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Review: Bible Animal Stories for Bedtime - Jane Landreth

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Wanting a good read for your children , something to read before they hit the sack ? Check out this great children's collection of Bible stories. Review: Bible Animal Stories for Bedtime - Jane Landreth-October 2011 Wanting to share with your children the Bible ? Wondering an easy way to do it ? Wanting to spend some quality Jesus time with them before they nod off to sleep? Bible Animal Stories for Bedtime is the perfect read , it contains over 256 pages of wonderful Animal stories that feature throughout the Good Book from Noah and the Ark , to the Creation of Animals and the Lost Sheep . With each story interactive , and only a couple of pages long - they make the perfect bedtime read and they are short enough to hold the child's attention and of course what would the perfect bedtime read be without wonderful illustrations throughout the entire book. From “God Created the Animals” in Genesis 1, through the accounts of the frogs that plagued Pharaoh, Balaam’s donkey, Solomo...

Review: Dancergirl - Carol M. Tanzman

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As tonight comes to an end , It is also the end of the weekend 24hr Readathon and with half an hour to go I resign and head to bed, but I completed the readathon with 7 Books :) Here is Book #7 courtesy of Netgalley. Review: Dancergirl- Carol M. Tanzman- November 2011 As I prepare to wind down from the 24 Hr Readathon, I bring you Book #7 - a good number to finish on as it's my favourite number. Are you a fan of mystery and suspense ? Feeling in the mood for a bit of stalkerish fiction ? Meet Ali , all she has ever wanted to do was become a dancer and what started off as fun entertainment - a school friend Charlie filming her dancing and posting on Zubu which is like the equivalent of Youtube ended into a game much more dangerous as somebody else is filming Ali secretly as videos of her dancing in the privacy of her own bedroom start appearing on Zubu. When the videos get out , everyone at school starts to call her strippergirl instead of Ali or her nickname Dancergirl. When her ...

Review: Beyond the Grave - Mara Purnhagen

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     As the night creeps to an end - I have 2 hours to go on the Read-a-thon and I bring to you Book #6 , thanks to Netgalley. Review: Beyond the Grave - Book #3 Past Midnight Series - Mara Purnhagen- August 2011 "Cemetries are like  Quiet peaceful islands slipped inside the forgotten corners of every busy city" As the night creeps on and being October - the month of scares , I figured I would turn from Historical Fiction to a Supernatural Teen Fiction , bringing out Ghosts and Possessions. Beyond the Grave by Mara Purnhagen is Book #3 in the Past Midnight Series , a series that focuses on the Silver family and their ghostly antics. If you are a fan of Ghost Whisperer and Supernatural , then this is the series for you as the Silver family make their money in seeing the dead , filming haunted buildings etc. In Book #2 Raising the Dead we read as a creature known as The Watcher was released, a demon of sorts and this caused tragedy for the Silver family and threw...

Review: Accidents of Providence - Stacia Brown

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As I continue in the Read-A-Thon with 3 Hours to go :) I bring you the review of Book #5 . When it comes to genres, I found myself not really a Historical Fiction reader but then again every now and again I will pick up a historical fiction that I find myself loving. This is one of those. Review: Accidents of Providence - Stacia Brown- February 2012 Another 2012 release, the second one in the Read-A-Thon and from Netgalley. When it comes to reading, I'm one of those few people that can say I read alot but when it comes to the historical fiction genre, it's not something that tends to grab me unless the storyline is interesting and that is what happened with Accidents of Providence. It's the year 1649 in England , King Charles has been beheaded for Treason and laws are being brought in left,right and centre. In the first chapter we meet Mary DuGard , a widow and owner of a glove making shop , she seems to be the type of woman who prefers to be in the background, not make a...

Book News : Read-A-Thon

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Read-A-Thon: This weekend I'm participating in the Read-A-Thon as It's Labour Weekend :) So Far my total stands at 4 Books Read and counting as I start my 5th Book. A List so Far : Stefan's Diaries - Volume #2 Bloodlust - LJ Smith A Clockwork Christmas - A Steampunk Anthology- Various Authors Addison Blakely :Confessions of a PK- Betsy St. Amant Ambitious - A Premiere Novel - Monica McKayhan

Review: Ambitious - Monica McKayhan

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Are you a fan of all those dance films , the ones like Step Up , Honey, Make It Happen , Save the Last Dance? If so, then this is the novel for you. Review: Ambitious - A Premiere Novel - Monica McKayhan- August 2011 As a fan of all those Dancing Flicks, the ones where they audition and then they don't get in and then along the way something happens and they are given a second shot and make it . I love them from Step Up trilogy to Centre Stage Duo to Make it Happen and Burlesque. Ambitious read a bit between Britannia High, Step Up and Fame. In Ambitious we meet Mari aka Marisol, her passion since she could remember was dancing her Mexican-American butt off , she lives for it and when she's offered the chance to audition for Premiere High - a School of Music, Arts, Dance - her dream school - she jumps at it but of course, theres a few things she has to do first. The first is to persuade her parents to let her audition. However, as we all know dreams can come with a price tag ...

Review: Addison Blakely : Confessions of a PK - Betsy St. Amant

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Ever wanted to find out what goes on in the mind of some of these PK's ( Preacher Kids)? With author Betsy St. Amant , you can do just that . Review: Addison Blakely : Confessions of a PK - Betsy St. Amant- January 2012 Just writing the release date of Betsy's new book Addison Blakely : Confessions of a PK makes us wonder where the year is going as January 2012 is just around the corner as it creeps up pretty quickly. It always makes us wonder what goes on in the minds of PK (Preacher Kids) as they can be portrayed as two types of people in the movies and in literature - they either are really naughty and have a dark secret side to them or they are goody-goody two shoes- the ones that can do no wrong . Just look at Mandy Moore's character from A Walk to Remember and now Julianne Hough's character Ariel from Footloose. In Addison Blakely's confessions , we read as she is reaching a turning point in her life , the turning point of becoming a teenager in Love. Though...