Title: Lord of ShadowsSeries: The Dark Artifices #2Author: Cassandra ClareGenre: Urban fantasyPublisher: McElderry BooksFormat: HardbackISBN: 9781442468405 Summary: A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners—sworn to fight together, die together, …
Title: We Are Okay Author: Nina LaCour Genre: YA Fiction Length: 234 pages My rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Blurb: You go through life thinking there’s so much you need… Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the …
Title: Ozone JournalAuthor: Peter BalakianGenres: Poetry, #Ownvoices Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: HardcoverISBN: 9780226207032 Summary: The title poem of Peter Balakian’s Ozone Journal is a sequence of fifty-four short sections, each a poem in itself, recounting the speaker’s memory of excavating the bones of Armenian genocide victims in the Syrian desert with a crew of television journalists …
Title: The GrownupAuthor: Gillian FlynnGenre: ThrillerPublisher: CrownFormat: HardbackISBN: 9780804188975 Summary: A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, …
