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  Title: Chime Author: Franny Billingsley About the Author (Goodreads): While Billingsley's first novel, Well Wished (1997), was warmly received by critics, a year ago she was a virtual unknown within a publishing climate that regarded fantasy as a specialty genre. Today, her name is on the lips of booksellers and reviewers throughout the country. Franny Billingsley was not always a writer. She graduated from Boston University law-school in 1979, and worked for 5 years as a lawyer — a profession which she “despised.” In 1983, Billingsley visited her sister in Barcelona, Spain where she was “entranced by a lifestyle in which people did not make a lot of money yet lived richly and artfully.” Realizing that she needed to change her life, Billingsley quit her job and moved to Spain with all of her favorite children's books. “Books like A Wrinkle in Time, Harriet the Spy, and The Narnia Chronicles seemed like the perfect antidote to hideously wearisome legal documents,” remembers Bi...

  Title: Elixir Author: Hilary Duff Series: Elixir, book 1 About the Author (Goodreads): Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress, pop singer-songwriter and entrepreneur. After gaining fame for playing the title role in the television show  Lizzie McGuire , Duff went on to have a film career; her most commercially successful movies include  Cheaper by the Dozen  (2003),  The Lizzie McGuire Movie  (2003), and  A Cinderella Story  (2004). Duff has expanded her repertoire into pop music, with four RIAA certified Platinum albums and over thirteen million albums sold worldwide. Her first studio album,  Metamorphosis  (2003), was certified triple platinum and she followed it up with two more platinum albums,  Hilary Duff  (2004) and  Most Wanted  (2005). Duff's last studio album,  Dignity , was released in April 2007 and was certified Gold in August 2007. She has also launched a clothing line, "Stuff by Hilary Duff", ...

  Title: Ocean City Lowdown Author: Kim Kash Series: Jamie August, book 1 About the Author (Goodreads): Kim Kash is the author of Ocean City Lowdown: A Jamie August Novel and the bestselling Ocean City: A Guide to Maryland’s Seaside Resort. She is a founder of the Greenbelt Farmers Market near Washington, D.C. Topics she covers as a freelance writer for range from federal government policy to yoga, food and travel. A few years ago, Kim and her husband sold everything and moved to the Middle East. She has since traveled to more than a dozen countries and has taken up sailing, diving, and rock climbing. Book Summary (Goodreads): Ocean City Lowdown introduces Eastern Shore Maryland reporter Jamie August, who has a talent for unearthing more than her editor wants and a weakness for Ravens jerseys and sparkly underwear. She is assigned to cover the grand opening of a big new housing development in Ocean City, Maryland. But instead of writing about wrap-around porches and rattan furnishi...

Title: Eragon Author: Christopher Paolini Series: The Inheritance Cycle, book 1 About the Author (Goodreads): Christopher Paolini was born in Southern California and has lived most of his life in Paradise Valley, Montana. He published his first novel,  Eragon ,  in 2003 at the age of nineteen, and quickly became a publishing phenomenon. His Inheritance Cycle— Eragon  and its three sequels—have sold nearly 40 million copies worldwide.  To Sleep in a Sea of Stars   is his first adult novel. Book Summary (Goodreads): One boy... One dragon... A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. ...

  Title: Halfway to the Grave Author:  Jeaniene Frost Series:  Night Huntress About the Author: (Amazon) Jeaniene Frost is the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of the Night Huntress series, the Night Prince series, the Broken Destiny series, and the Night Rebel series. To date, foreign rights for Jeaniene's novels have sold to twenty different countries. Jeaniene lives in Florida with her husband Matthew, who long ago accepted that she rarely cooks and always sleeps in on the weekends. Aside from writing, Jeaniene enjoys reading, poetry, watching movies, exploring old cemeteries, spelunking, and traveling - by car. Airplanes, children, and cook books frighten her. Book Summary: (Goodreads)  Flirting With The Grave… Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father – the one responsible for ruining her mother’s life. Then she’s captured by Bones, a vampire bounty...

 Title: And Then I Turned Into a Mermaid Author:  Laura Kirkpatrick Series:  And then I Turned into a Mermaid About the Author:  LAURA KIRKPATRICK is the pen name of author Laura Steven. She is part-mermaid, part-children's author living in northern England. Her favorite things are white chocolate, beach walks with her puppy, and hiding her tail from prying humans. In addition to her fiction, Laura is a journalist and screenwriter whose work has been featured in Buzzfeed. Visit her at laura-steven.com. Book Summary: (Edelweiss+)  Some family secrets really make waves—just ask Molly Seabrook, newly thirteen and part-mermaid! Molly Seabrook's dull seaside life is turned upside down when she turns thirteen and is let in on the family secret: she's PART-MERMAID. Molly isn't exactly thrilled. She already has to dress as a fish to promote the family seafood restaurant, and now this? Growing up is hard enough without sprouting a fish tail in math class, or disguising y...