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Title: Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock Author: Matthew Quick Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publication Date: August 13, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-0316221337 288 pp. ARC provided by publisher Matthew Quick has had a lot of heat since the film adaptation of Silver Linings Playbooks came out, and I was as eager as anyone to read Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock . It's Leonard Peacock's eighteenth birthday and he plans to go to school and kill his former best friend and then commit suicide. As the day progresses, we learn why Leonard has decided this is the best way to escape the loneliness and hopelessness of his shitty life. His self-absorbed Mom doesn't even remember it's his birthday, so he knows he's not going to get any presents, but he gives presents to four people he thinks of as friends, although he doesn't really have any friends. These four people react to Leonard's gifts in different ways, including anger and suspicion. But one ...

Title: The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling Author: Maryrose Wood Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren Publisher: Books on Tape Publication Date: 2010 ISBN-13: 978-0307711229 Listening copy via Sync I downloaded The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood last summer as part of Sync's audiobook promotion , and I finally got a chance to listen to this delightful novel. The Mysterious Howling is the first in The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series, a rollicking good read for children through younger YA. Penelope Lumley is the fifteen year old governess from the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females and her first job is to teach three children who were literally raised by wolves until discovered by Lord Ashton and brought to Ashton Place. The children, Alexander, Beowulf, and Cassiopeia, are given to howling at the moon, eating their food uncomfortably rare, and chasing squirrels. But Miss Lumley has the pluck and good sense of ...