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Get Robopocalypse in Hardcover for $15

I’ve yet to get my hands on it, but Daniel Wilson’s Robopocalypse has been on my reading list for a while. It’s gotten amazing reviews, and it sounds like one of the best science fiction novels of the...

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Review: Mockingjay

**Spoiler Alert: If you have only read my Hunger Games review and Catching Fire review and not the actual book, you might not want to read the following review. Spoilers from previous books are...

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An Interview with Author Ed Newman

Haunted houses, scorpions, and teenagers. It sounds like the rumblings of your typical tween science fiction novel, but it isn’t. The debut novel, The Red Scorpion, from Ed Newman — who is generally...

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Review: The Prodigal Hour

Recap: If you were given a time travel machine just moments after your father was killed, what would you do? Go back in time, right? Fix it? Save him? Of course. And that’s exactly what happens to...

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Movie vs. Book: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I

By Jenelle Tortorella Finally, we’ve reached the last installment of what could arguably be called the most popular love story of Generation Y:  Twilight. Breaking Dawn is the final page-turning,...

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Buffy Spin-Off Comic, Drusilla, Coming Soon

Okay,Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans. Besides Buffy and Angel, there were a number of cult fan favorites — no matter how good or bad they were. And Drusilla was one of them. Though she only appeared in...

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Review: The Girl Who Was On Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins’...

In this smart, witty book about the entire Hunger Games trilogy, 16 young adult authors join forces to analyze the series that set one heroine on fire: Katniss Everdeen. The Girl Who Was on Fire is a...

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Making The Hunger Games Your Bible…Literally

In case you haven’t heard or read enough about The Hunger Games in the last two weeks, here’s some out of the ordinary Hunger Games news for you. A Bible study group from North Carolina has been...

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How The Hunger Games Film Set Up a Big Problem for Catching Fire

Contributed by Alex Rabinowitz Two guards walk Seneca Crane to an ornately decorated Capitol room. In the center of the room is a decadent, goblet-like bowl. The guards close the door as they leave and...

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Review: The Eye-Dancers

Review: As a 12-year-old boy, there are few things more terrifying than girls and nightmares. Worse yet, nightmares with girls as the main subject. But that’s exactly what three close friends, Ryan,...

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‘X Files’ Actress Gillian Anderson to Pen Sci-Fi Book Series

After nine years starring in one of the most successful sci-fi television series of all time, it’s fitting that The X Files actress Gillian Anderson would continue to pursue work in the world of...

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Review: The Age of Miracles

Recap: In a world filled with young adult fiction novels full of post-apocolyptic stories, author Karen Thompson Walker tells the story not of what happens after the world ends, but what happens as...

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New ‘Lestat’ Novel Coming from Anne Rice

It’s been a while since author Anne Rice has released any novels based on her best-known character, the vampire Lestat. But that’s about to change. According to The New York Times, Rice announced on...

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Review: The Winter People

Recap: On page one, we dive into the diary of Sara Harrison Shea, known from legends dating back to  the early 1900s as the woman who mysteriously died at 31 and whose husband killed himself soon...

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‘Divergent’ Author Signs New Book Deal

Now that the Divergent series is good and done, the books’ author Veronica Roth is starting on a new project. According to Entertainment Weekly, Roth has signed a two-book deal with HarperCollins. The...

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Movie vs. Book: Insurgent

**Spoiler Alert: Because of the popularity of both this book and movie, this review does include spoilers.  Insurgent picks up where author Veronica Roth’s Divergent left off — with Tris, Four, Caleb,...

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Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Recap: When Jacob Portman’s grandfather mysteriously and suddenly dies in some kind of animal attack, it’s Jacob about whom everyone worries. The two were close, and Jacob was at his grandfather’s side...

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‘Ready Player One’ Author Signs New Book Deal

If you’re a fan of Ready Player One, listen up because bestselling author Ernest Cline is coming out with yet another book. (And if you haven’t yet read Ready Player One, you really need to put it on...

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Movie vs. Book: The Martian

Mark Watney is admittedly the least important member of his NASA team. He’s not the commander, and his role as botanist isn’t the most integral to surviving on a mission to Mars. So when a sandstorm...

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Movie vs. Book: Mockingjay (Part 2)

**Spoiler Alert: Considering five years having passed since Mockingjay was published, this is your warning that if you have not read the actual book, you might not want to read the following review....

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