Friday, September 21, 2012

New from Neal Shusterman, Julie Kagawa, Melissa Marr, & more!

Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction
edited by Carrie Ryan
Fourteen stories that delve into the obsession with life's unknowns and the prospect of altering the future, by such authors as Meg Cabot, Diana Peterfreund, and Michael Grant.


UnWholly
by Neal Shusterman
Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not only continue, but expand, allowing the unwinding of prisoners and the impoverished. Cam is a teen who does not exist. He is made entirely out of the parts of other unwinds. Cam, a 21st century Frankenstein, struggles with a search for identity and meaning, as well as the concept of his own soul, if indeed a rewound being can have one. 
The Iron Legends
by Julie Kagawa
Three Iron Fey novellas for the first time in print!


Outpost by Ann Aguirre
Deuce struggles for respect in a new topside town where she is treated like a child and avoided by Fade, a situation that compels her to volunteer for patrol duty and protect topside citizens from an unexpected upsurge in Freak activity. #2 in the Razorlands series.
Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr
A centuries-long war between daimons and witches sets the stage for three teens caught up in a deadly struggle for power and autonomy in the exotic and otherworldly Carnival of Souls, the mercantile center of the daimon dimension.


Origin by Jessica Khoury
Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home--and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life. Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark on a race against time to discover the truth about Pia's origin--a truth with deadly consequences that will change their lives forever.
Such Wicked Intent
by Kenneth Oppel
When his grieving father orders the destruction of the Dark Library, Victor retrieves a book in which he finds the promise of not just communicating with the dead, but entering their realm, and soon he, Elizabeth, and Henry are in the spirit world of Chateau Frankenstein, creating and growing a body.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

New from Maggie Stiefvater, Libba Bray, and more

The Diviners
by Libba Bray
Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.


Seconds Away: A Mickey Bolitar Novel
by Harlan Coben
When tragedy strikes close to home, Mickey Bolitar and his new friends find themselves at the center of a murder mystery. This book is the second in a series that began with last year's Shelter.
Burn for Burn
by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian
Three teenaged girls living on Jar Island band together to enact revenge on the people that have hurt them


The Raven Boys
by Maggie Stiefvater
It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them--not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain. He has it all--family money, good looks, devoted friends--but he's looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little. For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Tilt by Ellen Hopkins out today!

Ellen Hopkins is known for her popular novels in verse about issues affecting teens, including Crank, Impulse, and last year's Perfect. I like her style of writing and how she often tells a story from the points of view of several characters. Whenever I read an Ellen Hopkins book, I really feel and understand what a character is going through, which, at times, can be very painful.

Tilt is another book in which the reader hears the story from several characters. In this case, teenangers Shane, Mikayla, and Harley talk about their relationships and love.

Tilt by Ellen Hopkins