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What do audio books and the red carpet have in common ? The stars ! Some of Hollywood’s hottest stars lent their voices not to Pixar, but to some of our YA audiobooks.
Jesse Eisenberg
Academy Award nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg brings his awkward charm and slight New York accent to numerous audiobook including Holly Black’s Curse Workers series. It was announced at BookExpo America that he will narrate the 2012 novel Colin Fischer by debut authors Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz.
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Uriel by Aaron Patterson, Chris White (Airel #3)
Uriel.
All she wanted was to live her own life…
When heroes start to tell lies, even to themselves: Uriel. She’s spent thousands of years fighting against her destiny, fighting against her bereaved father, against El Himself.
“It’s just one letter, but it’s my letter, father…”
Once more, we see how the evil deeds of the past play out in the following generations, and with grave consequences—and startling revelations.
Betrayal, deceit, and murder are unavoidable in Uriel, Book 3 of the Airel saga.
Check out the first books in the series Airel and Michael
Today kicks off day 1 of the Summer of Sarah Dessen at Books and Sensibility. Join us every Wednesday as we make our way through Sarah Dessen’s complete collection of novels !
“It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in one summer, stirring up like the storms that crest at the end of each day, blowing out all the heat and dirt to leave everything gasping and cool. Everyone can reach back to one summer and lay a finger to it, finding the exact point when everything changed. That summer was mine.” – That Summer, Sarah Dessen
Synopsis :For Haven, life is changing too quickly. She’s nearly six feet tall, her father is getting remarried, and her sister—the always perfect Ashley—is planning a wedding of her own. Haven wishes things could just go back to the way they were. Then an old boyfriend of Ashley’s reenters the picture, and through him, Haven sees the past for what it really was, and comes to grips with the future.
This summer, Haven’s father remarries to a younger woman, this summer, Haven’s sister marries and will leave, this summer Sumner comes back into her life. Not matter how much Haven wants it to be, this summer is not like that summer. When everything was perfect.
That Summer is a quintessential coming of age story, through Haven’s narration readers become a fly on the wall in Lakeview and all of it’s small town happenings. Everything from Haven’s father’s wedding to a local teen celebrity’s mental break down work together as a backdrop to Haven’s struggle with trying to find hope in an illusion.
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Synopsis: Hartley Grace Featherstone is having a very bad day. First she finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her with the president of the Herbert Hoover High School Chastity Club. Then he’s pegged as the #1 suspect in a murder. And if that weren’t enough, now he’s depending on Hartley to clear his name.
I purchased the Kindle version of Deadly Cool on a whim when Amazon had it on sale for 2.99. This is the second book I’ve gotten from the Harper Steals and Deals sale (the first being Unearthly) and I have to say,these steals have yet to disappoint.
The book opens right into the plot and instantly took me into the world. When Hartley finds the corpse of a popular girl in her ex-boyfriend’s house, she finds herself trying to solve the murder and clear her ex’s name.
Deadly Cool is similar to a cozy mystery, but with a modern high school face lift and pop culture sprinkled narrative. Having a murder mystery driven plot was an interesting take on the contemporary genre.
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Welcome to The Sense List ! A feature on Books and Sensibility where we wrap up current YA news and events.
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Synopsis : Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men.
Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She’s a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered.
With World War I brewing, Alek and Deryn’s paths cross in the most unexpected way…taking them on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure that will change both their lives forever
Deryn is a fifteen year old girl masquerading as a boy to join the airservice
Alex is a young prince who is on the run from a the threat of The Great War
The Leviathan is a living airship made from fabricated beast that brings the two together in a great adventure in this spirited re-imaging of World War I.
Leviathan is a high-flying adventure story filled with wonderment and discovery. I’m not sure why I picked this book up, I think it was because I wanted to see how the illustrations I’d glanced at related to the story. Either way from the first few pages I was sucked into this world Westerfeld has created with Darwinist, Clankers, Beasties, and Walkers.
What I really liked about this book was something very subtle about Deryn’s story. It’s hinted early in the novel that Deryn’s family (including her mother) while not supporting her scheme, have decided not to stop her. Even her own brother is helping her pretend to be a boy.
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