This week we're taking a break from the world of fiction, and offering a fun, fact-filled compendium: The Trivia Lover's Guide to the World by Gary Fuller.

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Each week, we ask our featured author to recommend a book or author that you may want to check out. Since authors are such passionate readers themselves, we thought you might like to find out what they love to read, too! Here’s what Gary recommends:

 Years ago, I was in at least three college classes where there was mention of an ongoing debate about what was the Great American Novel.  Several candidates were mentioned, but the consensus among my professors was that such a thing had yet to be written.  I strongly disagreed.  Huckleberry Finn captured the spirit of the American frontier and the hypocrisy and contradictions of slavery.  To Kill a Mockingbird was written at about the time the debate was going on.  While it had some of the same themes as Huck, it conveyed also the incredible irony of the rigidity of Southern manners and the treatment of African-Americans.  Surprisingly, perhaps because the book is lesser known than the other two, my third nomination is The Lords of Discipline .  Conroy’s work shares some of the same themes as the earlier books, but sets it in a military school.  I like all three and re-read them periodically while I wait for the next Great American novel to come along.   

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# 1 New York Times-bestselling author Barbara Freethy is one of NOOK readers’ most-beloved authors. Her charming contemporary romances have resonated with a generation of readers, and her most recent books have climbed to the top of the NOOK charts.

In Freethy’s newest book, When Wishes Collide, two desperate strangers make a wish, only to discover that sometimes a wish can take you down an unexpected path ... straight toward a life-changing love.

Adrianna Cavello's life changed in an instant when a break-in at her restaurant took the life of her boyfriend and left her too traumatized to return to work. Months later, with everything she's ever wanted on the line, Adrianna makes a wish by tossing a coin into a fountain known for making miracles. 

Wyatt Randall is also in need of a miracle. Two years earlier, his ex-wife kidnapped their daughter, and Wyatt is desperate to find his little girl. A new lead raises his hopes, but quickly fizzles out. When his coin clashes with another, he sees what little hope he has flying away. 

Adrianna and Wyatt soon learn that they have more in common than two coins that collided. In fighting for the lives they lost, they must learn how to trust again. Only then will they discover that meeting each other and falling in love might not be what they wished for, but exactly what they need. 

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T.C. Boyle is one of the most dynamic novelists writing today. His books range from a fictionalization of Frank Lloyd Wright’s love life, to the misadventures of 1970s commune life. What unites all of his novels is a dedication to authentic storytelling that comes from meticulous period research.

In Boyle’s latest book, San Miguel, he again mines the riches of a very particular time and place—the remote California island of San Miguel during the late 19^th and early 20^th century. First, an ill woman and her Civil War veteran husband land on the desolate island seeking a return to health and a chance to start anew. But this isolated and lonely life is a difficult adjustment for these city folk, and their daughter soon rebels against their simple lifestyle.

Next the story transitions to the 1930s, when a World War I veteran and his wife stake a claim on the same island. While the new life suits them, as another war looms on the horizon, the family worries that living on an island off the Pacific coast may pose dangers they hadn’t anticipated.

Publishers Weekly says of the author’s latest, “the novel is primarily a history of the land itself, unchanging despite its various visitors and residents, and as beautiful, imperfect, and unrelenting as Boyle’s characters.”

A free sample excerpt from this book is available on the product page now.

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I’m excited to introduce NOOK Blog readers to the two newest tablets in the NOOK Family: NOOK HD and NOOK HD+.

NOOK HD is the lightest and highest resolution 7” HD tablet ever. Not to be outdone, NOOK HD+ is the lightest Full HD tablet ever, with a brilliant 9” HD display that magazine and movie lovers will adore.

NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ were specifically designed to make reading and entertainment as good as it can be. With crisp text, breathtaking images and life-like graphics, NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ let you enjoy books, magazines, movies, TV shows and apps like never before.

NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ are also the first tablets ever designed for both personal use and the whole family to share. It’s like having multiple tablets in one! Individual profiles instantly personalize your NOOK for each member of the family so that everyone can enjoy their very own library.

Our newly expanded NOOK Store offers more than three million books, magazines, newspapers, comics and kids’ books – with over 1 million titles free.  We’ve also got all the top apps, including an unbeatable selection of learning apps for kids. And only The NOOK Store provides helpful age recommendations for parents and lets you browse by subject area to find the perfect app for your child.

With our brand new NOOK Video^™ Store and NOOK Catalog^™ content, NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ offer incredible reading and entertainment like never seen before.

Starting at only $199 for NOOK HD and $269 for NOOK HD+, both products deliver an amazing value, with no annoying ads and a power cord included.

Both are available for pre-order at www.nook.com and Barnes & Noble stores for you to enjoy beginning in early November.

Learn all about them here.

The newest $0.99 Spotlight offer features The Greatest Knight, by bestselling historical fiction writer Elizabeth Chadwick.

When a young knight, William Marshal, saves the life of Henry II's queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, he's thrust into a life of servitude to the throne that few, if any, ever surpassed. The chivalrous William is rewarded with the position of arms tutor to Prince Henry, which proves to be a difficult task. A chain of events puts William in the middle of a tumultuous and dangerous period for the royal family, and he proves his loyalty and good judgment time and again. Elizabeth Chadwick does an excellent job of fictionalizing the real-life 12th century drama in her well-researched and captivating novel.

A free sample excerpt from this book is available on the product page now.

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“Superb”

-Publishers Weekly

There’s something about a serial killer story that really scares the pants off of me. The calculated, precise way that serial killers ply their trade sends chills down my spine. Today’s Free Fridays selection, The Retribution by international bestselling author Val McDermid, is a worthy addition to the serial killer canon.

Clinical psychologist Tony Hill has had a good run. He and detective Carol Jordan have put away scores of dangerous criminals at a rate that colleagues envy. But there is one serial killer who has shaped and defined their careers, and whose evil surpasses all others: Jacko Vance, ex-celebrity and sociopath whose brilliance and utter lack of remorse have never left Tony’s mind in the ten years since his imprisonment. Now Jacko has escaped from prison—even more twisted and cunning than before, and focused on wreaking revenge on Tony and Carol for his years spent in prison.

Tony and Carol have spent their careers protecting others, but now they’ll need all of the resources at their disposal to keep themselves out of harm’s way.

Today we’re also highlighting a special free offer for Tolkien fans. As many of you know, tomorrow is Hobbit Day—Frodo and Bilbo’s birthday in the classic book series. As you gear up for the December release of The Hobbit movie, dig into the realm of Middle-earth with this free Reader and Educator Guide to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. At over 200 pages, and offering a deeper look at the events and lives of the characters from these epic tales, this is a must-have resource for every Tolkien fan.

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Each week, we ask our featured author to recommend a book or author that you may want to check out. Since authors are such passionate readers themselves, we thought you might like to find out what they love to read, too! Here’s what Val recommends:

Every reader craves that book you can't put down. Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina did that for me. A rich brew of Glasgow noir packed with emotional cliffhangers and genuinely clever twists, it's beautifully written too.

[Editor's Note: Gods and Beasts is available for pre-order now]

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With era-defining leading roles in films like Pretty in Pink and St. Elmo’s Fire, Andrew McCarthy cemented his status as heartthrob numero uno for many children of the 1980s. Since that time, however, McCarthy has traveled a varied path, both figuratively and literally.

Among the many real-life roles he’s played is award-winning travel writer for magazines like National Geographic Traveler. In his new memoir, The Longest Way Home, McCarthy revisits an epic trip of self-discovery that took him to some of the most dangerous and beautiful places on Earth. In today’s NOOK Blog guest author post, McCarthy offers his playlist for the open road. I have to admit, these are some pretty epic road trip tunes.

There’s nothing wrong that a hundred dollars in your pocket and a full tank of gas can’t cure. It’s one of the great American themes and the impetus for so much transformation, to say nothing of so much good rock ‘n roll. And so, as someone once said, “Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I hit the road."

Few things in life demand a soundtrack as much as a road trip, and hailing from the great state of New Jersey, there is only one place my playlist can begin.

1-Born To Run, by Bruce Springsteen. The urgency, the youthful belief in escape, propelled by soaring orchestration beneath searing layers of guitars, and Clarence Clemmons galloping saxophone—it’s enough to convince you of the need to set out, no matter the direction, no matter the cost. Tramps like us…

2-Lose Yourself, by Eminem. Anger. Need. Opportunity. Once in a lifetime. One shot. Success is the only option. Failure is not. Turn it up!

3- Good Times, by Sam Cooke. Every journey needs a healthy heaping of soul.  This one has me rolling down the window, swinging along, and pressing the pedal down hard. I ain’t felt this good since I don’t know when…

4- Martha, by Tom Waits. There are few certainties, one of them is that eventually you will find yourself deep on a dark and lonely road, late at night, with the needle pointing at “E.”  It’s been so many years…

5-Play It As It Lays, by Patti Scialfa. And just when you thought the road would swallow you and yield up nothing but ghosts of the past, the dawn breaks and What’s done is done…

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Colleen Houck’s bestselling Tiger’s Curse series comes to an explosive conclusion in book number four: Tiger's Destiny. Houck’s breathtaking storytelling has enthralled young adult readers with a complex, passionate story of two shape-shifting tiger-prince brothers and the woman whose heart they both aim to capture.

In this series-concluding fourth book, Oregon teenager Kelsey sets off on a dangerous subterranean adventure with were-tiger brothers Ren and Kishan. While the epic battles and heart-pounding cliffhangers keep the plot in motion, it’s the unresolved love story that will have most readers turning the pages. Who will Kelsey choose, and will any of the parties in this love triangle live to enjoy happily-ever-after?

 
A free sample excerpt of this book is available on the product page now.

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Whether or not you’ve read his groundbreaking, critically-acclaimed novels (confession: Midnight’s Children is one of my three favorite novels of all time), you’ve no doubt heard of Salman Rushdie. After the bounty that the Ayatollah Khomeini put on his head in response to the publication of Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, the story made international headlines.

In his new memoir, Joseph Anton, Rushdie lays bare the years he spent in exile, literally fighting for his life. He captures his own predicament in an incisive way that uses the same narrative talent that makes his novels such an enjoyable read.

To herald the publication of this important memoir, we asked Rushdie to recommend a memoir that he loves, and we were pleasantly surprised with his choice:

The Liars' Club  

by Mary Karr

A book of tough, laconic beauty, both hard-boiled and lyrical, this is a landmark work of what is being called "the age of the memoir." Karr grows up in "one of the ten ugliest towns on the planet" and yells and fights her way out of it. Unforgettable.

A free sample excerpt from Joseph Anton is available on the product page now.

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Buckle up before you open this week’s Free Fridays selection: A Texan’s Promise by Shelley Gray.

This first book in Gray’s Heart of a Hero series explores the complex and endearing love that grows between Clayton—a ranch foreman—and the woman he’s sworn to protect from her stepfather’s advances. Clayton isn’t the type of man who can stand idly by and watch the innocent Vanessa become her notorious stepfather’s next victim. So he sweeps her away on a westward journey—pursued by a dangerous man, and growing closer to Vanessa with each mile that passes underfoot.

You’ll be moved and entranced by the tender love that these two souls grow to share.

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Each week, we ask our featured author to recommend a book or author that you may want to check out. Since authors are such passionate readers themselves, we thought you might like to find out what they love to read, too! Here’s what Shelley recommends:

I read Gone with the Wind the summer after seventh grade on a three week bus tour of the western United States. Oh, gosh, did I love that book! Day after day, while the plains of west Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona zipped by, I’d keep my nose in Margaret Mitchell’s story. Because of that book, I became fascinated by the Civil War, and life for survivors of the Civil War. Of course, I fell in love with Rhett Butler, too. Because, well, he was Rhett Butler!

 

Gone with the Wind made a huge impression on me. It was the first time I found myself transported to another time, and another place through the pages of a book.  When I wrote A Texan’s Promise, I felt much the same way writing it as I did reading Gone with the Wind, all those years ago. I was immersed in another time, where almost anything was possible. For that reason, A Texan’s Promise remains a special book to me…almost as much as Gone with the Wind still is.   

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Loved by generations of children, and considered one of the greatest storytellers of all time, Roald Dahl—whose 96^th birth anniversary is today—is a literary legend.

In celebration of today's anniversary, many of Dahl’s best-loved books are now available on NOOK for the first time—including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. I’ve never been much of a re-reader, but as a kid my copy of Charlie was falling apart at the seams. The author’s darkly humorous and utterly witty stories are the perfect combination of childish wonder and young adult skepticism of the adult world. That recipe is what endeared millions of fans over the years, and what keeps Dahl’s stories fresh even for adult readers.

It’s always exciting to announce the addition of classic titles for NOOK, and for me personally, these are some of the best yet.

Free sample excerpts from these books are available on the product pages now.

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Summer reading has its perks, but sometimes it can be hard to do a lot of reading when there are so many warm weather activities distracting you. As we move into fall and winter - and the inevitable move to indoor pursuits - it's time to load up your NOOK with autumn reads. To help you get the most for your money, I've highlighted some great NOOK Book Offers that are available only for a limited time.

No matter how well-read you are, you'll inevitably find yourself in a conversation about a book you haven't read, but know you should have. Since you're known as a bibliophile, it's embarrassing to have to admit that you actually haven't read the great work of literature your friend just casually name-dropped. That's where How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read  - a witty and useful book by Pierre Baya - comes in handy. At the limited-time price of just $2.99, think about how much you'll save by not having to read all of the books Baya covers in this invaluable resource.

New York Times-bestselling author Allison Brennan is known for her riveting, ripped-from-the-headlines thrillers. In Silenced, available for $2.99, cyber crime investigator Lucy Kinkaid tirelessly works to track down a serial killer who's targeting Washington prostitutes. Get this limited-time offer before exploring Stalked, the next Lucy Kinkaid thriller coming this October.

Author Dennis Lehane was already a huge bestseller before Mystic River and Shutter Island became blockbuster films, but thanks to those Hollywood hits, he's now a household name. Lehane's sweeping historical novel, The Given Day, is set in Boston immediately following World War One - a time of turmoil, violence, and unprecedented opportunity for America. Lots of big themes for the little price of just $2.99. Lehane's next Boston-set historical, Live By Night, publishes next month.

The Hunger Games phenomenon has turned a generation of young readers into dystopian lit fanatics. If you or someone you know is suffering from Panem withdrawal, make sure to check out the great $2.99 titles featured in HarperCollins' 'Fall Into Dystopia' promotion. You'll find all of the titles, including the enthralling novel Gone by Michael Grant, right here.

Just in case you don’t already know, we highlight a new NOOK Daily Find each day—a great book at a great price. Today’s book is Awkward by Marni Bates for just $2.99. This geek-to-chic story is a fun fall read for fans of witty Young Adult fiction. Sign up to get info on each day’s Daily Find here.

Also, this election season we’re encouraging you to Read Then Decide. Each day we’ll offer a new NOOK Daily Find: Election 2012 title for a great price. These hand-selected books will help you get up-to-date with the issues that matter. Today’s title is The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World by Paul Gilding for only $1.99. If you're on Twitter, make sure to follow @NOOKPolitics and join the discussion using the #ReadThenDecide hashtag.

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The title of our newest $0.99 Spotlight offer says it all, Simply Irresistible by Jill Shalvis is …impossible to resist.

This first book in Shalvis’ bestselling Lucky Harbor contemporary romance series sets the stage for many fun adventures to come. When Maddie finds herself at a crossroads in L.A.—no boyfriend, no job—she takes a leap of faith and decides to resurrect a small town inn.

Lucky Harbor, Washington, is quaint, laid back, and full of local characters. Maddie the city girl has big dreams, but her first step is to enlist her sisters’ help to renovate the ramshackle inn. As she settles into her new life—which she swore would be romance and drama-free—our intrepid heroine crosses paths with a tall, dark, and handsome contractor who’s making it hard to keep her promise.

This lighthearted read will have you laughing at Maddie’s antics, and pulling for her to make a new life for herself in charming Lucky Harbor.

A free sample excerpt from this book is available on the product page now.

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An Addicting New Word Game comes to NOOK.

Word Winder is a fun word game for everyone. I don't have the patience for certain time-consuming word games, but I love trying to solve the clues and beat the clock in Word Winder (without using any hints of course). This is a fast-paced game with a number of different modes; if you’re like me, you’ll love the FINDER and FRENZY modes the best.

Play by yourself and choose one of four different puzzle games — each game has 50 unique puzzles hand-crafted by word wizard David L. Hoyt (a total of 200 different puzzles). Or play with friends and family to compete to form the first winding line of words from one side of the board to the opposite side. This is a game of strategy and cunning, of offense and defense, and of forming alliances and outwitting opponents.

If you love words—and what NOOK owner doesn’t?—you’ll want to download Word Winder right away.

Perhaps your last book club meeting featured a few minutes of serious, literary discussion, followed by two hours of eating, drinking, and chewing the fat. I know that’s how most of my book club meetings play out.

In today’s Free Fridays selection, All Roads Lead to Austen by Amy Elizabeth Smith, the author injects a spirit of adventure into her book club quest—traveling across Latin America with a suitcase full of Jane Austen’s oeuvre, stopping along the way to set up local book clubs to spread the gospel of Jane.

Across the continent, Smith shares her love of Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice with taxi drivers and teachers, poets and politicians—and in turn sees her favorite books in a whole new way.

Whether you’re a world traveler or an armchair adventurer, you’ll find a lot to love in this endearing tale of a literary journey that leads to many unexpected places. You’ll come away wondering what the great Jane Austen herself would have thought about our intrepid narrator's unusual quest.

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Each week, we ask our featured author to recommend a book or author that you may want to check out. Since authors are such passionate readers themselves, we thought you might like to find out what they love to read, too! Here’s what Amy recommends:

I just loved Amanda Grange’s novel, Mr. Darcy, Vampyre. From the second I saw that it was dedicated to Catherine Morland—the clueless but loveable heroine of Austen’s Northanger Abbey—I knew it was going to be great. I felt as caught up in the book as Catherine was by her own favorite gothic novels. There’s romance, mystery, exotic travel—and of course, elegant (but dangerous!) vampires. Grange adds some intriguing elements to traditional vampire legends but never loses sight of the kind of classy, romantic story that Austen fans love. A real pleasure—fun, well written, and very engaging!

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“Ambitious, densely written, sometimes very funny, and fabulously over the top, here's a rare book that really could be the great American novel.” – Library Journal

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon always tackles big subjects in a uniquely relatable style. His novels—like The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Wonder Boys, and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union—feature larger-than-life characters who still feel completely human.

In his latest impressive effort, Telegraph Avenue, Chabon explores a wide range of social and cultural issues, with a small, struggling record store at  the metaphorical center. It’s 2004 at the crossroads of Berkeley and Oakland, where Brokeland Records is taking its last gasp. Vinyl records still have cache, but the sliver of profit margin may soon disappear, as a former football star promises to open a nearby chain store that would likely bankrupt Brokeland.

Subplots of race relations, political turmoil (this is, of course, the year of the Bush/Kerry election), lifelong friendships and unexpected family drama all play a part in this nostalgia-filled romp. In true Chabon style, you can expect plenty of pop-culture references and inventive asides that give this particular time and place a distinctive and palpable presence.

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The newest batch of NOOK First titles offers everything from an apocalyptic comedy of manners to a seaworthy pirate tale—in other words, there’s something here for just about everyone.

Dark Water

London Macabre  

A Fine and Dangerous Season  

by Keith Raffel

On an October morning in 1962 Nate Michaels receives a strange call requesting his presence in Washington DC. Hours later he is on a plane to meet with JFK to discuss top secret plans for defusing the situation in Cuba. Now it is up to Michaels to prevent the impending nuclear holocaust.  

Etiquette for the End of the World  

by Jeanne Martinet

In this apocalyptic comedy of manners Tess Eliot just got dumped and lost her job, she has to keep reminding herself that it isn't the end of the world, or so she thinks. When she is hired to write an etiquette guide for the end of the world, she bemoans the absurdity of her life, until she discovers a real plot for world destruction.  

Scarface

Ammey McKeaf

by Jane Shoup

 

At nineteen, Ammey McKeaf is a golden-haired beauty; daughter to the most revered General in Azulland. When the country is consumed by violence, Ammey is secreted away to the Vihlae Forest where she will discover powers she didn't know she possessed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Too Small for Tall

by Aaron Rosenberg

 

In this sequel to the hilarious science fiction novel No Small Bills, the aptly named DuckBob Spinowitz is settling into his new job as Guardian of the Matrix and his new friendship with the Man in Black he dubbed Tall. But when a gift/bribe from Tall has an unexpected effect on the dour government agent, it's up to DuckBob to figure out what's going on and save his friend and possibly the entire human race! Again! And all without leaving his couch! 

 

 

 

Once She Knew

by Sheila Connolly

 

Claire Hastings has retreated to an isolated cabin in Maine in midwinter to work on her book. Her solitude is disrupted when disgraced journalist and former fling Jonathan Daulton stumbles into her cabin late one night. Jonathan is suspected of killing an FBI agent, to protect Claire, he fakes her kidnapping in a desperate plot to save his name and prevent a terrorist attack. 

 

 

 

 

 

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While young readers have always stolen books from adults' shelves, hoping to glean insight into the grown-up world, ever since Harry Potter became a worldwide phenomenon, adults have been returning the favor. From Twilight, to Hunger Games, to The Mortal Instruments, bestselling YA titles have officially colonized the adult market, too.

So it’s no surprise that many of your favorite writers are now releasing books aimed at young adult readers. Even less surprisingly, many of these authors’ efforts are still attracting the adult readers who originally put them on bestseller lists. Here are a few of our favorite authors who’ve made the successful leap into young adult fiction.

If the name James Patterson doesn’t ring a bell, you probably haven’t stepped foot in a bookstore since the Nixon administration. Patterson is one of the bestselling and most prolific authors in history. After attracting young readers with his Witch & Wizard and Middle School series, later this month he’ll launch a new teen detective series with Confessions of a Murder Suspect.Get a free 25-chapter sample here.

Mystery writer Harlan Coben is no slouch either—with 50 million books sold worldwide, he’s one of today’s most popular mystery writers. In Shelter, readers follow high school transfer student Mickey as he searches for his missing girlfriend, only to find that the sweet, shy girl he thought he knew is mixed up in some very unsavory things.

#1 New York Times mystery writer Elizabeth George may have made her name with her UK-set Inspector Lynley mystery series, but this beloved author is American through-and-through. In her YA debut, The Edge of Nowhere, George sets the scene on intriguing Whidbey Island outside of Seattle. She combines mystery, paranormal elements and romance to create a haunting story that readers of any age will find compelling.

With her gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines novels, Jodi Picoult has enthralled a generation of readers. Now she’s teamed up with her teenage daughter, Samantha van Leer, to produce another page-turner: Between the Lines. Van Leer’s youthful influence comes through in this charming story of a young loner whose life takes on a new dimension when her favorite fairytale comes alive.

Finally, fans of impeccably told historical fiction will be elated to learn that Philippa Gregory—author of The Other Boleyn Girl—recently released her own YA adventure. In Changeling—the first romantic adventure in the Order of Darkness Series—two young Medieval outcasts are drawn together during a tumultuous time.

Free sample excerpts from these books are available on the product pages now.

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