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This list was interesting to put together because each of these books has an extremely similar underlying theme and yet ultimately they all appear to be completely different, which makes sense since they are all rather different. I say that because each of these books focuses on the same thing, the bond between sisters, but…
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Furyborn is the first book in The Empirium series by Claire Legrand and is a bit of an unusual book. The story starts with Queen Rielle trying to protect her daughter from an angel named Corien by placing her in the care of Simon who can use magic to travel. It then splits into two…
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Moon of the Crusted Snow is the first book in the Moon Duology by Waubgeshig Rice. Evan is a young man living on an isolated Anishinaabe reservation up north when the community goes entirely dark. Since the reliable power is still a relatively new thing for the reservation, none of them are overly worried at…
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Eyes of the Void is the second book in The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky and continues the story of Idris, Solace, and their various friends and allies. It picks up only a short while after the end of the previous book with Idris now working amongst the Partheni in hopes of finding a…
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Enemies becoming allies and a temporary truce. After the events of the first book in the series, Artemis Fowl and Holly Short probably never thought they would have to work together but in The Arctic Incident, book two of the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer, that is exactly what ends up happening. The book…
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If you want to read something that deals with courage in the face of fire then you might consider The Correspondents by Judith Mackrell. It covers the reality of six women who were reporters and journalists during one of the darkest periods of recent history, the front lines of WWII. Sigrid Schultz was a young…
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Blood Will Tell by Heather Chavez is a story that is about a missing girl, among other things, but at its core it is about the bond between sisters. Frankie Barrera is a single mom and school teacher who tends to also be slightly overprotective towards her younger sister, Izzy. One day she ends up…
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With Body Double by Tess Gerritsen we return to Boston and Rizzoli and Isles. Dr. Isles is returning from a conference in Paris when she is puzzled to find police swarming her house and Detective Rizzoli a little shell shocked at the sight of her. While the explanation of a body found in a car…
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Curse of the Bane is the second book in The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney. It continues the story of Thomas Ward as he apprentices under the Spook. The story opens with Thomas working on capturing a boggart without the aid of the Spook since he is sick. In the process the local priest…
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The Floating Girls by Lo Patrick is a sad story about how every family has its secrets. Kay Whitaker is twelve when the story opens and lives in the small and extremely rural town of Bledsoe, Georgia. Over summer break while exploring the neighboring marsh she stumbles upon a stilt house and meets the inhabitants,…
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