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Category Archives: taylorb
Pitch Perfect (DVD)
When Beca’s father drops her off at Barden University, she already knows that she hates it. She doesn’t want to waste her time studying when she could be getting her foot in the door in the music industry in Los … Continue reading
The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth LaBan
Duncan returns to his senior year at the Irving boarding school haunted by the unnamed disaster that he was involved in last year. He’s also nervous about the defining (and exhausting) senior project called “The Tragedy Paper,” and excited for … Continue reading
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Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff
Hannah is haunted. Her best friend Lillian—still thin and wasted from the anorexia that killed her—follows Hannah around, commenting on her fake friends, her occasionally grisly job processing police photographs, and especially Finny Boone, a seemingly dangerous boy with a … Continue reading
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Shades of Earth by Beth Revis
Beth Revis’ fantastic Across the Universe trilogy concludes with this tightly-plotted and fast-paced book. Shades of Earth begins with the harrowing crash-landing of the Godspeed shuttle, and the following power struggle between Elder as the leader of the Shippers and … Continue reading
Ten by Gretchen McNeil
Meg and Minnie board the ferry to Henry Island expecting a weekend of partying and fun, but what they find instead is an elaborately laid trap—an isolated house with no power, cut off from the mainland, and a mysterious DVD … Continue reading
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Splintered by A. G. Howard
Alyssa Gardner skewers bugs so she won’t have to hear them talk. Like all the women in her family, she suffers from a distinctive madness – a madness that’s afflicted her family since young Alice Liddell emerged from Wonderland and … Continue reading
This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel
Sixteen-year-old Victor is brash, arrogant, and brilliant—much like the scowling Frankenstein ancestors who built the looming Château Frankenstein on the shores of Lake Geneva. Together with his twin Konrad, their cousin Elizabeth, and their friend Henry Clerval, they spend their days … Continue reading
Bared to You by Sylvia Day
I’ll admit that after about 100 pages of Fifty Shades of Grey, I put it down and decided that adult romance was probably not for me. Granted, it was my first foray into what my grandmother calls “spicy” fiction. After … Continue reading
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The Diviners by Libba Bray
After a drunken party trick goes terribly wrong, flapper Evie O’Neill is sent to spend her summer in exile with her uncle—if Jazz Age New York with its speakeasies, handsome boys and raucous parties can be considered exile. The trouble … Continue reading
The Storyteller by Antonia Michaelis
Anna lives in a blue-colored world, filled with roses and birds and flute music. But once she finds a tattered doll abandoned in her high school, Anna is pulled into the harsh and gritty life of Abel Tannatek, the school’s … Continue reading
