Title: The Cruel Prince Author: Holly Black Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Release Date: January 2, 2018 Jude was merely a seven year old, upon witnessing the murder of her parents, and when she and her two sisters …
Month: January 2018
The King Was Pregnant: Celebrating Ursula K. Le Guin’s Influence on Gender in Science Fiction
Sci-fi author Ursula Le Guin died at age 88 on Monday, she was a pioneer of genre, particularly when it came to representing alternative gender roles. Her novel The Left Hand of Darkness, published in 1969, is considered to be …
Maya Puts Aru Shah and the End of Time on ‘Team Girl-Power’
OMG! OMG! OMG! I absolutely love this book! It’s up there with Percy Jackson and Harry Potter as one of my favorites. Aru Shah and the End of Time and by Roshani Chokshi is about two girls named Aru …
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13 BookBar Staff picks from 2017
2017 may be over, but your reading list from the year sure isn’t, and don’t even try to pretend like it is. This was a year packed with essentials, and the list of favorites around here is overflowing, so we …
Staff Flash Review: ‘The Immortalists’ by Chloe Benjamin
Imagine knowing the day you were going to die, your entire life. Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists follow four siblings as they live their lives, each shadowed by the date of their deaths. There’s the fearless Simon who learns to live …
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Samantha-Zenith
Title: Zenith Authors: Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings Publisher: Harlequin TEEN Release Date: January 16 Androma Racella, best known throughout the Mirabel Galaxy as the Bloody Baroness, is a fierce and powerful mercenary who captains the glass starship, the Marauder, …
Cate-The Lost Rainforest: Mez’s Magic
Title: The Lost Rainforest: Mez’s Magic Author: Eliot Schrefer Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release Date: January 2, 2018 Mez lives an almost-normal panther life. She has lived with her cousin, sister, and aunt since her mother died when she was …
Samantha-Everless
Title: Everless Author: Sarah Holland Publisher: Harper Collins Release Date: January 2, 2018 Seventeen-year old Jules Ember lives in the Kingdom of Sempera, a world where time is the currency, found in the blood of its citizens, made into iron …
10 Books to Read for the New Year
Well, here we go again. Another year come and gone. You have to admit, it’s been a pretty crazy year, both in the real world and in the literary world. So many good books have been coming out, like The …
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