Tag: Whitney Award Winner

Wedding Cake by Josi S. Kilpack

Wedding Cake by Josi S. Kilpack

Didn’t I tell you you’d never be free of me? When Sadie Hoffmiller receives a threatening, anonymous text message just days before her wedding, she is determined not to let it interfere with the celebration she has carefully planned for months. But when the threat changes from a distant fear to a frightening reality, Sadie realizes just how much she is underestimated the situation. Desperate […]

December 30, 2014 / 1 Comment
The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon

The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon

If I tell you right up front, right in the beginning that I lost him, it will be easier for you to bear. You will know it’s coming, and it will hurt. But you’ll be able to prepare. Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death. They called him Baby […]

November 27, 2014 / 4 Comments
Softly Falling by Carla Kelly

Softly Falling by Carla Kelly

Surviving the winter may cost Lily her heart… Lovely Lily Branson, newly arrived from England, learns that her wayward father has lost his Wyoming Territory cattle ranch in a card game to the intense, hardworking Jack Sinclair, foreman on a nearby ranch. When a series of deadly winter storms sets in, Lily and Jack must work together to save the cattle and stay alive. There […]

November 20, 2014 / 2 Comments
Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe

Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe

YA Historical. 208 pages. Print, e-Book. It’s 1968, and war is not foreign to seventeen-year-old Ashe. His dogmatic, racist father married his passionate peace-activist mother when she became pregnant with him, and ever since, the couple, like the situation in Vietnam, has been engaged in a “senseless war that could have been prevented.” When his high school history teacher dares to teach the political realities […]

October 8, 2014 / 0 Comments
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry

There’s a murderer on the loose—but that doesn’t stop the girls of St. Etheldreda’s from attempting to hide the death of their headmistress in this rollicking farce. Set in 1890 England, the students of St. Etheldreda’s School for Girls face a bothersome dilemma. Their irascible headmistress, Mrs. Plackett, and her surly brother, Mr. Godding, have been most inconveniently poisoned at Sunday dinner. Pocked Louise suspects […]

September 25, 2014 / 2 Comments
Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White

Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White

The only fate that matters is the one you choose. Jessamin has been an outcast since she moved from her island home of Melei to the dreary country of Albion. Everything changes when she meets the gorgeous, enigmatic Finn, who introduces her to the secret world of Albion’s nobility, a world that has everything Jessamin doesn’t—power, money, status . . . and magic. But Finn […]

September 9, 2014 / 2 Comments
Becoming Lady Lockwood by Jennifer Moore

Becoming Lady Lockwood by Jennifer Moore

Amelia Beckett is delighted to be a widow. Married by proxy to a man she’d never met, Amelia recognizes that a fortuitous entry into widowhood frees her from meddlesome chaperones and matchmakers. Heiress to her mother’s sugar plantation in Jamaica, she happily anticipates working in a man’s world, with the additional credibility of her new title: Lady Lockwood. But with the arrival of Captain Sir […]

July 7, 2014 / 2 Comments
Stormlight Archive: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

Stormlight Archive: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

Six years ago, the Assassin in White, a hireling of the inscrutable Parshendi, assassinated the Alethi king on the very night a treaty between men and Parshendi was being celebrated. So began the Vengeance Pact among the highprinces of Alethkar and the War of Reckoning against the Parshendi. Now the Assassin is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling […]

March 4, 2014 / 1 Comment
Almost Super by Marion Jensen

Almost Super by Marion Jensen

On February 29th, at 4:23 p.m., everyone in the Bailey family over the age of twelve gets a superpower. No one knows why, and no one questions it. All the Baileys know is that it’s their duty to protect the world from those evil, supervillainous Johnsons. *shakes fists* Today, Rafter Bailey and his brother Benny are finally going to get their superpowers. Benny wants to […]

January 22, 2014 / 0 Comments

After Hello by Lisa Mangum

What if the first day of your relationship was the only day you had? Seventeen-year-old Sara is a seeker. She’s always on the lookout for the perfect moment to capture with her ever-present, point-and-shoot camera, especially on her first trip to New York City. Sam is a finder. He has a knack for finding what other people can’t—a first-edition book or the last two tickets […]

September 22, 2012 / 1 Comment