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First, a giveaway announcement, then on to the Big Stuff.
Unrest Giveaway:
The winner of the Most Awesome giveaway is…
Congratulations! You know the drill – send an email to contact AT thebooksmugglers DOT com with your [...]
“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: N. K. Jemisin
Genre: Fantasy, PoC, LGBT
Publisher: Orbit
Publication date: May 1 2012
Paperback: 448 pages
In the city-state of Gujaareh, peace is the only law. Along its ancient stone streets, where time is marked by the river’s floods, there is no [...]
N. K. Jemisin has become one of our favourites Fantasy authors (check out our reviews of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and The Broken Kingdoms and we are delighted to welcome her to the blog today to celebrate the release of (the MOST EXCELLENT!) The Killing Moon, the first book in her Dreamblood duology. [...]
Author: Nalo Hopinkson
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Publication date: April 17th 2012
Hardcover: 256 pages
Sixteen-year-old Scotch struggles to fit in—at home she’s the perfect daughter, at school she’s provocatively sassy, and thanks to her mixed heritage, she [...]
Title: A Greyhound of a Girl
Author: Roddy Doyle
Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult
Publisher: Amulet/ Marion Lloyd
Publication date: May 1st 2012
Hardcover: 208 pages
Mary O’Hara is a sharp and cheeky 12-year-old Dublin schoolgirl who is bravely facing the [...]
Today are happy to be a spot on Michelle Harrison’s blog tour celebrating the release of her new novel Unrest and to be hosting a MOST Awesome Giveaway!
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Seventeen-year-old Elliott hasn’t slept properly for months. Not since the accident that nearly killed him. Sometimes he [...]
Author: Chuck Wendig
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Angry Robot
Publication date: April 24th 2012
Paperback: 384 pages
Miriam Black knows when you will die. She’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides.
But when Miriam hitches a ride with Louis Darling [...]
Author: Maureen Doyle McQuerry
Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Amulet Books
Publication date: May 1st 2012
Hardcover: 354 pages
This dark and thrilling adventure, with an unforgettable heroine, will captivate fans of steampunk, fantasy, and romance. On her 18th birthday, Lena Mattacascar decides [...]
Author: Ruth Tenzer Feldman
Genre: Historical, Fantasy, Time Travel, Feminism
Publisher: Ooligan Press
Publication date: February 1st 2012
Paperback: 296 pages
The women’s suffrage movement is in full swing in 1912 Portland, Oregon—the last holdout state on the West Coast. Miriam desperately wants [...]
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