October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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Dead Beat, September 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Crooked Kingdom: The Dregs Edition, October 2025
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Six of Crows: The Dregs Edition, October 2025
Trade Paperback
The Familiar, April 2024
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Hell Bent, January 2024
Trade Paperback
Hell Bent, January 2023
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries, September 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Marple, September 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Ninth House, July 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Rule of Wolves, April 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Wonder Woman: Warbringer, January 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
King of Scars, February 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Summer Days and Summer Nights, June 2017
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Six of Crows, October 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Ruin and Rising, June 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Siege And Storm, June 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Shadow and Bone, May 2013
Trade Size / e-Book

RUIN AND RISING
By: Leigh Bardugo

Grisha #3
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
June 2014
On Sale: June 17, 2014
432 pages
ISBN: 080509461X
EAN: 9780805094619
Kindle: B00GVRVEG0
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fantasy | Young Adult Fantasy

The capital has fallen. The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.

Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.

Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.

Alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova's amplifiers. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction—and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she's fighting for.

Ruin and Rising is the thrilling final installment in Leigh Bardugo's Grisha Trilogy. This title has Common Core connections.