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In a time where people are speaking out and not letting anyone stop them or bring them down, it is more important than ever to find the trailblazers of the past and make your own path into the future. History repeats itself. Over the centuries, women and their rights and ideas have been squashed time and again. Yet there are always a few women so confident in themselves and what they want that they push back against society and carve their own path in life. They are heroes, idols, and people that we don't always hear about because history doesn't venerate them and teach their stories to young people. Times are finally changing, and so many books are now being published that celebrate women and teach young girls to be proud of being female.

The series starter ARU SHAH AND THE END OF TIME came out last week and I'm so happy to say it didn't disappoint! I was enamored with the world-building and the characters and have already been introduced to so much new mythology! It also feels like a great new series to recommend to kids who couldn't get enough of the Percy Jackson series. There's only so much I can give them in the children's department, and I love that ARU SHAH had all the humor, all the emphasis on friendship, and, of course, all the fun real-world questing that the Percy books have.

Fans are already clamoring to get their hands on the final book in The Nevernight Chronicle, Jay Kristoff's New York Times Best Selling adult fantasy series that began with NEVERNIGHT, continued with GODSGRAVE, and will now conclude on September 4, 2018, with DARKDAWN. This week, publisher Thomas Dunne Books / Macmillan revealed the cover and summary for the epic finale, and the internet exploded with excitement. The covers have all been composed by the amazingly talented designer Jason Chan, whose work graces the front of more books than you may realize!

#1 New York Times Best Selling Author Alexandra Bracken's series The Darkest Minds is coming to theaters this summer, and the first trailer has dropped! Today, we have the movie trailer AND the cover for the brand-new stand alone sequel novel THE DARKEST LEGACY!

Yesterday, ARU SHAH AND THE END OF TIME by Roshani Chokshi debuted into the world. Aru Shah is the first character to be introduced in publisher Disney Hyperion's new Rick Riordan Presents line, which BroadwayWorld talks about in more detail here. Today, BroadwayWorld is sitting down with Roshani to pepper her with questions regarding her new series.

Pretty Little Liars actor Keegan Allen has a new photo essay collection coming out April 24, 2018 from St. Martin's Press. His first photo essay collection, life.love.beauty, was a best seller when it debuted in 2015 and Hollywood: A Photographic Journey Through Foreverland is set to be as well. The book has taken him five years to compile and shoot.

Last year, it was announced that Jenny Han's best-selling YA series To All the Boys I've Loved Before was going to be a movie. Filming began last summer, but it was anticipated that the movie would head to the silver screen. Last August, Entertainment Weekly shared exclusive photos from the set that will have fans even more eager for the movie! This week, Netflix announced that it had acquired To All the Boys I've Loved Before and would debut the movie in its Summer 2018 line-up.

It's like Choi peered down into the lives of Sam and Penny, pulled out a few months of their life, and shared them with the world. Sam and Penny are so awkward, and feel so very, very human. A good portion of the book is told through texting because of their unusual relationship and that text-speak feels so realistic. It talks about mundane things such as the love of Pringles and whether or not Harry Potter should be re-read and whether a documentary about the life of a cat would be a good idea or not. The texts are a mix of fantastic grammar and the everyday way we send things without capitalization or periods. Sometimes, there's even shorthand. The shorthand is minimal, though, which makes it so much easier to read and get through. Especially since Penny is a writer and prefers to write with grammar, which Sam picks up on right away, and he starts spelling things out much more with her! I'm not a huge epistolary reader and struggle to get through books with texts, emails, letters, etc. EMERGENCY CONTACT used it so naturally that I didn't have that problem this time around and felt it only enhanced the relationship between the two.

Fans are already clamoring to get their hands on the sequel to 2018's breakout hit YA fantasy novel THE CRUEL PRINCE by Holly Black. Out this past January, it was an instant fan favorite and has been highly buzzed about on social media. This week, publisher Little, Brown revealed the cover and summary for the second book in the series, and the internet exploded with excitement.

Fans have been anticipating the debut novel of YouTube Celebrity Hank Green later this year. Green is one half of the VlogBrothers. His brother, John Green, is the other half of the video-making team and is the #1 New York Times Best Selling Author of YA novels THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, PAPER TOWNS, TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN, and more. 

SWEET GIRL by Cristin Harber first came across my radar because it was being advertised via social media as FREE. It had the feel of Jennifer Lynn Armentrout's best-selling Wait for You series and Cora Carmack's beloved Rusk University series. It was about a girl falling for her brother's best friend, a favorite trope. So to try it out for free? Okay, why not?

Accused by at least 10 women of sexual harassment, author Sherman Alexie has decided not to accept the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction that he won for You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir(Little, Brown), NPR reported.

NEW YORK (February 28, 2018)—City College Center for the Arts (CCCA) invites families and readers of all ages to visit Aaron Davis Hall for a book party celebrating the launch of author and illustrator Nina Crews' new book Seeing into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright on Saturday, March 24 at 2 p.m. The free afternoon celebration will include a book reading by Nina Crews, storytelling, dance classes, refreshments and more fun activities for all ages. Copies of Seeing into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright (Millbrook Press/Lerner Publishing Group, 2018) will also be available for purchase.

CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE is one of my favorite books of 2018, and I expect to still feel that way at the end of the year. Out today, this book has been highly-coveted since the very beginning. There was a massive pre-empt deal from Macmillan for this debut, which netted author Tomi Adeyemi a seven-figure deal that included movie rights--and she's only twenty-three years old. The buzz around this novel has set the book world on fire, and it's all well-deserved. I've been waiting to get my hands on this book for a long time, first when I saw the deal announcement and heard how awesome it sounded, and then again when I saw its beautiful cover. Now I've read it and am already eager to read it again, as well as get my hands on the beautiful finished copy. (A true collector, I plan to own the Barnes and Noble Exclusive Edition.)

Meticulously researched over three decades by Charles Graves, 'Families of the Domesday Book' is the only known series in existence to comprehensively showcase the history and connections of the five-hundred families profiled in the Domesday Book. Spread across five compelling volumes, Graves calls on thousands of pieces of evidence to provide the most complete picture to date of the people behind this most timeless and profound of documents.

TO KILL A KINGDOM is already a 2018 favorite, and even better, it's a stand-alone and not part of a series. Out this week, TKAK will hook readers from page one.

BLACKSCI-FI.COM , TEASPOON & POUND MEDIA, and WEST PHILADELPHIA FINANCIAL SERVICES INSTITUTION (WPFSI) have teamed up to present “Our Time to Wrinkle: Celebrating Girls and STEM” on Sunday, March 11, 2018, at the UA Riverview Plaza Stadium 17 in Philadelphia, PA. The event will be hosted by Junior MC and 'On the JOB with Lani Lou' host, Lani Kai. The event will feature a private screening of Disney's 'A Wrinkle in Time', followed by a special conversation with all-star astronomer, Dr. Derrick Pitts.

Theatre life isn't for everyone. But how do you know if you never try? Penny is excited she got into the highly competitive theatre camp program in Winter Park, Florida. She doesn't think she wants to be an actor for a living, or even that she's all that great at it, but she enjoys it and is ready to have the time of her life.

For those of you who don't know me “in real life,” I'm an alumna of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, class of 2006. I currently live in Parkland, FL. In an effort to be able to donate a bit more than what I already have, I'm donating 50% of all pre-order proceeds for OVER RAGING TIDES (releasing 3/20) to Everytown for Gun Safety and the Stoneman Douglas Victims Fund. If you prefer to donate directly, please do. I just care about getting donations to these funds. This is a cause that's LITERALLY hit close to home for me.

This past week, Kendare Blake, author of the best-selling Three Dark Crowns series, revealed the cover to the third book in her quartet, TWO DARK REIGNS. The series was originally a duology, but performed so well that two more books were added to the line. The series that began with THREE DARK CROWNS and continued with ONE DARK THRONE will soon be joined by another sister, and fans of the series are even more eager to get their hands on it after seeing the gorgeous new cover.