From the monthly archives: June 2010
This is our brand new segment in which our delightful buddy Harry, from Temple Library Reviews will be joining us once a month to review paranormal romance from a guy’s perspective. But we will let him introduce himself, please let’s give a warm welcome to Harry!
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Harry: I’m the newest honorary [...]
Title: The Magician’s Apprentice
Author: Trudi Canavan
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Orbit
Publication Date: May 2009
Paperback: 800 pages
In the remote village of Mandryn, Tessia serves as assistant to her father, the village Healer – much to the frustration of her mother, who would rather she found a [...]
Cover Matters is a new monthly feature in which we examine the medium that is first contact between a reader and a book: the cover. This feature will dedicate more separate space to a topic that has always intrigued, irked, and befuddled us. We will be talking about issues such as whitewashing practices, covers in [...]
Welcome to guest dare! For those new to the feature, our Guest Dare is a monthly endeavor in which we invite an unsuspecting victim to read a book totally outside of their comfort zone. You can read all previous Dare posts HERE.
This month’s daree is Kris of the cleverly named Voracious [...]
Hello and a good Sunday to all!!! Getting ready to watch the England x Germany World Cup match? We know we are! But before:
Giveaway Winners
The winner of one signed copy of Shades of Gray by Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge is:
Jocelyn [...]
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a new feature for books that have caught our eye: books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. This is how the Smugglers’ Radar was born, and because there are far too many books that we want than we [...]
Title: The Passage
Author: Justin Cronin
Genre: Horror, (Post-)Apocalyptic, Fiction, Speculative Fiction
Publisher: Ballatine (US) / Orion (UK)
Publication Date: June 2010 (US & UK)
Hardcover: 784 Pages
“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, [...]
Author: Chris Wooding
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Gollancz
Publication Date: April 8 2010
Paperback: 448 pages
Stand alone or series: First in the Tales of the Ketty Jay series.
Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay, leader of a small and highly dysfunctional band of layabouts. [...]
Title: The End League – Volume 1: The Ballad of Big Nothing
Written by Rick Remender, pencils and covers by Mat Broome, inks by Sean Parsons, colors by Wendy Broome and James Rochelle
Genre: Graphic Novel, Superheroes
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Publication Date: December 2008
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Our good friend, Honorary Smuggler, and Altogether Awesome Individual Karen Mahoney has her debut novel, a young adult fantasy titled The Iron Witch scheduled for release in February 2011 – and it is with the deepest, most profound JOY that we unveil her MOST EXCELLENT COVER! Behold!
The Most Excellent Cover:
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