Category: All Book Reviews
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Swimming in a Sea of Stars by Julie Wright: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2023 Blurb: Addison is no stranger to feeling stressed, insecure, and sad. Her therapist recommended she keep a journal to help her understand those feelings better, which she really needs today. It’s her first day back to school, several weeks after she survived her suicide attempt. She…
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Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Blurb: My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up…
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Dune by Frank Herbert: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 1965 Blurb: Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness.…
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My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2018 Blurb: American Ella Durran has had the same plan for her life since she was thirteen: Study at Oxford. At 24, she’s finally made it to England on a Rhodes Scholarship when she’s offered an unbelievable position in a rising political star’s presidential campaign. With the…
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Before Dorothy by Hazel Gaynor: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2015 Blurb: The greatest journey is the one you least expect… Kansas 1932: When news reaches Kansas that her beloved sister has tragically died, Emily Gale must become a mother overnight. Her sister’s orphaned child, Dorothy, desperately needs a home. But Emily doubts her ability to fill…
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The Ivory City by Emily Bain Murphy: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2025 Blurb: The St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904: A miniature city of palaces and pavilions that becomes a backdrop for romance, betrayal—and murder.Cousins Grace and Lillie have been best friends since birth, despite Grace’s vastly inferior social status ever since her mother married for love instead of wealth. When…
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Ground Zero by Alan Gratz: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2021 Blurb: It’s September 11, 2001. Brandon, a 9-year-old boy, goes to work for the day with his dad . . . at the World Trade Center in New York City. When two planes hit the towers, Brandon and his father are trapped inside a fiery nightmare…
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Copper Lies by Alli Prince: Content Guide
Publication Date: Dec 2024 Blurb: If you make something, and then that something accidentally comes alive and destroys your entire town…would it be fair to say that you destroyed the town, or can we just blame it on the thing? Lillian Booker is dying to experiment on the strange glowing…
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Eva Underground by Dandi Daley Mackall: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2006 Blurb: The year 1978 has been a pretty good one for Eva Lott. She has a terrific best friend, she’s dating the best-looking guy in school, and she just made the varsity swim team. So when her widowed dad says it’s time for them to move,…
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Evergreen Academy by Heather Schneider: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Blurb: Welcome to Evergreen Academy, the secret college for Magical Botanists. I’d always sensed something peculiar about the reclusive Evergreen Academy, tucked deep in the woods of my hometown. But I never could have imagined it was a college for magical botanists–and that I am one…
