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The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork
The Memory of Light is an intensely honest and touching novel about a young girl's journey towards healing after a suicide attempt. The novel is all the more profound because author Francisco Stork...
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Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
Bracken's latest novel, Passenger is historical fantasy that focuses on time travel. What if you belonged to a family with the ability to travel through time? What if you never knew this and...
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Hold Tight. Don't Let Go by Laura Rose Wagner
Hold Tight Don't Let Go is a story about life in Haiti after the January 12, 2010 earthquake that devastated the impoverished island.Fifteen year old Magdalie Jean-Baptiste lives with her manman and...
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The Color of Silence by Liane Shaw
Seventeen year old Alexandra Taylor is in a courtroom to be sentenced for joyriding. Eleven months, sixteen days, and thirteen hours after Alex and her best friend were involved in a tragic car...
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The Girl In the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
"This is all completely insane and every new piece of information only compounds the insanity. I'm trying to find a girl who vanished from a closed house. Who cannot be reported missing, because if the...
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The Girl At The Center of the World by Austin Aslan
The Girl At The Center of The World is the sequel to The Islands At The End of The World. Seventeen year old Leilani Milton and her father returned to their home on the Big Island. Three months after...
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Half a Man by Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo's latest book is about a sailor who was in the merchant navy during World War II and who suffered a catastrophic injury that changed his life forever. The story is narrated by the...
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A Heart Like Ringo Starr by Linda Oatman High
A Heart Like Ringo Starr is an utterly predictable but sweet story about a young girl whose hopes for a normal life come true. Faith Hope Stevens was born with a congenital heart defect. Prognosis:...
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The Rose and The Dagger by Renee Ahdieh
The much anticipated sequel to The Wrath and The Dawn continues the story of Shahrzad al-Khayzuran and her beloved husband Khalid, the murderous Caliph of Khorasan. In the first novel, Khalid reveals...
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Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit
The novel begins at the start of World War II in 1939. Poland was invaded months earlier and operation Sonderaktion Krakau, targeting Krakow's intellectuals and academics is underway. On November 6th,...
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Broken Crowns by Lauren DeStefano
Broken Crowns is the final installment in the Internment Chronicles series by Lauren DeStefano. Narrated by Morgan Stockhour, this novel picks up where the second one left off. Professor Leander has...
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Movie: Concussion
Concussion tells the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian neuropathologist working at the Alleghany County Coroner's office in Pittsburgh under the direction of Cyril Wecht and his discovery of CTE -...
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The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
Sixteen year old Nixie lives on the Temptation, "a striking caravel, her black hull copper clad below the waterline to keep out worms (and worse depending on what waters we traveled). She rode on a...
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The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
"Well, there was a quote I couldn't quite recall, and I just found it.Listen." He began to read, very slowly. 'Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with...
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The Girl I Used To Be by April Henry
Seventeen year old Olivia Reinhart's life is suddenly drawn to the past when Detective Campbell and Chaplain Farben arrive at her apartment to tell her that her missing father has been located....
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The Last Star by Rick Yancey
Note: those who have not read the novel should NOT visit Rick Yancey's website as there is a major spoiler by a fan on his home page. The Last Star begins with Cassie, her little brother Sam (Nugget),...
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Blue Birds by Caroline Starr Rose
Blue Birds is a historical novel-in-verse that tells the story of the English who come to settle on Roanoke Island in Virginia in the 1500's. Written for nine to twelve year olds, the story is told...
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White Sands, Red Menace by Ellen Klages
White Sands, Red Menace picks up the story of Dewey Kerrigan and Suze Gordon, post-World War II.The novel covers the span of approximately one year from May 12, 1946 to May 15, 1947.It is May 12, 1946...
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The Boy At The Top Of The Mountain by John Boyne
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain is a heart-rending story of lost innocence in the face of terrible evil. It is the story of one boy's corruption at the hands of a powerful ideology that brought ruin...
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The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan
The Bitter Side of Sweet is a novel about the use of child labour and child trafficking in West Africa which supplies most of the world's cacao, a key ingredient in many types of confectionery. A...
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