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Flavor of the week:

The Walls Around Us
Nova Ren Suma
Publication date: March 24th 2015
by Algonquin Young Readers

Goodreads Purchase

“Ori’s dead because of what happened out behind the theater, in the tunnel made out of trees. She’s dead because she got sent to that place upstate, locked up with those monsters. And she got sent there because of me.”

The Walls Around Us is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices—one still living and one long dead. On the outside, there’s Violet, an eighteen-year-old dancer days away from the life of her dreams when something threatens to expose the shocking truth of her achievement. On the inside, within the walls of a girls’ juvenile detention center, there’s Amber, locked up for so long she can’t imagine freedom. Tying these two worlds together is Orianna, who holds the key to unlocking all the girls’ darkest mysteries.

We hear Amber’s story and Violet’s, and through them Orianna’s, first from one angle, then from another, until gradually we begin to get the whole picture—which is not necessarily the one that either Amber or Violet wants us to see.

Nova Ren Suma tells a supernatural tale of guilt and innocence, and what happens when one is mistaken for the other.

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *

– The Precious One by Marisa de los Santos [Purchase]
– Catalyst (Control #2) by Lydia Kang [Purchase]
– We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach [Purchase]
– After Dark (Night Owl #3) by M. Pierce [Purchase]

– Liars, Inc. by Paula Stokes [Purchase]
– Manwhore (Manwhore #1) by Katy Evans [Purchase]
– In the Time of Dragon Moon (Wilde Island Chronicles #3) by Janet Lee Carey [Purchase]
– Boarding School Girls: A Novel (Stella 0) by Helen Eve [Purchase]

– The Stranger by Harlan Coben [Purchase]
– Guardians (Wasteland #3) by Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan [Purchase]
– Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed [Purchase]
– Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You by Todd Hasak-Lowy [Purchase]

– Finding Mr. Brightside by Jay Clark [Purchase]
– A Reunion Of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell [Purchase]
– Half Wild (The Half Bad Trilogy #2) by Sally Green [Purchase]
– Boys Don’t Knit (Boys Don’t Knit #1) by T.S. Easton [Purchase]

– The Year We Sailed the Sun by Theresa Nelson [Purchase]
– Dark Alchemy by Laura Bickle [Purchase]
– Claimed (Servants of Fate #2) by Sarah Fine [Purchase]
– Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly [Purchase]

– Jinx’s Fire (Jinx #3) by Sage Blackwood [Purchase]
– Behind the Counselor’s Door: Teenagers’ True Confessions, Trials, and Triumphs [Purchase]
– The Tightrope Walkers by David Almond [Purchase]
– The Lost Boys Symphony by Mark Andrew Ferguson [Purchase]

– The Haunting of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie and Alyssa B. Sheinmel [Purchase]
– The Door in the Moon (Chronoptika #3) by Catherine Fisher [Purchase]

Will any of these be your first spring purchase?

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