Category: All Book Reviews
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Calculated by Nova McBee: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2021 Blurb: She has many names – Octavia, Double 8, Phoenix, Josephine. She’s a math prodigy, a calculating genius and everyone wants her. In seventeen-year-old Jo River’s complicated world of numbers, there’s no such thing as coincidence. When she is betrayed by someone she loves, kidnapped by…
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The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 1926 Blurb: Valancy Stirling is 29, unmarried, and has never been in love. Living with her overbearing mother and meddlesome aunt, she finds her only consolation in the “forbidden” books of John Foster and her daydreams of the Blue Castle–a place where all her dreams come true…
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We Won’t All Survive by Kate Alice Marshall: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2025 Blurb: Two years ago Mercy Gray was hailed as a hero for saving lives during a mall shooting. She still carries souvenirs from that incident: the fragment of a bullet lodged in her back, a mountain of medical debt, and guilt for ignoring her sister’s warnings…
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Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2025 Blurb: Born in the firelit domain of the under realm, Matilda is the youngest goddess of her clan, blessed with humble messenger magic. But in a land where gods often kill each other to steal power and alliances break as quickly as they are forged, Matilda…
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Tournaments, Cocoa & One Wrong Move by Nancy N Rue: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2010 Blurb: Basketball is Cassidy Brewster’s life, and she is the biggest star on her high school team. But when a routine jump shot leaves her crumpled on the floor with a torn ACL, everything comes crashing down. Cassidy would do anything to get back on the…
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The Artist Cries Wolf by Heather Horrocks: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2016 Blurb: Amber has been in love with Samuel for four years and she’s determined to find out if what she feels is real or not — and, if it is, to win him over. Samuel’s just come back from a tour of duty in Afghanistan when…
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The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2019 Blurb: “How could I open that door and let him see the messiest part of me?” From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds of her books. There, she can avoid the…
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Big Dumb Eyes by Nate Bargatze: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: Nate Bargatze used to be a genius. That is, until the summer after seventh grade when he slipped, fell off a cliff, hit his head on a rock, and “my brain got, like, dented or something.” Before this accident, he dreamed of being “an electric…
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The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2011 Blurb: It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is…
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The Dark Maestro by Brendan Slocumb: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: Curtis Wilson is a classical music prodigy. Having played since the age of five, he is that rare performer who, through sheer force of will and phenomenal talent, has clawed his way out of inner-city DC and risen to the heights of the classical music…
