Category Archives: highly recommend
Blood for Blood – Ryan Graudin
Yael’s story continues in this alternate history with Germany and Japan the victors of WWII. Yael was the subject of medical experiments as a young girl in the Nazi concentration camps. As a result, she can skin-shift, physically change her … Continue reading
StarChaser: TodHunter Moon #3 – Angie Sage
This third adventure in the TodHunter Moon series opens with the reveal of a huge problem because the world’s magic source is drying, turning to powder, and poof – gone. Magyk comes from lapis lazuli beneath the wizard tower and … Continue reading
Nemesis – Anna Banks
Imprisoned by her father, the King of Serubel, Sepora escapes with the intention of hiding among the laborers in the nearby kingdom of Theoria. She is the last of the Forgers and has a skill sometimes inherited through the royal … Continue reading
Three Dark Crowns -Kendare Blake
A strange, mystical island is torn by three rival factions: Elementalists, Naturalists, Poisoners. For generations, the queen gives birth to triplets. Each child has the abilities of one of the three factions. The queen mother leaves the island and her … Continue reading
The Reader – Traci Chee
Books are no longer used or even known about by most folks. At a very early age, Sefia’s mother secretly plays alphabet blocks with Sefia, attempting to teach her the dangerous skill of reading. Her mother is killed and she … Continue reading
Irena’s Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto -Tilar J. Mazzeo
There were false identity papers for all of the children, but some of them needed more. They needed to be more Polish, less Jewish, needed golden curls, needed to stop speaking Yiddish, needed to forget their real families. Only Irena … Continue reading
The Forgetting – Sharon Cameron
Every twelve years, the citizens of the walled-in city of Canaan lose their memories. Parents have no memory of their children. Relatives and friends forget they ever knew each other. After the first Forgetting, the citizens were required to keep … Continue reading
Poppy – Mary Hooper
Poppy Pearson is a young maid in service to the aristocratic de Vere family during the outbreak of World War I. Poppy is urged by a former teacher to take advantage of the expanding opportunities to women due to the … Continue reading
Learning to Swear in America – Katie Kennedy
Russian boy genius Yuri Strelnikov is a 17-year-old with a PhD in Physics. The Americans recruit him when it is discovered that an asteroid is blazing toward Earth on a collision course with California, exactly where NASA has assembled the … Continue reading
Just One Damned Thing After Another: The Chronicles of St. Mary’s Book One – Jodi Taylor
“History is just one damned thing after another” Arnold Toynbee Well, this was fun! The eccentric Brits at St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research are very secretly traveling back in time to better understand historical events, but it’s not such … Continue reading
Outrun the Moon – Stacey Lee
In 1906, San Francisco, fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to have a successful future in business and help her family. She has read and memorized a business book by a strong female Texas cattle rancher, and applies the business principles … Continue reading
The Crown’s Game – Evelyn Skye
Imperial Russia is in need of the services of a Royal Enchanter to protect the realm from threats. Years of peace have lulled the people of Russia into forgetting that magic was part of the country’s defenses. However, in secret, … Continue reading
Rebel of the Sands – Alwyn Hamilton
The desert can be a harsh and lawless environment – survival of the fittest. In a country ruled by a Sultan who has allowed foreign armies into its borders, the desert dwellers must be ever alert of the dangers from … Continue reading
The Smell of Other People’s Houses – Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
A portrait of 1970 Alaska is vividly portrayed through the eyes of teens, each struggling with very real issues. Ruth feels like the central character because she leads the story. We feel her sense of abandonment because she can remember … Continue reading
Salt to the Sea – Ruta Sepetys
During the close of WWII, Europeans were frantically trying to get out of the way of the advancing Russian troops. Rape, pillage, torture. Masses were making their way north to the Baltic Sea to board the evacuation ships. A former … Continue reading
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