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For Those Who Prefer The Real World…Staff Pick Dec.23rd – 29th

By Jessica, on December 19th, 2012%

This week’s staff pick is Under the Bridge by Michael B. Harmon.

Wearing a police wire, a skateboarding street boy confronts the drug dealer who threatens to kill his brother. A fast-paced and highly charged novel capturing the enduring bond between brothers and their struggle for survival.

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For Those Who Want More Magic, Mayhem, and Chaos…Staff Pick Dec.23rd – 29th

By Jessica, on December 19th, 2012%

This weeks staff pick is Across the Universe by Beth Revis.

It’s a cryogenic nightmare. Amy decided to leave everything behind her and join her parents as a member of Project Ark Ship. The plan was to travel on the spaceship Godspeed cryogenically frozen to a new planet. The journey was to last 300 years. . . . → Read More: For Those Who Want More Magic, Mayhem, and Chaos…Staff Pick Dec.23rd – 29th

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For Those Who Want More Magic, Mayhem, and Chaos…Staff Pick Dec.16th – 22nd

By Jessica, on December 14th, 2012%

This week’s staff pick is Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr.

A centuries-long war between daimons and witches sets the stage for three teens caught up in a deadly struggle for power and autonomy. In a city of daimons, rigid class lines separate the powerful from the power-hungry. And at the heart of The City . . . → Read More: For Those Who Want More Magic, Mayhem, and Chaos…Staff Pick Dec.16th – 22nd

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For Those Who Prefer the Real World… Staff Pick Dec.16th – 22nd

By Jessica, on December 14th, 2012%

This week’s staff pick is Shelter (Mickey Bolitar series, book I) by Harlan Coben.

After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents and former life, he is forced to change schools and live with his estranged uncle Myron. As time goes on he meets a great girl named Ashley, and things finally seem . . . → Read More: For Those Who Prefer the Real World… Staff Pick Dec.16th – 22nd

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For Those Who Want More Magic, Mayhem, and Chaos…Staff Pick Dec.9th – 15th

By Jessica, on December 7th, 2012%

This week’s staff pick is Divergent by Veronica Roth.

In a future dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue. On an appointed day of the year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice . . . → Read More: For Those Who Want More Magic, Mayhem, and Chaos…Staff Pick Dec.9th – 15th

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For Those Who Prefer the Real World… Staff Pick Dec.9th – 15th

By Jessica, on December 7th, 2012%

This week’s staff pick is Every Day by David Levithan.

Can you truly love someone who is destined to change every day?

There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. Every morning A wakes in a different person’s body, in a different person’s life. A has made peace with . . . → Read More: For Those Who Prefer the Real World… Staff Pick Dec.9th – 15th

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For Those Who Want More Magic, Mayhem, and Chaos…Staff Pick Nov.11th – 17th

By Jessica, on November 9th, 2012%

This week’s staff pick is The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater.

Some race to win. Others race to survive!

Each October on the island of Thisby, the capaill uisce, or water horses, emerge from the sea. Predatory meat-eaters, they endanger the islanders—but they are also fast, far faster than land horses, and if captured . . . → Read More: For Those Who Want More Magic, Mayhem, and Chaos…Staff Pick Nov.11th – 17th

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For Those Who Prefer the Real World… Staff Pick Nov.11th – 17th

By Jessica, on November 9th, 2012%

This week’s staff pick is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.

This is a story about what it’s like to travel that strange course through the uncharted territory of high school.  The world of first dates, family dramas, and new friends; of sex, drugs, and the rocky horror picture show; of those . . . → Read More: For Those Who Prefer the Real World… Staff Pick Nov.11th – 17th

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For Those Who Want More Magic, Mayhem, and Chaos…Staff Pick Oct.28th – Nov.3rd

By Jessica, on October 26th, 2012%

This week’s staff pick is White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick.

Thought provoking as well as intensely scary, White Crow unfolds in three voices. There’s Rebecca, who has come to a small seaside village to spend the summer, and there’s Ferelith, who offers to show Rebecca the secrets of the town . . . but at . . . → Read More: For Those Who Want More Magic, Mayhem, and Chaos…Staff Pick Oct.28th – Nov.3rd

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For Those Who Prefer the Real World… Staff Pick Oct.28th – Nov.3rd

By Jessica, on October 26th, 2012%

This week’s staff pick is Leverage by Joshua C. Cohen.

At Oregrove High, there’s an extraordinary price for victory, paid both on and off the football field, and it claims its victims without mercy. Kurt and Danny are on high-school teams vastly different in school status. Danny, slightly built, is on the underfunded gymnastics team, . . . → Read More: For Those Who Prefer the Real World… Staff Pick Oct.28th – Nov.3rd

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