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Title: Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass #5) Author: Sarah J. Maas Pages: 693 Genre: Fantasy, Teen, YA, New Adult Publisher: Bloomsbury Kids/Raincoast Books Release Date: September 6, 2016 Buy: Amazon| Chapters Indigo | Kobo | Summary ( Goodreads ) The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those who don't. As the kingdoms of Erilea fracture around her, enemies must become allies if Aelin is to keep those she loves from falling to the dark forces poised to claim her world. With war looming on all horizons, the only chance for salvation lies in a desperate quest that may mark the end of everything Aelin holds dear. Aelin's journey from assassin to queen has entranced millions across the globe, and this fifth installment will leave fans breathless. Will Aelin succeed in keeping her world from splinteri...

Title: First Comes Love Author: Emily Giffin  Pages: 400 Genre: Contemporary  Publisher: Ballantine Books/Random House Canada Release Date: June 28, 2016 Summary (Goodreads)  In this dazzling new novel, Emily Giffin, the #1  New York Times bestselling author of  Something Borrowed, Where We Belong,  and The One & Only  introduces a pair of sisters who find themselves at a crossroads.   Growing up, Josie and Meredith Garland shared a loving, if sometimes contentious relationship. Josie was impulsive, spirited, and outgoing; Meredith hardworking, thoughtful, and reserved. When tragedy strikes their family, their different responses to the event splinter their delicate bond.   Fifteen years later, Josie and Meredith are in their late thirties, following very different paths. Josie, a first grade teacher, is single—and  this close  to swearing off dating for good. What she wants more than the right guy, howe...

Title: Unrivaled (Beautiful Idols #1)  Author: Alyson Noel Pages : 432 Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release Date: May 10, 2016  Summary (Goodreads)  Everyone wants to be someone. Layla Harrison wants to leave her beach-bum days for digs behind a reporter’s desk. Aster Amirpour wants to scream at the next casting director who tells her “we need ethnic but not your kind of ethnic.” Tommy Phillips dreams of buying a twelve-string guitar and using it to shred his way back into his famous absentee dad’s life. But Madison Brooks took destiny and made it her bitch a long time ago. She’s Hollywood’s hottest starlet, and the things she did to become the name on everyone’s lips are merely a stain on the pavement, ground beneath her Louboutin heel. That is, until Layla, Aster, and Tommy find themselves with a VIP invite to the glamorous and gritty world of Los Angeles’s nightlife and lured into a high-stakes competition where Madison Brooks is the target....

Title: The Girl form Everywhere Author: Heidi Heilig Pages: 464 Genre: Y.A. Historical Fiction  Publisher: Greenwillow Books Release Date: February 16, 2016/HarperCollins Canada Preorder : Chapters Indigo | Amazon Summary (Goodreads) Heidi Heilig’s debut teen fantasy sweeps from modern-day New York City to nineteenth-century Hawaii to places of myth and legend. Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father’s ship. But when he gambles with her very existence, it all may be about to end.  The Girl from Everywhere , the first of two books, will dazzle readers of Sabaa Tahir, Rae Carson, and Rachel Hartman. Nix’s life began in Honolulu in 1868. Since then she has traveled to mythic Scandinavia, a land from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, modern-day New York City, and many more places both real and imagined. As long as he has a map, Nix’s father can sail his ship, The Temptation, to any p...

Title: Burning Glass (Burning Glass #1)  Author : Kathryn Purdie  Pages: 512 Genre: Fantasy, YA Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release Date: March 1, 2016 Summary (Goodreads) Sonya was born with the rare gift to feel what those around her feel—both physically and emotionally—a gift she’s kept hidden from the empire for seventeen long years. After a reckless mistake wipes out all the other girls with similar abilities, Sonya is hauled off to the palace and forced to serve the emperor as his sovereign Auraseer. Tasked with sensing the intentions of would-be assassins, Sonya is under constant pressure to protect the emperor. One mistake, one small failure, will cost her own life and the lives of the few people left in the world who still trust her. But Sonya’s power is untamed and reckless, her feelings easily usurped, and she sometimes can’t decipher when other people’s impulses end and her own begin. In a palace full of warring emotions and loom...