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Editorial Content for The Undoing

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Kate Ayers

Five years ago, famed skier Julian Moss found his three friends, Celia, Rory and Eric, shot to death at the Blackbird Hotel, a charming but aging structure the trio was refurbishing. He has come back to Jawbone Ridge to take care of some old business, like putting the decrepit hotel out of its misery, along with himself. Since that fateful day those long years ago, he has carried a note that he snatched from the pillow by Celia Dark’s body. It read, “Julian, I know what you did.” Now the guilt has become too heavy a burden for him to bear. Read More

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Best friends since childhood, Eric, Rory and Celia have always been inseparable. Together they've coped with broken homes and damaged families, clinging to each other as they've navigated their tenuous lives. When the trio decides to follow Celia's dream of buying and renovating the Blackbird, a dilapidated hotel that sits on the perilous cliffs of Jawbone Ridge, new jealousies arise and long-held suspicions start to unravel their relationship. Soon they find themselves pushed to the breaking point, where trust becomes doubt, longing becomes obsession, and someone will commit the ultimate betrayal.

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Best friends since childhood, Eric, Rory and Celia have always been inseparable. Together they've coped with broken homes and damaged families, clinging to each other as they've navigated their tenuous lives. When the trio decides to follow Celia's dream of buying and renovating the Blackbird, a dilapidated hotel that sits on the perilous cliffs of Jawbone Ridge, new jealousies arise and long-held suspicions start to unravel their relationship. Soon they find themselves pushed to the breaking point, where trust becomes doubt, longing becomes obsession, and someone will commit the ultimate betrayal.

About the Book

On a bitter January evening, three people are found murdered in the isolated Blackbird hotel. 

Best friends since childhood, Eric, Rory and Celia have always been inseparable. Together they've coped with broken homes and damaged families, clinging to each other as they've navigated their tenuous lives. Their bond is potent and passionate --- and its intensity can be volatile. 

When the trio decides to follow Celia's dream of buying and renovating the Blackbird, a dilapidated hotel that sits on the perilous cliffs of Jawbone Ridge, new jealousies arise and long-held suspicions start to unravel their relationship. Soon they find themselves pushed to the breaking point, where trust becomes doubt, longing becomes obsession, and someone will commit the ultimate betrayal. 

An unflinching story of ambition, desire and envy, THE UNDOING traces the events leading to that fateful night, revealing the intimate connections, dark secrets and terrible lies that wove them together --- and tore them apart.

Editorial Content for Time and Time Again

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Amy Gwiazdowski

What if you could change the world with one action? What if that action could change the course of history and alleviate the suffering of millions and save lives? These are the questions posed to Hugh Stanton when he visits an old professor at Cambridge in 2024. Professor Sally McCluskey, always one for challenging students with “what if” questions, lulls Stanton into that same discussion from his student days. She then drops a bomb on his traditional thinking. What if time travel existed and he could go back in time to change the world? Would he do it? Read More

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In June 1914, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer Hugh Stanton is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming --- a collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history. Somehow he must change that history. He must prevent the war --- a war that will begin with a single bullet.

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In June 1914, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer Hugh Stanton is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming --- a collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history. Somehow he must change that history. He must prevent the war --- a war that will begin with a single bullet.

About the Book

If you had one chance to change history...Where would you go? What would you do? Who would you kill?

In TIME AND TIME AGAIN, international bestselling author Ben Elton takes readers on a thrilling journey through early 20th-century Europe.

It's the first of June 1914, and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer, is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be.

Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history.

Somehow he must change that history. He must prevent the war. A war that will begin with a single bullet. But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire century? And, if so, could another single bullet save it?

Audiobook available, narrated by Jot Davies

Editorial Content for Once Shadows Fall

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Lorraine W. Shanley

What could be more fun than reading a first novel that has the makings of a solid series and then finding out that it’s being marketed using the protagonists’ names (a surefire sign of seriesdom) as “A Jack Kale and Beth Sturgis Thriller”? It’s debatable whether this is a thriller rather than a mystery or even a procedural, but like branding Kale and Sturgis as an established duo, marketers seem to think it will make the book more saleable. Read More

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After years of paying her dues on the force, Beth Sturgis has earned her place as a detective for the Robbery-Homicide division of the Atlanta PD. Now, she's heading up a major manhunt for a potential serial killer who’s working his way inward from the outskirts of the city. The copycat elements in the first crime scene lead Sturgis to retired FBI agent Jack Kale, who was responsible for apprehending and nearly killing the murderer known as the Scarecrow, the same Scarecrow who appears to be this new killer's terrible inspiration.

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After years of paying her dues on the force, Beth Sturgis has earned her place as a detective for the Robbery-Homicide division of the Atlanta PD. Now, she's heading up a major manhunt for a potential serial killer who’s working his way inward from the outskirts of the city. The copycat elements in the first crime scene lead Sturgis to retired FBI agent Jack Kale, who was responsible for apprehending and nearly killing the murderer known as the Scarecrow, the same Scarecrow who appears to be this new killer's terrible inspiration.

About the Book

After years of paying her dues on the force, Beth Sturgis has earned her place as a detective for the Robbery-Homicide division of the Atlanta PD. Now, she's heading up a major manhunt for a potential serial killer who’s working his way inward from the outskirts of the city. The copycat elements in the first crime scene lead Sturgis to retired FBI agent Jack Kale, who was responsible for apprehending and nearly killing the murderer known as the Scarecrow, the same Scarecrow who appears to be this new killer's terrible inspiration.

A reclusive single father and university professor, Kale is trying to keep the demons at bay through therapy and avoidance. That is, until Sturgis shows up asking for his help. Against his better judgment, Kale is drawn into the most dangerous cat and mouse game of his life. Robert Daniels's ONCE SHADOWS FALL, is a gripping thriller in the bestselling tradition of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and is sure to become a crime fiction classic.

Audiobook available, read by Dina Pearlman

Editorial Content for Passenger 19: A Jammer Davis Thriller

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L. Dean Murphy

Following FLY BY NIGHT (book two in the Jammer Davis series), Ward Larsen offers a forensics course regarding aircraft crashes, but this one is of a personal nature. Read More

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Jammer Davis has spent most of his life investigating aircraft accidents. When a small regional jet disappears over the jungles of Colombia, it is a tragedy like dozens of others he has seen, but for one terrible detail: his young daughter is listed on the passenger manifest. The possibility of a hijacking looms large as the search begins to focus on two passengers who boarded the plane, yet their remains cannot be found. Davis uncovers an even more sinister plot behind the entire disaster --- one that goes to the highest levels of the US government. But how could it possibly involve his daughter?

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Jammer Davis has spent most of his life investigating aircraft accidents. When a small regional jet disappears over the jungles of Colombia, it is a tragedy like dozens of others he has seen, but for one terrible detail: his young daughter is listed on the passenger manifest. The possibility of a hijacking looms large as the search begins to focus on two passengers who boarded the plane, yet their remains cannot be found. Davis uncovers an even more sinister plot behind the entire disaster --- one that goes to the highest levels of the US government. But how could it possibly involve his daughter?

About the Book

Jammer Davis has spent most of his life investigating aircraft accidents. When a small regional jet disappears over the jungles of Colombia, it is a tragedy like dozens of others he has seen…but for one terrible detail --- his young daughter, who was en route to a semester abroad in South America, is listed on the passenger manifest.

A distraught Davis rushes to Bogotá and bulls his way into the inquiry. When the wreckage is located, it becomes clear that nobody could survive the crash. As the investigation gains momentum, the facts go astray. Two pilots had been shot before the crash, along with one passenger. The possibility of a hijacking looms large as the search begins to focus on two passengers who boarded the plane, yet their remains cannot be found.

Davis uncovers an even more sinister plot behind the entire disaster --- one that goes to the highest levels of the United States government. But how could it possibly involve his daughter?

Audiobook available, narrated by Tim Campbell

Joe Moore

Childhood is that wonderful time when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

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Joe Moore

January 2016

Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday and made some wonderful memories.

Early January 2016

Hi Teenreaders,

Happy 2016! Whether you were cuddled up in your pajamas watching the ball drop when the clock struck midnight or ringing in the New Year with sparkling 2016-shaped glasses, sequined pants and confetti, I’m guessing that you all had the same general thoughts: I’m going to do everything I can to make this a great year.

While I fully support your ambitions to eat healthier, learn a new skill and be kinder to your siblings, I can’t do much to help you with that. For all of your bookish resolutions, though? You came to the right place!

I consulted with our Teen Board members this month to figure out some of the best goals for the literary-minded and included a few of their ideas below:

Over the past two months, we polled our readers to find out how you celebrate the holidays with your book groups. We listed four options, as well as an “other” options, because we know how creative our readers can be. You did not disappoint us!