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A Girl is Unexpectedly Transported Back in Time and Discovers Shocking Secrets

When Gwyneth travels back to the 18th century and meets fellow time-traveler Gideon, the two embark on a daring and dangerous adventure.  

After a Prank, Sam Meets a Necromancer and Learns Something Incredible About Himself

Sam is a pretty normal teenager --- until he meets Douglas, who raises the dead for money. Soon, Sam is drawn into a paranormal world.

In the Third Gone Novel, the Kids of Perdido Beach are Seized by Darkness and Fear

It’s been a year since all the adults disappeared, and now the kids left behind are fighting their worst enemy yet --- all-consuming fear.

In the Third Curse Workers Novel, Cassel Gets His Most Dangerous Assignment Yet

When the Feds give Cassel a life-threatening request, he must fight for the girl he loves, who has been sucked into a life of dark crime.

Jasper Dent is a Normal Kid --- Except He’s the Son of the World’s Worst Serial Killer

Jasper grew up witnessing his father’s brutal murders, and now he wants to clear his name. But he may be more like his dad than he thinks.

Cool & New

April's roundup includes books by Lauren Conrad and Deb Caletti, plus paperback releases of DARK EDEN and VIOLA IN THE SPOTLIGHT.

Books on Screen

 

Zac Efron stars in The Lucky One, based on Nicholas Sparks' novel, and the Oscar-nominated film War Horse is now available on DVD.

Latest Reviews

Ensnared in a dangerous, ever-deepening mystery, Will Besting must lead his friends through a perilous underground trap masterminded by two devious souls at war with each other. It's a game of cat and mouse, and not everyone will be alive when it's over. Can Will outwit both Rainsford and Goring, ending their reign of fear forever?

When her family moves to Bar Harbor, Maine, for the summer, Lucy is more interested in watching the waves and a certain shipbuilder than ingratiating herself with the social elite. But Lucy’s mother will stop at nothing to keep Lucy and the shipbuilder apart, even if it means throwing Lucy into the arms of a wealthy man with a dangerous secret.

With deeply realized characters, a keen sense of place, a hint of magical realism, and a flush of young romance, Meg Medina tells the tale of a strongwilled, warmhearted girl who dares to face life's harsh truths as she finds her real power.

Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. But the truth is even worse: they're witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship --- or an early grave. 

Haunted by memories of 9/11, popular high schooler Ben enlists in the army. After his convoy gets caught in an explosion, Ben is in a coma for two months. When he wakes up, he doesn't know where he is, and he doesn't remember anything about his old life.

Wally fled her adopted family at 15 to live on the streets of New York City. Now 16 and street-tough, she’s trying to discover who she really is while simultaneously warding off her birth-father, who will do anything to reclaim the fortune Wally's mother stole from him long ago, even if that means murdering his own blood. But Wally has had her own killer training and is hungry for justice.

Violet’s ability to sense dead bodies is an asset to forensic psychologist Sara Priest, who enlists her to uncover a string of murders by a man known as “the girlfriend collector.” Now the serial killer is on the lookout for a new "relationship," and Violet may have caught his eye.

X-Men: Season One written by Dennis Hopeless, illustrated by Jamie McKelvie - Graphic Novel

Professor Charles Xavier has recruited five of the most powerful mutants he's ever seen, in order to save a world that hates and fears them. But there's only one problem --- they're teenagers who have to survive hormones and uncontrollable super-powers, all while fighting for their very lives.

X-Factor: Super Unnatural written by Peter David, illustrated by Leonard Kirk and Valentine De Landro - Graphic Novel

X-Factor investigations has been taking on stranger and stranger cases recently...but when an eerie sighting leads the group to the hometown of their leader, Jamie Madrox the Multiple Man, they may have stumbled on a bigger mystery than they intended.

Gabby Gardiner wakes up in a hospital bed looking like a cautionary ad for drunk driving --- and without a single memory of the accident that landed her there. But what she can recall, in frank and sardonic detail, is the year leading up to the crash.

Boy21 by Matthew Quick - Fiction

For Finley and Russ, life in Bellmont isn’t easy. Muddied by drugs, violence and racial tension, the community is as troubled as their home lives. But when playing basketball, both boys find a reprieve from the surrounding ugliness, however temporary.

Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn are tired of playing by other people's rules regardless of which side of the law they're on. As their dangerous alliance with The Riddler continues from Volume 1 continues, the Sirens are willing to do anything to uncover the truth behind which mysterious villain is targeting them all for death.