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Mike Shepherd’s 13th, 14th and 15th novels in the military science fiction series featuring the intrepid Kris Longknife to Ginjer Buchanan at Penguin Random House’s Ace imprint, by Jennifer Jackson.

INDEPENDENT STUDY debuts at #8 on the New York Times Best Sellers Young Adult list! In the series debut The Testing, sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United Commonwealth government as one of the best and brightest graduates of all the colonies . . . a promising leader in the effort to revitalize postwar civilization.

Universal has optioned The Wolf’s Hour, a novel by Robert McCammon, Chris Morgan and Emile Gladstone to produce and the script written by Bradley and Kevin Marcus. Read more about the deal here. Michael Gallatin is a British spy with a peculiar talent: the ability to transform himself into a wolf. Although his work in North Africa helped the Allies win the continent in the early days of World War II, he quit the service when a German spy shot his lover in […]

Shelf Awareness: Joelle Charbonneau melds coming-of-age themes with the suspense of a detective story in this second installment of a planned trilogy, with an intellectual narrative more complex than most dystopian literature. Malencia “Cia” Vale continues her quest for knowledge, and her life in the dystopian United Commonwealth, a future U.S. that is rebuilding after worldwide political and environmental upheaval. Now a student at Tosu City University in the capital, Cia can’t remember the trauma and betrayals that befell her in […]

New York Times best-selling author of The Testing Joelle Charbonneau’s new YA novel N.E.E.D., pitched as Pretty Little Liars meets Homeland, about a website that will fulfill any wish provided you fulfill a request and the teen who investigates when people start getting hurt, to Margaret Raymo at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s, for publication in Fall 2015, by Stacia Decker.

DMLA congratulates Cassandra Rose Clarke on her nomination for a 2013 Philp K. Dick Award for her book The Mad Scientist’s Daughter! Finn looks and acts human, though he has no desire to be. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection. A billion-dollar construct, his primary task now is to tutor Cat. As she grows into a beautiful young woman, Finn is her guardian, her constant companion… and more. But when the government grants rights […]

DMLA congratulates Cassandra Rose Clarke on The Mad Scientist’s Daughter being named one of B&N Book Blog’s Top Books of 2013!

Romantic Times: Award-winning Harrison is back with the second half of her intense, dark and enthralling duology, which features the climax of an ancient ongoing war. The various characters in these novels have been fighting for so long it has damaged them on many levels. Harrison’s ability to craft multilayered characters as well as a believable, absorbing mythos makes her one of the best in the business.

Booklist: It’s only natural to approach a new novel by the author of Empire State (2011), Seven Wonders (2012), and The Age Atomic (2013) with wide-eyed enthusiasm and a childlike sense of eager anticipation, and Christopher fulfills our expectations and more: just when we think the story couldn’t get any weirder, he adds a whole new layer of weird, bouncing from one unexpected moment of goofiness to another, keeping us stuck to our chairs until we think it’ll take an industrial-strength solvent to pry us loose. Days […]

Booklist: Jacob’s The Twelve-Fingered Boy (2012) was exactly what the teens-with-powers subgenre needed: a fullbody beat down that reminded us that having such powers would really, really suck. This hefty sequel follows 16-year-old delinquent Shreve, who can possess people’s bodies, as he shifts from juvenile facility to psych ward to, at last, the Society of Extranaturals, a boot camp of sorts for “post-human” kids run by the highly untrustworthy Mr. Quincrux.