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Book Review: The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood Published July 2, 2012 Summary: The Bellwether Revivals takes place mainly at King’s College, and the surrounding area. (Don’t you love it already?) Oscar Lowe is an outsider who works in a nursing home nearby who falls in love with the privileged medical student. As he dives into her…
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Book Review: Dark Kiss by Michelle Rowan
Dark Kiss by Michelle Rowan Published June 1, 2012 Summary: Set in modern day city, Dark Kiss is reminiscent of Twilight with more lovable characters and a stronger narrative voice. Samantha is a teenager who runs into a mysterious homeless boy, Bishop. Bishop seems a little off but after he kills a man in front of Samantha she’s…
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Book Review: Matched by Allie Condie
Matched by Allie Condie Published September 2011 Summary: Set in a post-apocalyptic America, called the Society , the novel follows Cassia through her Matching ceremony. In this new world everything is laid out for citizens: their food is premeasured and send to them, their jobs are based on intense aptitude tests and their deaths are pre-planned. Matching…
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Book Review: Gilt by Katherine Longshore
Gilt Gilt by Katherine Longshore Published May 15, 2012 Summary: Though I’veread a lot of historical fiction set during the Tudor dynasty, I had never read a book that chronicled Catherine Howard’s rise to the throne. In Gilt,we see the story from Kitty’s perspective. Kitty is a minor noble who becomes friends with Catherine Hoaward when they…
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Book Review: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Published 2011 Summary: Like many memoirs written since the fall of the Taliban, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana tells the story of an Afghanistani woman who disobeyed the strict regime and made a way for herself and the women of her village. In…
The Library of Alexandra 