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A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly – Review
Posted on November 17, 2010 | No CommentsBook Jacket: Mattie Gokey has a word for everything. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that […] -
Mercedes Lackey, on her many books
Posted on November 16, 2010 | 3 CommentsMercedes Lackey is the New York Times bestselling fantasy author behind the Valdemar series, The Elemental Masters series, the 100 Kingdoms series, and many, many more. She has published over […] -
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear – Review
Posted on November 15, 2010 | No CommentsBook Jacket: Maisie Dobbs, Psychologist and Investigator, began her working life at the age of thirteen as a servant in a Belgravia mansion, only to be discovered reading in the […] -
Magic to the Bone by Devon Monk – Review
Posted on November 12, 2010 | No CommentsBook Jacket: “Using magic meant it used you back. Forget the fairy tale hocus-pocus, wave a wand and bling-o sparkles and pixie dust crap. Magic, like booze, sex, and drugs, gave […] -
Nancy Springer on The Enola Holmes Mysteries
Posted on November 9, 2010 | 2 CommentsNancy Springer is the author of over forty novels for adults, young adults and children. Springer’s children’s books have won her two Edgar Allan Poe awards, a Carolyn W. Field award, […] -
Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn – Review
Posted on November 8, 2010 | 1 CommentBook Jacket: Vampires. Werewolves. Talk Radio. Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station and a werewolf in the closet. Sick of lame song requests, she accidentally […] -
Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan – Series Review
Posted on November 4, 2010 | 2 CommentsBook Jacket – The Ruins of Gorlan (#1) They have always scared him in the past—the Rangers, with their dark cloaks and shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice […] -
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood – Review
Posted on November 1, 2010 | 1 CommentBook Jacket: Of especially naught children, it is sometimes said; “They must have been raised by wolves.” The Incorrigible children actually were. Found running wild in the forest of Ashton […] -
Blue Fire by Janice Hardy – Review
Posted on October 28, 2010 | No CommentsBook Jacket: Part fugitive, part hero, fifteen-year-old Nya is barely staying ahead of the Duke of Baseer’s trackers. Wanted for a crime she didn’t mean to commit, she risks capture […] -
Elizabeth Moon, on her books
Posted on October 26, 2010 | 2 CommentsOver the course of her career, science fiction and fantasy writer Elizabeth Moon has published 21 novels (so far), and been awarded both the Nebula award and Heinlein award. Byrt: […]