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Here are some of my most anticipated releases in 2018! Book 1: Love Songs & Other Lies by Jessica Pennington  About:  It’s summer romance and second chances, the songs that stay in your head, and the boy you’ll never forget. Two years after rock-song-worthy heartbreak, Virginia Miller is looking forward to a fun, carefree summer. Her friends just landed a spot on a battling bands reality show, and Vee is joining them for her dream internship on tour. Three months with future rockstars seems like an epic summer plan. Until she learns she’ll also be sharing the bus with Cam. Her first love, and her first heartbreak. Now Vee has more than just cameras to dodge, and Cam’s determination to win her forgiveness is causing TMZ-worthy problems for both of them. With cameras rolling, she’ll have to decide if her favorite breakup anthem deserves a new ending. And if she’s brave enough to expose her own secrets to keep Cam’s under wraps.   Book 2: Sky in the Deep by...

Title: Wonder Woman: Warbringer (DC Icons #1) Author : Leigh Bardugo Pages: 384 Genre: Superheroes, Fantasy, YA Publisher: Random House BYR/ Penguin Random House Canada Release Date: August 29, 2017 Buy: Amazon| Chapters Indigo | Kobo *Received for review from Penguin Random House Canada* Summary ( Goodreads ) She will become one of the world’s greatest heroes: WONDER WOMAN. But first she is Diana, Princess of the Amazons. And her fight is just beginning. . . . Diana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters. But when the opportunity finally comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law—risking exile—to save a mere mortal. Even worse, Alia Keralis is no ordinary girl and with this single brave act, Diana may have doomed the world. Alia just wanted to escape her overprotective brother with a semester at sea. She doesn’t know she is being hunted. When a bomb detonates aboard her ship, Alia is rescued by a mysterious girl of extraordinary s...

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: Flame in the Mist  Author: Renee Ahdieh  Pages: 368 Genre: Fantasy, YA Publisher: Putnam's Sons Books for Young/Penguin Random House Canada Release Date: May 16, 2017 Buy: Chapters Indigo | Summary (Goodreads)  The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known her place—she may be an accomplished alchemist, whose cunning rivals that of her brother Kenshin, but because she is not a boy, her future has always been out of her hands. At just seventeen years old, Mariko is promised to Minamoto Raiden, the son of the emperor's favorite consort—a political marriage that will elevate her family's standing. But en route to the imperial city of Inako, Mariko narrowly escapes a bloody ambush by a dangerous gang of bandits known as the Black Clan, who she learns has been hired to kill her before she reaches the palace. Dressed as a peasant boy, Mariko sets out to infiltrate the ranks of the Black Clan, determined to track down the person resp...

Title: Holding Up the Universe Author: Jennifer Niven  Pages: 400 Genre: Contemporary Teen Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers/Penguin Random House CA Release Date: October 4, 2016 Summary (Goodreads)  From the author of the  New York Times  bestseller  All the Bright Places  comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to see someone—and love someone—for who they truly are. Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed “America’s Fattest Teen.” But no one’s taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom’s death, she’s been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now, Libby’s ready: for high school, for new friends, for love, and for EVERY POSSIBILITY LIFE HAS TO OFFER.  In that moment, I know the part I want to play here at MVB High. I want to be the girl who can do anything.    Everyon...

Title:  The Rose and the Dagger (The Wrath and the Dawn #2) Author:  Renee Ahdieh  Pages: 416 Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: Penguin Canada/Putnam Juvenile  Release Date : May 3, 2016 Summary (Goodreads)  The much anticipated sequel to the breathtaking  The Wrath and the Dawn , lauded by  Publishers Weekly  as "a potent page-turner of intrigue and romance." I am surrounded on all sides by a desert. A guest, in a prison of sand and sun. My family is here. And I do not know whom I can trust. In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad has been torn from the love of her husband Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once believed him a monster, but his secrets revealed a man tormented by guilt and a powerful curse—one that might keep them apart forever. Reunited with her family, who have taken refuge with enemies of Khalid, and Tariq, her childhood sweetheart, she should be happy. But Tariq now commands forces set on destroying Khalid's...

Title: Tell Me Three Things Author: Julie Buxbaum  Pages: 270 Genre: YA Contemporary  Publisher: Delacorte Press  Release Date: April 15, 2016 Summary (Goodreads) What if the person you need the most is someone you’ve never met? Julie Buxbaum mixes comedy and tragedy, love and loss, pain and elation, in her debut YA novel whose characters will come to feel like friends.  Tell Me Three Things  will appeal to fans of Rainbow Rowell, Jennifer Niven, and E. Lockhart.    Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week at her new ultra-intimidating prep school in Los Angeles. Just when she’s thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago—the closest place she has to something like home—she gets an email from a person calling themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for short), offering to help her navigate the wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on SN for some much...

Berkley Books Acquires New Contemporary Romance Trilogy from  New York Times  Bestselling Self-Published Author Jasinda Wilder MADAME X , the first book in the trilogy, comes out on November 3 New York, NY: April 6, 2015 – Berkley Books, a division of Penguin Random House, will release  New York Times ,  USA Today,  and Wall Street Journal  bestselling self-published author Jasinda Wilder’s first traditionally published series it was announced today by Berkley President and Publisher Leslie Gelbman.  Cindy Hwang, Vice President and Executive Editor, acquired World English rights in print and e-book to the contemporary romance trilogy in a 7-figure deal with Kristin Nelson of the Nelson Literary Agency.  MADAME X, the first book in the trilogy of the same name, will be published as a trade paperback original on November 3. Jasinda Wilder is one of the most successful self-published authors writing today.  She has written more than 4...