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Title: Duck Boy Publisher: Biting Duck Press 294 pages Genre: Sci fi, YA This title is due to be released on October 20, 2012 .  I received an electronic ARC of this book through netgalley.com   Synopsis:  Steve is a 14 year old boy whose mom disappears. The police are called in and conclude that she has left the family – run away. Everything falls apart for him after that. School is a disaster--he's failing his classes, and ever since an ill-fated attempt to save a bird from a frozen pond, bullies call him "Duck Boy." During the first Christmas since his mother’s disappearance, Steve’s dad has to travel for work, just to keep his job, and Steve is forced to stay with his Great Aunt Shannon. Aunt Shannon introduces Steve to alchemy, and shows him that alchemy may have caused his mother's disappearance. Then his great aunt disappears while she is experimenting. Steve begins his own experiments, and finds his philosophers stone, and through an accident dis...

Title: Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert Publisher: Penguin Books 395 Pages Genre: Gothic Thriller Synopsis: When Gabriel Blackstone, a computer hacker and information thief, is asked to investigate the disappearance of a friend's stepson, he encounters two extraordinary sisters. Minnaloushe and Morrighan Monk are obsessed with alchemy and the ancient art of Memory, and soon Gabriel is caught up in their complex world, risking his own life. Review: I have been meaning to read this book for a while but after seeing all types of promos for a movie of the same name I thought I should dig it out.  The good news is that I loved the book, the not so good news depending on your point of view is that the movie by the same name is not based on this book!  Oh well it inspired me to read this books so I'll give it credit anyway. Six months from graduating from Oxford Gabriel left without a reason and decided to become a professional thief.  So far its been a very luc...