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"Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among
us?""
"Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and
shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is
pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with
speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch
is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy
obsession with the occult.
Evie worries he'll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural
power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police
find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is
called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a
serial killer.
As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories
unfurl in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is
caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running
from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And
unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened....
Printz Award-winning and "New York Times" bestselling author Libba
Bray opens a brand-new historical series with "The Diviners," where
the glittering surface of the Roaring Twenties hides a mystical
horror creeping across the country.
After the horrifying explosion that claimed one of their own, the
Diviners find themselves wanted by the US government, and on the
brink of war with the King of Crows. While Memphis and Isaiah run
for their lives from the mysterious Shadow Men, Isaiah receives a
startling vision of a girl, Sarah Beth Olson, who could shift the
balance in their struggle for peace. Sarah Beth says she knows how
to stop the King of Crows-but, she will need the Diviners' help to
do it. Elsewhere, Jericho has returned after his escape from Jake
Marlowe's estate, where he has learned the shocking truth behind
the King of Crow's plans. Now, the Diviners must travel to
Bountiful, Nebraska, in hopes of joining forces with Sarah Beth and
to stop the King of Crows and his army of the dead forever. But as
rumors of towns becoming ghost towns and the dead developing
unprecedented powers begin to surface, all hope seems to be lost.
In this sweeping finale, The Diviners will be forced to confront
their greatest fears and learn to rely on one another if they hope
to save the nation, and world from catastrophe...
The Diviners are back in this thrilling and eerie third installment
by #1 New York Timesbestselling author Libba Bray. New York City.
1927. Lights are bright. Jazz is king. Parties are wild. And the
dead are coming... After battling a supernatural sleeping sickness
that early claimed two of their own, the Diviners have had enough
of lies. They're more determined than ever to uncover the mystery
behind their extraordinary powers, even as they face off against an
all-new terror. Out on Ward's Island, far from the city's bustle,
sits a mental hospital haunted by the lost souls of people long
forgotten--ghosts who have unusual and dangerous ties to the man in
the stovepipe hat, also known as the King of Crows. With terrible
accounts of murder and possession flooding in from all over, and
New York City on the verge of panic, the Diviners must band
together and brave the sinister ghosts invading the asylum, a fight
that will bring them fact-to-face with the King of Crows. But as
the explosive secrets of the past come to light, loyalties and
friendships will be tested, love will hang in the balance, and the
Diviners will question all that they've ever known. All the while,
malevolent forces gather from every corner in a battle for the very
soul of a nation--a fight that could claim the Diviners themselves.
Heart-pounding action and terrifying moments will leave you
breathless in the third book of the four-book Diviners series by #1
New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray.
It's 1920s New York City. It's flappers and Follies, jazz and gin.
It's after the war but before the depression. And for certain group
of bright young things it's the opportunity to party like never
before. For Evie O'Neill, it's escape. She's never fit in in small
town Ohio and when she causes yet another scandal, she's shipped
off to stay with an uncle in the big city. But far from being
exile, this is exactly what she's always wanted: the chance to show
how thoroughly modern and incredibly daring she can be. But New
York City isn't about just jazz babies and follies girls. It has a
darker side. Young women are being murdered across the city. And
these aren't crimes of passion. They're gruesome. They're planned.
They bear a strange resemblance to an obscure group of tarot cards.
And the New York City police can't solve them alone. Evie wasn't
just escaping the stifling life of Ohio, she was running from the
knowledge of what she could do. She has a secret. A mysterious
power that could help catch the killer - if he doesn't catch her
first.
After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill
has outed herself as a Diviner. Now that the world knows of her
ability to 'read' objects, and therefore, read the past, she has
become a media darling, earning the title, 'America's Sweetheart
Seer'. But not everyone is so accepting of the Diviners' abilities
. . . Meanwhile, mysterious deaths have been turning up in the
city, victims of an unknown sleeping sickness. Can the Diviners
descend into the dreamworld and catch a killer?
Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and
shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is
pos-i-toot-ly thrilled. New York is the city of speakeasies,
shopping, and movie palaces Soon enough, Evie is running with
glamorous Ziegfield girls and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is
Evie has to live with her Uncle Will, curator of The Museum of
American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult--also known as "The
Museum of the Creepy Crawlies."
When a rash of occult-based murders comes to light, Evie and her
uncle are right in the thick of the investigation. And through it
all, Evie has a secret: a mysterious power that could help catch
the killer--if he doesn't catch her first.
From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, a desert
island classic.
Survival. Of the fittest.
The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this
was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in
their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the
cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another idea, crashing on a
desert island and leaving the survivors stranded with little food,
little water, and practically no eyeliner.
What's a beauty queen to do? Continue to practice for the talent
portion of the program - or wrestle snakes to the ground? Get a
perfect tan - or learn to run wild? And what should happen when the
sexy pirates show up?
Welcome to the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Your tour guide?
None other than Libba Bray, the hilarious, sensational, Printz
Award-winning author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Going
Bovine. The result is a novel that will make you laugh, make you
think, and make you never see beauty the same way again.
"Can Cameron find what he's looking for?
"All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school--and
life in general--with a minimum of effort. It's not a lot to ask.
But that's before he's given some bad news: he's sick and he's
going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form
of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad
sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure--if he's willing to go
in search of it. With the help of a death-obsessed, video-gaming
dwarf and a yard gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road
trips through a twisted America into the heart of what matters
most.
"From the Hardcover edition."
Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence
Academy--spending time with her friends in the city, attending
balls in fancy gowns with plunging necklines, and dallying with the
handsome Lord Denby. Yet amid these distractions, her visions
intensify--visions of three girls dressed in white, to whom
something horrific has happened that only the realms can explain.
The lure is strong, and soon Gemma, Felicity, and Ann are turning
flowers into butterflies in the enchanted world that Gemma takes
them to. To the girls' great joy, their beloved Pippa is there as
well, eager to complete their circle of friendship.
But all is not well in the realms--or out. Kartik is back,
desperately insisting to Gemma that she must bind the magic, lest
colossal disaster befall her. Gemma is willing to comply, for this
would bring her face-to-face with her late mother's greatest
friend, now Gemma's foe--Circe. Until Circe is destroyed, Gemma
cannot live out her destiny. But finding Circe proves a most
perilous task. . . .
This sumptuous companion to "A Great and Terrible Beauty "teems
with Victorian thrills and chills that play out against the rich
backdrop of 1895 London, a place of shadows and light . . . where
inside great beauty can lie a rebel angel.
Anything is possible. From We Need Diverse Books fifteen
award-winning and celebrated diverse authors deliver stories about
a princess without need of a prince, a monster long misunderstood,
memories that vanish with a spell, and voices that refuse to stay
silent in the face of injustice. Alucard and Prince Rhy's
relationship in V.E. Schwab's Shades of Magic series is finally
revealed, Anna-Marie McLemore gives "Cinderella" a trans retelling,
while letters supernaturally cross borders between Gaza and
California in Tochi Onyebuchi's "Habibi". Close your eyes. Make a
wish. The universe is yours for the taking.
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