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Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery by Susan Juby
Pages: 339
First Published: Sept. 19, 2008 (CAN), Sept. 30, 2008 (US)
Genre: YA, realistic fiction
Rating: 4/5
This book came as an extra. I had requested two YA books from the publisher and they were packaged together with this one as a boxed set of […]

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“I ask for nothing but a kiss,” he said, his voice still calm and low, but his eyes dimmed. “Mouth to mouth. You might hold your stake between us if it would make you feel more as ease, Venator.”
“Perhaps I would slam it into your heart and send you to Hell, then,” Victoria replied, her […]

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Far World, Book 1: Water Keep
by J. Scott Savage
Shadow Mountain, September 2008 (ARE)
Fantasy (YA); 419 pgs
One of the first things I do when I crack open a book is to read the dedication. This one I read out loud to my husband and he immediately zeroed in on the mention of solving Ultima games. […]

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“It’s a sudden loss of muscle control,” is how I would always begin, feeling cornered, “while remaining conscious. It’s as if your body’s faintin’ but you’re not.” [ pg 24]
Aberrations by Penelope Przekop
Emerald Book Co, 2008
Fiction; 241 pgs
Angel Duet is 21 and everything she believed and thought she knew is about to change. […]

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Jolted by Arthur Slade
Pages: 203
First Published: Aug. 11, 2008
Genre: YA, mystical reality
Rating: 4/5
First sentence:
Newton Starker knew that he would likely die from a lightning strike.
Comments: For generations the Starker family members have been killed by lightning strikes. As a matter of family pride the family also names the children born to the female members […]

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The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Pages: 468
First Published: Aug. 5, 2008
Genre: Magical realism
Rating: 4.5/5
First sentence:
Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.
Comments: I think that is an amazing opening line. How could you not read on after that? The process of reading the book was pure joy from the first page. The writing exquisite and […]

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Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
Pages: 170
First Published: Sept. 16, 2008
Genre: YA, realistic fiction
Rating: 5/5
First sentence:
This is how things look: Shady Pines Apartments, four shabby buildings tucked off the road near the highway.
Comments: This is an immensely powerful and disturbing story told from the point of view of a fifteen-year old who was abducted by […]

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Admiral Zheng stops and extends his arm. A Vice admiral places a scroll in his outstretched hand. He turns his attention to it, unrolls it, and reads aloud: “‘All ships moored are ordered back to the capital, and all goods on the ships are to be turned over to the Department of Internal Affairs and […]

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Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson
I believe Anne fans have been somewhat leery of this book. To attempt to write the before story, based on the small tidbits of her past that Anne let slip, was a huge undertaking for Wilson. People who love Anne would want the story to be true to LM Montgomery’s […]

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See, guys freak out. They hit critical mass and blast nuclear, white-hot anger out over the world like walking flame throwers. But girls freak in. They absorb the pain and bitterness and keep right on sponging it up until they drown. Maybe that’s why nobody’s real worried about girls going off and wreaking havoc. […]

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