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Sunday Surprise!

6 February 2011 Jackie 1

The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker #1) “The Innocent Mage is come, and we stand at the beginning of the end of everything.” Being a fisherman like his father isn’t a bad life, but it’s not the one that Asher wants. Despite his humble roots, Asher has grand […]

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Tempt Me Saturday!

5 February 2011 Jackie 1

The Alchemist by Paolo Bacigalupi Magic has a price. But someone else will pay. Every time a spell is cast, a bit of bramble sprouts, sending up tangling vines, bloody thorns, and threatening a poisonous sleep. It sprouts in tilled fields and in neighbors’ roof beams, thrusts up from between […]

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Tempt Me Saturday!

29 January 2011 Jackie 1

The Vampire’s Promise by Caroline B. Cooney A vampire lives in the tower of the creepy old house in town–a vampire who makes promises and grants wishes. Few know he exists. When Althea, Devnee, and Lacey meet the vampire, he offers them the things they want most–popularity, beauty, freedom. But […]

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Sunday Surprise – Superhero Edition!

23 January 2011 Jackie 0

Batman: R.I.P. by Grant Morrison Could this be the Batman’s last stand? Gotham’s guardian has defeated countless criminals. But this time they’re targeting not his body, but his mind. Under the tutelage of the Black Glove, a mysterious mastermind with ties to Batman’s earliest days as a crimefighter, a gruesome […]

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Sunday Surprise!

16 January 2011 Jackie 0

Bitten: Dangerous Girls & The Taste of Night by RL Stine You’ll love them—to death. Twin sisters Destiny and Livvy Weller return home from summer vacation with a dark secret . . . and an inhuman desire to drink blood. What have they become? Can they ever turn back? As […]

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Tempt Me Saturday!

15 January 2011 Jackie 0

How To Slay A Dragon by Bill Allen (Journals Of Myrth #1) Ruuan is a very large dragon. Twelve-year-old Greg Hart can’t slay a dragon. He’d be lucky to win a fight against one of the smaller girls at school. Now the magicians of Myrth have mistaken him for a […]

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Sunday Surprise – Regency Draculia!

9 January 2011 Jackie 2

The Vampire Voss by Colleen Gleason (March 22, 2011) Regency London – a dizzying whirl of balls and young ladies pursued by charming men. But the Woodmore sisters are hunted by a more sinister breed: Lucifer’s own. Voss, also known as Viscount Dewhurst, relishes the sensual pleasures immortality affords. A […]

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Tempt Me Saturday!

8 January 2011 Jackie 0

The Dark Griffin by KJ Taylor (December 28, 2010) Being chosen as a griffin’s companion has allowed Arren Cardockson to gain a place of status within the land of Cymria. But Arren can never escape the prejudice that comes with his Northerner slave origins. For chained within the Arena where […]

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Sunday Surprise!

2 January 2011 Jackie 2

Aphrodite’s Kiss by Julia Kenner (July 4, 2011) Zoe Smith is far from normal. Crazy as it sounds, on her twenty-fifth birthday she gets the chance to become a superhero. But X-ray vision and the ability to fly are only two things to consider. There’s also her newfound heightened sensitivity. […]

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Tempt Me Saturday!

1 January 2011 Jackie 1

Among the Ghosts by Amber Benson A ghost story in which a young girl’s parents ship her off to a boarding school where, after some snooping around the gothic old estate, she meets a group of similar outcasts that can finally relate to. Unfortunately, her new friends turn out to […]