The Undertakers

Title: The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses Author: Ty Drago ISBN: 9781402247859 Pages: 465 pages Publisher/Date: Sourcebooks, Inc., c2011. Pratt was the neighborhood grouch. Somewhere in his seventies, he lived alone, kept to himself, and got pissed off more often and with less reason than anyone I’d ever met. “I’m talking to you, Ritter!” I [...]

A World Without Heroes

Title: A World Without Heroes Series: Beyonders #1 Author: Brandon Mull ISBN: 9781416997924 Pages: 454 pages Publisher/Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, c2011. He attempted to double back to the reading area, but could not find that, either. Instead, he came to a different open area, where the only furnishing [...]

The Throne of Fire

Title: The Throne of Fire Author: Rick Riordan ISBN: 9781423140566 Pages: 452 pages Publisher/Date: Hyperion Books, an imprint of Disney Book Group, c2011. If you didn’t listen to our first recording, well . . . pleased to meet you: the Egyptian gods are running around loose in the modern world; a bunch of magicians called [...]

Revolution

Title: Revolution Author: Jennifer Donnelly ISBN: 9780385737630 Pages: 482 pages Publisher/Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, c2010. I laugh out loud. “No, I’m not.” “No arguments, Andi. You’re coming to Paris and you’re taking your laptop with you. We’ll be there for three weeks. Plenty of time for you to work up [...]

Virals

Title: Virals Author: Kathy Reichs ISBN: 9781595143426 Pages: 456 pages Publisher/Date: Razorbill, c2010. Reviewed from ARC furnished by Traveling ARC Tours Release Date: Nov. 2, 2010 Since I realize ARCs (Advanced Reader Copy) are not the finalized book and can go through the editing process still, I figured I’d quote from GoodReads.com rather than the [...]

The Search for WondLa

Title: The Search for WondLa Author: Tony DiTerlizzi ISBN: 9781416983101 Pages: 477 pages Publisher/Date: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2010. Smoke wormed its way into the kitchen from under the door, carrying a nauseating stench of smoldering metal and melted plastic. Outside, Eva could hear a loud hum followed by a piercing sonic vibration. [...]

Peter and the Secret of Rundoon

Title: Peter and the Secret of Rundoon Author: Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Narrator: Jim Dale ISBN: 9781423338659 Pages: 482 pages Discs: 9 CDs, 11 hours Publisher/Date: Disney Editions Hyperion Books for Children, (Brillance Audio), c2007. Peter felt it on the outside of his right thigh just above the knee, a sharp pain like a bee [...]

The Help

Title: The Help Author: Kathryn Stockett Narrators: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and Cassandra Campbell ISBN: 9780143144182 Pages: 451 pages Discs: 15 CDs, about 18 hours Publisher/Date: Amy Einhorn Books, (Penguin Audio) c2009. “I want to interview you. About what it’s like to work as a maid.” [...] I turn and look at her. [...]

The Monstrumologist

Title: The Monstrumologist Author: Rick Yancey ISBN: 9781416984481 Pages: 454 pages Publisher/Date: Simon and Schuster, c2009. “Upon the table lay a young girl, her body partially concealed by the naked form wrapped around her, one massive leg thrown over her torso, an arm draped across her chest. Her white burial gown was stained with the [...]

Fire

Title: Fire Author: Kristin Cashore Series: The Seven Kingdoms Trilogy (Book #2) ISBN: 9780803734616 Pages: 461 pages Publisher/Date: Dial Books, c2009. Then one raptor high in the sky felt her, and then sighted her, and screamed a horrible sound, like metal screeching against metal. Fire knew what that sound meant, and so did the other [...]