Category: All Book Reviews
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Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 1957 Blurb: In 1956, five young men, including Elliot’s husband, Jim, traveled into the jungles of Ecuador to establish communication with the fierce Huaorani Tribe, a people whose only previous response to the outside world had been to attack all strangers. The men’s mission combined modern technology…
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The Correspondent by Virginia Evans: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: Throughout her life Sybil Van Antwerp has used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings around half past ten Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who…
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An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2017 Blurb: With a flick of her paintbrush, Isobel creates stunning portraits for a dangerous set of clients: the fair folk. These immortal creatures cannot bake bread or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and they…
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The Lost Baker of Vienna by Sharon Kurtzman: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2025 Blurb: Vienna, 1946: Chana Rosensweig has endured the horrors of war to find herself, her mother, and younger brother finally free in Vienna. But freedom doesn’t look like they imagined it would, as they struggle to make a living and stay safe. Despite the danger, Chana…
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Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2001 Blurb: The great traction city London has been skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground. But now, the sinister plans of Lord Mayor Mangus Crome can finally unfold. Thaddeus Valentine, London’s Head Historian and adored famous…
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Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2023 Blurb: There’s a princess trapped in a tower. This isn’t her story. Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae…
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Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2013 Blurb: Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule…
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Two Degrees by Alan Gratz: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2022 Blurb: Fire. Ice. Flood. Three climate disasters. Four kids fighting for their lives. Akira is riding her horse in the California woods when a wildfire sparks–and grows scarily fast. How can she make it to safety when there are flames everywhere? Owen and his best friend,…
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Coffee We Spill by Chelsea Michelle: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2025 Blurb: She’s ready for adventure–isn’t she? Kate Cunningham is facing the opportunity of a lifetime. As a zoo photographer, she’s spent years photographing animals in carefully controlled environments, but now National Geographic has dangled an irresistible prize: If Kate can snag a unique photo of a legendary bear…
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A Fire Endless by Rebecca Ross: Content Guide
Publication Date: Dec 2022 Blurb: East and West. Humans and Spirits. Breccans and Tamerlaines. The Isle of Cadence has always held itself and its residents in a tenuous balance. But now Bane, the spirit of the North Wind, has pushed everyone and everything in his path off-kilter in a bid…
