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Never Look Away (Nicola)
Never Look Away by Linwood Barclay
Pages: 415 pages
First Published: Mar. 2, 2010
Rating: 4/5
First sentence:
“I’m scared,” Ethan said.
Reason for Reading: I always read Barclay’s newest novels.
Summary: Jan and David Harwood are going to spend their day with 4-year old Ethan at the new Five Mountains theme park. After a few typical miss-starts [...]
Exiles from the War (Nicola)
Exiles from the War: The War Guests Diary of Charlotte Mary Twiss, Guelph, Ontario, 1940 by Jean Little
Dear Canada series
Pages: 243 pages
Ages: 8+
First Published: Jan. 2010 (Canada only)
Publisher: Scholastic Canada Ltd.
Rating: 5/5
First sentence:
George phoned me long distance at six o’clock this morning to wish me happy birthday.
Reason for Reading: [...]
Going Bovine (Nicola)
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Pages: 480 pages
Ages: 14+
First Published: Sept. 22, 2009
Rating: 3.5/5
First sentence:
The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World.
Reason for Reading: I enjoyed Libba Bray’s Gemma Doyle books so was up for reading whatever she wrote next.
Summary: [...]
Stolen Child (Nicola)
Stolen Child by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Pages: 154 pages
Ages: 9+
First Published: Feb. 1, 2010 (Canada only)
Rating: 4/5
First sentence:
The woman who said she was my mother was so ill on the ship from Europe that she wore a sickness bag around her neck almost the whole time.
Reason for Reading: I [...]
The Janus Stone (Nicola)
The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths
A Ruth Galloway Mystery #2
Pages: 335 pages
First Published: Mar. 2, 2010 CAN (Aug 10, 2010 USA)
Rating: 4.5/5
First sentence:
A light breeze runs through the long grass at the top of the hill.
Reason for Reading: Next in the series.
Summary: A Victorian home is being pulled down to make way [...]