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Review: The Long Earth, Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter

Title: The Long Earth (Goodreads) Authors: Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter Rating: 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson has returned to the burned-out home of one Willis Linsay, a reclusive and some said mad, others dangerous, scientist. It was arson but, as is often the way, the firemen seem to have caused more damage than […]
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Posted on June 27, 2012
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Review: Water For Elephants, Sara Gruen

Title: Water For Elephants (Goodreads) Author:  Sara Gruen Rating: When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, swindlers and misfits in a second-rate circus struggling to survive. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is […]
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Posted on June 25, 2012
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Review: Kingdom, Anderson O’Donnell

Welcome to The Oaken Bookcase’s stop on the Kingdom Blog Tour! You can see all the other stops at Once Upon A Time. Don’t forget, you can still enter the giveaway for a Kindle Fire until July 3rd! Title: Kingdom (Goodreads) Author:  Anderson O’Donnell (@TiberCityNoir) Rating: In a secret laboratory hidden under the desert, a covert bioengineering project—codename “Exodus”—has […]
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Posted on June 22, 2012
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Review: The Wand in the Word, Leonard S Marcus

Title: The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy (Goodreads) Author:  compiled and edited by Leonard S Marcus Rating: In a series of incisive interviews, Leonard S. Marcus engages thirteen master storytellers in spirited conversation about their life and work, providing inspiring reading for fantasy fans and future writers alike. Finely nuanced and continually revealing, Leonard […]
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Posted on June 18, 2012
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Review: The Oracle, K.B. Hoyle

Title: The Oracle (Goodreads) Author:  K.B. Hoyle (@kbhoyle_author) Rating: It is the summer before freshman year and Darcy and her five friends have come back to Cedar Cove Family Camp and Alitheia. This return is bittersweet because her elusive purpose in the magical realm continues to evade her. Egged on by Tellius, the boy prince she is prophesied […]
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Posted on June 15, 2012
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Mini-Review: Aladdin and His Wonderfully Infernal Device, Tee Morris

Title: Aladdin and His Wonderfully Infernal Device (Goodreads) Author: Tee Morris (@TeeMonster) Rating: From the imagination behind the award-winning Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series comes a steampunk novella to a legend from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights.  Aladdin is a street-wise thief that finds himself under the tutelage of a world-renown illusionist. He is escorted […]
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Posted on June 12, 2012
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Review: Amped, Daniel H. Wilson

Title: Amped (Goodreads) Author:  Daniel H. Wilson (@danielwilsonpdx) Rating: Technology makes them superhuman. But mere mortals want them kept in their place. Enter a stunning world where technology and humanity clash in terrifying and surprising ways. Some people are implanted with upgrades that make them capable of superhuman feats. The powerful technology has profound consequences for society, […]
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Posted on June 6, 2012
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Review: Exiled, JR Wagner

Title: Exiled (Goodreads) Author:  J.R. Wagner (@JRWagner2) Rating: James has known magic since just after he was born. As a sorcerer, his skills are exceptional yet when he wakes in The Never, his abilities are gone. Armed with nothing but determination and the will to survive, he braves a land wrought with dangers, mysteries and temptations meant to ensnare […]
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Posted on June 5, 2012
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Review: Across the Universe, Beth Revis

Title: Across the Universe (Goodreads) Author:  Beth Revis (@bethrevis) Rating: A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen […]
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Posted on May 29, 2012
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Review: Dark Kiss, Michelle Rowen

Title: Dark Kiss (Goodreads) Author:  Michelle Rowen (@michellerowen) Rating: I don’t do dangerous.  Smart, über-careful, ordinary Samantha-that’s me. But I just couldn’t pass up a surprise kiss from my number-one unattainable crush. A kiss that did something to me…something strange. Now I feel hungry all the time, but not for food. It’s like part of me is missing-and […]
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Posted on May 24, 2012
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