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Year: 2019

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Trapeze by Leigh Ansell

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  • Posted on December 28, 2019
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Trapeze is a high-flying YA Romance, where the heroine suddenly finds herself firmly rooted to the ground, and must come to peace with her own past. Corey Ryder is a teenage…

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Daughter of Light and Shadows by Anna McKerrow

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  • Posted on November 14, 2019
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Daughter of Light and Shadows is a paranormal/romance involving faeries and witches. It’s set in a small Scottish coastal village. I picked up Daughter of Light and Shadows because I had a…

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The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

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  • Posted on October 11, 2019
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“Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.” Christy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo is one of those rare books…

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Song of Sacrifice by Janell Rhiannon

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  • Posted on August 29, 2019
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“Have you not learned already? Do you think men the only creatures who go to war? The only ones who gird themselves in armour?” Janell Rhiannon’s Song of Sacrifice is easily one…

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Beasts of the Frozen Sun by Jill Criswell

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  • Posted on August 11, 2019
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“Burn brightly. Love fiercely. For all else is dust.” Beasts of the Frozen Sun is one of those books I wish I’d read when I was a teenager. 15-year-old me would…

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Disability in Conversation | SMA Awareness Month 2019

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  • Posted on August 11, 2019
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August is SMA Awareness Month. I figured I can’t be a person living with SMA and not at least acknowledge SMA Awareness Month while it’s on. If you don’t know…

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The Fever King by Victoria Lee

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  • Posted on July 4, 2019
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Victoria Lee’s The Fever King takes you on an unexpected journey of twists and turns. At the beginning, I thought I knew what kind of shape the plot was taking – I…

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Laughing at my Nightmare by Shane Burcaw

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  • Posted on May 31, 2019
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Having only “discovered” Shane Burcaw and his work fairly recently, I’m a bit late to the party of Laughing At My Nightmare (I mean he’s already written an entirely new book, Strangers Assume…

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The Last Look by Lauren Eckhardt

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  • Posted on March 14, 2019
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Lauren Eckhardt’s The Last Look is an in-depth look at the lives and loves we settle for; and of the journeys we find along the way. Eckhardt shows us our lives don’t…

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