Shelf Quest

Garden Spells Garden Spells is a magical story about a small town in North Carolina. Sydney is back after 10 years of being away. She surprises her sister, Claire, not only by returning to get back on her feet but by also bringing her daughter, Bay. Claire still lives in the Waverly family house, keeps to herself, and works magic in the kitchen, literally. Evanelle is overwhelmed with desires to give items to people that they will somehow need in the…

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Selene is 26, a witch, and the owner of a yoga studio. One day a man shows up that not everyone can see. It turns out that she is a half-elf and she doesn’t have any of her memories from before she “became human.” She is drawn back into the fae world to try to settle a disturbance between the Elf King and his people. But what is she forgetting? She tries to remember while the son of the Elf…

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Pancakes in Paris is a memoir covering Craig’s childhood (briefly), college years, coming out, and beyond. His original goal was to make a career in the film industry, which he does for a while before realizing his dream of opening an American breakfast diner in Paris. We follow his ups and downs in trying to get investors for Breakfast in America, he rights to use the name, finding the perfect location for the first restaurant, troubles of the renovation, and…

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Arabella of Mars takes place on a colonized Mars in the 1800s and in London, England, on Earth. After her mother forces her to leave her father and brother on Mars and move back to London, Arabella finds herself on an urgent journey back to Mars to save her brother. Since she must get there as soon as possible, she finds herself disguised as a boy and brought aboard a ship as the Captain’s boy to help him with the…

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Bounty follows Nina and Georgie, two bounty hunters who were formally at the top of their game as most-wanted criminals but had to virtually erase their existence in order to keep sensitive files out of the wrong hands. True to the sci-fi genre, issue 1 jumps right into the scene where they fall from the top. In Bounty we still get Wiebe’s sassy writing, a la Rat Queens, but it is now inclusive to wider range of readers. Mindy Lee…

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Southern Spirits covers “four hundred years of drinking in the American South,” and it doesn’t miss one detail! This is a really interesting book with lots and lots of historical facts, but it feels more like a textbook than a relaxing read. It takes us from first landing in America in the 1500’s though colonization, the Revolutionary War, Civil War, prohibition, and on into the later 1900’s. Not only do we learn about crops to make wine, beer, and spirits,…

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A Soulwood Novel #1 – Faith’s new series set in the Jane Yellowrock world!! For those of you who are huge JY fans and read Blood in Her Veins, you will have already read a short story where Nell Ingram helps JY & Vamps onto a cult’s land to rescue a missing vamp. Nell’s character was extremely interesting and I was so excited to find out that she was getting her own series! BOTE is exactly the type of book…

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After reading The Girl Who Chased the Moon, I frantically got my hands on as many books as I could by Sarah Addison Allen. I listened to the audio version and the narrator had such a grating southern accent it was hard to take the book seriously. Narrator aside, the book itself was pretty awful. In a nutshell, the characters are: Josey, a fat 27-year-old who hides sweets in her closet; Della Lee, the town sometimes-prostitute who has decided to…

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I was first drawn to this book because of the cover and the title. I’m having such a difficult time describing this book and the type of books I have been into lately. They’re… quietly interesting with a hint of mystery or excitement, take place in a small town, and definitely have a slower pace. I absolutely loved this book and it reminded me a lot of The Obituary Society, which I also loved. In The Girl Who Chased the…

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(source) Overall, I am very impressed with this book. I originally borrowed it from the library but when I was only 1/2 way through I bought a used copy on Amazon (for $5.50!). The French Don’t Diet Plan takes the principles  of French Women Don’t Get Fat (FWDGF) and presents them with a little more structure that Americans (or at least me) need. Dr. Clower breaks down the importance of eating real food (less sugar and additives), significantly reducing portions,…

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