"The FitzOsbornes in Exile is a charming book with a surprisingly quirky and enjoyable narrator. I like how you learn so much history while reading the story-- it's hard to believe Montmaray and the FitzOsbornes aren't real." - Random Buzzer girlwizabook33

The FitzOsbornes in Exile combines the drama of pre-War Europe with the romance of posh, upper-class English society. Sophia FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Germans attacked in A Brief History of Montmaray, and now they find themselves in the lap of luxury. Sophie's journal fills us in on the social whirl of London in 1937; and while the balls and house parties go on, newspaper headlines scream of war in Spain and threats from Germany are abound. No one wants a second world war. With all Europe under attack, who will care about the fate of the FitzOsborne's tiny island kingdom? Will they ever be able to go home again? Could Montmaray be lost forever?

Learn more about the author, Michelle Cooper
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The final book in The Forest of Hands and Teeth trilogy. Set ten years after The Forest of Hands and Teeth and right after The Dead-Tossed Waves left off, the story is now told by Annah, the sister of Abigail and Gabry.

"Phew. Deep breaths. I just finished Carrie Ryan's newest installment of The Forest of Hands and Teeth series and realized that I hadn't taken one deep breath in a couple hours. How can you with action and stress and edge-of-seat plot twists and turns?" - Random Buzzer hderaps

Annah's world stopped the day Elias left her for the Recruiters...and she's been waiting for him to come home ever since. Somehow, without him, her life doesn't feel much different than the dead that roam the wasted city around her. Until she meets Catcher, and everything feels alive again. But Catcher has his own secrets. Dark, terrifying truths that link him to a past Annah has longed to forget, and to a future too deadly to consider. Now it's all up to Annah: can she continue to live in a world covered in the blood of the living? Or is death the only escape from the Return's destruction?

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Grace Carpenter would give anything to be like the beautiful Mandarin Ramey, who is known as a wild-girl around their small Wyoming town—shameless and utterly carefree. When they're united for a project, they form an unlikely, explosive friendship, packed with nights spent skinny-dipping in the canal, dancing in a cottonseed storm, and stealing the taxidermied trophy animal heads off the walls of the local supermarket—it feels like magic. But all too soon, Grace discovers Mandarin's unique beauty hides a girl who's troubled, broken, and even dangerous. And no matter how hard Grace fights to keep the magic, no friendship can withstand the ultimate betrayal.

As much as Mariamne wants to be in control of her own destiny, she has no such power. She must do as her father and brother see fit, and when tragedy strikes, Mari is forced to marry a man she does not love and enter a household where she is not welcome—for the good of her family. When she meets an Egyptian wisewoman who instructs her in the ways of the occult arts, she finds comfort in the spirit world. Here, Mari has power and is in control of her fate. Or is the magic controlling her?

This gripping portrait of one of the most misunderstood and controversial Biblical figures—Mary Magdalene—is the story of a young girl’s path through manipulation and possession, madness and healing, and a man that will change the world forever.

Learn more about the author, Beatrice Gormley
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