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The Winner’s Curse
Marie Rutkoski
Series: The Winner’s Trilogy #1
Publication date: March 4th 2014
by Farrar Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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Winning what you want may cost you everything you love

As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions.

One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction. Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him—with unexpected consequences. It’s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin.

But he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much higher than she ever could have imagined.

Set in a richly imagined new world, The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski is a story of deadly games where everything is at stake, and the gamble is whether you will keep your head or lose your heart.

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *

– Four Years Later (One Week Girlfriend Quartet #4) by Monica Murphy [Purchase]
– 16 Things I Thought Were True by Janet Gurtler [Purchase]
– Crashed (The Driven Trilogy #3) by K. Bromberg [Purchase]
– Let the Storm Break (Sky Fall #2) by Shannon Messenger [Purchase]

– The Bastards and the Knives (Gentleman Bastard 0) by Scott Lynch [Purchase]
– Enjoy Your Stay (Sugartown #2) by Carmen Jenner [Purchase]
– Toxic (Ruin #2) by Rachel Van Dyken [Purchase]
– Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive #2) by Brandon Sanderson [Purchase]

– Death Sworn (Death Sworn #1) by Leah Cypess [Purchase]
– Half Bad (Half Life Trilogy #1) by Sally Green [Purchase]
– Deceiving Lies (Forgiving Lies #2) by Molly McAdams [Purchase]
– Dangerous by Shannon Hale [Purchase]

– Murder of Crows (The Others #2) by Anne Bishop [Purchase]
– Safe with Me by Amy Hatvany [Purchase]
– The Moon Sisters by Therese Walsh [Purchase]
– Best Kind of Broken (Finding Fate #1) by Chelsea Fine [Purchase]

– Searching for Beautiful by Nyrae Dawn [Purchase]
– The Finisher by David Baldacci [Purchase]
– The Assassin’s Blade (Throne of Glass 0.1-0.5) by Sarah J. Maas [Purchase]
– A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier [Purchase]

– The Mapmaker’s Daughter by Laurel Corona [Purchase]
– Fallen Beauty by Erika Robuck [Purchase]
– Above by Isla Morley [Purchase]
– Half-Off Ragnarok (InCryptid #3) by Seanan McGuire [Purchase]

– Precious Thing by Colette McBeth [Purchase]
– Uganda Be Kidding Me by Chelsea Handler [Purchase]
– Nil by Lynne Matson [Purchase]
– Gemini by Carol Cassella [Purchase]

– Black Moon by Kenneth Calhoun [Purchase]
– Beyond Me (Sex on the Beach) by Jennifer Probst
– Til Death (Fractured Souls #1) by Kate Evangelista [Purchase]
– The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld [Purchase]

– Wicked Little Secrets (Prep School Confidential #2) by Kara Taylor [Purchase]
– Shattered (Slated #3) by Teri Terry [Purchase]
– Savage Girl by Jean Zimmerman [Purchase]
– Wayfarer (Tales of Beauty & Madness #2) by Lili St. Crow [Purchase]

– Night Broken (Mercy Thompson #8) by Patricia Briggs [Purchase]
– Some like It Wild (The Wild Ones #2) by M. Leighton [Purchase]
– Clipped Wings (Clipped Wings #1) by Helena Hunting [Purchase]
– The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare (Alex Wayfare #1) by M.G. Buehrlen [Purchase]

– The Nightmare Dilemma (The Arkwell Academy #2) by Mindee Arnett [Purchase]
– The Haven by Carol Lynch Williams [Purchase]
– Panic by Lauren Oliver [Purchase]
– Steadfast (Spellcaster #2) by Claudia Gray [Purchase]

– The Violet Hour by Whitney A. Miller [Purchase]
– Exposure: A Virals Novel (Virals #4) by Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs [Purchase]
– Hung Up by Kristen Tracy [Purchase]
– Cured (Stung #2) by Bethany Wiggins [Purchase]

– Divergent Thinking: YA Authors on Veronica Roth’s Divergent Trilogy by Leah Wilson [Purchase]
– The Blue-Haired Boy by Courtney C. Stevens [Purchase]
– Donna of the Dead by Alison Kemper

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