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May 19, 2014

LEAP OF FAITH by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

May 19, 2014

LEAP OF FAITH by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyBooks about religious exploration somehow fascinate me, so much so that I went ahead to request Leap of Faith from the public library’s repository. Older books that are out of print or for which there are only a copy left are usually pulled from the shelves and kept at the repository. Library users who wish to borrow these books need to pay a small fee to reserve them, so that they can pick them up from their nearest library. I must say, I’m glad I specifically requested this book.

· Categories: Fiction Keywords: american authors, catholicism, christianity, faith, family, family problems, friendship, middle school, realistic fiction, religious institutions, theatre and drama

May 17, 2014

BEING SLOANE JACOBS by Lauren Morrill

May 17, 2014

BEING SLOANE JACOBS by Lauren MorrillI don’t think any book that is so steeped in sports can get any more charming than Being Sloane Jacobs! After I closed that book,I was just sitting there with a silly grin on my face. No kidding. I wanted to hug the book to sleep. It was that adorable. And yet I totally got into the sports parts. They were realistic, they were intense, and all the dynamics between team mates and competitors were so on point, I recognised a lot of the situations both Sloane Emily and Sloane Devon found themselves in.

· Categories: Fiction Keywords: ambition, american authors, camps, cheating, competition, family problems, figure skating, friendship, impersonation, light-hearted books, multiple points of view, realistic fiction, self-esteem, summer

May 9, 2014

PREP SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL (Prep School Confidential #1) by Kara Taylor

May 9, 2014

Book cover of PREP SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL by Kara TaylorWhen I was younger, I used to read a lot of murder mysteries with female protagonists. I read one book after the other. Sadly, I don’t remember the authors or the titles but I do know where they used to reside on the library shelves. As it is, most of the books published in the late 1990s and early 2000s have mostly been taken from those shelves, so I’ll probably never know again which books I read. But there is one thing I do remember: all those clichés! It’s no wonder that after two or three dozen, I was done with them.

· Categories: Fiction Keywords: american authors, boarding school, crime, dating, friendship, murder

April 30, 2014

THE ALMOST TRUTH by Eileen Cook

April 30, 2014

I think The Almost Truth is a great book for times when nothing but a light-hearted book will do. We all know those days when we want to read but our minds just won’t focus on anything that requires us to think all too much for ourselves. Not to knock The Almost Truth for being…

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· Categories: Epic Recs, Fiction Keywords: ambition, american authors, cheating, con artists, crime, delinquency, family, family problems, friendship, impersonation, kidnapping, light-hearted books, poverty, realistic fiction, romance

April 23, 2014

CONVERTING KATE by Beckie Weinheimer

April 23, 2014

Kate is a character I’m going to remember for a long time to come. She is someone I’d like to be friends with if I were to meet her in real life. Most of the time I remember books for their stories and their ideas but I will remember this book for the person whose…

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· Categories: Fiction Keywords: agnosticism, american authors, christianity, cross country, death, faith, family problems, friendship, grief, high school, interpersonal relations, lgbtq characters, mothers and daughters, on books, self discovery, self perception, single parenthood, sports

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