Category: Book of the Day

Book of the Day: This Case Is Gonna Kill Me

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Happy Monday! I wasn’t expecting to receive anything today, since the mail wasn’t running but guess what! Apparently, UPS runs when the mail doesn’t. WOO!! Look what I got from TOR BOOKS! This Case Is Gonna Kill Me by Phillipa Bornikova This Case Is Gonna Kill Me by Phillipa Bornikova 2012-09-04 What happens when The Firm meets Anita Blake? You get the Halls of Power—our modern world, but twisted. Law, finance, the military, and politics are under the sway of long-lived vampires, werewolves, and the elven Alfar. Humans make the…

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Book of the Day: Sectors

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Happy Tuesday folks! Yesterday, in my mailbox I found Sectors by Brick Marlin Sectors by Brick Marlin 2010 Against their parents’ wishes, Gilbert and Bobby trespass into an abandoned old house, unaware of the horrors that lurk inside. With Bobby’s sudden disappearance, Gilbert finds himself caught up in an adventure that only starts with the ghosts who reside in the house. After stepping through a door into the Sectors, Gilbert is confronted with an entirely new world populated with werewolves, vampires, zombies, ghosts, robots, humans and a cannibal… | Big…

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Book of the Day: Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm

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Happy Thursday!  Went out to make sure we didn’t get “tp”ed last night (it was Halloween, afterall!) and tripped over a lovely package containing this gorgeous copy of Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Philip Pullman Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Philip Pullman 2012-11-08 Two hundred years ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children’s and Household Tales. Now, at a veritable fairy-tale moment—witness the popular television shows Grimm and Once Upon a Time and this…

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Book of the Day – The Uninvited

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Well looky looky what I found in my mailbox this week!   The Uninvited by Liz Jensen The Uninvited by Liz Jensen 2013-06-11 A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother’s neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry.Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger’s Syndrome has…

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Book of the Day: Shakespeare v Lovecraft

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Happy Saturday! Today in my mailbox I found Shakespeare v Lovecraft A Horror Comedy Mash-Up featuring Shakespeare’s Characters and Lovecraft’s Creatures by D. R. O’Brien Shakespeare v Lovecraft A Horror Comedy Mash-Up featuring Shakespeare’s Characters and Lovecraft’s Creatures by D. R. O’Brien 2012-08-29 “We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” William Shakespeare “In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.” Howard Phillips Lovecraft. In the same putrid vein as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Shakespeare v. Lovecraft slithers…

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Book of the Day: What the Cat Saw

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Happy Thursday, folks! Earlier this week, I found What the Cat Saw by Carolyn G. Hart hanging out in my mailbox! What the Cat Saw by Carolyn G. Hart 2012-10-02 National bestselling author Carolyn Hart presents an original new novel about a woman with a curious ability that drops her headfirst into a world of intrigue and murder… Ever since the death of her fiancé, Nela Farley has found herself plagued by a sixth sense: she understands the thoughts of cats when she looks into their eyes. Nela knows that…

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Book of the Day: The Last Dragonslayer

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Happy Tuesday, you guys! Today in my mailbox I found The Last Dragonslayer (The Chronicles of Kazam) by Jasper Fforde, and I may have squealed a little. Ok, a LOT!!!   The Last Dragonslayer (The Chronicles of Kazam) by Jasper Fforde 2012-10-02 In the good old days, magic was indispensable—it could both save a kingdom and clear a clogged drain. But now magic is fading: drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and magic carpets are used for pizza delivery. Fifteen-year-old foundling Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for…

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Book of the Day: Rise of the Guardians

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Can I just say “I love Simon & Schuster Audio”? Cause, ummm… I do! They sent us Rise of the Guardians Movie Novelization by Stacia Deutsch   Rise of the Guardians Movie Novelization by Stacia Deutsch 2012-10-02 Join forces with the Guardians to defeat Pitch in this retelling of the animated feature Rise of the Guardians.When Pitch, the boogeyman, decides that children should believe in him and not the Guardians, he adds a little fear to their dreams, turning them into nightmares. If children around the world are afraid, there…

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Book of the Day: Drawing Blood

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How’s your weekend going? Pretty laid back here in the Cates household. You know, its cold and dreary out so I made up a big ole pot of chili and the fam has just been lazin’ around all day. Anyway, just wanted to show you something I found in my mailbox the other day… It is Drawing Blood by Richard Finney   Drawing Blood by Richard Finney 2012-10-09 With humanity at the edge of self-annihilation… Vampires, living in the shadows of humans for thousands of years, joins the war to…

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Book of the Day: Dork Diaries 5

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What? Today is Wednesday already? OMGosh! This week is flying by! Just popping in to show you another of the audio books I received for review last week! It is Dork Diaries 5: Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All by Rachel Renee Russell   Dork Diaries 5: Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All by Rachel Renee Russell 2012-10-02 Nikki Maxwell authors an advice column for the school newspaper in this fifth book of the New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series.   Nikki Maxwell develops a sudden interest in student…

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