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The Scorpio Races – Maggie Stiefvater

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

After my slight disappointment with Shiver, I’ll admit I was a little leery of picking up another Maggie Stiefvater book, but I’ve heard such great things about her (hi, Jenn!), I gave her another go when The Scorpio Races came up as an Amazon Kindle special.     I’m definitely glad I did – I liked this […]

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Newt’s Emerald – Garth Nix

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Lady Truthful Newington is turning eighteen, and her father has decided to mark the occasion with a viewing of the Newington Emerald.    The Emerald has been in the family for centuries, and is a powerful magical tool for the women of the family.    It’ll be Truthful’s when she’s twenty one. The viewing happens during  a

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The Burning Sky – Sherry Thomas

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In a world where Atlantis exists, but isn’t seen by the non-magical realms, Prince Titus is the titular head of the one of the Domains conquered by Atlantis.    He’s a puppet, with the representative of the Bane of Atlantis being the real power in the realm.      What the Bane doesn’t know is that Titus’ mother

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Rodzina – Karen Cushman

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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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Lady Friday – Garth Nix

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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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The Prophet of Yonwood – Jeanne Duprau

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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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House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones

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This book is billed as the sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle, but it actually takes a little while for Howl and Sophie to make an appearance.   Instead, the main character is a young woman named Charmain, who has been drafted to mind her Great-Uncle’s house while he’s away being  cured of some unnamed illness.    Turns

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Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins

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Ok.  I totally get why these books are the next big thing.    There’s a love triangle, but it actually makes sense, so you’re not finding yourself rooting for the guy you know will lose.    (Honestly, I don’t know who to root for.)   There’s a revolution starting, and that also makes sense.   And the heroine is

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Shiver – Maggie Stiefvater

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When Grace was young, she was attacked by wolves in her back yard.     She thought she was dead, but somehow, ended up back in her house, safe.    From then on, she would often catch a glimpse of one member of the pack watching her – she always knew it was the same wolf because of

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The Mislaid Magician – Patricia A. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer

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This is the last book of the Kate and Cecy Regency themed books that happen to involve magic.    (It’s ten years later, so this one actually takes a bit of a steam punk turn.) Cecy, and her husband James, have been asked by the Prime Minister to investigate the disappearance of a German magician who

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