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Fate Be Changed by Farrah Rochon - Review
Book Synopsis: What if the witch gave Merida a different spell? If you could change your fate, would you? Merida understands that as...
Lyra Thompson
Jun 173 min read
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(SPOILERS) The Shadow Throne (Ascendance #3) by Jennifer A. Nielsen - Review
Book Synopsis: War has come to Carthya. It knocks at every door and window in the land. And when Jaron learns that King Vargan of Avenia...
Lyra Thompson
Jun 132 min read
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Within These Lines by Stephanie Morrill
Book Synopsis: Evalina Cassano’s life in an Italian-American family in 1941 is everything it “should be” until she falls in love with...
Lyra Thompson
Jun 32 min read
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Promise Me Tomorrow by Donna Jo Stone - Review
Book Synopsis: For sixteen-year-old Nina, communicating her emotions is ridiculously hard. She expresses those best through art, the one...
Lyra Thompson
May 133 min read
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Hey, Jude Carpenter by Storm Shultz
Book Synopsis: Jude Carpenter likes his life. Sure, his mom is a little intense sometimes, and sure, it would be great if his older...
Lyra Thompson
Mar 213 min read
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Hope at the Ocean's Edge by Chantal J. MacDonald
Book Synopsis: Sadie Jones experienced extreme devastation at only nine years old. Now on the cusp of her high school graduation, Sadie...
Lyra Thompson
Mar 93 min read
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The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys - Review
Book Synopsis: A portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship. Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of...
Lyra Thompson
Feb 272 min read
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Between You and Me by Melissa Knight - Review
Book Synopsis: Meet Colton, the heartthrob of Rayburn High. With his charming smile and flirtatious nature, the girls are wrapped around...
Lyra Thompson
Feb 183 min read
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The Socialite by J'Nell Ciesielsky - Review
Book Synopsis: As the daughter of Sir Alfred Whitford, Kat has a certain set of responsibilities. But chasing her wayward sister, Ellie,...
Lyra Thompson
Feb 93 min read
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Dandelion Dust by Faith L. Potts - Review
Book Synopsis: Like a speck of dandelion dust riding the tides of a prairie wind, life is fleeting. Though I never realized just how...
Lyra Thompson
Jan 272 min read
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I Don't Dance by Jesseca Wheaton - Review
Book Synopsis: Ty and Jen have been friends for nearly as long as anyone can remember. But when Ty goes off to college and leaves her...
Lyra Thompson
Jan 141 min read
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Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb - Review
Book Synopsis: August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for...
Lyra Thompson
Dec 29, 20243 min read
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(SPOILERS) The Atonement Child by Francine Rivers - Review
Book Synopsis: Dynah Carey knew where her life was headed. Engaged to a wonderful man, the daughter of doting parents, a faithful child...
Lyra Thompson
Dec 12, 20243 min read
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Luminary (Anomaly #2) by Krista McGee - Review
Book Synopsis: She was an anomaly with a death sentence. Now she's free. Thalli was scheduled for annihilation. She was considered an...
Lyra Thompson
Oct 26, 20243 min read
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Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys - Review
Book Synopsis: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys....
Lyra Thompson
Oct 24, 20242 min read
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(SPOILERS) Every Other Weekend by Abigail Johnson - Review
Book Synopsis: Adam Moynihan’s life used to be awesome. Straight As, close friends and a home life so perfect that it could have been a...
Lyra Thompson
Oct 7, 20244 min read
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Love Finds You in Sunset Beach, Hawaii by Robin Jones Gunn - Review
Book Synopsis: Sierra came to Sunset Beach for relaxation—not for world-class surfing and certainly not for romance! When a wealthy...
Lyra Thompson
Sep 27, 20242 min read
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The Traitor's Wife by Allison Pataki - Review
Book Synopsis: Everyone knows Benedict Arnold--the Revolutionary War general who betrayed America and fled to the British--as history's...
Lyra Thompson
Sep 11, 20243 min read
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(SPOILERS) Swing by Kwame Alexander - Review
Book Synopsis: Things usually do not go as planned for seventeen-year-old Noah. He and his best friend Walt (aka Swing) have been cut...
Lyra Thompson
Aug 29, 20243 min read
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The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau - Review
Book Synopsis: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn't that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one...
Lyra Thompson
Aug 5, 20243 min read
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