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Saturday Showcase (October 25)

Saturday Showcase is a weekly event hosted here at The In-Between Place which features books that you wish more people had read (or, at least, heard about). This week’s featured book is The Diviners by Libba Bray. Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she...

Book Review: My True Love Gave to Me by Stephanie Perkins

If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you’re going to fall in love with MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME: TWELVE HOLIDAY STORIES by twelve bestselling young adult writers, edited by international bestselling author Stephanie Perkins. Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter...

Waiting on Wednesday (October 8)

  Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly book meme hosted by Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated. This week, I’m waiting on The Witch Hunter by Virginia Boecker, which has an expected publication date of June 2, 2015. The magic and suspense of Graceling meet the political intrigue and unrest of Game of Thrones...

Waiting on Wednesday (October 1)

  Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly book meme hosted by Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated. This week, I’m waiting on The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin, which has an expected publication date of November 4, 2014. Mara Dyer wants to believe there’s more to the lies she’s been told. There...

Book Review: Dangerous Boys by Abigail Haas

Three teens venture into the abandoned Monroe estate one night; hours later, only two emerge from the burning wreckage. Chloe drags one Reznick brother to safety, unconscious and bleeding; the other is left to burn, dead in the fire. But which brother survives? And is his death a tragic accident? Desperate self-defense? Or murder? Chloe is the only...