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Name of Book: Dented Cans Author: Heather Walsh ISBN:  9781480268975 Publisher: Createspace Type of book: Disney World, 2000s? family relationships, getting away, small town, intelligence, secrets Year it was published: 2012 Summary: A family secret is revealed during an ill-fated—yet hilarious—trip to Disney World. Sixteen-year-old Hannah Sampson knows her family is not what you would call normal. Her father compulsively buys dented cans and has a particular fondness for cans without labels, which are extremely discounted because their contents are a mystery. Her mother takes countless pictures of her family and then glues them down into the pages of her scrapbooks, but does not allow anyone to look at them. Ryan, Hannah’s mischievous fourteen-year-old brother, is headed straight for the remedial track at the local community college, if he’s lucky. Ben, her eight-year-old brother, is a walking sound effects machine, who prefers to communicate with noises rath...

Name of Book: The Drake Equation Author: Heather Walsh ISBN:  9781492295310 Publisher: Createspace Type of book: Environmental issues, GeoForce, Democrat vs Republican, romance Year it was published: 2013 Summary: She’s a Democrat, he’s a Republican. She spends her days fighting global warming at an environmental non-profit, he makes his living doing PR for Bell Motors and their fleet of SUVs. But as soon as they meet, Emily Crossley and Robert Drake realize they have encountered their intellectual match. You’re never challenged, he tells her. You’ve surrounded yourself in a cocoon of people who think exactly the same way you do. She hurls the same accusation back at him, and the fiery debates begin. Despite both of their attempts to derail it, there is no denying that they are falling in love. But their relationship is threatened by political differences, Robert’s excessive work hours, and Emily’s fear of losing her identity as she falls deeper in love. Can thei...