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George Harrison

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

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George Harrison

March 29, 2016

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of March 28th and April 4th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar. This week, we are calling attention to our review of DIMESTORE: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith (we will have more on the book in Friday's Bookreporter.com Weekly Update newsletter) and a contest on ReadingGroupGuides.com where readers can win a copy of HEART OF GLASS: A Memoir by Wendy Lawless.

Editorial Content for Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices)

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Isabel C., Teen Board Member

LADY MIDNIGHT is the first book in a spinoff series of The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare. Clare has written the six-book series The Mortal Instruments, and the prequel trilogy, The Infernal Devices. She recently released THE IRON TRIAL with Holly Black, which is the first book in a middle grade fantasy series. Read More

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It’s been five years since the events of City of Heavenly that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Fire Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses. Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles. Making things even more complicated, Julian’s brother Mark --- who was captured by the faeries five years ago --- has been returned as a bargaining chip. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind --- and they need the Shadowhunters’ help to do it.

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It’s been five years since the events of City of Heavenly that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Fire Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses. Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles. Making things even more complicated, Julian’s brother Mark --- who was captured by the faeries five years ago --- has been returned as a bargaining chip. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind --- and they need the Shadowhunters’ help to do it.

About the Book

The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare’s newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel.

It’s been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses.

Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn’t lead her in treacherous directions…

Making things even more complicated, Julian’s brother Mark --- who was captured by the faeries five years ago --- has been returned as a bargaining chip. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind --- and they need the Shadowhunters’ help to do it. But time works differently in faerie, so Mark has barely aged and doesn’t recognize his family. Can he ever truly return to them? Will the faeries really allow it?

Glitz, glamours, and Shadowhunters abound in this heartrending opening to Cassandra Clare’s Dark Artifices series

Editorial Content for The Classy Crooks Club

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Christine M. Irvin

In THE CLASSY CROOKS CLUB by Alison Cherry, Annemarie (known as AJ) has to spend four weeks of her summer vacation with her strict grandmother, Grandma Jo. Grandma Jo thinks AJ should be taught how to be a "respectable young lady." As such, Grandma's Jo's idea of a good use of time is to learn how to do needlepoint and set a proper table. During her visit, Grandma Jo restricts the use of AJ's free time, not allowing her to ride her skateboard around the neighborhood, watch TV or have her friends over to visit. Read More

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AJ does not, under any circumstances, want to spend an entire month living with her strict Grandma Jo.  Jo wants nothing more than to transform her adventurous, fun-loving granddaughter into a prim and proper lady…and AJ hates it. But AJ’s dull summer takes an exciting turn when she discovers that her grandmother’s “bridge group” is actually a club of crooks! And when Grandma Jo offers to teach AJ lock picking instead of embroidery in exchange for help with a few capers, AJ is thrilled to join her grandmother’s madcap band of thieves who claim to steal only for ethical reasons. AJ must decide for herself what it truly means to be one of the good guys.

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AJ does not, under any circumstances, want to spend an entire month living with her strict Grandma Jo.  Jo wants nothing more than to transform her adventurous, fun-loving granddaughter into a prim and proper lady…and AJ hates it. But AJ’s dull summer takes an exciting turn when she discovers that her grandmother’s “bridge group” is actually a club of crooks! And when Grandma Jo offers to teach AJ lock picking instead of embroidery in exchange for help with a few capers, AJ is thrilled to join her grandmother’s madcap band of thieves who claim to steal only for ethical reasons. AJ must decide for herself what it truly means to be one of the good guys.

About the Book

Twelve-year-old AJ is dreading spending the summer with her uber-strict grandmother --- that is, until she’s recruited to join Grandma Jo’s heist club --- in this hilarious and quirky twist on a summer vacation story.
 
AJ does not, under any circumstances, want to spend an entire month living with her strict Grandma Jo. Not only does her grandmother tell her how to walk, what to eat, and which rooms she can enter, she fills all of AJ’s free time with boring sewing lessons! Grandma Jo wants nothing more than to transform her adventurous, fun-loving granddaughter into a prim and proper lady…and AJ hates it.
 
But AJ’s dull summer takes an exciting turn when she discovers that her grandmother’s “bridge group” is actually a club of crooks! And when Grandma Jo offers to teach AJ lock picking instead of embroidery in exchange for help with a few capers, AJ is thrilled to join her grandmother’s madcap band of thieves who claim to steal only for ethical reasons.
 
But even the most respectable ladies can hide some truly surprising secrets, and AJ must decide for herself what it truly means to be one of the good guys.

The Atonement

The Atonement by Beverly Lewis

The mistakes of the past haunt Lucy Flaud, now twenty-five and beyond Amish courting age. Instead, Lucy focuses on volunteering in both the Plain and fancy communities of Lancaster County. Yet no matter how hard she strives, she never feels she's doing enough. Then her father strikes up an unexpected friendship with an Englischer in search of a simpler way of life. Lucy forms a connection of her own with the thoughtful young man even as she rejects courtship with her longtime Amish friend. Is it too late to embrace redemption...and the power of love?

Robert Spector

Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big.

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Robert Spector

Editorial Content for I Woke Up Dead at the Mall

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Dally M., Teen Board Member

Imagine going from being alive and in New York one minute to being dead in a super mall in Minnesota the next. This is exactly what happened to Sarah Evans in I WOKE UP DEAD AT THE MALL, Judy Sheehan's debut novel. Sarah lives (well, lived) in New York with her father and mother, until her mother died in a car accident when Sarah was seven. Ever since then, Sarah has tried to suppress her psychic power, referred to as the "Knowing," because she believes she could have saved her mother. Read More

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When you’re 16, you have your whole life ahead of you. Unless you’re Sarah. Not to give anything away, but . . . she’s dead. Murdered, in fact. Sarah’s murder is shocking because she couldn’t be any more average. No enemies. No risky behavior. She’s just the girl on the sidelines. It looks like her afterlife, on the other hand, will be pretty exciting. Sarah has woken up dead at the Mall of America --- where the universe sends teens who are murdered --- and with the help of her death coach, she must learn to move on or she could meet a fate totally worse than death: becoming a mall walker.

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When you’re 16, you have your whole life ahead of you. Unless you’re Sarah. Not to give anything away, but . . . she’s dead. Murdered, in fact. Sarah’s murder is shocking because she couldn’t be any more average. No enemies. No risky behavior. She’s just the girl on the sidelines. It looks like her afterlife, on the other hand, will be pretty exciting. Sarah has woken up dead at the Mall of America --- where the universe sends teens who are murdered --- and with the help of her death coach, she must learn to move on or she could meet a fate totally worse than death: becoming a mall walker.

About the Book

When Sarah wakes up dead at the Mall of America, she learns that not only was she murdered, her killer is still on the loose. I WOKE UP DEAD AT THE MALL is a terrifically fun & voicey YA novel that tackles some of life’s --- and the afterlife’s --- biggest questions.
 
When you’re 16, you have your whole life ahead of you. Unless you’re Sarah. Not to give anything away, but . . . she’s dead. Murdered, in fact. Sarah’s murder is shocking because she couldn’t be any more average. No enemies. No risky behavior. She’s just the girl on the sidelines.

It looks like her afterlife, on the other hand, will be pretty exciting. Sarah has woken up dead at the Mall of America --- where the universe sends teens who are murdered --- and with the help of her death coach, she must learn to move on or she could meet a fate totally worse than death: becoming a mall walker.

As she tries to finish her unfinished business alongside her fellow dead teens, Sarah falls hard for a cute boy named Nick. And she discovers an uncanny ability to haunt the living. While she has no idea who killed her, or why, someone she loves is in grave danger. Sarah can’t lose focus or she’ll be doomed to relive her final moments again and again forever. But can she live with herself if she doesn’t make her death matter?

Week of April 4, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of April 4th include thrillers from James Patterson (THE MURDER HOUSE, co-written with David Ellis), Stuart Woods (NAKED GREED) and John Sandford (GATHERING PREY); THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE by Ann Packer, which explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family over the course of five decades; A FINE ROMANCE, a follow-up to KNOCK WOOD, in which Candice Bergen talks about her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, "Murphy Brown," widowhood, falling in love again, and watching her daughter blossom; and MY PARIS DREAM by former Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar editor Kate Betts, a charming and insightful memoir about coming of age as a fashion journalist in 1980s Paris.

With comic books and graphic novels becoming much more mainstream, the door is wide open for manga --- Japanese comics --- to finally make their presence known in the United States. Although manga are more popular worldwide, they are still relatively unknown in our country. Writer Danica Davidson first discovered manga as a teen and has followed her passions to write about manga for numerous publications, including our sister site, GraphicNovelReporter.com. In this blog, Danica explains how she became interested in manga and how her new book, MANGA ART FOR BEGINNERS, aims to introduce new readers to the genre.