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Kirkus Indie: Angie Bennett's 'Narcissistic Praise-Junkies'
In Angie Bennett’s gritty new book, Narcissistic Praise-Junkies, teacher Ellie Warden struggles with troubled teens, school shootings and her own complicated love life. read more
Catch ‘Fenway Fever’
Season tickets have belonged to Stats' family for a couple of generations, so Stats gets to see a lot of baseball games. But inFenway Fever, the 2012 season is gearing up to be a rough one—the Red Sox are playing badly, and the Fenway crowds are treating them even worse. read more
Chinese Lessons in Board Books
I don’t write often enough about board books for the youngest of children at Seven Impossible Things or here at Kirkus—I’m usually running my mouth about picture books—but sometimes you see such an outstanding one that you gotta speak up. read more
Top 10 Fantasy Novels by Female Authors (list inspired by 'The Killing Moon')
On May 1, Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin released The Killing Moon, the first book in her highly anticipated new fantasy series, the Dreamblood duology. read more
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by Michael Chabon
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by Sue Corbett
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by Will Weaver
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by Patrick Jennings
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by Don Lemna
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by Ron Koertge
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by Steve Kluger
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by Alan Gratz
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by Chris Lynch
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by Amy Goldman Koss
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by Maria Testa
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by Walter Dean Myers
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by Gennifer Choldenko
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by Linda Sue Park
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by John H. Ritter
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by Ann E. Burg
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by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
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by Andy Behrens
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by Melvin Burgess
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by Don Calame
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by Timothy Carter
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by Brendan Halpin
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by Nikol Hasler
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by Kody Keplinger
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by E. Lockhart
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by Alex Sanchez
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by Patricia Ellis Herr
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Rebecca Janni
Pub Date 5/24/2012
Giddy-up, bicycle girl!
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John H. Ritter
Pub Date 5/24/2012
Beneath "all the festivity and hooplicity" for the 100th anniversary of Boston's Fenway Park looms a calamity no one ...
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Callum Roberts
Pub Date 5/24/2012
Roberts (Marine Conservation/Univ. of York; The Unnatural History of the Sea, 2009) warns that "the oceans have changed more ...
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Charlie Schroeder
Pub Date 5/24/2012
An amusing and insightful memoir about the wacky world of historical reenactments.
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Richard D. Bronson
Pub Date 5/24/2012
Two powerful personalities clash in this first-hand account of Steve Wynn's bid to open a new casino on Donald ...
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Jeremy Waldron
Pub Date 5/23/2012
A vigorously argued, intelligent challenge to the "liberal bravado" of U.S. First Amendment scholars.
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Peter Pagnamenta
Pub Date 5/28/2012
London-based historian Pagnamenta (co-author: Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman, 2006) turns up ...
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Rachel Willson-Broyles
Pub Date 5/28/2012
Evil Nazi schemes, Norse mythology, Pompeian legend and a balloon expedition to the North Pole are narrative bedfellows in this ...
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Peter Piot
Pub Date 5/28/2012
London School of Tropical Medicine director Piot gives a boots-on-the-ground account of the global struggle to contain two potentially devastating ...
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Nicolai Lilin
Pub Date 5/28/2012
Conscripted into the Russian army, a rebellious 18-year-old bent on fleeing military service has his attitude adjusted when he is ...
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Liesl Schillinger
Pub Date 5/28/2012
While no Romeo and Juliet, Luka and Dora turn out to be lovers almost as star-crossed as their Elizabethan counterparts.
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Lorna Goodison
Pub Date 5/29/2012
Betrayal is the emotional cornerstone of this collection of Jamaican-set stories by poet and memoirist Goodison (English/Univ. of Michigan ...
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