Strange Lands: New Reads To Haunt Your Imagination

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Something wickedly good this way comes for Strange Landers this month, as we have some delightful new reads to haunt your imagination. Revisit the city of Ember as a graphic novel and experience the underground city like never before. Or if interstellar warfare is more your style, join up with the teen recon soliders of The Assault as they infiltrate invading alien forces. And to get you in the Halloween mood, we have a round-up of new releases that will leave your heart pounding from fear, romance, excitement, or all three at once.
Welcome to the great, underground city of Ember, designed as a last refuge for the human race. But when the storerooms run out of food and the lights begin to fail, it's up to Lina and Doon, to decipher the fragments of an ancient parchment and find a way out of Ember. The City of Ember, is a bona fide classic, with over 1.7 million copies sold. Now experience Jeanne DuPrau's vision anew as artist Niklas Asker faithfully brings to life the glare of the lamps, the dinginess of the streets, and the brilliance of the first sunrise. Start Reading Buy the Book
"This story has heart-pounding action from the get-go!" - Rachel "The Paladin Prophecy is a full on action movie where 'Bourne Identity' meets Harry Potter." - Jody Will West is careful to live life under the radar. At his parents' insistence, he's made sure to get mediocre grades and to stay in the middle of the pack on his cross-country team. Then Will slips up, accidentally scoring off the charts on a nationwide exam. Now Will is being courted by an exclusive prep school . . . and followed by men driving black sedans. When Will suddenly loses his parents, he must flee to the school. There he begins to explore all that he's capable of--physical and mental feats that should be impossible--and learns that his abilities are connected to a struggle between titanic forces that has lasted for millennia. Readers of I Am Number Four, The Maze Runner, and Legend will love this exciting new adventure series by the co-creator of the groundbreaking television show Twin Peaks, with its unique combination of mystery, heart-pounding action, and the supernatural. Start Reading Visit the Site Buy the Book
It's 2030, and humanity is losing the war against alien invaders. A Band of Brothers meets Ender's Game in this sci-fi military thriller. A team of six has been chosen . . . . . . to infiltrate the enemy's headquarters in the heart of the Australian Outback. The six teens have been modified to look like aliens. They have spent years mastering alien culture so that they can talk, act--even think--like their enemies. But from the start, the recon mission goes terribly wrong. It's only when they are close to discovering the shocking truth of the aliens' plans that the team is forced to ask: Who among them is a traitor? Brian Falkner, author of The Project, Brain Jack, and The Tomorrow Code, delivers a page-turning military thriller with his signature heart-pounding action and unique sci-fi twists. Start Reading Buy the Book
Beyond by Graham McNamee Jane is not your typical teen. Her own shadow seems to pull her into near-fatal accidents. Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan On remote Rollrock Island, men go to sea to make their livings—and to catch their wives. Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier Sixteen-year-old Neryn may be the key to ending an oppressive king's rule Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan The boy she thought was imaginary is real, and definitely and deliciously dangerous.

 
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