http://books.moonsoar.com A Reader's Blog Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:19:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Author: Frank Beddor Originally Published: 2006 Lewis Carroll got the story all wrong. He even spelled Alyss's name wrong. (Alice? Pfft.) This is the real story about Alyss of Wonderland. On Princess Alyss's seventh birthday, her mother and father get murdered by her Aunt Redd who believes that she is the rightful ruler ... http://books.moonsoar.com/archives/2008/07/03/the-looking-glass-wars/ Author: Robin Benway Originally Published: 2008 Author Blog Book Website I should be posting about Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars which I finished two days ago. Except for the fact that I picked this book up as soon as I had finished reading The Looking Glass Wars, and there hasn't been a free ... http://books.moonsoar.com/archives/2008/07/02/audrey-wait/ Author: Lucie Whitehouse Originally Published: 2008 Joanna and her friends are all at that stage in their very late twenties where they are starting to make their way in the real world after college, when Lucas's uncle commits suicide and he inherits Stoneborough Manor. Lucas intends for this large property in Oxford ... http://books.moonsoar.com/archives/2008/06/25/the-house-at-midnight/ Author: Katherine Barber Originally Published: 2007 This is my thirteenth, and last, book for the Canadian Book Challenge; I heard about it earlier during this challenge as another participant read it. As soon as I saw that there was a butter tart featured on the cover of the book, I knew ... http://books.moonsoar.com/archives/2008/06/17/only-in-canada-you-say-a-treasury-of-canadian-language/ Author: Jody Gehrman Originally Published: 2008 Author Website Based on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty is the story of three girls working at a drive-through coffee shop for the summer. Geena, our main Betty of the story, is determined to have a fabulous summer. But things don't ... http://books.moonsoar.com/archives/2008/06/14/confessions-of-a-triple-shot-betty/ Author: Christina Askounis Originally Published: 1993 New Edition Published: 2006 Let me start with saying that anyone who is a fan of Madeline L'Engle's Time Quartet ought to read this book. Sarah's world is turned upside down when her parents die in a plane crash on their way back home from visiting her genius ... http://books.moonsoar.com/archives/2008/06/12/the-dream-of-the-stone/ Author: Scott Mebus Originally Published: 2008 www.godsofmanhattan.com Thirteen year old Rory was happily believing that the world was a completely normal place until the magician Hex played a trick on him that opened his eyes to Mannahatta. Now, he sees strange things everywhere he looks - cockroaches riding on rats, people made of ... http://books.moonsoar.com/archives/2008/06/08/gods-of-manhattan/ Author: Michael Adams Originally Published: 1996 Author Website: www.michaeladams.ca Michael Adams formed the Environics group of marketing research and communications consulting companies. When he first wrote and published this book over a decade ago, he had been working as a pollster in Canada for twenty-five years. He wrote this book in order to ... ... http://books.moonsoar.com/archives/2008/06/01/sex-in-the-snow-tenth-anniversary-edition/ Author: Joan Bauer Originally Published: 2008 Hildy Biddle is a high school reporter trying to prove that she is ready to bring the truth to the world. And her community is definitely a place where the truth needs to be brought forth - the local newspaper has been covering very little other ... http://books.moonsoar.com/archives/2008/05/31/peeled/ Author: Welwyn Wilton Katz Originally Published: 1993 Author Website Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; Come like shadows, so depart! I first read this book around the time I was first introduced to the Stratford Festival. Since then my love for the Festival has grown greatly, but I haven't visited this book in years. ... http://books.moonsoar.com/archives/2008/05/25/come-like-shadows/