Ally Carter
Katarina “Kat” Bishop, a sixteen-year-old version of Danny Ocean himself, has had a 'colorful' past for one so young. The product of a long line of con men and thieves, Kat has seen -- and stolen -- more priceless artifacts than most people see in their lives.
In Beautiful Creatures, the sleepy Southern town of Gatlin, South Carolina, is shaken awake upon the arrival of mysterious and beautiful newcomer Lena Duchannes. In Beautiful Darkness, finally we can see what our heroine is up to now.
Rachel Shukert's new YA novel, Starstruck, reads like a cross between a film noir mystery novel and celebrity tabloid fodder. The ambiguity of characters’ intentions, along with the mystery behind a starlet's disappearance, will keep audiences captivated until the very end.
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.
Although Out of Nowhere deals with broad themes of racism, immigration, and religious tolerance in a post 9-11 world, the story began for me in a more personal place. Namely, with the novel’s narrator, Tom Bouchard.
Lauren Buckland, the editor who first came across seventeen-year-old sensation Beth Reekles’ novel, recounts the experience of finding something so wonderful.
The author of The Sweetest Dark shares with Everyday eBook her inspiration behind Lora Jones, heroine of The Sweetest Dark.
Robert Cormier never believed in 'writing down' to teens. His novels present flawed, realistic, anti-heroes, characters that struggle with issues of rebellion and nonconformity. It's no wonder they still hold up today.
Jeff Baron has started a new literary adventure with his novel I Represent Sean Rosen. Baron shows in his first novel the keen ear of a playwright, one perfectly attuned to his character’s voice -- and what a voice it is.
Son, the gripping conclusion to The Giver series, both enhances the world Lois Lowry has painstakingly crafted over the course two decades and also stands alone as its own immersive tale.
The year 2013 marks the seventieth anniversary of The Little Prince, whose intrigue and delightfulness are due both to its wonderful story and illustrations, and to the fascinating life of its author.
Set in 1980s Omaha, Rainbow Rowell's eBook is filled with relevant pop culture references and a slow, honest love story between misfit teens struggling with their relationship.
Though some YA reading may simply serve as a guilty pleasure for adults, there is a vast oeuvre of Teen literature that isn’t just fluff or an escape. Elizabeth Laban’s The Tragedy Paper is a book that falls into this deeper sort.
Author Theo Lawrence discusses his young adult trilogy set in a future New York in which much of the city is underwater, politics is a dangerous business, a rebellion may be on the horizon, and star-crossed lovers must find each other.
Unlike the sexier, more mainstream monsters of the vampire and werewolf ilk, zombies are often relegated to roles in b-movies and slapstick horror. Thankfully, in Marion’s Warm Bodies, they finally take center stage as heroes.
A New Tale from Paulo Coelho: Manuscript Found in Accra
A Modern Classic That Endures: Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men
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
Alice Munro
Barbara Kingsolver
George Saunders
Haruki Murakami
Abigail Pollak
Allyson Pearl
Andrew Agudo
Jen Marshall
Joe Muscolino
Rita D. Jacobs
