Rodzina is originally from Poland, but came to America so young that all she remembers is Chicago. She had a wonderful family, but through a series of accidents and illness, she’s now left an orphan. One of the local orphanages finds her on the street, and puts her on an orphan train heading west. She
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In the further adventures of Jane True, Jane’s back in Rockabill, where she and her friends are promptly attacked by regular humans with guns. Jane manages to pull enough power to save herself and her friends, but it puts her in a coma for a month. By the time she wakes up, it’s clear that
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Alexia Maccon is back living with her mother and sisters after her husband has kicked her out of their house. There’s the small matter of her being pregnant, which shouldn’t be possible, since Lord Maccon is a werewolf. Alexia knows that he’s the father, but has to figure out how to convince him (and he
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Xylina is a Manzonite, but not a very good one. While her skills at magic are strong, she’s not much of a warrior, unlike her famous mother, who sadly passed away, leaving Xylina destitute. She’s reached the end of the time where she has to do the Challenge that will either confirm her as a
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In this latest book of The Keys to the Kingdom, Arthur is going after the fifth piece of the Will in Lady Friday’s realm in the Middle House. It’s basically anything having to do with printing, including a river of words where everyone has to wear clothes made of paper with moveable text to protect
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I don’t think I’ve done a state of the Tote of Shame post in a while. You’ll notice it’s a bookcase. Why call it the Tote of Shame, then? Because it started out a long time ago as a tote. And when I bought a new bedside table, and this became available, the tote was
Thanks to a spectacularly awesome Kindle Daily deal last week, between the Tote of Shame (3), and my Kindle (8), I’m sitting on a number of Georgette Heyer books I have yet to read. So when this challenge came through my Feedly feed, I had to jump on it. The idea is to read at
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Had a bit of a lull this year – definitely didn’t read any books as I normally do. There were definitely some bigger books in this list that took me longer to get through than normal, so I think that was part of that. Other than that, not sure why things slowed
Once Upon a Time VII 3/21/13 – 6/21/13 – finished 6/7/13 RIP VIII Reading Challange 9/1/13 – 10/31/13 – finished 10/22/13
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In this prequel to the City of Ember, a girl named Nickie has come to the small North Carolina town of Yonwood with her aunt so that they can get her great-grandfather’s house ready to sell. At the same time, the United States is teetering at the end of war with an unnamed enemy (it’s
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