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Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater Series: Raven Cycle (Book 3) Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Scholastic Press; 1st edition (October 21, 2014) Language: English Buy the book: Amazon Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things, though, is how easily they can be lost. Friends can betray. Mothers can disappear Visions can mislead. Certainties can unravel. In a starred review, The Bulletin called The Dream Thieves, the previous book in The Raven Cycle, "a complex web of magical intrigue and heart-stopping action." Now, with Blue Lily, Lily Blue, the web becomes even more complex, snaring readers at every turn. Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater was--and typically so--a weavingly creative addition to the Raven Boy...

Allegiant by Veronica Roth Series: Divergent Series (Book 3) Hardcover: 544 pages Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books; First Edition edition (October 22, 2013) Buy the book: Amazon The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she’s known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris’s new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature—and of herself—while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love. This was definitely my least favorite of the series. The two P...

HIS DARK MATERIALS ( The Golden Compass , The Subtle Knife , The Amber Spyglass ) by Philip Pullman Publisher: Yearling; 1st edition (May 22, 2001) Goodreads  Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want. But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help on of them will be to betray the other... A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. This fall Philip Pullman will be releasing a new book in the HIS DARK MATERIALS world called THE B...

Review by Krista... RUINED  by Amy Tintera Series: Ruined #1 Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: HarperTeen (May 3, 2016) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon A revenge that will consume her. A love that will ruin her. Emelina Flores has nothing. Her home in Ruina has been ravaged by war. She lacks the powers of her fellow Ruined. Worst of all, she witnessed her parents’ brutal murders and watched helplessly as her sister, Olivia, was kidnapped. But because Em has nothing, she has nothing to lose. Driven by a blind desire for revenge, Em sets off on a dangerous journey to the enemy kingdom of Lera. Somewhere within Lera’s borders, Em hopes to find Olivia. But in order to find her, Em must infiltrate the royal family. In a brilliant, elaborate plan of deception and murder, Em marries Prince Casimir, next in line to take Lera’s throne. If anyone in Lera discovers Em is not Casimir’s true betrothed, Em will be executed on the spot. But it’s the only way to salvage Em’s kingd...

Review by Leydy THE LAST STAR The 5th Wave #3 Audible Audio Edition Listening Length: 9 hours and 17 minutes Program Type: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Publisher: Listening Library Scheduled Audible.com Release Date: May 24, 2016 Goodreads | Amazon | Audible Following the major motion picture release starring Chloë Grace Moretz, the heart-stopping finale to the New York Times best-selling 5th Wave series The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They're down here, they're up there, they're nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others and now by ourselves. In these last days, Earth's remaining survivors will need to decide what's more important: saving themselves...or saving what makes us human. "Let no one despair, ev...

Review by Krista   Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke Audible Audio Edition Listening Length: 5 hours and 40 minutes Program Type: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Publisher: Listening Library Audible.com Release Date: March 22, 2016 Narrated By Michael Crouch , Alicyn Packard , Caitlin Davies Goodreads | Amazon | Audible   Every story needs a hero. Every story needs a villain. Every story needs a secret. Wink is the odd, mysterious neighbor girl, wild red hair and freckles. Poppy is the blond bully and the beautiful, manipulative high school queen bee. Midnight is the sweet, uncertain boy caught between them. Wink. Poppy. Midnight . Two girls. One boy. Three voices that burst onto the page in short, sharp, bewitching chapters, and spiral swiftly and inexorably toward something terrible or tricky or tremendous. What really happened? Someone knows. Someone is lying.  Told from three perspectives, Wink, Poppy, Midnight is a story abou...

by Becca & Andye (squee!) THE ROSE & THE DAGGER The Wrath and the Dawn #2 by Renee Ahdieh Age Range: 12 and up Grade Level: 7 and up Series: The Wrath and the Dawn Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers (April 26, 2016) Audio CD Publisher: Listening Library (Audio); Unabridged edition (May 3, 2016) Goodreads | Amazon | Audible The much anticipated sequel to the breathtaking The Wrath and the Dawn, lauded by Publishers Weekly as "a potent page-turner of intrigue and romance." I am surrounded on all sides by a desert. A guest, in a prison of sand and sun. My family is here. And I do not know whom I can trust. In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad has been torn from the love of her husband Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once believed him a monster, but his secrets revealed a man tormented by guilt and a powerful curse—one that might keep them apart forever. Reunited with her family, who have taken refuge with ene...

Review by Andye THE PASSION OF DOLSSA by Julie Berry Age Range: 12 - 17 years Grade Level: 7 and up Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers (April 12, 2016) Audible Audio Edition Listening Length: 11 hours and 42 minutes Program Type: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Publisher: Listening Library Goodreads | Amazon | Audible I must write this account, and when I have finished, I will burn it. Buried deep within the archives of a convent in medieval France is an untold story of love, loss, and wonder and the two girls at the heart of it all. Dolssa is an upper-crust city girl with a secret lover and an uncanny gift. Branded a heretic, she’s on the run from the friar who condemned her mother to death by fire, and wants Dolssa executed, too. Botille is a matchmaker and a tavern-keeper, struggling to keep herself and her sisters on the right side of the law in their seaside town of Bajas. When their lives collide by a dark riverside, Botille rescues a dyi...

By Becca... THE GLITTERING COURT By Richelle Mead Series: Glittering Court #1 Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Razorbill (April 5th, 2016) Language: EnglishAudible Audio Edition Listening Length: 12 hours and 53 minutes Program Type: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Publisher: Listening Library Goodreads | Amazon | Audible The Selection meets Reign in this dazzling trilogy of interwoven novels about three girls on a quest for freedom and true love from #1 internationally bestselling author Richelle Mead. For a select group of girls, the Glittering Court offers a shot at a life they’ve only ever dreamed of, one of luxury, glamour, and leisure. To high-born Adelaide, whose wealthy family is forcing her into a loveless marriage, the Glittering Court represents something else: the chance to chart her own destiny, and adventure in an unspoiled, prosperous new land across the sea. After a chance meeting with the dazzling Cedric Thorn, Adelaide poses as a servant to ...

Review by Krista Glass Sword (Red Queen #2) by Victoria Aveyard Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins Narrated By Amanda Dolan Series: Red Queen , Book 2 Release Date: 02-09-16  Publisher: Harper Audio Audible If there’s one thing Mare Barrow knows, it’s that she’s different. Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince—the friend—who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost...

Review by Shannon THE WINNER'S KISS by Marie Rutkoski Series: The Winner's Trilogy (Book 3) Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (March 29, 2016) Audible Audio Edition Listening Length: 12 hours and 13 minutes Program Type: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Publisher: Listening Library Goodreads | Amazon | Audible War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it with untrustworthy new allies and the empire as his enemy. Though he has convinced himself that he no longer loves Kestrel, Arin hasn’t forgotten her, or how she became exactly the kind of person he has always despised. She cared more for the empire than she did for the lives of innocent people―and certainly more than she did for him. At least, that’s what he thinks. In the frozen north, Kestrel is a prisoner in a brutal work camp. As she searches desperately for a way to escape, she wishes Arin could know what she sacrificed for him. She wishes she could make the empire pay for what t...

Review by Sara & Andye THE WINNER'S KISS by Marie Rutkoski Series: The Winner's Trilogy (Book 3) Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (March 29, 2016) Audible Audio Edition Listening Length: 12 hours and 13 minutes Program Type: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Publisher: Listening Library Goodreads | Amazon | Audible War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it with untrustworthy new allies and the empire as his enemy. Though he has convinced himself that he no longer loves Kestrel, Arin hasn’t forgotten her, or how she became exactly the kind of person he has always despised. She cared more for the empire than she did for the lives of innocent people―and certainly more than she did for him. At least, that’s what he thinks. In the frozen north, Kestrel is a prisoner in a brutal work camp. As she searches desperately for a way to escape, she wishes Arin could know what she sacrificed for him. She wishes she could make the empire pay for what ...

Review by Leydy THE SERPENT KING by Jeff Zentner Audible Audio Edition Listening Length: 9 hours and 7 minutes Program Type: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Publisher: Listening Library March 8, 2016 Goodreads | Audible | Hardcover “ The Serpent King is a book you won’t be able to resist or forget. The Southern boy in me savored every syllable and the reader in me fell in love with every page.” —John Corey Whaley, National Book Award finalist and Printz Award winner Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life—at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minister who urges him to handle poisonous rattlesnakes, and at school, where he faces down bullies who target him for his father’s extreme faith and very public fall from grace. He and his fellow outcast friends must try to make it through their senior year of high school without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self. Graduation will lead to new beginnings for Lydia, w...

by Elisa The Man-Eating Horses of Autumn: Having moved to the sunny shores of San Diego, I haven’t yet become used to the mild weather. Unsurprisingly, it just didn’t click that it was the Fall. To help me beginning to enjoy pumpkin lattes, I decided to listen to the Scorpio Races to get me in an autumnal mood. The season for man-eating water horses to climb onto shore begins in October and goes through November. In celebration, the water horses (also called the kelpie or cabyll-ushtey) run wild and free in the ancient festival of the Scorpio Races. The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater is one of my favorite books ever. I can’t perfectly pin-point why. It is so simple, but deeply character driven.  I don't even like horses much, but rugged Sean Kendrick's love of for his dangerous Cabyll-ushtey is just so dang sexy. And I admire the tough Katie Connelly deeply. Despite her tragedies, she is so firey and brave and silent in all the ways I am not. Their connection is...