tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193366732024-03-21T17:12:04.602-07:00A LIT & Speculative BlogAll things speculative in fiction and beyond!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1022125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336673.post-87195686360060221472022-06-22T11:59:00.001-07:002022-06-22T11:59:19.992-07:00Cover Reveal: Elise Kova's Duel With the Vampire Lord<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCyL4rGotzOhSjg9iRz67i3SfGwSqIrUSf46Oa-WXD_rhgJlcWyKyWhwRD_TFkIZ7w1qruua3wUwcXBF2ktUIlIsiqLomkP5l3A6vUTaYEYV_sPeJplnEKOgAT5zeDfRw5Gxdmk-xo5uGNOQM7Sw80U9R7HldfblxVunKCGbIl1gqEPI4d4nY_BJIz/s1200/A-Duel-with-the-Vampire-Lord-eBook-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCyL4rGotzOhSjg9iRz67i3SfGwSqIrUSf46Oa-WXD_rhgJlcWyKyWhwRD_TFkIZ7w1qruua3wUwcXBF2ktUIlIsiqLomkP5l3A6vUTaYEYV_sPeJplnEKOgAT5zeDfRw5Gxdmk-xo5uGNOQM7Sw80U9R7HldfblxVunKCGbIl1gqEPI4d4nY_BJIz/w400-h640/A-Duel-with-the-Vampire-Lord-eBook-sm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">08/18/22</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">A Duel With The Vampire Lord</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Married to Magic, Book #3</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by Elise Kova</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Publisher: Silver Wing Press</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ASIN: B09CYPWNQ6</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pages:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09CYPWNQ6?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref_=dbs_mng_calw_2&storeType=ebooks#detailBullets_feature_div">Amazon Kindle</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58830475-a-duel-with-the-vampire-lord?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=4ER2qrcVac&rank=1">Goodreads</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">------------------------------------</span></div><div><div><b>For romantic epic fantasy fans who loved <i>King of Battle of Blood, The Bridge Kingdom</i>, and From <i>Blood and Ash</i>. Step into a world of hunters, vampires, and curses that run deeper than blood. This stand-alone is a must for fantasy vampire lovers.</b></div><div><br /></div><div><i>On the night of the blood moon, the Vampire Lord must die.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Floriane’s position as the forge maiden of Hunter’s Hamlet is one of reverence, for it is her skill that arms and protects the vampire hunters. She knows her place and is a faithful servant to the Master Hunter and her community… until the night of the blood moon. Until her brother is dying at the hands of the Vampire Lord Ruvan.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wanting to defend her home at all costs, Floriane fights the vampire lord, ready to give her life if it means taking his. But Ruvan doesn’t want to take her life… he wants her.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kidnapped and brought to the vampire castle, Floriane is now blood sworn to the vampire lord. She is bound in mind and body to her worst enemy. But Ruvan isn’t the fiend she thought he was. She learns the truth of the vampires: They are not mindless monsters, but a proud people, twisted and tortured by an ancient curse.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ruvan believes that Floriane might be the key to ending his people’s suffering. All Floriane wants is to defend her home. Loyalties are tested and the lines between truth and lie, hate and passion, are blurred.</div><div><br /></div><div>When her dagger is at his chest, will she be able to take the heart of the man who has claimed hers?</div><div><br /></div><div><b>A darkly-reimagined <i>Snow White</i>, meets inspiration from <i>Beauty and the Beast</i>, with vampires, in an epic fantasy world of enemies to lovers, found family, and deep lore. This stand alone is complete with a “happily ever after” ending. It’s perfect for fantasy romance fans looking for just the right amount of steam and their next slow-burn and swoon worthy, enemies to lovers story.</b></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpP9k1ub6ILTb584PmAPa6lim_K_guRjPOPhziutYgfVje4XFwMAG2hsz3leoABF518FdDLYwdJxkoWVj9Lff_RgyeTpqyB4g3Tgvsm6Udt-EltD5-oa1__vH261GMuR3OHYggP1petP5_fBUw1V0yUY17K8n72XBY5jI4COC8_RAaZmxrQ3b4yuhr=s1360" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="923" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpP9k1ub6ILTb584PmAPa6lim_K_guRjPOPhziutYgfVje4XFwMAG2hsz3leoABF518FdDLYwdJxkoWVj9Lff_RgyeTpqyB4g3Tgvsm6Udt-EltD5-oa1__vH261GMuR3OHYggP1petP5_fBUw1V0yUY17K8n72XBY5jI4COC8_RAaZmxrQ3b4yuhr=s320" width="217" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQfWS0xia_q--A-Rfc6BynyEblMZbNT309EuuGNCGNdYfVxgdftLsNbrDrOXxci40QBI6QFzYZFppNjTFC-TTBL0uinXo0x5NpdCIBb7nYFM_PvPQZa19-e9Xi4ezamk0rIU5V88kSQr5Es6QtWhePElteMCMpjz3IgiNoEejUnz7OqdIgN49BoOsV=s1360" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="923" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQfWS0xia_q--A-Rfc6BynyEblMZbNT309EuuGNCGNdYfVxgdftLsNbrDrOXxci40QBI6QFzYZFppNjTFC-TTBL0uinXo0x5NpdCIBb7nYFM_PvPQZa19-e9Xi4ezamk0rIU5V88kSQr5Es6QtWhePElteMCMpjz3IgiNoEejUnz7OqdIgN49BoOsV=s320" width="217" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336673.post-91359137043546457142022-02-14T14:04:00.002-08:002022-02-14T14:04:20.383-08:00Moira's Pen by Megan Whalen Turner (Yes, more Eudenides)!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I must be dead, I have absolutely been dreaming that one day all the short stories from the Queen's Thief world would be published together, and out of the blue, I'll have it THIS YEAR. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiM7raQWZzN31EbVD86CrZGmGDwFsxAjf9sCqS3LW3OXQgnk2JHJjoxAit8Yrmmn1EMr8BRifTK_w_fx7dGYrD78pfiEknyv9d2_LCVIBJcK7q-2RxjMPtQjpMhLeooRALJ7qAz_FzYgdK9iAa52jaH5ltiOK6nLGxH6P1HBfmsqjHw71-gxw=s750" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="497" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiM7raQWZzN31EbVD86CrZGmGDwFsxAjf9sCqS3LW3OXQgnk2JHJjoxAit8Yrmmn1EMr8BRifTK_w_fx7dGYrD78pfiEknyv9d2_LCVIBJcK7q-2RxjMPtQjpMhLeooRALJ7qAz_FzYgdK9iAa52jaH5ltiOK6nLGxH6P1HBfmsqjHw71-gxw=w424-h640" width="424" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Moira's Pen: </span><span style="font-size: large;">A Queen's Thief Collection</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Queen's Thief Companion</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">by <a href="http://www.meganwhalenturner.org/">Megan Whalen Turner</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Coming November 1, 2022</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Publisher : Greenwillow Books</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ISBN-13 : 978-0062885609 // Pages: 288</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Find it on: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09RKBBWDV/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i6">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42519294-moira-s-pen">Goodreads</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Owl Crate Special Edition Info Coming Soon!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: white;">-------------------</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Journey to the world of the Queen’s Thief in this beautifully illustrated collection, featuring bestselling and award-winning author Megan Whalen Turner’s charismatic and incorrigible thief, Eugenides.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Discover and rediscover friends old and new, and explore the inspiration behind Megan Whalen Turner’s rich world. A stunning and collectible volume to return to again and again.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This collectible companion to the <i>New York Times</i>–bestselling Queen’s Thief series is ideal for longtime fans, as well as readers discovering Megan Whalen Turner’s epic and unforgettable world for the first time. The collection includes all of the author’s previously published short fiction set in the world of the Queen’s Thief, as well as never-before-published stories, vignettes and excerpts, poetry and rhymes, a guide to inspiring objects from museums around the world, and a very special recipe for almond cake.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote>"We are also over the moon to announce that we are currently working with HarperCollins on an OwlCrate exclusive edition of this book! More details and reveals to come in a few months, but we couldn’t wait to share the news with you. This is going to be such a stunning book to add to your shelves!" <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OwlCrate/photos/a.1526767004267742/3101489950128765/?type=3&theater">OwlCrate Facebook</a> 2/11/22</blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div>
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Maas</a></span></div></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Hardcover : 768 pages</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">ISBN-13 : 978-1635574074</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1635574072/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1635574072&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2#detailBullets_feature_div">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57876697-house-of-sky-and-breath">Goodreads</a></span></div><div><span style="color: white;">----------------------------------</span></div><div><div><b>Sarah J. Maas's sexy, groundbreaking CRESCENT CITY series continues with the second installment</b>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal―they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds.</div><div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheTQGPWlJ6BH-0j2V1hkaKGNTFDaLxFVRCNpiQcwrkTs6RJaGwoeyPcJOBSRDf5U2JHI2RjnzclKKWnazSUKFxwh1npiZW4nvbj6zuPFIaXrLP8KVXp98lheH_fcoVWiQSuRNP/s2048/91tFtUf%252B0ZL.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1347" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheTQGPWlJ6BH-0j2V1hkaKGNTFDaLxFVRCNpiQcwrkTs6RJaGwoeyPcJOBSRDf5U2JHI2RjnzclKKWnazSUKFxwh1npiZW4nvbj6zuPFIaXrLP8KVXp98lheH_fcoVWiQSuRNP/w210-h320/91tFtUf%252B0ZL.jpg" width="210" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Book One</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone. But with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri’s power, the threat the rulers pose is growing. As Bryce, Hunt, and their friends get pulled into the rebels’ plans, the choice becomes clear: stay silent while others are oppressed, or fight for what’s right. And they’ve never been very good at staying silent.</div><div><br /></div><div>In this sexy, action-packed sequel to the #1 bestseller House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas weaves a captivating story of a world about to explode―and the people who will do anything to save it. </div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiArBhWwn6SnNfAvP4kslrYIFUTYjZYHTBRmd9DeI25oIHvxk6Ncz7-bKVwp5PXx8foInWHzRpFqktG-cCVLjCy4DdqcSaB8JfHjd_l0Tv84MeXlh9V2jkg6FPG8GrEF8YeeIgkTWi37hZQBMPsGtF3LX0fc8VCs_vsYRmL7S3DjlnttekNBVmRuVlC=s300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiArBhWwn6SnNfAvP4kslrYIFUTYjZYHTBRmd9DeI25oIHvxk6Ncz7-bKVwp5PXx8foInWHzRpFqktG-cCVLjCy4DdqcSaB8JfHjd_l0Tv84MeXlh9V2jkg6FPG8GrEF8YeeIgkTWi37hZQBMPsGtF3LX0fc8VCs_vsYRmL7S3DjlnttekNBVmRuVlC=w186-h186" width="186" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7dFqCWE9k726kjFa_KmOi1W8JWzLzqnxPsvfRSlKENufHe1j62HEgt0altJxbM5gJJ9l1aC5N_oQP50yieIYbfMvai-VG3ZU20vfzmxA3ek9oU5RfTyxEWTuiNA8BzPN41g2KWa7PPd_7bnx30cuS5hEpzXy5BGM98u-Ixn1QeFV9mxR1brrmhXqL=s300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7dFqCWE9k726kjFa_KmOi1W8JWzLzqnxPsvfRSlKENufHe1j62HEgt0altJxbM5gJJ9l1aC5N_oQP50yieIYbfMvai-VG3ZU20vfzmxA3ek9oU5RfTyxEWTuiNA8BzPN41g2KWa7PPd_7bnx30cuS5hEpzXy5BGM98u-Ixn1QeFV9mxR1brrmhXqL=w186-h186" width="186" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzoa3K5AWKuwk5GEtGjIWjwF2A6_4iuJwln-pjySKfiw0Y-GIjDQ4g9K93QYbkVGWDOE2fB_0_wkHVp7LAxwv7YGU9zk9emLcEDhqM3HIOmeHi_fSbRVaQ63oNnzAE85mlLzTdKqorHV6brJuSvayqH4CqZTVgultCCSuxAyO8iIn-A4ESdbrtidRS=s300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzoa3K5AWKuwk5GEtGjIWjwF2A6_4iuJwln-pjySKfiw0Y-GIjDQ4g9K93QYbkVGWDOE2fB_0_wkHVp7LAxwv7YGU9zk9emLcEDhqM3HIOmeHi_fSbRVaQ63oNnzAE85mlLzTdKqorHV6brJuSvayqH4CqZTVgultCCSuxAyO8iIn-A4ESdbrtidRS=w188-h188" width="188" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWBIMg1bDM8L1wyRM-LInWL5LkJelqs48Yx93NNkTJdGksBzQ_9JFkfjTbci_rdojoswEWMQV-IXP7owE0XXPeiU1Gaq7RTOrcJY8q0ZzItIH7Rv_DI-SmqVeJNjC7ij-EnGkdHygNQy_e0v67zH9drDBYdwjx0uAFLhBlrvVmfJxfN8AYSC_uQKyH=s700" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="455" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWBIMg1bDM8L1wyRM-LInWL5LkJelqs48Yx93NNkTJdGksBzQ_9JFkfjTbci_rdojoswEWMQV-IXP7owE0XXPeiU1Gaq7RTOrcJY8q0ZzItIH7Rv_DI-SmqVeJNjC7ij-EnGkdHygNQy_e0v67zH9drDBYdwjx0uAFLhBlrvVmfJxfN8AYSC_uQKyH=s320" width="208" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">02/15/22</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>House of Sky and Breath</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Crescent City , Book Two</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">by <a href="http://sarahjmaas.com/">Sarah J. Maas</a></span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">ISBN-13: 978-1635579413</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Edition description: B&N Exclusive Edition</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Find it on: <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/house-of-sky-and-breath-sarah-j-maas/1139427333?ean=9781635579413">Barnes and Noble.com</a></span></div><div><span style="color: white;">----------------------------</span></div>This Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition includes an additional chapter featuring Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar: After a formal luncheon with the Fae nobility, Bryce needs to let off some steam. Fortunately, Hunt can think of a few ways to help her find release</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7ulzHotEvUmtZlt8VhXC0R_A6R4B8xcmeY6ng4X-zRkTJaUAsA9a1NkfM1AVjwGJIAexxpGlDDt4Hht4yROo7jzJk_gHXt015girnaOOVD_42G7PYDc00Munp87N_PuqaCQcYlPEFNru8_k4aH3Zy-Vi0Ei5atlRyDqfl6bK6CqcE8UFToEBxOsHN=s1024" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="683" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7ulzHotEvUmtZlt8VhXC0R_A6R4B8xcmeY6ng4X-zRkTJaUAsA9a1NkfM1AVjwGJIAexxpGlDDt4Hht4yROo7jzJk_gHXt015girnaOOVD_42G7PYDc00Munp87N_PuqaCQcYlPEFNru8_k4aH3Zy-Vi0Ei5atlRyDqfl6bK6CqcE8UFToEBxOsHN=w426-h640" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">02/14/22</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Oak King Holly King</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by Sebastian Nothwell </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Publisher: Smashwords Edition</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ISBN-13: 978-1005527525</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pages: </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09LQGT9Z2/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B09LQGT9Z2&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2#detailBullets_feature_div">Amazon Kindle</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59603077-oak-king-holly-king">Goodreads</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;">---------------</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Shrike, the Butcher of Blackthorn, is a legendary warrior of the fae realms. When he wins a tournament in the Court of the Silver Wheel, its queen names him her Oak King - a figurehead destined to die in a ritual duel to invoke the change of seasons. Shrike is determined to survive. Even if it means he must put his heart as well as his life into a mere mortal’s hands.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Wren Lofthouse, a London clerk, has long ago resigned himself to a life of tedium and given up his fanciful dreams. When a medieval-looking brute arrives at his office to murmur of destiny, he’s inclined to think his old enemies are playing an elaborate prank. Still, he can’t help feeling intrigued by the bizarre-yet-handsome stranger and his fantastical ramblings, whose presence stirs up emotions Wren has tried to lock away in the withered husk of his heart.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As Shrike whisks Wren away to a world of Wild Hunts and arcane rites, Wren is freed from the repression of Victorian society. But both the fae and mortal realms prove treacherous to their growing bond. Wren and Shrike must fight side-by-side to see who will claim victory - Oak King or Holly King.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLp2DMkpwp4bTJOiAWvmdByarekOTlpQMC71uhqWbUYL7sjQmOgSFvI1a9qFixRXq4LqCPiwQLlp6L9_qHVXvT2ISSIlW0V4ukilBoEtlDZ-MloGQeZ8MCrOMmierQzKN4ZI_W/s1199/71yB1gnE1DL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1199" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLp2DMkpwp4bTJOiAWvmdByarekOTlpQMC71uhqWbUYL7sjQmOgSFvI1a9qFixRXq4LqCPiwQLlp6L9_qHVXvT2ISSIlW0V4ukilBoEtlDZ-MloGQeZ8MCrOMmierQzKN4ZI_W/w268-h400/71yB1gnE1DL.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">02/15/22</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ebonwilde</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bloodleaf Trilogy, Book Three</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by Crystal Smith </span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Publisher : Clarion Books</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hardcover : 512 pages</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ISBN-13 : 978-1328496324</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ebonwilde-Bloodleaf-Trilogy-Crystal-Smith/dp/1328496325/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40784235-ebonwilde">Goodreads</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;">--------------------</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Get ready to be swept away, seduced, and swindled in the wickedly vicious third and final installment in the Bloodleaf series that Laura Sebastian called “enchanting, visceral, and twisty.”</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Welcome to Ebonwilde. Come and find me.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Aurelia’s last words haunted Zan. Left with the task of finding and reviving Princess Aurelia, Zan sets off on his own adventure to find her and return the gift she sacrificed for him—her life. But not all is what it seems, and Ebonwilde is more dangerous than anyone can predict.</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDGJD8CP9paeWQwCQGQJMH774CdRRmIDuOF8EuLNPjpXZmpQUPkgh6wu9mBO3TKMuYuyIXcLP2O06C5fqNWYdYtzcn8UiahdoDFfsoTBdKoqxnHdXXPorxsxMjvlqFi3cjJTx7/s1200/71sdsrEIPRL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDGJD8CP9paeWQwCQGQJMH774CdRRmIDuOF8EuLNPjpXZmpQUPkgh6wu9mBO3TKMuYuyIXcLP2O06C5fqNWYdYtzcn8UiahdoDFfsoTBdKoqxnHdXXPorxsxMjvlqFi3cjJTx7/w213-h320/71sdsrEIPRL.jpg" width="213" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHhDY9vYQpFvEEs4cbLeMJBfyt-_-wBaIrwLucpUXa7D063vvTvS19PMiue9AeHEFpmIRAgDBabIdBIBv5dqN2D1z9zP5xQqpF3gf99gpXQ5sF9aoQSN958PuTsnUCZAlfDLQQ/s1200/71usudjkxqL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHhDY9vYQpFvEEs4cbLeMJBfyt-_-wBaIrwLucpUXa7D063vvTvS19PMiue9AeHEFpmIRAgDBabIdBIBv5dqN2D1z9zP5xQqpF3gf99gpXQ5sF9aoQSN958PuTsnUCZAlfDLQQ/w213-h320/71usudjkxqL.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGq-kgKBw_7K9xdfDa6jdbDW3eum7EwYcAeGjVo4xWOfpdIVFl3S5EUtj9DkH8c0Jre7g6a0778Af6hN-oyF9uUhFCbjUBuzDRyka2vQIa3VqwpMrgcOy0EvOJxL0UwhYKAmVzJJt8W8UEUuiitRF2WewwKciNtBDXtIIpbMv88Gxk5--06-QN_N9u=s2560" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGq-kgKBw_7K9xdfDa6jdbDW3eum7EwYcAeGjVo4xWOfpdIVFl3S5EUtj9DkH8c0Jre7g6a0778Af6hN-oyF9uUhFCbjUBuzDRyka2vQIa3VqwpMrgcOy0EvOJxL0UwhYKAmVzJJt8W8UEUuiitRF2WewwKciNtBDXtIIpbMv88Gxk5--06-QN_N9u=w400-h640" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">02/15/22</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Obsidian Butterfly</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Age of the Seventh Sun, Book #3</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by <a href="https://www.laniforbes.com/">Lani Forbes</a></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Publisher: Blackstone Publishing</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ISBN-13: 978-1982546113</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pages: 320</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982546115/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1982546115&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58687609-the-obsidian-butterfly">Goodreads</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;">------------------</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The Seventh Sun faces destruction as Mayana and Ahkin race to save their world in the finale to this “<i>compulsively readable</i>” series -- Rachel A. Marks, author of <i>Fire and Bone</i>.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">To the Chicome people, an eclipse is a time of terror. When darkness falls, the barrier separating the heavens and the earth becomes unstable. Then come the ravening Tzitzimime--the star demons who thirst for human blood. Mayana and Ahkin know the full extent of the coming danger, but they must gather support or the Chicome Empire is doomed.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As the eclipse nears, many maneuver for power in this deadly game of worlds ending.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Metzi, Ahkin's treacherous sister, has seized control of the empire with the aid of the malevolent goddess known as the Obsidian Butterfly. But Metzi has no idea what the goddess has in store ...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Yemania and Ochix face the wrath of both their peoples. Their forbidden liaison may draw ancient enemies together ... or rip the young lovers apart forever.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And the princesses who battled fiercely for Ahkin's heart in The Seventh Sun meet again--but this time, they must join forces in order to survive.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As for Ahkin and Mayana, the entire empire seems to want to keep them apart. 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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336673.post-1211802629947813332022-02-09T10:24:00.001-08:002022-02-09T10:24:18.385-08:00Cover Revealed! Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse<div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Tread of Angels</i></b>, a standalone novella coming November 15th, 2022 from Rebecca Roanhorse. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Read the exclusive <a href="https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/rebecca-roanhorse-tread-of-angels-cover-excerpt">Chapter One excerpt on Bustle.com</a> now!</div><div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsczLatLHSQYXa9ZbeF2vnZL0MRa4X6A6WvoQWmE1zCuHnqRoZS9W7injeR3JxFuZ_qlmFL_DIcHpGgv3W0Zzrx870dAJMOrs9jezvBy44HcYP8JwSHsUeydojzF4wVh0gm89HKXYWnwbvkCuQy4reF2f4K-ONXkYfwJ6hkm9gr1M9MsjV_Z0=s1979" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1979" data-original-width="1399" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsczLatLHSQYXa9ZbeF2vnZL0MRa4X6A6WvoQWmE1zCuHnqRoZS9W7injeR3JxFuZ_qlmFL_DIcHpGgv3W0Zzrx870dAJMOrs9jezvBy44HcYP8JwSHsUeydojzF4wVh0gm89HKXYWnwbvkCuQy4reF2f4K-ONXkYfwJ6hkm9gr1M9MsjV_Z0=w452-h640" width="452" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tread of Angels</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by <a href="https://rebeccaroanhorse.com/2022/02/09/tread-of-angels-coming-11-15-22/">Rebecca Roanhorse</a> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Coming November 15, 2022</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ISBN-13 : 978-1982166182</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pages: 128</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982166185/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1982166185&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60321430-tread-of-angels">Goodread</a></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60321430-tread-of-angels">s</a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">--------------------------------------</span></div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdNnQEzYUiZnptLTsjqiOFzfsop6fO7TEWy-XKejNc-fG8tUBAhyxcsvMOLMwNm070RJmDP7076Y9a7o7rQGQDfDm9hmAnGGqt9X-Unlimds6MratexdbZbBaTenDQTKS_qG9gsHp0aigrux7XiklWHYTCwGhYQY_N8A8Wu5EPh24uwQTNHiA" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="165" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdNnQEzYUiZnptLTsjqiOFzfsop6fO7TEWy-XKejNc-fG8tUBAhyxcsvMOLMwNm070RJmDP7076Y9a7o7rQGQDfDm9hmAnGGqt9X-Unlimds6MratexdbZbBaTenDQTKS_qG9gsHp0aigrux7XiklWHYTCwGhYQY_N8A8Wu5EPh24uwQTNHiA=w104-h202" width="104" /></a></div><br />In this magical romance from the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Wicked Deep</i>, an illness cursing the land forces a teen girl astronomer to venture across the wilderness in search of the stars’ message that will, hopefully, save them all.</b><div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><i>If magic lives anywhere, it’s in the stars</i>…</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Vega has lived in the valley her whole life—forbidden by her mother to leave the safety of its borders because of the unknown threats waiting for her in the wilds beyond. But after her mother dies, Vega sees the fabled twin stars in the sky, it’s an omen she can no longer ignore, forcing her to leave the protective boundaries of the valley. But the outside world turns out to be much more terrifying than Vega could have imagined. People are gravely sick—they lose their eyesight and their hearing, just before they lose their lives.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div>What Vega keeps to herself is that she is the Last Astronomer—a title carried from generation to generation—and she is the only one who carries the knowledge of the stars. Knowledge that could hold the key to the cure. And so when locals spot the tattoo on Vega’s neck in the shape of a constellation—<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEge8bRJ0oWUnRB64KEvauYO4sOG3eBrGpRFaXqft2hbkPxIA_wf2Wro0uUmWUB4_KjbojQx2zeRwKrLoxCYgvhp6OpK0rp0Sipe9dhaQfKGXKnHE-5-_4tFuqLZt8RyzMHSf0qJYBGv_-ENgr3zjMGRhjkoOPpD7UbQJ1A8rRb_0_5L6fFiuko=s781" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="781" data-original-width="779" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEge8bRJ0oWUnRB64KEvauYO4sOG3eBrGpRFaXqft2hbkPxIA_wf2Wro0uUmWUB4_KjbojQx2zeRwKrLoxCYgvhp6OpK0rp0Sipe9dhaQfKGXKnHE-5-_4tFuqLZt8RyzMHSf0qJYBGv_-ENgr3zjMGRhjkoOPpD7UbQJ1A8rRb_0_5L6fFiuko=w137-h138" width="137" /></a></div><br />the mark of an astronomer—chaos erupts as the threats her mother warned her about become all too real.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fearing for her life, Vega will be rescued by a girl named Cricket who will lead her to Noah, a boy marked by his own mysterious tattoos. On the run from the men who are hunting her, Vega, Cricket, and Noah will set out across the plains in search of the cure the stars speak of. But as the lines between friend and protector begin to blur, Vega must decide whether she will reveal or safeguard the sacred knowledge of the astronomer. Or if she will risk everything to try to save them all.</div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336673.post-51195291528659155262022-02-08T13:33:00.003-08:002022-02-08T13:33:45.791-08:00Tim Burton Redux? Halloween Comes Early in 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWmIWddXtfLOdDNFK1e3hYN5YkmOjjpN3orUMFXK97Lwn73OfNMxnEPXKiuiSBZJxipHkyanEd-iiBoDxnlT2vJ_lQZCvU-1BTOrjAh3wzMr2y7gGb_Q_sbgbRPxpZFOLLumkozvegba_LodFOvOCzQ4FR-PY7ucxuB8T-cFbdSL9B2MAoG08G9p52=s2550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="1662" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWmIWddXtfLOdDNFK1e3hYN5YkmOjjpN3orUMFXK97Lwn73OfNMxnEPXKiuiSBZJxipHkyanEd-iiBoDxnlT2vJ_lQZCvU-1BTOrjAh3wzMr2y7gGb_Q_sbgbRPxpZFOLLumkozvegba_LodFOvOCzQ4FR-PY7ucxuB8T-cFbdSL9B2MAoG08G9p52=w418-h640" width="418" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>07/05/22</span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Long Live the Pumpkin Queen</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">by <a href="https://twitter.com/sheaernshaw">Shea Ernshaw</a> </span></div></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Publisher: Disney Press</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">ISBN-13: 978-1368069601</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">ISBN-13: 978-1368084383/ Edition description: B&N Exclusive Edition</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Pages: 352</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Long-Live-Pumpkin-Queen-Nightmare/dp/1368069606/ref=sr_1_1?adid=082VK13VJJCZTQYGWWCZ&campaign=211041&creative=374001&keywords=Long+Live+the+Pumpkin+Queen&qid=1644355036&s=books&sr=1-1">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/long-live-the-pumpkin-queen-shea-ernshaw/1139906449;jsessionid=35493A45A9BED776CBAEA8B399B1515B.prodny_store02-atgap16?ean=9781368084383">B&N</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57118197-long-live-the-pumpkin-queen">Goodreads</a></span></div><div><span style="color: white;">----------------------------</span></div><div><div><i><b>Jack and Sally are "truly meant to be" ... or are they?</b></i></div><div><br /></div><div>Sally Skellington is the official, newly-minted Pumpkin Queen after a whirlwind courtship with her true love, Jack, who Sally adores with every inch of her fabric seams -- if only she could say the same for her new role as Queen of Halloween Town. </div><div><br /></div><div>Cast into the spotlight and tasked with all sorts of queenly duties, Sally can't help but wonder if all she's done is trade her captivity under Dr. FInkelstein for a different -- albeit gilded -- cage. But when Sally and Zero accidentally uncover a long-hidden doorway to an ancient realm called Dream Town in the forest Hinterlands, she'll unknowingly set into motion a chain of sinister events that put her future as Pumpkin Queen, and the future of Halloween Town itself, into jeopardy. </div><div><br /></div><div>Can Sally discover what it means to be true to herself and save the town she's learned to call home, or will her future turn into her worst... well, nightmare?</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition features a unique jacket and a customized case. Exclusive bonus content includes Sally’s collection of secret recipes, potions, and apothecary cures</b>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXjkoejUbH6Jit7lSelURc6T3h9_wTrjyvvUqAPHpIvjjBeD-MoHpcKZmzPqQtc8svku0B-_CepQngUL44svvbo0YeL1A93jyHoFsdYEU_rw8sWbKsbkq_KxCZh1IQKJjOkNUvkDd2f5cv1aIFF2N10Lrse4iN3p555pGhCzru44NQvR6x_HE=s2560" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1695" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXjkoejUbH6Jit7lSelURc6T3h9_wTrjyvvUqAPHpIvjjBeD-MoHpcKZmzPqQtc8svku0B-_CepQngUL44svvbo0YeL1A93jyHoFsdYEU_rw8sWbKsbkq_KxCZh1IQKJjOkNUvkDd2f5cv1aIFF2N10Lrse4iN3p555pGhCzru44NQvR6x_HE=w424-h640" width="424" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">09/06/22</span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Raising the Horseman</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">by Serena Valentino</span></div></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Publisher: Disney-Hyperion</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">ISBN-13: 978-1368054614</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Pages: 304</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1368054617/ref=x_gr_w_bb_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_sin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1368054617&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2#detailBullets_feature_div">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60021303-raising-the-horseman">Goodreads</a></span></div><div><span style="color: white;">------------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>From the <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author of Disney’s Villains series comes a ghostly new stand-alone novel that reimagines <i>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</i> through the eyes of a modern teen.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>The two-hundredth anniversary of the Headless Horseman's legendary haunting of Sleepy Hollow is approaching, but Kat van Tassel wants nothing to do with the town's superstitious celebrations. As a descendant of the original Katrina van Tassel, Kat knows she’s expected to fulfill her ancestor’s legacy by someday marrying her longtime boyfriend Brandon and running the prestigious family estate. But Kat dreams of a life outside Sleepy Hollow.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then Kat meets Isadora, a new girl in town who challenges Kat to reexamine those expectations, opens her eyes to the possibility that ghosts are real, and makes her question who she truly wants to be . . . and be with.</div><div><br /></div><div>When Kat is given the original Katrina’s diary, a new legend begins to take shape, one that weaves together the past and the present in eerie ways. Can Kat uncover a two-hundred-year-old secret, and trace its shocking reverberations in her own life, in time to protect what she truly loves?</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Fans of Serena Valentino will delight in this supernatural coming-of-age tale that finally gives the women of Sleepy Hollow a chance to tell their side of the story</b>.</div></div><div><br style="text-align: left;" /></div></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336673.post-63244667418049421712022-02-07T14:05:00.002-08:002022-02-07T15:19:45.559-08:00Cover Reveals for February 7, 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsOkly6z9OvDUprivhQRc0qI-K3DnSS8jc_iO8jSzzRKC_h93I5bhkqZNUJXG9Zc6G0_gwBpLAAY1bvVYK_9wXrIvCn38ck8zigMCMK219BnISZSs_ovBM1OzoP_jynU-dqq7PTq1IgIKzIabjXchkhbQlRS0WrWqZiJqEziNlVnJfr_aLaW8=s2560" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1676" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsOkly6z9OvDUprivhQRc0qI-K3DnSS8jc_iO8jSzzRKC_h93I5bhkqZNUJXG9Zc6G0_gwBpLAAY1bvVYK_9wXrIvCn38ck8zigMCMK219BnISZSs_ovBM1OzoP_jynU-dqq7PTq1IgIKzIabjXchkhbQlRS0WrWqZiJqEziNlVnJfr_aLaW8=w420-h640" width="420" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Kingdom of the Feared </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kingdom of the Wicked, Book Three</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by <a href="https://www.kerrimaniscalco.com/">Kerri Maniscalco</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Coming September 27, 2022</i></b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ISBN-13: 978-0316341882</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pages: 464</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Feared-Wicked-Kerri-Maniscalco/dp/0316341886/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#detailBullets_feature_div">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58470171-kingdom-of-the-feared">Goodreads</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">----------------</span></div><div><div><b>From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes the steamy conclusion to Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy.</b></div><div> </div><div><i><b>Two curses.</b></i></div><div><i><b>One prophecy.</b></i></div><div><b><i>A reckoning all have feared</i>.</b></div><div><b> </b></div><div><b><i>And a love more powerful than fate. All hail the king and queen of Hell</i>.</b></div><div> </div><div>Emilia is reeling from the shocking discovery that her twin sister, Vittoria, is alive. But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. Emilia doesn’t simply desire his body, she wants his heart and soul—but that’s something the enigmatic demon can’t promise her.</div><div> </div><div>When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, Emilia and Wrath are drawn to the rival demon court. Damning evidence points to Vittoria as the murderer and she’s quickly declared an enemy of the Seven Circles. Despite her betrayal, Emilia will do anything to solve this new mystery and find out who her sister really is.</div><div> </div><div>Together Emilia and Wrath play a sin-fueled game of deception as they work to stop the unrest that’s brewing between witches, demons, shape-shifters and the most treacherous foes of all: the Feared.</div><div> </div><div>Emilia was warned that when it came to the Wicked nothing was as it seemed. But, have the true villains been much closer all along? When the truth is finally revealed, it just might end up costing Emilia her heart.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>
<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgGa6OlNYIoFhf5RzQHrPoJj1R7mSNekEKQzuVH5uQGJRJcWktmujyEUZm8Sn8ojgLJvJP5WG5SGrFafyXZ2M04PzgqhkDs48HUlRadAN-2pQvTqUDOHx7H5UpXNVXi8JeZwCBAjfhMZU8ojCakG0cyEnT7n14kT8Q_V4LPmaKwEdOVEZNq5R8=s2100" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="1400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgGa6OlNYIoFhf5RzQHrPoJj1R7mSNekEKQzuVH5uQGJRJcWktmujyEUZm8Sn8ojgLJvJP5WG5SGrFafyXZ2M04PzgqhkDs48HUlRadAN-2pQvTqUDOHx7H5UpXNVXi8JeZwCBAjfhMZU8ojCakG0cyEnT7n14kT8Q_V4LPmaKwEdOVEZNq5R8=w426-h640" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Ones We Burn</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by <a href="https://www.rebeccamix.com/">Rebecca Mix</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Coming November 01, 2022</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ISBN-13 : 978-1534493513</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pages: 480</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ones-We-Burn-Rebecca-Mix/dp/1534493514/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1644268958&sr=1-4#detailBullets_feature_div">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56952365-the-ones-we-burn">Goodreads</a></span></div><span style="color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;">---------------------------------</div></span><blockquote><i><b>“Romantic, brutal, and hopeful.” —Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf</b></i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>Love and duty collide in this richly imagined, atmospheric young adult debut about a witch whose dark powers put her at the center of a brewing war between the only family she’s ever known and the enemy who makes her question everything.</b><br /><br /><i>Monster. Butcher. Bloodwinn.</i><p></p><p>Ranka is tired of death. All she wants now is to be left alone, living out her days in Witchik’s wild north with the coven that raised her, attempting to forget the horrors of her past. But when she is named Bloodwinn, the next treaty bride to the human kingdom of Isodal, her coven sends her south with a single directive: kill him. Easy enough, for a blood-witch whose magic compels her to kill.</p><p>Except the prince is gentle, kind, and terrified of her. He doesn’t want to marry Ranka; he doesn’t want to be king at all. And it’s his sister—the wickedly smart, infuriatingly beautiful Princess Aramis—who seems to be real threat.</p><p>But when witches start turning up dead, murdered by a mysterious, magical plague, Aramis makes Ranka an offer: help her develop a cure, and in return, she’ll help Ranka learn to contain her deadly magic. As the coup draws nearer and the plague spreads, Ranka is forced to question everything she thought she knew about her power, her past, and who she’s meant to fight for. Soon, she will have to decide between the coven that raised her and the princess who sees beyond the monster they shaped her to be.</p><p>But as the bodies pile up, a monster may be exactly what they need.</p><p></p><blockquote><i><b>"Feral and tender at once. Rebecca Mix has created a world teeming with terrifying magic and ferocious monsters to be saved. The Ones We Burn is a story of strength, and love that is chosen."—Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights</b></i></blockquote><p></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWLIkn1ZrNuTEehR8tSqmRzy6POHV3jKdHWupgU2uG70Z-AVEPIsluUF0jgSti6-A84lgdrw6xQtsEMlzXXSEqdYdRIiH-dpYOG4MlLTNa4IQEKbqQLlvn6uxKEktiyrsh-tbYG0-XkgicH8IENC8OsIdDNMdqhjsdl4UXiZ3Ycn_c8Zk19OE=s2113" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2113" data-original-width="1400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWLIkn1ZrNuTEehR8tSqmRzy6POHV3jKdHWupgU2uG70Z-AVEPIsluUF0jgSti6-A84lgdrw6xQtsEMlzXXSEqdYdRIiH-dpYOG4MlLTNa4IQEKbqQLlvn6uxKEktiyrsh-tbYG0-XkgicH8IENC8OsIdDNMdqhjsdl4UXiZ3Ycn_c8Zk19OE=w424-h640" width="424" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>A Consuming Fire </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by <a href="http://www.lauraeweymouth.com/">Laura E. Weymouth</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Coming November 22, 2022</i></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books </span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ISBN-13: 978-1665902700</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pages: 320</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Consuming-Fire-Laura-Weymouth/dp/1665902701/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#detailBullets_feature_div">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56132783-a-consuming-fire">Goodreads</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">----------------------------</span></div><div><div><b><i>Uprooted </i>meets <i>The Grace Year</i> in this dark young adult fantasy of love and vengeance following a girl who vows to kill a god after her sister is unjustly slain by his hand.</b></div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>Weatherell girls aren’t supposed to die</b></i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Once every eighteen years, the isolated forest village of Weatherell is asked to send one girl to the god of the mountain to give a sacrifice before returning home. Twins Anya and Ilva Astraea are raised with this destiny in mind, and when their time comes, spirited Ilva volunteers to go. Her devoted sister Anya is left at home to pray for Ilva’s safe return. But Anya’s prayers are denied.</div><div><br /></div><div>With her sister dead, Anya volunteers to make a journey of her own to visit the god of the mountain. But unlike her sister, sacrifice is the furthest thing from Anya’s mind. Anya has no intention of giving anything more to the god, or of letting any other girl do so ever again. Anya Astraea has not set out to placate a god. She’s set out to kill one.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote><i><b>"A Consuming Fire is delicate and devastating, a heart-wrenching exploration of faith, mercy, and how worship can twist on axes of power." ― Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf</b></i></blockquote></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336673.post-34963660782832531012022-02-01T13:26:00.000-08:002022-02-01T13:26:03.603-08:00Ramon and Julieta by Alana Quintana Albertson Book Birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWRgsUmsrC-f1UFP2Ed5QSs7wJk6m6f57TqEpQpymRlFsfLYMY_viDXUfU-74xgsLmTYjij7YxKH-rREZbMcJjvCo86vq8iqgSnvLs_oWjaoiHwlulrVZ1DVNGQbFqunSqrr6DceqP-HOxk-0IgXAtBJrJzZtXHkYclS49xH0EQgibbh_4Q00=s970" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="970" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWRgsUmsrC-f1UFP2Ed5QSs7wJk6m6f57TqEpQpymRlFsfLYMY_viDXUfU-74xgsLmTYjij7YxKH-rREZbMcJjvCo86vq8iqgSnvLs_oWjaoiHwlulrVZ1DVNGQbFqunSqrr6DceqP-HOxk-0IgXAtBJrJzZtXHkYclS49xH0EQgibbh_4Q00=w640-h198" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFDC1HCUqtngb_NfYU1e4xobuBSKVkr_hM39oN-5X4BWzyZaT5pB_KSxP1B8FCdZQCHgrQwJU_63kJQt869HkTzp2Hb7cBELa9Gpy_4r0BlHn1U0j8o0daK5LzANP94QZIqn_cHk871Ef4hpDdVkv86lXxKHB8sOiCFuPG6PFjHImPe555eCg=s2560" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1699" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFDC1HCUqtngb_NfYU1e4xobuBSKVkr_hM39oN-5X4BWzyZaT5pB_KSxP1B8FCdZQCHgrQwJU_63kJQt869HkTzp2Hb7cBELa9Gpy_4r0BlHn1U0j8o0daK5LzANP94QZIqn_cHk871Ef4hpDdVkv86lXxKHB8sOiCFuPG6PFjHImPe555eCg=w424-h640" width="424" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ramón and Julieta</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Love and Tacos, Book #1</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by Alana Quintana Albertson</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Publisher: Berkley</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paperback: 304 pages</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ISBN-13 : 978-0593336229</span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Find it at: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593336224/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0593336224&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ram-n-and-julieta-alana-quintana-albertson/1139395139;jsessionid=65E72F4F00DF644733D029425292C822.prodny_store02-atgap07?ean=9780593336229">B&N</a>, <a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9780593336229">Mysterious Galaxy</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57926134-ram-n-and-julieta">Goodreads</a></span></div><div><span style="color: white;">-------------------------------------------</span></div><blockquote><div>“<i>As this love story shaped by the complexities of Latinx communities unfolds, Albertson insightfully dramatizes the contrasts between Julieta and Ramón as he becomes increasingly conflicted about his identity as a Mexican American and his business plans for the neighborhood and its impact on the culture</i>.”—Booklist</div></blockquote><div><div><br /></div><div>When fate and tacos bring Ramón and Julieta together on the Day of the Dead, the star-crossed pair must make a choice: accept the bitter food rivalry that drives them apart or surrender to a love that consumes them.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ramón Montez always achieves his goals. Whether that means collecting Ivy League degrees or growing his father's fast-food empire, nothing sets Ramón off course. So when the sexy señorita who kissed him on the Day of the Dead runs off into the night with his heart, he determines to do whatever it takes to find her again.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh2VxY_Yqcnc1BHs6txhUXAja8VnhHxDmckM1Ugm0qmc6uLW73o8KAznqXI6xIYNchpl1x3nmZ7GacFlc3piTjJTV0BDfJKBT-iFkSaLv4r-LJIZI8VIrXk4L4Ss7xoZKPp6_56HSy8y3oCZdW1YMmJwZflihIPpDnlJxaQoP_MVwLHvLP3WM=s242" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="242" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh2VxY_Yqcnc1BHs6txhUXAja8VnhHxDmckM1Ugm0qmc6uLW73o8KAznqXI6xIYNchpl1x3nmZ7GacFlc3piTjJTV0BDfJKBT-iFkSaLv4r-LJIZI8VIrXk4L4Ss7xoZKPp6_56HSy8y3oCZdW1YMmJwZflihIPpDnlJxaQoP_MVwLHvLP3WM" width="242" /></a></div><br />Celebrity chef Julieta Campos has sacrificed everything to save her sea-to-table taqueria from closing. To her horror, she discovers that her new landlord is none other than the magnetic mariachi she hooked up with on Dia de los Muertos. Even worse, it was his father who stole her mother's taco recipe decades ago. Julieta has no choice but to work with Ramón, the man who destroyed her life's work--and the one man who tempts and inspires her.</div><div><br /></div><div>As San Diego's outraged community protests against the Taco King take-over and the divide between their families grows, Ramón and Julieta struggle to balance the rising tensions. But Ramón knows that true love is priceless and despite all of his successes, this is the one battle he refuses to lose.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336673.post-30168708907382884702022-01-27T16:28:00.003-08:002022-01-27T16:28:09.834-08:00Nona the Ninth by asmin Muir- Cover Revealed!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikGFqa5FRMqueEtmiX01c0Up_f2Yu4PN4T-4gq85BuMk3MWkDl-ZWlrbZpMs7_ufd0OMlBHDXSW68ffnUdm1fTqchOzMAmLPvWB1MFEeTrHFcQTnAJhXZ6oy4AvEKNhLSbYEFgH9FkIfzwjuAokZtjVhmbDGTCYkCcoJslpKOjlP5M1c-twPI=s1421" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1421" data-original-width="920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikGFqa5FRMqueEtmiX01c0Up_f2Yu4PN4T-4gq85BuMk3MWkDl-ZWlrbZpMs7_ufd0OMlBHDXSW68ffnUdm1fTqchOzMAmLPvWB1MFEeTrHFcQTnAJhXZ6oy4AvEKNhLSbYEFgH9FkIfzwjuAokZtjVhmbDGTCYkCcoJslpKOjlP5M1c-twPI=w414-h640" width="414" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Nona the Ninth</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Locked Tomb #3</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by Tamsyn Muir</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Publisher: Tordotcom</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Coming September 13, 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">ISBN-13: 978-1250854117</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Pages: 496</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nona-Ninth-Locked-Tomb-3/dp/1250854113/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#detailBullets_feature_div">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58662507-nona-the-ninth?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Cu68355UQY&rank=1">Goodreads</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/22901210/nona-the-ninth-cover-reveal-tamsyn-muir-interview-locked-tomb-series">Read an exclusive interview with Tasmin Muir about Nona the Ninth on Vox.com</a></span></i></div><div><span style="color: white;">---------------------------</span></div><div><div><b>Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona ...the Ninth?</b></div><div><br /></div><div></div><blockquote><div>“Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space! Decadent nobles vie to serve the deathless emperor! Skeletons!” ―Charles Stross on Gideon the Ninth</div><div><br /></div><div>“Unlike anything I've ever read.” ―V.E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth</div><div><br /></div><div>“Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original.” ―The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth</div></blockquote><div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Her city is under siege.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The zombies are coming back.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>And all Nona wants is a birthday party</b>.</div><div><br /></div><div>In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back.</div><div><br /></div><div>The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also knows that nothing lasts forever.</div><div><br /></div><div>And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face...</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0kONVb8Ul6tPJXSRo7iguuMT7TICk11saXIOj92UH1q_Ha9GICDb5_9B3Nv_LjjlVrhpBnh2XdfHNB4EZxReBqljkXJ1lOgeKKM5LrF1uAjkJc5aS-03uychU7y0U88iaZ1XOERGOrbbyZcTvpM0327Az3s10yWvLVhDPPUcWrjdhROhdNnk=s2550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="1650" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0kONVb8Ul6tPJXSRo7iguuMT7TICk11saXIOj92UH1q_Ha9GICDb5_9B3Nv_LjjlVrhpBnh2XdfHNB4EZxReBqljkXJ1lOgeKKM5LrF1uAjkJc5aS-03uychU7y0U88iaZ1XOERGOrbbyZcTvpM0327Az3s10yWvLVhDPPUcWrjdhROhdNnk=s320" width="207" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjc1QOj0Qpl50fGTqWV87HPA-nVi6EjRj3LNSwTDQwxnZYoteucRXesx_l74o9gaGi_k2iiTWVUY8Qx09qP5Fz3xcYQXzP3MZr46Ec6WJIgSK2CX76vzlOHjFHeQ2OKE7eOO5ZwqOy_CzAfTvmhPJtDNEpNe8H9JgZdM8czL9U29vB67u33jnM=s2550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="1650" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjc1QOj0Qpl50fGTqWV87HPA-nVi6EjRj3LNSwTDQwxnZYoteucRXesx_l74o9gaGi_k2iiTWVUY8Qx09qP5Fz3xcYQXzP3MZr46Ec6WJIgSK2CX76vzlOHjFHeQ2OKE7eOO5ZwqOy_CzAfTvmhPJtDNEpNe8H9JgZdM8czL9U29vB67u33jnM=s320" width="207" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336673.post-14449445759950272332022-01-21T13:31:00.000-08:002022-01-21T13:31:00.655-08:00Cover Revealed! 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<div style="text-align: center;">07/19/22</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Daughter of Doctor Moreau</div><div style="text-align: center;">by <a href="https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/writing/the-daughter-of-doctor-moreau/">Silvia Moreno-Garcia</a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Publisher: Del Rey</div><div style="text-align: center;">ISBN-13: 978-0593355336</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pages: 320</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593355334/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0593355334&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2#detailBullets_feature_div">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54829360-the-daughter-of-doctor-moreau?ref=abs22_gr_cr_tw_q1">Goodreads</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">------------------------------</span></div><div><div><b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Mexican Gothic </i>and <i>Velvet Was the Night</i> comes a dreamy reimagining of <i>The Island of Doctor Moreau</i> set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><blockquote>ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—<i>She Reads</i></blockquote></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Carlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. The only daughter of a man who is either a genius or a madman.</div><div><br /></div><div>Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. An outcast who assists Dr. Moreau with his scientific experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas and plentiful coffers.</div><div><br /></div><div>The hybrids: The fruits of the doctor’s labor, destined to blindly obey their creator and remain in the shadows. A motley group of part human, part animal monstrosities.</div><div><br /></div><div>All of them live in a perfectly balanced and static world, which is jolted by the abrupt arrival of Eduardo Lizalde, the charming and careless son of Dr. Moreau’s patron, who will unwittingly begin a dangerous chain reaction.</div><div><br /></div><div>For Moreau keeps secrets, Carlota has questions, and, in the sweltering heat of the jungle, passions may ignite.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336673.post-20710763095254256982021-11-30T12:38:00.007-08:002022-01-19T10:33:52.868-08:00C.J. Merwild's Nichan Smile<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXHBkcjsJk_1st-mO6-G9SRrtu5MmlxoSQZI0kekuIQaEYAERoJkJyNNYkscE-FteOltrGDy9b_2IlcNosULYmEKv6A-LWSwwyL0fuoniiqQDnLB_V3twebXXULH-IyT0WO2a84Q/s573/cover-tns.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="410" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXHBkcjsJk_1st-mO6-G9SRrtu5MmlxoSQZI0kekuIQaEYAERoJkJyNNYkscE-FteOltrGDy9b_2IlcNosULYmEKv6A-LWSwwyL0fuoniiqQDnLB_V3twebXXULH-IyT0WO2a84Q/w458-h640/cover-tns.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">THE NICHAN SMILE</span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he Gods smiled upon their offsprings from the skies, loving, generous. But that was before. For the sky is now tainted, and the people deprived of their creators overnight have been orphans for nearly two centuries.</p><p>Since that fateful day, the Corruption has reigned over the world. It defiled the clouds, covered the lands with a veil of darkness. The first conflicts arose in the east of the Coroman continent, some under the impulse of beliefs calling for blood and flames. As hatred continues to spread, the vanished Gods no longer answering any prayers, some fight for a peaceful life.</p><p>In the midst of this madness, two children meet each other.</p><p>One of them is human.</p><p>The other is nichan.</p><p>The boys are two opposite minds and fates, yet connected irrevocably. The days, then the passing years bring them together. But life reminds them of their differences and works to crush the remnants of their innocence. Between joys and sorrows, friendship and savagery, a smile is sometimes enough to change everything…</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFOExNpUaQvKLTsPPCsZYP_pm5YiOInGFmLWIQ9eEcUMmAhiWwkI0_wjE2WB5Dlw06ygHqzxCPvcFhbY6ZJJtXcG2wnYzVt_7EavgIFdQMPs2B0ySkO6KLoM0TPM4Vcuz8zzGMsY3lGCGS5xgygZUmOxDcc9ODXCofiJ6Z6h03JySTzQmyV-w=s2193" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="2193" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFOExNpUaQvKLTsPPCsZYP_pm5YiOInGFmLWIQ9eEcUMmAhiWwkI0_wjE2WB5Dlw06ygHqzxCPvcFhbY6ZJJtXcG2wnYzVt_7EavgIFdQMPs2B0ySkO6KLoM0TPM4Vcuz8zzGMsY3lGCGS5xgygZUmOxDcc9ODXCofiJ6Z6h03JySTzQmyV-w=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://cjmerwild.com/the-nichan-smile-chapter-one/">Read Chapter One!</a></span></p><p></p><p> </p><blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;">Content Warning: this novel contains graphic violence, violence against children and animals, explicit sexual content (including sexual violence, rape, and underage sex), pedophilia, and explicit language. Reader discretion is advised.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1g9jo6A83FxAJf3zVdVJbqAS8oc3cYxviTHIf2TxCSdm11OSkclXtdLIYw90BCHJVnhyphenhyphenCgZ-Gub-0NKkVWKS6dtQCOBTKJrFK5U0r0g9KhePsMVM7NOAwKAWjyaLdWb4GzG-Sw/s1828/ElHlJqnXIAMTjEF.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1656" data-original-width="1828" height="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1g9jo6A83FxAJf3zVdVJbqAS8oc3cYxviTHIf2TxCSdm11OSkclXtdLIYw90BCHJVnhyphenhyphenCgZ-Gub-0NKkVWKS6dtQCOBTKJrFK5U0r0g9KhePsMVM7NOAwKAWjyaLdWb4GzG-Sw/w640-h580/ElHlJqnXIAMTjEF.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Domino & Gus</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The Nichan Smile is an epic in the making. Merwild delivers an intimately told story of two outsiders who become kindred spirits, and although they grow up together, their experiences could not differ more. Domino is nichan- an outsider within his own community, but still part of the culture. Gus is human, but treated like a monster by almost all. It is a bloody, brutal, and magical story not for the faint of heart, or for those living with PTSD- heed the trigger warnings. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336673.post-7900278476271381802021-11-29T14:02:00.002-08:002021-11-30T12:49:24.561-08:00Go Tell The Bees I'm Gone by Diana Gabaldon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiSrEPyJNKnhOKlwKBdHOTl-vVSHz1HlmiLvcIYRpvx0aM0_4eOwL5Bylpo4B8NF8DU2WS3s-mGi-QvWeLYTo06cNYoJ3Q9BzphVL48iNzt0Z3NJBbpVMz7bH1LpO1dNqXF8uH6Q/s1909/Who+needs+a+boyfriend+when+you+have+the+best+set+of+friends..png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="1909" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiSrEPyJNKnhOKlwKBdHOTl-vVSHz1HlmiLvcIYRpvx0aM0_4eOwL5Bylpo4B8NF8DU2WS3s-mGi-QvWeLYTo06cNYoJ3Q9BzphVL48iNzt0Z3NJBbpVMz7bH1LpO1dNqXF8uH6Q/w640-h200/Who+needs+a+boyfriend+when+you+have+the+best+set+of+friends..png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzJ5eZ8HJagiHRru4jFQeia9KwU3NOCXuKXMbWZJBhoXLGedln48m1GWYwkzBiBtoauOfhuqufYAJUqxqV79J0zC83u0KQIaH3q9ozK2TN24hM4Cad373sPYPMfX2RkTfqN7ypg/s2048/81pLHdMtwdS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1347" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzJ5eZ8HJagiHRru4jFQeia9KwU3NOCXuKXMbWZJBhoXLGedln48m1GWYwkzBiBtoauOfhuqufYAJUqxqV79J0zC83u0KQIaH3q9ozK2TN24hM4Cad373sPYPMfX2RkTfqN7ypg/w420-h640/81pLHdMtwdS.jpg" width="420" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b></b></div><blockquote><div><b>#1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Diana Gabaldon returns with the newest novel in the epic Outlander series.</b></div><div> </div><div><i>The past may seem the safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. . . .</i></div><div> </div><div>Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same.</div><div> </div><div>It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipX-zznSsq1aHvRW4I8YUuhw2h-YynvPpV5thJ9xET3jNTp4KZdzy9w8pR60jsugN62WLZtunPaIHglQjZzdqxeHCYSsWs_r0QX7s9MXtYPARg0-OM5ZEqMHQioPHwpV7fkDewDA/s818/Who+needs+a+boyfriend+when+you+have+the+best+set+of+friends.+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="818" data-original-width="535" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipX-zznSsq1aHvRW4I8YUuhw2h-YynvPpV5thJ9xET3jNTp4KZdzy9w8pR60jsugN62WLZtunPaIHglQjZzdqxeHCYSsWs_r0QX7s9MXtYPARg0-OM5ZEqMHQioPHwpV7fkDewDA/w97-h148/Who+needs+a+boyfriend+when+you+have+the+best+set+of+friends.+%25281%2529.png" width="97" /></a></div><br />Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s teakettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep.</div><div> </div><div>Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s—among them disease, starvation, and an impending war—was indeed the safer choice for their family.</div><div> </div><div>Not so far away, young William Ransom is still coming to terms with the discovery of his true father’s identity—and thus his own—and Lord John Grey has reconciliations to make, and dangers to meet . . . on his son’s behalf, and his own.</div><div> </div><div>Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser’s Ridge. And with the family finally together, Jamie and Claire have more at stake than ever before.</div></blockquote><div></div><div><b>OUT NOW | ISBN-13 978-1101885680</b></div><div><b>Find it on: <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781101885680?aff=penguinrandom">IndieBound</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57699848-go-tell-the-bees-that-i-am-gone">Goodreads </a></b></div><div><a href="http://insight.randomhouse.com/widget/v4/?width=600&height=860&isbn=9781101885680&shortCode=251569&author=Diana%20Gabaldon&title=Go%20Tell%20the%20Bees%20That%20I%20Am%20Gone&refererURL=www.penguinrandomhouse.com" target="_blank"><b>READ AN EXCERPT</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDCCcq0Hg31nWdkymrlKyE2h5BogDLSTKIGjPXbnooW8cBO8BGu7NQwv8mLzyJrVcZgm8l661I_tW3x1SO2reQq4Xjqm5JVipUdlQ5OowGlyc_3ohdU_5RyvUJKY8fL89igb_RQ/s818/Who+needs+a+boyfriend+when+you+have+the+best+set+of+friends.+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="818" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDCCcq0Hg31nWdkymrlKyE2h5BogDLSTKIGjPXbnooW8cBO8BGu7NQwv8mLzyJrVcZgm8l661I_tW3x1SO2reQq4Xjqm5JVipUdlQ5OowGlyc_3ohdU_5RyvUJKY8fL89igb_RQ/w200-h131/Who+needs+a+boyfriend+when+you+have+the+best+set+of+friends.+%25281%2529.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">What is there to say about this series that hasn't already been said thousands of times? </span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">Reading these novels is beauty and pain, it is being transported into another time and place, and having characters that are such a part of the fabric of your person, that the minutia of their daily lives is endlessly fascinating. </span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">We are at the home stretch now, there is only one book left in the series. We've tied up significant loose threads in the series with Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, there are just three massive "events" to really tie the bow on this baby. And I like so many of you all, I'm torn between heartbreak and fervent anticipation to KNOW ALL.</span></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336673.post-42478404682426710712021-10-07T14:59:00.001-07:002021-10-07T14:59:08.668-07:00Adventures on the high seas <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWGHFfj0P6M0aw905fDkcW-Nvw1KlBrnSuFXDBWD3ZSXPRQ2uRPDh0vuFEnXPjnV_NlNjkYdRbwqtRNCkbInInXJVfQP6Wu8DecVz9d1MlNUsoq95rB3DIWEPCE6IEkXXGs3BPw/s1050/Blogging+Tips+LinkedIn+Post+Header+%25289%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1050" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWGHFfj0P6M0aw905fDkcW-Nvw1KlBrnSuFXDBWD3ZSXPRQ2uRPDh0vuFEnXPjnV_NlNjkYdRbwqtRNCkbInInXJVfQP6Wu8DecVz9d1MlNUsoq95rB3DIWEPCE6IEkXXGs3BPw/w640-h366/Blogging+Tips+LinkedIn+Post+Header+%25289%2529.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKDPPmIR1bHjcPCrLWyavib3kkprpOYksHgIgpyPIiVgdiCYWVRkSzT62GzVRbJ_Xom0MTaUNA39SsdHOKjALIYDHnu0M1-WtOqbI_pBOsTR5fl2TPIoJ6c9w1IIIvGb-qzb9Q-w/s1050/Blogging+Tips+LinkedIn+Post+Header+%25288%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1050" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKDPPmIR1bHjcPCrLWyavib3kkprpOYksHgIgpyPIiVgdiCYWVRkSzT62GzVRbJ_Xom0MTaUNA39SsdHOKjALIYDHnu0M1-WtOqbI_pBOsTR5fl2TPIoJ6c9w1IIIvGb-qzb9Q-w/w640-h366/Blogging+Tips+LinkedIn+Post+Header+%25288%2529.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Red skies at night..... I forget, but these thrilling selections cover a wide range fantastical worlds and an array of vessels in the sky and on the high seas. This is by no means a comprehensive list of all the adventures I could have listed, but it is a great start!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3OkekOhSkC7TRaKfF6vOTepAEq7kFpKJ5JfYBZptl7Q9-u0yFuGCmi8C3v1OQw14rpF6l8reb82IrF7t9I-Hesmtc4GxzNWBPleqBJ109_UXxA0Z5bpAd4EEgg66xeW2ZftUmA/s450/17237351.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3OkekOhSkC7TRaKfF6vOTepAEq7kFpKJ5JfYBZptl7Q9-u0yFuGCmi8C3v1OQw14rpF6l8reb82IrF7t9I-Hesmtc4GxzNWBPleqBJ109_UXxA0Z5bpAd4EEgg66xeW2ZftUmA/w133-h200/17237351.jpg" width="133" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFR3IaP-p-mNHD5E46uweczQsvIxXE2-UFBscnKLCARq2uWCjnJH4gD9cgmCuUaD_WQd00lBTu9bG7zNZ4BrWOJnSi61Z_IhEz922xmlLhQExmZxD6WdQdh3UQhH99I6KyTIHs8A/s450/17883659.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFR3IaP-p-mNHD5E46uweczQsvIxXE2-UFBscnKLCARq2uWCjnJH4gD9cgmCuUaD_WQd00lBTu9bG7zNZ4BrWOJnSi61Z_IhEz922xmlLhQExmZxD6WdQdh3UQhH99I6KyTIHs8A/w133-h200/17883659.jpg" width="133" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13533650-the-assassin-s-curse" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="211" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH_XDTnuB2uyNWKDSZz6FPws2iL4bbV4HFsmHHg2qeEN0kJKBbgt0pRt3G7oHi4cYaYjIljFaHKDygCen1rWtvCUDhi6fltk1ZFZfGckwp5KrM_D6wp902AZ1YXTjNK7MXNjrzEQ/w132-h200/theassassin-scurse-big.jpeg" width="132" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfP3VPNUVRUcR3R1rEJZr8KzWz-L0GzsSGbAecfpy0J6PwyIs42yZi_BeF8OiGdOzT8G-gEZhEsEDzSJv9edBNE-AxPZGw7ElYZf2129NCH2sWedo15o_hjSdO33pKEYu8Pl2g5Q/s320/pirates-wish-big.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="212" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfP3VPNUVRUcR3R1rEJZr8KzWz-L0GzsSGbAecfpy0J6PwyIs42yZi_BeF8OiGdOzT8G-gEZhEsEDzSJv9edBNE-AxPZGw7ElYZf2129NCH2sWedo15o_hjSdO33pKEYu8Pl2g5Q/w133-h200/pirates-wish-big.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753743-magic-of-blood-and-sea" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="503" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgltYkXLPLCDa3-MsT4vLXqOul-9KE7CX3eSZHA2G6X7AeyeBnE0WKbfDGy_p3UyhC3T3lcoGNVgE6uLm6oFK2rvFkQfQVcjGwr24dIEqoAZuYEEEikyli-qI88FpLon7T3vYCvsQ/s320/magic-of-blood-and-sea.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Magic of Blood and Sea</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The Assassins Curse Series, Books 1 & 2</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">by <a href="http://www.cassandraroseclarke.com/magic-of-blood-and-sea.html">Cassandra Rose Clarke</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div>A pirate princess and a cursed assassin find their fates intertwined in this gorgeous and thrilling adventure.</div><div><br /></div><div>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 second-in-command to a handsome and clueless man. But her escape has dire consequences when she learns that her fiancé’s clan has sent an assassin after her.</div><div><br /></div><div>And when this assassin, Naji, finally finds her, things get even worse. Ananna inadvertently triggers a nasty curse—with a life-altering result. Now, Ananna and Naji are forced to become uneasy allies as they work to complete three impossible tasks that will cure the curse.</div><div><br /></div><div>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, the two must break the curse, escape their enemies, and come to terms with their growing romantic attraction.<br /><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#"><br /></a><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7j0ZHSWlM4DgovwrO7iIsdQY4jsk3iJy183cTwJ2TzmaVDE7ZjN4bZjIyUtRQ776D_h6_wgICEbR-Q5DGYbQNippHYBJcZTjmHwxOt2jseKHLFpUio1U2T39x66PZU1kPdBYYuQ/s1050/Blogging+Tips+LinkedIn+Post+Header+%25287%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1050" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7j0ZHSWlM4DgovwrO7iIsdQY4jsk3iJy183cTwJ2TzmaVDE7ZjN4bZjIyUtRQ776D_h6_wgICEbR-Q5DGYbQNippHYBJcZTjmHwxOt2jseKHLFpUio1U2T39x66PZU1kPdBYYuQ/w640-h366/Blogging+Tips+LinkedIn+Post+Header+%25287%2529.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://madelinemiller.com/circe/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="907" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhad-JP8LQIy4C9Ny7JRgPooVQRmLRnkoR9npCXjFmuBVZXWacMj5L-LFLBXtdZgE92NPniJH0GvhvCetgBFA6u85HKN6_nTkNUQFlRN8DfEPU8-5rqgBVqdeHcwpBEzsfVuZ98DA/s320/71fNP7F9p2L.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Circe</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">by <a href="http://madelinemiller.com/">Madeline Miller</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><blockquote><i>"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times).</i></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.</div><div><br /></div><div>But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.</div><div><br /></div><div>With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>#1 New York Times Bestseller -- named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Refinery 29, Buzzfeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Self, Real Simple, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, the Guardian, Book Riot, Seattle Times, and Business Insider.</i></div><br /><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPIWcfB03tzlr-8TctDohWvhtU2Bn9v9p5dgIivgTwy2PEo5dAMII2MRFybBfuUSR0neEptVuI8q8PeZlUddWXqkWjS_2zrWw1ndalfSVqi906aXC4OhEilkK4v7kmq804AgULXQ/s1050/Blogging+Tips+LinkedIn+Post+Header+%25286%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1050" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPIWcfB03tzlr-8TctDohWvhtU2Bn9v9p5dgIivgTwy2PEo5dAMII2MRFybBfuUSR0neEptVuI8q8PeZlUddWXqkWjS_2zrWw1ndalfSVqi906aXC4OhEilkK4v7kmq804AgULXQ/w640-h366/Blogging+Tips+LinkedIn+Post+Header+%25286%2529.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd-93lBJeqfHYdbeprXc5fuI-Dkznf4uU0oySuE708PSVK_V0ulxll_qklyy_opnr6XkLFzgh5wh2z4zfJwMqYqgCPPrH1-8MCeEx9Enx5gA5P6D6cRwNw27cvY38EaRbKy8d0gg/s2048/91cTy-VXk6L.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1356" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd-93lBJeqfHYdbeprXc5fuI-Dkznf4uU0oySuE708PSVK_V0ulxll_qklyy_opnr6XkLFzgh5wh2z4zfJwMqYqgCPPrH1-8MCeEx9Enx5gA5P6D6cRwNw27cvY38EaRbKy8d0gg/w133-h200/91cTy-VXk6L.jpg" width="133" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwDubCHiZmQrJEMOnfqzm_u1XpKjyOm1OYJJ2y53OlHqB5IiGCbiUVc-HMK-2mSnrgSdutAZKc5eLclIa2IktVLilOwU63iMPC_flZViHQniGo1i8JvnJO8iiwcqgueIu4Xzcfsg/s1360/71rK0X%252BBOxL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="907" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwDubCHiZmQrJEMOnfqzm_u1XpKjyOm1OYJJ2y53OlHqB5IiGCbiUVc-HMK-2mSnrgSdutAZKc5eLclIa2IktVLilOwU63iMPC_flZViHQniGo1i8JvnJO8iiwcqgueIu4Xzcfsg/w133-h200/71rK0X%252BBOxL.jpg" width="133" /></a></div></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAaozVUgLfGz99bXFC3novzUR2xfUV9g34jGflIIx_h8UB3CaN8xpkHD7fyZDyUdg5mApCE706CWLBNJJAGX3V-aYUtVcr-L7f0vUP5ziYRjPhuGZXhhdckppYXGy6FFUF_cSo9w/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="1080" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAaozVUgLfGz99bXFC3novzUR2xfUV9g34jGflIIx_h8UB3CaN8xpkHD7fyZDyUdg5mApCE706CWLBNJJAGX3V-aYUtVcr-L7f0vUP5ziYRjPhuGZXhhdckppYXGy6FFUF_cSo9w/w640-h288/image.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fan art by Rosiethorns</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIe8k0fGi71bFQJzG58kd58nomE6WUqKFvMIigM3CUkJOy9Rg_UonKvJc1RNYdpgqUzvz_zMLQ2D5brrkBTlyg0EJiQdoTBx2if1twxwtJrGOso4ZAW5JfYFqUZCfdhmNMoKJ_tg/s475/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="314" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIe8k0fGi71bFQJzG58kd58nomE6WUqKFvMIigM3CUkJOy9Rg_UonKvJc1RNYdpgqUzvz_zMLQ2D5brrkBTlyg0EJiQdoTBx2if1twxwtJrGOso4ZAW5JfYFqUZCfdhmNMoKJ_tg/w265-h400/1.jpg" width="265" /></a></div>Daughter of the Pirate King</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Daughter of the Pirate Queen Duology, Book 1</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">by <a href="https://tricialevenseller.com/books/daughter-of-the-pirate-king-duology/">Tricia Levenseller</a></span><br /><br /><i>There will be plenty of time for me to beat him soundly once I've gotten what I came for.</i><br /><br />Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map―the key to a legendary treasure trove―seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving her the perfect opportunity to search their ship. More than a match for the ruthless pirate crew, Alosa has only one thing standing between her and the map: her captor, the unexpectedly clever and unfairly attractive first mate Riden. But not to worry, for Alosa has a few tricks up her sleeve, and no lone pirate can stop the Daughter of the Pirate King.<br /><br />In Daughter of the Pirate King, debut author Tricia Levenseller blends action, adventure, romance, and a little bit of magic into a gripping tale on the high seas.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjiCnFIkZq4qPf76cqeWslr5aE0yWAn724IxO8LvyuIBlvGsqKREad5qElSfKl1dX9EU5UTo5jkZSJuUBqvbdlCvhYa5Bk47Bw2OsoCGj1KjyvnR2zSVyCcMu4pfs-O1ISfN-Z9A/s1050/Blogging+Tips+LinkedIn+Post+Header+%252810%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1050" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjiCnFIkZq4qPf76cqeWslr5aE0yWAn724IxO8LvyuIBlvGsqKREad5qElSfKl1dX9EU5UTo5jkZSJuUBqvbdlCvhYa5Bk47Bw2OsoCGj1KjyvnR2zSVyCcMu4pfs-O1ISfN-Z9A/w640-h366/Blogging+Tips+LinkedIn+Post+Header+%252810%2529.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhya_DM1vUwdfxyKGJbzsGBDjoy5lQqkJZtk3aUUY8G-4ugwLHXmVtz4v9mbirsVcNganvANWiyn19cBT1LA3lIjzR5fFjLf0kJXMRvRts3Qc0Gt-t33a_oIJpWpjaO-0zNFGuv_g/s1000/71VUMRIKtIL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="665" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhya_DM1vUwdfxyKGJbzsGBDjoy5lQqkJZtk3aUUY8G-4ugwLHXmVtz4v9mbirsVcNganvANWiyn19cBT1LA3lIjzR5fFjLf0kJXMRvRts3Qc0Gt-t33a_oIJpWpjaO-0zNFGuv_g/w133-h200/71VUMRIKtIL.jpg" width="133" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghU8YeSbQ_tSIbifB1E-txEKRNo5M10s7xlv8T8GKQetX6Fviybm-y6SbGYC4sgjKGAn3ljW1pKp_xJ2drfA-I3hwnpo1QKP_NGWENAMLYFU0Mx7_fOSZvr6kCb5sjMfctI6Ynaw/s2048/Behemoth1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1239" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghU8YeSbQ_tSIbifB1E-txEKRNo5M10s7xlv8T8GKQetX6Fviybm-y6SbGYC4sgjKGAn3ljW1pKp_xJ2drfA-I3hwnpo1QKP_NGWENAMLYFU0Mx7_fOSZvr6kCb5sjMfctI6Ynaw/w121-h200/Behemoth1.jpg" width="121" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFaiBfW2aWZ9ka5EEPXdnLQMJn-QpdG5wT3lCzbQcMLI-kuU6G1tZJHVPIiIx2Zk3k9P-EhVtFuXTWp5ksJGgT2ImlHZ18b7ga2Gq2PggrWlQyNPSnWN-3xuieE56fqy0LFH5W_w/s900/German_goliath.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="551" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFaiBfW2aWZ9ka5EEPXdnLQMJn-QpdG5wT3lCzbQcMLI-kuU6G1tZJHVPIiIx2Zk3k9P-EhVtFuXTWp5ksJGgT2ImlHZ18b7ga2Gq2PggrWlQyNPSnWN-3xuieE56fqy0LFH5W_w/w123-h200/German_goliath.jpg" width="123" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivC22TgQSz8fMr-jZkjBr8Wq2_Z98LMK3BB4jo5KKKwQZdjV4ua3FuFY93vqO1ZXeGnFNWqa3_CW9bFB8VH0l6Uel4kBY4Nm8UTxilAE2d_K-3tO0Did2rt1iiW2JYX7Wt2Jk4bw/s1010/71Cg9SarcgL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivC22TgQSz8fMr-jZkjBr8Wq2_Z98LMK3BB4jo5KKKwQZdjV4ua3FuFY93vqO1ZXeGnFNWqa3_CW9bFB8VH0l6Uel4kBY4Nm8UTxilAE2d_K-3tO0Did2rt1iiW2JYX7Wt2Jk4bw/s320/71Cg9SarcgL.jpg" width="190" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Leviathan</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Leviathan Trilogy, Book 1</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">by <a href="https://scottwesterfeld.com/books/leviathan/">Scott Westerfeld</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div>It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ genetically fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet.</div><div><br /></div><div>Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker, and Deryn Sharp, a Darwinist, are on opposite sides of the war. But their paths cross in the most unexpected way, taking them both aboard the Leviathan on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure….One that will change both their lives forever.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHjDwjQK84bQKtKh-HHdb1hZ6yXESbGcTQ9HLpvpTelxYctsv2N9eWAyy6Thx16Gx4EwfcFSROPlxIK3PvwbHbvvR9kKx5ni-mw5286onbShUsFbsTR_raWg5fvQE-X3xmnUIpsQ/s1050/Blogging+Tips+LinkedIn+Post+Header+%25285%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1050" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHjDwjQK84bQKtKh-HHdb1hZ6yXESbGcTQ9HLpvpTelxYctsv2N9eWAyy6Thx16Gx4EwfcFSROPlxIK3PvwbHbvvR9kKx5ni-mw5286onbShUsFbsTR_raWg5fvQE-X3xmnUIpsQ/w640-h366/Blogging+Tips+LinkedIn+Post+Header+%25285%2529.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL1eGYWz4DMejvkRVrrqzMWinSTkVyhXUy5PZOBwouEdm_DYAAoZq9kjt7gSaju30wib2Pn0Y12Uevto-kRhz5Dh0kSsf9j3HCvWjX6qw9Dg1bbmv8lQC1WTYs04oroDSksL_9hA/s2048/91pbvnDj5FL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1249" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL1eGYWz4DMejvkRVrrqzMWinSTkVyhXUy5PZOBwouEdm_DYAAoZq9kjt7gSaju30wib2Pn0Y12Uevto-kRhz5Dh0kSsf9j3HCvWjX6qw9Dg1bbmv8lQC1WTYs04oroDSksL_9hA/w122-h200/91pbvnDj5FL.jpg" width="122" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604556-red-seas-under-red-skies" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1247" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR2bXBu8SYkOaXtgzaZWXgMoj9A7zDQZTrPL3FfVj2HE4X8cyhcfNC6SOBCjF_cPHyFXqK-QZ_scB10Avc3A83WbvzVUM9njnb_sE9v1QdOOL_IdTnw50a_bdWiUW6ozik9Pzb0A/w122-h200/81CJPFqeJPL.jpg" width="122" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheIdSiBcLq-MXieiE5V5hOyTRn3tbA0d6WkftYYWFPA0qkAdFoA2BLFj7JOhI2s4O02liRhio_CGl_lZZxAkwyKcM8qWxgJXEPFrv7HMMLF9K5PQWnnxFXs047TL14qgCwSCNoug/s2048/81Gdfxkk2BL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1252" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheIdSiBcLq-MXieiE5V5hOyTRn3tbA0d6WkftYYWFPA0qkAdFoA2BLFj7JOhI2s4O02liRhio_CGl_lZZxAkwyKcM8qWxgJXEPFrv7HMMLF9K5PQWnnxFXs047TL14qgCwSCNoug/w123-h200/81Gdfxkk2BL.jpg" width="123" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJ1IogzwzhMVxO4IfVif6rDV6QY5lKk0nCSx4ku92RAC7Nii9i_YsjhX3gWQ88eMQzyOjjJq5BONRorJCYd9y7SptLRLC2GzarNfTwDQ-2MhnMPz9GM426f4_PWjchZFqridmzw/s1000/61fXjoKmtmL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="644" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJ1IogzwzhMVxO4IfVif6rDV6QY5lKk0nCSx4ku92RAC7Nii9i_YsjhX3gWQ88eMQzyOjjJq5BONRorJCYd9y7SptLRLC2GzarNfTwDQ-2MhnMPz9GM426f4_PWjchZFqridmzw/s320/61fXjoKmtmL.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Red Seas Under Red Skies</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The Gentlemen Bastards Saga, Book 2</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">by <a href="https://scottlynch.substack.com/">Scott Lynch</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div>In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora. Now Lynch brings back his outrageous hero for a caper so death-defying, nothing short of a miracle will pull it off.</div><div><br /></div><div>After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can’t rest for long—and are soon back to what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing the proceeds for themselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>This time, however, they have targeted the grandest prize of all: the Sinspire, the most exclusive and heavily guarded gambling house in the world. Its nine floors attract the wealthiest clientele—and to rise to the top, one must impress with good credit, amusing behavior…and excruciatingly impeccable play. For there is one cardinal rule, enforced by Requin, the house’s cold-blooded master: it is death to cheat at any game at the Sinspire.</div><div><br /></div><div>Brazenly undeterred, Locke and Jean have orchestrated an elaborate plan to lie, trick, and swindle their way up the nine floors…straight to Requin’s teeming vault. Under the cloak of false identities, they meticulously make their climb—until they are closer to the spoils than ever.</div><div><br /></div><div>But someone in Tal Verrar has uncovered the duo’s secret. Someone from their past who has every intention of making the impudent criminals pay for their sins. Now it will take every ounce of cunning to save their mercenary souls. 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<span style="color: #060606;">“<i>If you loved the Hogwarts Library…you’ll be right at home at Summershall</i>.” —Katherine Arden, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Bear and the Nightingale</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060606;">All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery: magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">“All the world’s truly a stage in Lisa Mantchev’s innovative tale, EYES LIKE STARS. Magical stagecraft, unmanageable fairies, and a humorous cast of classical characters form the backdrop for this imaginative coming-of-age.” — Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games series</span><br />
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<b>Théâtre Illuminata, Act I</b></div>
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<b>by <a href="http://lisamantchev.com/" target="_blank">Lisa Mantchev</a></b></div>
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All her world’s a stage</i><br />
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Beatrice Shakespeare Smith (Bertie): Our heroine.<br />
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Nate: A dashing pirate who will do anything to protect Bertie. </div>
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Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed, and Peaseblossom: Four tiny, mischievous fairies, and Bertie’s loyal sidekicks.</div>
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Ariel: A seductive air spirit. Disaster follows in his wake, but Bertie simply cannot resist him.<br />
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Welcome to the Théâtre Illuminata, where the characters of every play ever written can be found behind the curtain. The actors are bound to the Théâtre by The Book, an ancient and magical tome of scripts. Bertie is not one of the actors, but they are her family. And she is about to lose them all because The Book has been threatened, and along with it the Théâtre. It’s the only home Bertie has ever known, and she has to find a way to save it. But first, there’s the small problem of two handsome men, both vying for her attention. The course of true love never did run smooth. . . . </div>
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<b>Red Rising Series, Book #1<br />by <a href="https://www.piercebrown.com/">Pierce Brown</a></b><br />
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"<i>I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them." </i><br />
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<i> Eo kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more." </i><br />
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But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.<br />
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The Ninth House trilogy—Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, and Alecto the Ninth—is an epic science fantasy that blends necromantic theory and thrilling swordplay with a wicked, sacrilegious sense of humor; a modern mix of Dune, Riddick, and Gormenghast.<br />
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<b>The Locked Tomb Trilogy, Book #1<br />by <a href="http://www.twitter.com/tazmuir">Tamsyn Muir</a></b><br />
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The Emperor needs necromancers.<br />
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Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.<br />
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Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy.<br />
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Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up <br />
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her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won’t set her free without a service.<br />
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Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will be become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon’s sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.<br />
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Pure Trilogy, Book #1</div>
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We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . .<br />
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Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.<br />
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Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . .<br />
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There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her.<br />
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Conquered Earth Series, Book #1</div>
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Holt Hawkins is a bounty hunter, and his current target is Mira Toombs, an infamous treasure seeker with a price on her head. It's not long before Holt bags his prey, but their instant connection isn't something he bargained for. Neither is the Assembly ship that crash-lands near them shortly after. Venturing inside, Holt finds a young girl who remembers nothing except her name: Zoey.</div>
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by <a href="http://davidmacinnisgill.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990066;">D</span>avid MacInnis Gill</a></div>
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Mars stinks</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arvo"; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;">It’s hot. The air reeks of burning fuel; the rivers and lakes seethe with sulfur. In the shadows, evil men plot terror and beasts hunt the innocent. Out on the barren crags of the terraformed planet, there is nowhere to hide. No one to heed a call for help.</span></blockquote>
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Hello internet friends!<br />
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We may be stuck at home, but that doesn't mean there isn't lots of cool things to fill our time, and to be connected with other people- albeit virtually.<br />
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One thing I miss about being at the library is gathering for our Literary Society book club. I miss getting to have those battle of opinions, or swoon over well loved moments or characters with like minded individuals.<br />
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Since we can't gather in-person, one great option is the Nerdist Book Club! This month they are reading Dune by Frank Herbert. Essentially they are reading the book in advance of the Timothée Chalamet movie adaptation. Here are some awesome images of the 2021 movie!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "pro w3" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , , "meiryo" , , "arial" , sans-serif , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Feuding royals. A deadly planet. Before Star Wars or Game of Thrones, there was this legendary story. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "pro w3" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , , "meiryo" , , "arial" , sans-serif , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, </span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "pro w3" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , , "meiryo" , , "arial" , sans-serif , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides, </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "pro w3" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , , "meiryo" , , "arial" , sans-serif , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol";">Zendaya as Chani, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "pro w3" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , , "meiryo" , , "arial" , sans-serif , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica Atreides, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "pro w3" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , , "meiryo" , , "arial" , sans-serif , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol";">and Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho of </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , , "ubuntu" , "cantarell" , "fira sans" , "droid sans" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "pro w3" , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , , "meiryo" , , "arial" , sans-serif , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol";">House Atreides</span></span></td></tr>
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May 6: First half of “Dune” <br />
May 13: Second half of “Dune” <br />
May 20: First half of “Muad’Dib” <br />
May 27: Second half of “Muad’Dib” <br />
June 3: First half of “The Prophet” <br />
June 10: Second half of “The Prophet”<br />
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The Black Iron Legacy Series, Book #1</div>
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by <a href="https://garhanrahan.com/">Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan</a></div>
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<i>A group of three young thieves are pulled into a centuries old magical war between ancient beings, mages, and humanity in this wildly original debut epic fantasy.</i></blockquote>
The city has always been. The city must finally end. When three thieves - an orphan, a ghoul, and a cursed man - are betrayed by the master of the thieves guild, their quest for revenge uncovers dark truths about their city and exposes a dangerous conspiracy, the seeds of which were sown long before they were born.<br />
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Cari is a drifter whose past and future are darker than she can know. Rat is a Ghoul, whose people haunt the city's underworld. Spar is a Stone Man, subject to a terrible disease that is slowly petrifying his flesh. Chance has brought them together, but their friendship could be all that stands in the way of total armageddon.<br />
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I had only one hiccup in my complete and total immersion-gluttonous-binging of this book in one brain-busting session, the sheer multitudinous array of POV's. From the jump, I already had my favorite characters. Those just <i>sing</i> off the page, but having to keep leaving them in dire peril so often, to slog through someone completely different, was often infuriating. But I see my reaction as a testament to Hanrahan's character craftsmanship, and soon I found myself mightily invested in <u>all</u> the storylines. </div>
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The story is dense, the plot rich, the danger tangible, and the worldbuilding is simultaneously out-of-control-amazing AND horrifying. There is more wonder and ichor in one tiny corner of this city, than in a dozen other series by other authors you could be reading, combined. Can I tell you that I COULD and still can HEAR, not just imagine, but HEAR in my HEAD, the character of Rat eat? Our ghoul Rat eats corpses, and it is...... descriptive. And I didn't hate it!</div>
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The stars of the show, at least for my preferances, are both Cari and Spar. Spar is everything stubborn and noble that you'd wish a Stone Man/hero to be; intelligent, empathetic, philosophical, intelligent, enduring, and suffering. How can you not love a good man who is suffering whilst he is looking out for the downtrodden??? </div>
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And Cari, she is a bit like a stray cat that Spar and Rat have made a little family with. She's liable to; bite, scratch, stab you, run, disappear at any moment, but unique as a character because while she is unwillingly pulled into circumstances, no one has to force her to do the right thing. She does the right thing- even if she is getting petty revenge- because she is good hearted, and because she's learned it from Spar. His influence and steadfastness inspires her, she doesn't want to let him down. She knows it'd be letting </div>
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I'll not spoil any other characters or plot, it twists and turns, and you THINK you know where solid ground is, but you don't. Just know that mythology, theology, politics, and magic all come together to make one thoroughly unique and incomparable read. ALL the stars.</div>
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<b><u>What I'm Reading Now</u></b>: The Shadow Saint by Gareth Hanrahan (Black Iron Legacy book #2).</div>
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The Literary Society Book Club (a group for adults, but teens are welcome to join!) has had an awesome year- with highs and head-scratching "lows"- but we've managed to cover a fair bit of reading this year:<br />
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01/19 Selection:<br />
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She’s the sweet-but-silent angel in the adoring eyes of her Daddy. He’s the only person who understands her, and all Hanna wants is to live happily ever after with him. But Mommy stands in her way, and she’ll try any trick she can think of to get rid of her. Ideally for good.<br />
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She loves her daughter, really, but after years of expulsions and strained home schooling, her precarious health and sanity are weakening day by day. As Hanna’s tricks become increasingly <br />
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Zoje Stage was such a fun interview! Maybe due to the creepy content of Baby Teeth, but she answered all our burning questions, and left us with a serious desire for her to publish the children's book Hanna loves sooo much in the novel. I would love to see the Under Slumber Bumble Beast illustrated<br />
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<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">BY <a href="http://www.madelinemiller.com/">Madeline Miller</a></b><br />
Find it on: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/CIRCE-New-York-Times-bestseller/dp/0316556343/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1577732331&sr=1-1">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35959740-circe?from_search=true&qid=4JJF19klMs&rank=1">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9780316556347">Mysterious Galaxy</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/tCIRCE/tcirce/1%2C3%2C7%2CB/frameset&FF=tcirce+a+novel&1%2C%2C4/indexsort=-">SDCL</a><br />
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.<br />
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Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.<br />
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But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.<br />
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03/19 Selection:<br />
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<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">BY <a href="http://www.twitter.com/themackenzilee">Mackenzie Lee</a></b><br />
Find it on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bygone-Badass-Broads-Forgotten-Changed/dp/141972925X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=BYGONE+BADASS+BROADS&qid=1577732426&s=books&sr=1-1">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35888416-bygone-badass-broads?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=x7AE1IFOFa&rank=1">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781419729256">Mysterious Galaxy</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/tBYGONE+BADASS+BROADS/tbygone+badass+broads/1%2C2%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=tbygone+badass+broads+++52+forgotten+women+who+changed+the+world&1%2C1%2C/indexsort=-">SDCL</a><br />
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Based on Mackenzi Lee’s popular weekly Twitter series of the same name, Bygone Badass Broads features 52 remarkable and forgotten trailblazing women from all over the world. With tales of heroism and cunning, in-depth bios and witty storytelling, Bygone Badass Broads gives new life to these historic female pioneers. Starting in the fifth century BC and continuing to the present, the book takes a closer look at bold and inspiring women who dared to step outside the traditional gender roles of their time. Coupled with riveting illustrations and Lee’s humorous and conversational storytelling style, this book is an outright celebration of the badass women who paved the way for the rest of us.<br />
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She's pretty cool, she was keeping all the info on her Loki novel under wraps, but she did give us some hints as to a new Montague sibling novel, and her novel on famous Doggies throughout history.<br />
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04/19 Selection:<br />
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<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">BY <a href="http://www.twitter.com/courtney_s">Courtney Summers</a></b><br />
Find it on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sadie-Courtney-Summers/dp/1250105714/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=SADIE&qid=1577732496&s=books&sr=1-1">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34810320-sadie?from_search=true&qid=M2Y64XduZU&rank=1">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781250105714">Mysterious Galaxy</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/tSADIE/tsadie/1%2C11%2C13%2CB/frameset&FF=tsadie&3%2C%2C3/indexsort=-">SDCL</a><br />
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"A haunting, gut-wrenching, and relentlessly compelling read." ―Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carve the Mark and the Divergent series<br />
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A missing girl on a journey of revenge. A Serial―like podcast following the clues she's left behind. And an ending you won't be able to stop talking about.<br />
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Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.<br />
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But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie's entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him.<br />
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When West McCray―a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America―overhears Sadie's story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late.<br />
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Courtney Summers has written the breakout book of her career. Sadie is propulsive and harrowing and will keep you riveted until the last page.<br />
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05/19 Selection:<br />
<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">BY <a href="http://www.twitter.com/stu_turton">Stuart Turton</a></b><br />
Find it on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/%C2%BD-Deaths-Evelyn-Hardcastle-ebook/dp/B07CP8YXH3/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=7+1%2F2+DEATHS+OF+EVELYN+HARDCASTLE&qid=1577732025&s=books&sr=1-1">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36337550-the-7-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle?from_search=true&qid=RiPY1IjcJN&rank=1">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781492670124">Mysterious Galaxy</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/t7+1%2F2+DEATHS+OF+EVELYN+HARDCASTLE/t+++++++7++++1++++2+deaths+of+evelyn+hardcastle/1%2C1%2C4%2CB/frameset&FF=t+++++++7++++1++++2+deaths+of+evelyn+hardcastle&1%2C%2C4/indexsort=-">SDCL</a><br />
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"Agatha Christie meets Groundhog Day...quite unlike anything I've ever read, and altogether triumphant."―A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Woman in the Window<br />
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The Rules of Blackheath<br />
Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m.<br />
There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit.<br />
We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer.<br />
Understood? Then let's begin...<br />
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Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others.<br />
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For fans of Claire North and Kate Atkinson, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a breathlessly addictive novel that follows one man's race against time to find a killer―but an astonishing time-turning twist means that nothing and no one are quite what they seem.<br />
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06/19 Selection:<br />
<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A Woman of No Importance</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">BY <a href="https://www.soniapurnell.com/">Sonia Purnell</a></b><br />
Find it on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Woman-No-Importance-Untold-American-ebook/dp/B07DN155VV/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+WOMAN+OF+NO+IMPORTANCE&qid=1577731868&s=books&sr=1-1">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40595446-a-woman-of-no-importance?from_search=true&qid=3bpKPzRByx&rank=9">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9780735225299">Mysterious Galaxy</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/tA+WOMAN+OF+NO+IMPORTANCE/twoman+of+no+importance/1%2C2%2C4%2CB/frameset&FF=twoman+of+no+importance+the+untold+story+of+the+american+spy+who+helped+win+wwii&2%2C%2C2/indexsort=-">SDCL</a><br />
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br />
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<i>Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by the New York Public Library, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, the Spectator, and the Times of London</i><br />
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In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her."<br />
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The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and--despite her prosthetic leg--helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it.<br />
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Virginia established vast spy networks throughout France, called weapons and explosives down from the skies, and became a linchpin for the Resistance. Even as her face covered wanted posters and a bounty was placed on her head, Virginia refused order after order to evacuate. She finally escaped through a death-defying hike over the Pyrenees into Spain, her cover blown. But she plunged back in, adamant that she had more lives to save, and led a victorious guerilla campaign, liberating swathes of France from the Nazis after D-Day.<br />
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Based on new and extensive research, Sonia Purnell has for the first time uncovered the full secret life of Virginia Hall--an astounding and inspiring story of heroism, spycraft, resistance, and personal triumph over shocking adversity. A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war.<br />
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07/19 Selection:<br />
<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tattooist of Auschwitz </span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">BY Heather Morris</b><br />
Find it on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062797158?aaxitk=hJIjuJJyKrmhMGlFIk-wWw&pd_rd_i=0062797158&pf_rd_p=591760d1-6468-480f-9b10-0ee9c85706fd&hsa_cr_id=9342215470101&sb-ci-n=productDescription&sb-ci-v=The%20Tattooist%20of%20Auschwitz%3A%20A%20Novel">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38359036-the-tattooist-of-auschwitz?from_search=true&qid=rYKhTHynL7&rank=1">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9780062797155">Mysterious Glaxay</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/tTATTOOIST+OF+AUSCHWITZ/ttattooist+of+auschwitz/1%2C3%2C8%2CB/frameset&FF=ttattooist+of+auschwitz+a+novel&1%2C%2C4/indexsort=-">SDCL</a><br />
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#1 New York Times Bestseller and #1 International Bestseller<br />
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This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov—an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity.<br />
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In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners.<br />
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Imprisoned for over two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive.<br />
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One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her.<br />
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A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful re-creation of Lale Sokolov's experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions.<br />
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08/19 Selection:<br />
<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sorcery of Thorns</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">BY <a href="http://www.twitter.com/MarRogerson">Margaret Rogerson</a></b><br />
Find it on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sorcery-Thorns-Margaret-Rogerson-ebook/dp/B07MD6JXT1/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=SORCERY+OF+THORNS&qid=1577731464&s=books&smid=A1NXB12OKLL9I5&sr=1-1">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42201395-sorcery-of-thorns?from_search=true&qid=ZJO8XyRqB3&rank=1">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781481497619">Mysterious Galaxy</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/tSORCERY+OF+THORNS/tsorcery+of+thorns/1%2C1%2C3%2CB/frameset&FF=tsorcery+of+thorns&3%2C%2C3/indexsort=-">SDCL</a><br />
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All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.<br />
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Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.<br />
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As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught—about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.<br />
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09/19 Selection:<br />
<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front (and Back) </span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">BY <a href="https://twitter.com/maraaltman?lang=en">Mara Altman</a></b><br />
Find it on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399574840/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37702749-gross-anatomy?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=MXf1p1sjwW&rank=2">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/search/site/gross%20anatomy">Mysterious Galaxy</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/tgross+anat/tgross+anat/1%2C3%2C5%2CB/frameset&FF=tgross+anatomy+dispatches+from+the+front+and+back&1%2C%2C3/indexsort=-">SDCL</a><br />
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An honest, funny, neurotic, and totally gross love child of Mindy Kaling and Mary Roach. Mara Altman's volatile and apprehensive relationship with her body has led her to wonder about a lot of stuff over the years. Like, who decided that women shouldn't have body hair? And how sweaty is too sweaty? Also, why is breast cleavage sexy but camel toe revolting? Isn't it all just cleavage? These questions and others like them have led to the comforting and sometimes smelly revelations that constitute Gross Anatomy, an essay collection about what it's like to operate the bags of meat we call our bodies.<br />
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Divided into two sections, "The Top Half" and "The Bottom Half," with cartoons scattered throughout, Altman's book takes the reader on a wild and relatable journey from head to toe—as she attempts to strike up a peace accord with our grody bits.<br />
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With a combination of personal anecdotes and fascinating research, Gross Anatomy holds up a magnifying glass to our beliefs, practices, biases, and body parts and shows us the naked truth: that there is greatness in our grossness.<br />
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<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">WE WERE VISITED in person BY THE AUTHOR!!</b><br />
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Despite having heavy construction in front of our building, and a three car police presence in the middle of our parking, we had a full house for Mara! I was sooo impressed with the engagement of our group, and that we had new members come specifically this book- because it had started so many honest and frank conversations that hadn't ever happened before. And Mara is a gem of a person, she is as she seems on the page, funny, smart, engaging, and curious!<br />
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10/19:<br />
<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Swallows</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">BY <a href="http://www.twitter.com/lisalutz">Liza Lutz</a></b><br />
Find it on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1984818236/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1984818236&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43744294-the-swallows">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781984818232">Mysterious Galaxy</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/tswallows/tswallows/1%2C7%2C9%2CB/frameset&FF=tswallows+a+novel&1%2C%2C3/indexsort=-">SDCL</a><br />
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What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want?<br />
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It starts with this simple writing prompt from Alex Witt, Stonebridge Academy's new creative writing teacher. When the students' answers raise disturbing questions of their own, Ms. Witt knows there's more going on the school than the faculty wants to see. She soon learns about The Ten--the students at the top of the school's social hierarchy--as well as their connection to something called The Darkroom.<br />
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Ms. Witt can't remain a passive observer. She finds the few girls who've started to question the school's "boys will be boys" attitude and incites a resistance that quickly becomes a movement. But just as it gains momentum, she also attracts the attention of an unknown enemy who knows a little too much about her--including what brought her to Stonebridge in the first place.<br />
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Meanwhile, Gemma, a defiant senior, has been plotting her attack for years, waiting for the right moment. Shy loner Norman hates his role in the Darkroom, but can't find the courage to fight back until he makes an unlikely alliance. And then there's Finn Ford, an English teacher with a shady reputation who keeps one eye on his literary ambitions and one on Ms. Witt.<br />
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As the school's secrets begin to trickle out, a boys-versus-girls skirmish turns into an all-out war, with deeply personal--and potentially fatal--consequences for everyone involved. Lisa Lutz's blistering, timely tale shows us what can happen when silence wins out over decency for too long--and why the scariest threat of all might be the idea that sooner or later, girls will be girls.<br />
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<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">BY <a href="http://www.racheldewoskin.com/">Rachel DeWoskin</a></b><br />
Find it on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Someday-Will-Fly-Rachel-Dewoskin/dp/0670014966/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Someday+We+Will+Fly&qid=1577731251&s=books&sr=1-1">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39993884-someday-we-will-fly?from_search=true&qid=UYZYDOGrWH&rank=1">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9780147508911">Mysterious Galaxy</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38/?searchtype=t&searcharg=Someday+We+Will+Fly+&searchscope=38&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tTHE+GREAT+ALONE">SDCL</a><br />
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Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is 15 when her mother, Alenka, disappears and her father flees with Lillia and her younger sister, Naomi, to Shanghai, one of the few places that will accept Jews without visas. There they struggle to make a life; they have no money, there is little work, no decent place to live, a culture that doesn't understand them. And always the worry about Alenka. How will she find them? Is she still alive?<br />
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Meanwhile Lillia is growing up, trying to care for Naomi, whose development is frighteningly slow, in part from malnourishment. Lillia finds an outlet for her artistic talent by making puppets, remembering the happy days in Warsaw when they were circus performers. She attends school sporadically, makes friends with Wei, a Chinese boy, and finds work as a performer at a "gentlemen's club" without her father's knowledge.<br />
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But meanwhile the conflict grows more intense as the Americans declare war and the Japanese force the Americans in Shanghai into camps. More bombing, more death. Can they survive, caught in the crossfire?<br />
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<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">BY <a href="http://kristinhannah.com/">Kristin Hannah</a></b><br />
Find it on: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312577230/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312577230&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34927828-the-great-alone">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781250229533">Mysterious Galaxy</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/tTHE+GREAT+ALONE/tgreat+alone/1%2C2%2C6%2CB/frameset&FF=tgreat+alone&1%2C%2C5/indexsort=-">SDCL</a><br />
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<i>Alaska, 1974.</i><br />
<i>Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed.</i><br />
<i>For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival</i>.<br />
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Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.<br />
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Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if it means following him into the unknown.<br />
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At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. In a wild, remote corner of the state, they find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the Allbrights’ lack of preparation and dwindling resources.<br />
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But as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves.<br />
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In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska―a place of incomparable beauty and danger. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature.<br />
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<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">BY <a href="http://www.twitter.com/KalimaFaja">Kali Fajardo-Anstine</a></b><br />
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A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands, centered on Latinas of indigenous ancestry that shines a new light on the American West.<br />
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Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit. Set against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado–a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite–these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force.<br />
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In “Sugar Babies,” ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth but tend to rise during land disputes. “Any Further West” follows a sex worker and her daughter as they leave their ancestral home in southern Colorado only to find a foreign and hostile land in California. In “Tomi,” a woman leaves prison and finds herself in a gentrified city that is a shadow of the one she remembers from her childhood. And in the title story, “Sabrina & Corina,” a Denver family falls into a cycle of violence against women, coming together only through ritual.<br />
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<b style="font-family: "mountains of christmas"; letter-spacing: 6.4px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">BY <a href="http://www.twitter.com/EJRous">Emma Rous</a></b><br />
Find it on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Au-Pair-Emma-Rous/dp/0440000459">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37561550-the-au-pair">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9780440000457">Mysterious Galaxy</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/tau+pair/tau+pair/1%2C7%2C10%2CB/frameset&FF=tau+pair&1%2C%2C4">SDCL</a><br />
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If V. C. Andrews and Kate Morton had a literary love child, Emma Rous' USA Today bestseller The Au Pair would be it.<br />
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Seraphine Mayes and her twin brother, Danny, were born in the middle of summer at their family's estate on the Norfolk coast. Within hours of their birth, their mother threw herself from the cliffs, the au pair fled, and the village thrilled with whispers of dark cloaks, changelings, and the aloof couple who drew a young nanny into their inner circle.<br />
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Now an adult, Seraphine mourns the recent death of her father. While going through his belongings, she uncovers a family photograph that raises dangerous questions. It was taken on the day the twins were born, and in the photo, their mother, surrounded by her husband and her young son, is smiling serenely and holding just one baby.<br />
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Who is the child, and what really happened that day?<br />
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Find it on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Song-Achilles-Novel-Madeline-Miller/dp/0062060627">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11250317-the-song-of-achilles?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=rJ1LlYsmpB&rank=1">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9780062060624">Mysterious Galaxy</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/tsong+of+achilles/tsong+of+achilles/1%2C1%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=tsong+of+achilles&1%2C%2C2/indexsort=-">SDCL</a><br />
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Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles.<br />
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Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not—strong, beautiful, the child of a goddess—and by all rights their paths should never cross. Yet one day, Achilles takes the shamed prince under his wing and soon their tentative connection gives way to a steadfast friendship. As they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something far deeper—despite the displeasure of Achilles’ mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess with a hatred of mortals.<br />
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Fate is never far from the heels of Achilles. When word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, the men of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate.<br />
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Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336673.post-26988927449329630422019-12-05T12:36:00.000-08:002019-12-05T12:36:38.297-08:00Cover Revealed: Ruinsong by Julia Ember<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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by <a href="https://twitter.com/jules_chronicle">Julia Ember</a></div>
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In a world where magic is sung, a powerful mage named Cadence must choose between the two. For years, she has been forced to torture her country’s disgraced nobility at her ruthless queen’s bidding.</div>
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In this dark and lush LGBTQ+ romantic fantasy, two young women from rival factions must work together to reunite their country, as they wrestle with their feelings for each other.</div>
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Legacy of Orïsha, Book #2</div>
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by <a href="http://www.tomiadeyemi.com/">Tomi Adeyemi</a></div>
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416 pages // Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)</div>
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ISBN-13: 978-1250170996</div>
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After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orïsha. But the ritual was more powerful than they could've imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of nobles with magic ancestry, too.<br />
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Now, Zélie struggles to unite the maji in an Orïsha where the enemy is just as powerful as they are. But when the monarchy and military unite to keep control of Orïsha, Zélie must fight to secure Amari's right to the throne and protect the new maji from the monarchy's wrath.<br />
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With civil war looming on the horizon, Zélie finds herself at a breaking point: she must discover a way to bring the kingdom together or watch as Orïsha tears itself apart.<br />
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Children of Virtue and Vengeance is the stunning sequel to Tomi Adeyemi's New York Times bestselling debut Children of Blood and Bone, the first title in her Legacy of Orïsha trilogy.<br />
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Author, and awesome San Diego local, who has been a great friend to the Imperial Beach Library (and to the San Diego community in general) Tomi Adeyemi kicked the publishing doors down in 2017 with Children of Blood and Bone, winning all the awards, getting voted on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon as their first Summer Book Club selection. CBB was a BIG deal.<br />
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Much is expected from the LONG awaited sequel, Children of Virtue and Vengeance- Good Morning America's Book Club selection anyone?!!<br />
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Cannot wait to find out what has happened to the land of Oriisha now that magic isn't going to be taboo in the same way as it was before- when more people have it, public opinion will change- fear will grow, but so will corruption, anarchy, as well as the possibility for greatness.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Legacy of Orïsha</span>, Book #1<br />
by Tomi Adeyemi<br />
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In a world where magic has disappeared and magis, once revered, are targeted by a ruthless king, Zélie has always feared she would share the fate of her mother, killed at the hands of the king’s guards when Zélie was just a child.<br />
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Now, at seventeen, Zélie has a chance to bring magic back to the land of Orïsha. With the help of her brother Tzain and the fugitive Crown Princess Amari, she sets off on a journey to restore her people’s magical abilities. In order to succeed, they’ll have to outwit and outrun Prince Inan, who is hell-bent on ridding the world of magic.<br />
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In the face of danger, death, and a star-crossed romance, Zélie must grapple with the ramifications of bringing magic back to her people -- and come to terms with her own powers.<br />
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<b style="text-align: center;">There is MUCH to be thankful for this holiday season, despite what world events are occurring at any given moment, <i><u>plus</u></i> now there is #BabyYoda to save us all from the scarier things we cannot control- or change!</b><br />
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<b style="text-align: center;">So let show you a <i>few</i> of the things I am grateful for this year (this is not a comprehensive list, that would be a mile long!): </b><br />
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<b>Chimera Series, Book #1</b></div>
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<b>by <a href="http://www.twitter.com/CateGlassWriter">Cate Glass</a></b></div>
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<b>Published: May 2019</b></div>
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<b>Find it on: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GV9TY3M/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B07GV9TY3M&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39662738-an-illusion-of-thieves">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/aglass+cat/aglass+cat/1%2C2%2C4%2CB/frameset&FF=aglass+cate&1%2C%2C2">SDCL</a></b></div>
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<b>In Cantagna, being a sorcerer is a death sentence.</b><br />
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<b>Romy escapes her hardscrabble upbringing when she becomes courtesan to the Shadow Lord, a revolutionary noble who brings laws and comforts once reserved for the wealthy to all. When her brother, Neri, is caught thieving with the aid of magic, Romy's aristocratic influence is the only thing that can spare his life—and the price is her banishment.</b><b><br /></b><br />
<b>Now back in Beggar’s Ring, she has just her wits and her own long-hidden sorcery to help her and Neri survive. But when a plot to overthrow the Shadow Lord and incite civil war is uncovered, only Romy knows how to stop it. To do so, she’ll have to rely on newfound allies—a swordmaster, a silversmith, and her own thieving brother. And they'll need the very thing that could condemn them all: magic.</b><br />
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<b>Magical outlaws, and impossible quest, political intrigue, adult themes, a "ragtag crew" having to work together- basically, An Illusion of Thieves, had me at hello. From the very start, Cate Glass weaves her world and characters with such rich layers, her words absolutely came alive for me.</b><br />
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<b>The relationship between Romy and Neri are central to the book, with its' varied twists and turns, their sibling bond was the lodestone through which their endeavor succeeded or failed. So it was wonderful to see their once estranged and strained relationship grow.</b><br />
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<b>This first book absolutely left me wanting more!</b><br />
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<b>I was lucky enough to receive an ARC of the second book in the series; A Conjuring of Assassins, and it is even better than the first! We see the world Glass created expand, we see into characters like Placidio (who I am seriously shipping with Romy but no joy yet), and the mysteries within the plot are labyrinthine and outstanding. Amazing series, amazing author, 100% reread material. </b><br />
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<b>by <a href="http://www.margaretrogerson.com/">Margaret Rogerson</a></b><br />
<b>Published: June 2019</b><br />
<b>Find it on: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1481497618/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1481497618&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42201395-sorcery-of-thorns">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/tsorcery+of+thorns/tsorcery+of+thorns/1%2C1%2C3%2CB/frameset&FF=tsorcery+of+thorns&3%2C%2C3">SDCL</a></b><br />
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<b>All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.</b></div>
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<b>Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.</b></div>
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<b>As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught—about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.</b></div>
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<b>How do you say you loved a thing more than you've ever loved a thing since...... Harry Potter, or Outlander (book not TV series), or seeing Chris Evans emerging from the machinery that transformed him into Captain America- all sleepy and glistening. That's how much I loved A Sorcery of Thorns, THAT'S how gooood this book is.</b><br />
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<b>I've never encountered such a charming and fantastical magic system that is so lovingly described, you can veritably taste the descriptions, they are just <i>that</i> evocative. This isn't the type of book that it takes you a chapter or two to acclimate to the writing style and world, your immersion starts on page one- Rogerson is an absolute wizard with words. I cannot say more without spoiling the book, all I can say- and those lucky enough to have read the book already will know what I mean when I say- I love every character in this book, but just like Elizabeth and Nathaniel, I cannot let Silas go!</b><br />
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<b>This world, this magic, Katrien, the libraries and grimories, the riotous book lice! Everything was <u><i>perfection</i></u>. The only thing that stabs my heart is that this is a stand alone novel. Give me a demon and I will enchant Margaret Rogerson to write me a trilogy! </b>
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<b>Check out the amazing fan art commissioned from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rosiethorns88/">@rosiethorns</a> for <a href="http://litjoycrate.com/">@LitJoyCrate</a>.</b><br />
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Details! I was super stoked to finally read this book! Silas stole my heart! 🤧 <a href="https://t.co/6kPqjmY8G3">pic.twitter.com/6kPqjmY8G3</a></div>
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<b>by <a href="https://twitter.com/itsrorypower">Rory Power</a></b><br />
<b>Published: July 2019</b><br />
<b>Find it on: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525645586/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0525645586&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42505366-wilder-girls">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://catalog.sdcl.org/search~S38?/twilder+girls/twilder+girls/1%2C1%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=twilder+girls&2%2C%2C2">SDCL</a></b><br />
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<b>It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her.</b><br />
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<b>It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.</b><br />
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