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Megan Shepherd, author of The Madman's Daughter

Sixteen-year-old Juliet Moreau has built a life for herself in London --- working as a maid, attending church on Sundays, and trying not to think about the scandal that ruined her life. After all, no one ever proved the rumors about her father's gruesome experiments. But when she learns he is alive and continuing his work on a remote tropical island, she is determined to find out if the accusations are true.

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Teri Terry, author of Slated

Kyla has been Slated --- her memory and personality erased as punishment for committing a crime she can’t remember. The government has taught her how to walk and talk again, given her a new identity and a new family and told her to be grateful for this second chance that she doesn’t deserve. It’s also her last chance --- because they’ll be watching to make sure she plays by their rules.

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January 2013

Happy New Year, everyone! We hope that 2013 is off to a wonderful start for you after a relaxing and reflective holiday season. While we always look forward to the new year ahead, we’re especially excited about the start of this one, as 2013 will mark FaithfulReader.com’s 10th full year! (We officially launched the site in December 2003.) We’ve loved sharing news with you over the years about Christian and faith-based books and authors, and we’ll continue to do this as best we can through reviews, interviews, study guides, special features, contests and more.

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Nobody

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Caroline Osborn

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Caroline Osborn

No one notices Claire. All of her classmates write the same meaningless platitudes in her yearbook. She can’t get the attention of salespeople. When she was little, her parents kept a note taped to the back door with her name written on it to remind them that they had a daughter; they kept forgetting her at the park. With this tragic portrait that perhaps reminds readers of their worst days of high school, Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ NOBODY begins. Read More

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Sixteen-year-old Claire has been invisible her whole life, missed by the Institute's monitoring. But now they've ID'ed her and sent 17-year-old Nix to remove her. Yet the moment he lays eyes on her, he can't make the hit. It's as if Claire and Nix are the only people in the world for each other. And they are --- because no one else can really see them.

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Sixteen-year-old Claire has been invisible her whole life, missed by the Institute's monitoring. But now they've ID'ed her and sent 17-year-old Nix to remove her. Yet the moment he lays eyes on her, he can't make the hit. It's as if Claire and Nix are the only people in the world for each other. And they are --- because no one else can really see them.

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There are people in this world who are Nobody. No one sees them. No one notices them. They live their lives under the radar, forgotten as soon as you turn away. 

That's why they make the perfect assassins.

The Institute finds these people when they're young and takes them away for training. But an untrained Nobody is a threat to their organization. And threats must be eliminated.

Sixteen-year-old Claire has been invisible her whole life, missed by the Institute's monitoring. But now they've ID'ed her and sent 17-year-old Nix to remove her. Yet the moment he lays eyes on her, he can't make the hit. It's as if Claire and Nix are the only people in the world for each other. And they are --- because no one else can really see them.

Lemony Snicket

Waiting is one of life's hardships.

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Lemony Snicket

Hokey Pokey by Jerry Spinelli

Welcome to Hokey Pokey. A place and a time, when childhood is at its best: games to play, bikes to ride, experiences to be had. There are no adults in Hokey Pokey, just kids, and the laws governing Hokey Pokey are simple and finite. But when one of the biggest kids, Jack, has his beloved bike stolen --- and by a girl, no less --- his entire world, and the world of Hokey Pokey, turns to chaos. Without his bike, Jack feels like everything has started to go wrong. He feels different, not like himself, and he knows something is about to change. And even more troubling he alone hears a faint train whistle. But that's impossible: every kid knows there no trains in Hokey Pokey, only tracks.

Master storyteller Jerry Spinelli has written a dizzingly inventive fable of growing up and letting go, of leaving childhood and its imagination play behind for the more dazzling adventures of adolescence, and of learning to accept not only the sunny part of day, but the unwelcome arrival of night, as well.

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January 16, 2013

Book Things to Look Forward to in 2013

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By Maureen Linehan, Liz Kossnar, and Alina Berganovsky
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Since we all survived the apocalypse, we figured we might as well celebrate our successful entry into 2013! While 2012 had some pretty great moments, there’s so much to look forward to as the New Year gets underway – especially book-related things.

Author Talk: Julie Klassen, author of The Tutor's Daughter

Jan 16, 2013

With her successful historical novels, Julie Klassen has helped to open up the Regency era to readers of inspirational fiction. In her latest effort, THE TUTOR'S DAUGHTER, Emma Smallwood and her father have come to the Cornish coast to tutor the youngest sons of a baronet --- but all is not as it seems. In this interview, Klassen talks about the influence of Jane Austen on her work, why readers respond so readily to her books, and the strange presence of palm trees in England.

Wendy Lawless, author of Chanel Bonfire: A Memoir

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James Russell Lowell

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.

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James Russell Lowell