“Let’s go back then, to the moment they called your sister’s name at the reaping,” says Caesar. “And you volunteered.” “She asked me to try really hard to win…I swore I would.” Once Katniss Everdeen takes her little sister’s place in the annual Hunger Games, it means near-certain death. Every year, one boy and...
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“Happy Hunger Games, and may the odds be ever in your favor” is one sentence that Katniss Everdeen will never forget. At the age of seventeen, Katniss Everdeen lived in Panem, which used to be North America until it was taken over by harsh government. In Panem, there are 13 Districts. Katniss, her no...
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“Did you ever, when you were little, endure your parents’ warnings, then wait for them to leave the room, pry loose protective covers and consider inserting some metal object into an electrical outlet? Did you wonder if for once you might light up the room? When you were almost grown, did you ever sit...
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Deuce lives in a post-apocalyptic civilization underground. In the enclave, if you break the rules you will be exiled and face almost certain death at the hands of monstrous creatures known as Freaks. In Deuce’s world, it’s rare to live over the age of twenty. In the enclave, you earn you’re name by making...
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Rhine has finally escaped her nightmare of a life with the guy she’s in love with, but she is far from safe. Living in a world where all girls die at age 20 and all guys die at age 25 is not easy. Especially when many dangers await you everywhere. There’s Gatherers who kidnap...
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Twenty-five years ago, at age 6, Sarah Walsh and her twin sister, Kim, were kidnapped. They were locked in a cold basement for nine days with very little food and water. They were chained and unable to reach each other. Now Sarah doesn’t only have to live with being the only survivor of this...
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“I knew it would begin with the end, and the end would look like death to these eyes. I had been warned. Not these eyes. My eyes. Mine. This was me now.” In the distant future aliens called “souls” had taken over every planet in the universe and used the bodies of the planets...
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The Broken Gun is a book of adventure yet somehow seems to disappoint. Dan Sheridan is an author of many western stories, and has been doing research for a book that involves a ninety year old mystery. Almost a century before Sheridan, two brothers, Clyde and John Toomey, about 25 other men, and about...
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Do you believe in fairy tales? Well it seems you might want to because you could be in one right now. Mina Grime is a semi normal teenager, also an absolute klutz. But there is no room for judgment here; she may be the only person who can save you. Her last name is...
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Ever since Jem was little, she saw the numbers. Everyone has one, their special number. And only Jem knew of their existence. Now 16, Jem, a high school orphan with little to no future, still sees the numbers. She still hasn’t learned to cope with them, seeing them only made her sad. Jem was lonely,...
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