Showing posts from January, 2015

Five Kingdoms: Sky Raiders - Brandon Mull

Summary:   Adventure awaits in the Five Kingdoms; come and claim it in this start to a new series from the #1  New York…

Atlantia - Ally Condie

Summary:  Can you hear Atlantia breathing? For as long as she can remember, Rio has dreamt of the sand and sky Above—of…

Fire and Steel, Volume One: A Generation Rising - Gerald N. Lund

Summary:   The strongest steel is forged in the hottest flames. From master storyteller Gerald N. Lund comes a new bloc…

Lost & Found - Brooke Davis

Summary:  Millie Bird   is a seven-year-old girl who always wears red wellington boots to match her red, curly hair. …

Woven - Michael Jensen and David Powers King

Summary:   Two unlikely allies must journey across a kingdom in the hopes of thwarting death itself. All his life, Nels…

Glitter and Glue - Kelly Corrigan

Please welcome our first guest reviewer of 2015 - Jessica Clark! Summary:    When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, he…

Murder in the Park - Rowan Wolfe

Summary:  A deputy legal counsel to the White House is found dead in Fort Marcy Park, and after an investigation marred…

Christian by Disguise - Erna Kamerman Perry

Summary:   For nearly all of the sixty-odd years since the end of World War II, I hardly mentioned the Holocaust or my …

Happy Birthday, Emily!

Happy, happy birthday to our own Emily!  We wish you a wonderful day full of books, and plenty of time to read them!

The Barter - Siobhan Adcock

Summary:  A heart-stopping tale as provocative as is suspenseful, about two conflicted women, separated by one hundred …

Daughters of the Dragon - William Andrews

Summary:   DURING WORLD WAR II, the Japanese forced 200,000 young Korean women to be sex slaves or “comfort women” for …

The Best of 2014

2014 was quite the year, wasn't it?  We had so many stellar books to choose from that compiling this list ended up …

The Mystery of Moutai - G.X. Chen

Summary:  A teenager returns home from school to find a gruesome scene: the apartment he shares with his mother, Shao M…

Texts from Jane Eyre - Mallory Ortberg

Summary:   Hilariously imagined text conversations—the passive aggressive, the clever, and the strange—from classic and…