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One night near the beginning of sixth grade, Ellie’s mom unexpectedly brings home a surly teenage boy, who turns out to be Ellie’s curmudgeon grandfather, Melvin.  Melvin is a scientist (some in the scientific community think he’s a kook), but as it happens, Melvin has discovered a genetic formula to reverse the effects of aging and is now 13 again.  Despite the palpable tension between Ellie’s divorced, thirty-something mother and her now-teenage father, Ellie embraces the chance to really get to know her grandfather.  Ellie discovers that she has quite a bit in common with Melvin (more than she does with her artistic parents), and herRead More →

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K.A. Harrington‘s Forget Me is a decent little mystery with a dash of romance thrown in for good measure.  Set in a small New England town, aptly named River’s End, the mystery surrounding a doppelganger for a murdered young man unravels at a measured pace until the very end when the secrets, lies, and motives are exposed in one high-stakes altercation on the top of the town’s waterfall. Three months ago, Morgan’s secretive, moody boyfriend Flynn was killed in an unsolved hit-and-run accident on a dark road outside River’s End’s long shuttered family amusement park.  Morgan is still reeling from the loss of her firstRead More →