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Pre-Order THE HUNGER GAMES: ILLUSTRATED EDITION

The Hunger Games as you've never seen it before -- in a remarkable illustrated edition.

Even at the age of sixteen, Katniss Everdeen knows it takes hard work, keen observation, and inner fortitude to survive in the world. Her home, District 12, is under the merciless rule of the Capitol, continually forced to pay after losing a long-ago civil war in the nation of Panem.

One of the ways the Capitol keeps control is its annual Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death featuring two young tributes from each of Panem's twelve districts. This gruesome battle is meant to send home a chilling message: Rebellion will always be punished.

When Katniss finds herself within the Hunger Games arena, she knows the odds aren't in her favor. Any wrong move will end her life -- and even the right moves come with a cost. But if she can survive, there is a chance the districts may survive as well...

The Hunger Games has enthralled millions of readers in its examination of the price of war, human nature, and the powerful force of both love and resistance. Now it appears for the first time in a deluxe illustrated edition, with spellbinding art from internationally acclaimed artist Nico Delort.

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[thequantumversechronicles]

🌅✨One hopeful evening in a golden twilight, leaders from Elinyn, Valoria, and Crysallis gather for peace talks to end the Battle of Three Realms. Each word spoken, a step towards unity and understanding, speaks to the fate of their worlds hanging in the balance. 

🔥 Join us on a Magical Adventure as I debut my NEW serial fiction The Quantumverse Chronicles in July 2024! Epic Adventures, Powerful Spells, Massive Worldbuilding, Magical Creatures, Wizards, Mages, Druids, Elves, Fairies, Crystal Kin, Humans and more. Welcome to the #quantumverse.

[taylor-reads-books]

“He couldn’t help it. He went where she led, like a paper kite on a string. He was hopelessly caught, twisted in her branches. His line tangled. His spine splintered. His sail all in tatters. There was no clean way to work himself free.” —Kelly Andrew, The Whispering Dark •——————————————————————————• The whispering Dark was @owlcrate’s book pick for October’s box! This edition has an exclusive cover, and foil design on the hard cover by @paperbackbones and art on the dust jacket by @kivbui December’s Owlcrate will be shipping out early, which is perfect for Christmas gifts! Get your box today and use my code TAYLOR15 to save on your first box! •——————————————————————————• #owlcrate #ocshadows22 #thewhisperingdark #kellyandrew #yalit #yabooks #youngadultbooks #beautifulbooks #darkacademia #constantreader #bibliophile #bookaddict #booklove #readersofig #ireadya #bookcommunity #bookishlife #booklove https://www.instagram.com/p/ClpcD3qLyVB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lipstickstainedwhiskey]

I’m hooked on this book and I am hoping that I can stay hooked . The pile of unfinished books is getting bigger. It’s a little embarrassing 🙈 Has anyone read this? And how did you like it? #book #bookstagram #bookworm #bookish #booknerd #bookporn #bookphotography #booknow #booklover #readingismagic #whatimreading#bibliophile #booklove #bookworm #reader #booklove #bookporn #bookphoto #ireadya #bookish #bookblogger #booksandflowers #booklove #coverlove #lovebooks #bookobsessed #letsread (at Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmb-2YGL9dn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hollymbryan]

Blog Tour Spotlight: THE LIBRARY OF BROKEN WORLDS by Alaya Dawn Johnson (w/ #giveaway)!

Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the Rockstar Book Tours blog tour for The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson! I’ve got all the book and author details, plus an excerpt, for you below; there’s also a giveaway so be sure to read to the end!

About the Book

title: The Library of Broken Worlds author: Alaya Dawn Johnson publisher: Scholastic Press release date: 6 June 2023

A girl matches wits with a war god in this kaleidoscopic, thought-provoking tale of oppression and the cost of peace, where stories hide within other stories, and narrative has the power to heal -- or to burn everything in its path -- from World Fantasy Award–winning author Alaya Dawn Johnson.

A girl and a god, alone in communion...

In the winding underground tunnels of the Library, the great peacekeeper of the three systems, a heinous secret lies buried -- and Freida is the only one who can uncover it. As the daughter of a Library god, Freida has spent her whole life exploring the Library's ever-changing tunnels and communing with the gods. Her unparalleled access makes her unique -- and dangerous.

When Freida meets Joshua, a Tierran boy desperate to save his people, and Nergüi, a disciple from a persecuted religious minority, Freida is compelled to help them. But in order to do so, she will have to venture deeper into the Library than she has ever known. There she will discover the atrocities of the past, the truth of her origins, and the impossibility of her future.

With the world at the brink of war, Freida embarks on a journey to fulfill her destiny, one that pits her against an ancient war god. Her mission is straightforward: Destroy the god before he can rain hellfire upon thousands of innocent lives -- if he doesn't destroy her first.

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About the Author

Alaya Dawn Johnson is an award-winning short story writer and the author of seven novels for adults and young adults. Her most recent novel for adults, Trouble the Saints, won the 2021 World Fantasy Award for best novel. Her debut short story collection, Reconstruction, was an Ignyte Award and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist. Her debut YA novel The Summer Prince was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and the follow-up Love Is the Drug was awarded the Andre Norton Nebula Award. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, most notably the title story in The Memory Librarian, in collaboration with Janelle Monáe. She lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. 

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Excerpt

By the time Samlin left me three weeks later, I felt like a blindfolded animal: confused, disoriented, ready to bite. I cried for days and sent him increasingly desperate messages until I realized he would never respond to me again. Nadi told me I’d forget about him, that everyone had to fall in love for the first time, that it would get better. I wanted to believe zir. But I was shivering, growing into ice, drifting into an empty sea. I didn’t know how to say what I was feeling. I hardly knew how to feel it.

Nadi had little time for me in those days. Ze was sequestered at a diplomatic round table with the Mahām leadership to address recent protests about their Treaty-condemned occupation of the Miuri moon. I didn’t push. The thought of telling Nadi precisely what had happened or not happened in that nanodrop made my guts twist like wet rope and my head fill with cotton. Better Iemaja, I decided. Better a god who barely understands the minutiae of human affairs and only speaks in communion.

I walked inside her because I had seen myself in Samlin’s deep eyes and hated that reflection. Freida the sweet. Freida the beautiful. Freida, once an excellent find but now inconvenient, twitchy, withdrawn, and desperate. I was beginning to see myself as they did, all those who stared and stared and saw nothing behind my eyes but a dark mirror. What was my heart, what were my bones, what were my constellations of synapses firing, lighting up my soul? Nadi insisted I was human, but even so, I had been left to freeze out in the ocean because no one thought I was worth any more. I was afraid, Nameren, so very afraid that they were right.

I had begun in Kohru, the artery of childhood and discovery and, in some ways, rebellion. But I was now in unknown capillaries. Some passages were so narrow that I had to get on my belly to pass through, the stone warm against my exposed skin. Sometimes the crystal would crack and water would bubble through the seams and I would slurp it down. It tasted of moonlight and copal and stillness. I told Iemaja that I loved her. The water then bubbled with her laughter and tasted of rose petals. It grew thick and slow with sugar. I lay in that soft, sticky womb for a while. The sweetness had been made to balance the salt of my tears. She is kind like that, Iemaja.

I told her about Samlin. I told her how helpless he had made me feel, not in my body, which he’d left untouched, but in my spirit. My tongue was heavy, as though it belonged to someone else. But still I spoke, until I reached the end.

Excerpted from The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson, Copyright © 2023 by Alaya Dawn Johnson. Published by Scholastic Press

About the Giveaway

One (1) lucky winner will receive a finished copy of The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson! This one is US only and ends 19 June 2023. Enter via the Rafflecopter below, and good luck!

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About the Tour

Here’s this week’s schedule so you can follow along!

Week Two:

5/28/2023 - celiamcmaahonreads - IG Review 5/29/2023 - thealylifestyle - Review/IG Post 5/30/2023 - travelersguidetobooks - IG Review 5/31/2023 - Jaime_of_gryffindor - Review/IG Post 6/1/2023 - @get.outside.and.read - IG Post 6/2/2023 - Book-Keeping - Spotlight/IG Post      **you are here! 6/3/2023 - More Books Please blog - Review/IG Post

[i-am-iron-man-3000]

fun fact i basically broke my reading i-ready, i tested high in 7th grade and in high school level, it has yet to actually assign me something. My teachers have had to assign me lessons

[starlightbooktales]

» What series/standalone is absolutely worth the hype?! hello my friends, I’m a big fan of Adrienne Young! Her books are typically one sitting reads for me. Sky in the Deep will forever be my favorite of her books. It’s a must read. » hashtags:. #authorappreciation #adrienneyoung #Fable #namesake #thelastlegacy #skyinthedeep #saint #thegirltheseagaveback #YAfantasy #yabooks #ireadya #ReadingCommunity #ReadTheseBooks #BookLove #BookstagramCommunity #BeautifulBooks #BookWorm #bookstack #stack #Bookstagram #BookCommunity #BeautifulBooks #bookstagrammer (at Boise, Idaho) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmM32F9SH3x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[wellreadwyvern]

📖AUTHOR EVENT📖 I enjoyed a lovely evening at @littleshopofstories with authors Lauren Blackwood and Jordan Ifueko. Blackwood’s new book, Wildblood, was one of my most anticipated YA fantasies for February. I can’t wait to dive into this “Jamaican jungle teeming with ghostly monsters.” I don’t know why I enjoy listening to authors discuss their writing process, but I do. Maybe it’s because I find the act of creative writing to be so intimidating. The best events are those with two writers in conversation. I’d love to see Jordan Ifueko lead more author discussions. Her energy and enthusiasm were absolutely delightful. And now I’m ashamed it’s taken me so long to read Raybearer. YA readers in Atlanta are pretty spoiled by the number of authors in the metro area. And they are so supportive of each other! There’s almost always at least one bestselling YA author in the audience. (Last night I found myself sitting behind Mark Oshiro.) Looking forward to more great author events soon! ❓What was the last fun event you attended? (Any event, not necessarily book related.) #wildblood #laurenblackwood #raybearer #jordanifueko #fantasybooks #yafantasy #ireadya #authorevent #supportsmallbusiness #supportlocalbusiness #supportindiebookstores #littleshopofstories #decaturga #newbookrelease #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CofL_xkLyw5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tinuwel]

¡Buen fin de semana! 🤗 Estos son algunos de los “tochos” que aun no me he animado a leer pero que, en el fondo, muero de ganas por leerlos. 🤭 Tengo la firme intención de leerlos este año que ya va siendo hora. Además se me acumulan con sus continuaciones y también tienen ese tamaño así que… 😳 ¿Os cuesta empezar libros que tienen muchas páginas? ¿Preferís libros gorditos o mejor no? #yalit #ireadya #yabooks #yafantasy #bookblog #bookbloggers #bookblogging #bookphotography #bookblogger #bookstagramespaña #bookcommunity #instabooks #fotografiasdelibros #readersofinstagram #TW #lecturadirecta #fulgor #empireofthevampire #unacoronadehuesosdorados #casadecieloyaliento #thecrownofgildedbones #houseofskyandbreath #court #crave #crescentcity #casadecieloyaliento #bloodandash #sangreycenizas https://www.instagram.com/p/CqL4pgejpOz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cassiesbookishcorner]

•February 24, 2023•

Happy Friday!

What are you going to read this weekend?

I'm going to reread Queen of Shadows. I'm looking forward to my first read through of the last 3 books.

Do you have a favorite out of this series?

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I am currently listening to When in Rome by Sarah Adams on audiobook. This is the book club pick for We're All Booked.

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[deanbackusauthor]

Kind of like a $.99 ebook sale for the entire month of April on Amazon.com? Indeed!!

[ireadyabooks]

Summer Full of Shivers ☀️☠️🩸

Summer scaries have arrived! This time of year is for spooky stories around the campfire and spine-tingling books that you maybe shouldn’t save for right before you go to bed. But hey, that’s part of the fun, right! We can never get enough horror in our lives and have some chilling reads for you to sink your teeth into in the summer heat! Check out some of our recent favorites below, and don’t forget to keep an extra light on at night! Or don’t . . . we leave that up to you . . .

The Getaway by Lamar Giles

Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts. He's got his family, his crew, and an incredible after-school job at the property's main theme park. Life isn't so great for the rest of the world, but when people come here to vacation, it's to get away from all that.

As things outside get worse, trouble starts seeping into Karloff. First, Jay's friend Connie and her family disappear in the middle of the night and no one will talk about it. Then the richest and most powerful families start arriving, only... they aren't leaving. Unknown to the employees, the resort has been selling shares in an end-of-the-world oasis. The best of the best at the end of days. And in order to deliver the top-notch customer service the wealthy clientele paid for, the employees will be at their total beck and call.

Whether they like it or not.

Yet Karloff Country didn't count on Jay and his crew -- and just how far they'll go to find out the truth and save themselves. But what's more dangerous: the monster you know in your home or the unknown nightmare outside the walls?

Start reading The Getaway now!

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, the haunting and original supernatural romance returns in a new edition

For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf--her wolf--is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human . . . until the cold makes him shift back again.

Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human--or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.

Start reading Shiver now!

The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator of the New York Times and ABA Indie bestselling The Witch Boy trilogy and The Girl from the Sea, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, love, loss, and magic.

Everyone has secrets. Mags’s has teeth.

Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she already feels like an adult with serious responsibilities: caring for her ailing grandmother; working a part-time job; clandestine makeouts with a girl who has a boyfriend. And then there’s her secret, which pulls her into the basement each night, drains her of energy, and leaves her bleeding. A secret that could hurt and even kill if it ever got out -- like it did once before.

So Mags keeps her head down, isolated in her small desert community. That is, until her childhood friend Nessa comes back to town, bringing vivid memories of the past, an intoxicating glimpse of the future, and a secret of her own. Mags won’t get attached, of course. She’s always been strong enough to survive without anyone’s help.

But when the darkness starts to close in on them both, Mags will have to drag her secret into the daylight, and choose between risking everything . . . or having nothing left to lose.

Start reading The Deep Dark now!

A Darker Mischief by Derek Milman

The Honeys meets The Secret History in a work of dark academia like no other -- a boarding school thriller about a queer teen from Mississippi who finds himself swept into a world of old money, privilege, and the secret society at the heart of it all.

When Cal Ware wins a scholarship to an elite New England boarding school, he's thrilled to leave his past behind. Back home in Mississippi, he was the poor, queer kid who never fit in. But at Essex Academy, he'll be able to reinvent himself. Or so he hopes . . .

But at Essex, Cal's classmates only see his cheap clothes and old iPhone. They mock his accent, and can't believe he's never left the country, or heard of The Hamptons. Cal, at his breaking point, is about to give up and return to Mississippi when he learns about a secret society on campus -- the key to becoming Essex royalty.

Cal knows he's not exactly secret society material, but to his surprise, he finds an unlikely champion in the handsome, charismatic, and slightly dangerous Luke Kim. As they get swept up in the mystery and glamour of the Rush process, Cal finds himself falling in love for the first time.

But as the initiation rituals grow riskier -- and increasingly nefarious -- Cal must decide how far he's willing to go, and how much of himself he's willing to sacrifice, to save everything and everyone he cherishes most. Because nothing at Essex -- not even Cal's first love -- is quite what it seems.

Start reading A Darker Mischief now!

The Other Ones by Fran Hart

A beautiful and unputdownable story about love, friendship, and the ghosts that grief can leave behind, The Other Ones is a heartfelt, contemporary romance with a haunting twist . . .

Salem Amani is a world-weary sixteen-year-old living with his mother and older sister in a haunted house. But all Sal really wants is to be ordinary, which is hard to do when you live in a house full of ghosts. And when a strange boy arrives on his doorstep asking more questions than he’s at all comfortable with, Sal’s efforts to be ordinary are put under even greater strain. Until Pax makes his offer: “I could help you with the hauntings . . . I’m good with ghosts.”

But despite his initial dislike of Pax, Sal can’t help but find himself unexpectedly drawn to the boy. And as the two grow closer, and Pax offers to help Sal scare away his ghosts for good, Sal finds himself sinking deeper into a lie concealing the truth about his family.

When the true nature of the “hauntings” is revealed, Sal must confront reality – or risk losing Pax for good.

Start reading The Other Ones now!

[thequantumversechronicles]

✨👑 Witness the grandeur of Crysallis's Coronation Day! Mina, along with her fellow Crystal Kin, celebrates the crowning of a new leader. Surrounded by sparkling crystal decorations and radiant light, this moment marks a new chapter of hope and unity. 

🔥 Join us on a Magical Adventure as I debut my NEW serial fiction The Quantumverse Chronicles in July 2024! Epic Adventures, Powerful Spells, Massive Worldbuilding, Magical Creatures, Wizards, Mages, Druids, Elves, Fairies, Crystal Kin, Humans and more. Welcome to the #quantumverse.

[taylor-reads-books]

Did y’all see the teaser for XO Kitty, a TATBILB spin off?! It looks so cute, I can’t wait to watch it! •——————————————————————————• #bookstack #booksbooksbooks #beautifulbooks #toalltheboysivelovedbefore #jennyhan #bookworm #readersofinstagram #bibliophile #bookaddict #booklove #readerlife #bookaholic #yabookstagram #yalit #yabooks #ireadya #bookish #bookcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CqHT4crrEaf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kellyatx]

Jemma and the Raven by B. D. Reeves ~ Book Release Blitz https://bit.ly/44uln0P

A girl. A raven. A luminous adventure.

To everyone else, Jemma is nothing but a Wharf-thief. She scavenges for tokens in the wrestling dens and parades along the market lanes with a raven, Edgar, on her shoulder.

But she and Edgar have a secret. In a land where memories fade into the Shadows without the love of a Keeper, they scour the ruins of ancient memory palaces, searching for treasure that will buy them a passage to the great city of Adocentyn.

When Jemma steals a map and a golden blade, she sets in motion a chain of events that will tie her destiny to the survival of all who live in the light of Memory.

Can Jemma defeat the darkness she has unleashed, without losing herself? And who is the voice she hears, guiding her along the way? I am with you. Follow the lights.

Jemma and the Raven is a massive feat of storytelling, a work of fabulous imagination, a fantasy inspired by historical realities. It will convey its readers on an epic journey that will both captivate and exhilarate them. ARNOLD ZABLE, storyteller and novelist. Author of The Watermill, Sea of Many Returns and Cafe Scheherazade.

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