ARC Review: “The Raven Boys” by Maggie Stiefvater
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 My first Maggie Stiefvater book and I’m not sure how to put into words what I feel. I think she’s one of the very few authors I’ve read that rendered me speechless. Summary:...
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Hard on the hooves of “The Scorpio Races,” which won one of this year’s Printz Honors, comes Maggie Stiefvater’s latest supernatural thriller, “The Raven Boys” (forthcoming Sept. 18). In contrast to...
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View Article“The Finish”: Mark Bowden on the Hunt for Osama bin Laden
THE DAILY BEAST – Mark Bowden’s The Finish is the first book, and, to date, the definitive one, that looks at the Osama bin Laden raid from President Obama’s perspective as he sat in the Oval Office...
View ArticleBook Review: Where History and Science Fiction Collide
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