Reviews

Staff Review Feb 8, 2013

When a serious injury sends Evie Stryker to Fool’s Gold where her estranged brothers and mother have made their home, Evie finds herself at a crossroads.  Evie left Fool’s Gold, and the family where she never seemed to fit in, at the age of 17 to study dance at Julliard and she never looked back.  Then Evie was injured and her mother and brothers moved he

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The Cabin in the Woods


Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Feb 7, 2013

At first I was reluctant to watch The Cabin in the Woods due to the fact that it had been categorized as “horror”. But I was convinced to watch it, as I was told it was much more than your typical “slasher film.” And they were right.

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Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

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Rated by Jennifer W.M.
Feb 5, 2013

Perhaps you missed The Tiger's Wife, a 2011 novel by Tea Obreht.  A fiction title in alternating time periods between current day and war times in Middle Eastern Europe.  The main characters are a girl and her grandfather, both doctors.  This is a beautifully writ

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Dark Companion by Marta Acosta


Rated by Jennifer R.
Feb 4, 2013

Orphan Jane Williams has lived her entire life in the foster care system. This has given her a particularly hard outlook on life, but her determination to better her surroundings makes Jane work hard for what she has earned.

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Dodger by Terry Pratchett

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Rated by Jared H.
Feb 3, 2013

In Victorian London, Dodger is a 17-year-old rogue who makes his living through thievery and toshing (i.e. scavenging the sewers for valuables). In his world, Dodger knows everyone and everyone knows Dodger.

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The Devil in Silver

By Victor D. LaValle
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★★★

Rated by Michelle H.
Feb 2, 2013

Pepper (we only ever know him as Pepper) gets into a fight with three police officers who admit him to Hyde Park mental hospital in Queens, New York because a trip to the precinct would involve too much paperwork. Pepper isn’t crazy. He’s just unlucky, and he gets less lucky as things go. The Devil in Silver while billed as a Horror/Thriller – and yes it is terrifying - is at its heart a book about how bad luck has a way of following those on the bottom rungs of society.

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This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel


Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Jan 31, 2013

Sixteen-year-old Victor is brash, arrogant, and brilliant—much like the scowling Frankenstein ancestors who built the looming Château Frankenstein on the shores of Lake Geneva.  Together with his twin Konrad, their cousin Elizabeth, and their friend Henry Clerval, they spend their days learning in their father’s vast library or exploring the beautiful