Joelle Charbonneau’s GRADUATION DAY, the final book in The Testing trilogy, debuts at #8 on the New York Times Best Sellers Children’s Series list!
GRADUATION DAY also debuted on the USA Today Best Selling Books list!
In book three of the Testing series, the United Commonwealth wants to eliminate the rebel alliance fighting to destroy The Testing for good. Cia is ready to lead the charge, but will her lethal classmates follow her into battle?
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Adam Christopher’s THE L.A. TRILOGY, set in an alternative 1960s Los Angeles and starring a robot detective and his boss, pitched as inspired by Raymond Chandler’s parody of science fiction in a letter to his agent, to Natalie Laverick at Titan books by Stacia Decker.
Publishers Weekly: McGoran fluidly blends science and suspense in his outstanding second eco-thriller starring Philly cop Doyle Carrick (after 2013’s Drift). Because Doyle’s significant other, Nola Watkins, who’s showing signs of rethinking their relationship, needs a break from city life, the couple take a weekend trip to Martha’s Vineyard. On the resort island, their friend Moose is worried about the dwindling bee population, which may be due to a phenomenon, known as Colony Collapse Disorder, that inexplicably leads to disappearances of whole hives. Even as Moose spearheads a research project on CCD, a corporation has received permission to introduce genetically modified bees into the island’s ecosystem. After they return to Philadelphia, Nola decides to take a job on the Vineyard. When Nola misses her train, Doyle drives her to the ferry and accompanies her to the island, where he agrees to lend Moose a hand. This second visit, predictably, ends up being a busman’s holiday for the detective, who finds himself involved in multiple murder investigations. Top-notch plotting enhances McGoran’s sympathetic, flawed lead.
In book three of the Testing series, the United Commonwealth wants to eliminate the rebel alliance fighting to destroy The Testing for good. Cia is ready to lead the charge, but will her lethal classmates follow her into battle?
She wants to put an end to the Testing
In a scarred and brutal future, The United Commonwealth teeters on the brink of all-out civil war. The rebel resistance plots against a government that rules with cruelty and cunning. Gifted student and Testing survivor, Cia Vale, vows to fight.
But she can’t do it alone.
This is the chance to lead that Cia has trained for – but who will follow? Plunging through layers of danger and deception, Cia must risk the lives of those she loves–and gamble on the loyalty of her lethal classmates.
Who can Cia trust?
The stakes are higher than ever-lives of promise cut short or fulfilled; a future ruled by fear or hope–in the electrifying conclusion to Joelle Charbonneau’s epic Testing trilogy. Ready or not…it’s Graduation Day.
In Gasconade County, Missouri–once called the meth capital of the world–Deputy Sherriff Dale Banks discovers $52,000 hidden in the broken-down trailer that Jerry Dean Skaggs uses for cooking crystal. And he takes it. Banks knows what he did was wrong, but he did it for all the right reasons. At least, he thinks so. But for every wrong, there is a consequence.
Jerry Dean can’t afford to lose that $52,000—he owes it to his partners, a crooked cop, and the fearsome Reverend Butch Pogue, who controls the town’s meth production with an iron fist. With the looming threat of prison or death—depending on who catches him first—Jerry Dean makes a final attempt to save himself, setting into a motion a series events that shake even Gasconade Country’s most degenerate citizens.
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 scrap to aid the revolt. It’s this attention to detail in Charbonneau’s writing that engages readers in the action and draws them into Cia’s world.
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 outskirts of society. Jacobs is a master of the supernatural story, leading readers along dark and winding paths containing secrets, evil, and unimaginable power. Told from a male point of view, The Shibboleth will appeal mostly to boys and any reader who loves dark tales of action, adventure, and the supernatural.
Five hundred years from now, ex-corporate mercenary Koko Martstellar is swaggering through an early retirement as a brothel owner on The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort archipelago known for its sex and simulated violence. Surrounded by slang-drooling boywhores and synthetic komodo dragons, the most challenging part of Koko’s day is deciding on her next drink. That is, until her old comrade Portia Delacompte sends a squad of security personnel to murder her.
German rights to Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s CONFLICT OF HONORS, AGENT OF CHANGE and CARPE DIEM, to Atlantis Verlag in a three-book deal, by Kathrin Nehm at Thomas Schueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
German ebook rights to Robert Sheckley’s DIMENSION OF MIRACLES, to Heyne, by Kathrin Nehm at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Cameron McClure.
German rights to Brent Weeks’s novella PERFECT SHADOW, to Urban Hofstetter at Blanvalet, by Kathrin Nehm at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Cameron McClure.
German ebook rights to Robert Sheckley’s IMMORTALITY, INC., THE STATUS CIVILIZATION, MINDSWAP and OPTIONS, to Heyne, by Kathrin Nehm at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Cameron McClure.
Spanish rights to Chuck Wendig’s BLACKBIRDS, to Hidra, by Isabel Monteagudo at International Editors’, in association with Cameron McClure on behalf of Stacia Decker.
VOYA: In this highly anticipated final installment to The Testing Trilogy, Charbonneau delivers nail-biting suspense that fans of the series have come to love. Readers will finally get the answers they have sought throughout this dystopian thriller. Cia is now a little older, wiser, and tougher and must delicately balance her relationship with government officials and those she considers her friends. Full of even more ethically challenging decisions, deathly encounters, and deceitful characters, the book concludes the series without any loose ends. Fans of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games and Veronica Roth’s Divergent will enjoy this exciting end to another great dystopian adventure. Continue reading »