About Julie Leung
By day, Julie Leung noodles on pixels and bits for the digital marketing department at Random House Children's Books. By night, she listlessly transcribes her nerdy brain droppings into Word, Photoshop, and Facebook format.
By day, Julie Leung noodles on pixels and bits for the digital marketing department at Random House Children's Books. By night, she listlessly transcribes her nerdy brain droppings into Word, Photoshop, and Facebook format.
Morrill's debut novel is a romantic comedy befitting dreamy bookworms with a taste for screwball. Consider this literary confection the equivalent of a Cadbury cream egg – a brightly wrapped sweet treat that tugs at the heartstrings of the Anglophile in all of us.
In Cinder, her first book in The Lunar Chronicles, Meyer has reinterpreted a classic fairy tale, setting it in a futuristic city and making the 'princess' a cyborg. For fans of anime and sci-fi, this young-adult book will delight.
Cath Crowley's Graffiti Moon achieves the minor miracle of capturing disillusioned teen voices in a way that not only avoids the pitfalls of many young-adult stereotypes, but also reaches a level of poeticism that is simply sublime.
Oceans Eleven Comes to the YA Set: Ally Carter's Perfect Scoundrels
Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett
Mark Bittman's VB6: The Lifestyle Book Everyone's Talking About
Free Will: A Concise Study in Fact vs Illustion
A Read for Realists: Jonathan Evison's The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Alice Munro
Barbara Kingsolver
George Saunders
Haruki Murakami