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28th April 2015 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

Sharon Cameron
Rook
Scholastic (US: 28th April 2015)
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Centuries after a shifting of the Earth’s poles, the Sunken City that was once Paris is in the grips of a revolution. All who oppose the new regime are put to the blade, except for those who disappear from their prison cells, a red-tipped rook feather left in their place. Is the mysterious Red Rook a saviour of the innocent or a criminal? Meanwhile, across the sea in the Commonwealth, Sophia Bellamy’s arranged marriage to the wealthy René Hasard is the last chance to save her family from ruin. But when the search for the Red Rook comes straight to her doorstep, Sophia discovers that her fiancé is not all he seems. Which is only fair, because neither is she. As the Red Rook grows bolder and the stakes grow higher, Sophia and René find themselves locked in a tantalizing game of cat and mouse.

Bree Despain
The Eternity Key (Into the Dark, Book 2)
Random House Egmont (US: 28th April 2015)
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Haden Lord, the disgraced Prince of the Underrealm, has chosen love over honour and will do everything in his power to protect Daphne Raines, the human girl he was supposed to bring to the Underrealm. Haden’s choice is put to the test as the Skylords and a figure from his past arrive in Olympus Hills with a plan that could destroy all of the realms. Embracing her destiny as the Cypher, Daphne begins to understand the immense power of her musical ability to control the elements, but she must come to terms with her feelings for Haden and what she must sacrifice in order to protect him and her friends. Believing the Key of Hades is the only thing that can stop the Underrealm Court from releasing the monstrous Keres on the mortal world, Haden, Daphne, and their friends set out to find the Key before Persephone’s Gate opens again on the spring equinox.

Kristi Helvig
Strange Skies (Burn Out, Book 2)
Random House Egmont (US: 28th April 2015)
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Caelia is the new Earth. That’s what the Consulate told everyone and, against all odds, Tora finally has made it there. She can’t see the ocean from her cell in the Consulate’s containment centre, and she doesn’t know what happened to the weapons her father died for and she’s risked her life to save. But as she plans her escape, she runs into the last person she ever expected to see – her dad. The Consulate has held him prisoner in a complicated plot designed to lure Tora out of hiding. Now Tora has a new purpose: break free, get the guns, and save her father. But first she’ll have to navigate a strange new planet, track down James (whose loyalties still remain questionable), and find Kale…before he finds her first.

Herman Koch
Summer House with Swimming Pool
Random House Hogarth (US & CA: 28th April 2015)
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When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, he’s not exactly upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high profile doctor to the stars, Marc can’t hide from the truth forever. It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week at the Meiers’ extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean. Joined by Ralph and his striking wife Judith, her mother, and film director Stanley Forbes and his much younger girlfriend, the large group settles for days of sunshine, wine tasting, and trips to the beach. But when a violent incident disrupts the idyll, darker motivations are revealed, and suddenly no one can be trusted. As the ultimate holiday soon turns into a nightmare, the circumstances surrounding Ralph’s later death begin to reveal the disturbing reality behind that summer’s tragedy.

14th April 2015 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

Bree Despain
The Shadow Prince (Into the Dark, Book 1)
Random House Egmont (US & CA: 14th April 2015)
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Haden Lord, the disgraced prince of the Underrealm, has been sent to the mortal world for six months in order to convince Daphne Raines to return with him to the land of the dead. The best way to do this, Haden is told, is to get Daphne to fall in love with him. But getting a teenage girl to fall in love with you isn’t easy, especially when Haden’s life and more depends on the success of his quest. Little does he know that the tenuous peace between the Greek god of the Underrealm and the Greek god of the Sky is breaking and war is imminent. If Haden succeeds, his honour and standing will be restored in the royal court, and Daphne will be sacrificed to save us all. The complication he didn’t see coming: he’s the one who falls in love. Now Haden must choose to either fulfil his sacred duty or to follow his heart and find a way to rewrite his and Daphne’s destinies.

Kristi Helvig
Burn Out (Burn Out, Book 1)
Random House Egmont (US: 14th April 2015)
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Some people want to save the world. Seventeen-year-old Tora Reynolds just wants to stay alive long enough to escape it. Now that the sun’s become a “red giant,” burning out far faster than scientists could ever have predicted, Earth is barely habitable and almost everyone is gone. Holed up in an underground shelter, Tora’s only comforts are her dreams of a planet with a plentiful water supply and the bio-energetic weapons her father lost his life for. The ones that only she can fire. When family friend Markus arrives with mercenaries to take her weapons by force, Tora must decide if trading the guns for safe passage to a new liveable planet is worth the price of betraying her father’s wishes. But when she discovers the government’s true motives, her bargaining chip may be nothing more than smoke.

Martin Leicht & Isla Neal
The World Forgot (Ever-Expanding Universe, Book 3)
Simon & Schuster (US & CA: 14th April 2015)
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After dealing with killer whales, evil scientists, the return of her long-lost mother and, certainly not least of all, the challenges of breastfeeding, Elvie Nara has just about had it. And then the Jin’Kai (along with the aforementioned estranged mom) kidnaps her baby. And before she knows it, another Jin’Kai attack puts her on the run again, but not before discovering that Olivia was implanted with a genetic tracking device. So along with Cole, Ducky, and her dad, Elvie goes back out into space to follow the signal. There she finds evil Dr. Marsden up to some evil tricks and realizes that Mars may hold the secret to defeating her enemies once and for all. So, off to Mars she goes. Because alien race war aside, Elvie really wants to be back with her daughter. For a kid she wasn’t even sure she wanted, Olivia has come to mean the world to Elvie – and she’ll search the universe to be with her again.

William Campbell Powell
Expiration Day
Macmillan Tor (US: 14th April 2015)
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It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Tania Deeley has always been told that she’s a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation. When a decline in global fertility ensued, it was the creation of these near-perfect human copies called teknoids that helped to prevent the utter collapse of society. Though she has always been aware of the existence of teknoids, it is not until her first day at The Lady Maud High School for Girls that Tania realizes that her best friend, Siân, may be one. Returning home from the summer holiday, she is shocked by how much Siân has changed. Is it possible that these changes were engineered by Oxted? And if Siân could be a teknoid, how many others in Tania’s life are not real? Driven by the need to understand what sets teknoids apart from their human counterparts, Tania begins to seek answers. But time is running out. For everyone knows that on their eighteenth “birthdays,” teknoids must be returned to Oxted – never to be heard from again.

April 2015 Releases

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In Support of EgmontUSA Authors #BuyAnEgmontBook

Have just heard that EgmontUSA will shut down at the end of January. I wasn’t sure how to show my support for those displaced, so I figured a blog post highlighting the works (both Egmont- and otherwise-published) of affected authors would have to suffice. I’ve included the authors’ websites, so you can keep up with their future publishing endeavours. This is by no means a comprehensive list – instead, it just features authors I’ve read or whose books are on my wishlist.

NOTE: The books already published will still be available for purchase. The 2015 books (at least, up to and including those in the spring catalogue) will still be published, too, so please pre-order.

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Now Available for US Pre-Order

Madeline Ashby: reV: 5th May 2015: Buy (US)
Chris Beckett: MARCHER: 15th August 2014: Buy (US)
Chris Beckett: MOTHER OF EDEN: 12th May 2015: Buy (US)
Laura Bickle: THE RAVEN KING: 24th March 2015: Buy (US)
Jillian Cantor: SEARCHING FOR SKY (paperback): 5th May 2015: Buy (US)
Naomi Clark: THE BEAST OF BIRCH HILL: 21st August 2014: Buy (US)
Kady Cross: THE GIRL WITH THE WINDUP HEART (paperback): 31st March 2015: Buy (US)
Kady Cross: SISTERS OF BLOOD AND SPIRIT: 31st March 2015: Buy (US)
Sean Cummings: THE NORTH: 6th October 2014: Buy (US)
Bree Despain: THE ETERNITY KEY: 12th May 2015: Buy (US)
Kat Falls: INHUMAN (paperback): 31st March 2015: Buy (US)
Tracey Garvis Graves: CHERISH (paperback): 28th October 2014: Buy (US)
Megan Hart: VANILLA: 28th April 2015: Buy (US)
Lisa Heathfield: SEED: 10th March 2015: Buy (US)
Kristi Helvig: BURN OUT (paperback): 12th May 2015: Buy (US)
Darynda Jones: SEVENTH GRAVE AND NO BODY (paperback): 5th May 2015: Buy (US)
Darynda Jones: EIGHTH GRAVE AFTER DARK: 19th May 2015: Buy (US)
Karen Kincy: STORMS OF LAZARUS (paperback): 12th August 2014): Buy (US)
Beth Revis: THE BODY ELECTRIC (standard edition only): 6th October 2014: Buy (US)
Jennifer Rush: BETRAYED: 26th August 2014: Buy (AU)
Carrie Ryan: A GAME OF FIRSTS: 19th August 2014: Buy (US)
Tiffany Schmidt: HOLD ME LIKE A BREATH: 19th May 2015: Buy (US)
Eve Silver: PUSH (paperback): 12th May 2015: Buy (US)
Paul G. Tremblay: A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS: 12th May 2015: Buy (US)
Skyler White: STRONGEST CONJURATION: 27th August 2014: Buy (US)

Now Available for US Pre-Order

Kelley Armstrong: BOUNTY HUNT: 31st December 2014: Buy (US)
Bree Despain: THE SHADOW PRINCE (paperback): 14th April 2015: Buy (US)
Tracey Garvis Graves: EVERY TIME I THINK OF YOU (paperback): 16th September 2014: Buy (US)
Tracey Garvis Graves: CHERISH: 28th October 2014: Buy (US)
Kim Harrison: THE WITCH WITH NO NAME (paperback): 28th April 2015: Buy (US)
Kathy Hepinstall & Becky Hepinstall Hilliker: SISTERS OF SHILOH: 3rd March 2015: Buy (US)
Seanan McGuire: POCKET APOCALYPSE: 3rd March 2015: Buy (US)
Saundra Mitchell: MISTWALKER (paperback): 11th May 2015: Buy (US)
Devon Monk: INFINITY BELL: 3rd March 2015: Buy (US)
Francesca Zappia: MADE YOU UP: 21st April 2015: Buy (US)

9 New Covers (Brody, Clark, Despain, Garner, Kang, Peacock, Silver)

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11th March 2014 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

Jenna Black
Resistance (Replica, Book 2)
Macmillan Tor Teen (US: 11th March 2014)
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Nate Hayes is a Replica. The real Nate was viciously murdered, but thanks to Paxco’s groundbreaking human replication technology, a duplicate was created that holds all of the personality and the memories of the original. Or…almost all. Nate’s backup didn’t extend to the days preceding his murder, leaving him searching for answers about who would kill him, and why. Now, after weeks spent attempting to solve his own murder with the help of his best friend and betrothed, Nadia Lake, Nate has found the answers he was seeking…and he doesn’t like what he’s discovered. The original Nate was killed because he knew a secret that could change everything. Thanks to Nadia’s quick thinking, the two of them hold the cards now – or think they do. Unfortunately, neither of them fully understands just how deep the conspiracy runs.

Laurie Cinotto
The Itty Bitty Kitty Committee
Macmillan Roaring Brook (US: 11th March 2014)
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The skinny on itty bitty kitties, from a real-life Kitten Wrangler! What do kittens eat? Why do they love to play? How should you hold a kitten? Can you train them? Or do they train you? This photo-heavy, breezy-yet-informative guide book for middle-grade readers and up comes from the hugely popular Itty Bitty Kitty Committee website. It’s full of useful information about kittens as well as funny stories about the many kitties the Itty Bitty Kitty Committee has fostered over the years. The author is the site’s mastermind, Laurie Cinotto, who brings years of practical kitten experience to bear. She’s joined by another pre-eminent expert on raising kittens – Charlene Butterbean, Laurie’s permanent adult cat.

Bree Despain
The Shadow Prince (Into the Dark, Book 1)
Random House Egmont (US & CA: 11th March 2014)
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Haden Lord, the disgraced prince of the Underrealm, has been sent to the mortal world to entice a girl into returning with him to the land of the dead. Posing as a student at Olympus Hills High – a haven for children of the rich and famous – Haden must single out the one girl rumoured to be able to restore immortality to his race. Daphne Raines has dreams much bigger than her tiny southern Utah town, so when her rock star dad suddenly reappears, offering her full tuition to Olympus Hills High’s prestigious music program, she sees an opportunity to catch the break she needs to make it as a singer. But upon moving into her estranged father’s mansion in California, and attending her glamorous new school, Daphne soon realises she isn’t the only student in Olympus who doesn’t quite belong. Haden and Daphne – destined for each other – know nothing of the true stakes their fated courtship entails. As war between the gods brews, the teenagers’ lives collide. But Daphne won’t be wooed easily and when it seems their prophesied link could happen, Haden realises something he never intended – he’s fallen in love. Now to save themselves, Haden and Daphne must rewrite their destinies. But as their destinies change, so do the fates of both their worlds.

March 2014 Releases

Done with February 2014 Releases? Here are March 2014 Releases. For future releases, check Reading Wishlist.

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4 New Covers (Despain, Gaither, Pettersson, Winnacker)

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