Author: Marianne de Pierres
Genre: Dystopian YA
Publisher: Random House Australia
Publication date: March 1st 2011
Paperback: 316 pages
In Ixion music and party are our only beliefs. Darkness is our comfort. We have few rules but they are absolute . . .
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Author: Kirsty McKay
Genre: Horror, Speculative Fiction, Zombies, Apocalypse, Young Adult
Publisher: Chicken House
Publication Date: September 2011
Hardcover: 304 Pages
It was just another school trip… When their ski-coach pulls up at a cafe, and everyone else gets off, new girl Bobby and rebel Smitty stay [...]
Hello everybody!
As you know, we were both attending Book Expo America and the Book Blogger Convention last week and we had an absolute blast, with the conventions, the books we got (close to 100 each, all things combined), and the parties we attended. Above all, we loved seeing people we met last year again [...]
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a new feature for books that have caught our eye: books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was born. Because we want far more books than we can possibly buy or review (what [...]
Author: Written by Steven Arntson, Illustrated by Daniela J. Terrazzini
Genre: Dystopian, Speculative Fiction, Middle Grade
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Publication Date: May 2011
Hardcover: 256 Pages
Young Henrietta is about to uncover a mystery she was never supposed to solve. In the new-age world she [...]
Author: David Stahler Jr.
Genre: Contemporary YA
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication date: May 25 2011
Hardcover: 288 pages
High school senior Frenchy has little ambition beyond hanging out at the smoking rock until his best friend, the ever-witty and conniving Stewart, gets him to [...]
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Tired of listening to everybody babbling about how they are having a good time and getting tons of FREE books?
Well dear friend, despair no more! We, The Book Smugglers have the solution to your problems with this MOST EXCELLENT GIVEAWAY to spread a bit of book-love!
4 awesome batches! [...]
Author: Michael Grant
Genre: Dystopian, Speculative Fiction, Horror, Young Adult
Publisher: Harper Teen
Publication Date: April 2011
Hardcover: 497 Pages
It’s been eight months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.
They’ve survived hunger. They’ve survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. [...]
Title: How I Stole Johnny Depp’s Alien Girlfriend
Author: Gary Ghislain
Genre: Science Fiction / YA
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication date: June 8 2011
Hardcover: 208 pages
David Gershwin’s summer is about to take a turn for the weird. When his dad’s new patient Zelda tells him she s [...]
Hello everybody!
Ana here… as you read this post, I shall be making my way to the airport to catch my flight to New York to meet Thea, go to Book Expo America and the Book Blogger Convention next week!
SUPER EXCITED
Needless to say, I can barely [...]
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