Sometimes it’s fun to look back on the shows you loved so much as a child, but it’s also a dangerous path to travel down. Once again I am suffering from an acute case of Jem-idus. I’m pretty sure that’s a word. I have the theme song to the cartoon “Jem” stuck in my head, but I only remember a few words, so it’s even more painful. The only cure is to get another slightly less annoying song stuck in my head. Almost 18 hours later I have yet to find the perfect replacement. I am feeling Truly Truly Truly Outrageous..Whoa Jem..JEM she’s truly outrageous….oh my this is bad. Save yourself, don’t Google it.
Through the Portal (Book One in the Through the Portal Trilogy)
Justin Dennis
Genre: Children’s eBooks | Fantasy
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When Jem and Oliver accidentally fall through a portal to another world just before their first year of high school, they quickly discover that all is not well here. The first person they meet, a creepy old man named Atychis, almost gets them killed by a ferocious, fire-breathing dragon. They’re only narrowly saved when Sierra, a shy farm girl from a nearby town, uses illegal magic to help them escape. Allowed to stay with her family while they try to figure out a way back home, Jem and Oliver begin to learn of magic and the Regime that is oppressing it.
It isn’t until the Regime kills a woman that the three kids realize they have to do something to stop the Regime from taking over completely. After being framed for a crime they didn’t commit and banished from the town, Jem, Oliver, and Sierra take off on an adventure across this strange world in an attempt to defeat the Regime. New creatures and new kinds of magic are around every corner, but so are dangers that could have them wishing they were back safe at home.
[Trigger Warning: There are discussions of child abuse in this novel.]
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Olivia, Mourning (The Olivia Series)
Yael Politis
Genre: Historical Fiction | History | Women’s Fiction
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Olivia wants the 80 acres in far off Michigan that her father’s will left to whichever of his offspring claims the land. As Olivia says, “I’m sprung off him just as much as Avis or Tobey.”
The problem: she’s seventeen, female, and it’s 1841.
Mourning Free, Olivia’s trusted childhood friend, knows how to run a farm and is also sorely in need of a new start in life.
The problem: though born in a free state, he’s the orphaned son of runaway slaves and the slave catchers who patrol the north hunting fugitives are not particular about who they take back south with them.
Not without qualms, they set off together. All goes well, despite the drudgery of survival in an isolated log cabin. Incapable of acknowledging her feelings for Mourning, Olivia thinks her biggest problem is her unrequited romantic interest in their young neighbor.
Until her world falls apart.
Strong-willed, vulnerable, and compassionate, Olivia is a compelling protagonist on a journey to find a way to do the right thing in a world in which so much is wrong.
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One Last Improvisation
Dan Maguire
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Madison police officer Ryan O’Reilly just stumbled onto a local heroin distribution ring. Despised by his superiors and mired in a mid-life rut, he decides to investigate the case himself, off the record. As he begins to unravel the source of the network, Ryan must confront the crimes from his past. But when getting closer to the truth in the present means unearthing the secrets from his past, can he get himself out his self-imposed prison? Bouncing back and forth between the thirteen, seventeen, and thirty-nine-year-old versions of O’Reilly, readers see that he wasn’t always on the right side of the law…and the wrong side of despair.
One Last Improvisation is an engaging new crime thriller that will leave readers clamoring for more. Exploring the complex themes of mistakes, regret, and second chances, the novel presents a realistic crime drama with a surprising depth. Gripping suspense and satisfying drama combine to create a remarkable crime thriller that is sure to leave a mark with readers everywhere.
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Wessingham Awaits (Book 2, Poetry)
Owen Maddox
Genre: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction
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Once upon a time there was a king; the king was in a castle; the castle was in a kingdom; and the kingdom was in the United States of America–hidden, or so the legend of Wessingham has it. POETRY is the second of nine books in the novel WESSINGHAM AWAITS. This is the love story of Lizzie and Henry, child prodigies who befriend each other, grow ever closer, and eventually sing, before the world’s most important people “Wessingham Awaits,” a song that is at once enchanting and forbidden. The night of their last performance of “Wessingham Awaits,” their music teacher is murdered and Lizzie and Henry are forcefully separated. Set at Emory & Henry College, POETRY is Lizzie’s quest to make sense of what happened the night of the murder, and what might still happen, through the use of metaphor. Henry may be far away now, but he remains close to Lizzie’s heart.
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Rolling Up
Michelle Buchanan
Genre: Literary Fiction | Short Stories
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Rooted on the west coast of Canada, but reaching as far as London and Baghdad, these stories navigate the internal and external landscape of a diverse group of characters, drifters and mothers, an activist, a chef, a doctor, and soldiers, all struggling to make sense of a world where the sacred is defiled, where trust is betrayed, and where definitions of self, crumble.
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