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BEA Appreciation Week – Book Review: The Enemy by Charlie Higson

By On June 9, 2010 · 12 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, BEA Appreciation Week, Book Reviews

Title: The Enemy

Author: Charlie Higson

Genre: Young Adult, Horror, Speculative Fiction

Publisher: Hyperion (US) / Puffin (UK)
Publication Date: May 2010 (US) / September 2009 (UK)
Hardcover: 448 Pages (US)

In the wake of a devastating disease, everyone older than sixteen is either dead or [...]

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BEA Appreciation Week – Book Review: Seth Baumgartner’s Love Manifesto by Eric Luper

By On June 8, 2010 · 6 Comments · In 5 Rated Books, BEA Appreciation Week, Book Reviews

Title: Seth Baumgartner’s Love Manifesto

Author: Eric Luper

Genre: Contemporary YA

Publisher Balzer + Bray
Publication Date: June 8, 2010
Hardcover: 304 pages

Stand alone or series: Stand alone

Seth Baumgartner just had the worst day of his life.

His girlfriend dumped him (at Applebee’s), [...]

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BEA Appreciation Week – Book Review: Sapphique by Catherine Fisher

By On June 7, 2010 · 12 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, BEA Appreciation Week, Book Reviews

Title: Sapphique

Author: Catherine Fisher

Genre: Dystopia,Young Adult, Fantasy

Publisher: Dial (US) / Hodder Children’s Books (UK)
Publication Date: December 2010 (US) / September 2008 (UK)
Hardcover: 450 Pages (US)

Finn has escaped from the terrible living Prison of Incarceron, but its memory torments him, because [...]

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Smugglers’ Stash & News

By On June 6, 2010 · 4 Comments · In BEA Appreciation Week, Smugglers Stash

Howdy folks, and welcome to another edition of the Smugglers’ Stash.

First, a few announcements…

Giveaway Winners:

We have a few winners to announce!

The winner of The Iron King by Julie Kagawa is…

Jacqueline C. (Comment #30)

The winner of [...]

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Book Expo America 2010 Or: How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Hundreds of Pounds of Books – Final Report

By On June 2, 2010 · 31 Comments · In Miscellaneous

This is our final report for Book Expo America 2010, go HERE for Days 0/1 and HERE for Day 2

DAY THREE: Book Blogger Convention, Tour of Hachette, and AWESOME Japanese food

Ana: I have always wanted to attend BEA but what [...]

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Book Expo America 2010 Or: How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Hundreds of Pounds of Books – Day 2

By On May 31, 2010 · 23 Comments · In Miscellaneous

This is our report for Day 2 of Book Expo America 2010, go HERE for Days 0/1

DAY TWO: The Lack of Will Power, Alchoholic Pasta, Geeking Out and a Smugglerific Party

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BookExpo America, Or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hundreds of Pounds of Books – Day 0/1

By On May 31, 2010 · 23 Comments · In Miscellaneous

For the past few weeks, there has been only one thing on our minds. Three tiny little initials, that encompassed the pinnacle (thus far) of our Book Smuggling careers:

In the two years that we have been running The Book Smugglers, we had yet to attend [...]

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Smugglers’ Stash & News

By On May 30, 2010 · 12 Comments · In Smugglers Stash

Howdy, howdy, howdy! It has been a long, exhausting, incredible week, but we are finally done with BEA and headed home. And on that note, here’s what we have planned for the week. (And because we are in full recovery mode, this post will be brief!)

Giveaway Winners:

…PSYCH! As we have quite a few [...]

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On the Smugglers’ Radar: The BEA Edition

By On May 29, 2010 · 13 Comments · In On the Radar

“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 [...]

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Smugglers’ Stash and News: Gone to NY!

By On May 23, 2010 · 14 Comments · In Smugglers Stash

Hello there!

As you probably know by now, we are getting ready to leave for NY on Tuesday in order to attend Book Expo America and The Book Blogger Convention.

We are super-ultra-excited about everything: about the events we are going to attend, the [...]

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