Goodreads Synopsis Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward,…<img
Read More from: https://bookworm1102.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/book-review-the-hate-u-give-by-angie-thomas/Book Review: Isaac by Robert Karmon (3/5)
Genre: nonfiction Copyright: 2017 I’ve got a soft spot for Holocaust stories of survival. They remind me how horrible humans can be to one another, and how awful racism and prejudice can get when promoted. We should never let that chapter of humanity die; we should teach our children what happened and why; we should
Read More from: https://bbmorganblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/book-review-isaac-by-robert-karmon-35/Review: Near Haven
Synopsis: A forgotten shipyard at the edge of the world. Apocalyptic noise from the black-and-white television. A comet. A controversy. And a cat. 1987. Tom Beaumont is a rural boat builder looking for reason in an age of blind panic. Even the remote town of Near Haven, Maine, can’t escape the tide of violence following
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/review-near-haven/Australian Police Mystery
Title: The Dragon Man, DI Challis #1 Author: Garry Disher Setting: Australia present day Off the Shelf challenge Meet Hal Challis, Detective for the Mornington Peninsula police force in Southeast Australia, in the first investigation in this prize-winning crime series “A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne, Australia.
Read More from: https://speedyreadercom.wordpress.com/2017/09/29/australian-police-mystery/Review:: Noah the Narwhal by Judith Klausner
Noah the Narwhal has good days, when he is productive and social, and pain days, when he needs to rest. His friends and family can find it difficult to handle the unpredictability. Can they come to see that having him in their lives is absolutely worth it? (via Goodreads) I received an eARC of this…
Read More from: http://candidceillie.com/review-noah-the-narwhal-by-judith-klausner/The Labyrinthine Journey by Luciana Cavallaro
(Cover picture courtesy of the author.) Follow Evan as he continues his odyssey as Servant of the Gods in The Labyrinthine Journey. The quest to locate the sacred object adds pressure to the uneasy alliance between Evan and the Atlanteans. His inability to accept the world he’s in, and his constant battle with Zeus, both
Read More from: http://themadreviewer.com/2017/09/29/the-labyrinthine-journey-by-luciana-cavallaro/the Indie Author’s Bible
So I accidentally published my Tuesday review on a Monday by mistake. I guess I’m all over the map this week–so why not throw in an extra post? My how-to/DIY guide for Indie authors is finally out–pick up a copy today! “I’m writing a novel… what are the steps?” “My masterpiece is finished—where do I
Read More from: https://authorchristopherdschmitz.wordpress.com/2017/09/28/the-indie-authors-bible/Review: Moonlight Over Manhattan
Synopsis: She’ll risk everything for her own Christmas miracle… Determined to conquer a lifetime of shyness, Harriet Knight challenges herself to do one thing a day in December that scares her, including celebrating Christmas without her family. But when dog walker Harriet meets her newest client, exuberant spaniel Madi, she adds an extra challenge to
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2017/09/28/review-moonlight-over-manhattan/Review: The Han Agent
Synopsis: A THRILLER NOVEL DRIVEN BY REAL SCIENCE… In the 1930s, Japanese scientists committed heinous crimes in their quest for the ultimate biological weapon. The war ended. Their mission did not. Eighty years later, Japanese-American scientist Amika Nakamura won’t let rules stand between her and scientific glory. When the ambitious young virologist defies a ban
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2017/09/28/review-the-han-agent/Review: Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle
Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle Published by: Walker Books Publication Date: March 5th, 2015 Series: Better Nate Than Ever Genres: Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Humour, LGBTQIAP+ Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Rating: Date Read: 22/08/2017 Links: Goodreads | Booktopia | Book Depository Thirteen-year-old Nate Foster has always wanted to star … Continue reading →<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=drinkcoffeeandreadbooks.wordpress.com&blog=117906431&post=45971&subd=drinkcoffeeandreadbooks&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /
Read More from: https://drinkcoffeeandreadbooks.wordpress.com/2017/09/28/review-better-nate-than-ever-by-tim-federle/Alias Grace ~ Margaret Atwood
This book took me forever to get through, but it was still a great story. This historical fiction novel reads like it was written in the nineteenth century. As such, it is flowery and uses far different wording than any modern tales. Each paragraph and dialogue is filled with detail, yet the overall action is
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A friend of mine asked, “Everyone out there has a story. Can we love them before we know it? And will we take the time to find out?” That’s the burning question in the book, A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. Ove is not an old man, not in years, but he has become
Read More from: https://speedyreadercom.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/hidden-inside/Review: Kinglet
I didn’t know anything about Donna Migliaccio (or her publisher, Fiery Seas Publishing) or The Gemeta Stone books that she writes. I stumbled on them quite accidentally while chatting about nonrelated items on a forum over at Absolute Write and Migliaccio was kind enough to send me a review copy for my Inside the Inkwell
Read More from: https://authorchristopherdschmitz.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/review-kinglet/Review:: Cheerleaders from Planet X by Lyssa Chiavari
Aliens are among us. And humanity’s only hope just happens to carry pom-poms. Laura Clark thought she was just your average college freshman—until the day she saw a cheerleader on a skateboard get into a superhuman brawl with a lightning-wielding stranger in a trenchcoat. And the weirdest thing of all? Nobody else saw it happen.…
Read More from: http://candidceillie.com/review-cheerleaders-from-planet-x-by-lyssa-chiavari/Book Review: “Please, Let Me Go” by Caitlin Spencer
Goodreads Synopsis Please, Let Me Go tells the shocking true story of Caitlin Spencer, a survivor of sex trafficking in England. From the age of 14, Caitlin was completely controlled, repeatedly raped, provided with alcohol, given drugs, sold and passed on to new gangs over and over again. The majority of her abusers were Pakistani men,…<img
Read More from: https://bookworm1102.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/book-review-please-let-me-go-by-caitlin-spencer/Cat Ellington’s review of Tiny Tales of Terror 1
Tiny Tales of Terror 1 by Rudy Perez My rating: 1 of 5 stars hor·ror /ˈhôrər/ noun An intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust. Regrettably, this assemblage of short stories, written and produced by Rudy Perez, neglects to exemplify the preceding definition. Though I could easily distinguish from its description that the cursory narrative
Read More from: https://catellingtonblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/cat-ellingtons-review-of-tiny-tales-of-terror-1/Review: Cutie Meets Mr. Lizard
Synopsis: “Cutie Meets Mr. Lizard” is the first book of Cutie’s Big Adventures, a Cutie Book Series for children, written by Felicia Di John and illustrated by Terence Gaylor. In this first book, we meet Cutie, a sweet, curious, adventurous chihuahua rescue dog who lives in a house in the desert. She is a little
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/review-cutie-meets-mr-lizard/Review: Jurassic
Synopsis: Welcome to the exciting land of Jurassic, a dinosaur graphic novel for all ages one hundred and fifty million years in the making – featuring the triumphant return of the Brontosaurs! For decades the beloved Brontosaurus was thought to have never existed and that its bones belonged to another dinosaur known as the Apatosaurus.
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/review-jurassic/Review: The Proving
Synopsis: Having left the Amish life for the English world, Amanda Dienner is shocked when she learns that her mother has passed and left her Lancaster County’s most popular Amish bed-and-breakfast. The catch is she has to run it herself for one year, acting as hostess. Amanda accepts the terms, but coming home to people
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/review-the-proving/Review: The Criminalist
Synopsis: “CSI–Without the makeup.” A Russian model and a reluctant forensic scientist must join forces to fight a dangerous sex trafficking ring. Paul Connert, just your everyday forensic scientist, keeps a dark secret as he combs through scenes of violent death. Then his world is rocked by the beautiful and desperate Vika Koslava, a Russian
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