“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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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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Realistic Fiction By Kristan Higgins Reviewed by Hannah Luszczek Rated 5 out of 5 stars Lucy is ready to love again after being widowed for nearly five and a half years. Ever since her husband Jimmy died, she’s been finding dimes in suspicious places. The more she finds, the more she starts to feel...
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When 17-year-old Gabby wakes up in a hospital bed, everything is foggy. No matter how hard she tries, she can’t remember her name, or the names of those surrounding her. Despite her confusion, she has no trouble remembering one name- Billy Nash. Perfect, beautiful, Billy Nash. He marked a turning point in Gabby’s existence....
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Set in the 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi, a white woman named Eugenia Phelan, nicknamed Skeeter, is a unique, intelligent, different type of woman. Black women, also named “the help” to white families, have become sick and tired of how they are treated. When Skeeter becomes aware of the unjust and cruel treating of black people...
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Just enough to feel the scream inside, Callie cuts herself, though never too deep, never enough to die, Callie cuts herself just enough to feel the pain. Now at a residential treatment facility, called Sea Pines, filled with girls with problems that engulf them, Callie detaches herself from the world, allowing silence to fill...
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Everyone knows that Hannah is gone. Everyone knows that she killed herself. But not everyone knows why. Clay Jensen opens his door one day to a package sent for him. He opens the package and what he discovers inside changes his life forever. In the package are sets of tapes labeled with numbers going...
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The year is 1939. You are not even 10 years old. Your brother has just died. They (the Nazis) are taking your mother away. This is not a happy story. Such is the life of Liesel Meminger when Rosa and Hans Hubermann take her in. She has nightmares featuring her brother...
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“It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking...
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Hanna, Aria, Spencer, Emily, and Alison were just five normal teenagers living in Rosewood. They were the popular girls at school, especially Alison. She knew everything there was to know about all four of her best friends, even the bad things. Everything was perfect in their lives until the night Alison vanished. No one...
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