New Releases: 9/4/2012

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Gunslinger Girl Omnibus 5 story and art by Yu Aida

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YA Collection Sweepstakes

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More giveaways:

• John Scalzi Collection Sweepstakes (Ends 5/4)
• Island Apart by Steven Raichlen (Ends 5/4)
• Redshirts by John Scalzi (Ends 5/4)
• Existence by David Brin (Ends 5/4)
• Indigo Springs by A.M. Dellamonica (Ends 5/4)
• Blue Magic by A.M. Dellamonica (Ends 5/4)
• A Game of Lies by Rebecca Cantrell (Ends 5/8)
• Earthseed by Pamela Sargent (Ends 5/25)
• Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston (Ends 6/8)
• The Coldest War by Ian Tregellis (Ends 6/8)
• Dark Companion by Marta Acosta (Ends 6/8)
• Thieftaker by D.B. Jackson (Ends 6/8)
• Queen’s Hunt by Beth Bernobich (Ends 6/8)
• The Hollow City by Dan Wells (Ends 6/8)
• Wake of the Bloody Angel by Alex Bledsoe (Ends 6/8)
• A City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell (Ends 6/8)
• A Dog’s Journey Sweepstakes (includes $200 PetSmart Gift Card) (Ends 6/15)

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The Amelia Bloomer Project – Recommended for 2011

For The Win by Cory Doctorow and Libyrinth by Pearl North have been included in the list of Recommended Titles for 2011 by The Amelia Bloomer Project.

“As we honor strong, powerful girls and the books that inspire them, the Amelia Bloomer Project celebrates 2010, a year that has sounded a call to action for multiple generations of feminists to work together and reflected diversity of culture and format.”
-from The Amelia Bloomer Project

The Amelia Bloomer Project is part of the Feminist Task Force of the American Library Association’s Social Responsibility Round Table.  To find out more about this organization, visit their blog and check out the other great books being recommended for your 2011 reading.

New Releases: 11/9

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Wicked City: The Scarlet Clan by Hideyuki Kikuchi

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Sweepstakes: 25 Fantasy Books from Tor

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Chapter previews from some of our upcoming November releases

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The Barsoom Project by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes

Why I Love Libyrinth by Pearl North

By Jim Frenkel, Senior Editor

Young Adult fiction has always been near and dear to my heart. When I was a kid, I was one of those nerds (we hadn’t progressed to geeks yet) who would go to the library, take out a big stack of books, read them in a week and exchange them for another big stack.

There was always a problem with this: not nearly enough science fiction in the YA section. As the librarians got to know me, they started letting me take out books from the adult section. There weren’t enough SF books in the adult section either (and it was harder to find them, because I didn’t know the names of all the good SF writers), but I was a compulsive reader who gobbled up all sorts of books—biographies, history, mysteries, and other books. I just loved to read…and I’ve never lost that love.

So when I got the manuscript for a novel called Libyrinth—a place containing all the books ever published on Earth—I was intrigued by the idea. The idea of a library—a mysterious, huge, labyrinthine building—with everything was just…delicious.

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