BOOK BLAST & $50 GIVEAWAY: PARIS CRAVINGS by Kimberley Montpetit

Paris Cravings by Kimberley Montpetit

Can life really turn on a dime,
a missed bus—
or a stuck pastry shop door?

Chloe Dillard’s life has always been complicated. Her mother is a neurotic romance novelist and her boyfriend, Mathew, has been pressuring her to go “all the way”.

But after The Worst Night of Her Life, Chloe escapes on her Senior Class trip to the swoon-worthy city of Paris which takes her mind off her troubles—temporarily. On the final leg of her dream trip, Chloe squeezes in one final run for a last-minute box of decadent pastries. Add a stuck door, subtract a broken four-inch heel from her cute strappy sandals, and Chloe ends up one stuck girl on the bakery shop floor with a sprained ankle.

Rescued by the shop owner’s dreamy son with chocolate-syrup eyes, the beautiful city of Paris suddenly becomes Chloe’s personal secret adventure. And even though Jean-Paul, the oh-so-kind La Patisserie shop boy is the gentlemanly guy Chloe has always dreamed of, even he has a girlfriend.

The police are tracking her down as a run-away, Mom’s having a nervous breakdown over her daughter’s “disappearance”, and Chloe’s just trying to have a Happily-Ever-After even as her dreams with Matt are swirling down the drain.

Could being lost in the city of Paris be just what the doctor ordered? What’s a girl to do in the most romantic city in the world?

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Praise for Paris Cravings:

"PARIS CRAVINGS is such a fun read, I couldn't put it down! This is a humorous, delicious, and dreamy romance set in Paris about pastries, growing up, dating, and making those hard decisions about the kind of guy you want to be with, and who is best for you." ~Milyssa Rivera

"Who can resist a book set in Paris amidst a Patisserie shop full of eclairs and pastries?! I'm excited this is a series, because anything with a bakery involved and I am in! Paris Cravings started out with a girl, a big box, some high heels and a mishap with a door. Insert cute worker with Hershey brown eyes, a French accent and a missing passport and you have the beginnings of romance." ~Fire & Ice Blogger

Excerpt:

Dear Diary:

I have a confession to make: I’ve become a total idiot over French pastries.

They’re my new favorite food.

My new-found edible souvenir.

My new favorite sin.

Drizzled chocolate, sugar-dusted raspberries, flaky crusts with perfect crimped edges. I’ll have to run a marathon when I get back home to New York just to burn off my new five pounds. French beignets are the worst temptation. Those yeasty chocolate-filled pastries call to me the way Prada handbags call to my mother from Fifth Avenue.

Dunkin Donuts—so yesterday.

Climbing the Eiffel tower, running through miles of hallways at the Louvre Museum, gourmet lunches on the Seine River . . . yes, those are all must-sees . . . if you don’t mind vertigo-dizzying heights and enough paintings to saturate your brain for the rest of your life.

But once I discovered La Patisserie, the rest of Paris became a mere backdrop for my guilty pleasure. What’s a girl to do?

Kimberley Montpetit

Kimberley Montpetit once spent all her souvenir money at the La Patisserie shops when she was in Paris—on the arm of her adorable husband. The author grew up in San Francisco, another swoon-worthy city, loves all things Parisian and chocolate and lives in a small town along the Rio Grande with her family.

Kimberley has won many awards for her work, including the Southwest Book Award, the Whitney Award, the Arizona/New Mexico Book Award, is a Crystal Kite Finalist (SCBWI) and included in the Bank Street College Best Books of the Year.

She once stayed in a haunted castle tower room at Borthwick Castle in Scotland, sailed on the Seine in Paris, walked the beaches of Normandy, eaten in numerous French cafes, ridden a camel in Petra, Jordan, sunbathed on Waikiki, shopped the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, and spent the night in an old Communist hotel in Bulgaria.

She adores all baked goodies; brownies, éclairs, donuts, tarts, and pie, and makes a lot of chocolate chip cookies while revising.

Kimberley is, of course, hard at work on her next novel(s).

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REVIEW: ALIENATED (Alienated, #1) by Melissa Landers

Title: Alienated

Series: Alienated, #1

Author: Melissa Landers

Publisher: Disney Hyperion

Publication Date: February 4, 2014

Genres: YA, Sci-fi, Romance

Reviewed by: Angie Edwards

My rating: 5/5

SUMMARY

Two years ago, the aliens made contact. Now Cara Sweeney is going to be sharing a bathroom with one of them. 

Handpicked to host the first-ever L’eihr exchange student, Cara thinks her future is set. Not only does she get a free ride to her dream college, she’ll have inside information about the mysterious L’eihrs that every journalist would kill for. Cara’s blog following is about to skyrocket.

Still, Cara isn’t sure what to think when she meets Aelyx. Humans and L’eihrs have nearly identical DNA, but cold, infuriatingly brilliant Aelyx couldn’t seem more alien. She’s certain about one thing, though: no human boy is this good-looking.

But when Cara's classmates get swept up by anti-L'eihr paranoia, Midtown High School suddenly isn't safe anymore. Threatening notes appear in Cara's locker, and a police officer has to escort her and Aelyx to class. 

Cara finds support in the last person she expected. She realizes that Aelyx isn’t just her only friend; she's fallen hard for him. But Aelyx has been hiding the truth about the purpose of his exchange, and its potentially deadly consequences. Soon Cara will be in for the fight of her life—not just for herself and the boy she loves, but for the future of her planet.

REVIEW

Fans of Eileen Cook and Claire Lazebnik, add this book to your to-read list asap! I know, I know, neither of those authors have written anything remotely science-fiction-y, but think of this as their writing style and humor with sci-fi elements mixed in. Ahhh, now that sounds more like your cup of tea, right? Well, I certainly was surprised by how much I ended up enjoying this book. My argument was that anything with such a jaw-dropping cover can’t possibly have a great story to match. I now humbly admit that I was so, so wrong.

I’m actually glad that this is only the first book in a series, because I definitely want to read more about Cara, Aelyx, the L’eihrs, and how the heck they’re going to be able to establish an alliance between earth and L’eihr after they messed up the fragile trust between these two planets so spectacularly. I, personally, wouldn’t want to live on Leihr because everything there seems to be grey, brown, and...bland. And emotionless clones. Generations of them. In stark contrast to earth’s vibrant colors, emotions, freedom, and the right to live your life any way you choose, Leihr’s improved technology, cool gadgets, and medical advancements are the only things I found interesting about that drab planet. No matter what my personal outlook of L’eihr is, though, I have to hand it to the author for creating another way of life that is as alien in its ways, systems, and beliefs, as the realization for world peace is to us.

But, this is after all a love story, and not War of the Worlds (although that could become a possibility in later books, I suppose). Anyhoo, everyone knows Cara and Aelyx is going to fall in love somewhere along the way, right? So, of course this happens, but what made me enjoy their developing romance is the way it gradually evolved into I-can’t-live-without-you love instead of I-want-to-rip-off-your-clothes lust. Even though they fall in love little by little, there was nothing cheesy or overtly about it. Pretty much just your standard romance you’ll find in most YA books, but without the mush.

What the story lacks in new and refreshing romance, it makes up for with two strong protagonists and a well-imagined plot loaded with conflict. Visually Alienated would make a great tv series or movie, and I especially appreciated the finer details in the differing contrasts between our world and life on L’eihr.  The debate Aelyx and Cara had at one stage sharing their conflicting points of view on freedom and democracy provided me with food for thought. The argument was refreshing and I admittedly favored Aelyx’s opinion because – if you really think about it – he has a few valid points. Their banter and Cara’s thoughts are loaded with humor that endeared her to me even more than the fact that she oozes self-confidence; and although she’s not the most popular student at school, she shines academically.

I enjoyed this book for various reasons; only some of which I shared here. Alienated is a unique read and is as entertaining on the inside as the cover is visually stimulating on the outside. Fans of romance and sci-fi would find a lot to love about this book, and although it doesn’t hold a candle to other romance novels in this same genre, it is still a unique and memorable read.

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Melissa Landers is a former teacher who left the classroom to pursue other worlds. A proud sci-fi geek, she isn’t afraid to wear her Princess Leia costume in public—just ask her husband and three kids. She lives just outside Cincinnati and writes adult contemporary romance as Macy Beckett.

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REVIEW: ELEANOR & PARK by Rainbow Rowell

Title: Eleanor & Park

Author: Rainbow Rowell

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Publication Date: February 26, 2013

Genre: YA, Contemporary Romance

Reviewed by: Angie Edwards

My rating: 5/5

SUMMARY

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, ELEANOR AND PARK is the story of two star-crossed misfits – smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love – and just how hard it pulled you under.

REVIEW

Seven reasons why you should consider reading Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell:

Two magnificent protagonists

Why is that? Well, how often do you come across an overweight girl character with crazy frizzy candy-apple-red hair, so many freckles she even have them on her bottom lip, and who dresses like a boy? Not often, right? Well, that is Eleanor in a nutshell. Now imagine the aforementioned protagonist being considered the biggest (literally) loser in school, often bullied and ridiculed, and then on top of that she eventually falls in love with the semi-popular Asian boy whom – for the first few chapters – she thinks of as “the stupid Asian kid”. 

“The stupid Asian kid” aka Park 

If you’ve never thought an Asian guy can be romantic, soft-spoken, handsome as heck, considerate, and caring, then you have to read this book just so you can meet comic-loving Park. Trust me, he alone makes this book worth it.

It takes you back to the eighties 

Memory lane, anyone? Admittedly, I’m more a child of the nineties and hardly remember anything about the eighties, but living in a third-world country everything here is five years behind the rest of the world anyway, so we experienced most of the eighties in the nineties. There’s a treasure trove of eighties pop culture in this novel which took me back to my childhood.

Park’s family 

This is one of the best, and most realistic families I’ve ever come across in YA literature. I absolutely love his mom! And I’m positive you’ll love her too. She played a huge role in keeping me with my nose glued to the pages of this book. She’s hilarious and sweet and practically everything a mom should be (in her own strange way). Park’s dad and younger brother are also great characters, but his mom is the one who shines in all her scenes. She and Park has the weirdest, but most endearing, relationship.

Eleanor’s family 

Every chapter that dealt with Eleanor’s life at home was heartbreaking and hard to read. I wished with all my heart I could take her and her siblings away from there. Like Park’s family, Eleanor’s is uniquely different, and the exact opposite of the structured, yet carefree life at Park’s house. Her mom is being abused by Richie, Eleanor’s stepdad, and Eleanor and her four siblings live in such squalor I can only commend the author for her fearlessness in creating such a background for Eleanor which must’ve been just as heartbreaking for Ms Rowell to write, as it was for me to read. You think you’ve read about poverty in other YA books? I’m positive those were nothing compared to Eleanor’s family. Imagine a toothbrush and a bar of soap being a luxury. Imagine having only a few sets of clothes, all of it purchased from Goodwill. How about sharing one tiny bedroom with all four your siblings, and the bathroom not having a door that can close or lock? I cried through most of this book. Seriously

Phenomenal, realistic, messy romance 

Here’s the thing: I knew, when I started reading this book, that it is a romance. I was prepared for it going in. After all, I had to see why everybody is raving about this book! What I wasn’t prepared for was Park hating Eleanor at first sight; of him being embarrassed of her and trying to avoid her wherever he can. What I didn’t expect was how much I wanted them to fall in love. I was not prepared – and really, I didn’t see it coming – for how hard, and real, and complicated, their relationship was going to be. I’ve never read romance like this before.

The writing 

Where do I even start? I’m not a fan of romance, but Ms Rowell might make a fan of me yet. The prose is stunning! It’s actually really simple and straightforward, but the raw emotions she captures so exquisitely in a few words, is striking. I was enamored by all of it because it’s not just a simple, straightforward love story (even though the writing is). It’s complicated, and beleaguered by Eleanor’s situation at home, her stepfather, and her self-deprecating personality, and many other factors.

I didn’t have high expectations going into Eleanor & Park, but now Ms Rainbow Rowell can count me as another one of her myriad adoring fans. The ending, and sometimes Eleanor’s persistent insecurities and stubbornness to keep Park at arm’s length, didn’t do much for me. But everything else in this breathtaking poignant read more than made up for it. Although I’d recommend this book to every single hardcore romance fanatic out there, I also insist that it should be read by everyone with a compassionate heart. It’s not only the romance that makes this an epic novel, but also every minute detail that went into creating the most realistic characters and Eleanor’s family life, that makes this a magnificently worthwhile read.  If you cry easily, keep a box of tissues handy. You’ll undoubtedly need it.

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Rainbow Rowell writes books. Sometimes she writes about adults (ATTACHMENTS and LANDLINE). Sometimes she writes about teenagers (ELEANOR & PARK and FANGIRL). But she always writes about people who talk a lot. And people who feel like they're screwing up. And people who fall in love.

When she's not writing, Rainbow is reading comic books, planning Disney World trips and arguing about things that don't really matter in the big scheme of things.

She lives in Nebraska with her husband and two sons.

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BOOKS ON MY WISHLIST FOR 2014!

Title: Saving Lucas Biggs

Authors: Marisa de los Santos & David Teague

Expected Publication Date: April 29, 2014

Publisher: HarperCollins

SUMMARY

Perfect for fans of Margaret Peterson Haddix, When You Reach Me, andSavvy, this charming time-travel story from husband-and-wife team Marisa de los Santos and David Teague follows one girl's race to change the past in order to save her father's future.

Thirteen-year-old Margaret knows her father is innocent, but that doesn't stop the cruel Judge Biggs from sentencing him to death. Margaret is determined to save her dad, even if it means using her family's secret—and forbidden—ability to time travel. With the help of her best friend, Charlie, and his grandpa Josh, Margaret goes back to a time when Judge Biggs was a young boy and tries to prevent the chain of events that transformed him into a corrupt, jaded man. But with the forces of history working against her, will Margaret be able to change the past? Or will she be pushed back to a present in which her father is still doomed?

Told in alternating voices between Margaret and Josh, this heartwarming story shows that sometimes the forces of good need a little extra help to triumph over the forces of evil.

  

Title: The Last Changeling

Series: Faerie Revolutions, #1

Author: Chelsea Pitcher

Expected Publication Date: November 8, 2014

Publisher: Flux

SUMMARY

Seventeen-year-old Taylor’s given up on happiness. He’s just trying to survive. Haunted by his brother’s death and pushed around at school, he spends his days searching for a quiet moment of peace, until he meets Elora. The enigmatic runaway gives him a hope he’s never had—the hope of truly connecting with another human being. 

But the daughter of the Unseelie Queen has different plans for Taylor. Born into a world of corruption and war, Elora is determined to free her people from her mother’s tyranny. If she can gain the allegiance of the Seelie Queen, her mother’s loathed enemy, she and her rebels can crush the Dark Court and bring equality to Faerie. But to do that, she’ll need a proper offering . . . 

A human.

To steal a mortal, Elora must become a mortal—at least, by all appearances. And infiltrating Taylor’s high school is surprisingly easy. But as she becomes entangled in his world, Elora realizes something startling: inequality in the human world isn’t so different from inequality in Faerie. Students are bullied, ostracized and attacked for being different. And just like she did in Faerie, she begins gathering up the outcasts, encouraging them to take back the school. Now Elora has two rebellions on her hands: a quickly mounting mutiny in Faerie, and a mortal uprising inspired by the boy she’s destined to betray.

Title: They All Fall Down

Author: Roxanne St. Claire

Expected Publication Date: October 14, 2014

Publisher: Delacorte Press

SUMMARY

Pretty Little Liars meets Final Destination in this YA psychological thriller that will have readers' hearts racing right till the very end!

Every year, the lives of ten girls at Vienna High are transformed.

All because of the list.

Kenzie Summerall can't imagine how she's been voted onto a list of the hottest girls in school, but when she lands at number five, her average life becomes dazzling. Doors open to the best parties, new friends surround her, the cutest jock in school is after her.

This is the power of the list. If you're on it, your life changes.

If you're on it this year? Your life ends.

Title: Very Bad Things

Author: Susan McBride

Expected Publication Date: October 14, 2014

Publisher: Delacorte Press

SUMMARY

Katie never thought she'd be the girl with the popular boyfriend. She also never thought he would cheat on her-but the proof is in the photo that people at their boarding school can't stop talking about. Mark swears he doesn't remember anything. But Rose, the girl in the photo, is missing, and Mark is in big trouble. Because it looks like Rose isn't just gone…she's dead.

Maybe Mark was stupid, but that doesn't mean he's a killer.

Katie needs to find out what really happened, and her digging turns up more than she bargained for, not just about Mark but about someone she loves like a sister: Tessa, her best friend. At Whitney Prep, it's easy to keep secrets…especially the cold-blooded kind.

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GUEST REVIEW: ENFORCER (Hayle Coven, #18) by Patti Larsen

Title: Enforcer

Series: Hayle Coven, #18

Author: Patti Larsen

Publisher: Self-published

Publication Date: June 2013

Genres: YA, Paranormal

Reviewed by: Ellen Fritz

Source: From author for review

Ellen’s rating: 5/5

SUMMARY

Conclave approaches, a full two months after Syd’s twenty-first birthday. With no husband decision in sight, she instead focuses on the gathering of witches come from the four corners of the globe to debate and create law. Her plan to scour all of witchdom for Brotherhood influence encourages Miriam to open the proceedings to every magical race. But, in doing so, she leaves the door gaping for the enemy to come knocking...

REVIEW

With a witch conclave, open to other magical races this time to organize, the council is adamant that Syd should get her marriage over and done with. The problem is which of her suitors to choose? In the mean time the conclave presents the perfect opportunity for the Brotherhood to strike.

Enforcer is yet another Hayle Coven novel that I simply couldn't put down. Although Syd is between a rock and a hard place where her impending marriage is concerned, the author doesn't spend too much time describing Syd's anxiety. Apart from a nightmare or two, a few thoroughly poignant moments with Quaid, and the odd stray thought about who to choose as her life partner, Syd gets on with her never-a-dull-moment existence. Fortunately the drama surrounding the conclave distinguishes the men from the boys for Syd.

The snarky, often hilariously funny teen Syd used to be, has become a more serious, sometimes irritable, no-nonsense adult with a strong sense of responsibility. In this book she is forced to betray an old friend, has to join forces with an enemy, and must make the very difficult choice of future husband. 

With Liander Belaisle's influence penetrating every magical race like a really nasty computer virus, Syd and those close to her must be extra vigilant to spot and eradicate such influence immediately. Although she has her friends and family to support her, as well as the vampire, sidhe and demon parts of her soul giving their input, Syd must make her own decisions while not being driven crazy by said input and support.

In Enforcer battles are fought, lives are lost, and here and there people are released from Belaisle's insidious influence. This however seems to be just the beginning of what must become the ultimate fight between the Brotherhood and all those who will perish should the Brotherhood prevail.

Anybody who likes paranormal fiction with a touch of the romantic and lots of action will love this book. I would, however, advise readers to read the first seventeen books in the Hayle Coven series first before reading Enforcer.

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ABOUT the AUTHOR

My official bio reads like this: Patti Larsen is an award-winning middle grade and young adult author with a passion for the paranormal. But that sounds so freaking formal, doesn't it? I'm a storyteller who hears teenager's voices so loud I have to write them down. I love sports even though they don't love me. I've dabbled in everything from improv theater to film making and writing TV shows, singing in an all girl band to running my own hair salon.

But always, always, writing books calls me home.

I've had my sights set on world literary domination for a while now. Which means getting my books out there, to you, my darling readers. It's the coolest thing ever, this job of mine, being able to tell stories I love, only to see them all shiny and happy in your hands... thank you for reading.

As for the rest of it, I'm short (permanent), slightly round (changeable) and blonde (for ever and ever). I love to talk one on one about the deepest topics and can't seem to stop seeing the big picture. I happily live on Prince Edward Island, Canada, home to Anne of Green Gables and the most beautiful red beaches in the world, with my very patient husband and four massive cats.

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REVIEW: THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE by Neil Gaiman

Title: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Author: Neil Gaiman

Publisher: William Morrow

Publication Date: June 18, 2013

Genres: Fantasy, Horror

Reviewed by: Angie Edwards

My rating: 4/5

SUMMARY

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

REVIEW

“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren’t.”

I almost gave up on this book, but luckily for me once I got to 25% the story started drawing me in. As much as I enjoyed it, I have to admit that I didn’t grasp the message I’m positive is buried in there somewhere. Yet I can’t argue that this was an unforgettable read that thrilled me and simultaneously sent shivers down my spine.

I was a seven-year-old boy, and my feet were scratched and bleeding. I had just wet myself. And the thing that floated above me was huge and greedy, and it wanted to take me to the attic, and when it tired of me it would make my daddy kill me.

I honestly don’t have much to say about this novel. I was, again, utterly impressed with Gaiman’s imaginative writing and the mesmerizing, yet darkly terrifying, world to which he transports the reader. Sadly, I couldn’t get a hold on any of the characters, but I was just as terrified by Ursula Monkton as our seven-year-old protagonist was of her.

Ursula Monkton smiled and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crackling air. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.

I haven’t yet read Gaiman’s Coraline, but I have seen Tim Burton’s interpretation of it, and thus I can safely say that, bar the adult content, this book has the same feel to it that Coraline has. This is something Gaiman does particularly well. Scaring the heck out of the reader. I wanted to be away from the monster, and like the MC, I felt safe with Lettie Hempstock and her mother, Ginnie, and Lettie’s grandmother. Now any author who can continuously, chapter after chapter, make me feel the same fear the main character feels, is an author worth his salt. And let me tell you, Ursula Monkton is not the only monster to fear in this book.

Ursula Monkton was an adult. It did not matter, at that moment, that she was every monster, every witch, every nightmare made flesh. She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.

Though the eighties and nineties are closer to what I remember of my childhood, Gaiman also manages to take me down memory lane to my own childhood. Of course, my childhood experiences doesn’t include anything as remotely frightening as what the narrator briefly experienced as a seven-year-old, but still I could identify with some of his daily rituals.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

All in all, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was less impressive than I thought it would be and the characters didn’t invoke any of the feels I was looking for. Still, it was a unique experience and lived up to my expectations of infinite creativity and incongruity which I’ve grown accustomed to finding in a Neil Gaiman book. I would recommend this exceptional book to anyone looking for a mind-tingling read!

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Neil Gaiman has written highly acclaimed books for both children and adults. He has won many major awards, including the Hugo and the Nebula, and his novel The Graveyard Book is the only work to ever win both the Newbery (US) and Carnegie (UK) Medals. His books for readers of all ages include the bestselling Coraline, also an Academy Award-nominated film; Odd and the Frost Giants; and The Wolfs in the Walls. Originally from England, Gaiman now lives in the United States.

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