Book Trailer
In the opening of Swati Avasthi's debut novel, SPLIT, main character Jace Witherspoon finds himself in quite the predicament. He's just traveled over a thousand miles with nothing but three bucks in his pocket, a busted-up face, and the hope that the brother he hasn't seen in five years will take him in. You see, Jace is running away from home; specifically, after throwing a few punches of his own, he's running from the father who's abused him his entire life. Now all he wants to do is start over, but the big question is... how?
Lovers of fantasy, have we got a treat for you! Melina Marchetta --- the award-winning author of powerful, emotionally driven coming-of-age fiction like SAVING FRANCESCA, LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI, and ON THE JELLICO ROAD --- recently tried her hand at this new genre, and the end result is a spellbinding, epic novel that's already a big hit in her native Australia.
What is “Incarceron”? It is a prison like no other in the sense that the prisoners don’t believe in the idea of an “Outside.” But after 17-year-old Finn discovers a link to the world outside of Incarceron’s walls, the race is on to escape the prison --- a prison that has as many secrets as it does prisoners.
Solange is your average teenage girl: she has a bunch of overprotective brothers, a best friend that she trusts with her life, and is betrothed to a 400-year-old vampire prince. Oh, did I say “average”? I meant anything but. As a vampire princess, Solange must do everything she can to overcome hordes of evil vampires, keep her best friend out of harm’s way, and --- scariest of all --- make sure her math homework’s done on time.
Anna Jarzab’s debut mystery thriller, ALL UNQUIET THINGS, will be hitting stores next Tuesday, January 12th, and its suspenseful book trailer has already gotten us hooked! While it appears that Brighton Day School is a "typical" elite private high school, we soon discover that the school and its students are anything but typical. The novel features scandal and secrets, as rumors surrounding murder just cannot be kept quiet.
Lauren Kate's most recent novel, FALLEN, is the first book in a new fantasy romance series that follows star-crossed lovers Luce --- a seventeen-year-old reform school student with a mysterious past --- and Daniel, an enigmatic and standoffish badboy with even bigger secrets.
Lauren will be joining us in a few weeks with a guest blog, but in the meantime, we wanted to share this author Q&A, as well as FALLEN'S chilling book trailer, with all of you. Be sure to let us know what you think!
For all you Alex Rider fans out there, good news! CROCODILE TEARS, the eighth book in Anthony Horowitz's bestselling series about a gifted 14-year-old boy unwillingly recruited to the MI6, hits stores this week! This latest installment finds Alex up against a seemingly unstoppable villain looking to reap the financial benefits of an epic "natural disaster" strong enough to wipe out an entire East African country.
Erik Raschke's debut novel, THE BOOK OF SAMUEL, follows a teenage boy whose world gets turned upside down the day his father leaves his family. From that moment on, poor Samuel seems to have one trying situation after another thrown in his direction, making him seem more like a tragic biblical figure than an ordinary kid growing up in the '80s, just trying to make sense of the complex world around him.
As we shared with you in our New Releases Roundup Blog a few weeks back, Kristin Cashore recently published FIRE, the much-anticipated prequel to her debut novel, GRACELING. Though set in the same fantasy world as Cashore's previous book, FIRE takes place 30 years earlier, and introduces us to a 17-year-old heroine who will just about make you forget everything you thought you knew about "monsters."
October 8, 2009
Jon Stewart Stars in I AM A GENIUS OF UNSPEAKABLE EVIL AND I WANT TO BE YOUR CLASS PRESIDENT Book Trailer
Josh Lieb’s buzzworthy new novel, I AM A GENIUS OF UNSPEAKABLE EVIL AND I WANT TO BE YOUR CLASS PRESIDENT, will be hitting stores October 13, and it’s already catching our eye with a brand new book trailer starring Jon Stewart! Lieb is the executive producer of "The Daily Show," and he’s exerting his executive powers to get the funnyman to talk about his latest work, so we just had to share this video with all of you.
