If fate sent you an email, would you answer?

When teenage movie star Graham Larkin accidentally sends small town girl Ellie O'Neill an email about his pet pig, the two seventeen-year-olds strike up a witty and unforgettable correspondence, discussing everything under the sun, except for their names or backgrounds.

Then Graham finds out that Ellie's Maine hometown is the perfect location for his latest film, and he decides to take their relationship from online to in-person. But can a star as famous as Graham really start a relationship with an ordinary girl like Ellie? And why does Ellie want to avoid the media's spotlight at all costs?

Wendy Higgins was born in Alaska, grew up an Army brat, and lived all over the United States before settling in the Washington, DC area. She attended George Mason University for her undergrad degree in creative writing, and Radford University for her masters in curriculum and instruction. Wendy taught 9th and 12th grade English in a rural school before becoming a mother and author. She now lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, daughter, and son. Sweet Peril is her second novel.

THEN: The formation of the UNA, the high threat of eco-terrorism, the mammoth rates of unemployment and subsequent escape into a world of virtual reality are things any student can read about in their twenty-first century textbooks and part of the normal, background noise to Freya Kallas' life. Until that world starts to crumble.

NOW: It's 1985. Freya Kallas has just moved across the world and into a new life. On the outside, she fits in at her new high school, but Freya feels nothing but removed. Her mother blames it on the grief of her father's death, but how does that explain the headaches and why do her memories feel so foggy? When Freya lays eyes on Garren Lowe, she can't get him out of her head. She's sure that she knows him, despite his insistence that they've never met. As Freya follows her instincts and pushes towards hidden truths, the two of them unveil a strange and dangerous world where their days may be numbered. Unsure who to trust, Freya and Garren go on the run from powerful forces determined to tear them apart and keep them from discovering the truth about their shared pasts (and futures), her visions, and the time and place they really came from. Yesterday will appeal to fans of James Dashner's The Maze Runner, Veronica Roth's Divergent, Amy Ryan's Glow, Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone, and Ally Condie's Matched. 

Seventeen-year-old Lauren is having visions of girls who have gone missing. And all these girls have just one thing in common—they are 17 and gone without a trace. As Lauren struggles to shake these waking nightmares, impossible questions demand urgent answers: Why are the girls speaking to Lauren? How can she help them? And… is she next? As Lauren searches for clues, everything begins to unravel, and when a brush with death lands her in the hospital, a shocking truth emerges, changing everything. 

With complexity and richness, Nova Ren Suma serves up a beautiful, visual, fresh interpretation of what it means to be lost.

Fates unfurl in the gripping conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Hush, Hush saga.

Nora is more certain than ever that she is in love with Patch. Fallen angel or no, he is the one for her. Her heritage and destiny may mean they are fated to be enemies, but there is no turning her back on him. Now Nora and Patch must gather their strength to face one last, perilous trial. Old enemies return, new enemies are made, and a friend's ultimate betrayal threatens the peace Patch and Nora so desperately want. The battle lines are drawn—but which sides are they on? And in the end, are there some obstacles even love can't conquer?

Life for Megan Rosenberg just got a lot more complicated.

While she evoked the air element, and her feelings for Adam intensified, a web of lies, deceit, and betrayal was spun around her. With the Order tightening its hold, and the reinstatement of the Mark Knights, Megan has more questions than answers as the Marked Ones grow in strength.

New people arouse suspicion, the DeRises start behaving strangely, and Megan begins to unravel a destiny shrouded in mystery. It’s a destiny the Order has struggled to hide, and a destiny someone from the past… far in the past, has already laid claim to.

Alliances will be made, and friends will be lost, as the Order’s dark secrets are revealed by the very thing they sought to destroy.

I started out life in South Africa. A year later my parents moved home to Dublin, Ireland. When I was older and realized my parents had moved me from exotic Durban, to sedate Rathfarnham, Dublin 16, I was rightly ticked off.

Giving up lions for sheep, I grew up in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains where I went to a convent school and had to contend with uniforms, gabardines, and nuns. When not dodging the beady glare of the Sisters of Mercy, I was devouring every book I could get my hands on.

I traveled all over Europe while working in banking and treasury, but I gave up my calculator in favor of a keyboard and haven't stopped writing since. My first book, Carrier of the Mark, was published by HarperTeen in 2011.

Our home is in Cork in the south of Ireland, but we're currently on loan to Massachusetts in the US where I continue to write books about magic, ghosts,and romance, with a bit of Irish flavor.

The truth about Mara Dyer’s dangerous and mysterious abilities continues to unravel in this gripping sequel to the thrilling The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer.

Mara Dyer once believed she could run from her past.

She can’t.

She used to think her problems were all in her head.

They aren’t.

She couldn’t imagine that after everything she’s been through, the boy she loves would still be keeping secrets.

She’s wrong.

In this gripping sequel to The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, the truth evolves and choices prove deadly. What will become of Mara Dyer next? 

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• Dark Star by Bethany Frenette 
• The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron
• Dodger by Terry Pratchett
• It's Our Nature by Rebeca Orozco 
• Magisterium by Jeff Hirsch 
• Oscar Peterson: The Man and His Jazz by Jack Batten 
• Rebel Heart (Dust Lands #2) by Moira Young 
• ARC of The Almost Truth by Eileen Cook  
• The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen by Susin Nielsen ~ my ARC review
• ARC of Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer 
• ARC of Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally ~ my review
• Through Indigo's Eyes by Tara Taylor and Lorna Schultz Nicholson
• Undead by Kirsty McKay  
• Watching Jimmy by Nancy Hartry
• Winter Shadows by Margaret Buffie  

Seductive companion to the popular Juliet Immortal, in which former lovers—Romeo and Juliet—meet, not as true lovers, but truly as enemies.

Cursed to live out eternity in his rotted corpse, Romeo, known for his ruthless, cutthroat ways, is given the chance to redeem himself by traveling back in time to save the life of Ariel Dragland. Unbeknownst to her, Ariel is important to both the evil Mercenaries and the love-promoting Ambassadors and holds the fate of the world in her hands. Romeo must win her heart and make her believe in love, turning her away from her darker potential before his work is discovered by the Mercenaries. While his seduction begins as yet another lie, it soon becomes his only truth. Romeo vows to protect Ariel from harm, and do whatever it takes to win her heart and soul. But when Ariel is led to believe his love is a deception, she becomes vulnerable to Mercenary manipulation, and her own inner darkness may ultimately rip them apart. 

You or your Alt? Only one will survive.

The city of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high. Everyone has a genetic Alternate—a twin raised by another family—and citizens must prove their worth by eliminating their Alts before their twentieth birthday. Survival means advanced schooling, a good job, marriage—life.

Fifteen-year-old West Grayer has trained as a fighter, preparing for the day when her assignment arrives and she will have one month to hunt down and kill her Alt. But then a tragic misstep shakes West’s confidence. Stricken with grief and guilt, she’s no longer certain that she’s the best version of herself, the version worthy of a future. If she is to have any chance of winning, she must stop running not only from her Alt, but also from love . . . though both have the power to destroy her.

Elsie Chapman's suspenseful YA debut weaves unexpected romance into a novel full of fast-paced action and thought-provoking philosophy. When the story ends, discussions will begin about this future society where every adult is a murderer and every child knows there is another out there who just might be better.

• Crush. Candy. Corpse. by Sylvia McNicoll (Lorimer)
• The Dragon Turn (The Boy Sherlock Holmes #5) by Shane Peacock (Tundra Books) **
• End of Days by Eric Walters (Doubleday Canada) 
• First Descent by Pam Withers (Tundra Books) 
• Testify by Valerie Sherrard (Dundurn Press)
• This Dark Endeavor (The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein #1) by Kenneth Oppel (Harper Trophy Canada) **
• The Tiffan by Mahtab Narsimhan (Dancing Cat Books)
• The Town That Drowned by Riel Nason (Goose Lane Editions)
• The Vampire Stalker by Allison van Diepen (Scholastic Point) ~ * my review
• The Vindico by Wesley King (Putnam Juvenile)  **

• All Good Children by Catherine Austen (Orca Book Publishers) 
• Dark Inside (Dark Inside #1) by Jeyn Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) **
• First Day on Earth by Cecil Castellucci (Scholastic Press) **
• Getting Over Garrett Delaney by Abby McDonald (Candlewick Press)  ~ * my review
• Karma by Cathy Ostlere (Puffin Canada) 
• The Opposite of Tidy by Carrie Mac (Razorbill Canada) *
• The Taming by Eric Walters and Teresa Toten (Doubleday Canada) *
• Way to Go by Tom Ryan (Orca Book Publishers)  
• The Way We Fall (Fallen World #1) by Megan Crewe (Disney Hyperion)  ~ * my review
• Witchlanders by Lena Coakley (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) ~ * my review

Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She’s on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she’s made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother’s scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her.

Now Parker wants a new life.

So she quits softball. Drops twenty pounds. And she figures why kiss one guy when she can kiss three? Or four. Why limit herself to high school boys when the majorly cute new baseball coach seems especially flirty?

But how far is too far before she loses herself completely? 

In a land where magic has been forgotten but peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest is simmering. Three kingdoms grapple for power--brutally transforming their subjects' lives in the process. Amidst betrayals, bargains, and battles, four young people find their fates forever intertwined:

Cleo: A princess raised in luxury must embark on a rough and treacherous journey into enemy territory in search of a magic long thought extinct.

Jonas: Enraged at injustice, a rebel lashes out against the forces of oppression that have kept his country impoverished--and finds himself the leader of a people's revolution centuries in the making.

Lucia: A girl adopted at birth into a royal family discovers the truth about her past--and the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield.

Magnus: Bred for aggression and trained to conquer, a firstborn son begins to realize that the heart can be more lethal than the sword...

The only outcome that's certain is that kingdoms will fall. Who will emerge triumphant when all they know has collapsed?

The greatest warrior in all of the Seven Kingdoms… is a girl with yellow eyes.

Kira’s the only female in the king’s army, and the prince’s bodyguard. She’s a demon slayer and an outcast, hated by nearly everyone in her home city of Hansong. And, she’s their only hope…

Murdered kings and discovered traitors point to a demon invasion, sending Kira on the run with the young prince. He may be the savior predicted in the Dragon King Prophecy, but the missing treasure of myth may be the true key. With only the guidance of the cryptic prophecy, Kira must battle demon soldiers, evil shaman, and the Demon Lord himself to find what was once lost and raise a prince into a king.

Intrigue and mystery, ancient lore and action-packed fantasy come together in this heart-stopping first book in a trilogy.

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• ARC of Embrace (Embrace #1) by Jessica Shirvington
• A Mutiny in Time / Infinity Ring series bookmarks - recap of James Dashner book signing
• signed Burn for Burn tour poster - recap of Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian book signing

• The Assassin's Curse (The Assassin's Curse #1) by Cassandra Rose Clarke
• Crusher by Niall Leonard
• The Diviners (The Diviners #1) by Libba Bray
• Entice (The Violet Eden Chapters #2) by Jessica Shirvington
• ARC of The Evolution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #2) by Michelle Hodkin
• My Beating Teenage Heart by C.K. Kelly Martin
• Poltergeeks (Poltergeeks #1) by Sean Cummings
• Romeo Redeemed (Juliet Immortal #2) by Stacey Jay 
• There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff ~ my review of the hardcover
• Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone
• The Unfailing Light (Katerina #2) by Robin Bridges
• Yesterday by C.K. Kelly Martin
• You Against Me by Jenny Downham ~ my review of the hardcover

• Burn for Burn (Burn for Burn #1) by Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian
• Defiance (Defiance #1) by C.J. Redwine
• It's Not Summer Without You (Summer #2) by Jenny Han
• A Mutiny in Time (Infinity Ring #1) by James Dashner
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Spark (Elemental #2) by Brigid Kemmerer 
• The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer #1) by Jenny Han 
• We'll Always Have Summer (Summer #3) by Jenny Han