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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman

When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family.

Graceling
Kristin Cashore
In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, and is expected to carry out his dirty work, punnishing and torturing anyone who displeases him. Breaking arms and cutting off fingers are her stock-in-trade. Finding life under his rule increasingly unbearable Katsa forms an underground Council, whose purpose is to combat the destructive behavior of the seven kings - after all, the Middluns is only one of the seven kingdoms, and each of them is ruled its own king with his own personal agenda for power. When the Council hears that the King of Liend's father has been kidnapped Katsa investigates ...and stumbles across a mystery.

Sunborn (Chaos Chronicles #04)
Jeffrey Carver
John Bandicut and several aliens and artificial intelligences have been thrown together by a force greater than themselves to prevent cataclysmic disasters on an interstellar scale. Now, before they can take a break after a world-saving mission, they are pulled into a waystation that is being threatened by highly destructive gravity waves. The waves are part of a much larger problem. Something is causing stars to become unstable and go prematurely nova - they're being murdered. When the waystation is destroyed by the gravity waves, Bandicut and his crew barely escape on a jury-rigged ship. Their destination is a star nursery in the Orion Nebula, where sentient stars are being driven to destruction by an artificial intelligence bent on remaking the cosmos in its own image.

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Breaking Dawn
Twilight #4
Stephenie Meyer

Highly anticipated, Breaking Dawn is literally a matter of life or death. Meyer fans love the intense, almost obsessive nature of Bella's love for Edward. Life or Death, which will Bella chose?


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Ranger's Apprentice 8:
The Kings of Clonmel
John Flanagan

Hibernia is in turmoil. A religious cult calling themselves the Outsiders are sowing confusion and sedition, and five of the six Hibernian kingdoms have been undermined. Now the sixth, Clonmel, is in danger. Halt, Will and Horace set out to restore order. Can the secrets of Halt's past help them in their mission?

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Fave Rave (Reviewed by Mark)
Storm Dragon
James Wyatt
The Prophecies were old when humans first began to forge their civilisation. Said to give meaning to the past, guidance to the present and to predict the future- a future of the world's remaking- a future in which Gaven d'Lyrander has unwillingly become the most important player.
Scion to one of the great Dragonmark Houses, whose heirs have the chance to manifest a dragon-like birthmark of great power at puberty, Gaven spent most of his time exploring dark caves looking for valuable dragonshards in the depths of the earth. But in one dragonshard he found more then he or his House were looking for and it invaded his mind, filling him with the most intimate knowledge of the Prophecies a human had ever held. His resulting delirium escalated to all-out madness, and his ravings lead to exile from his House and a life sentence in the island prison of Dreadhold, where he manifested the highest and rarest potential of all Dragonmark Houses, a Siberys Mark.
While Gaven is all but lost in his own mind, a daring rescue springs both himself and his cell neighbour out to a higher calling. Now on the run, the verses of the Prophecies begin to find fulfilment and sanity begins to reclaim its hold on Gaven's mind. Now he must try to make sense of the visions that plague him waking and sleeping, and figure out the true intentions of his so called 'rescuers'. For Haldren, a general from the Last War and Gaven's former inmate, has joined forces with a Dragon who wishes to use the draconic prophecy to attain godhood.
The world of Eberron has been overlooked by most as just another generic medieval fantasy world made for players of Dungeons & Dragons. More...

Fave Rave (Reviewed by Steph)
The Witching Hour
Mayfair Witches #1

Neurosurgeon Rowan Mayfair unknowingly comes from an ancient family of witches (going back generations) whom have been both protected and haunted by an almost god-like figure named Lasher. Each generation, one witch takes Lasher's powers and they either thrive or are driven insane, depending on whether they are in control of Lasher, or he is in control of them. Rowan's mother was one of these witches and she is catatonic because of her madness. For her own protection, as a small child Rowan was taken from the tight knit family group in New Orleans, adopted out and made a life of her own in San Francisco. Rowan feels she has a special gift to heal patients at an almost cellular level, but after some of those patients died she worries that she also brings death. Then, when she is out sailing she rescues a drowning man, Michael Curry. They return to their own lives, but Michael is a changed man- he has a psychic power now that he didn't have before. He withdraws from everything, hiding in his home until one day he is given a file that is essentially the history of the Mayfair family by the current head of a secret organisation called the Talamasca who observe and record them. He is told that Rowan is the current heir of the family, but that she is completely unaware of this. Haunted by dreams and half memories he heads to his hometown of New Orleans, eventually finds Rowan, and their romance begins. Rowan is the strongest Mayfair witch to have been born (due basically to selective breeding and incest) and with the death of her mother she is supposed to be the next link with Lasher- who wants physical form and has special plans for her. Their meeting was no coincidence and Michael is required for Lasher's plans to come to fruitition. More...