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Archives for October 2011

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This Week’s Bestsellers: Fiction

by Jaclyn Abergas October 7th, 2011 | Fiction, Reading
Are you looking for new fiction books to read? Check out these top 5 books on the NY Times Bestsellers list.

Heat Rises (Richard Castle)

The third book in the Nikki Heat series, Heat Rises partners NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook. A murder has been committed at a New York bondage club and Nikki's on the case. It becomes even more bizaare and dangerous when she finds out the victim is a parish priest. She is soon pitted against New York's most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a death squad out to gun
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The Big Short

by T Akery October 6th, 2011 | New Releases
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis is a look inside the complex world of banks, loans, mortgages, and the inevitable fall of the housing market. But instead of capitalizing on those who gambled and lost, Michael Lewis focuses on the stories of those who gambled and won.

The remarkable thing with these stories is that the ones who won weren't the millionaires. Instead they were small time players who  saw the collapse of the sub prime mortgage in a different light. It was their different perspective on the mortgage crisis that made them their fortunes.

What made
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Author Review: Sarah Dessen

by Kaitlin October 3rd, 2011 | Authors, Young Adults
Sarah Dessen is, perhaps, the Jodi Picoult for young(er) adults. Both are geared towards females, and both are extremely easy to get sucked into, because they have themes that, while a little over-the-top at times, many can relate to. While Picoult's novels tend to have middle-aged protagonists dealing with more adult issues (and always some kind of high-profile judicial trial, it seems), Dessen's are the teen equivalent. Her main characters, who are teenage girls from varying social backgrounds, deal with the same issues that teenage girls everywhere face: drama with friends, family, and boys, and a constant need to
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