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Grammar Snufus by Karla Stover

Okay, here's the deal. When did people become "that" instead of "who?" I hear this on the radio on the TV ( and shouldn't news reporters know better )? and unless my memory is wrong, have even read it in places. Why? How hard is it to remember that people require a "who"? And here's another--myself instead of me. My boss did this all this time and it drove me crazy. Are we so afraid to  be in the spotlight that we have to say, "So-and-so and myself did such-and-so?"

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Dream a Little Dream by Kerstin Gier

Dream a Little Dream (Silver 1) by Kerstin Gier Available April 14, 2015 Henry Holt and Company Hardcover 336 pages Young Adult Realistic/Supernatural Fiction To Buy Links:   Amazon / Kindle / Audio CD / B&N  / Book Depository / Indiebound / Kobo Goodreads -   Mysterious doors with lizard-head knobs. Talking stone statues. A crazy girl with a hatchet. Yep, Liv’s dreams have been pretty weird lately. Especially this one where she’s in a graveyard at night, watching four boys perform dark magic rituals.   The really weird thing is that Liv recognizes the boys in her dream. They’re classmates from her new school in London, the school where’s she’s starting over because her mom has moved them to a new country (again). But they seem to know things about her in real life that they couldn’t possibly know, which is mystifying. Then again, Liv could never resist a good mystery. . . .   So, would you believe a dream where you could feel the touch of someone's hand? Wh...

The Darkest Part of The Forest by Holly Black

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black Available Now YA/ Faerie/ Dark Fantasy/ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hardback 336 pages Personal Copy To Buy Links- Amazon / Kindle / Audio CD / Audible /  BN/  BookDepository/ Indiebound/ Kobo Goodreads -  Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for. Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeries’ seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Or she did, once. At the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. Hazel and Ben ...

Beware The Wild by Natalie C. Parker

Beware The Wild by Natalie C. Parker Available Now Harper Teen YA/Supernatural/Gothic Hardback 327 pages To buy links: Amazon / Kindle / BN / Book Depository/ Indiebound / Kobo From Goodreads-  It's an oppressively hot and sticky morning in June when Sterling and her brother, Phin, have an argument that compels him to run into the town swamp -- the one that strikes fear in all the residents of Sticks, Louisiana. Phin doesn't return. Instead, a girl named Lenora May climbs out, and now Sterling is the only person in Sticks who remembers her brother ever existed.  Sterling needs to figure out what the swamp's done with her beloved brother and how Lenora May is connected to his disappearance -- and loner boy Heath Durham might be the only one who can help her.   There is a free PREVIEW of the first few chapters of this novel on the Goodreads page. It's what hooked me. Just the first page. REVIEW I am such a sucker for a story set in the South. One that just drips with Sout...

ARRGH! by Stacey Campbell Blog Tour

Thank you for stopping by my tour stop for ARRGH! by Stacey Campbell. This is a middle grade fantasy adventure and the tour runs January 5-9 with reviews, interviews, guest posts and excerpts. Check out the tour page for the full schedule! About the Book: ARRGH!  by Stacey Campbell, 270 pages Forced to remain silent after being kidnapped by pirates Christopher must find a way to save an innocent merchant ship’s captain and his daughter from the evil grasp of Captain Redblade proving that friendship and family are worth fighting for no matter the costs. Amazon | Goodreads  | B&N  | Book Depository  | IndieBound REVIEW You know when you agree to do a tour book you never know what you are going to get. ARRGH is a true hidden gem! I loved this story! It's a quick easy read and perfect for young readers. But parents will enjoy reading it too. And you know, if you are a parent, that is sometimes hard to find, a book that is interesting to both you and your chapter r...

Golden Son by Pierce Brown (Red Rising Trilogy 2)

Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy 2) by Pierce Brown Available Now Random House/Del Rey Hardcover 464 pages, Ebook 464 pages YA/NA/Sci-Fi/Fantasy/ Received from publisher through NetGalley First Book in the series- Red Rising To buy links- Amazon/ Kindle / BN / Book Depository / Indiebound / Kobo Goodreads-   With shades of  The Hunger Games, Ender’s Game,  and  Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown’s genre-defying epic  Red Rising  hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation.  Golden Son  continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within. A life-or-death tale of vengeance with an unforgettable hero at its heart,  Golden Son guarantees Pierce Brown’s continuing status as one of fiction’s most...

Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis

Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis Disney Hyperion October 14, 014 Hardback 336 pages YA Sci-Fi/Fairytale Retelling Personal Copy To Buy Links- Amazon / Kindle / Audible / BN / Book Depository/   Indiebound Goodreads  - Princess Snow is missing. Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back-but that's assuming she wants to return at all. Essie has grown used to being cold. Temperatures on the planet Thanda are always sub-zero, and she fills her days with coding and repairs for the seven loyal drones that run the local mines. When a mysterious young man named Dane crash-lands near her home, Essie agrees to help the pilot repair his ship. But soon she realizes that Dane's arrival was far from accidental, and she's pulled into the heart of a war she's risked everything to avoid. In her enthralling debut, R.C. Lewis weaves the t...

Induction Day (Butterman Time Travel Inc. 2) by P K Hrezo Blog Tour and Giveaway

I can't tell you how excited I am to review this second book in the Butterman Time Travel Inc. Series. I loved the first novel as you can tell by my review HERE . There is a great giveaway associated with this tour (don't forget to hashtag) and no Rafflecopter forms to fill out! I hope you check out some of the other stops on this tour with excerpts of the book. It's really a can't miss for Time Travel lovers! Tour Page & Schedule Induction Day (Butterman {Time} Travel, Inc #2)  Ages: 16+ Pages: 247 The year 2069 is coming to a close, and eighteen-year-old Bianca Butterman's time-craft license is finally official. She's ready for the Induction Day she’s waited for since she was a kid—the one that will secure her name on the Butterman family tree of time travelers. But ever since the media discovered Bianca is pop superstar Tristan Helms’ latest new honey, everything Bianca does or says becomes a target of criticism. Having her professional credibility top...

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