Tag: a great and terrible beauty

• Book Review: The Diviners by Libba Bray

  Summary: Evie O’Neill has been a very bad girl. After pushing a party trick too far and exposing a scandal she’s sent off to live in New York City with her crazy Uncle William who runs The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult. It’s the days of bobbed hair and bathtub gin but Evie’s secret powers…

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  December 22, 2012

  Book Review, Reviews

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• Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

  

  Beauty Queens by Libba Bray Survival. Of the fittest. The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another idea, crashing on a…

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  October 3, 2012

  Book Review, Education, Librarianship

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• Book Haul: BEA

  Last Friday I had the amazing opportunity to attend the Book Expo of America here in New York City. Most of the major book publishers attend and attempt to sell their books to interested chains, bookstores, librarians and other industry professionals. This year was the first time they allowed non-professionals into the Expo and it…

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  June 15, 2012

  Book Haul

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• “I’ll keep you my…..”

  All American Rejects, “Dirty Little Secret” While I’m generally not a fan of the All America Rejects, their song “Dirty Little Secret” perfectly describes what I’ve been reading lately. No, it’s not something as terrible as what you’re imagining….it’s worse. To get me through finals week I’ve been indulging in YA Fiction. Terrible, I know.…

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  December 11, 2011

  Book Review, Reviews

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