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TITLE: Twilight
AUTHOR: Stephanie Meyer
GENRE: Fantasy, Romance
ABOUT: teenagers, vampires, romance, acceptance
RECOMMENDED FOR: romantics, vampire-lovers, females


TITLE: New Moon, sequel to Twilight
AUTHOR: Stephanie Meyer
GENRE: Fantasy, Romance
ABOUT: teenagers, vampires, romance, acceptance
RECOMMENDED FOR: anyone who enjoyed the prequel


TITLE: Running with Scissors
AUTHOR: Augusten Burroughs
GENRE: Memoir
ABOUT: dysfunctional family, VERY strange life
RECOMMENDED FOR: almost anyone, someone who's bored


TITLE: The Vampire Armand
AUTHOR: Anne Rice
GENRE: Fantasy
ABOUT: the life of the vampire Armand
RECOMMENDED FOR: Anne Rice fans, vampire-lovers, mature readers, not-homophobic readers


TITLE: Lirael sequel to Sabriel and prequel to Abhorsen (all very good books)
AUTHOR: Garth Nix
GENRE: Fantasy
ABOUT: Lirael, a female and her adventures in an ice kingdom with magic
RECOMMENDED FOR: fantasy lovers, adventure lovers


TITLE: i can't tell you
AUTHOR: Hillary Frank
GENRE: Fiction
ABOUT: Jake, a guy who decides to stop talking. the book is all 'written' by him and the people he communicates with.

Through notes scribbled on napkins and in notebooks, on upside-down calculators, and on walls with pudding-covered fingers, Jake explores new ways to express himself.

RECOMMENDED FOR: almost anyone


TITLE: Ender's Game
AUTHOR: Orson Scott Card
GENRE: Sci-Fi
ABOUT: only a child, Ender is sent up to space for rough training to be the military genius of the world against 'Buggers' (alien enemies)

Andrew "Ender" Wiggen isn't just playing games at Battle School; he and the other children are being tested and trained for war. Ender is the most talented result of Earth's desperate quest to create the military genius that the planet needs in its strugle against an alien enemy... Ender Wiggen is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.

RECOMMENDED FOR: sci-fi / fantasy lovers

This post has been edited by mishyerr: Apr 9 2007, 05:02 PM

[nosylilme]

Title: This Lullaby
Author: Sarah Dessen
Genre: Teen/Fiction/Romance
About: With her mother working on husband number five and her rock star father leaving before she was born, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a messy, disorganized musician.
Recommended For: Teenage girls mostly. But I'm sure other people would enjoy it.


Title:Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Author: Holly Black
Genre: Fantasy/ Romance
About: Kaye, a sixteen year old girl, travels everywhere with her mom's rock band. When strange events occur, they end up moving in with her Gram in New Jersey. Kaye soon finds herself between a war between two faerie kingdoms. And wait...she's a pixie?
Recommended For: Teens. There's language involved. I have a feeling girls would probably enjoy it more.


Title: Valiant:A Modern Tale of Faerie
Author: Holly Black
Genre: Fantasy/Romance
About: Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City. With a new identity, she lives with a gang of teens who live in the city's twisted subway system. But there's something strange about her new friends, with their talk of monsters and un-seeable creatures. And what's with the woman with the goat hooves for feet?!
Recommended For: Same as above.

Title:Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale
Author: Holly Black
Genre: Fantasy/Romance
About: In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben's coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure only of one thing--her love for Roiben. But when Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself to him, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now Kaye can’t see or speak with Roiben unless she can find the one thing she knows doesn’t exist: a faerie who can tell a lie.
Recommended For: Same as above.