Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Lani Taylor

Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.

In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.

And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war.

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages—not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out.

When one of the strangers—beautiful, haunted Akiva—fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?

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Angry Young Man by Chris Lynch

Alexander - Xan - Is a misfit: an awkward loner, too sensitive to make it in the real world and too different to find a place for himself. 


His big brother, Robert, has got his life together.  He works at a garage, he's taking classes at the community college, and he has a girlfriend.  And even though he may be first in line to tear into Xan, he also always has his back. 


But when Xan's odd behavior begins to move to a dangerous extremism, Robert may be the only one who can save him before it's too late.  The question is, can Robert save himself?  


Award-winning author Christ Lynch has written a novel than will take readers on a gripping journey to the heart of the unthinkable.  


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