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Archives - September 2009
So much to read, so little time! This week's roundup new releases offers 16 titles to top off your ever-growing TBR pile, from compelling historical fiction novels and coming-of-age tales to sci-fi/fantasy thrillers and school dramas. Also featured this week are Justine Larbalestier's buzzworthy LIAR, Ann Rinaldi's moving period piece LEIGH ANN'S CIVIL WAR and highly anticipated new installments of your favorite series, including The Demonata, Gossip Girl: The Carlyles, Skeleton Creek, and The Bloody Jack Adventures.
There's a little something for everyone this week, as the gems in today's roundup of new releases include Libba Bray's much anticipated quirky "road-trip" novel, GOING BOVINE, and the family drama ELI THE GOOD by Silas House, as well as the paperback releases of the philosophical fantasy NATION and John Green's bestseller PAPER TOWNS.
To coincide with the recent release of RANGER'S APPRENTICE: THE SIEGE OF MACINDAW --- the 6th book in John Flanagan's bestselling medieval fantasy about a lively 15-year-old boy living in Castle Redmont --- Penguin Young Readers Group has launched a theatrical bus tour entitled “Escape to Araluen.”
We all need an escape from the real world every now and then and this week's roundup of new releases offers just that, promising to transport us to different centuries, dimensions and even alternate realities.