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Publishers Weekly: As the third most popular girl in school, 15-year-old Anika Dragomir worries a lot about her precarious social rank, which means tolerating the casual cruelties of Becky Vilhauer, who rules their Nebraska high school with an iron fist. Morally conflicted, Anika surreptitiously tries to undo some of Becky’s damage (such as dismantling an invented pregnancy rumor), but Anika’s secret relationship with geek-turned-hottie Logan McDonough only adds to her problems. This nascent romance is further complicated when Jared Kline, “the […]

Publishers Weekly: Bennett (American Elsewhere) ventures into secondary-world fantasy in this action-packed, occasionally numinous, noir-like novel, which combines metaphysical and geopolitical observations. The city of Bulikov, once the sacred seat of a brutal, miracle-fueled empire, now stagnates under the administration of its former colony Saypur, which has become a technology-driven superpower. Exiled operative Ashara Komayd is the privileged great-granddaughter of the last Kaj of Saypur, the man who killed the Divinities, thereby both literally and politically destabilizing an entire continent. While […]

Shelf Awareness: Just when you thought Cia’s journey couldn’t get any better, it does, in this finale to the Testing trilogy, which recounts the culmination of Cia’s studies and battles in the dystopian United Commonwealth. Joelle Charbonneau ends her first young adult series on a high note. Cia’s love story with Tomas takes a back seat to the hero’s journey. Much of Cia’s role in the revolt involves a mechanical and technical knowledge that allows her to build devices out of […]

Jim Butcher’s SKIN GAME, book 15 of the Dresden Files series, spends its second week on the New York Times Best Seller list, this time at #2! Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day…. Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s something awful. He doesn’t know the half of it….

This is a book like no other. Shreve, a teenage delinquent who is a thief and a dealer of contraband candy, has an enormous power for which he struggles to find a place. His telepathy eventually causes him to join the Society of Extranaturals, and his journey is all mental, an exploration of the human psyche that turns his entire world upside down. This novel is a superb telling of what it means to be different, existing physically and mentally on the […]

Congratulations to the DMLA authors nominated by the British Fantasy Society’s awards for 2014!         Best Fantasy Novel BETWEEN TWO THORNS, Emma Newman (Angry Robot) THE GLASS REPUBLIC, Tom Pollock (Jo Fletcher Books) Best Newcomer: Emma Newman, for BETWEEN TWO THORNS

L.A. Times: Out this week from St. Martin’s Griffin, the book breezy and funny, with the sort of joking modernity you’d suspect of an advice columnist who, when asked whether it’s OK to pet on the first date, first responds, “Your dog, or your girlfriend?” – only to quip, “I’m a fan of sex on the first date, actually.” Miss Manners, she ain’t.She is, though, endlessly engaging. Read more about Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck at the L.A. […]

Jim Butcher’s SKIN GAME, book 15 of the Dresden Files series, debuts on the New York Times Hardcover Best Seller List at #1, and is also #1 on both the E-book list and the Combined Print & E-book list! Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day…. Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s something awful. He doesn’t know […]

DMLA would like to congratulate Jim Butcher on SKIN GAME, book 15 of the Dresden Files series, debuting at #1 the Sunday Times Best Seller List! Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day…. Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s something awful. He doesn’t know the half of it….

Andrea Portes’ BURY THIS has been named a Top Indie Fiction pick by Library Journal! The body of a young woman is found by a snow plower at the side of the road in 1979 small-town Michigan, and the case is unsolved for 25 years until some film students decide to make a documentary. The effect on the town, always insidious, turns incendiary. VERDICT Based on a true story, this book delivers suspense but means to be a social study, told in […]