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Meanwhile, Bruce is turning eighteen and about to inherit his family’s fortune, not to mention the keys to Wayne Enterprises and all the tech gadgetry his heart could ever desire. Amazon | Book Depository | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | iBooks I received a complimentary copy of this book as part of a blog tour hosted by Penguin Random House. Moreover, I feel like this book is pre-Gotham because of the ending that introduces us to another character who will be a huge part of Wayne’s life in this TV show. Also, her character reminds me of Batman’s later adversary, The Riddler, because of her dropping hints for him to solve that seems like what The Riddler does.

This first book of the Kitty Hawk Flying Detective Agency Series introduces Kitty Hawk, an intrepid teenage pilot with her own De Havilland Beaver seaplane and a nose for mystery and intrigue. It is a riveting tale that brings to glorious life the landscape and history of Alaska’s inside passage and Canada’s Yukon, as Kitty is caught up in an epic mystery set against the backdrop of the scenery of the Klondike Gold Rush. Iain Reading is the author of the Kitty Hawk Flying Detective Agency Series, a young adult series of adventure mystery stories. There are currently four books in the Kitty Hawk Flying Detective Agency Series: Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold (book 1), Kitty Hawk and the Hunt for Hemingway’s

In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. Amazon | Book Depository | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | iBooks I received this complimentary book from Crown Publishing in exchange for an honest review. I definitely don’t want to spoil anything good because I believe it’s for you to enjoy and decipher on your own. Also, I rarely read anymore, but I still want to give my hundred percent on reviews (and I also want to fully enjoy the book I’m reading).

When seventeen year-old Jasper is approached at the funeral of his deadbeat father by a man claiming to be an associate of his deceased parents, he’s thrust into a world of secrets tied to America’s history— The League of American Traitors is an association of historic traitors that has made America today. It’s simpler than that: I love history, but not in the old, awful, kill-me-now-please kind of way. While getting my graduate degree in History at Villanova, I realized that there was yet one more way to do this: write contemporary young adult books laced with history to convince my students that the past doesn’t have to be a life-sucking topic.