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Title: Demonglass Author: Rachel Hawkins Series: Hex Hall, book 2 About the Author ( Reading Writing Rachel ): Rachel Hawkins was born in Virginia and raised in Alabama. This means she uses words like "y'all" and "fixin'" a lot, and considers anything under 60 degrees to be borderline Arctic. Before deciding to write books about kissing and fire (and sometimes kissing while on fire), Rachel taught high school English for 3 years, and is still capable of teaching you The Canterbury Tales if you're into that kind of thing. She is married to a geologist, which means that they have incredibly strange dinner conversations ("So today at work, I wrote a chapter where killer fog, like, ATE PEOPLE." "Huh. Well, I was chased by an angry reindeer while trying to map parts of Norway." "Um...okay.") Rachel also has a little boy whose main hobbies are playing video games, running around in circles, and plotting his Future Intergalactic Ta...

  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...