World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
ALA Best Books for Young Adults
Book Two of the Great Alta Saga
Jenna was the White Queen.
Skada was the Dark Queen. She is bound to Jenna—the other half of Jenna’s self. Drawn out of a mirror by a rite of magic, a “dark sister” is confined to the dark. She vanishes in daylight. It is in this other world the dark sisters wait for moonlight or lamplight to call them forth again.
This is their story: of myths turned real, ordinary people turned heroes, a land turned inside out by the coming of White Jenna. Views: 315
Set over the course of one day, Aminah Mae Safi's This Is All Your Fault is a smart and voice-driven YA novel that follows three young women determined to save their indie bookstore.Rinn Olivera is finally going to tell her longtime crush AJ that she's in love with him.Daniella Korres writes poetry for her own account, but nobody knows it's her.Imogen Azar is just trying to make it through the day.When Rinn, Daniella, and Imogen clock into work at Wild Nights Bookstore on the first day of summer, they're expecting the hours to drift by the way they always do. Instead, they have to deal with the news that the bookstore is closing. Before the day is out, there'll be shaved heads, a diva author, and a very large shipment of Air Jordans to contend with.And it will take all three of them working together if they have any chance to save Wild Nights Bookstore. Views: 315
A world covered in ice...
A missile silo prepped for war...
Threats looming everywhere...
After a new ice age smothered the planet, most perished along with the sunlight, leaving only the desperate. It was kill or be killed, pitting neighbor against neighbor in an epic battle for survival.
Now humanity is almost gone.
Armed camps remain.
For some, strength comes in numbers, attacking anything that moves in a blur of anger and revenge.
For others, keeping their dignity and a few scavenged items are the only things worth saving.
It’s the classic struggle of good versus evil, except no one truly knows which side they’re on.
The SILO trilogy is an explosive, high-octane thriller. If you like pulse-pounding action, resourceful warriors, and true grit, then you’ll love this new series from best-selling authors Jay J. Falconer and M.L. Banner.
Buy SILO now to join the fight for survival. You won’t believe what happens.
Rated R for violence, language, and bloodshed. Views: 315
The North Yorkshire moors are always a magical place, but they're particularly enchanting at the holidays...especially if one gets to travel back in time to a Victorian Christmas. For Bronwyn Dale, it is the stuff of dreams. Fancy-dress balls, quirky small-town traditions, even that classic one-horse open sleigh, complete with jingle bells. There's just the tiny problem of the Butterfly Effect. How does a time-traveler make a difference without disrupting the future forever? Note: this is a holiday novella not a full-length book Views: 315
From New York Times Bestselling Author Wendy Corsi Staub, writing as Wendy Markham. Previously published as Slightly Married. Putting a ring on it is only the beginning... After a two-year relationship, Tracey Spadolini is finally engaged – all she needs now is to get hitched without a hitch! But as her wedding date marches closer, she suddenly finds that she and her fiancé can't agree on anything. From the wedding venue to the guest list to the perfect dress, every little decision seems to blow up in her face, and Tracey starts to question whether she'll even make it to the altar. Meanwhile, Tracey's friends are caught up in their own dramas and can't seem to help. There's newlywed Raphael, newly pregnant Kate, and even Buckley is acting inexplicably strange. When Buckley unexpectedly breaks off his own engagement, all but leaving... Views: 315
Everybody says the old house at the edge of town is haunted. But Wally has some major doubts. Unfortunately, in exposing the hoax he undergoes some of the craziest catastrophes and mass mayhem of his life. To name just a few, Wally experiences: falling into mirrors that others claim show the future; shorting the sheets on so–called ghosts; and supposedly being turned into a talking hamburger.All this as our young hero learns what God really says about sorcery, ghosts, and the supernatural. Views: 315
As a last resort, Valerie Campbell is sent to a facility for troubled youth called "New Horizons". The jaded and stubborn 17-year-old clashes with the counsellors and residents of the program, and is pessimistic about her stay. After Val witnesses an escape attempt from fellow delinquent and nutcase, "Jenny Shoulders", Val decides the only way to get better is to get out.Valerie Campbell is a high school dropout without a life plan when she is taken from her home and dropped off at New Horizons, a wilderness program for troubled youth. After a strip search and a brief stint in solitary confinement, Val is placed in cabin 519 with five other delinquents from across the country. In denial about her belonging at the facility, Val clashes with several of the residents of the program, and makes a quick enemy with her cabin mate, Karen. Val's mouth and attitude gets her an overnight stay in the ward, where she witnesses an escape attempt from fellow nutcase "Jenny Shoulders". The director of New Horizons denies the rumours of an escape, but Val knows the truth and has to decide what to do with it.Raw, tragic, and uplifting, "New Horizons" follows Val's journey of self-acceptance in a program meant to break her. Views: 315
New York Times bestselling author Sharon Draper delivers a fresh, funny series starring oh-so-fabulous Sassy!
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Kill Alex Cross is faster, more exciting, and more tightly wound than any Alex Cross thriller James Patterson has ever written!
The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark.
A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Cross discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced. As his window for solving both crimes narrows, Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes – one that may alter the fate of the entire country. Views: 315
Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, exposes the dark side of the internet in Dead at First Sight.You don't know me, but I thought I knew you . . . A man waits at a London airport for Ingrid Ostermann, the love of his life, to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired NYPD cop waits in a bar in Florida's Key West for his first date with the lady who is, without question, his soulmate. The two men are about to discover they've been scammed out of almost every penny they have in the world – and that neither women exist. Meanwhile, a wealthy divorcée plunges, in suspicious circumstances, from an apartment block in Munich. In the same week, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is called to investigate the suicide of a woman in Brighton, that is clearly not what it seems. As his investigations continue, a handsome Brighton motivational speaker comes forward. He's discovered his identity is... Views: 315
The final book in the Valiant series takes Fallon and her warrior sisters on an epic journey from the corrupt Roman Republic to the wonder of the ancient world: Alexandria, Egypt.In the wake of their victorious fight to win back the Ludus Achillea, Fallon and her gladiatrix sisters have become the toast of the Republic. However, as a consequence of his actions during the Ludus uprising, Fallon's love Cai has been stripped of his Decurion rank and cast down to serve as one of Caesar's gladiators. Amid fighting for Cai's freedom, Fallon soon learns that Caesar's enemies are plotting against him and planning to get revenge on his fearsome gladiatrices. When Caesar is murdered by these conspirators, Fallon and the girls lose any sort of protection they once had. Fallon also realizes that the foreign queen Cleopatra is now in grave danger. Fallon rallies her war band and Cai's friends to get Cleopatra out of the city, and the group heads to the safety of Cleo's... Views: 315
