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Fresh Pick | HARRY POTTER (BOOKS 1-7) by J. K. Rowling
Fresh Pick / June 2, 2011

October 2007 On Sale: October 16, 2007 Featuring: Harry Potter; Ron Weasley; Hermione Wranger ISBN: 0545044251 EAN: 9780545044257 Hardcover $195.00  Add to Wish List Young Adult Adventure Buy at Amazon.com Time to re-read to prepare for final film Harry Potter Hardcover Boxed Set (Books 1-7) by J. K. Rowling These books are housed in a collectible trunk-like box with sturdy handles and privacy lock. Bonus decorative stickers are included in each boxed set. Book 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (1997) What did Harry Potter know about magic? He was stuck with the decidedly un-magical Dursleys, who hated him. He slept in a closet and ate their leftovers. But an owl messenger changes all that, with an invitation to attend the Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches, where it turns out Harry is already famous… Book 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998) When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been unleashed on the school. Book 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) For twelve long years, the dread fortress…

June’s YA Books & Meet Myra McEntire

If you’ve been looking for an engaging contemporary or an engrossing paranormal to take to the beach or the pool this summer, you are in luck. June is bursting out all over with both fun and frightening reads. Paranormal Reads There’s no shortage of books for lovers of a good fantasy themed novel, starting with HOURGLASS by Myra McEntire. Emerson can travel through time, which catches the attention of the mysterious Hourglass organization, and handsome Michael Weaver–who needs her for a task only she can accomplish. It’s a time travel book for people who don’t think they like time travel books–but do like mystery and suspense and romance. I caught up with author Myra McEntire to ask her about writing the book. RCM: Myra, I love this concept of this book. There’s time travel and romance and mystery all rolled together. How did you come up with this idea? Myra McEntire: I made it up as I went along. That sounds like a smart aleck answer, but it’s true! It was so freeing to follow the whims of the story/characters and see where it all led me. Of course, I had to rewrite the heck out of it several times…

Grace Burrowes | If I Could to Trade Places with My Characters…
Author Guest / June 2, 2011

The temptation to trade places with my heroine is great and the reason obvious: when the candles have been doused and the book closed, Emmie Farnum gets to end up with Devlin St. Just! The temptation to trade places with Devlin St. Just is even greater: He heals from a tremendous load of grief, pain, and heartache to find true love, a way back to the family who loves him, and a way forward to his happily ever afters. And then there’s Winnie… A happily ever after bestowed on a child has to rank right up there as one of the best things about crafting a novel. She also gets a dog of her own, and if early warnings are any indications, she’s soon to have her own pony too. But… I am the author, and so if I had to pick one character to be, it would be Lord Valentine Windham, whose job as a secondary character is love everybody in the story. This most closely approximates my role as author. I observe, as Lord Val observes. As he does, I ache for my story people as they suffer their travail, I yearn for their happiness and I do…