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The
Message by Lisa Rusczyk
Release Date:
October 11
Publisher: Passionate
Writer Publishing
Description: I
came to this time through a time hole and I’m told I’m always in the present.
That’s what the Yar Sirray said. She also said the time holes were destroying
the Yars’ lives, that their world was plagued by them. They escaped and came
here. People in this time on Earth accept the Yars as companions, but I don’t
trust them. It’s something about their flat black eyes and sandy, scaly skin.
Their answers to my questions are half-truths. I can tell.
The people in
this time have the message, so they say. It makes them happy, peaceful, all
similar. They don’t know how it started. All they know is how it’s transmitted
- through bodily fluids. A simple kiss can do it. Azja seems different to me.
He’s not as confident, not as limited.
I want to go
home, away from the people and Yars with the message. I want to go back into
the past, to my time in the twentieth century. I think I found someone who can
help me, Leatherwood, but he seems to have plans of his own. Azja’s not the
only one who stands out from the others.
Something
about the message doesn’t seem right, but I can’t figure out what it is. I need
to leave this world before I give in to my desire for Azja. I can never so much
as kiss him or I will be infected too, and I don’t want that. Not right now, not
with what I am discovering about the Yars.
To Purchase: PassionateWriter Publishing
Tris
and Izzie by Mette Ivie Harrison
Release Date:
October 11
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Description: A
modern retelling of the German fairytale "Tristan and Isolde", Tris
and Izzie is about a young witch named Izzie who is dating Mark King, the
captain of the basketball team and thinks her life is going swimmingly well.
Until -- she makes a love potion for her best friend Brangane and then ends up
taking it herself accidentally, and falling in love with Tristan, the new guy
at school.
To Purchase:
Amazon
Without
Tess by Marchella Pixley
Release Date:
October 11
Publisher: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux
Description: Tess
and Lizzie are sisters, sisters as close as can be, who share a secret world
filled with selkies, flying horses, and a girl who can transform into a
wolf in the middle of the night. But
when Lizzie is ready to grow up, Tess clings to their fantasies. As Tess sinks
deeper and deeper into her delusions, she decides that she can’t live in the
real world any longer and leaves Lizzie and her family forever. Now, years
later, Lizzie is in high school and struggling to understand what happened to
her sister. With the help of a school psychologist and Tess’s battered journal,
Lizzie searches for a way to finally let Tess go.
To Purchase:
Amazon
Ashfall
by Mike Mullin
Release Date:
October 14
Publisher: Tanglewood
Press
Description: Under
the bubbling hot springs and geysers of Yellowstone National Park is a
supervolcano. Most people don't know it's there. The caldera is so large that
it can only be seen from a plane or satellite. It just could be overdue for an
eruption, which would change the landscape and climate of our planet.
Ashfall is
the story of Alex, a teenage boy left alone for the weekend while his parents
visit relatives. When the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts unexpectedly, Alex is
determined to reach his parents. He must travel over a hundred miles in a
landscape transformed by a foot of ash and the destruction of every modern
convenience that he has ever known, and through a new world in which disaster
has brought out both the best and worst in people desperate for food, water,
and warmth. With a combination of nonstop action, a little romance, and very
real science, this is a story that is difficult to stop reading and even more
difficult to forget.
To Purchase: Amazon
