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Review: Angel Kiss by Laura Jane Cassidy
Publisher: Puffin RazorbillFormat: PaperbackReleased: May 5th, 2011Grade rating: B+ Amazon summary: Jacki King is fifteen and adjusting to her new life in a small village. She’s missing Dublin but she’s making new friends: artistic Colin, feisty Emily – and Nick, gorgeous yet unavailable. But no sooner is Jacki settled than the torturous headaches and nightmares [...]
The Plutonium Files by Eileen Welsome
This is a non-fiction book published in 1999. Its focus is on experiments with radioactive materials on humans. It is shocking. Some of the experiments described include: •18 people injected with plutonium without their consent in 1945-46. One was a four-year-old boy. •751 pregnant women given a radioactive tracer without their consent in 1945-1947. •74 [...]
Zombie Dawn Blog Tour: Steve Feasey Talks Horror!
Zombie Dawn is the fifth, and last, book in Steve Feasey’s Changeling series, and I’m very excited to be part of his blog tour. I’ve only read the first book (terrible of me, I know!), but it was a great read and I’m hoping to catch up with the rest of the series soon. Visit [...]
City of Fallen Angels Jace Letter Hunt – Question 4!
Six questions. Six blogs. One chance for fans in the UK and Ireland to get their hands on the letter that Jace writes to Clary in City of Glass before he leaves on a life-threatening mission. You all know the letter we’re talking about, right? It’s included in an exclusive US edition of City of [...]
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Kevin Desinger to Read from Debut Novel
In Kevin Desinger’s debut novel, The Descent of Man, we meet Jim Sandusky, a quiet wine steward who lives in Portland with his wife, Marla. One night they wake to hear two men trying to steal his car. Jim makes a bad decision and ends up over his head, mired in a sinister situation and [...]
Korpus School of Art + Gallery has joined Twitter!
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The Story of Britain
The Story of Britain From the Norman Conquest to the European Union by Patrick Dillon. 2011. Candlewick Press. 352 pages. From the introduction: Long ago, on the eastern edge of the Atlantic Ocean, there were two islands. The title for this one says it all. The introduction takes readers from 55 BC to 1066 AD. [...]
Sunday Salon: Week in Review #19
What I Reviewed at Becky’s Book Reviews East Wind: West Wind. Pearl S. Buck. 1930/1995. Moyer Bell. 288 pages. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare. (Mortal Instruments #4) 2011. Simon & Schuster. 424 pages.Stay. Deb Caletti. 2011. Simon & Schuster. 320 pages. What I Reviewed at Young Readers Your Mommy Was Just Like You. [...]
Happy Mother’s Day To Me, Happy Mother’s Day To Me…
This is my Mother’s Day gift from The Spawn. How did he know exactly what I wanted??? Social Bookmarking