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Furyborn (Empirium Trilogy #1) by Claire Legrand - Book Review

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$12.99
ISBN: 9781492678779
Availability: IN WAREHOUSE - Usually Ships in 3-7 Business Days
Published: Sourcebooks Fire - April 2nd, 2019

If you're looking for an action-packed young adult fantasy with morally gray characters, this is the book for you. Set centuries apart, Furyborn follows two young women, each with the power to save the world...or destroy it. The chapters switch perspectives so the reader can fully grasp each character's role in the novel, and get a better understanding of the world in which the story is set. Mystery, magic, and mayhem ensue in this first book of the Empirium Trilogy. ~ Reviewed by Cassidy Washburn


House of Dragons by Jessica Cluess - Book Review

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$19.99
ISBN: 9780525648154
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Published: Random House Books for Young Readers - May 12th, 2020

A strong start to a new YA fantasy series with Game of Thrones-esque themes and plenty of dragons! Jessica Cluess does not shy away from the violence and drama that accompany five characters fighting for the same throne. It's action-packed with a touch of romance (for those like me who need that in a novel), plus did I mention DRAGONS!? ~ Reviewed by Cassidy Washburn


Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault - Book Review

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$27.99
ISBN: 9781250155931
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Published: St. Martin's Press - September 1st, 2020

Maine mill town memoir. Arsenault sifts through her home town's and family's histories, confronting the paper mill's dual legacies of economic ballast and environmental and physical destruction. As the mill's ownership flees into obscure corporate configurations, and its equipment and workers age, the remaining legacy unevenly balances life and death. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare


Coffin Road by Peter May - Book Review

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$16.99
ISBN: 9781784293130
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Published: Quercus - November 7th, 2017

A great mystery with all the stops pulled out, amnesia, missing manuscript, murder and several suspicious characters including our "hero?" Top it all off with a deserted lighthouse set on a remote island in the Outer Hebrides and a great dog. Oh and let's not forget the bees. This is the perfect mystery for anyone who wants to escape to an island though bring your own sun.I love the prose that May brings to any of his works. ~ Reviewed by Maeve Noonan


Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - Book Review

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By Jonathan Swift, Robert DeMaria, Jr. (Editor), Robert DeMaria, Jr. (Introduction by), Robert DeMaria, Jr. (Notes by)
$9.00
ISBN: 9780141439495
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Published: Penguin Classics - February 25th, 2003

Swift's immensely imaginative, droll, and satiric masterpiece shows no signs of age. While condemning the pride, envy, spite, rancour, and ignorance of humanity, Swift maintains an ironic distance which allows him to denounce the sin, but absolve the sinner. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare


Valentine: A Novel by Elizabeth Wetmore - Book Review

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$26.99
ISBN: 9780062913265
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Published: Harper - March 31st, 2020

Valentine crushed me. Wetmore's writing is as searing and vast as the heat and landscape she creates in this novel's Odessa, West Texas in the 70's. Women and girls reach for ice tea and alcohol, carry guns, love their babies, and rage against the merciless domestic and social violence stalking the oil and cattle fields. Yet each voice here captivates with unique beauty and pain, gradually closing the gap on their disparate lives. Wetmore's exploration of racism is complex and heartbreaking as any I have read. Valentine is not just a great novel - it's an unforgettable one. ~ Reviewed by Nancy Scheemaker


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