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A ROOM AWAY FROM THE WOLVES - Nova Ren Suma
A ROOM AWAY FROM THE WOLVESby Nova Ren Suma
to be published September 4 by Algonquin Young Readers
Bina has never forgotten the time she and her mother ran away from home. Her mother promised they would hitchhike to the city to escape Bina’s cruel father and start over. But before they could even l…
"GIRL MADE OF STARS" – Ashley Herring Blake
"Girl Made of Stars"by Ashley Herring Blake
released May 15 by HMH Books for Young Readers
"I need Owen to explain this. Because yes, I do know that Owen would never do that, but I also know Hannah would never lie about something like that."
Mara and Owen are about as close as tw…
BEST OF 2017
Howdy!Oh, yeah – I have a blog!
I thought I'd get back into the swing of things by writing a post I've been thinking about for a while: my favorite books of 2017. I want to do features like this yearly, where I highlight the best books I read during the year. Granted, it's May now, so …
HOW TO BEHAVE IN A CROWD — Camille Bordas
Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town. He doesn't quite fit in. Berenice, Aurore, and Leonard are on track to have doctorates by age twenty-four. Jeremie performs with a symphony, and Simone, older than Isidore by eighteen months, expects …
THE LESSER BOHEMIANS — Eimear McBride
THE LESSER BOHEMIANS threw me for a loop. McBride's prose style is so unique, fragmented and bizarre. Her characters leap off the page, fleshed out by past traumas and present experiences. After reading this book, I immediately went back to McBride's A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING—I could no…
HAG-SEED — Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest, HAG-SEED, had no reason to stun me, as I have no attachment to the source material. I should have known, however, that I was in great hands: Margaret's writing stuns, from sentence to sentence, from page to page; she has crafted …
HUMAN ACTS by Han Kang
HUMAN ACTS han kangHan Kang's HUMAN ACTS is brilliant and beautiful. It read quickly, pages turning as if the font were twice its size, but not easily—there is much to parse here. Kang's style breaks from tradition, but is vivid and evocative. The story, vicious and unrelenting, broke my hea…
HOLDING UP THE UNIVERSE by jennifer niven
HOLDING UP THE UNIVERSEjennifer niven
Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed “America’s Fattest Teen.” But no one’s taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom’s death, she’s been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, …
TRAFFICK by Ellen Hopkins
TRAFFICKby Ellen Hopkins
released November 3, 2015 by Simon & Schuster
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Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life in this riveting companion to the New York Times bestselling Tricks from Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank.
In her bestselling novel, Tricks, E…
THE SECRETS OF LAKE ROAD by Karen Katchur
THE SECRETS OF LAKE ROADby Karen Katchur
published August 4, 2015 by Thomas Dunne Books (St. Martin's Press)
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A haunting story about the destructive power of secrets, this accomplished and gripping suspenseful women's fiction debut is perfect for fans of Lisa Scottoline and Heather Gudenk…
LOVE LIES BENEATH by Ellen Hopkins
LOVE LIES BENEATHby Ellen Hopkins
published July 21, 2015 by Atria (Simon & Schuster)
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Collateral comes a gripping novel about a woman caught in a love affair that could be her salvation...or her undoing.
Tara is gorgeous, affluent, and fort…
THE 5th WAVE by Rick Yancey
THE 5th WAVE (THE 5th WAVE, #1)by Rick Yancey
published by Putnam
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After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.
Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a …
ALL THE RAGE by Courtney Summers
ALL THE RAGEby Courtney Summers
published in April 2014 by St. Martin's Press
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The sheriff’s son, Kellan Turner, is not the golden boy everyone thinks he is, and Romy Grey knows that for a fact. Because no one wants to believe a girl from the wrong side of town, the truth about him has cost…
THE DEATH CURE by James Dashner
THE DEATH CURE (THE MAZE RUNNER, #3)by James Dashner
published by Ember
THE SCORCH TRIALS by James Dashner
THE SCORCH TRIALS (THE MAZE RUNNER, #2)by James Dashner
published by Ember
THE MAZE RUNNER by James Dashner
THE MAZE RUNNER(THE MAZE RUNNER, #1)
by James Dashner
published by Ember
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hey, all!I'm going to start incorporating some changes to the blog.
1) first of all, if you've noticed, I've changed the header and the background! I really like the new images--I feel like they're more sophisticated, which my blog will become with the integration of more adult fict…
THOSE GIRLS by Chevy Stevens
THOSE GIRLSby Chevy Stevens
to be released July 7, 2015 from St. Martin's Press
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Chevy Stevens is back with her most powerful, emotional thriller yet— a story of survival…and revenge.
Life has never been easy for the three Campbell sisters. Jess, Courtney, and Dani live on a remote ranch i…
OBLIVION by Kelly Creagh
OBLIVION (NEVERMORE, #3)by Kelly Creagh
to be published July 28, 2015 by Simon & Schuster / Atheneum
Thanks to Simon & Schuster for the advanced copy!
"But . . . ," Isobel murmured, her voice quavering, suddenly weak, "you wouldn't. I know you wouldn't. I know you."
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THE WALLS AROUND US by Nova Ren Suma
THE WALLS AROUND USby Nova Ren Suma
to be published March 24, 2015 by Algonquin Young Readers
The Walls Around Us is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices—one still living and one long dead. On the outside, there’s Violet, an eighteen-year-old dancer days away from the life of her dreams w…