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Aurora of the Northern Lights
by Holly Hardin
ISBN: 978-1-4327-2439-9
Hardin’s Aurora [...]

Halfway to the Grave
Night Huntress Book 1
By Jeaniene Frost
After finishing Frost’s Halfway to the Grave, my only regret is that I did not get a chance to read it sooner. Frost introduces us to a new heroine in the urban fantasy genre by the name of Catherine Kathleen Crawford, a lanky redhead with a rather [...]

The Tales of Beedle the Bard
By J.K. Rowling
At long last, fans of Rowling’s Harry Potter series, who aren’t extravagantly rich, are able to not only read, but also get their very own copy of the book of wizarding fairy tales that was willed to Hermione in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows entitled The Tales [...]

A Lick of Frost
6th book in the Meredith Gentry series
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Despite my dwindling interest in the Anita Blake series by Hamilton, I still enjoy her Meredith Gentry series. I suspect it’s because the gratuitous sex fits Merry’s character and doesn’t seem quite as “thrown in to stretch the book” as is the case [...]

The Terrible Hodag and the Animal Catchers
By Caroline Arnold
The Hodag is a creature with the head of an ox, feet of a bear, back of a dinosaur, and a tail of an alligator. He’s forty feet tall and his eyes glow like fire, but don’t be afraid, the Hodag has a preference for wild blueberries. [...]

Dancing with Werewolves
1st book in the Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator series
by Carole Nelson Douglas
At the dawn of the new millennium everyone was concerned with the threat of Y2K. Instead of computers crashing worldwide however, vampires and other so-called mythical creatures stepped out of the shadows and into the spotlight. During this time, Delilah was growing [...]

The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
By Francesca Lia Block
As the title might suggest, Francesca Lia Block’s The Rose and the Beast takes some of the most popular of Grimm’s fairy tales and plops them down in modern-day Los Angeles. The tales are reworked to fit a modern day world, but the lessons, both [...]

Aerie
Concluding book in the Dragon Jousters series
by Mercedes Lackey
Aerie is the final book in Mercedes Lackey’s Dragon Jousters series. After the culmination of events in Sanctuary it seems hard to believe that there would be any way for the story to really continue without it seemingly going on and on forever without end, somewhat [...]

The Secret Diary of Adrian Cat, by Stuart and Linda Macfarlane, is the tale of Adrian Cat, a cat who seems prone to finding trouble while at the same time trying to deal with the added bonus of a baby to his human’s family. Below is the official summary as well as the book’s [...]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
7th book in the Harry Potter Series
by J.K. Rowling
The seventh and final installment in the highly lauded series Is not much longer than its predecessors and yet the sheer number of events and subplots makes it all that much more dense. Because of this it has taken me quite some [...]