Title: Wrapped Author: Jennifer Bradbury Genre: Mystery, Historical, Regency, Young Adult Publisher: Athenium (S&S) Publication Date: May 2011 Hardcover: 320 Pages Agnes Wilkins is standing in front of an Egyptian mummy, about to make the first cut into the…
Title: After the Golden Age> Author: Carrie Vaughn Genre: Urban Fantasy, Super-heroes Publisher: Tor Publication date: April 2011 Hardcover: 304 pages Can an accountant defeat a supervillain? Celia West, only daughter of the heroic leaders of the superpowered Olympiad,…
Title: The Dead Author: Charlie Higson Genre: Apocalypse, Horror, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult, Zombies Publisher: Hyperion (US)/Puffin (UK) Publication Date: June 2011 (US)/September 2010 (UK) Hardcover: 496 Pages THE DEAD begins one year before the action in THE ENEMY,…
Title: The Fecund’s Melancholy Daughter Author: Brent Hayward Genre: New Weird, Speculative Fiction, Fantasy Publisher: ChiZine Publications Publication date: May 15th 2011 Paperback: 250 pages The city is crumbling… Clouds over Nowy Solum have not parted in a hundred…
Title: The Boy at the End of the World Author: Greg Van Eekhout Genre: Speculative Fiction (Post-Apocalyptic), Middle Grade Publisher: Bloomsbury Publication date: June 21, 2011 Hardcover: 224 pages Fisher is the last boy on earth-and things are not…
Welcome to BEA Appreciation Week 2011! As is our annual tradition, this week we bring you reviews of some of the titles we have scooped up at BEA, as well as some general news and ponderings concerning the trade…
Title: The Dark City Author: Catherine Fisher Genre: Young Adult/Middle Grade, Science Fiction-Fantasy Publisher: Red Fox (original) / Dial (reprint) Publication Date: August 1998 / May 2011 Hardcover: 384 Pages Welcome to Anara, a world mysteriously crumbling to devastation,…
Title: Blood Magic Author: Tessa Gratton Genre: Southern Gothic / YA Publisher: Random House Children (US)/ Doubleday Children’s (UK) Publication date: 24 May 2011 (US)/ 7 July 2011 (UK) Hardcover/Paperback 416 pages The murder of her parents has left…
Title: Abandon Author: Meg Cabot Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary/Urban Fantasy, Retellings, Paranormal Publisher: Scholastic Publication Date: April 2011 Hardcover: 320 Pages She didn’t fall into his world. She was taken. Seventeen-year-old Pierce knows what happens to us when we…
Title: Rotters Author: Daniel Kraus Genre: Young Adult, Fiction, Horror, Contemporary Publisher: Delacorte Press Publication Date: April 2011 Hardcover: 464 Pages Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It’s true that Leonardo da Vinci did it,…
