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The Red Pyramid [February 11, 2011]
Rick Riordan
The Kane Chronicles [1]: From School Library JournalStarred Review. Grade 4–9—Riordan takes the elements that made the "Percy Jackson" books (Hyperion) so popular and ratchets them up a notch. Carter, 14, and Sadie, 12, have grown up apart. He has tr...
The Necromancer [February 11, 2011]
Michael Scott
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel [4]: The fourth book in the New York Times bestselling series The Secrets of the Nicholas Flamel-The Necromancer San Francisco:After fleeing to Ojai, then Paris, and escaping to London, Josh and Sophie Newm...
The Sorceress [February 11, 2011]
Michael Scott
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel [3]: Amazon.com ReviewThe third book in Michael Scott's "Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" series, The Sorceress, kicks the action up to a whole new level. Adding to the series' menagerie of immortal...
The Magician [February 11, 2011]
Michael Scott
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel [2]: From School Library JournalGrade 6–9—Flamel and company return in this fast-paced follow-up to The Alchemyst (Delacorte, 2007). The immortal human Nicholas Flamel; Scathach, the veggie vampire warrior;...
The Alchemyst [February 11, 2011]
Michael Scott
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel [1]: From Publishers WeeklyTwin 15-year-old siblings Sophie and Josh Newman take summer jobs in San Francisco across the street from one another: she at a coffee shop, he at a bookstore owned by Nick and Pe...
The Girl Who Played With Fire [February 11, 2011]
Stieg Larsson
The Millennium Trilogy [2]: Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, this second book in the Millennium series is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, cru...
Children of the Mind [February 11, 2011]
Orson Scott Card
The Ender Saga [4]: Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender's Game, who as a man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and restore the Hive...
Xenocide [February 11, 2011]
Orson Scott Card
The Ender Saga [3]: The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three ver...
Speaker for the Dead [February 11, 2011]
Orson Scott Card
The Ender Saga [2]: In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but a...
Blood Rites [February 1, 2011]
Jim Butcher
The Dresden Files [6]: Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, takes on a case as a favor to his friend Thomas-a vampire of dubious integrity-only to become the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.SUMMARY:Lost items found. Paranor...
Freedom [January 17, 2011]
Jonathan Franzen
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about familyPatty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. P...
Virgin Earth [December 28, 2010]
Philippa Gregory
Earthly Joys [2]: From Publishers WeeklyIn the stand-alone sequel to her Earthly Joys, Gregory follows royal gardener John Tradescant the Younger back and forth across the Atlantic between colonial Virginia and war-torn England. When John first trave...
The Virgin's Lover [December 28, 2010]
Philippa Gregory
The Tudor Series [6]: From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Gregory captivates again with this expertly crafted historical about the beautiful young Virgin Queen, portrayed as a narcissistic, neurotic home-wrecker. As in her previous novels about Tudor En...
The Queen's Fool [December 28, 2010]
Philippa Gregory
The Tudor Series [5]: ReviewAfter winning the Parker Romantic Novel of the Year in 2002 for the brilliant The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory returns to the Tudor court in this equally absorbing novel. It is 1553, Henry VIII is dead and his young...
The Other Boleyn Girl [December 28, 2010]
Philippa Gregory
The Tudor Series [2]: From Publishers WeeklySisterly rivalry is the basis of this fresh, wonderfully vivid retelling of the story of Anne Boleyn. Anne, her sister Mary and their brother George are all brought to the king's court at a young age, as pl...
The Constant Princess [December 28, 2010]
Philippa Gregory
The Tudor Series [1]: Splendid and sumptuous historical novel from this internationally bestselling author, telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon. We think of her as the barren wife of a notorious king; but behind this legacy lies a fascin...
The Boleyn Inheritance [December 28, 2010]
Philippa Gregory
Tudors [3]: THREE WOMEN WHO SHARE ONE FATE: THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE ANNE OF CLEVES She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead. King Henry VIII, her new husband, instant...
Earthly Joys [December 28, 2010]
Philippa Gregory
Earthly Joys [1]: From Publishers WeeklySeventeenth-century England is the setting for this engaging historical novel based on the life of John Tradescant, a gardener of common birth who transforms plain plots of land into slices of heaven on earth. ...
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