Title: Being Sixteen Author: Allyson Braithwaite Condie Publisher: Deseret Book Release Date: January 1, 2010 ISBN: 978-1606412336 Size: 248 pages, 6×9, softcover Genre: Young Adult The night of my sixteenth birthday, I didn’t even bother to make a wish when I blew out the candles on the cake. It was my sixteenth birthday, after all. My wishes had already come true. When you turn sixteen, […]
Title: Redemption Author: Susan Dayley Publisher: Walnut Springs Press Release Date: January 19, 2010 ISBN: 978-1935217503 Size: 209 pages, 6×9, softcover Genre: Historical It is the eighth century BC. No Hebrew will purposely venture into the Assyrian Empire, whose practice of barbarous slaughter casts a shadow of fear over all of Israel. But God calls Jonah, an Israelite prophet, to cry repentance to the evil […]
Title: Dispensation: Latter-Day Fiction Editor: Angela Hallstrom Publisher: Zarahemla Books Release Date: January 3, 2010 ISBN: 978-0984360307 Size: 482 pages, 5.5×8.5, softcover Genre: Short Story Anthology This book is not eligible for a Whitney Award. Read the Introduction here. Dispensation: Latter-day Fiction anthologizes the best Mormon short stories written near the turn of the twenty-first century. Each of the extraordinary twenty-eight stories in this volume […]
Title: Calamity Jack Author: Shannon Hale and Dean Hale Illustrator: Nathan Hale Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books Release Date: January 5, 2010 ISBN: 978-1599900766 Size: 144 pages, 8×11, hardcover Genre: YA; Graphic Novel Series: Rapunzel’s Revenge This book is not eligible for a Whitney Award. Jack likes to think of himself as a criminal mastermind…with an unfortunate amount of bad luck. A schemer, plotter, planner, […]
Title: Hashbrown Winters and the Mashimoto Madness Author: Frank L. Cole Publisher: Bonneville (CFI) Release Date: January 8, 2010 ISBN: 978-1599553788 Size: 128 pages, 5.5×8, softcover Genre: Middle Grade Series: The Adventures of Hashbrown Winters (v1) All Hashbrown Winters ever wanted was a simple life: a treehouse full of buddies, enough marbles to keep him occupied at recess, and a Brody the Ape-Slayer action figure […]
Title: A Tapestry of Spells (The Nine Kingdoms, v. 4) Author: Lynn Kurland Publisher: Berkley Trade Release Date: January 5, 2010 ISBN: 978-0425232132 Size: 368 pages, 5.5×8, softcover Genre: Fantasy Series: Star of the Morning (v1), The Mage’s Daughter (v2), Princess of the Sword (v3) Return to the world of the Nine Kingdoms with New York Times bestselling author Lynn Kurland as a new evil, […]
Title: Abish: Daughter of God Author: K.C. Grant Publisher: Covenant Release Date: January 1, 2010 ISBN: Size: 336 pages, 6×9, softcover Genre: Historical Every story must have a beginning. If mine were to be told, it would begin two lifetimes ago: before a queen gave me my freedom and I moved from land to land looking for a place where I belonged. It would begin […]
Title: The Dark Divine Author: Bree Despain Publisher: EgmontUSA Release Date: December 22, 2009 ISBN: 978-1606840573 Size: 384 pages, hardcover Genre: YA Paranormal Grace Divine, daughter of the local pastor, always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared–the night she found her brother Jude collapsed on the porch, covered in his own blood–but she has no idea what a truly monstrous secret that […]
Title: Hidden Empire Author: Orson Scott Card Publisher: TOR Release Date: December 22, 2009 ISBN: 978-0765320049 Size: 336 pages, hardcover Genre: Speculative Series: Empire (v1) The war of words between right and left collapsed into a shooting war, and raged between the high-technology weapons on each side, devastating cities and overrunning the countryside. At the close of Empire, political scientist and government adviser Averell Torrent […]
Title: Nexus Point Author: Jaleta Clegg Publisher: Altered Dimensions Release Date: November 30, 2009 ISBN: 978-1936021031 Size: 328 pages, 6×9, softcover Genre: Science Fiction Dace’s wants are simple—a trading ship and the freedom to fly where she chooses. But on her first trip, her crew betrays her, her ship explodes, and she finds herself stranded on Dadilan, a planet locked in a feudal age. Survival […]