Libba Bray, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-73028-0
In the opening scene of Bray's riveting debut novel set in Victorian times, narrator Gemma Doyle walks the streets of Bombay, India, with her mother on her 16th birthday. By the end of the second chapter, her mother, who has told Gemma to return
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Libba Bray, Author . Delacorte $8.95 (403p) ISBN 978-0-385-73231-4
In a starred review, PW
called this debut novel set in Victorian times "riveting." When the 16-year-old narrator's mother dies, the teen envisions how it happened, then finds herself en route to a British boarding school. "The pace
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Libba Bray, Author . Delacorte $23.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-385-73029-7
Although Bray's follow-up to A Great and Terrible Beauty
feels a bit like a bridge between the launch and the next installment in her series, fans of the author's first novel will nonetheless remain enthralled by Gemma Doyle's latest...
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Libba Bray, Author . Delacorte
, $ 17.99 (820p) ISBN (819p) ISBN 978-0-385-73030-3
The concluding volume in the trilogy begun in A Great and Terrible Beauty
is a huge work of massive ambition, an undertaking that involves the plaiting and tying off a dozen plot threads—impending war in the realms and heroine Gemma Doyle̵
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Libba Bray, Author . Delacorte $17.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-385-73397-7
Cameron Smith, 16, is slumming through high school, overshadowed by a sister “pre-majoring in perfection,” while working (ineptly) at the Buddha Burger. Then something happens to make him the focus of his family's attention: he...
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Libba Bray. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-439-89597-2
Bray follows her Printz Award–winner, Going Bovine, with an only slightly less absurd premise in this out-there satire about a planeload of teen beauty queens who crash onto a (not so) deserted island. Lord of the Flies with an evening gown...
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Libba Bray. Little, Brown, $19.99 (608p) ISBN 978-0-316-12611-3
Evie O’Neill has a neat-o party trick: she can uncover details about people by holding any object that belongs to them. After one too many tumblers of gin, she uses this skill to out the sexual misadventures of a prominent bachelor in her Ohio...
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Libba Bray. Little, Brown, $19 (624p) ISBN 978-0-316-12604-5
Bray illuminates the dark side of the American Dream in her long-awaited sequel to The Diviners (2012), weaving xenophobia, industrial progress, Jazz Age debauchery, government secrets, religious fervor, and supernatural horror into a sprawling and...
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Libba Bray, read by January LaVoy. Listening Library, unabridged, 15 CDs, 18 hrs., $60 ISBN 978-0-449-80873-3
After committing a small indiscretion, Evie O’Neill couldn’t be happier when her parents exile her from small-town Ohio to live with her uncle in 1920s New York City. A life of fashion, speakeasies, dancing, and music is exactly what 17-year-old...
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Libba Bray, Author, Joanna Wyatt, Read by , read by Jo Wyatt. Listening Library $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-2386-4
British actress Wyatt has already proved herself keenly adept at handling a complex audiobook role, as Lyra in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. Here, she effortlessly becomes 16-year-old Gemma, a 19th-century British girl who finds...
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Peter Abrahams, Author, Libba Bray, Author, David Levithan, Author Laura Geringer Book $16.99 (227p) ISBN 978-0-06-137076-2
Invited by editor Laura Geringer to write about ""a single night that matters""-about a character kept up all night and transformed by his or her vigil-six authors contribute six stunning stories. Varied in form and content, these entries share a...
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Jonathan Strahan. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $19.99 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-59780-345-8
Strahan’s sixth annual genre-spanning anthology lacks the clarity (or perhaps narrowness) of purpose of a series focusing solely on fantasy or SF, but the 31 selections demonstrate a knowledge of and affection for the fantastic that rival editors...
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Libba Bray. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-37438-894-2
Three generations of teens find themselves while fighting for change in this inspiring historical mystery from Bray (the Diviners series). It’s 1939 in Kleinwald, Germany, and best friends Hanna and Sophie would rather fantasize about an ancient...
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