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What do readers say about The Hunger Games?
clear, engaging prose simple writing with flair cookie-cutter, lazy and unpolished first person, present tenseIn the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl b... More details on The Hunger Games
When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim’s warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in wi...
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What do readers say about Ready Player One?
exciting, geeky romp 80s cheesefest real page turner brilliant, yet wordyIt's the year 2044 and the real world has become an ugly place.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia when you can be anything you want to be, ... More details on Ready Player One
Gunfire wasn’t uncommon in the stacks, but it still shook me up. I knew I probably wouldn’t be able to fall back asleep, so I decided to kill the remaining hours until dawn by brushing up on a few coi...
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What do readers say about Inkheart?
interesting and engaging stories coming to life characters come to life fantasy element funkeMeggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a book-binder. But her father has a deep secret - he posseses an extraordinary magical power. One day a mysterious stranger arrives who seems linked to her father's past. Who is this sinister character... More details on Inkheart
The moon shone in the rocking horse’s eye, and in the mouse’s eye, too, when Tolly fetched it out from under his pillow to see. The clock went tick-tock, and in the stillness he thought he heard littl...
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What do readers say about Truly, Madly?
matchmaker loses powers light and breezy simple but engaging engaging and well-developedLucy Valentine is as smart as can be, as single as you can get, and so not qualified to run a matchmaking service. But when her parents temporarily step down from the family business, Valentine, Inc., it's Lucy's turn to step up and help out-in the n... More details on Truly, Madly
Luckily, his current flame must have had experience with the occasional cardiac arrest, because she had seen to it that my father was in an ambulance and on his way to Mass General before any permanen...
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What do readers say about The Age of Miracles?
polished but natural a chapter book rich descriptions and emotions a natural disasterNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for ... More details on The Age of Miracles
We were distracted back then by weather and war. We had no interest in the turning of the earth. Bombs continued to explode on the streets of distant countries. Hurricanes came and went. Summer ended....
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What do readers say about The Burgess Boys?
clear, straightforward language a family in crisis don't put down bleak and strangely monotoneNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Includes Elizabeth Strout's never-before-published essay about the origins of The Burgess Boys
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post
Bob drove comfortably in his brother’s car, the motion steady beneath him. Through the windshield he saw signs for shopping outlets, or lakes, but mostly there were the trees of Connecticut always mov...
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What do readers say about Catharsis?
awesome lit rpg simple but engaging it's a good storyline dark hero for babiesJason logs into Awaken Online fed-up with reality. He's in desperate need of an escape, and this game is his ticket to finally feeling the type of power and freedom that are so sorely lacking in his real life.... More details on Catharsis
The camera tilted erratically and then centered on a young woman in a lab coat. Her hair was brown and cut just above the shoulder. She wore modest eyeglasses and little makeup. She was pretty, in ...
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What do readers say about Under the Never Sky?
young adult dystopian third-person narrative style fun fantasy/dystopia read simple but engagingAria and Perry, two teens from radically different societies in a future dystopia, hate being dependent on one another until they overcome their prejudices and fall in love, knowing they can't stay together.... More details on Under the Never Sky
Ag 6 was just a service dome, Aria told herself. Dozens of domes supplied Reverie with food, water, oxygen—all the things an enclosed city needed. Ag 6 had been damaged in a recent storm, but supposed...
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What do readers say about Rescue Me?
heart-warming and heart-breaking fiction is fiction cast of characters complex without being dramaticMargot doesn't have time for love.
Will is afraid to love.
And neither of them are expecting to fall in love with Blossom: a gentle Staffy with a tragic past, a belly made for rubbing and a head the size of a football.
After their first meeting ... More details on Rescue Me
George had asked to meet for early drinks after work. Margot had imagined that early drinks would lead to dinner then a declaration that, like her, George had seen what was on offer on the dating apps...
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What do readers say about A Severed Head?
a bedroom farce comedy of manners simple but engaging comedy of the absurdA novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love, from the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea
Martin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia... More details on A Severed Head
Georgie was silent for a moment and then said, 'Good.' That curt 'Good' was characteristic of her, typical of a toughness which had, to my mind, more to do with honesty than with ruthlessness. I liked...
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