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Title: My Fair Lazy Author: Jen Lancaster Genre/Pages: Humor Memoir/384 Publication: NAL Hardcover; May 4, 2010 Rating: 3 Bookmarks Source: Review copy courtesy of NAL In her latest installment, Jen Lancaster is on a journey of self-improvement–a JENaissance–but her sharp wit is a bit dull on this particular trip. Jen Lancaster’s crusade to become more [...]
Title: Mia the Magnificent: The Mia Fullerton Series Author: Eileen Boggess Genre/Pages: YA*/161 Publication: Bancroft Press; January 4, 2010 Rating: 1.5 BOOKMARKS Source: Review copy courtesy of Harrison at Bancroft Press 16-year-old Mia Fullerton faces all sorts of challenges in sophomore year, and if she can make it through unscathed, it will be a miracle. Mia the [...]
THANKS FOR ENTERING. THE CONTEST IS OVER. CONGRATS TO RHAPSODY IN BOOKS! I’m sorry, I was compelled to do this. I could blame it on rock music, the devil, or playing The Beatles The White Album backwards on my turntable, but I won’t. Instead, I’ll place the blame for this resolution-breaking giveaway squarely on the shoulders [...]
Title: U is for Undertow Author: Sue Grafton Genre/Pages: Mystery, Fiction, Series/416 Publication: Putnam; December 1, 2009 Rating: 3.5 BOOKMARKS Source: Library After reading the 20 books in the Kinsey Milhone series that precede this one, I have to admit that I’d given up hope on my favorite 80s gumshoe. Miraculously, with her 21st installment, Grafton has [...]
Title: The Weight of Silence Author: Heather Gudenkauf Genre/Pages: Fiction/373 Publication: Mira; July 28, 2009 Rating: 3.5 BOOKMARKS Employing multiple narrators, Heather Gudenkauf weaves a suspenseful novel about two young girls who go missing from their beds early one summer morning. In the pre-dawn hours of an August morning in Iowa, seven-year-old Calli Clark is violently dragged into [...]
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From the Outside Looking Indian
by Rupinder Gill
Courtesy of Berkley/NAL Penguin Group
June 12, 2012
Between You and Me
by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
courtesy of Engelman & Co.
July 3, 2012
The Next Best Thing
by Jennifer Weiner
courtesy of Engelman & Co.
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