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Lyra Thompson
6 days ago1 min read
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...
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Lyra Thompson
Dec 29, 20243 min read
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...
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Lyra Thompson
Dec 12, 20243 min read
(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...
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Lyra Thompson
Oct 26, 20243 min read
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...
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Lyra Thompson
Oct 24, 20242 min read
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....
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Lyra Thompson
Oct 7, 20244 min read
(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...
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Lyra Thompson
Sep 27, 20242 min read
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...
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Lyra Thompson
Sep 11, 20243 min read
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...
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Lyra Thompson
Aug 29, 20243 min read
(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...
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Lyra Thompson
Aug 5, 20243 min read
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...
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Lyra Thompson
Jul 30, 20243 min read
(SPOILERS) On Little Wings by Regina Sirois - Review
Book Synopsis: Jennifer is an only child, and so were her parents—at least that's what she thinks, until she finds an old photo in the...
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Lyra Thompson
Jun 4, 20243 min read
Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris - Review
Book Synopsis: 2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The scrawled sign, peddling young siblings on a farmhouse porch, captures the desperation sweeping the...
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Lyra Thompson
May 27, 20243 min read
The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais - Review
About the Book: Deaf teen Maya moves across the country and must attend a hearing school for the first time. As if that wasn’t hard...
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Lyra Thompson
May 18, 20242 min read
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith - Review
Book Synopsis: Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? Today should be one of the worst days of...
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Lyra Thompson
Apr 10, 20243 min read
(SPOILERS) Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer - Review
Book Synopsis: Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in...
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Lyra Thompson
Mar 13, 20243 min read
Always Emily by Michaela MacColl - Review
Book Synopsis: Emily and Charlotte Brontë are about as opposite as two sisters can be. Charlotte is practical and cautious; Emily is...
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Lyra Thompson
Feb 22, 20243 min read
(SPOILERS) Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys - Review
Book Synopsis: While the Titanic and Lusitania are both well-documented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the...
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Lyra Thompson
Jan 21, 20243 min read
Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve - Review
Book Synopsis: MinaLima, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise and the creators of the...
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Lyra Thompson
Jan 3, 20244 min read
Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen - Review
Book Synopsis: Sydney has always felt invisible. She's grown accustomed to her brother, Peyton, being the focus of the family’s attention...
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Lyra Thompson
Dec 26, 20234 min read
The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews - Review
Book Synopsis: When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life....
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