Teen Sleuth Haunted Library

The Newton Papers
The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts

By Sarah Dry
Oxford University Press, USA, Hardcover, 9780199951048, 238pp.

Publication Date: May 1, 2014

Bastard Out of Carolina
By Dorothy Allison
Plume Books, Paperback, 9780452297753, 320pp.

Publication Date: February 28, 2012

Down and Out in Paris and London By George Orwell Mariner Books, Paperback, 9780156262248, 228pp.

Publication Date: March 1972

In the Old Days, many book covers, particularly teen books covers, used to wend towards photographs of real people. or paintings OF photographs, a technique that has sadly been entirely obviated by Photoshop. Anyway, some of these cover models had pushy moms who saw these covers as a stepping stone to REAL modeling and/or acting.  I was not familiar with “teen romance” series books – I read ONE  and recognized the stunning red headed cover girl as one of the high fashion models in one of my sister’s French Vogue magazine. And, because I have a photographic memory for things that absolutely don’t matter – when researching the teen romance series books of the olden days, I recognized a number of the other cover models.

Stunning redhead Maria Von Hartz as the face of the “plain jane” sister

Successful teen model and “Heathers” actress Lisanne Falk

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Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Spiegel & Grau, Hardcover, 9780812993547, 176pp.

Publication Date: July 14, 2015

1 word review: necessary

Troublemaker Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

By Leah Remini; Rebecca Paley

Ballantine Books, Hardcover, 9781101886960, 256pp.

Publication Date: November 3, 2015

1 word review: illiterate

Girl in a Band – a memoir by Kim Gordon

1 word review: BORING

Walter Chandoha the cat photographer

Interviews by David La Spina and Brittany Hudak

1 word review: important