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. In Independent Study, Cia is a freshman at the University in Tosu City with her hometown sweetheart, Tomas—and though the government has tried to erase her memory of the brutal horrors of The Testing, Cia remembers. Continue reading »
Paige Marshall is back in the spotlight in Joelle Charbonneau’s newest Glee Club Mystery. This time the high school show choir coach is fighting to keep her singers in a national competition despite charges of sabotage…
They have the talent. They have the heart. Nothing can stop Prospect Glen’s choir from taking home the trophy in the Show Choir National Competition. But below the soaring voices, there are murmurs of suspicion. Continue reading »
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 after finishing the book, you’ll still have a grin on your face.
Ex-Marine, Nick Hardin, heads back from a decade in Africa to his hometown, Chicago, with $100 million in blood diamonds stolen from an Al Qaeda’s financing pipeline. His retirement plan? To cash out through a Chicago Mossad contact and head for the beach. But soon, Hardin’s stuck in Chicago with diamonds he can’t sell and a series of hit men, mobsters, and a Washington off-the-books black ops team on his tail. Continue reading »
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. Continue reading »
French rights to Frank Wheeler’s THE GOOD LIFE to Gallimard by Anna Jarota at the Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Cameron McClure, on behalf of Stacia Decker.
Italian rights to Fiona Maazel’s WOKE UP LONELY to Cavallo di Ferro by Stefania Fietta at ALI, in association with Cameron McClure, on behalf of Stacia Decker.
German rights to Robert McCammon’s SWAN SONG to Festa, to be published in two volumes, by Caroline Hartge and Franka Zastrow at Thomas Schlueck Agency, in association with Cameron McClure.
Lady Katherine Kinloch survived captivity once. Now the notorious captain of her own ship, she refuses to let anyone jeopardize her hard-won freedom. But on a voyage to England to fight for her family’s endangered estate, Katherine is thrown off course when she unknowingly rescues celebrated naval captain James Warre…a man who stands for everything she despises.
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THE TESTING hit #14 on the New York Times Best Sellers Young Adult list!
It’s graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. All Cia can think about—hope for—is whether she’ll be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing post-war civilization. When Cia is chosen, her father finally tells her about his own nightmarish half-memories of The Testing. Armed with his dire warnings (”Cia, trust no one”), she bravely heads off to Tosu City, far away from friends and family, perhaps forever. Danger, romance—and sheer terror—await.
Jay Lake and Shannon Page’s fantasy novel OUR LADY OF THE ISLANDS and a sequel, featuring Domina Sian Katte’s reluctant adventures after gaining healing powers, set in the archipelago world of Alizar, to Jak Koke at Per Aspera Press, by Jennifer Jackson.