Our May roundup includes Emmy Laybourne's follow-up to MONUMENT 14, SKY ON FIRE and Elizabeth Wein's CODE NAME VERITY in paperback.
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Kate is devastated. Her boyfriend Vincent is a revenant who waited lifetimes to find her. But once he did, they were betrayed by a trusted ally who killed Vincent and destroyed his body so that he could not be reanimated. Now Vincent is doomed to roam the earth as a spirit. But Kate will risk anything to save him, even as their friend-turned-enemy begins to wage a war to rule over France's immortals.
For Cricket Thompson, a summer spent on Nantucket with her best friend, Jules Clayton, will change everything. When Jules and her family suffer a devastating tragedy, Jules becomes a stranger to Cricket. And instead of lying on the beach, Cricket is making beds and cleaning bathrooms. But it's the things Cricket hadn't counted on --- most of all, falling hard for someone who should be off-limits --- that turn her dreams into an exhilarating, bittersweet reality.
Abby Barnes had a plan. She'd go to Northwestern and major in journalism. But one tiny choice --- taking a drama class her senior year --- changed all that. Now Abby is stuck on a Hollywood movie set, miles from where she wants to be, wishing she could rewind her life. The next morning, she's in a dorm room at Yale, with no memory of how she got there. Overnight, it's as if her past has been rewritten.
Along the Mississippi River, in a Depression-era stadium, young prospects from all over the world compete for a chance to move up through the baseball ranks to the major leagues. Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann turns his eye on the players, the coaches, the fans, the radio announcer, the town, and finally on himself, a young man raised on baseball, driven to know what still draws him to the stadium.
Five years ago, Wren Connolly was shot three times in the chest. After 178 minutes, she came back to life as a Reboot --- the deadliest Reboot in the Republic of Texas. Callum 22, on the other hand, is practically still human. When Callum fails to measure up to Reboot standards, Wren is told to eliminate him. Wren has never disobeyed before, but she'll do whatever it takes to save Callum's life.
No one thought an ordinary girl like me would last two minutes living with the Amish, not even me. There are a lot more rules and a lot less freedom, and I miss my family and the life I once had. Worst of all, Noah and I aren't even allowed to see each other. Not until I've proven myself.
YELLOWCAKE brings together ten short stories --- each of them fiercely original and quietly heartbreaking. The stories range from fantasy and fairy tale to horror and stark reality, and yet what pervades is the sense of humanity. The people of Lanagan's worlds face trials, temptations and degradations. They swoon and suffer and even kill for love as they seek solace and strength.
I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says that they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know --- the cause of the argument ---is crucial. So let me tell you...
The obsidian mirror can send you to the past, but it will not bring you back. Its power is great and terrible. Men have been lost in it, the dead brought back to life through it and the future annihilated by it. Or this is what will happen unless the mirror is destroyed. Three people seek the mirror but only one can succeed.
It's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone. And now, the gaiaphage has been reborn as Diana's malicious mutant daughter, Gaia. Gaia is endlessly hungry for destruction. She yearns to conquer her Nemesis, Little Pete, and then bend the entire world to her warped will. LIGHT, the sixth and final book in the Gone series, creates a masterful, arresting conclusion to life in the FAYZ.
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