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Title: What to Say Next Author: Julie Buxbaum Pages : 292 Genre: Teen Contemporary Publisher: Delacorte Press/Penguin Random House Canada Release Date: July 11, 2017 Buy: Amazon| Chapters Indigo| Kobo Summary ( Goodreads ) From the New York Times bestselling author of  Tell Me Three Things  comes a charming and poignant story about two struggling teenagers who find an unexpected connection just when they need it most. For fans of Sophie Kinsella, Jennifer Niven, and Rainbow Rowell. Sometimes a new perspective is all that is needed to make sense of the world. KIT:   I don’t know why I decide not to sit with Annie and Violet at lunch. It feels like no one here gets what I’m going through. How could they? I don’t even understand. DAVID:   In the 622 days I’ve attended Mapleview High, Kit Lowell is the first person to sit at my lunch table. I mean, I’ve never once sat with someone until now. “So your dad is dead,” I say to Kit, because this is a fact I’ve re...

Title: And I Darken (The Conquerors Saga #1) Author: Kiersten White Pages: 475 Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Delacorte Press/Random House Canada Release Date: June 28, 2016 Summary (Goodreads)  NO ONE EXPECTS A PRINCESS TO BE BRUTAL. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the key to survival. She and Radu are doomed to act as pawns in a vicious game, an unseen sword hovering over their every move. For the lineage that makes them special also makes them targets. Lada despises the Ottomans and bides her time, planning her vengeance for the day when she can return to Wallachia and claim her birthright. Radu longs only for a place where he feels safe. And when they meet Mehmed, the defiant and lonely son of the sultan, who’s expected to rule a nation, Ra...

Title:  Hexed (The Witch Hunters #1 Author:  Michelle Krys Pages: 384 Genre: YA Publisher: Random House Canada/ Delacorte Press Release Date: June 10, 2014 *Received for review from Random House Canada +Michelle Krys* Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo | B&N Summary: ( Goodreads ) If high school is all about social status, Indigo Blackwood has it made. Sure, her quirky mom owns an occult shop, and a nerd just won’t stop trying to be her friend, but Indie is a popular cheerleader with a football-star boyfriend and a social circle powerful enough to ruin everyone at school. Who wouldn’t want to be her? Then a guy dies right before her eyes. And the dusty old family Bible her mom is freakishly possessive of is stolen. But it’s when a frustratingly sexy stranger named Bishop enters Indie’s world that she learns her destiny involves a lot more than pom-poms and parties. If she doesn’t get the Bible back, every witch on the planet will die. And that’s serious...

Title: We Were Liars Author: E. Lockhart Pages: 240 Genre: YA/Suspense Publisher: Random House Canada/Delacorte Press Release Date: May 13, 2014 *Received to review* Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo | B&N Summary: ( Goodreads ) A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. We Were Liars  is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.  Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE. Review: This book was amazing! I was instantly hooked with the story and was guessing until the end of what was happening with the plot. There was also crying involved which is very hard for me but if there is crying it was a good book that must be read by all. A friend of min...

Title: The Here and Now Author: Ann Brashares  Pages: 288 Genre: YA Publisher: Random House/ Delacorte Press  Release Date: April 8, 2014  Summary: (Goodreads) Meet seventeen-year-old Prenna James, who immigrated to New York when she was twelve. Except Prenna didn’t come from a different country. She came from a different time—a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and leaving the world in ruins.    Prenna and the others who escaped to the present day must follow a strict set of rules: never reveal where they’re from, never interfere with history, and never, ever be intimate with anyone outside their community. Prenna does as she’s told, believing she can help prevent the plague that will one day ravage the earth. But everything changes when she falls for Ethan Jarves.