Showing posts with label Michael Grant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Grant. Show all posts

Thursday, October 23, 2014

New October releases

Redeemed by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Final book in the House of Night series. Zoey and her friends face the ultimate battle with evil, which will determine the fate of the world, both human and vampyre.

BZRK Apocalypse by Michael Grant
In the concluding book in the BZRK trilogy, war is again being waged in the macro and the nano, and Lear's identity is finally uncovered.

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future by A.S. King
As her high school graduation draws near, Glory O'Brien begins having powerful and terrifying visions of the future as she struggles with her long-buried grief over her mother's suicide.

How it Went Down by Kekla Magoon
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.

My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories edited by Stephanie Perkins
If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers, edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins. Whether you enjoy celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or New Years, there's something here for everyone.

Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.

UnDivided by Neal Shusterman
Three teens band together in order to sway the government to repeal all rulings in support of a procedure in which unwanted teenagers are captured and are unwound into parts that can be reused for transplantation.

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost.

In Real Life by Cory Doctorow, illustrated by Jen Wang
Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer -- a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

New teen books, including several new series

by Kate Brian
This is the second book in Kate Brian's Shadowlands series.

After learning the disturbing truth about her new town, Rory fights to protect her family from a mysterious force interfering with life on Juniper Landing.
by Lauren DeStefano
The first book in a new series, from the author of The Chemical Garden Trilogy (Wither, Fever, Sever).

Sixteen-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives in Internment, a floating city utopia. But when a murder occurs, everything she knows starts to unravel.
by Mariah Fredericks

A girl who is bullied experiments with witchcraft in order to get revenge on her attackers.
by Kami Garcia
A new series from one of the authors of Beautiful Creatures !

Seventeen-year-old Kennedy Waters discovers she is a member of an ancient secret society formed to protect the world from a powerful demon determined to find a way out of his dimension and into ours. She joins the Legion on a mission to find a weapon that can defeat the demon.
by Michael Grant

The second book in Michael Grant's BZRK series!

The struggle for control between the Armstrong twins and the group known as BZRK continues with the stakes higher than ever.
by Jeff Hirsch

Since he was captured by the Glorious Path, a militant religion based on the teachings of a former soldier, fifteen-year-old Cal has served the Path in its brutal war with the remains of the United States government, and tried to survive and protect his younger brother but when he kills an officer to protect a stray dog, Cal is forced take his brother and the dog and run.
by Anthony Horowitz

A companion book to the Alex Rider series. Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
Sick by Tom Leveen

Brian and his friends are not part of the cool crowd. They're the misfits, the troublemakers--the ones who jump their high school's electrified fence to skip school regularly. So when the virus breaks out, they're the only ones with a chance of surviving.
by Cat Patrick and Suzanne Young

With her grandmother dying, Caroline is given a choice to either stay by her gram's side or go to the biggest party of the year. The story is told through alternating chapters, revealing what happens if Caroline stays or goes.
by Robyn Schneider

Star athlete and prom king Ezra Faulkner's life is irreparably transformed by a tragic accident and the arrival of eccentric new girl Cassidy Thorpe.
by Tamara Ireland Stone

This is the second book in the Time After Time series, following Time Between Us. Told from his point of view, continues the love story of Bennett, a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco, and Anna, sixteen, of 1995 Evanston, Illinois, as they try to make their relationship work despite his fear that it is not meant to be.
by Robison Wells
A mysterious virus is spreading through America, infecting teenagers with incredible powers--and a group of four teens are about to find their lives intertwined in a web of danger and catastrophic destruction.
by Daisy Whitney

Seventeen-year-old Julien falls in love with the muse, Clio, as he tries to save her and the Musée D'Orsay's collection of Impressionist art after learning the paintings are reacting to a curse set by Renoir that trapped Clio in his painting.
by Rick Yancey
This is the conclusion to the Monstrumologist series. When Dr. Warthrop begins to doubt fourteen-year-old Will Henry's loyalty, he sets him against one of the most horrific creatures in the Monstrumarium unaware that Will's life and his own fate will lie in the balance.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Michael Grant's final book in the "Gone" series, and more new books out today

The Rising by Kelley Armstrong
The race for survival comes to a thrilling conclusion when Maya and her friends--who all have supernatural powers--find help against the Cabals from unexpected places. Third book in the Darkness Rising series.

Light by Michael Grant
Answers to every mystery of the FAYZ are revealed, unexpected heroes emerge as sacrifices are made, and the Darkness is finally conquered by a force even more powerful than itself in this conclusion to the Gone series.

This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith
Perfect strangers Graham Larkin and Ellie O'Neill meet online when Graham accidentally sends Ellie an e-mail about his pet pig, Wilbur. The two 17-year-olds strike up an e-mail relationship from opposite sides of the country and don't even know each other's first names. What's more, Ellie doesn't know Graham is a famous actor, and Graham doesn't know about the big secret in Ellie's family tree. When the relationship goes from online to in-person, they find out whether their relationship can be the real thing. By the author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.

In the Shadows of Blackbirds by Cat Winters
In this original, historical ghost story set in 1918, the year of the deadly Spanish influenza, 16-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches as desperate mourners flock to seances and spirit photographers for comfort. Mary's never believed in ghosts, until her first love, a boy who died in battle, returns.



Thursday, April 19, 2012

New sci-fi titles

The Way We Fall 
by Megan Crewe
BZRK
by Michael Grant
172 Hours on the Moon
by Johan Harstad
Article 5
by Kristen Simmons
Partials
by Dan Wells
Fear
by Michael Grant
Dark Inside
by Jeyn Roberts
Under the Never Sky
by Veronica Rossi
Cinder
by Marissa Meyer
Tempest
by Julie Cross
A Long, Long Sleep
by Anna Sheehan
Truth by Julia Karr

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

"Fear" by Michael Grant & more new releases out today

Fear by Michael Grant
This is the fifth book in the Gone series. I'm a big fan of these books; each installment gets progressively darker and creepier. I'm excited to see what Grant has in store for his characters in Fear. Catch up with the other books in this series: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague.


Grave Mercy by Robin Lafevers
Grave Mercy, set in 15th century Brittany, France, is the first book in a new series called His Fair Assassin.


I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
A dark mystery

 Blue Exorcist #7
by Kazue Kato