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Blog Tour: RECLAIMED by Sarah Guillory – Review & ARC Giveaway

RECLAIMED by Sarah Guillory Published by Spencer Hill Contemporary 296 pages From Goodreads: Jenna Oliver doesn’t have time to get involved with one boy, let alone two. All Jenna wants is to escape her evaporating small town and her alcoholic mother. She’s determined she’ll go to college and find a life that is wholly hers—one [...]

Celebrating the Book Birthday of WHERE THE STARS STILL SHINE by Trish Doller: Review & Giveaway

WHERE THE STARS STILL SHINE by Trish Doller Published by Bloomsbury USA Childrens 308 pages   Summary from Goodreads Stolen as a child from her large and loving family, and on the run with her mom for more than ten years, Callie has only the barest idea of what normal life might be like. She’s [...]

Blog Tour for Smash: Trial by Fire by Chris and Kyle Bolton – MG Graphic Novel – Review, Q & A, and Giveaway

Q&A with Chris A. Bolton and Kyle Bolton,Writer and Illustrator of Smash: Trial by Fire Published by Candlewick Press    Giveaway (See Rafflecopter below) About the book Whap! Thud! Crash! An action-packed graphic novel simultaneously spoofs and pays tribute to superhero lore while inspiring a new generation of crime-fighters. Ka-boom! Clobbered by fallout from a blast that [...]

The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac – Review and Giveaway

Celebrating the Paperback Release of THE VOICE IS ALL: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac By Joyce Johnson Review and Giveaway (See Rafflecopter below) From the publisher:  Joyce Johnson offers a groundbreaking portrait of Jack Kerouac as a young artist, focusing on Kerouac’s slow, often painful development as a writer over the first thirty years [...]

The BEST Books I Read This SUMMER & MEGA Giveaway

                 The BEST Books I Read This SUMMER & MEGA Giveaway (Three winners!) I’ve read a lot of excellent books this summer (June 21-August 31), but not all of them are included in this list. That’s because they were ARCs and haven’t been published, yet. I look forward to [...]

HOOKED ON AUDIOBOOKS: Why I love to listen

HOOKED ON AUDIOBOOKS My friend Heidi from YA Bibliophile got me hooked on audiobooks when she raved about THE SCORPIO RACES by Maggie Stiefvater, one of my all-time favorite novels. Even though I had already read it, she convinced me that I absolutely had to listen to it. I don’t remember her exact words, but I can [...]

Waiting on Wednesday (14): CRASH INTO YOU by Katie McGarry

Waiting on Wednesday (14): CRASH INTO YOU (Pushing the Limits #3) by Katie McGarry Publisher: Harlequin Teen Pub. Date:  November 26, 2013 Pages: 474   From Goodreads: From acclaimed author Katie McGarry comes an explosive new tale of a good girl with a reckless streak, a street-smart guy with nothing to lose, and a romance [...]

Cover Reveal & Giveaway: TRUST IN ME by Jennifer Armentrout

Cover Reveal: TRUST IN ME by Jennifer Armentrout Thanks William Morrow/HarperCollins for supplying the cover reveal and the Giveaway! TRUST IN ME will be available on October 22, 2013 ABOUT TRUST IN ME: It’s Wait for You as you’ve never seen it. Trust in Me lets you in on Cam’s side of the #1 New York Times Bestselling story. Cameron Hamilton [...]

THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND by Jojo Moyes, Review & ARC Giveaway

THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND by Jojo Moyes, Review & ARC Giveaway Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books, Pages: 384   From Goodreads: What happened to the girl you left behind? In 1916 French artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his wife Sophie to fight at the Front. When her town falls into German hands, his portrait of Sophie [...]

Review: Wise Young Fool by Sean Beaudoin

Wise Young Fool by Sean Beaudoin Hardcover, 448 pages Pub date: August 6th 2013 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers In Wise Young Fools, Ritchie Sudden has a deep connection to music. His Les Paul guitar is his practically his life, and there is a funny scene of Ritchie dancing and playing in his underwear in front [...]