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Tour: Flight, Alyssa Rose Ivy – Excerpt

Welcome to The Oaken Bookcase’s stop on the Flight Blog Tour! Today I’m pleased to share with you an excerpt from Flight, the first book in the Crescent Chronicles series.  Excerpt Closing my eyes, I tried to block it all out. Convinced I was about to die, I was only partly aware of his arms […]
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Posted on September 17, 2012
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Review: Shift, Kim Curran

Title: Shift (Goodreads) Author:  Kim Curran (@KimeCurran) Rating: When your average, 16-year old loser, Scott Tyler, meets the beautiful and mysterious Aubrey Jones, he learns he’s not so average after all. He’s a ‘Shifter’. And that means he has the power to undo any decision he’s ever made. At first, he thinks the power to shift is […]
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Posted on September 10, 2012
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Clock Rewinders (13)

It’s time for a look back over the past week, and to see what’s coming up. This feature is based on the original Clock Rewinders on a Book Binge. Last Week on the Bookcase It’s actually been two weeks since the last Clock Rewinders… I had the terrible flu that’s going around here last weekend – […]
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Posted on September 9, 2012
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Cover Reveal and Giveaway: Focus, Alyssa Rose Ivy

Today I’m pleased to be taking part in the cover reveal for Book 2 in the Crescent Chonicles, Focus by Alyssa Rose Ivy! I’m reading the first in this series at the moment and really enjoying it. Focus, Alyssa Rose Ivy Freshman year of college is hard even when you’re not tied to the future […]
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Posted on September 6, 2012
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Review: Defiance, C.J. Redwine

Title: Defiance (Goodreads) Author:  C.J. Redwine (@cjredwine) Rating: Within the walls of Baalboden, beneath the shadow of the city’s brutal leader, Rachel Adams has a secret. While other girls sew dresses, host dinner parties, and obey their male Protectors, Rachel knows how to survive in the wilderness and deftly wield a sword. When her father, Jared, fails to […]
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Posted on September 5, 2012
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Review: A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness

Title: A Discovery of Witches (Goodreads) Author:  Deborah Harkness (@DebHarkness) Rating: Deep in the stacks of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and […]
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Posted on September 3, 2012
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Roundup: August

And now, it’s time for a look back over what happened around here during August. In all it was actually a fairly quiet month for the Bookcase, partly because I was recovering from the madness that was July and the Discover Australian Fantasy month, but mainly because I was really quite busy. I joined in […]
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Posted on August 31, 2012
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Review and Giveaway: Stormdancer, Jay Kristoff

Title: Stormdancer (Goodreads) Author:  Jay Kristoff (@misterkristoff) Rating: Griffins are supposed to be extinct. So when Yukiko and her warrior father Masaru are sent to capture one for the Shogun, they fear that their lives are over. Everyone knows what happens to those who fail him, no matter how hopeless the task. But the mission proves far […]
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Posted on August 27, 2012
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Clock Rewinders (12)

It’s time for a look back over the past week, and to see what’s coming up. This feature is based on the original Clock Rewinders on a Book Binge. Last Week on the Bookcase The voting for Top 25 Book Blogger for 2012 on SkinnyScoop goes until the end of August, so if you have a […]
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Posted on August 26, 2012
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Review: India Black, Carol K. Carr

Title: India Black (Goodreads) Author:  Carol K. Carr Rating: When Sir Archibald Latham of the War Office dies from a heart attack while visiting her brothel, Madam India Black is unexpectedly thrust into a deadly game between Russian and British agents who are seeking the military secrets Latham carried. Blackmailed into recovering the missing documents by the […]
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Posted on August 25, 2012
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