure book. I have to say that fantasy is not my favorite genre, but this one pulled me in!]]></body>
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