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"Always look on the bright side of death." Author:  Jules Howard It may be the topic about which we obsess most.   Maybe even more than sex.  You don’t have to scratch too far below the surface to find references – both overt and covert – to death in much of the media that we consume every day.  As everyone knows, “if it bleeds it leads”.  Furthermore, the natural human inclination to fear our own mortality was undoubtedly the primary driving force behind the founding of all our major religions.  It may seem like a stupid question, but what are we [...]

For Those About to Rock: You May Die Author: Meg Cabot Summer may be in full swing, but assistant dorm-director and now secretly engaged, Heather Wells is hardly getting a break. Fisher Hall (aka, the delightful Death Dorm) is getting a remodel to help with all that bad press, and student volunteers are taking full advantage of the building’s under-construction status for everything from Paint Ball wars to beer parties. Meanwhile, Heather’s unfaithful ex-boyfriend, and also her soon to be (unbeknownst) brother-in-law, Jordan Cartwright, is winging around with his fancy new wife in-tow, pop music star Tania Trace. When making [...]

Shopaholic Hits the Restart Button - Is Becky Coming Back? Author: Sophie Kinsella Still experiencing the fallout from her ruined Hollywood career and strained family relations, Becky Brandon’s hapless adventures in Wild West America continue in a tour of apologizes, forced secrets, and shopping shame in Shopaholic to the Rescue. The former Shopaholic turned temporary diva is back to being a wife and mother, realizing that everything is in a shambles right now because of her retreat from reality into the high life. Our normally spirited spender is down and out, torn between an angry mother and ex-best-friend turned frenemy. [...]