Author: Jón Kalman Stefánsson (translated by Philip Roughton)
Genre: Literary Fiction, Historical
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Publication date: September 2011 (first edition: 2010)
Paperback: 240 pages
In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Barður join a boat to fish for cod. A [...]
Author: Jeff Hirsch
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Horror, Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia, Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic
Publication Date: September 2011
Hardcover: 288 pages
The wars that followed The Collapse nearly destroyed civilization. Now, twenty years later, the world is faced with a choice—rebuild what was or make something new.
Stephen [...]
Author: Lauren Oliver
Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Publication date: October 4th 2011
Hardcover: 307 pages
We meet Liesl the night after the day her young father has died. That same day she is visited by a ghost, Po, an eight year [...]
Author: Cecil Castellucci
Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Publication date: November 1st 2011
Hardcover: 160 pages
A startling, wonderful novel about the true meaning of being an alien in an equally alien world.
“We are specks. Pieces of dust in this universe. Big [...]
Halloween Week Joint Review: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Author: Kendare Blake
Genre: Horror, Young Adult
Publisher: Tor Teen
Publication date: August 30th 2011
Hardcover: 316 pages
Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.
So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he [...]
Anthology edited by J.M. Lassen
Featuring stories by Jonathan Maberry, Kelly Link, Catherynne M. Valente, Christine Morgan, Scott Nicholson, Darrell Schweitzer, Marie Atkins, Nina Kirki Hoffman, David Barr Kirtley, Scott Edelman, Thomas S. Roche
Genre: Anthology, Horror
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Publication Date: October 2011
Paperback: 416 [...]
Author: Ben H. Winters
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Publisher: Quirk Publishing
Publication Date: September 2011
Paperback: 256 pages
FOR RENT: Top two floors of beautifully renovated brownstone, 1300 sq. ft., 2BR 2BA, eat-in kitchen, one block to parks and playgrounds. No broker’s fee.
Susan and Alex Wendt have found their [...]
Joint Review: Prospero Regained by L. Jagi Lamplighter
Author: L. Jagi Lamplighter
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Tor
Publication Date: September 2011
Hardcover: 476 pages
Prospero, the sorcerer on whose island of exile William Shakespeare set his play, The Tempest, has endured these past many centuries. His daughter Miranda runs the family business, Prospero, Inc. so smoothly [...]
Title: Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow
Author: Daniel Nayeri
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Western, Young Adult, Novellas
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication Date: October 11th 2011
Hardcover: 432 pages
Written entirely on an iPhone, this quartet of YA novellas by Another Pan and Another Faust author Daniel Nayeri showcases four different [...]
Author: Carrie Jones and Steven E. Wedel
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Horror, Speculative Fiction
Publisher: Bloomsbury (US & UK)
Publication Date: September 2011 (US & UK)
Hardcover: 320 Pages
Aimee and Alan have secrets. Both teens have unusual pasts and abilities they prefer to keep hidden. But [...]
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