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Third Daughter (The Dharian Affairs Trilogy #1) By Susan Kaye Quinn Available Now Self-Published Paperback 336 pages From author for review YA Steampunk/ Alt Universe/ Romance/ DIVERSE!!! To Buy Links: Amazon / Kindle / BN / Book Depository / Indiebound / Kobo Goodreads-  Skyships, saber duels, and lots of royal intrigue... and, of course, kissing. The Third Daughter of the Queen wants her birthday to arrive so she'll be free to marry for love, but rumors of a new flying weapon may force her to accept a barbarian prince's proposal for a peace-brokering marriage. Desperate to marry the charming courtesan she loves, Aniri agrees to the prince's proposal as a subterfuge in order to spy on him, find the weapon, and hopefully avoid both war and an arranged marriage to a man she does not love. Third Daughter is the first book in the The Dharian Affairs Trilogy (Third Daughter, Second Daughter, First Daughter). This steampunk-goes-to-Bollywood (Bollypunk!) romance that takes place...

WAITING ON WEDNESDAY "WAITING ON WEDNESDAY IS A WEEKLY EVENT HOSTED BY JILL AT BREAKING THE SPINE, THAT SPOTLIGHT UPCOMING RELEASES THAT WE'RE EAGERLY ANTICIPATING. HERE IS WHAT I DISCOVERED RECENTLY Of Monsters and Madness by Jessica Verday Release Date September 9th, 2014 Egmont  Hardcover 304 pages YA Historical Retelling First in a series A romantic, historical retelling of classic Gothic horror featuring Edgar Allan Poe and his character Annabel Lee, from a New   York Times best-selling author. Annabel Lee is summoned from Siam to live with her father in 1820's Philadelphia shortly after her mother's death, but an unconventional upbringing makes her repugnant to her angry, secretive father.  Annabel becomes infatuated with her father's assistant Allan, who dabbles in writing when he's not helping with medical advancements. But in darker hours, when she's not to be roaming the house, she encounters the devilish assistant Edgar, who bears an uncanny rese...

The Break-Up Artist by Philip Siegel Available Now Contemporary YA E-ARC from publisher Harlequin Teen  Hardcover 336 pages To Buy Links- Amazon / Kindle / BN / Book Depository / Indiebound / Kobo From Goodreads -   Some sixteen-year-olds babysit for extra cash. Some work at the Gap. Becca Williamson breaks up couples. 

 After watching her sister get left at the altar, Becca knows the true damage that comes when people utter the dreaded L-word. For just $100 via paypal, she can trick and manipulate any couple into smithereens. With relationship zombies overrunning her school, and treating single girls like second class citizens, business is unfortunately booming. Even her best friend Val has resorted to outright lies to snag a boyfriend. One night, she receives a mysterious offer to break up the homecoming king and queen, the one zombie couple to rule them all: Steve and Huxley. They are a JFK and Jackie O in training, masters of sweeping faux-mantic gestures, but if Becca ca...

Welcome to Day 1 of the SECRETS OF MOON AT NINE BLOG TOUR , featuring Moon at Nine – a timely new YA novel from humanitarian and award-winning author Deborah Ellis. Each stop on the 2-week tour will feature revealing posts, a chance to win a copy of the novel, and a chance to enter the grand prize giveaway! Secrets of the Moon at Nine Title Today, Pajama Press editor Ann Featherstone is here to talk a little bit about the title of Moon at Nine : In choosing the right title for Deborah’s story, we discussed the mood and idea we wanted to get across. First and foremost, we wanted a way to express Farrin and Sadira’s relationship, with its naïve optimism and almost dream-like power. There is a scene in the book where Farrin realizes that, in looking at the moon at the same time each night, the girls will feel connected, even if they are not together. Farrin calls it the nine o’clock moon. At the time, Farrin has no idea how much the sight of the moon will give her hope and, when ultimat...

Witch Finder by Ruth Warburton Available Now HodderChildren's Books Paperback 374 page Historical Fiction/ Supernatural/ YA E-ARC from Publisher for Review To Buy Links- Amazon / Kindle / BN / Book Depository /  Goodreads-  London. 1880. In the slums of Spitalfields apprentice blacksmith Luke is facing initiation into the Malleus Maleficorum, the fearsome brotherhood dedicated to hunting and killing witches. Luke’s final test is to pick a name at random from the Book of Witches, a name he must track down and kill within a month, or face death himself. Luke knows that tonight will change his life forever. But when he picks out sixteen-year-old Rosa Greenwood, Luke has no idea that his task will be harder than he could ever imagine. Review I read the reviews on Goodreads and see that many people weren't sold on this novel. I have a very different opinion. Drop all your expectations and just read it and see what you think. Borrow it from the library if you don't want to buy it...

WAITING ON WEDNESDAY "Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine , that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Dream Boy by Mary Crockett and Madelyn Rosenberg Releases July 1st from Sourcebooks Goodreads   -  Annabelle Manning feels like she’s doing time at her high school in Chilton, Virginia. She has her friends at her lunchtime table of nobodies. What she doesn’t have are possibilities. Or a date for Homecoming. Things get more interesting at night, when she spends time with the boy of her dreams. But the blue-eyed boy with the fairytale smile is just that—a dream. Until the Friday afternoon he walks into her chemistry class.   One of friends suspects he’s an alien. Another is pretty sure it’s all one big case of deja vu. While Annabelle doesn’t know what to think, she’s willing to believe that the charming Martin Zirkle may just be her dream come true. But as Annabelle discovers the truth behind dreams—where t...

Don't Even Think About it by Sarah Mlynowski Available Now Delacorte Press Hardcover 336 pages Received e-ARC from Publisher for Review YA Paranormal To buy links- Amazon / Kindle / Audio CD / Audible / BN / Book Depository /  Kobo Goodreads -  We weren't always like this. We used to be average New York City high school sophomores. Until our homeroom went for flu shots. We were prepared for some side effects. Maybe a headache. Maybe a sore arm. We definitely didn't expect to get telepathic powers. But suddenly we could hear what everyone was thinking. Our friends. Our parents. Our crushes. Now we all know that Tess is in love with her best friend, Teddy. That Mackenzie cheated on Cooper. That, um, Nurse Carmichael used to be a stripper. Since we've kept our freakish skill a secret, we can sit next to the class brainiac and ace our tests. We can dump our boyfriends right before they dump us. We know what our friends really think of our jeans, our breath, our new bangs. W...

The Art of Keeping Faith (The Uni Files: Year Two) by Anna Bloom Other books in the series The Art of Letting Go (The Uni Files: Year One) The Saving of Benjamin Chambers (The Uni Files #0.5) The Art of Forgiving (The Uni Files #1.5) Available Soon Goodreads -  Lilah and Ben. They are meant to be a thing.   Well, they were. The best thing ever. That was until Lilah decided to teach herself a lesson and let go of Ben since she’s learned The Art of Letting Go.  Now it’s a new academic year, and Lilah has it all to play for and it all to lose as she battles scary lecturers, evil PR girls, and her own inability to make the right decision at the right time.  Life has moved on for Lilah and her friends, and life off campus is more complicated than any of them would have guessed. As the reality of being second-year students sets in and the study starts to build up, cracks begin to appear in the very fabric of their friendships. There is a chance that none of them are going ...

Into The Dark- The Shadow Prince by Bree Despain Available Now Hardback 496 pages Greek Mythology/ Realistic/ YA To Buy Links- Amazon /  Kindle /  Barnes and Noble /  Book Depository / Indiebound /  Kobo Goodreads- Haden Lord, the disgraced prince of the Underrealm, has been sent to the mortal world to entice a girl into returning with him to the land of the dead. Posing as a student at Olympus Hills High—a haven for children of the rich and famous—Haden must single out the one girl rumored to be able to restore immortality to his race. Daphne Raines has dreams much bigger than her tiny southern Utah town, so when her rock star dad suddenly reappears, offering her full tuition to Olympus Hills High’s prestigious music program, she sees an opportunity to catch the break she needs to make it as a singer. But upon moving into her estranged father’s mansion in California, and attending her glamorous new school, Daphne soon realizes she isn’t the only student in Olympus w...