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Bibliography: Hill, Joe. (2007).  Heart-Shaped Box.  New York: HarperCollins.  ISBN: 978-0061147937 Plot Summary:  Aging rocker Judas Coyne is a collector of the odd, the strange, and the macabre–a cannibal cookbook, a snuff film.  He also collects girlfriends, calling each after the state where they are from.  When his assistant tells him about a ghost for [...]

Bibliography: Nichols, Lee.  (2010).  Deception: A Haunting Emma Novel.  New York: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books ISBN: 978-1599903088 Plot Summary:  Seventeen year old Emma Vaile is living every teenager’s dream–her parents gone on a trip, her older brother away, she can do whatever she wants.  Except she worries about her family, is ignored by her best [...]

As mentioned briefly here, I am joining Amber at The Literary Wife in an informal reading challenge of sorts as we read and blog our way through  the top 100 children’s books as voted on by readers of Elizabeth Bird’s A Fuse #8 Production. Boston, L. M. (1954). The Children of Green Knowe. New York: [...]

Bibliography: Ellsworth, Loretta. (2010). In a Heartbeat. New York: Walker Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 9780802720689 Plot Summary:  Two teen girls who have never met will be forever connected.  When 16 year old figure skater Eagan misjudges a jump in competition and hits her head on the boards, 14 year old Amelia, dying from congestive [...]

Bibliography:  Cameron, Julia. (2008). Mozart’s Ghost. New York: St. Martin’s Press.  ISBN: 9780312369118 Plot Summary:   Thirty-something Anna moves from Ann Arbor to New York where she teaches elementary school, hangs out with eccentric Harold and man eater Stacy, dreads visits from her twin brother, eats in the Greek diner, does laundry while reading tabloids and, [...]

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