Posted on February 27, 2009 by Leigh R.
Alive and Well in Prague, New York
by Daphne Grab
Summary:
SMALL TOWN life tends to drag on in Prague, New York, especially for Matisse Osgood who recently moved there from the hustle and bustle of New York City. Annoyed at having to move, she’s even more wary of keeping her dad’s condition a secret- he has Parkinsons’, [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2009 by Leigh R.
Specials
by Scott Westerfeld
Summary:
TALLY YOUNGBLOOD had always been a rebel- not a very successful rebel, but a rebel. Transformed from a governmentally dumbed-down Pretty into a hyperaware superhuman Special, Tally’s brain still seems to reject any type of tampering that the government throws at her, an extraordinary skill that got her recruited. Now a Special, she works with Special Circumstances [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2009 by Leigh R.
Déjà Dead
by Kathy Reichs
Summary:
TEMPERANCE [Tempe] BRENNAN is a forensic anthropologist employed by UNC Charlotte. When she’s not teaching or grading papers, she’s in Canada [Montreal, Quebec, to be precise] working with the LSJML [Laboratorie de Sciences Judiciares et de Médecine Légale, or in English: the Laboratory of Judicial Sciences and Legal Medicine] to identify bodies [...]
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