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Kelley Armstrong: OTHERWORLD CHILLS: 4th October 2016: Buy (US)
Keri Arthur: WINTER HALO: 6th December 2016: Buy (US)
Madeline Ashby: reV: 3rd January 2017: Buy (US)
Laura Bickle: NINE OF STARS: 27th December 2016: Buy (US)
Jennifer Bosworth: THE KILLING JAR (paperback): 10th January 2017: Buy (US)
Katie Coyle: VIVIAN APPLE NEEDS A MIRACLE (paperback): 3rd January 2017: Buy (US)
Imogen Howson: FIRE AND SHADOW: 30th April 2016: Buy (US)
Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner: THEIR FRACTURED LIGHT (paperback): 6th December 2016: Buy (US)
Kim Liggett: THE LAST HARVEST: 10th January 2017: Buy (US)
John Ajvide Lindqvist: I AM BEHIND YOU: 27th June 2016: Buy (US)
Marissa Meyer: WINTER (paperback): 1st January 2017: Buy (US)
Marissa Meyer: STARS ABOVE (paperback): 31st January 2017: Buy (US)

12th January 2016 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

Jennifer Bosworth
The Killing Jar
Macmillan Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US: 12th January 2016)
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Seventeen-year-old Kenna Marsden has a secret. She’s haunted by a violent tragedy she can’t explain. Kenna’s past has kept people – even her own mother – at a distance for years. Just when she finds a friend who loves her and life begins to improve, she’s plunged into a new nightmare: her mom and twin sister are attacked, and the dark powers Kenna has struggled to suppress awaken with a vengeance. On the heels of the assault, Kenna is exiled to a nearby commune, known as Eclipse, to live with a relative she never knew she had. There, she discovers an extraordinary new way of life as she learns who she really is, and the wonders she’s capable of. For the first time, she starts to feel like she belongs somewhere; that her terrible secret makes her beautiful and strong, not dangerous. But the longer she stays at Eclipse, the more she senses there is something menacing lurking underneath its idyllic veneer. And she begins to suspect that her new family may have sinister plans for her…

Amy Rose Capetta
Unmade (Entangled, Book 2)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (US: 12th January 2016)
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Cadence is in a race against time and space to save her family and friends from the Unmakers, who are tracking the last vestiges of humanity across the galaxy. In the final battle, the universe spins out of control…and Cade alone must face the music.

Darynda Jones
The Dirt on Ninth Grave (Charley Davidson, Book 9)
Macmillan St. Martin’s (US: 12th January 2016); Hachette Little, Brown Piatkus (UK & AU: 12th January 2016)
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In a small village in New York Charley Davidson is living as Jane Doe, a girl with no memory of who she is or where she came from. So when she is working at a diner and slowly begins to realize she can see dead people, she’s more than a little taken aback. Stranger still are the people entering her life. They seem to know things about her. Things they hide with lies and half-truths. Soon, she senses something far darker. A force that wants to cause her harm, she is sure of it. Her saving grace comes in the form of a new friend she feels she can confide in and the fry cook, a devastatingly handsome man whose smile is breathtaking and touch is scalding. He stays close, and she almost feels safe with him around. But no one can outrun their past, and the more lies that swirl around her – even from her new and trusted friends – the more disoriented she becomes, until she is confronted by a man who claims to have been sent to kill her. Sent by the darkest force in the universe. A force that absolutely will not stop until she is dead. Thankfully, she has a Rottweiler. But that doesn’t help in her quest to find her identity and recover what she’s lost. That will take all her courage and a touch of the power she feels flowing like electricity through her veins. She almost feels sorry for him. The devil in blue jeans. The disarming fry cook who lies with every breath he takes. She will get to the bottom of what he knows if it kills her. Or him. Either way.

Jennifer Rush
Reborn (Altered, Book 3)
Hachette Little, Brown (US: 12th January 2016)
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The Branch is in shambles, but Anna, Sam, Cas, and Nick can’t rest easy. Remnants of the organization lurk unseen and the flashbacks to their old lives are only getting stronger – especially Nick’s. Following scattered memories and clues from his Branch file, Nick sets off alone in search of answers – and the girl who haunts his dreams. But the sleepy town where she lives in full of secrets, and Nick soon learns that uncovering their shared past may have deadly consequences.

January 2016 Releases

Done with December 2015 Releases? Here are January 2016 Releases. For future releases, check Reading Wishlist.

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Now Available for US Pre-Order

Kelley Armstrong: ATONING: 25th March 2015: Buy (US)
Kelley Armstrong: DARKEST POWERS TALES: 26th March 2015: Buy (US)
Kelley Armstrong, John Ajvide Lindqvist, et al: SEIZE THE NIGHT anthology: 6th October 2015: Buy (US)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes: KILLER INSTINCT (paperback): 3rd November 2015: Buy (US)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes: ALL IN: 3rd November 2015: Buy (US)
Jennifer Bosworth: THE KILLING JAR: 12th January 2016: Buy (US)
Amy Rose Capetta: UNMADE (paperback): 12th January 2016: Buy (US)
Mira Grant: CHIMERA: 24th November 2015: Buy (US)
Megan Hart: HOLD ME CLOSE: 24th November 2015: Buy (US)
Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher: NEVER NEVER: PART TWO (paperback): 17th May 2015: Buy (US)
Colleen Hoover: NOVEMBER 9: 10th November 2015: Buy (US)
Dani Worth: ORIGIN (paperback): 7th April 2015: Buy (US)

4 New Covers (Bosworth, Cremer, Ellison)

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6 New Deals (Bosworth, Cantor, Condie, Hastings, Stiefvater, Gratton, Yovanoff, Zappia)

Struck author Jennifer Bosworth‘s The Killing Jar (2014) to Farrar, Straus Children’s. A teen girl is abducted to a utopian commune, where she discovers a shocking connection between an unthinkable crime against her family and the commune leaders, who hide an arcane secret about her past.

Jillian Cantor‘s I Am Sky. A teen boy and girl are “saved” from the remote island where they’ve lived their entire lives, only to discover that the real world may not be the paradise they’ve been hoping for.

Ally Condie‘s two new books to Dutton Children’s (NA). The first book (scheduled for 2014) tells the story of Rio, who has waited her whole life for the opportunity to leave her safe, underwater city of Atlantia for life on the surface. But when her life takes an unexpected twist and Rio must remain below, she is left with increasingly dangerous questions about the complex political and religious system constructed to govern the fragile divide between land and sea.

Avery Hastings‘ two books and an e-novella to St. Martin’s Press. Feuds, first in an epic series pitched as having echoes of Romeo and Juliet and Gattaca, in which a ballerina who has been genetically engineered for perfection falls for a rising star in an underground cage-fighting ring, and together they must face the deadly virus threatening to tear her perfect world apart from the inside out.

Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, & Brenna Yovanoff‘s The Anatomy of Curiosity (2014) to Carolrhoda Lab (World English). A companion to their earlier The Curiosities, and a conversational step-by-step guide to their writing/critiquing process and relationship, with new original stories by the authors in first and final draft forms.

Francesca Zappia‘s Ask Again Later to Greenwillow (World English). About the ultimate unreliable narrator: a schizophrenic teenage girl unable to tell the difference between reality and delusion, who discovers – thanks to her Magic 8 ball, her little sister, and a boy she thought was imaginary – that sometimes there really is someone out to get you.