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JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN: AUDREY'S GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT
In the award-winning author of Babe in Boyland comes a new Adult paranormal romance about witchcraft, black magic, and also the pleasures of paranormal chocolate.
Falling for each other, baking an awesome cake, fighting an evil necromancer-it’s all inside a day’s work with Audrey Oliver, seventeen-year-old witch-in-training. When her mother gets lost and her mysterious "cousin" turns up without warning, Audrey knows something’s gone horribly, dangerously wrong. Now it’s up to her to acquire her own magical powers up to speed before everyone she loves is destroyed through the sorcerer intricately attached to her mother’s secret past.
Audrey's Help guide to Witchcraft is more than just a novel; it is a book of spells, a collection of easy recipes, a captivating coming-of-age story, an awesome romance, plus an action-packed adventure. As Audrey overcomes her insecurities and learns to protect herself against the wicked black magic of her nemesis, she grows in to a heroine we are able to root for-a witch that knows that true power originates from deep within.
Author Jody Gehrman can be a pagan at heart. She actually is a local of Northern California, where real witches thrive, and she or he has had the pleasure of knowing several. She is also the author of seven novels and numerous award-winning plays. Audrey's Self-help guide to Witchcraft is her latest Young Adult novel. Various other Teen novels include Babe in Boyland, Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty, and Triple Shot Bettys for each other, (Penguin's Dial Books). Babe in Boyland recently been optioned from the Disney Channel and won the International Reading Association's Teen Choice Award. Her adult novels are Notes from your Backseat, Tart, and Summer within the Land of Skin (Red Dress Ink). Her plays have been manufactured in Ashland, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and L.A. She and her partner David Wolf won the New Generation Playwrights Award for one-act, Jake Savage, Jungle P.I. She actually is a professor of English at Mendocino College, where she can be discovered grading papers when she's not experimenting with spells.
Reviews:
"This novel was brilliant! It kept attention, had me laughing...I was thoroughly committed to the sparkling dialogue between Audrey, her friends, and her love interest. I can’t wait for sequel release a...I’d suggest this to anyone searching for a new paranormal read or, at any rate, some sizzling romance because trust me, Julian is swoooon-worthy!" ~Ivy Book Bindings
"Audrey’s Guide to Witchcraft can be a laugh loudly type novel. It was directly hilarious even though Audrey does end up getting brains in her own hair. I would recommend this novel to fans with the YA supernatural, readers who enjoy humorous reads, and people who want a novel which is full of mystery, secrets, action and romance. With a principal character who is practically Dark Phoenix...from your X-men, what isn’t to enjoy?"~Chapter by Chapter Reviews
"Since Audrey has a talent for preparing delicious tasty desserts, there's also some recipes added too that readers may choose to try. This is really the light and amusing story full of so many likeable characters that I were built with a problem putting it down."~Primrose Musings
"Audrey is really a believable protagonist...Snarky. Intelligent. Fierce. Funny."~Unsociable Rabbit's Rants and Reviews
"If you prefer an exciting read involving witches and sort-of zombies, with well rounded characters and a horrific secondary school enemy, then pick this one up for sure."~I Am Alive Book Blog
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"Overall this is a must read, must obtain for the high school library. Everything you need to know is in the first sentence with the synopsis: Love Baking Fighting = super fun read! Gehrman makes writing look easy but everybody knows it's no simple feat to build up an interesting character with witty dialogue who may have magical powers. As Audrey writes her guide she includes everything from Creme Brulee recipes to Protection Spells to How to be considered a Boy Repeller lists! If you liked Meg Cabot's Jinx, you will love this particular one!"~Reviews of Teen Literature