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Apr 23
World Book Night and The Eyre Affair
Today is a day of celebration for booklovers; it is UNESCO International Day of the Book, and also World Book Night 2013. Over the course of today approx. half a million books will be given away free in the UK, by book givers who have volunteered to be part of this amazing event. There will …
Apr 14
The Cuckoo’s Calling
A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his long time …
Apr 14
Icons
The first book in a breathtaking new series from Beautiful Creaturesco-author Margaret Stohl Your heart beats only with their permission. Everything changed on The Day. The day the windows shattered. The day the power stopped. The day Dol’s family dropped dead. The day Earth lost a war it didn’t know it was fighting. Since then, …
Apr 10
Hidden
Hidden is a story told from the first perspective by two characters. The first character is Ebony, home schooled and had never really ventured far from her parents farm. The second character is Jordan, who has spent much of his life in foster care, a tough character. When these two meet you can feel the …
Apr 10
25 Perfect Days
Mark Tullius has written a thought provoking dystopian novel set in the future, that is a chronological collection of first person tales from a interrelated group of characters. Using their stories, the book charts the gradual decline of society, windows onto a fractured way of life, where people are expected to act in inhumane ways …
Apr 10
The Testing
The testing by Joelle Charbonneau The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation’s chosen few who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing—their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career. Cia Vale is …
Apr 02
Scrivener
I have been using Scrivener since they released a Window’s version, and find it a great help in getting me to organise and structure my writing. Below is some information about Scrivener courtesy of http://www.literatureandlatte.com. Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allow you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult …
Mar 28
Department 19 Battle Lines
Book 3 from the talent behind the bestselling hardback YA debut of 2011. Dracula is on the verge of coming into his full power. Department 19 is on the back foot. Ladies and gentlemen: welcome to war. The stakes? Mankind’s very survival… As the clock ticks remorselessly towards Zero Hour and the return of Dracula, …
Mar 28
Department 19
When Jamie Carpenter’s mother is kidnapped by strange creatures, he finds himself dragged into Department 19, the government’s most secret agency. Fortunately for Jamie, Department 19 can provide the tools he needs to find his mother, and to kill the vampires who want him dead. But unfortunately for everyone, something much older is stirring, something …
Mar 28
Starseed
Description Kaila Guidry has always known she is different. When she meets Jordyn Stryker at school, she finds out just how different. Jordyn was born and raised far from Earth, a star seed, one of six new students sent to Louisiana’s Bush High to learn human ways. But Jordan did not count on meeting a …