From the yearly archives: 2012
Author: Neesha Meminger
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, PoC
Publisher: Ignite Books (self-published)
Publication date: March 2012
Paperback: 308 pages
Pammi has a Secret–she is an Able. At night, she travels through time to an ancient city called Zanum. She’s been visiting Zanum [...]
Author: Zetta Elliott
Genre: Fantasy (Contemporary/Urban Fantasy), Young Adult
Publisher: Amazon Encore
Publication date: February 2012
Paperback: 132 pages
When Dmitri, an 11-year-old bird watcher and math whiz, loses his mother to breast cancer, he is taken in by Mrs. Martin, an elderly white woman. [...]
Hello everybody, a good Sunday to all!
The Hunt giveaway winners:
The five winners of The Hunt are:
Jill the OWL
Victoria Zumbrum
Heidi Frederick
Tina
Lyn
Congratulations to the winners! You know the drill. Send us an email (contact AT thebooksmugglers DOT [...]
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a new feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have 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 [...]
Author: Robin LaFevers
Genre: Historical, Paranormal, Young Adult
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: April 3rd 2012
Hardcover: 549 pages
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the [...]
We are thrilled to present yet another Smugglerific cover reveal! This time, the book is Stormdancer from debut author Jay Kristoff. We cannot wait for the book – a dystopia set in a Japanese-inspired steampunk empire in which technology has decimated the environment, and a girl named Yukiko (who can telepathically communicate with animals) must [...]
Author: Mira Grant
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Speculative Fiction, Zombies
Publisher: Orbit
Publication Date: May 2012
Paperback: 560 pages
Rise up while you can. -Georgia Mason
The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started [...]
Title: After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
Author: Nancy Kress
Genre: Pre/Post/Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Publication Date: April 2012
Paperback: 192 Pages
The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors — the last of humanity — are [...]
Title: Tiger Moon
Author: Antonia Michaelis
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, PoC
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Publication date: Published in English in 2009
Paperback: 464 pages
This bewitching story within a story, set in magical India, explores the power of [...]
Author: Tanita S. Davis
Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult, LGBT, PoC
Publisher: Random House Children’s Books
Publication date: May 8 2012
Hardcover: 240 pages
Teenage twins Ysabel and Justin Nicholas are lucky. Ysabel’s jewelry designs have already caught the eyes of the art world and [...]
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