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Apr.07.2009
Cynnie’s mom has a problem with drinking. In fact, she’s a drunk. A fall down, pass out alcoholic. There are many problems in living with a practicing alcoholic. Not the least of which, for Cynnie: it makes it hard to recognize her own alcohol problem. I mean, standing next to her mom, she...
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Apr.07.2009
Love in the Present Tense is about Mitch, Leonard and Pearl, and told from each of their voices. Pearl is only 13 (in fact, it’s her 13th birthday) when she gets pregnant and accidentally shoots the father of her baby with his own gun. Oh yeah, did I mention he was a cop? Leonard is the little...
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Apr.07.2009
18-year old Teresa knows that her 22-year-old neighbor, James, is in love with her. It’s sort of a given. Has been for years. She doesn’t mean him any harm, but she doesn’t return the feelings. She just lets him hang around. To a point.
Until the night she breaks James’s heart. It’s not...
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Apr.07.2009
Becoming Chloe is an unusually mature and tough Young Adult novel about a couple of throwaway street teens. If you don’t know the difference between a runaway and a throwaway, runaways have parents who want them back. Nobody wants Jordy and Chloe back.
They meet in a cellar in Manhattan, where...
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Dec.10.2008
Charles Flint is a snake-handling Pentecostal preacher living in Tennessee in 1946. His 10-year-old son Jacob is physically deformed but spiritually gifted. Together they spread the word of God by drinking poison and handling deadly serpents through rural Appalachia until a tragic accident sets the...
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