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Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . .

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.]]> 374 Suzanne Collins Emma 0 currently-reading 4.34 2008
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Emma
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> 3017230 400 Jeffrey Moore 0297607960 Emma 4
It is a beautifully done dark satire on the view of a normal american romance. It shows the fine line of love and obsession and I would recommend it to a reader who likes different perspectives. For an age advantage I would say one should be at least 15 years of age to really understand the concepts in the book. Moores style of writing is encouraging and easy to follow along. Although it looks like a long read it's worth the time. I really enjoyed this book but the beginning to a while to get really into it. I gave it 4 stars because it did take me a few chapters to be fully committed to it but once I was I loved it. This book shows the challenges men go through and the fight when meeting a new woman; how to know if she's the one.]]> 3.80 1999
author: Jeffrey Moore
name: Emma
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1999
rating: 4
read at: 2012/01/23
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For my award winning reading workshop book I chose Red-Rose Chain by Jeffrey Moore. It won the Commonwealth Writers Award for the best first novel. It was his first book and was published in Canada to widespread critical acclaim before it was chosen for the award. The books main character is Jeremy Davenant who is a man that thinks that his life has been planned out for him since the day he was born. He is a professor at Montreal University but he never got his teaching credentials so he is illegally practicing. He is obsessed with "signs" in his life and suggests everything has meaning to him. He then meets a woman who he thinks he falls madly in love with, but he doesn't really know who she truly is. He spirals after he encounters her and never stops thinking about her. Throughout the book Jeremy finds out little by little who Milena is.

It is a beautifully done dark satire on the view of a normal american romance. It shows the fine line of love and obsession and I would recommend it to a reader who likes different perspectives. For an age advantage I would say one should be at least 15 years of age to really understand the concepts in the book. Moores style of writing is encouraging and easy to follow along. Although it looks like a long read it's worth the time. I really enjoyed this book but the beginning to a while to get really into it. I gave it 4 stars because it did take me a few chapters to be fully committed to it but once I was I loved it. This book shows the challenges men go through and the fight when meeting a new woman; how to know if she's the one.
]]> 1162543 "Don't be afraid," I murmured. "We belong together."
I was abruptly overwhelmed by the truth of my own words.
This moment was so perfect, so right, there was no way to doubt it.
His arms wrapped around me,
holding me against him....
It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire.
"Forever," he agreed.

WHEN YOU LOVED THE ONE WHO WAS KILLING YOU, IT LEFT YOU NO OPTIONS. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?

TO BE IRREVOCABLY IN LOVE WITH A VAMPIRE is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs.

NOW THAT BELLA HAS MADE HER DECISION, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life - first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse - seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever?

THE ASTONISHING, BREATHLESSLY anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.]]> 756 Stephenie Meyer 031606792X Emma 3
I would recommend this book to a young woman from any age of 12-20. Some people say it is childish and fantasy, but it really has a good plot that shows the struggles that people go through to keep love in their life. I like the style of the book generally; there are a lot of thoughts as I said before that you hear. Unlike other vampire books it has a very strong plot line which I think can be hard and sometimes lost in the wonder of a romance.]]> 3.74 2008
author: Stephenie Meyer
name: Emma
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2011/10/27
date added: 2012/01/23
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I read the book Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer and it is the 4th book of the series. I gave this book 4 stars because as it is a long read there are some drawbacks. There are a lot of thoughts from Bellas perspective that can get a little tedious and cliché. Although these problems may seem eminent, it was still a great read and in my opinion the best book in the series.The ongoing conflict is about this girl Bella who is just an ordinary human living in a small town called Forks who falls in love with a vampire. The book is about the issues she has and the difficulties of being different than her mate. Edward in this particular book turns into a braver figure than ever before. He will fight to the death to make sure Bella is safe even if he has to risk himself. Edward asks Bella a question she knows he has been asking for forever and it is finally time to answer him. This answer will open the door to the rest of her life and her family.

I would recommend this book to a young woman from any age of 12-20. Some people say it is childish and fantasy, but it really has a good plot that shows the struggles that people go through to keep love in their life. I like the style of the book generally; there are a lot of thoughts as I said before that you hear. Unlike other vampire books it has a very strong plot line which I think can be hard and sometimes lost in the wonder of a romance.
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But Tibby says they’re great. She'd love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they’re fabulous. Lena decides that they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them.

Nobody knows why, but the pants fit everyone perfectly. Even Carmen (who never thinks she looks good in anything) thinks she looks good in the pants. Over a few bags of cheese puffs, they decide to form a sisterhood and take the vow of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . the next morning, they say good-bye.

And then the journey of the pants � and the most memorable summer of their lives � begins.]]> 294 Ann Brashares 0385729332 Emma 0 3.85 2001
author: Ann Brashares
name: Emma
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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]]> 395871 This book has Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE]
ACE #1

A DEADLY LOVE TRIANGLE

Elena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants.

Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt his past.

Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him. Determined to have Elena, he'd kill to possess her.

Collected here in one volume for the first time, volumes one and two of The Vampire Diaries, the tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.]]> 492 L.J. Smith 006114097X Emma 0 3.70 1991
author: L.J. Smith
name: Emma
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1991
rating: 0
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]]> 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919�2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 Emma 0 3.81 1951
author: J.D. Salinger
name: Emma
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1951
rating: 0
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Dugard's memoir is written by the 30-year-old herself and covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present. In her stark, utterly honest and unflinching narrative, Jaycee opens up about what she experienced, including how she feels now, a year after being found. Garrido and his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes.]]> 273 Jaycee Dugard 1451629184 Emma 5 3.95 2011
author: Jaycee Dugard
name: Emma
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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First Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer claimed they found a dead body in the woods behind Spencer's house, only to have it vanish without a trace. Then, when the same woods went up in flames, they swore they saw someone who's supposed to be dead rise from the ashes. And even after all that, the pretty little liars are still playing with fire. Call me heartless, but it's about time someone shut these liars up for good. After all, nobody likes a girl who cries wolf—least of all me.]]> 274 Sara Shepard 0061566152 Emma 3 4.04 2010
author: Sara Shepard
name: Emma
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2011/10/10
date added: 2011/10/17
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