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Don Winslow, SAVAGES
Simon & Schuster, $25.00
Chon and Ben are best friends who share both a lucrative marijuana business in Laguna Beach, Calif., and a girlfriend, Ophelia – "O" for short. When the Mexican Baja Cartel sends them a threatening email with photos of decapitated drug dealers, Ben and Chon still refuse to sell their infamous product to them. When the Baja Cartel kidnaps O, Ben and Chon must devise clever schemes to get her back. This hilarious and dark stand–alone by Winslow keeps the plot moving forward by dynamic dialogue and sharp language.
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MICHAEL KORYTA drops in to sign SO COLD THE RIVER
Little, Brown, $24.99
Rejected by Hollywood, filmmaker Eric Shaw makes family home videos to survive. After a successful memorial film project, a client hires him to travel to West Baden, Indiana to create a video history of her wealthy father–in–law, Campbell Bradford, and his hometown. She leaves him with a relic of Campbell's former life: an antique water bottle. When Eric arrives to West Baden, he experiences horrific hallucinations and encounters the dark past of this former resort town – its mineral springs known for its curative powers. With his crisp descriptions and well–developed characters, Koryta transports you to this creepy rural town. SO COLD THE RIVER will bring chills on late summer nights when you're wide–awake reading this book.
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Jane Yolen and Mike Cavallaro (illustrator), FOILED
First Second, $15.99 (unsigned trade paperback original). Ages 12 and up.
15–year–old Aliera Carstairs is an expert fencer and loner at Hallowell High School. Her school days are typical with homework and fencing practice; her weekends are spent with her cousin playing fantasy roleplay games. When Avery, the most popular boy at school and her biology lab partner, asks her out on a date, Aliera is both shocked and pleased. Before she meets up with Avery for her very first date at Grand Central Station, she's confronted by a fantasy world of fairies, ogres and a golden queen who reveals Aliera's true destiny. This wonderfully expressive graphic novel will immerse readers in the beauty, tension and adventure of both fencing and growing up. Aliera is definitely a hero I'm rooting for; I can't wait until the next installment!
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LOLA, A GHOST STORY by J. Torres & Elbert Or (graphic novel)
Oni Press, $14.95 (unsigned hardcover first edition). Ages 12 and Up.
Jesse is haunted by visions of monsters, demons and ghosts – a gift he's inherited from his grandmother in the Philippines. When Jesse travels with his family to attend her funeral, he encounters old ghost stories of demon–possessed pigs, ogres living in trees, among other horrific creatures. When Jesse meets the ghost of Jon, his deceased young cousin, he realizes he must confront his own strange power. This graphic novel ghost story is a wonderfully spooky tale of coming home, perfect for middle school and up.