New Releases by Libba Bray

SIGNEDFrom New York Times -bestselling author Libba Bray comes an evocative and groundbreaking young adult historical mystery that examines truth, rebellion, reconciliation, and what must be sacrificed for a better world. It was said that if you write to the Bridegroom's Oak, the love of your life will answer back. Now, the tree is giving up its secrets at last. In 1940s Germany, Sophie is excited to discover a message waiting for her in the Bridegroom's Oak from a mysterious suitor. Meanwhile, her best friend, Hanna, is sending messages too-but not to find love. As World War II unfolds in their small town of Kleinwald, the oak may hold the key to resistance against the Nazis. In 1980s West Germany, American teen transplant Jenny feels suffocated by her strict parents and is struggling to fit in. Until she finds herself falling for Lena, a punk-rock girl hell-bent on tearing down the wall separating West Germany from East Germany, and meeting Frau Hermann, a kind old lady with secrets of her own. In Spring 2020, New York City, best friends Miles and Chloe are in the first weeks of COVID lockdown and hating Zoom school, when an unexpected package from Chloe's grandmother leads them to investigate a cold case about two unidentified teenagers who went missing under the Bridegroom's Oak eighty years ago.

Instant New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • An Indie Bestseller • A Good Morning America Book Club Pick • Edgar Award Nominee • Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee • An Audible Best Audiobook of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A Rainbow Booklist Top Ten for Teen Readers Title "Under the Same Stars will leave you shattered and wildly hopeful." —E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud "Stirring and absolutely unforgettable" —Samira Ahmed, New York Times-bestselling author of Internment and Hollow Fires "Full of banter, romance, humor and a little bit of magic" —Gayle Forman, author of Not Nothing and After Life From New York Times-bestselling and Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray comes a propulsive historical mystery that examines truth, rebellion, reconciliation, and what must be sacrificed for a better world. It was said that if you write to the Bridegroom’s Oak, the love of your life will answer back. Now, the tree is giving up its secrets at last. In 1940s Germany, Sophie is excited to discover a message waiting for her in the Bridegroom's Oak from a mysterious suitor. Meanwhile, her best friend, Hanna, is sending messages too—but not to find love. As World War II unfolds in their small town of Kleinwald, the oak may hold the key to resistance against the Nazis. In 1980s West Germany, American teen transplant Jenny feels suffocated by her strict parents and is struggling to fit in. Until she finds herself falling for Lena, a punk-rock girl hell-bent on tearing down the wall separating West Germany from East Germany, and meeting Frau Hermann, a kind old lady with secrets of her own. In Spring 2020, New York City, best friends Miles and Chloe are slogging through the last few months of senior year when an unexpected package from Chloe’s grandmother leads them to investigate a cold case about two unidentified teenagers who went missing under the Bridegroom’s Oak eighty years ago. This edition includes gorgeous stained edges!

The breath-taking finale to the epic New York Times bestseller, The Diviners, from Printz winner and beloved author, Libba Bray. After the horrifying explosion that claimed one of their own, the Diviners find themselves wanted by the US government, and on the brink of war with the King of Crows. While Memphis and Isaiah run for their lives from the mysterious Shadow Men, Isaiah receives a startling vision of a girl, Sarah Beth Olson, who could shift the balance in their struggle for peace. Sarah Beth says she knows how to stop the King of Crows-but, she will need the Diviners' help to do it. Elsewhere, Jericho has returned after his escape from Jake Marlowe's estate, where he has learned the shocking truth behind the King of Crow's plans. Now, the Diviners must travel to Bountiful, Nebraska, in hopes of joining forces with Sarah Beth and to stop the King of Crows and his army of the dead forever. But as rumors of towns becoming ghost towns and the dead developing unprecedented powers begin to surface, all hope seems to be lost. In this sweeping finale, The Diviners will be forced to confront their greatest fears and learn to rely on one another if they hope to save the nation, and world from catastrophe...

The Diviners are back in this thrilling and eerie third installment by #1 New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray. New York City. 1927. Lights are bright. Jazz is king. Parties are wild. And the dead are coming... After battling a supernatural sleeping sickness that early claimed two of their own, the Diviners have had enough of lies. They're more determined than ever to uncover the mystery behind their extraordinary powers, even as they face off against an all-new terror. Out on Ward's Island, far from the city's bustle, sits a mental hospital haunted by the lost souls of people long forgotten– ghosts who have unusual and dangerous ties to the man in the stovepipe hat, also known as the King of Crows. With terrible accounts of murder and possession flooding in from all over, and New York City on the verge of panic, the Diviners must band together and brave the sinister ghosts invading the asylum, a fight that will bring them fact-to-face with the King of Crows. But as the explosive secrets of the past come to light, loyalties and friendships will be tested, love will hang in the balance, and the Diviners will question all that they've ever known. All the while, malevolent forces gather from every corner in a battle for the very soul of a nation– a fight that could claim the Diviners themselves. Heart-pounding action and terrifying moments will leave you breathless in the third book of the four-book Diviners series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray.

The thrilling supernatural sequel in The Diviners series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray! The longing of dreams draws the dead, and this city holds many dreams. After a supernatural show down with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. With her uncanny ability to read people's secrets, she's become a media darling and earned the title "America's Sweetheart Seer." Everyone's in love with the city's newest It Girl... everyone except the other Diviners. Piano-playing Henry Dubois and Chinatown resident Ling Chan are two Diviners struggling to keep their powers a secret--for they can walk in dreams. And while Evie is living the high life, victims of a mysterious sleeping sickness are turning up across New York City. As Henry searches for a lost love and Ling strives to succeed in a world that shuns her, a malevolent force infects their dreams. And at the edges of it all lurks a man in a stovepipe hat who has plans that extend farther than anyone can guess... As the sickness spreads, can the Diviners descend into the dreamworld to save the city? In this heart-stopping sequel to The Diviners, Printz award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray takes readers deeper into the mystical underbelly of New York City.

When the lights dimmed and the familiar red lips and white teeth glowed on the screen, the audience erupted into cheers, and Leta felt that surge of excitement in her belly, the thrill of sitting in the dark with strangers sharing an experience that made them all seem like friends. Best friends Agnes and Leta have a Friday night ritual. They spend an hour trying on different lipsticks, experimenting with eyeliner, and torturing their hair before they head off to the Cineplex for the midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. That was always the routine, until Agnes started dating Roger, and left Leta behind. But between Leta's awkward first kiss; her crush on Tom, the cute guy at the movie theater; and her absentee dad, everything feels so out of control--she could really use her best friend right now. Can Agnes and Leta find their way to a new and better friendship? In this short story by New York Times bestselling author of The Diviners, Libba Bray revisits a time when we all felt stuck somewhere between childhood and adolescence.

La stella nera di New York, un intero mondo prende vita: Tra le strade della metropoli più suggestiva del mondo sta succedendo qualcosa di oscuro e una giovane donna è chiamata a collaborare con la legge. L’intera New York è euforica e gli anni Venti promettono sogni di gloria, eppure all’ombra dei grattacieli qualcosa inizia a scricchiolare.

A young woman discovers her mysterious powers could help catch a killer in the first book of The Diviners series--a stunning supernatural historical mystery set in 1920s New York City, from Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray. Evangeline O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and sent off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. Evie worries he'll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. When the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer. As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfurl in the city that never sleeps. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened....

ENJOY A FREE EXTENDED PREVIEW OF LIBBA BRAY'S HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL! "It's Marjorie Morningstar meets Silence of the Lambs, and Bray dives into it with the brio of the era, alternating rat-a-rat flirting with cold-blooded killings."- Booklist (Starred Review) It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. Evie O'Neill just arrived and she's ecstatic! The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult and Evie worries he'll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer. Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray opens a brand-new historical fiction series with The Diviners, where the glittering surface of the Roaring Twenties hides a mystical horror creeping across the country.

De 16-jarige Gemma is na haar moeders dood naar Spence gestuurd, een strenge kostschool voor welgestelde meisjes in Engeland. Daar weet Gemma de vriendschap te winnen van de brutale Felicity, de mooie Pippa en de verlegen Ann. Samen met haar nieuwe vriendinnen sluit Gemma zich aan bij de Orde, een geheim genootschap van vrouwen die macht hebben over een andere wereld die het rijk heet. Maar dan roepen ze krachten op die ze niet meer in bedwang kunnen houden en verandert het leven van Gemma en haar vriendinnen voorgoed... De zinderende spanning van Opstand van de engelen speelt zich af tegen de achtergrond van Londen in 1895, een stad vol licht en schaduw, waar achter grote schoonheid een rebelse engel schuilgaat.

Partir en croisière sur un paquebot de luxe, rencontrer l'homme de sa vie à la mer, se prélasser au soleil dans le sud de la France ou aux Caraïbes, faire un tour d'Europe avec ses amis, le rêve ! Mais, quand vampires, sorcières, psychopathes, démons et fantômes se joignent au voyage, les vacances se transforment en cauchemar.

From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island.Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to emall. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.

Zowel in het rijk als in Gemma's eigen wereld lopen de gemoederen hoog op. Het rijk staat op de rand van een grote oproer. Gemma's vriendinnen en familieleden worstelen met hun eigen problemen. De grens tussen de werelden vervaagt, met desastreuze gevolgen. Ondertussen staat Gemma voor vele dilemma's en vragen. Om de juiste keuzes te kunnen maken zal ze moeten besluiten wie er te vertrouwen is en wie niet en zal ze de duistere kanten van haar eigen ziel onder ogen moeten zien... In dit laatste deel van de trilogie over het leven van de jonge Gemma Doyle wisselen zinderende spanning, schoonheid en duisternis zich in een razend tempo af, met een onvermijdelijke climax tot gevolg...

From the author of the Gemma Doyle trilogy and The Diviners series, this groundbreaking New York Times bestseller and winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for literary excellence is "smart, funny, and layered," raves Entertainment Weekly. All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school—and life in general—with a minimum of effort. It’s not a lot to ask. But that’s before he’s given some bad news: he’s sick and he’s going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure—if he’s willing to go in search of it. With the help of a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf and a yard gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America . . . into the heart of what matters most. From acclaimed author Libba Bray comes a dark comedic journey that poses the questions: Why are we here? What is real? What makes microwave popcorn so good? Why must we die? And how do we really learn to live? "A hilarious and hallucinatory quest."—The New York Times "Sublimely surreal."—People "Libba Bray's fabulous new book will, with any justice, be a cult classic. The kind of book you take with you to college, in the hopes that your roommate will turn out to have packed their own copy, too. Reading it is like discovering an alternate version of The Phantom Tollbooth, where Holden Caulfield has hit Milo over the head and stolen his car, his token, and his tollbooth. There's adventure and tragedy here, a sprinkling of romance, musical interludes, a battle-ready yard gnome who's also a Norse God, and practically a chorus line of physicists. Which reminds me: will someone, someday, take Going Bovine and turn it into a musical, preferably a rock opera? I want the sound track, the program, the T-shirt, and front row tickets."—Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

In this thrilling sequel, Gemma continues to pursue her destiny to bind the magic of the Realms and restore it to the Order. Gemma and her friends from Spence use magical power to transport themselves on visits from their corseted world of Victorian London (at the height of the Christmas season), to the visionary country of the Realms, with its strange beauty and menace. There they search for the lost Temple, the key to Gemma's mission, and comfort Pippa, their friend who has been left behind in the Realms. After these visits they bring back magical power for a short time to use in their own world. Meanwhile, Gemma is torn between her attraction to the exotic Kartik, the messenger from the opposing forces of the Rakshana, and the handsome but clueless Simon, a young man of good family who is courting her. This is the second book in Libba Bray's engrossing trilogy, set in a time of strict morality and barely repressed sensuality, about a girl who saw another way.

Un retrato vívido de la era victoriana, un período de una moralidad muy estricta y una sensualidad apenas reprimida, cuando se educaba a las niñas para ser las esposas de hombres ricos... Ésta es la historia de una chica que quería otra cosa. Después de la muerte de su madre en extrañas circunstancias, Gemma empieza una nueva vida en Inglaterra, estudiando en la Academia Spence, un prestigioso internado para señoritas. Allí se verá inmersa en misteriosas situaciones, y casi sin quererlo, formará parte de La Orden, una antigua hermandad de mujeres con poderes mágicos, como el de cruzar una puerta hacia los reinos donde viven los espíritus de los muertos y seres maravillosos.

De zestienjarige Gemma groeit op in India aan het eind van de negentiende eeuw. Wanneer haar moeder overlijdt, krijgt ze een angstaanjagend visioen, waarover ze niemand durft te vertellen. Na haar moeders dood wordt Gemma naar Spence gestuurd, een strenge kostschool voor welgestelde meisjes in Engeland. Maar ook in Engeland wordt Gemma geplaagd door visioenen, en blijkt dat ze vanuit India gevolgd is door een mysterieuze jongen, Kartik, die haar raadselachtige waarschuwingen geeft. Dankzij haar scherpe tong en intelligentie, weet Gemma de vriendschap te winnen van de brutale Felicity, de mooie Pippa en de verlegen Ann. Ze ontdekt een oud dagboek waarin gesproken wordt over een andere wereld. Samen met haar nieuwe vriendinnen sluit Gemma zich aan bij de Orde, een geheim genootschap van vrouwen die macht hebben over die andere wereld. Maar dan roepen ze krachten op die ze niet meer kunnen controleren, en verandert het leven van Gemma en haar vriendinnen voorgoed.

The final chapter in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, from the author of The Diviners series. It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Having bound the wild, dark magic of the realms to her, Gemma has forged unlikely and unsuspected new alliances both with the headstrong Felicity and timid Ann, Kartik, the young man whose companionship is forbidden, and the fearsome creatures of the realms. Now, as Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test those bonds. As her friendship with Felicity and Ann faces its gravest trial, and with the Order grappling for control of the realms, Gemma is compelled to decide once and for all which path she is meant to take. Pulled forward by fate, the destiny Gemma faces threatens to set chaos loose, not only in the realms, but also upon the rigid Victorian society whose rules Gemma has both defied and followed. Where does Gemma really belong? And will she, can she, survive?

Gemma Doyle y sus amigas, Felicity y Ann, se preparan para su presentación en sociedad, que será en unos meses y ante la presencia de la mismísima reina Victoria. Pero impulsada por otros acontecimientos que no dejan de atormentarla, el destino al que Gemma se enfrenta amenaza con hundirse en el caos, no sólo en los reinos, sino también en la rígida sociedad dónde vive, cuyas reglas ha desafiado. A caballo entre dos mundos, Gemma intentará restablecer el equilibrio y devolver a la magia el lugar que ésta reclama.

Ha pasado ya un tiempo desde que Gemma estuvo por última vez en los reinos. Si embargo, una visita inesperada a la Academia Spence la llevará de vuelta al mundo mágico: Kartik, el guapo y misterioso miembro de los Rakshana que acechaba a Gemma en el primer volumen, le ha pedido que regrese y ate la magia que quedó libre la última vez, antes de que caiga en las manos equivocadas.

Qu'est-ce qui te fait peur ? Qu'est-ce qui fait se dresser les poils de tes bras, transpirer la paume de tes mains, qu'est-ce qui emprisonne ton souffle dans ta poitrine comme un animal sauvage ? Est-ce l'obscurité ? la mémoire furtive d'une histoire du soir, de fantômes, de lutins et de sorcières se cachant dans l'ombre ? Est-ce la façon dont le vent se lève avant une tempête ? Ou est-ce quelque chose de plus profond, quelque chose de plus effrayant, un monstre très loin ? Si tu veux bien écouter, je vais te raconter une histoire. Je vais te raconter l'histoire de comment nous nous sommes retrouvés dans un royaume où les rêves se forment, où la destinée est choisie, où la magie est aussi réelle que tes empreintes dans la neige. Je vais te raconter comment nous avons ouvert la boîte de Pandore, goûté la liberté, entaché nos âmes par le choix et le sang, et déchaîné une telle horreur sur le monde qu'elle a détruit son ordre le plus cher. Ces pages sont une confession de tout ce qui a conduit à cette aube grise et froide. Ce qui va arriver désormais, je ne peux le dire.

The first book in the critically acclaimed New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, the exhilarating and haunting saga from the author of The Diviners series and Going Bovine. It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to? “A delicious, elegant gothic.”—PW, Starred “Shivery with both passion and terror.”—Kirkus Reviews "Compulsively readable." --VOYA A New York Times Bestseller A Publishers Weekly Bestseller A Book Sense Bestseller BBYA (ALA/YALSA Best Book for Young Adults) Iowa High School Book Award Garden State Teen Book Award Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award

It's Kari's one night to make a big impression on the guy she's secretly loved since seventh grade--and a Sweet Sixteen bash at an old South Carolina drive-in seems the perfect place to do it. But when things go haywire, the impression she makes isn't quite the one she had planned.