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10 Billion Days & 100 Billion Nights

Writer: Ryu Mitsuse

U. S. Distributor: Viz Media

U. S. Release Date: Nov. 15th, 2011

Format: Novel / Hardback / 284 pages

Genre: Sci Fiction

Overall Personal Rating: A-

Similar titles: Cage of Zeus

What if our entire existence was directly controlled by a powerful being who made small tweaks to our path that will eventually lead directly to our own ruin? Would there be any chance for us to escape our fate or is this path the only one we could ever have been allowed to follow?

A Touch of Dead

Author: Charlaine Harris

Publisher: Ace Books/Berkeley Publishing Group

Copyright: October 2009

Format/Genre/Length: Novel/Fantasy/192 pages

Overall Personal Rating: A

The latest offering in the Southern Vampire Mystery series by Charlaine Harris, concerning the adventures and misadventures of telepath Sookie Stackhouse, is actually not a novel, but a book of short stories about our plucky heroine.  A Touch of Dead is its name, let’s see what’s inside.

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Title: Alien Vs Ninja

Writer: Seiji Chiba

Director: Seiji Chiba

American Publisher: Funimation Entertainment

American Release Date: February 22, 2011

Format: DVD film (81 minutes)

Genre: Science Fiction, Horror, Comedy

Rating: MA

Overall Personal Rating: B-

Blameless: Parasol Protectorate book 3

Author: Gail Carriger

Publisher: Orbit Books

American release date: September 1st 2010

Format/Genre/Length: Novel/Fantasy/374 pages

Publisher/Industry Age Rating: Older Teen

Overall Personal Rating: A

Similar series/titles to check out: the Sookie Stackhouse series; Kieli; Last Exile;

Soulless: Parasol Protectorate book 1 : Changeless: Parasol Protectorate book 2

Alexia Tarabotti thinks her life is hard enough living as a prenatural socialite in steampunk Victorian England – but when her werewolf husband kicks her out of their home, she loses her position in the Shadow Council, and there are evil mechanical ladybugs trying to kill her, things go from bad to unbearable. There’s only one option left to Alexia if she wants to stay alive – road trip to Italy, anyone?

Bridge to Terabithia

Author: Katherine Paterson

Publisher: HarperCollins

Copyright: 1972

Format/ Genre/Length: Novel/Juvenile Fiction/128 pages

Publisher/Industry Age Rating: 4-6 grade

Overall Personal Rating: A

Similar series or titles to check out: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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Title: Captivations (book one)

Author: Julie Hayes

Distributor: Wicked Nights

American release date: 11-12-11

Format, Genre and length: Electronic reader, Fantasy, 11 pages

Age Rating: Over 18

Overall Personal Rating: A-

Jillian arrives at Captivations, a club in New Orleans. She is there to do a job and not an ordinary job. It couldn’t be, after all, it involves vampires.

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Title: Cat Planet Cuties: Asobi ni Ikuyo! Complete Collection (Anime Review)

Director: Yooichi Ueda

Studio: AIC Plus+

U.S Distributor: Funimation

U. S. Release Date: 5/15/2012

Format and length: DVD/Blu-ray combo, 12 episodes + extra extended episode

Genre: Sci-Fi, Harem, Comedy, Action

Publisher/Industry Age Rating: M (Nudity)

Overall Personal: B+

Similar series or titles to check out: Negima, Love Hina, Martian Successor Nadesico

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Changeless: Parasol Protectorate book 2

Author: Gail Carriger

Publisher: Orbit Books

American release date: March 30th 2010

Format/Genre/Length: Novel/Fantasy/374 pages

Publisher/Industry Age Rating: Older Teen

Overall Personal Rating: A

Similar titles: Leviathan; Discworld; the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire novels; Souless:Parasol Protectorate book 1 ; Blameless:Parasol Protectorate book 3

When the supernatural aren’t feeling so supernatural anymore, Alexia Tarabotti will have to venture into the darkest depths of a most backwater land to find the truth, braving strange foods and insiduous in-laws at the same time – and that place is Scotland.

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-Title: Charlie Bone and the Red Knight

-Author: Jenny Nimmo

-Cover art: Chris Sheban

-American release date: May 4, 2010

- Genre: Fantasy

- Age Range: middle school, Juvenile

- Overall Personal Rating: A

- Similar series or titles to check out:  All the Charlie Bone books especially Charlie Bone and the Shadow-book 7, Spiderwick Chronicles

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-Title: Charlie Bone and the Shadow (Book)

-Author: Jenny Nimmo

-Release date: 2008

-Genre: Fantasy Book

-Target Age: Juvenile

- Overall Personal Rating: B

-“In the Radius”: A Wrinkle in Time, all the books in the Charlie Bone series

Written by Guest Author, Emma

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Coraline

Director: Henry Selick

American DVD Release Date: July 21, 2009

Format: DVD 1hr 41mins

Genre: Fantasy

Age Rating: PG

Overall Personal Rating: A

Similar Titles: The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Corpse Bride.

Coraline discovers a fantastic world created just for her!  It takes elements from her real house and neighbors, and makes them “better.”  It seems fantastic until she then discovers the price for this perfect world.

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Dead and Gone

Author: Charlaine Harris

Publisher: Ace Books, New York

Release Date: May 2009

Format: Novel/312 pages

Genre: Fantasy

Overall Personal Rating: A

For as long as she can remember, Sookie Stackhouse has been able to read the minds of the people around her.  At first, she assumed everyone could, but she soon learned that this was not the case, that other people didn’t have her particular skill.  Or disability, as she came to consider it, for more often then not, this penchant for reading minds has gotten Sookie into a world of trouble.  But, at the same time, it has also proven to be a valuable asset, at least to some people.  It all depends upon which side your piece of bread is buttered.

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Dead In The Family

Author: Charlaine Harris

Publisher: Ace Books/Berkely Publishing

American release date:  May 2010

Format/Genre/Length: Novel/Fantasy/311 pages

Overall Personal Rating: A

Well, all good things must come to an end, right?  Thus the time has come for Amelia to go back New Orleans, an exit probably sped up in the bloody aftermath of the devastating Fae Wars.  Not that the witch blames Sookie for the death of her werewolf lover, but still . . . she just needs to get away from Bon Temps and its memories, back to her own home, to help rebuild.  Which leaves Sookie alone.  But not for long  . . .

Doctor Who: 100

Author: Paul Cornell, Jacqueline Rayner, Robert Shearman, Joseph Lidster

Publisher: Big Finish Productions

Original Release Date: September 30th 2007

Format: Audioplay / Genre: Sci-Fi

Age Rating: PG

Overall Personal Rating: A

Similar Titles: Doctor Who & The Pirates; Doctor Who: Real Time

With these four stand-alone stories featuring the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe, each celebrating in its own way the one hundredth release of Big Finish, listeners will be hard-pressed not to find at least something to enjoy.

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Doctor Who: Dreamtime  

Author: Simon A. Forward

Publisher: Big Finish Productions

Original Release Date: March 2005

Format: Audioplay / Genre: Sci-Fi

Age Rating: PG-13

Overall Personal  Rating: B

Similar Titles: Unregenerate!; The Dark Husband; Colditz

In what has become typical for any Who companion’s opening entry, Hex’s first go in the TARDIS with the Doctor and Ace isn’t looking to be an easy ride. And when the Doctor goes missing, all bets are off – and that includes how much sense the story makes.

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Doctor Who: The Condemned  

Author: Eddie Robson

Publisher: Big Finish Productions

Original Release Date: February 28th 2008

Format: Audioplay / Genre: Sci-fi

Industry Rating: PG-13

Overall Personal Rating: B+

Similar Titles: The Raincloud Man; Brotherhood of the Daleks; Patient Zero

Charley Pollard is back in the TARDIS, only instead of the Eighth Doctor, it’s the Sixth Doctor – and he hasn’t even met her yet. Whoops? There’s no time to consider possible paradoxes – naturally, there’s a mystery afoot, and Charley and the Doctor will have to solve a murder before they can figure out what to do with each other.

Doctor Who: The Dimension Riders

Author: Daniel Blythe

Publisher: Virgin Publishing Ltd

American release date: November 18th 1994 (UK street date)

Format/Genre/Length: Novel/Sci-Fi/256 pages

Publisher/Industry Age Rating: Older Teen/16+

Overall Personal Rating: B

Similar series/titles to check out: Lucifer Rising, The Dying Days, Blood Heat

Ghost soldiers, mysterious assassins, major mix-ups in the time stream and a diabolical college professor. All in a day’s work for the Doctor – that is, until he discovers the identity of the creature that is pushing through the time/space fabric to hunt him down. Now that is a twist.

Doctor Who: The Quantum Archangel  

Author: Craig Hinton

Publisher: BBC Books

Original Release Date: February 8 2001

Type: Sci-Fi

Rating: PG-13

Overall Personal Rating: B+

Similar Titles: Synthespians, Time’s Champion, Millennial Rites

The Chronovores are back, and this time no one is safe. In this pseudo-sequel to the Third Doctor serial The Time Monster, Craig Hinton throws readers into a mess of possible worlds in which Who newbies should fear to tread.

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Doctor’s Orders

Author: Diane Duane

Publisher: Simon & Shuster

Original Release Date: June 1990

Format: Light Novel / Genre: Sci-Fi

Age Rating: Teen/PG-13

Overall Personal Rating: B

Similar Titles: Spock’s World

When everyone’s favorite physician Bones takes control of the Enterprise on a routine mission, he finds that filling the shoes of James Kirk isn’t as easy as it seems. With Kirk gone missing, Starfleet on his back, and Klingons to boot, Bones is starting to regret leaving Sickbay. . .

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