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Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman is the book that launched the series also called Practical Magic and tells the story of Sally and Gillian Owens. Starting when they are young girls they come to live with their aunts, Jet and Frances, in their big rambling house where they help people out with their love related…
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Secrets are something that can hold a lot of power. It is also a rather defining theme in Gregor and the Marks of Secret, book four of the Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins. The book opens on Gregor preparing for a trip to the Underland. This time though it is a little different as he…
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Have you ever read a story that was just incredibly inspiring but also incredibly heartbreaking and sad at the same time? Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides was just that as it tells the true story of the army rangers that were sent to rescue the soldiers in Cabanatuan camp in the Philippines during WWII. These…
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No Man’s Daughter by T. H. Abram is the first book in The Oath of Woe series and is also an extremely unusual book in many ways. It tells the story of two young people, each starting a different journey. Sadia lives in the city of Qasira with several other children, her adopted siblings, doing…
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Time to revisit the futuristic dinosaurs with Dinosaur Planet Survivors by Anne Mccaffrey. It is the sequel to Dinosaur Planet and opens with Kai being woken up from cold sleep by the thek Tor an unknown amount of time after the events of the first book. The thek immediately starts investigating the mystery of the…
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A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher is not exactly what the title implies. Mona is a young girl, only fourteen, when she finds a dead body in her family’s bakery first thing in the morning. Despite her age and her having immediately reported the body the man in charge of the investigation,…
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Out of the Silent Planet is the first book in C. S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy. It opens with a random man, Dr. Ransom, walking through a neighborhood and looking for a place to stay. He meets a young woman who says that he might be able to stay with her neighbors and if he does…
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The Last Hours by Minette Walters is an impressive piece of historical fiction. It covers the events of the black death and when it first entered England. The story focuses on one specific demesne in Dorset where Lady Anne of Devilish does whatever it takes to protect her serfs. Something that causes problems when her…
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The God of Lost Words is the third and final book in the Hell’s Library series by A. J. Hackwith. It picks up some time after the end of the second book when the employees of the library are faced with a new threat. The demon Malphas, the same one who threatened the library previously,…
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I am going back to one of my favorite topics in literature with today’s book, The Candlestone, which is the second book in the series Dragons In Our Midst by Bryan Davis. It continues the story of Billy and Bonnie as they continue adjusting to their new world. Billy is still trying to adjust to…
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