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The Merry-Go-Round Man: A Metaphor on Life

In 1954, while still in elementary school, best friends Lee Esner, Jimmy Wiggins, and Johnny Roth create a game: “Whoever gets there [top of the merry-go-round] first is the real King of the Mountain. Whoever wins is Champ for life. For the rest of his life he’s on Easy Street!” Lee was the handsome one,…

A Feel Good Love Story
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A Feel Good Love Story

Kendra Falstaff has big plans to leave Middleton, a small town three hours from Toronto, to attend the university and become a lawyer. Employed by her Aunt Irene at a small restaurant in town, Kendra and brother Jimmy were also raised by their aunt after their mother’s untimely death.  Unfortunately, Kendra’s plans seem washed away…

Read a YA Book Series this Summer
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Read a YA Book Series this Summer

  You’ve seen them on library and book store shelves—a book series. They are actually a book sequence having certain elements in common including characters, setting, and timeline. Some works in a series can be read in any order, like the Koolura Series. In a “Stand Alone” series each book makes few references to previous books…

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The Spaceship Graveyard

The Boneyards of Nebula (Sons of Neptune Book 4) is the last installment of Rod Little’s captivating Sons of Neptune series. Tucked away safely on Starbase 21, the men and women of Earth receive a distress signal from a dark anomaly in space; a starship graveyard known as the Boneyards of Nebula. Not one to…

Revenge of the Spiders: An Excellent Sequel
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Revenge of the Spiders: An Excellent Sequel

Revenge of the Spiders is book 2 in Rod Little’s four book series, Sons of Neptune. In book one, Earthweeds, the novel’s two protagonist brothers, Shane and Sam, return from a mountain hunting trip to find their home has been invaded by large man-eating lizards created by the Sayans, an alien race of humanoids. The young…

The Quest of the Empty Tomb: A Supernatural Mystery
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The Quest of the Empty Tomb: A Supernatural Mystery

The Hunt for Xanadu recently received a 5 pops review from this blog. Elyse Salpeter’s second book in her Kelsey Porter Series, The Quest of the Empty Tomb, was also an exciting ride, but didn’t exactly live up to the high bar Salpeter’s first book established. In The Quest of the Empty Tomb, Salpeter brings back many…

Love for two Lifetimes: A YA Love Story
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Love for two Lifetimes: A YA Love Story

      About the Book Title: Love for Two Lifetimes Author: Martina Boone Genre: Coming of Age / Young Adult Two generations, two great loves, one devastating lie . . .  When Izzy unexpectedly loses her mother in a car accident, her world shatters. Their relationship has always been so close that Izzy can’t imagine life without…

YA Medieval Historical Fantasy
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YA Medieval Historical Fantasy

Set in England during the middle ages, author TF Gray begins Murdoch’s Tale: Book 1 of Corwin’s Chronicle.The novel introduces Corwin, a young child torn away from his family and home by war. Rescued by Tovan of the faer and dropped off to a human family for adoption, Corwin goes through life with the dream of…