20 new titles and seven reprints round out this last week of September. Plenty of thrillers to be found this week as the weather starts to cool off. Happy Reading!
Murder, Magic, and What We Wore, by Kelly Jones
Fans of Patrice Kindl’s Keeping the Castle or Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer’s Sorcery and Cecelia will adore this funny Regency-era mystery about a determined young woman with a magical trick up her sleeve . . .The year is 1818, the city is London, and 16-year-old Annis Whitworth has just learned that her father is dead and all his money is missing. And so, of course, she decides to become a spy.
Annis always suspected that her father was himself a spy, and following in his footsteps to unmask his killer makes perfect sense. Alas, it does not make sense to England’s current spymasters—not even when Annis reveals that she has the rare magical ability to sew glamours: garments that can disguise the wearer completely.
Well, if the spies are too pigheaded to take on a young woman of quality, then Annis will take them on. And so she crafts a new double life for herself. Miss Annis Whitworth will appear to live a quiet life in a country cottage with her aunt, and Annis-in-disguise as Madame Martine, glamour artist, will open a magical dressmaking shop. That way she can earn a living, maintain her social standing, and, in her spare time, follow the coded clues her father left behind and unmask his killer.
It can’t be any harder than navigating the London social season, can it?
"A cross between Jane Austen dramas and Harriet the Spy, this delightful strong female–led title mixes historical fiction and spy mystery with a touch of magic to produce a story filled with adventure. Jones infuses her female characters with boldness, intelligence, and wit. Refreshing." —School Library Journal, starred review
The Victoria in My Head, by Janelle Milanes
A shy, rule-following teen winds up joining a local rock band in this laugh-out-loud, heartfelt coming-of-age novel.
Victoria
Cruz inhabits two worlds: In one, she is a rock star, thrashing the
stage with her husky voice and purple-streaked hair. In the other,
currently serving as her reality, Victoria is a shy teenager with
overprotective Cuban parents, who sleepwalks through her life at the
prestigious Evanston Academy. Unable to overcome the whole
paralyzing-stage-fright thing, Victoria settles for living inside her
fantasies, where nothing can go wrong and everything is set to her
expertly crafted music playlists.
But after a chance encounter
with an unattainably gorgeous boy named Strand, whose band seeks a lead
singer, Victoria is tempted to turn her fevered daydreams into reality.
To do that, she must confront her insecurities and break away from the
treadmill that is her life. Suddenly, Victoria is faced with the choice
of staying on the path she’s always known and straying off-course to
find love, adventure, and danger.
From debut author Janelle
Milanes comes a hilarious and heartfelt tale of the spectacular things
that can happen when you go after what you really want.
“Fans of Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park will appreciate this slightly off-kilter romance and its ready-made playlist.” —School Library Journal
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