New Year, new resolutions, and that includes a few books! Looking ahead to a new slate of books we've picked some you'll want to include in your book club reading, some for the Young Adult. Can't get enough of FIFTY SHADES, we've got a couple of new ones that promise heat and a great story. But don't forget the books to keep you reading way past your bed time and then at least one (or two) just because they are guaranteed FUN reads!
For a moment, a face flashed before my eyes--the most
hideous face I'd ever seen. No matter how hard I tried to
forget what had happened, I saw him everywhere I went. It
was Loki--the evil god that I'd helped set free against my
will.
I should have known that my first official date with Logan
Quinn was destined to end in disaster. If we'd gotten into a
swordfight, or been ambushed by Reapers, I'd have been more
prepared. But getting arrested mid-sip at the local coffee
hangout? I didn't see that one coming. I've been accused of
purposely helping the Reapers free Loki from his prison--and
the person leading the charge against me is Linus Quinn,
Logan's dad. The worst part is that pretty much everyone at
Mythos ACAemy thinks I'm guilty. If I'm going to get out of
this mess alive, I'll have to do it myself. . .
Across the Universe #3
Razorbill
January 2013
On Sale: January 15, 2013
400 pages ISBN: 1595143998 EAN: 9781595143990 Kindle: B0081KYYAS Hardcover / e-Book
The final book in the New York Times
bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar
Gallactica and Prometheus!
Amy and Elder
have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship
Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to
build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has
traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to
experience.
But this new Earth isn't the paradise
Amy had been hoping for. There are giant pterodactyl-like
birds, purple flowers with mind-numbing toxins, and
mysterious, unexplained ruins that hold more secrets than
their stone walls first let on. The biggest secret of all?
Godspeed's former passengers aren't alone on this
planet. And if they're going to stay, they'll have to
fight.
Amy and Elder must race to discover who--or
what--else is out there if they are to have any hope of
saving their struggling colony and building a future
together. They will have to look inward to the very core of
what makes them human on this, their most harrowing journey
yet. Because if the colony collapses? Then everything they
have sacrificed--friends, family, life on Earth--will have
been for nothing.
Daughter Of Smoke And Bone #1
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
October 2011
On Sale: September 29, 2011
432 pages ISBN: 0316134023 EAN: 9780316134026 Kindle: B004QX076Y Hardcover / e-Book
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on
doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept
through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop,
a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously
low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art
student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly
war.
Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with
monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to
disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many
languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair
actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That
is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find
out.
When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted
Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in
Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets
unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of
a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the
truth about herself?
Can Cat Crawford find her way back to modern times before her Italian time travel adventure turns into an Italian forever?
On the precipice of her sixteenth birthday, the last thing
lone wolf Cat Crawford wants is an extravagant gala thrown
by her bubbly stepmother and well-meaning father. So
even though Cat knows the family's trip to Florence, Italy,
is a peace offering, she embraces the magical city and all
it offers. But when her curiosity leads her to an unusual
gypsy tent, she exits . . . right into Renaissance Firenze.
Thrust into the sixteenth century armed with only a
backpack full of contraband future items, Cat joins up with
her ancestors, the sweet Alessandra and protective
Cipriano, and soon falls for the gorgeous aspiring artist
Lorenzo. But when the much-older Niccolo starts
sniffing around, Cat realizes that an unwanted birthday
party is nothing compared to an unwanted suitor full of
creeptastic amore.
Can she find her way back to modern times before her
Italian adventure turns into an Italian forever?
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey and Bared to
You comes an erotic, emotionally charged romance between
a powerful man who's never heard "no" and a fiery woman who
says "yes" on her own terms.
He was the one man I couldn't avoid. And the one man I
couldn't resist.
Damien Stark could have his way with any woman. He was sexy,
confident, and commanding: Anything he wanted, he got. And
what he wanted was me.
Our attraction was unmistakable, almost beyond control, but
as much as I ached to be his, I feared the pressures of his
demands. Submitting to Damien meant I had to bare the
darkest truth about my past—and risk breaking us apart.
But Damien was haunted, too. And as our passion came to
obsess us both, his secrets threatened to destroy him—and
us—forever.
Release Me is an erotic romance intended for mature
audiences.
There are secrets in the town of Bon Temps, ones that
threaten those closest to Sookie—and could destroy her heart....
Sookie Stackhouse finds it easy to turn down the request of
former barmaid Arlene when she wants her job back at
Merlotte's. After all, Arlene tried to have Sookie killed.
But her relationship with Eric Northman is not so clearcut.
He and his vampires are keeping their distance...and a cold
silence. And when Sookie learns the reason why, she is
devastated.
Then a shocking murder rocks Bon Temps, and Sookie is
arrested for the crime.
But the evidence against Sookie is weak, and she makes bail.
Investigating the killing, she'll learn that what passes for
truth in Bon Temps is only a convenient lie. What passes for
justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is
never enough...
A spellbinding historical novel of beauty and greed and
surprising redemption.
England, 1660. Ella Appleby believes she is destined for
better things than slaving as a housemaid and dodging the
blows of her drunken father. When her employer dies
suddenly, she seizes her chance--taking his valuables and
fleeing the countryside with her sister for the golden
prospects of London. But London may not be the promised land
she expects. Work is hard to find, until Ella takes up with
a dashing and dubious gentleman with ties to the London
underworld. Meanwhile, her old employer's twin brother is in
hot pursuit of the sisters.
Set in a London of atmospheric coffee houses, gilded
mansions, and shady pawnshops hidden from rich men's view,
Deborah Swift's The Gilded Lily is a dazzling novel
of historical adventure.
Set against the turbulent and glamorous backdrop of
Prohibition and the rise of the jazz age, The Gin
Lovers is a sensual and romantic story of how one high
society woman's passion and courage lead her to
love.
It's 1925, and the Victorian era with its
confining morals is all but dead. Unfortunately, for New
York socialite Charlotte Delacorte, the scandalous flapper
revolution is little more than a headline in the tabloids.
Living with her rigid and controlling husband William, her
Fifth Avenue townhouse is a gilded cage. But when William's
rebellious younger sister, the beautiful and brash Mae,
comes to live with them after the death of their mother,
Charlotte finds entr�e to a world beyond her wildest dreams
- and a handsome and mysterious stranger whom she
imagines is as confident in the bedroom as he is behind the
bar of his forbidden speakeasy.
This is the story Harry Ransom. If you know his name it's
most likely as the inventor of the Ransom Process, a stroke
of genius that changed the world.
Or you may have read about how he lost the battle of Jasper
City, or won it, depending on where you stand in matters of
politics.
Friends called him Hal or Harry, or by one of a half-dozen
aliases, of which he had more than any honest man should. He
often went by Professor Harry Ransom, and though he never
had anything you might call a formal education, he
definitely earned it.
If you're reading this in the future, Ransom City must be a
great and glittering metropolis by now, with a big bronze
statue of Harry Ransom in a park somewhere. You might be
standing on its sidewalk and not wonder in the least of how
it grew to its current glory. Well, here is its story, full
of adventure and intrigue. And it all starts with the day
that old Harry Ransom crossed paths with Liv Alverhyusen and
John Creedmoor, two fugitives running from the Line, amidst
a war with no end.
The second novel from the New York Times bestselling author
of If You Were Here takes us back to the hair metal
80's.
Twenty years after ruling the halls of her suburban Chicago
high school, Lissy Ryder doesn't understand why her glory
days ended. Back then, she was
worshipped...beloved...feared. Present day, not so much.
She's been pink-slipped from her high-paying job, dumped by
her husband and kicked out of her condo. Now, at
thirty-seven, she's struggling to start a business out of
her parents' garage and sleeping under the hair-band posters
in her old bedroom.
Lissy finally realizes karma is the only bitch bigger than
she was. Her present is miserable because of her past. But
it's not like she can go back in time and change who she
was...or can she?
Ireland 1963. As the Irish people prepare to welcome
President John F. Kennedy to the land of his ancestors, a
German national is murdered in a seaside guesthouse.
Lieutenant Albert Ryan, Directorate of Intelligence, is
ordered to investigate. The German is the third foreigner to
die within a few days, and Minister for Justice Charles
Haughey wants the killing to end lest a shameful secret be
exposed: the dead men were all Nazis granted asylum by the
Irish government in the years following World War II.
A note from the killers is found on the dead German's
corpse, addressed to Colonel Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's
favorite commando, once called the most dangerous man in
Europe. The note simply says: "We are coming for you."
As Albert Ryan digs deeper into the case he discovers a
network of former Nazis and collaborators, all presided over
by Skorzeny from his country estate outside Dublin. When
Ryan closes in on the killers, his loyalty is torn between
country and conscience. Why must he protect the very people
he fought against twenty years before? Ryan learns that
Skorzeny might be a dangerous ally, but he is a deadly enemy.
The explosive new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New
York Times-bestselling author.
LAPD cop Scott James is not doing so well. Eight months ago,
a shocking nighttime assault by unidentified men killed his
partner Stephanie, nearly killed him, and left him enraged,
ashamed, and ready to explode. He is unfit for duty—until he
meets his new partner.
Maggie is not doing so well, either. A German shepherd who
survived three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan sniffing
explosives before losing her handler to an IED, her PTSD is
as bad as Scott's.
They are each other's last chance. Shunned and shunted to
the side, they set out to investigate the one case that no
one wants them to touch: the identity of the men who
murdered Stephanie. What they begin to find is nothing like
what Scott has been told, and the journey will take them
both through the darkest moments of their own personal
hells. Whether they will make it out again, no one can say.
The Order of the Sanguines
HarperCollins
January 2013
On Sale: January 8, 2013
448 pages ISBN: 006199104X EAN: 9780061991042 Kindle: B0089LOGDE Hardcover / e-Book
They were born in the time of Christ, and through the ages
they have been called many names: The Strigae. The
Vrykolakas. The Pishacha. They are the Sect of the
Sanguines--the Vatican's Vampires--an ancient order who
stands vigilant in an unrelenting quest to destroy evil in
all its horrifying forms . . .
How did Christ suddenly acquire the skills to perform
miracles? Why was his first miracle turning water into
wine? Why does the Catholic faith believe that the act of
transubstantiation converts communion wine into Christ's
holy blood?
The Blood Gospel contains the answers to these mysteries
and many more, but it has been lost to history, rumors of
its existence fearfully whispered amid dark shadows. But
now, at a barbarous crime scene in King Herod's ancient
city, the first real clue to the mysterious Gospel's
hidden location has been unearthed.
No one has a greater interest in protecting the Gospel's
secrets than the mysterious Sect of the Sanguines. But the
key to finding the Blood Gospel lies in the hands of a non-
believer. Erin Granger has no idea that her life in mortal
danger, and she must be found before a diabolical enemy
seeking to possesses the Blood Gospel's power can unleash
unholy hell and rend the world from its moorings. . . .
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