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Title: The Winner's Kiss (The Winner's Trilogy #3) Author: Marie Rutkoski Pages: 352 Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux/Raincoast Books Release Date: March 29, 2016 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N *Received for review by publisher* eARC from Netgalley Summary ( Goodreads ) War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it, with the East as his ally and the empire as his enemy. He’s finally managed to dismiss the memory of Kestrel, even if he can’t quite forget her. Kestrel turned into someone he could no longer recognize: someone who cared more for the empire than for the lives of innocent people—and certainly more than she cared for him. At least, that’s what he thinks. But far north lies a work camp where Kestrel is a prisoner. Can she manage to escape before she loses herself? As the war intensifies, both Kestrel and Arin discover unexpected roles in battle, terrible secrets, and a fragile hope. The world is changing. The East is...

Title: The Winner's Crime (The Winner's Trilogy #2) Author: Marie Rutkoski Pages: 352 Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux/Raincoast Books Release Date: March 3, 2015 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N *Received for review from publisher* Summary: ( Goodreads ) Book two of the dazzling Winner's Trilogy is a fight to the death as Kestrel risks betrayal of country for love. The engagement of Lady Kestrel to Valoria’s crown prince means one celebration after another. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about her engagement…if she could only trust him. Yet can she even trust herself? For—unknown to Arin—Kestrel is becoming a skilled practitioner of deceit: an anonymous spy passing information to Herran, and close to uncovering a shocking secret. As Arin enlists dangerous allies in the struggle to keep his country’s freedom, he can’t fight the suspic...

Title: Tumble and Fall Author: Alexandra Coutts Pages: 384 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)/ Raincoast Books Release Date: September 17, 2013 Summary ( Goodreads )  A novel about the end of days full of surprising beginnings The world is living in the shadow of oncoming disaster. An asteroid is set to strike the earth in just one week’s time; catastrophe is unavoidable. The question isn’t how to save the world—the question is, what to do with the time that's left? Against this stark backdrop, three island teens wrestle with intertwining stories of love, friendship and family—all with the ultimate stakes at hand. Alexandra Coutts's TUMBLE & FALL is a powerful story of courage, love, and hope at the end of the world This book looks awesome!! 

Title: Crewel (Crewel World #1)  Author: Gennifer Albin Pages: 368 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)  Release Date: October 16, 2012 Buy: AmazonCA | Chapters Indigo | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | Kobo Summary: ( Goodreads ) Incapable. Awkward. Artless. That’s what the other girls whisper behind her back. But sixteen year-old Adelice Lewys has a secret: she wants to fail. Gifted with the ability to weave time with matter, she’s exactly what the Guild is looking for, and in the world of Arras, being chosen as a Spinster is everything a girl could want. It means privilege, eternal beauty, and being something other than a secretary. It also means the power to embroider the very fabric of life. But if controlling what people eat, where they live and how many children they have is the price of having it all, Adelice isn’t interested. Not that her feelings matter, because she slipped and wove a moment at testing, and they’re coming ...

Title: Struck  Author: Jennifer Bosworth Pages: 373 Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR  Release Date: May 8, 2012 Summary: ( Goodreads )  Mia Price is a lightning addict. She’s survived countless strikes, but her craving to connect to the energy in storms endangers her life and the lives of those around her. Los Angeles, where lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her addiction. But when an earthquake devastates the city, her haven is transformed into a minefield of chaos and danger. The beaches become massive tent cities. Downtown is a crumbling wasteland, where a traveling party moves to a different empty building each night, the revelers drawn to the destruction by a force they cannot deny. Two warring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their opposing doomsday prophecies. They believe she has a connection to the freak electrical storm that caused the quake, and to the far more devastating st...