Lauren Oliver, Author HarperTeen $17.99 (470p) ISBN 978-0-06-172680-4
Beautiful, popular Samantha and her three best friends are the ruthless queen bees of their high school. But Samantha is living a nightmare: throughout the book, she relives the day of her death seven times, with some dramatic alterations and...
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Lauren Oliver, Harper, $17.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-172682-8
In her sophomore novel, Oliver (Before I Fall) presents an intriguing but disappointing thought experiment, set in a dystopian future in which American borders are sealed and civil order is enforced by regulation, vigilantism, and "the procedure," a
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Lauren Oliver. Harper, $17.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-201455-9
Heather and Dodge live in Carp, N.Y., a down-on-its-heels town where graduating seniors can participate in a secret annual game called Panic. Everyone contributes to the pot, with winner take all when the game begins. Players have died in the past,...
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Lauren Oliver. Ecco, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-234432-8
YA-bestseller Oliver’s (Before I Fall) assured adult debut skillfully weaves an innovative ghost story into a nuanced domestic drama. Upon Richard Walker’s death, his scattered family returns to clear out his house, which they hope to inherit. His...
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Lauren Oliver. Harper, $18.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-222410-1
Sisters Dara and Nick had grown up as “the Two Musketeers, the Dynamic Duo, Light and Dark, two sides of the same cookie,” but after a serious car accident, the two sisters are irrevocably distanced. As older, more reliable sister Nick tries to find
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Lauren Oliver. Harper, $19.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-06-239416-3
Oliver (Vanishing Girls) sacrifices substance for style in a novel told from two perspectives: flipping the book allows readers to read the full story from the point of view of the two main characters, Lyra and Gemma. Lyra, a replica (clone) at the...
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Lauren Oliver, read by Jim Dale. HarperAudio, unabridged, digital download, 6 hrs., $15.99 ISBN 978-0-06-211119-7
This fairy tale centers on two children: Liesl, whose father died and who has been locked in the attic by her wicked stepmother, and Will, an orphan who works all day and night for a cruel wizard. A friendly ghost named Po befriends Liesl and helps...
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Lauren Oliver, illus. by Iacopo Bruno. Harper, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-197808-1
Liza knows the spiderlike Spindlers have stolen the soul of her brother, Patrick, when he spells “I H-A-T-E Y-O-U” in his Alpha-Bits cereal one morning. “And they had left this thing, this not-younger-brother, in its place.” Liza’s harried parents...
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Lauren Oliver and H.C. Chester, illus. by Benjamin Lacombe. Harper, $16.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-227081-8
“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls: step right up and don’t be shy. You must not—you absolutely cannot!—put this book down.” With this bit of honest advertising, so begins this captivating series opener from Oliver (The Spindlers) and Chester (a...
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Lauren Oliver, illus. by Kei Acedera. Harper, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-201451-1
The sun has not shined for 1,728 days and counting in YA author Oliver’s (Delirium) first book for middle-grade readers, a gloominess that underscores a plot in which adults seek personal gain at the expense of children. Classic fairy tale elements...
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Lauren Oliver. Harper, $18.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-222413-2
When Vermont best friends Brynn, Mia, and Summer were 13, Summer was murdered under strange circumstances linked to the girls’ obsession with an old fantasy novel, The Way into Lovelorn. Five years after being publicly accused of, but never charged...
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Lauren Oliver, illus. by Ethan M. Aldridge. HarperCollins, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-234507-3
In this thoughtful adventure set in the late 19th century, a girl who helps her veterinarian father to treat wounded monsters must locate her dad after he is apparently abducted—along with the myriad creatures living in their rambling Boston home....
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