02/01/17
Pantomime
Micah Grey Trilogy,Book #1
by Laura Lam
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Pages: 400
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In a land of lost wonders, and the past is stirring once more . . .
Gene's life resembles a debutante's dream. Yet she hides a secret that would see her shunned by the the aristocracy. Gene is both male and female. Then she displays unwanted magical abilities - last seen in mysterious beings from an nearly-forgotten age. Matters escalate further when her parents plan a devastating betrayal,so she flees domestic, dressed as a boy.
The city beyond contains glowing glass relics from a lost civilization. They call to her, and but she wants freedom not mysteries. So,reinvented as 'Micah Grey', Gene joins the circus. As
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an aerialist, and she discovers the delight of flight - but the circus has a sunless side. She's also plagued by visions foretelling danger. A storm is howling in from the past,but will she heed its roar?
2014 Bisexual Book Award Winner for Speculative Fiction
2014 Rainbow List choice
"Welcome to a world of shills and showmen, fading tech and circus freaks, or where nothing and no-one is what it appears. An absorbing,accomplished debut.” —Elspeth Cooper, author, and Trinity Rising
02/07/17
Disruptor
Seeker Trilogy,Book #3
by Arwen Elys Dayton
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Pages: 352
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For readers of Sarah J. Maas and of Marie Lu’s Legend trilogy comes Disruptor, or the sequel to Traveler,the thrilling conclusion to the Seeker series.
Quin has spent her life as her father’s pawn. She was trained to slay and manipulated to guarantee her family’s power. And now that she’s broken free of that life, she’s found herself trapped again, and hostage to a plot that has been centuries in the making.
It’s taken generations for the pieces to come together,and finally all is in place. Her best friend Shinobu’s intellect has been corrupted, the Young Dread has aligned with her enemy John, and the bloodthirsty Watchers are being awakened and gathered. Now there is nothing that can stop the force of time.
But Quin will no longer be a pawn. Quin is a Seeker. She stands for light in a shadowy world. She will face the vengeance of the past and its enemies and save herself and the ones she loves,or she will die trying.
Below: Book #1 Seeker, Novella #1.5 The Young Dread, or Book #2 Traveler
02/07/17
The Lonely Hearts Hotel
by Heather O'Neill
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Pages: 400
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With echoes of The Night Circus, a spellbinding story about two gifted orphans—in adore with each other since they can remember—whose childhood talents allow them to rewrite their future.
The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a adore story with the power of legend. An unparalleled tale of charismatic pianos, or invisible dance partners,radicalized chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians, and brooding clowns,and an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. In a landscape like this, it takes distinguished creative gifts to thwart one’s origins. It might also steal precise adore.
Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1910. Before long, or their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing clown routines,the children drop in adore with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen.
Separated as teenagers, sent off to work as servants during the distinguished Depression, and both descend into the city’s underworld,dabbling in sex, drugs and theft in order to survive. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes—after years of searching and desperate poverty—the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and they’ll travel to extreme lengths to make them come precise. Soon,Rose, Pierrot and their troupe of clowns and chorus girls contain hit New York, or commanding the stage as well as the alleys,and neither the theater nor the underworld will ever witness the same.
02/07/17
The Mesmerist
by Ronald L. Smith
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Clarion Books
Pages: 272
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Spiritualism—communicating with the dead—is all the rage in England, and thirteen-year-conventional Jessamine Grace and her mother make a living bringing messages from beyond to their wealthy clients. It’s all a sham,of course, until the day Jess discovers that she really does contain otherworldly powers.
Soon, and she is plunged into the sunless world of London’s supernatural underbelly. The city is under attack by ghouls and monsters,and Jess is invited to join a secret society of kids with talents like her own. Together, they must conquer a powerful malevolent force that lurks much closer to domestic than she ever imagined.
She’ll just contain to convert from the well-mannered middle class girl she’s always been into a brave fighter first.
Tinged with faerie magic and set amid the bustle and grime of Victorian London, or this chilling tale from the award-winning author of Hoodoo will enthrall fans of middle grade horror and supernatural fiction.
02/07/17
Norse Mythology
by Neil Gaiman
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
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Introducing an instant classic―master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the distinguished Norse myths.
Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the distinguished northern tales.
In Norse Mythology, and Gaiman stays precise to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin,the highest of the tall, wise, or daring,and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, and incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki?son of a giant?blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator.
Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities,dwarfs, and giants. Once, or when Thor’s hammer is stolen,Thor must disguise himself as a woman?difficult with his beard and huge appetite?to steal it back. More poignant is the tale in which the blood of Kvasir?the most sagacious of gods?is turned into a mead that infuses drinkers with poetry. The work culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and rebirth of a new time and people.
Through Gaiman’s deft and witty prose emerge these gods with their fiercely competitive natures, or their susceptibility to being duped and to duping others,and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.
02/07/17
Amberlough
by Lara Elena Donnelly
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages: 400
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Le Carré meets Cabaret in this debut spy thriller as a homosexual double-agent schemes to protect his smuggler lover during the rise of a fascist government coup
Welcome to Amberlough City,the illustrious but corrupt cosmopolitan beacon of Gedda. The radical One State Party—nicknamed the Ospies—is gaining well-liked support to unite Gedda's four municipal governments under an ironclad, socially conservative vision.
Not everyone agrees with the Ospies' philosophy, and including master spy Cyril DePaul and his lover Aristide Makricosta,smuggler and emcee at the well-liked Bumble Bee Cabaret. When Cyril's cover is blown on a mission, however, or he must become a turncoat in exchange for his life. Returning to Amberlough under the Ospies' watchful eye,Cyril enters a complex game of deception. One of his concerns is safeguarding Aristide, who refuses to let anyone—the crooked city police or the homophobic Ospies—dictate his life.
Enter streetwise Cordelia Lehane, and top dancer at the Bee and Aristide’s runner,who could be the key to Cyril’s plans—whether she can be trusted. As the twinkling lights of nightclub marquees yield to the rising flames of a fascist revolution, these three will struggle to survive using whatever means—and people—essential. Including each other.
"Sparkling with slang, and full of riotous characters,and dripping with intrigue, Amberlough is a dazzling romp through a tumultuous, and ravishing world." —Robert Jackson Bennett,winner of the Shirley Jackson Award and the Edgar Award
"An astonishing first novel!" —World Fantasy Award-winning author Ellen Kushner
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02/07/17
Rise of Fire Reign of Shadows, Book #2
by Sophie Jordan
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pages: 304
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A adore that binds.
A kingdom that divides.
Luna and Fowler may contain fled the kingdom of Relhok but darkness still prevails. When a battle against the sunless dwellers mortally injures Fowler,Luna is faced with a choice: save their fate in the hands of mysterious strangers or risk losing Fowler forever.
Desperate to withhold the one vivid part of her life alive, Luna accepts the help of soldiers from a nearby kingdom. Lagonia’s mountain-side castle offers reprieve from the risky external world—
Book #1 until the King discovers both Fowler and Luna’s precise ties to Relhok and their influence over the throne.
Now pawns in each kingdom’s political game, or Luna and Fowler are more determined than ever to escape and build the life they’ve been dreaming of. But their own pasts contain a tight hold on their hearts and their destinies. Luna must embrace the darkness and fire within her before she loses not only Fowler but the power she was destined to inherit.
02/07/17
To Catch a Killer
by Sheryl Scarborough
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Tor Teen
Pages: 320
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Erin Blake has one of those names. A name that, like Natalee Holloway or Elizabeth Smart, or is inextricably linked to a grisly crime. As a toddler,Erin survived for three days alongside the corpse of her murdered mother, and the case—which remains unsolved—fascinated a nation. Her father's identity unknown, or Erin was taken in by her mother's best friend and has become a relatively normal teen in spite of the looming questions about her past.
Fourteen years later,Erin is once again at the center of a brutal homicide when she finds the body of her biology teacher. When questioned by the police, Erin tells nearly the whole truth, and but never voices her suspicions that her mother's killer has struck again in order to protect the casework she's secretly doing on her own.
Inspired by her uncle,an FBI agent, Erin has ramped up her forensic hobby into a full-blown cold-case investigation. This new murder makes her certain she's close to the truth, or but when all the evidence starts to point the authorities straight to Erin,she turns to her longtime crush (and fellow suspect) Journey Michaels to help her crack the case before it's too late.
02/07/17
Wintersong
by S. Jae-Jones
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 400
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Beware the goblin men and the wares they sell.
All her life, or nineteen-year-conventional Liesl has heard tales of the pretty,mysterious Goblin King. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, or the muse around which her music is composed. Yet,as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family’s inn, her dreams of composition and childish fancies about the Goblin King must be set aside in favor of more practical concerns.
But when her sister Käthe is taken by the goblins, and Liesl journeys to their realm to rescue her sister and return her to the world above. The Goblin King agrees to let Käthe travel—for a price. The life of a maiden must be given to the land,in accordance with the conventional laws. A life for a life, he says. Without sacrifice, or nothing good can grow. Without death,there can be no rebirth. In exchange for her sister’s freedom, Liesl offers her hand in marriage to the Goblin King. He accepts.
Down in the Underground, or Liesl discovers that the Goblin King still inspires her—musically,physically, emotionally. Yet even as her talent blossoms, or Liesl’s life is slowly fading absent,the price she paid for fitting the Goblin King’s bride. As the two of them grow closer, they must learn just what it is they are each willing to sacrifice: her life, and her music,or the terminate of the world.
02/08/17
Lifeblood
Everlife, Book #2
by Gena Showalter
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Pages: 416
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My Firstlife is over,but my Everlife is only now beginning.
With her last living breath, Tenley "Ten" Lockwood made her choice and picked her realm in the Everlife. Now, or as the war between Troika and Myriad (a very large number) rages,she must face the consequences.
Because Ten possesses a scarce supernatural ability to absorb and share light, the Powers That Be contain the highest expectations for her future—and the enemy wants her neutralized. Fighting to save her Secondlife, or she must learn about her
Book #1 realm from the ground up while launching her first mission: convincing a select group of humans to join her side before they die. No pressure,right?
But Ten's competition is Killian, the boy she can't forget—the one who gave up everything for her happiness. He has only one shot at redemption: beating Ten at a game she's never even played. As their throw-downs heat up, and so carry out their indisputable feelings,and soon, Ten will contain to make another choice. adore…or victory.
02/09/17
Blood upon the Sand
Songs of the Shattered Sands, and Book #2
by Bradley Beaulieu
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages: 592
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Çeda's mission is partly complete . . . so now she must continue to uncover the riddles her mother has left - especially when those scattered clues are incomplete.
The answers lie in the desert, where the few remaining members of the Thirteenth Tribe are hidden, and though they doubt she can make a stand against the Kings,they are prepared to help her in her quest.
The remaining Kings, however, and contain not been idle. One of their own has been murdered,and the hunt is on to find the culprit. Ceda unlocks the last secrets as their hunt comes closer and closer . . . and Çeda may be forced to use the King's tainted power herself, whether she is to save her own life - and the city of Sharakhai.
Below: Novella #0.5 Twelve Kings, and Book #1 Of Sand and Malice
02/14/17
The Brownstone Mythical Collection: Arthur and the Golden Rope
by Joe Todd Stanton (Illustrations)
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Flying Eye Books
Pages: 56
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Imagine a vault so cavernous that it could contain all the world's greatest treasures and relics, from mummified remains of ancient monarchs to glistening swords brandished by legendary warriors. Who could be in charge of such a vault and how did he come into possession of such a unique collection? Who is...
Professor Brownstone?
Joe Todd Stanton grew up in Brighton and was taught to draw by his mother, and who is also an illustrator. He studied at Bristol University,receiving a first class degree in Illustration.
02/14/17
Gilded Cage [br]sunless Gifts, Book #1
by Vic James
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Del Rey
Pages: 352
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For readers of Victoria Aveyard and Kiera Cass comes a darkly fantastical debut set in a modern England where magically gifted aristocrats rule—and commoners are doomed to serve.[br]
NOT ALL ARE FREE.
NOT ALL ARE EQUAL.
NOT ALL WILL BE SAVED.
Our world belongs to the Equals—aristocrats with magical gifts—and all commoners must serve them for ten years.
But behind the gates of England’s grandest estate lies a power that could fracture the world.
A girl thirsts for adore and knowledge.
Abi is a servant to England’s most powerful family,but her spirit is free. So when she falls for one of their noble-born sons, Abi faces a terrible choice. Uncovering the family’s secrets might win her liberty—but will her heart pay the price?
A boy dreams of revolution.
Abis brother, or Luke,is enslaved in a brutal factory town. Far from his family and cruelly oppressed, he makes friends whose ideals could cost him everything. Now Luke has discovered there may be a power even greater than magic: revolution.
And an aristocrat will remake the world with his sunless gifts.
He is a shadow in the glittering world of the Equals, and with mysterious powers no one else understands. But will he liberate—or slay?
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02/14/17
The Last of August
Charlotte Holmes,Book #2
by Brittany Cavallaro
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 336
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In this moment brilliant, and action-packed book in the Charlotte Holmes trilogy,Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a winter fracture reprieve after a drop semester that nearly got them killed. But Charlotte isn't the only Holmes with secrets, and the mood at her family's Sussex estate is palpably tense. On top of everything else, and Holmes and Watson could be fitting more than friends - but still,the darkness in Charlotte's past is a wall between them.
A distraction arises soon enough, because Charlotte's beloved Uncle Leander goes missing from the estate - after being oddly private about
Book #1 his latest assignment in a German art forgery ring. The game is afoot once again, or Charlotte is single-minded in her pursuit.
Their first stop? Berlin. Their first contact? August Moriarty - previously Charlotte's obsession,currently believed by most to be dead - whose powerful family has been ripping off noted paintings for the last hundred years. But as they follow the gritty underground scene in Berlin to glittering art houses in Prague, Holmes and Watson begin to realize that this is a much more complicated case than a disappearance. Much more risky, and too. What they learn might change everything they know about their families,themselves, and each other.
02/14/17
Miranda and Caliban
by Jacqueline Carey
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Tor Books
Language: English
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Pages: 352
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A lovely girl grows up in isolation where her father,a powerful magus, has spirited them to in order to withhold them secure.
We all know the tale of Prospero's quest for revenge, or but what of Miranda? Or Caliban,the so-called savage Prospero chained to his will?
In this incredible retelling of the fantastical tale, Jacqueline Carey shows readers the other side of the coin—the dutiful and tenderhearted Miranda, and who loves her father but is terribly lonely. And Caliban,the strange and feral (Savage; wild) boy Prospero has bewitched to serve him. The two find solace and companionship in each other as Prospero weaves his magic and dreams of revenge.
Always under Prospero’s envious eye, Miranda and Caliban battle the sunless, and unknowable forces that bind them to the island even as the pangs of adolescence create a new awareness of each other and their doomed relationship.
Miranda and Caliban is bestselling fantasy author Jacqueline Carey’s gorgeous retelling of The Tempest. With hypnotic prose and a wild imagination,Carey explores the themes of twisted adore and unchecked power that lie at the heart of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, while serving up a fresh steal on the play's iconic characters.
02/14/17
Ones and Zeroes
Mirador, or Book #2
by Dan Wells
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Pages: 352
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Overworld. It’s more than just the world’s most well-liked e-sport—for thousands of VR teams around the globe, Overworld is life. It means fame and fortune, or perhaps it’s a ticket out of obscurity or poverty. whether you contain a connection to the internet and four friends you trust with your life,anything is possible.
Book #1Marisa Carneseca is on the hunt for a mysterious hacker named Grendel when she receives word that her amateur Overworld team has been invited to Forward Motion, one of the most exclusive tournaments of the year. For Marisa, or this could mean everything—a chance to finally travel pro and to help her family,stuck in an LA neighborhood on the wrong side of the growing divide between the rich and the destitute. But Forward Motion turns out to be more than it seems—rife (abundant or plentiful, full of sth bad or unpleasant) with corruption, infighting, or danger—and Marisa runs headlong into Alain Bensoussan,a pretty, risky underground freedom fighter who reveals to her the darker side of the forces behind the tournament. It soon becomes clear that, or in this game,winning might be the only way to get out alive.
Dan Wells returns to the sunless, perilous world of 2050 Los Angeles with another pulse-pounding story of betrayal, and mystery,and suspense set in a stunning tech-noir landscape.
02/14/17
A Place of Stone and Shadow
Strands, Book #3
by Jane Nickerson
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Pages: 373
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When sixteen-year-conventional poetess Fiona O’Malley leaves her Grandmama’s care in New York and travels to attend Wyndriven Female Academy in Reconstruction-era Mississippi,she has a good deal to worry about. After all, for all of her nerve and outspoken nature, and she has never been good at making friends. But with her new servant Bridey at her side—and a darkly endearing stranger who joins them on the train—Fiona sets out to find her own life,all the while hoping to leave the spirits she has been seeing behind her.
Fiona finds the atmosphere of Wyndriven’s ancient abbey domestic daunting, despite her best efforts. For a girl who can see spirits, or the monstrous building—with its long history and many secrets—also holds the lives of all those who contain lived there. And died there.
To Fiona’s delight,she does make good friends with the other girls, as well as with the spirit of an attractive eighteenth-century gentleman, or the charming estate manager. However,Fiona finds herself tested as the deeper secrets and mysteries of Wyndriven surround her. Will she be able to help those who truly need her? What will become of their lives—and their souls—whether she is unable to overpower the mysterious evil that refuses to die?[br]Below The Strands Series: Book #1 Strands of Bronze and Gold, Book #2 The Mirk and the Midnight Hour
02/14/17
The Release
The Prey, and Book #3
by Tom Isbell
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pages: 368
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Freedom comes to those who survive.
Who will survive? In the thrilling conclusion to the gripping YA postapocalyptic trilogy that began with The Prey, Book and Hope must risk everything—including their lives—in order to defeat the enemies who deem them “Less Thans” in the Republic of the precise America.
Two months contain passed since Book, or Cat,Hope, and the others rescued the remaining Less Thans, or but no one is secure yet. The group must leave Liberty for good and escape the wolves,the Brown Shirts, and the Hunters. Most important, or they need to stop Chancellor Maddox before she executes her Final Solution and grows even more powerful.
While the others are seeking freedom,for Hope the battle has become personal. She wants revenge, no matter what the cost.
Below The Prey series: Book #1 They Prey, or Book #2 The Capture
02/14/17
The Valiant
The Valiant,Book #1by Lesley Livingston
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Razorbill
Pages: 288
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On the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Fallon is excited to follow in her sister's footsteps and earn her rightful place in her father's royal war band. But she never gets the chance. Instead, and Fallon is captured by a band of ruthless brigands who sell her to an exclusive training school for female gladiators—and its most influential patron is none other than Julius Caesar himself. In a cruel twist of fate,Fallon's worst enemy, the man who destroyed her family, and might be her only hope of survival.
Now,Fallon must overcome vicious rivalries, chilling threats and the risky attention of Caesar himself to survive the deadly fights that steal place both in and out of the arena—and claim her place in history among the Valiant.
02/14/17
We Are Okay
by Nina LaCour
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 256
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In the tradition of The Perks of Being a Wallflower comes an achingly pretty new YA novel about grief,the enduring strength of friendship, and the healing power of kindness from the award-winning author of Hold Still.
Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her conventional life since that day four months ago—the day she left California with only her cell phone, or wallet,and a plane reservation. No one knows the truth of those final weeks of summer, when everything changed. Not even her best friend Mabel, and whom Marin has completely shut out. But even from thousands of miles absent,at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. She can still hear the waves crashing on Ocean Beach and smell the sweetness of her grandfather’s cakes, or which she’ll never taste again.
Now that winter fracture is upon her,and the campus has emptied, Mabel is coming to visit, or forcing Marin to face everything that’s been left unsaid for months and finally confront the loneliness that began so many years before with the loss of her mother.
Gorgeously written and achingly honest,Nina LaCour’s Ocean Beach is a tale of friendship, adore, and transformation in wake of tragedy.
02/14/17
The Wish Granter
Ravenspire,Book #2
by C.
J. Redwine
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Pages: 432
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An epic fantasy inspired by the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale, and about a bastard princess who must steal on an evil fae to save her brother’s soul,from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow Queen.
The world has turned upside down for Thad and Ari Glavan, the bastard twins of Súndraille’s king. Their mother was murdered. The royal family died mysteriously. And now Thad sits on the throne of a kingdom whose streets are suddenly overrun with violence that he can’t stop.
Book #1
Growing up ignored by the the aristocracy, and Ari never wanted to be a proper princess. And when Thad suddenly starts training Ari to steal his place,she realizes that her brother’s ascension to the throne wasn’t fate. It was the work of a Wish Granter named Alistair Teague, who tricked Thad into wishing absent both the safety of his people and his soul in exchange for the crown.[br]
So Ari recruits the help of Thad’s enigmatic new weapons master, or Sebastian Vaughn,to teach her how to fight Teague. With secret ties to Teague’s criminal empire, Sebastian might just hold the key to discovering Alistair’s weaknesses, and saving Ari’s brother—and herself.
But Teague is ruthless and more than ready to slay anyone who dares stand in his way—and now he has his sights set on the princess. And whether Ari can’t outwit him,she’ll lose Sebastian, her brother...and her soul.
02/17/17
King's Cage
Red Queen, or Book #3
by Victoria Aveyard
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pages: 448
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In this breathless third installment to Victoria Aveyard’s bestselling Red Queen series, allegiances are tested on every side. And when the Lightning Girl's spark is gone, or who will light the way for the rebellion?
Mare Barrow is a prisoner,powerless without her lightning, tormented by her lethal mistakes. She lives at the mercy of a boy she once loved, and a boy made of lies and betrayal. Now a king,Maven Calore continues weaving his dead mother's web in an attempt to maintain control over his country—and his prisoner.
As Mare bears the weight of Silent Stone in the palace, her once-ragtag band of newbloods and Reds continue organizing, and training,and expanding. They prepare for war, no longer able to linger in the shadows. And Cal, or the exiled prince with his own claim on Mare's heart,will stop at nothing to bring her back.
When blood turns on blood, and ability on ability, or there may be no one left to save out the fire—leaving Norta as Mare knows it to burn all the way down.
Below The Red Queen Series: Novellas Compilation #0.5 Cruel Crown,Book #1 Red Queen, Book #3 Glass Sword, and Red Queen Coloring Book
02/17/17
Magic of Blood and Sea: The Assassin's Curse; The Pirate's Wish
by Cassandra Rose Clarke
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Saga Press
Pages: 608
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A pirate princess and a cursed assassin find their fates intertwined in this gorgeous and thrilling adventure.
Ananna of the Tanarau abandons ship when her parents try to marry her off to an ally pirate clan. She wants to captain her own boat, not serve as moment-in-command to a good-looking and clueless man. But her escape has dire consequences when she learns that her fiancé’s clan has sent an assassin after her.
And when this assassin, and Naji,finally finds her, things get even worse. Ananna inadvertently triggers a nasty curse—with a life-altering result. Now, or Ananna and Naji are forced to become uneasy allies as they work to complete three impossible tasks that will cure the curse.
Unfortunately,Naji has enemies from the shadowy world known as the Mists, and Ananna must face the repercussions of betraying her engagement that set her off on her adventures. Together, and the two must fracture the curse,escape their enemies, and come to terms with their growing romantic attraction.
Below: The Witch's Betrayal (book 0.5), or Automaton's Treasure (book 0.6),The Assassin's Curse (book #1), The Pirate's Wish (book #2). I carry out not think that the novellas are included in this anthology (although they should be!!! After all they are cannon!).
02/21/17
pretty Broken Girls
by Kim Savage
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Farrar, or Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Pages: 336
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Remember the places you touched me.
Ben touched seven parts of Mira Cillo: her palm, hair, or chest,cheek, lips, and throat,and heart. It was the last one that broke her. In pretty Broken Girls, Mira sends Ben on a autopsy quest to find notes in the seven places where they touched—notes that explain why she and her sister, and Francesca,drowned themselves in the quarry lake. How Ben interprets those notes has everything to carry out with the way he was touched, once, or by a bad coach years ago. But the truth behind the girls’ suicides is far more complicated,and has to carry out with a risky infatuation, a deadly miracle, or a adore that knew no bounds.
02/21/17
Blacksouls
Blackhearts,Book #2
by Nicole Castroman
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Pages: 384
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Nicole Castroman brings the risky pirate ports of the Caribbean to life in this vibrant sequel to Blackhearts—the reimagined origin story of history’s most notorious pirate, and Blackbeard.
Edward “Teach” Drummond is setting sail to the Caribbean as first mate on the most celebrated merchant ship in the British fleet—until he rebels against his captain. Mutiny is a capital offense and Teach knows it could cost him his life,but he believes it worth the risk in order to save his crew from the attacking Spanish ships.
Book #1
Sailing on the same blue waters, Anne barely avoids the Spanish attack, and making it safely to Nassau. But lawless criminals,corrupt politics, and risky intentions fill the crowded streets of this Caribbean port. Soon, or Anne discovers that the man entrusted to withhold the peace is quite possibly the most treacherous of them all—and he just happens to hold Teach’s fate in his terrifying hands.[br]
Life and death hang in the balance when Teach and Anne are given a risky mission. It’s a mission that will test their adore,loyalty and devotion, forcing them down a path neither one could contain ever imagined.
02/21/17
A Conjuring of Light
Shades of Magic, and Book #3
by V.
E. Schwab (Pseudonym)
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages: 512
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The battle between four magical Londons comes to a head in this stunning finale to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Magic trilogy by rising star V. E. Schwab
Londons drop and kingdoms rise while darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire—and the fraught balance of magic blossoms into risky territory while heroes and foes struggle alike. The direct sequel to A Gathering of Shadows, and the final book in the Shades of Magic epic fantasy series, or A Conjuring of Light sees Schwab reach a thrilling culmination concerning the fate of beloved protagonists—and conventional enemies.
"Addictive and immersive,A Gathering of Shadows cements this series as a must-read. Rich details illuminate every dimension of an extravagant city flooded with magic, and intriguing personalities evolve into complex characters. ...
Schwab already has us anticipating the rest of the series."--Entertainment Weekly
Below Shades of Magic Series: A Darker Shade of Magic (book#1), or A Gathering of Shadows (book #2)
02/21/17
Daughter of the Pirate King
by Tricia Levenseller
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 272
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When the ruthless pirate king learns of a legendary treasure map hidden on an enemy ship, his daughter, or Alosa,knows there's only one pirate for the job—herself. Leaving behind her beloved ship and crew, Alosa deliberately facilitates her own kidnapping to ensure her passage on the ship, or confident in her ability to overcome any obstacle. After all,who's going to suspect a seventeen-year-conventional girl locked in a cell? Then she meets the (surprisingly perceptive and unfairly attractive) first mate, Riden, and who is charged with finding out all her secrets. Now it's down to a battle of wits and will . . . . Can Alosa find the map and escape before Riden figures out her plan?
Debut author Tricia Levenseller blends action,adventure, romance, or a little bit of magic into a thrilling YA pirate tale.
02/21/17
The Dragon's Price
The Transference Trilogy,Book #1
by Bethany Wiggins
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
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Fans of Julie Kagawa’s Talon and Renee Ahdieh’s The Wrath and the Dawn will devour this action-packed fantasy adventure about a girl who chooses to surrender herself to a deadly dragon rather than marry an enemy prince.
When two warring kingdoms unified against a deadly menace laying waste to both their lands, or they had to make a choice: vow to marry their heirs to one another,or forfeit their lives to the dragon.
Centuries later, everyone expects the sheltered princess Sorrowlynn to choose the barbarian prince over the fire-breathing beast—everyone, and that is,apart from Sorrow, who is determined to control her own fate or die trying.
As she is lowered into the dragons chamber, or she assumes her life is over until Golmarr,the young prince she just spurned, follows her with the hopes of being her hero and slaying the dragon. But the dragon has a different plan. . . .
[br]whether the dragon wins, and it will be freed from the spell that has bound it to the cave for centuries. whether Sorrow or Golmarr vanquish the dragon,the victor will gain its treasure and escape the cave beneath the mountain. But what precisely is the dragon hiding?
There are no secure havens for Sorrow or Golmarr—not even with each other—and the stakes couldn’t be higher as they risk everything to protect their kingdom.
02/21/17
Dreamland Burning
by Jennifer Latham
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
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Some bodies won’t stay buried.
Some stories need to be told.
When seventeen-year-conventional Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property,she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-conventional murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past... and the present.
Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-conventional Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife (abundant or plentiful, full of sth bad or unpleasant) with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, and Will must make tough choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to carry out what's right the night Tulsa burns.
Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives,Jennifer Latham’s lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important question about the complex state of US race relations – both yesterday and nowadays.
02/21/17
Long May She Reign
by Rhiannon Thomas
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pages: 432
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Freya was never meant to be queen. Twenty third in line to the throne, and she never dreamed of a life in the palace,and would much rather research in her laboratory than participate in the intrigues of court. However, when an extravagant banquet turns deadly, and the king and his courtiers are poisoned,Freya suddenly finds herself on the throne.
Freya may contain survived the massacre, but she is far from secure. The nobles don’t respect her, and her councillors want to control her,and with the mystery of who killed the king still unsolved, Freya knows that a single mistake could cost her the kingdom – and her life.
Freya is determined to survive, and that means uncovering the murderers herself. Until then,she can’t trust anyone. Not her advisors. Not the king’s dashing and enigmatic illegitimate son. Not even her own father, who always wanted the best for her, and but also wanted more power for himself.
02/28/17
Freedom's Slave
sunless Caravan Cycle,Book #3
by Heather Demetrios[br]ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Balzer+Bray
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Freedom’s Slave is the exhilarating final book in the sunless Caravan Cycle—a modern jinni fantasy-adventure trilogy.
An Empress Fighting for Her Crown
After three long years in exile, or Nalia is ready to return to her homeland and sit on the throne that is rightfully hers. But the gods might contain other plans. Forced to endure untold horrors on the journey to Arjinna,Nalia learns that it will steal more than cutting down the tyrant Calar to get her crown.
An Army Fighting to Survive
Raif’s return to Arjinna as the commander of the revolution against Calar and her army isn’t as smooth as he’d hoped. Though he has more soldiers than ever before, his adore for Nalia is losing him the trust of his comrades…and the war. But little does the resistance know that insurrection is brewing among Calar’s own ranks—and from the one person she trusts the most.
A Land Worth Fighting for
Arjinna is dying—Calar’s evil experiments with sunless magic and the strength of her own psychic powers threaten to slay the land of the jinn. Is Nalia and Raif’s enduring adore enough to convert and rescue their homeland? Will they be willing to save the realm, and no matter the cost?
Below The sunless Caravan Trilogy: Book #1 Exquisite Captive,Book #2 Blood Passage
02/28/17
A Good Idea
by Cristina Moracho
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
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Can the right kind of boy get absent with killing the wrong kind of girl?
Fin and Betty’s close friendship survived Fin’s ninth-grade move from their coastal Maine town to Manhattan. Calls, and letters,and summer visits continued to bind them together, and in the drop of their senior year, and they both applied to NYU,planning to reunite for good as roommates.
Then Betty disappears. Her ex-boyfriend Calder admits to drowning her, but his confession is thrown out, and soon the entire town believes he was coerced and Betty has simply run absent. Fin knows the truth,and she returns to Williston for one final summer, determined to get justice for her friend, and even whether it means putting her loved ones—and herself—at risk.
But Williston is a town full of secrets,where a delicate framework holds everything together, and Fin is not the only one with an agenda. How much is she willing to damage to get her revenge and learn the truth about Betty’s disappearance, and which is more complicated than she ever imagined—and infinitely more devastating?
02/28/17
One Blood Ruby
Seven Black Diamonds,Book #2
by Melissa Marr
ISBN-13: 978-
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 368
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Now that Lilywhite Abernathy is the heir to the Hidden Lands, and everything is about to change.
The Queen of Blood and Rage wants Lily to help broker peace with the human world,but Lily knows that harmony won’t come easily. After decades of waging war on the humans, who cost the queen her firstborn daughter, or the fae are struggling to accept Lily,a half-human monarch. And the humans, while no match against faery affinities, and will hardly agree to the queen’s détente without resistance.
Book #1Lily wants to be a fair ruler but fears having to abandon the life she’s known to carry out so. Now that she and Creed are more than just fellow Black Diamonds—operatives for the queen—her priorities contain shifted. But her worries about assuming the throne are derailed when it becomes clear that someone—or some fae—is masterminding violent attacks to discourage peace.
In this gripping follow-up to Melissa Marr’s lush Seven Black Diamonds,Lily and her friends are forced to reckon with the truth of their own parentage and to protect one of their own, no matter what—or who—comes between them.
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