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Brian Tracy

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

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October 31st is just around the corner! How does it compare to the scary stories you grew up reading, or being told around campfires? Teen Board member Rachel D. breaks it down, below.

October 27, 2015

The following are lists of books releasing the weeks of October 26th and November 2nd that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers.

“Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;-- ’Tis the wind and nothing more!” --Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” 1845

Editorial Content for Willful Machines

Reviewer (text)

Asia, H., Teen Board Member
Tim Floreen’s debut young adult novel WILLFUL MACHINES is full of thrills, romance and a journey about discovering what makes life worthwhile.
 
In the near future, laws must be passed in order to keep humans distinct from robots, particularly robots called 2Bs and not 2Bs. One of these life-forms is an Artificial Human called Charlotte. One day, Charlotte escapes from her containment, kills one of the scientists who created her and uploads herself onto the internet, where she terrorizes the public.
 

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In this action-packed, high-octane debut, the closeted son of an ultra-conservative president must keep a budding romance secret from his father while protecting himself from a sentient computer program that’s terrorizing the United States --- and has zeroed in on him as its next target.

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In this action-packed, high-octane debut, the closeted son of an ultra-conservative president must keep a budding romance secret from his father while protecting himself from a sentient computer program that’s terrorizing the United States --- and has zeroed in on him as its next target.

About the Book

In this action-packed, high-octane debut, the closeted son of an ultra-conservative president must keep a budding romance secret from his father while protecting himself from a sentient computer program that’s terrorizing the United States --- and has zeroed in on him as its next target.

In the near future, scientists create what may be a new form of life: an artificial human named Charlotte. All goes well until Charlotte escapes, transfers her consciousness to the Internet, and begins terrorizing the American public.

Charlotte’s attacks have everyone on high alert --- everyone except Lee Fisher, the closeted son of the US president. Lee has other things to worry about, like keeping his Secret Service detail from finding out about his crush on Nico, the eccentric, Shakespeare-obsessed new boy at school. And keeping Nico from finding out about his recent suicide attempt. And keeping himself from freaking out about all his secrets.

But when attacks start happening at his school, Lee realizes he’s Charlotte’s next target. Even worse, Nico may be part of Charlotte’s plan too.

As Lee races to save himself, uncover Charlotte’s plan, and figure out if he can trust Nico, he comes to a whole new understanding of what it means to be alive…and what makes life worth living.

Editorial Content for The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume One: At the Edge of Empire

Reviewer (text)

Harleen K., Teen Board Member

How would it feel to die? Zebulon Finch knows because after being shot at the edge of Lake Michigan, he is resurrected without a beating heart, without pain and without human needs. In 1896, he begins to travel the lengths of young America, knowing that while everything around him is growing and changing he will never do the same.  Read More

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Twenty minutes after his murder on the shores of Lake Michigan in 1896, seventeen-year-old Zebulon Finch awakens, resurrected to suffer an eternity upon the planet. Over the next century --- or two --- he will try to find out. With a sly aristocratic voice and a healthy appetite for women and anarchy, Zebulon Finch spins a tale of his travels across a young America, watching the country grow and mature, knowing that his mind and body will never do the same.

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Twenty minutes after his murder on the shores of Lake Michigan in 1896, seventeen-year-old Zebulon Finch awakens, resurrected to suffer an eternity upon the planet. Over the next century --- or two --- he will try to find out. With a sly aristocratic voice and a healthy appetite for women and anarchy, Zebulon Finch spins a tale of his travels across a young America, watching the country grow and mature, knowing that his mind and body will never do the same.

About the Book

A murdered teen is resurrected to walk the earth for centuries in this sweeping historical epic in the spirit of THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING and THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, from the author of ROTTERS and SCOWLER.

Twenty minutes after his murder on the shores of Lake Michigan in 1896, seventeen-year-old Zebulon Finch awakens, resurrected to suffer an eternity upon the planet. But of all people...why him?

Is it because he was a violent Chicago gangster and this is his chance at redemption?

 

Is it because he is a modern-day Job whose suffering is beyond human comprehension?

Over the next century --- or two --- he will try to find out. With a sly aristocratic voice and a healthy appetite for women and anarchy, Zebulon Finch spins a tale of his travels across a young America, watching the country grow and mature, knowing that his mind and body will never do the same.

Yes, he is witty. He is also vain. Absolutely brilliant, too. And he is always entertaining. But have no doubt --- Zebulon Finch has a heart as vulnerable as anyone’s. Too bad he doesn’t learn to use it till after it has stopped beating…

Editorial Content for The Accident Season

Reviewer (text)

Brianna Robinson

Good stories start right in the middle of things; you don’t get bogged down by exposition but you’re also not confused or dissatisfied. Look at HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE;  J.K. Rowling starts the book not when Harry is first dropped off at the Dursleys or when Voldemort first rises to power. Instead, she chooses a later point and reveals all the exposition slowly and throughout the course of the series. It's what makes the series shine. We know just enough to get settled in the world and fall into step behind the characters.  Read More

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Every October Cara and her family become inexplicably and unavoidably accident-prone. Some years it's bad, like the season when her father died, and some years it's just a lot of cuts and scrapes. This accident season --- when Cara, her ex-stepbrother, Sam, and her best friend, Bea, are 17 --- is going to be a bad one. But not for the reasons they think.

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Every October Cara and her family become inexplicably and unavoidably accident-prone. Some years it's bad, like the season when her father died, and some years it's just a lot of cuts and scrapes. This accident season --- when Cara, her ex-stepbrother, Sam, and her best friend, Bea, are 17 --- is going to be a bad one. But not for the reasons they think.

About the Book

For fans of WE WERE LIARS and HOW I LIVE NOW comes a haunting, sexy, magically realistic debut about a famiy caught between a violent history, a taboo romance, and the mysteries lurking in their own backyard.

Every October Cara and her family become inexplicably and unavoidably accident-prone. Some years it's bad, like the season when her father died, and some years it's just a lot of cuts and scrapes. This accident season --- when Cara, her ex-stepbrother, Sam, and her best friend, Bea, are 17 --- is going to be a bad one. But not for the reasons they think.

Cara is about to learn that not all the scars left by the accident season are physical: There's a long-hidden family secret underneath the bumps and bruises. This is the year Cara will finally fall desperately in love, when she'll start discovering the painful truth about the adults in her life, and when she'll uncover the dark origins of the accident season --- whether she’s ready or not.

Audiobook available, narrated by Colby Minifie. 

Editorial Content for Placebo Junkies

Reviewer (text)

Pranshu A., Teen Board Member

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Meet Audie: Professional lab rat. Guinea pig. Serial human test subject. For Audie and her friends, “volunteering” for pharmaceutical drug trials means a quick fix and easy cash.The best fix of all is her boyfriend, Dylan, whose terminal illness just makes them even more compatible. No pain, no gain, Audie tells herself as the pills wear away at her body and mind. No pain, no gain, she repeats as her grip on reality starts to slide….

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Meet Audie: Professional lab rat. Guinea pig. Serial human test subject. For Audie and her friends, “volunteering” for pharmaceutical drug trials means a quick fix and easy cash.The best fix of all is her boyfriend, Dylan, whose terminal illness just makes them even more compatible. No pain, no gain, Audie tells herself as the pills wear away at her body and mind. No pain, no gain, she repeats as her grip on reality starts to slide….

About the Book

Going Bovine meets Trainspotting in this gritty portrait of at-risk teens gaming the prescription drug trial system.
 
Meet Audie: Professional lab rat. Guinea pig. Serial human test subject. For Audie and her friends, “volunteering” for pharmaceutical drug trials means a quick fix and easy cash.
 
Sure, there’s the occasional nasty side effect, but Audie’s got things under control. If Monday’s pill causes a rash, Tuesday’s ointment usually clears it right up. Wednesday’s injection soothes the sting from Tuesday’s “cure,” and Thursday’s procedure makes her forget all about Wednesday’s headache. By the time Friday rolls around, there’s plenty of cash in hand and perhaps even a slot in a government-funded psilocybin study, because WEEKEND!
 
But the best fix of all is her boyfriend, Dylan, whose terminal illness just makes them even more compatible. He’s turning eighteen soon, so Audie is saving up to make it an unforgettable birthday. That means more drug trials than ever before, but Dylan is worth it.
 
No pain, no gain, Audie tells herself as the pills wear away at her body and mind. No pain, no gain, she repeats as her grip on reality starts to slide….
 
Raw and irreverent, PLACEBO JUNKIES will captivate readers until the very end, when author J. C. Carleson leans in for a final twist of the knife.