The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed Publisher: Simon Pulse Release Date: October 10th 2017 Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary
Synopsis: Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and in the process trig-ger a change in the misogynist culture at their high school transforming the lives of everyone around them in this searing and timely story. Who are the Nowhere Girls? They’re everygirl. But they start with just three: Grace Salter is the new girl in town, whose family was run out of their former community af-ter her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a radical liberal after falling off a horse and bumping her head. Rosina Suarez is the queer punk girl in a conservative Mexican immigrant family, who dreams of a life playing music instead of babysitting her gaggle of cousins and waitressing at her un-cle’s restaurant. Erin Delillo is obsessed with two things: marine biology and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but they aren’t enough to distract her from her suspicion that she may in fact be an android. When Grace learns that Lucy Moynihan, the former occupant of her new home, was run out of town for having accused the popular guys at school of gang rape, she’s incensed that Lucy never had justice. For their own personal reasons, Rosina and Erin feel equally deeply about Lucy’s tragedy, so they form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes boycotting sex of any kind with the male students. Told in alternating perspectives, this groundbreaking novel is an indictment of rape culture and explores with bold honesty the deepest questions about teen girls and sexuality. Buy Links: Goodreads | Amazon | BN | Book Depository | Kobo | iBooks | IndieBound
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Amy Reed was born and raised in and around Seattle, where she attended a total of eight schools by the time she was eighteen. Constant moving taught her tobe restless and being anonly child made her imagination do funny things. After a brief stint at Reed College (no rela-tion), she moved to San Francisco and spent the next several years serving coffee and getting into trouble. She eventually graduated from film school, promptly decided she wanted noth-ing todo with filmmaking, returned to her original and impractical love of writing, and earned her MFA from New College of California. Her short work has been published in jour-nals such as Kitchen Sink, Contrary, and Fiction. Amy currently lives in Oakland with her husband and two cats, and has accepted that Northern California has replaced the Pacific Northwest as her home. She isno longer restless. Find out more at amyreedfiction.com. BEAUTIFUL is her first novel. Website | Goodreads | Twitter | Facebook
All the Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers Release Date: October 10th 2017 Genre: Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary Synopsis: Sarah Jacqueline Crow and James Holt work in the vast maguey fields that span the bone-dry Southwest, a thirsty, infinite land that is both seductive and fearsome. In this rough, transient landscape, Sarah Jac and James have fallen in love. They’re tough and brave, and they have big dreams. Soon they will save up enough money to go east. But until then, they keep their heads down, their muscles tensed, and above all, their love secret. When a horrible accident forces Sarah Jac and James to start over on a new, possibly cursed ranch called the Real Marvelous, the delicate balance they’ve found begins to give way. And James and Sarah Jac will have to pay a frighteningly high price for their love. Book Links: Amazon | Book Depository | B&N | iTunes | Kobo
About the Author Website| Goodreads | Twitter | Instagram Samantha was born four days before the death of john lennon. she grew up in dallas, playing bassguitar along to vinyl records in her bedroom after school, writing fan letters to rock stars, doodling song lyrics into notebooks, and reading big, big books. she spends as much time as possible in the west texas desert. A FIERCE AND SUBTLE POISON (Algonquin Young Readers, spring 2016) is her first novel.
Amy Reed was born and raised in and around Seattle, where she attended a total of eight schools by the time she was eighteen. Constant moving taught her tobe restless and being anonly child made her imagination do funny things. After a brief stint at Reed College (no rela-tion), she moved to San Francisco and spent the next several years serving coffee and getting into trouble. She eventually graduated from film school, promptly decided she wanted noth-ing todo with filmmaking, returned to her original and impractical love of writing, and earned her MFA from New College of California. Her short work has been published in jour-nals such as Kitchen Sink, Contrary, and Fiction. Amy currently lives in Oakland with her husband and two cats, and has accepted that Northern California has replaced the Pacific Northwest as her home. She isno longer restless. Find out more at amyreedfiction.com. BEAUTIFUL is her first novel.
