New Releases

New Releases

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The covers of three books. They are all described individually within the blog post. The Dance the moon and stars, What lies beneath the flowers, and Love Stuck.

There are three books we were watching for today. From the titles, descriptions, and covers, they look intriguing to me. What do you think?

A brown skinned young woman with long dark brown hair is staring up into the eyes of a slightly lighter skinned young man who is tilting her chin up at him. She is wearing a dusty rose colored dress that is flowing behind in the breeze like her hair. Her arms are bare except for some gold jewelry. He is wearing a white suit with gold trim and a golden crown. It is night with some stars and a large moon in the background. There are also small moons at the bottom of the cover showing different phases of the moon.To Dance the Moon and Stars (A Graphic Novel) by Tasia MS and Barbara Perez Marquez
Joy Revolution

Eighteen-year-old Myra has spent her entire life training to succeed her grandmother as high priestess. But with her ascension rapidly approaching, she’s worried about the path ahead. How can she become the herald of the god Alrun when he forbids the thing she loves most: dancing?

Her people can’t afford her self-doubt, though. A peace treaty is dependent on Myra receiving Alrun’s wisdom, and the forces of darkness are seeping through the barrier between worlds. The only source of light Myra has is her childhood best friend, the crown prince. Without his support and . . . love, she may not be able to stop what’s coming.

Myra must dig deep into her kingdom’s forgotten history for answers, even if it means defying the law. But the key to saving her people may require her to make the biggest sacrifice of all.

Cover of the book What lies beneath the flowers. The cover is dark with one single flower at the center. There are four petals on each side of the stem. There is room between each for the words of the title in white. The flower petals are curved up to the sides like the letter u. They are all fuchsia. There are three or four petals left at the top of the stem.What Lies Beneath the Flowers by Natasha Diaz
Delacorte

It girl Estella Aubergine is everything Pippa and Bidi are not: wealthy, popular, influential, missing. Finding her and collecting the reward money Estella’s reclusive mother is offering could turn their lives around. They’d be able to pay off the overdue bills on Pippa’s family’s store, and all the media attention would only help Bidi’s chances of becoming the youngest elected official in San Francisco.

But to uncover what happened to Estella, they’ll have to enter her wealthy world. Namely, the prestigious Beaumont Academy, where Estella’s classmates and teachers all seem to have dark secrets and enough money to hide them.

The deeper Pippa and Bidi dig, the more questions come up about Estella’s disappearance. Worse, someone seems to be clocking their every step. And as cracks form in the girls’ friendship, they begin to see that maybe the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

Illustrated cover of Lovestuck. A dark cover has a blue heart with pink edges in the center. Around the edges the title is written in what seems to be red string with Love above the heart and a wavy ling going down to the word Stuck below the heart. Within the heart is a young woman with dark hair and glasses sitting down with crossed legs. She is wearing green hightop, capris and a short cropped shirt. She has light skin and has a pensive look and is staring away from a bouquet of multicolored flowers that is held out to her by a light brown arm. There are small yellow flowers outside the heart.Lovestuck by Farah Naz Rishi
Quill Tree Books

Of all her sisters, only Riya inherited the full powers of their peri ancestor, a fey creature specializing in emotion magic…especially the sacred power of love.

Riya has never been interested in love—much to the disappointment of her best friend, Mel, who really, really wants Riya to get Mel and her crush together before senior year’s over. The only thing Riya cares about, truthfully, is forgetting the last, disastrous time she used her powers.

So, when Mel finally convinces her to give her crush a tiny push, she’s horrified when the peri magic lashes out of control yet again. Instead of a casual love spell, she’s placed an accidental love curse on the school bad boy, Kian Kho. Riya doesn’t like Kian one bit—but if the curse isn’t reversed by the next full moon, his unrequited love could leave him literally heartbroken.

As the letters, public declarations, flowers, and songs pile up, there’s only one way out: master her peri magic and break the curse—before they’re both love-stuck forever.