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Teaser Tuesdays

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This week's quote is from page 58 of Rachel Caine's latest installment in The Morganville Vampires, Kiss of Death . "Claire sighed. "I am not getting you a brain, because I am not that kind of lab assistant, Dr. Frankenstein. Can we go through the map again?" It's this kind of wit and humor that makes us love this series so much. Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly event hosted by MizB of   ShouldBeReading .

Picture the Dead by Adele Griffin; Illustrations by Lisa Brown

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Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire (May 2010) Page Count: 272 Reading Level: YA Summary : Jennie Lovell's life is the very picture of love and loss. First she is orphaned and forced to live at the mercy of her stingy, indifferent relatives. Then her fiance falls on the battlefield, leaving her heartbroken and alone. Jennie struggles to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, but is haunted by a mysterious figure that refuses to let her bury the past. When Jennie forms an unlikely alliance with a spirit photographer, she begins to uncover secrets about the man she thought she loved. With her sanity on edge and her life in the balance, can Jennie expose the chilling truth before someone-or something-stops her? Against the brutal, vivid backdrop of the American Civil War, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown have created a spellbinding mystery where the living cannot always be trusted and death is not always the end. My Review: "A ghost will find its way home." That'...