Hello Molycik!
Március van és elvileg tavasz, amit a nagy mínuszokban nem tapasztalok, de ez egyet jelent azzal, hogy hamarosan bizony tényleg ideér a régen várt jó idő. Bőrdzseki, pipő én téged választalak, +15 fokot nekem, de azonnal!
Magyar megjelenések közül most sem nyerte el túl sok a szívemet, aminek kicsit örülök is, így több marad a közelgő Könyvfesztiválra. Ja, nem, mert a külföldi megjelenések terén meg dömping van. De azért két várós könyv van a hazai piacról is. Az egyik Holly Smale Geek girl sorozatának záró kötete, amit már olvastam, de Harriett szerencsétlenkedéséből sosem elég. A másik pedig egy Főnx Astrás kötet, aminél bevallom az csábított, hogy Sánta Kíra festette a borítót. Hát nem csodálatos?
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Aster egy űrhajó alsó fedélzetén, a nyomornegyedben él. A Matilda nemzedékek óta hordozza az emberiség maradékát, hogy eljuttassa őket a mitikus Ígéret Földjére. Az út során a hajó irányítói szigorú morális szabályokat erőltetnek az Asterhez hasonló sötét bőrű utasokra, akiket nem tekintenek teljes értékű embernek, és méltatlanul, szinte rabszolgaként bánnak velük.
A Matilda uralkodójának boncolása során meglepő kapcsolatra derül fény a férfi halála és Aster édesanyjának negyed századdal korábbi öngyilkossága között. Miután a lány összetűzésbe keveredik egy brutális munkafelügyelővel, rájön, hogy talán lejuthat a hajóról, ha harcolni is hajlandó céljaiért.
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„Harriet Mannersnek hívnak, geek vagyok, és mindörökké az is leszek…”
Harriet Manners minden létező tényt ismer.
A modellkedés önmagában nem egyenes út a népszerűséghez.
Az sem, ha az ember végtelen mennyiségű listát ír.
Azok, akik szeretnek, nem várják el, hogy megváltozz.
Ha hihetünk a statisztikáknak, akkor sokkal kisebb az esélye annak, hogy nem botlasz bele az ausztrál volt barátodba Ausztráliában, mint annak, hogy mégiscsak összefutsz vele.
Harriet elmegy a messzi déli féltekére, és maga mögött hagyja a listákat, és végre Nat kerül a rivaldafénybe. Most, hogy otthon van egy már-majdnem-de-még-nem-teljesen-barátja, Jasper, Harrietet felkészületlenül éri, amikor váratlanul találkozik szupermodell volt barátjával, Nickkel.
Itt az ideje, hogy Harriet a jövőre koncentráljon. Hogy végre rájöjjön, mi is a szíve vágya. És hogy megtanulja, hogy kell elengedni valakit…
Megérkezett a számos elismerést nyert Geek Girl-sorozat befejező kötete.
Áttérve a külföldi megjelenésekre, hát belőlük van pár. Mily meglepő. Maradok az előző hónapban már bevált dátumos felosztásnál, kezdjük is rögtön március 6-tal. A bankkártyámat előre féltem és szerintem el fogom holnap dugni, hogy ne is kísértsen, ugyanis a hatodikai megjelenések közül kapásból hatot kinéztem magamnak. Ebből egy már úton van hozzám, ez pedig nem más, mint Tomi Adeyemi: Children of Blood and Bone. Viszont nagyon érdekel a To Kill a Kingdom Alexandra Christo-tól és a Wicked Deep Shea Ernshaw-tól. Valószínűleg ők fixen a kosaramban fognak landolni...
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Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zelie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.
But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were targeted and killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.
Now, Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.
Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers—and her growing feelings for the enemy.
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Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most—a human. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart to the Sea Queen or remain a human forever.
The ocean is the only place Prince Elian calls home, even though he is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world. Hunting sirens is more than an unsavory hobby—it’s his calling. When he rescues a drowning woman in the ocean, she’s more than what she appears. She promises to help him find the key to destroying all of sirenkind for good—But can he trust her? And just how many deals will Elian have to barter to eliminate mankind’s greatest enemy?
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Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge—and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them.
Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow…
Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town.
Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under.
Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. But this year, on the eve of the sisters’ return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives; unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into.
Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. The townspeople turn against one another. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.
But only Penny sees what others cannot. And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself.
Nem bánnám, ha a polcomon tudnám őket kategória nyertesei pedig:
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Olivia Brownlow is no damsel in distress. Born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, she is as tough and cunning as they come. When she is taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, her life goes from fighting and stealing on the streets to lavish dinners and soirees as a debutante in high society. But she can’t seem to escape her past … or forget the teeming slums where children just like her still scrabble to survive.
Jack MacCarron rose from his place in London’s East End to become the adopted “nephew” of a society matron. Little does society know that MacCarron is a false name for a boy once known among London gangs as the Artful Dodger, and that he and his “aunt” are robbing them blind every chance they get. When Jack encounters Olivia Brownlow in places he least expects, his curiosity is piqued. Why is a society girl helping a bunch of homeless orphan thieves? Even more intriguing, why does she remind him so much of someone he once knew? Jack finds himself wondering if going legit and risking it all might be worth it for love.
Olivia Twist is an innovative reimagining of Charles Dickens’ classic tale Oliver Twist, in which Olivia was forced to live as a boy for her own safety until she was rescued from the streets. Now eighteen, Olivia finds herself at a crossroads: revealed secrets threaten to destroy the “proper” life she has built for her herself, while newfound feelings for an arrogant young man she shouldn’t like could derail her carefully laid plans for the future.
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This is a story about learning to be fearless and set your secrets free. An intense and gripping novel that will speak to fans of John Green and Jennifer Niven.
Rev works hard to keep the demons of the time before his adoption at bay … until a letter from his father after his 18th birthday brings the trauma of his childhood hurtling back.
Emma escapes real life by perfecting the online game she built from scratch. Coding is way easier than facing her parents' nasty relationship or the growing distance with her best friend … But when an online troll's harassment starts to escalate, she fears for her safety.
When Rev and Emma meet, they're buckling under the weight of their secrets. Though both of them find it hard to put their problems into words, they connect instantly and deeply. Rev and Emma's problems might be worlds apart, but they promise to help each other no matter what.
But promises are made to be tested and some things hurt more than we can tell.
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The author of the beloved Love Letters to the Dead returns with a parallel story of a mother and daughter each at age seventeen. Marilyn's tale recounts the summer she fell in love and set out on her own path. Angie's story is about her search for her unknown father.
This sweeping multi-generational love story introduces readers to mother-and-daughter pair Marilyn and Angie. To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young, too. When Marilyn was seventeen, she fell in love with Angie's father, James, who was African-American. But Angie's never met him, and Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she's never met she starts to wonder: What if her dad is still alive, too? So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to LA from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and what truly happened to her father.
Március 8-án összesen egy könyv érdekel a friss megjelenések közül, ami egy contemp YA és ennyi az össz indokom a beszerzésére.
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Izzy O’Neill is an aspiring comic, an impoverished orphan, and a Slut Extraordinaire. Or at least, that’s what the malicious website flying round the school says. Izzy can try all she wants to laugh it off – after all, her sex life, her terms – but when pictures emerge of her doing the dirty with a politician’s son, her life suddenly becomes the centre of a national scandal. Izzy’s never been ashamed of herself before, and she’s not going to start now. But keeping her head up will take everything she has...
Idén végre sikerült elolvasnom Amie Kaufman – Jay Kristoff párosától az Illuminaet, amit imádtam, ezért egyértelmű, hogy a trilógia záró kötete is várós. Az Obsidio március 13-án jelenik meg, csak az tart vissza az előrendeléstől, hogy még a Geminát is le kéne tudni előtte.
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Vigyázat! Cselekményleírást tartalmaz! Spoiler alert!!!
Vigyázat! Cselekményleírást tartalmaz! Spoiler alert!!!
Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza—but who knows what they'll find seven months after the invasion? Meanwhile, Kady's cousin, Asha, survived the initial BeiTech assault and has joined Kerenza's ragtag underground resistance. When Rhys—an old flame from Asha's past—reappears on Kerenza, the two find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. With time running out, a final battle will be waged on land and in space, heros will fall, and hearts will be broken.
Az Obsidio után már csak a hónap végén lesznek olyan megjelenések, amik várósak, viszont megint nem egy, mert az úgy túl könnyű lenne. Kapásból öt könyvvel szemezek. Roshani Chokshi: Aru Shah and the End of Time-t tuti megvásárolom előbb vagy utóbb. A borítója instalove volt részemről, na meg Rick Riordan ajánlja. Amie Kaufman: Ice Wolves c. könyve elméletileg middle grade és YA között mozog és nagyon jó az értékelése Goodreadsen. Kaufman stílusát meg alapból szeretem, szóval why not?
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New York Times bestselling, multi-award-winning Australian author Amie Kaufman makes her middle-grade debut …
„WILL KEEP YOU READING LATE INTO THE NIGHT.”
– Marie Lu, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Young Elites
Everyone in Vallen knows that ice wolves and scorch dragons are sworn enemies who live deeply separate lives.
So when twelve-year-old orphan Anders takes one elemental form and his twin sister, Rayna, takes another, he wonders whether they are even related. Still, whether or not they're family, Rayna is Anders's only true friend. She's nothing like the brutal, cruel dragons who claimed her as one of their own and stole her away.
In order to rescue her, Anders must enlist at the foreboding Ulfar Academy, a school for young wolves that values loyalty to the pack above all else. But for Anders, loyalty is more complicated than obedience, and friendship is the most powerful shapeshifting force of all.
New York Times bestselling author Amie Kaufman delivers heart-pounding adventure and breathtaking magical inventions in this unforgettable story about finding one's place in a sharply divided world.
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Vigyázat! Cselekményleírást tartalmaz.
Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur?
One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. Just a quick light, Aru thinks. Then she can get herself out of this mess and never ever fib again.
But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it's up to Aru to save them.
The only way to stop the demon is to find the reincarnations of the five legendary Pandava brothers, protagonists of the Hindu epic poem, the Mahabharata, and journey through the Kingdom of Death. But how is one girl in Spider-Man pajamas supposed to do all that?
Azt már meséltem, hogy Sarah Andersen: Herding Cats c. képregényét már olvastam korábban, hála a Netgalley nagylelkűségének, de azért szeretném élőben is megtapizni, megsimogatni. Ally Carter: Not if I save you first és Tessa Gratton: The Queens of Innis Lear pedig simán megnyerő volt fülszöveg alapján.
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Sarah's Scribbles, Goodreads Choice Award for 2016: Best Graphic Novels & Comics
„. . . author Sarah Andersen uses hilarious (and adorable) comics to illustrate the very specific growing pains that occur on your way to becoming a mature, put-together grownup. Andersen’s spot-on illustrations also show how to navigate this newfound adulthood once you arrive, since maturity is equally as hard to maintain as it is to find … ” – The Huffington Post
Sarah valiantly struggles with waking up in the morning, being productive, and dealing with social situations. Sarah's Scribbles is the comic strip that follows her life, finding humor in living as an adulting introvert that is at times weird, awkward, and embarrassing.
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Maddie thought she and Logan would be friends forever. But when your dad is a Secret Service agent and your best friend is the president's son, sometimes life has other plans. Before she knows it, Maddie's dad is dragging her to a cabin in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness.
No phone.
No Internet.
And not a single word from Logan.
Maddie tells herself it's okay. After all, she's the most popular girl for twenty miles in any direction. (She’s also the only girl for twenty miles in any direction.) She has wood to cut and weapons to bedazzle. Her life is full.
Until Logan shows up six years later . . .
And Maddie wants to kill him.
But before that can happen, an assailant appears out of nowhere, knocking Maddie off a cliff and dragging Logan to some unknown fate. Maddie knows she could turn back- and get help. But the weather is turning and the terrain will only get more treacherous, the animals more deadly.
Maddie still really wants to kill Logan.
But she has to save him first.
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A kingdom at risk, a crown divided, a family drenched in blood.
The erratic decisions of a prophecy-obsessed king have drained Innis Lear of its wild magic, leaving behind a trail of barren crops and despondent subjects. Enemy nations circle the once-bountiful isle, sensing its growing vulnerability, hungry to control the ideal port for all trade routes.
The king's three daughters—battle-hungry Gaela, master manipulator Reagan, and restrained, starblessed Elia—know the realm's only chance of resurrection is to crown a new sovereign, proving a strong hand can resurrect magic and defend itself. But their father will not choose an heir until the longest night of the year, when prophecies align and a poison ritual can be enacted.
Refusing to leave their future in the hands of blind faith, the daughters of Innis Lear prepare for war—but regardless of who wins the crown, the shores of Innis will weep the blood of a house divided.
A fent említett öt könyv március 27-én lát majd napvilágot.
Nem panaszkodhatunk az már biztos, maximum a bankkártyánk sírhat és lázadhat.
Üdv,
