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In the future, Apple and Google are no more. Gnosis is the technology corporation that rules the day, in part with a device called Lux. Lux knows everything about you and helps you make optimal decisions. It keeps you on task and on time, it minimizes your need to be involved in very basic decision-making, […]
This book. Oh my goodness, people – this book! Here’s the basic premise: During the flu epidemic of 1918 the government decided that some people would get to be awake and operate during the day (Rays) and others during the night (Smudges). This decreased the amount of contact people had with one another and helped […]
“On the mysterious island of NIL, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days – to escape – or you die.” Charley is walking through a parking lot when a bright shimmer engulfs her and she wakes up on what she will soon learn is the island of NIL. For several days […]
A person can last:3 Minutes without Air3 Days without Water3 Weeks without FoodA community begins to die in just seconds . . . 30 minutes before Todd’s paper is due, he is in the school’s computer lab trying to have his best friend Adam type it for him. Suddenly everything stops working. Computers. Cell phones. […]
As part of her Sherlock Week post yesterday, author Frankie Brown mentioned her love for the book Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. Today she reviews it for us. Rainbow Rowell doesn’t write books; she writes characters. In Eleanor & Park, Rainbow gave us a comic book lover who dressed like art and a popular kid whose […]
Since it appeared on our blog over a year ago, THIS post by Kim Purcell about Human Trafficking has consistently been our most viewed post. So I was very excited when one of my favorite teen patrons – now an adult – Tweeted me and asked if I had read a book called The Slave […]
Dan Crawford spends the summer at prep school – boarding in a dormitory that used to be an asylum. We’ve all seen enough horror movies to know that this is never a good idea. He soon befriends Abby and Jordan, and they find themsleves exploring places that are “off limits”. Bizarre notes begin to appear. […]
Book Review: Conjured by Sarah Beth Durst
book review, Conjured, Magic, Sarah Beth Durst, Serial Killers, Speculative Fiction, Thrillers
|“Don’t contact anyone from your past. Don’t tell anyone about your past. Forget the rules . . . and die.” Eve remembers nothing of her past. She is in witness protection. They need her to remember and testify; she has escaped a serial killer that uses magic to kill his prey. They say she knows […]
“There’s a whole bunch of really scared people out there,” Kat says. “They’re going to need to be dealt with.”Something about the words she chose makes my skin crawl.Jaime takes a cautious step away from the door, as if to make sure no one is going to try to bust through from the hall. “What […]
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