Goodnight, Batcave
Title: Goodnight, Batcave Author: Dave Croatto Publisher: MAD Release Date: October 25, 2016 Pages: 32 A 100% UNauthorized GOODNIGHT MOON parody as only the world-(in)famous MAD Magazine can do it! Batman may be ready for bed but crime never sleeps! And before the Caped Crusader can turn in for the night, he ll have to deal with villains like the Joker, Bane, Mr. Freeze, Catwoman and the Penguin! If the Dark Knight ever hopes to catch some z s, he […]
Catology
Title: Catology Author: Adrian Searle and Oliver Ninnis Publisher: Freight Books Release Date: October 31, 2016 Format: Hardcover Pages: 128 Just what is your cat thinking? As it gazes up at you, are those eyes filled with love and admiration or spite and scorn? From the author of the award-winning 101 Uses of a Dead Kindle and If Dogs Could Swear comes a hilarious insight into the twisted, venal, self-serving psychology of our cutest four-legged sociopaths. Catology is a psychiatrist’s […]
The Mirror Sisters
Title: The Mirror Sisters Author: V.C. Andrews Publisher: Pocket Books Release Date: October 25, 2016 Format: Paperback Pages: 384 From the legendary New York Times bestselling author of The Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina series comes the first book in a new series featuring identical twin sisters made to act, look, and feel truly identical by their perfectionist mother. Alike in every way…with one dark exception. As identical twins, their mother insists that everything about them be […]
Labyrinth Lost
Title: Labyrinth Lost Series: Brooklyn Brujas, Book 1 Author: Zoraida Cordova Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Release Date: September 1, 2016 Pages: 336 “Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she’s hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, […]
The Weight of Zero
Title: The Weight of Zero Author: Karen Fortunati Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: Delacorte Press Release Date: October 11, 2016 Pages: 400 Seventeen-year-old Catherine Pulaski knows Zero is coming for her. Zero, the devastating depression born of Catherine’s bipolar disorder, almost triumphed once; that was her first suicide attempt. Being bipolar is forever. It never goes away. The med du jour might work right now, but Zero will be back for her. It’s only a matter of time. And so, in […]
Lucy and Linh
Title: Lucy and Linh Author: Alice Pung Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Release Date: September 6, 2016 Pages: 352 Lucy is a bit of a pushover, but she’s ambitious and smart, and she has just received the opportunity of a lifetime: a scholarship to a prestigious school, and a ticket out of her broken-down suburb. Though she’s worried she will stick out like badly cut bangs among the razor-straight students, she is soon welcomed into the […]
The Lost and the Found
Title: The Lost and the Found Author: Cat Clarke Genre: JUVENILE FICTION Publisher: Crown Books For Young Readers Release Date: September 13, 2016 Pages: 368 THE LOST When six-year-old Laurel Logan was abducted, the only witness was her younger sister, Faith. Since then, Faith’s childhood has revolved around her sister’s disappearance—from her parents’ broken marriage and the constant media attention, to dealing with so-called friends who only ever want to talk about her missing sister. THE FOUND Now, thirteen years […]
The Cabin
Title: The Cabin Author: Natasha Preston Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Release Date: September 6, 2016 Format: Paperback Pages: 336 A New York Times Bestseller! There may only be one killer, but no one is innocent in this new young adult thriller from Natasha Preston, author of The Cellar, a New York Times Bestseller, and Awake They think they’re invincible. They think they can do and say whatever they want. They think there are no consequences. They’ve left me no choice. It’s […]
My Own Dear Brother
Title: My Own Dear Brother Author: Holly Müller Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Release Date: October 11, 2016 Format: Hardcover Pages: 464 It is 1944, and war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For thirteen-year-old Ursula Hildesheim, life in the village of Felddorf remains almost as it was: bullied by her schoolmates, enlisted in endless chores by her mother and sister, thieving, and running wild with her adored older brother, Anton. But then Russian prisoners escape from […]
Girl in Pieces
Title: Girl in Pieces Author: Kathleen Glasgow Genre: JUVENILE FICTION Publisher: Delacorte Press Release Date: August 30, 2016 Pages: 416 As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte “Charlie” Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse. Review: I’m not even going to try to properly review “Girl in Pieces” aside from saying that it is a difficult read about such topics as mental illness, cutting, horrific abuse, and homelessness. It’s all presented in […]
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