New Books this Week...

Scarlet By: A.C. Gaughen

Posing as one of Robin Hood’s thieves to avoid the wrath of the evil Thief Taker Lord Gisbourne, Scarlet has kept her identity secret from all of Nottinghamshire. Only the Hood and his band know the truth: the agile thief posing as a whip of a boy is actually a fearless young woman with a secret past. Helping the people of Nottingham outwit the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham could cost Scarlet her life as Gisbourne closes in.  It’s only her fierce loyalty to Robin—whose quick smiles and sharp temper have the rare power to unsettle her—that keeps Scarlet going and makes this fight worth dying for.
Release Date: February 14, 2012

Arcadia Awakens By: Kai Meyer

To Rosa, the exotic world of Sicily, with its network of Mafia families and its reputation for murder and intrigue, is just that, exotic and wholly unknown. But when her life in Brooklyn begins to fall apart, she must travel there, where centuries of family secrets await her.  Once there, Rosa falls head over heels for Alessandro, whose handsome looks and savage grace both fascinate and unsettle her. But their families are sworn enemies, and her aunt and sister believe Alessandro is only using Rosa to infiltrate the Alcantara clan. And when Rosa encounters a tiger one night, a tiger with very familiar eyes,she can no longer deny that things are what they seem.
Release Date: February 14, 2012

Bewitching By: Alex Flinn
I go to a new school now, one where no one knows that I should have graduated long ago. I’m not still here because I’m stupid; I just don’t age.  You see, I’m immortal. And I pretty much know everything after hundreds of years, except for when to take my powers and butt out.  I want to help, but things just go awry in ways I could never predict. Like when I tried to free some children from a gingerbread house. And when I tried to play matchmaker for a French prince and ended up banished from France forever. Now a girl named Emma needs me. I probably shouldn’t get involved, but her gorgeous stepsister is conniving to the core. I think I have just the thing to fix that girl...
Release Date: February 14, 2012

The Vanishing Game By: Kate Kae Myers

Jocelyn's twin brother Jack was the only family she had growing up in a world of foster homes-and now he's dead, and she has nothing. Then she gets a cryptic letter from "Jason December"-the code name her brother used to use when they were children at Seale House, a terrifying foster home that they believed had dark powers. Only one other person knows about Jason December: Noah, Jocelyn's childhood crush and their only real friend among the troubled children at Seale House.  But when Jocelyn returns to Seale House and the city where she last saw Noah, she gets more than she bargained for.
Release Date: February 14, 2012






BOOKS RELEASING NEXT WEEK:

Fever By: Lauren DeStefano (Chemical Garden #2)
Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago - surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness.  The two are determined to get to Manhattan, to relative safety with Rhine’s twin brother, Rowan. But the road there is long and perilous - and in a world where young women only live to age twenty and young men die at twenty-five, time is precious.
Release Date: February 21, 2012

Faery Tales & Nightmares By: Melissa Marr
Dangerous promises and beguiling threats swirl together in a dozen stories of enchantments dark and light by Melissa Marr. Uncanny and unexpected creatures appear from behind bushes, rise from beneath the seas, or manifest from seasonal storms to pursue the objects of their attention—with amorous or sinister intent—relentlessly.  From the gentle tones of a storyteller’s cadences to the terror of a blood sacrifice, tales of favorite characters from Marr’s Wicked Lovely novels mix with accounts of new characters for readers to fall in love with...or to fear.  Lush, seductive, and chilling, Melissa's stories revel in the unseen magic that infuses the world as we know it.
Release Date: February 21, 2012