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Flavor of the week:
Strange the Dreamer
Laini Taylor
Series: Strange the Dreamer #1
Publication date: March 28th 2017
by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
A new epic fantasy by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.
The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around— and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance to lose his dream forever.
What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? What exactly did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving?
The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries—including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? and if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real?
In this sweeping and breathtaking new novel by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, the shadow of the past is as real as the ghosts who haunt the citadel of murdered gods. Fall into a mythical world of dread and wonder, moths and nightmares, love and carnage.
Welcome to Weep.
Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *
– The Breaking Light (Split City #1) by Heather Hansen [Purchase]
– From Ant to Eagle by Alex Lyttle [Purchase]
– Dirty Filthy Rich Men (Dirty Duet #1) by Laurelin Paige [Purchase]
– Radio Silence by Alice Oseman [Purchase]
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– The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck [Purchase]
– Vigilante by Kady Cross [Purchase]
– Almost Missed You by Jessica Strawser [Purchase]
– The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi [Purchase]
– Things I Should Have Known by Claire LaZebnik [Purchase]
– 100 Hours (100 Hours #1) by Rachel Vincent [Purchase]
– Dead Little Mean Girl by Eva Darrows [Purchase]
– Honestly Ben (Openly Straight #2) by Bill Konigsberg [Purchase]
– Just Fly Away by Andrew McCarthy [Purchase]
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– The Secret Science of Magic by Melissa Keil [Purchase]
– The Body Market (The Wired #2) by Donna Freitas [Purchase]
– Overturned by Lamar Giles [Purchase]
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– In Plain Sight by Laura Langston [Purchase]
– Dream Forever (Dream Walker #3) by Kit Alloway [Purchase]
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– Just Another Girl by Elizabeth Eulberg [Purchase]
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– Bull by David Elliott [Purchase]
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– The Young Persons’ Guide to the Modern World by Richard Daniel Curtis [Purchase]
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Rebecca
I want that new Laini Taylor book so much. I loved her other series – it was so memorable. I still dream of Akiva.
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ShootingStarsMag
Nice mix of books coming out! Thanks for sharing. I really want to read Strange the Dreamer.
-Lauren