Just when seventeen-year-old Cullen Witter thinks he understands everything about his small and painfully dull Arkansas town, it all disappears. . . . In the summer before Cullen’s senior year, a nominally-depressed birdwatcher named John Barling thinks he spots a species of woodpecker thought to be extinct since the 1940s in Lily, Arkansas. His rediscovery [...]
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island [...]
Hazel Grace Lancaster is a teenager living on borrowed time. She has terminal thyroid cancer that has metastasized to her lungs, but a miracle drug has prolonged her life thus far. How she chooses to spend her time rereading her favorite novel, An Imperial Affliction, for the dozenth time and watching marathons of “America’s Next [...]
Cassandra Clare’s “Infernal Devices” series introduces us to two amazing literary heroes and has been the source of my latest literary crushes. There is much debate over these two fine heroes, and although most fans favor Will, there is no choosing “Team Will” or “Team Jem” for me. Like Tessa, I was confused about both [...]
Margie Gelbwasser is an author dear to our hearts. She was our very first Author Q&A, taking the leap of faith to talk to us when we’d barely launched. When we first interviewed Margie last year, we discussed her debut novel “Inconvenient,” and now we’re talking to her about “Pieces of Us,” her powerful new [...]
Since her parents’ bitter divorce, Mclean and her dad, a restaurant consultant, have been on the move-four towns in two years. Estranged from her mother and her mother’s new family, Mclean has followed her dad in leaving the unhappy past behind. And each new place gives her a chance to try out a new persona: [...]
We’re wishing Ron Weasley a happy 32nd birthday by re-promoting our Literary Crush devoted to him — our first (of many) favorite gingers. Here’s how we see him in our heads (all tall and gangly): And of course, here’s the spectacular Rupert Grint: For he’s a jolly good fellow, indeed!
Best Friend, BFF, soul sister, amiga, no matter what we call them, we all need that one special friend in our lives. We all need that person that is always in our corner no matter what the circumstances. The same holds true for our literary heroes. None of them could have gone through any of [...]
My good friend Susan, an amazing woman, mother, scientist, and friend, died on Monday at age 38 after living with cancer for nearly five years. She loved to read, and in her final months had taken an interest in a few YA books a friend and I had recommended, including “Divergent.” Susan loved it so [...]
Deanne Wilsted is the indie author of “Betting Jessica” which is currently available on Amazon. Today, Feb. 10th, Amazon will be running a promotion on the book, which will be free for the entire day. ~~~~~~~~ Since my favorite books to read have always been those with true to life heroines and lots of humor it is [...]
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