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Review: Layla by Nina de la Mer
Nina de la Mer is a Scottish novelist now based in Brighton, England. Her previous novel, 4 a.m., about a pair of young British army chefs posted to Germany, was published in 2011. She earned praise for capturing the slang-fill...
Review: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Multi-tasking is the art of performing more than one task at a single time, but one should only consider herself a successful multi-tasker when she is able to combine activities she truly loves. For me, I feel a sense of multi-...
Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang
Boxers and Saints is a pair of graphic novels revealing two different perspectives of the Chinese Boxer Rebellion. Though each is technically an independent work of fiction, they work best when read and sold together. Boxers is...
The Tilted World by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly
n the winter of 1926-7, the grey skies above the mighty Mississippi opened their veins and unleashed a torrent of rain, the likes of which had never been seen before and have not been seen since. The deluge lasted too long, and...
Sex and Violence by Carrie Mesrobian
Clearly this novel is pushing the envelope with a particularly shocking title, but stay with me. Sex and Violence by Carrie Mesrobian is a well-written coming-of-age tale that was recently nominated for the American Library Ass...
No Saints around Here by Susan Allen Toth
I’m sure I must be one of Susan Allen Toth’s biggest fans. In the months before I first journeyed to England for my junior year abroad, I devoured her trilogy of travel books: My Love Affair with England, England as You Like It...
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
The Power of Habit With all your New Year’s resolutions fresh in your mind, you might want to read Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. This nonfiction read isn’t exactly a ‘self help ...
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
Eighteen-year-old Rose Justice has been flying planes since she was twelve. Flying was her life back in Pennsylvania, though she was also a high school student, a Girl Scout, a poet, and a typical American teenager growing up d...
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor and Park is about two high school students who are awkward, outcast, and self-conscious...but manage to find common ground in music and in each other.
Looking for Alaska by John Green | Review
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” Looking for Alaska is John Green‘s first, and arguably greatest novel. It is the story of Miles Halter, a high school junior headed to boarding school at Cul...
On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta | Review
On the Jellicoe Road is very hard to describe. It’s a book that doesn’t make any sense…until it does. Set in rural Australia, it’s the story of one girl’s mission to unlock the secrets of her life....
Review: Longbourn by Jo Baker
Jane Austen meets Downton Abbey is the crude shorthand, but Longbourn by Jo Baker, a new take on the Pride and Prejudice story, is so much more than that. Like so many, I fell in love with the 1995 BBC production of Pride and P...
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang | Review
Though American Born Chinese is about Chinese-American identity, the story can be appreciated by all. We all straddle multiple cultures and wear multiple hats, and we've all struggled with out identities within those cultures. ...
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Unexpected and beautiful. Whaley weaves together the story of a missing boy, a giant woodpecker, and a missionary to craft an unforgettable tale of loss and uncertainty.
Dream Caster – A Bold YA Story by a New Author
If your dreams could transform into real-life form, you would truly have great power. This is the basic premise of Najeev Raj Nadarajah’s Dream Caster. Weaver, a young country bumpkin, lives in a post-apocalyptic world and shov...
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