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. [...]
Author: Zoraida Córdova
Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Publication Date: May 2012
Hardcover: 384 Pages
For Tristan Hart, everything changes with one crashing wave.
He was gone for three days. Sucked out to sea in a tidal wave and spit back [...]
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: Dana Fredsti
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Titan Books
Publication Date: April 2012
Paperback: 368 Pages
In the small university town of Redwood Grove, people are succumbing to a lethal strain of flu. They are dying—but not for long.
Ashley Parker and her [...]
Title: A Beautiful Evil
Author: Kelly Keaton
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Greek Mythology retelling
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Publication date: February 2012
Hardcover/Paperback: 288 pages
A power she can’t deny. A destiny she’s determined to fight.
When Ari first arrived in [...]
Author: Patricia Briggs
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance
Publisher: Ace
Publication Date: March 2012
Hardcover: 293 pages
They say opposites attract. And in the case of werewolves Anna Latham and Charles Cornick, they mate. The son-and enforcer-of the leader of the North American werewolves, Charles is [...]
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild and write about anything they want. It can be about their new book, series or [...]
Author: Daniel O’Malley
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Thriller
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
Publication Date: January 2012
Hardcover: 496 pages
“The body you are wearing used to be mine.” So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park [...]
Author: Kelly Meding
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Superheroes
Publisher: Pocket Books
Publication Date: October 25 2011
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Kelly Meding’s war-ravaged Los Angeles is ground zero for the ultimate Meta human showdown in this sexy, action-packed new series.
Fifteen years ago, Teresa “Trance” West was a [...]
Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Egmont USA
Publication date: December 27th 2011
Hardcover: 336 pages
Every other day, Kali D’Angelo is a normal sixteen-year-old girl. She goes to public high school. She attends pep rallies. She’s human.
[...]
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