Shalador's Lady

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Brian DeLeeuw

Luke is six. He is a lonely child, but he has one friend, his best friend - Daniel - whom he met in the playground on the day his parents finalized their divorce. Only Luke can see Daniel. They play games together and Daniel watches over Luke; he is there when he first wakes up and there when he goes to sleep. Daniel's first memory is of Luke calling his name in the playground. Daniel is not an ordinary child. Luke's mother spends more and more time in her room, haunted by family memories. She takes Luke and Daniel from New York to a deserted beach town, as winter sets in. Daniel is changing. He feels faint, weightless. Luke seems forgetful of him. Time passes. Luke and Daniel have not seen each other for a long time. Until, one night, Daniel suddenly finds himself standing in Luke's bedroom, woken by the sound of breaking glass. He does not know how much time he has, but he knows how he can be saved. A frightening, gripping tale. This is one of the most fascinating and controlled first novels I've ever read - a sustained performance that hypnotizes and terrifies -- Edmund White. Original subversive, funny, twisted, and toatlly engrossing ... a mind-bending tour de force. I read the last page, flipped back to the beginning, and immediately started it again. -- Chelsea Cain. The relationship between Daniel and Luke is unique in the annals of literature. I haven't been this entertained by a debut novel in years -- Dale Peck.

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Colin Thompson

"The world is in a recession and millions of people have lost millions of dollars. And just when things are about to get even worse, Quicklime College sets up its Summer School in New York to take control of the world's financial markets. Being witches and wizards, of course, the Floods are bound to do a better job than humans. Millions of people will probably lose millions more dollars, but it will all work out fine in the the end. Well, for the Floods, anyway. Hey, come on. They're witches and wizards, not some sort of charity"--Page 4 of cover.

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Teresa Edgerton

Captain of the Queen's Guard Wilrowa Blackheart is given the task of regaining the jeweled Chaos Machine that holds the kingdom of Mountfalcon together. He discovers a conspiracy that threatens much more than just his kingdom.

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Gillian Neimark

**A ten-year-old is tasked with saving the world in this adventure novel that is “captivating, satisfying, and thrilling at the same time” (*Children’s Literature*).** It’s just another boring Wednesday in May for ten-year-old Flor Bernoulli of Brooklyn, New York. But it turns out to be a day like no other: She finds a mysterious key that gives her special superpowers, takes a journey across the ocean and through the Milky Way, and even meets her long-lost father. It all starts when her favorite neighborhood baker, the mysterious Dr. Pi, reveals that he is an ancient wizard, in charge of every single thing in the world that has the shape of a spiral—from seashells to galaxies to the inside of your ear. He needs her help to save the spiral from two strangers who have come to steal its power and destroy it. And so begins the magical adventure of a lifetime, where Flor learns that only she has the magic to keep the world spinning just as it should.