A blog for young readers (and YA lovers) from the Providence Athenaeum.
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What’s New: Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
New to the Athenaeum’s YA corner is Clockwork Princess, the third and final book in Cassandra Clare’s Victorian-era Infernal Devices series. From goodreads:
Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment in the breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy.
Tessa Gray should be happy - aren’t all brides happy? Yet as she prepares for her wedding, a net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute.
A new demon appears, one linked by blood and secrecy to Mortmain, the man who plans to use his army of pitiless automatons, the Infernal Devices, to destroy the Shadowhunters. Mortmain needs only one last item to complete his plan. He needs Tessa. And Jem and Will, the boys who lay equal claim to Tessa’s heart, will do anything to save her.
Longtime fans of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices series are certainly familiar with the High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane. And now, Clare is giving readers the opportunity to learn even more about the immortal warlock with The Bane Chronicles, a special short-story e-serialization.
Find out more at EW.com
Installment #1 is available on Tuesday April 16th, 2013.
Here’s the schedule for the release of The Bane Chronicles:
No. 2: May 21, 2013
No. 3: June 18, 2013
No. 4: July 23, 2013
No. 5: Aug. 20, 2013
No. 6: Sept. 17, 2013
No. 7: Oct. 15, 2013
No. 8: Nov. 19, 2013
No. 9: Dec. 17, 2013
No. 10: Dec. 31, 2013
Happy Saturday! Have you seen the trailer for City of Bones, based on the first book in Cassandra Clare’s smash YA series The Mortal Instruments? The film is not set to hit theaters until August 2013, but that gives you plenty of time to check out the series (and the companion series set in steampunky Victorian England, The Infernal Devices) at your library before the hold lists get too long!
We read, if we love books, because there is no one among us who hasn’t had a book or a character in a book pick up the fragmented pieces of our broken hearts and glue them back together just by being like us.
Cassandra Clare
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What’s New: Zombies vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier
Currently on the New YA Bookshelf is Zombies vs. Unicorns, a very entertaining collection featuring some of the YA world’s bestselling and most beloved authors. From editor Holly Black’s official website:
It’s a question as old as time itself: which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? In this anthology, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier (unicorn and zombie, respectively), strong arguments are made for both sides in the form of short stories. Half of the stories portray the strengths—for good and evil—of unicorns and half show the good (and really, really bad-ass) side of zombies. Contributors include many bestselling teen authors, including Cassandra Clare, Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson, Meg Cabot, Scott Westerfeld, and Margo Lanagan. This anthology will have everyone asking: Team Zombie or Team Unicorn?
My personal favorites from each category were Diana Peterfreund’s The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn and Libba Bray’s Prom Night. This anthology joins the Athenaeum just in time for the RI 2012 Summer Reading theme, Own the Night. Visit the Ath and devour a few stories!
What’s New: The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare
Currently on the New YA Bookshelf, the first two books of Cassanda Clare’s Infernal Devices trilogy, Clockwork Angel and Clockwork Prince. The third, Clockwork Princess, comes out in 2013. From the official website:
When 16-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London’s Downworld,where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos.
Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What’s more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa’s power for his own.
Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by—and torn between—two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm’s length… everyone, that is, but Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world… and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.
