January and February
Passenger by Alexandra BrackenRelease Date: January 5, 2016
In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles, but years from home. And she's inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she's never heard of - until now. Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea finally free from the powerful Ironwoods family. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past that he can't escape, and the family that won't let him go. Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the traveler who will do anything to keep a powerful object out of the Ironwoods' grasp. But as they get closer to the truth of their search, and the deadly game the Ironwoods are playing, treacherous forces threaten to separate Etta not only from Nicholas but from her path home forever.The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry
Release Date: January 26, 2016Emily Henry’s stunning debut novel is Friday Night Lights meets The Time Traveler’s Wife and perfectly captures those bittersweet months after high school, when we dream not only of the future, but of all the roads and paths we’ve left unexplored. Natalie’s last summer in her small Kentucky
hometown is off to a magical start…until she starts seeing the “wrong things.” They’re just momentary glimpses at first - her front door is red instead of its usual green, there’s a preschool where the garden store should be - but then her whole town disappears for hours, fading away into rolling hills and grazing buffalo and Nat knows something isn’t right. That’s when she gets a visit from the kind but mysterious apparition she calls “Grandmother,” who tells her: “You have three months to save him.” The next night, under the stadium lights of the high school football field she meets a beautiful boy named Beau and it’s as if time just stops and nothing exists. Nothing, except Natalie and Beau.
Starflight by Melissa Landers
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Solara Brooks needs a fresh start, someplace where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. The outer realm may be lawless, but it's not like the law has ever been on her side. Still, off-world travel doesn't come cheap; Solara is left with no choice but to indenture herself in exchange for passage to the outer realm. She just wishes it could have been to anyone besides Doran Spaulding, the rich, pretty-boy quarterback who made her life miserable in school. The tables suddenly turn when Doran is framed for conspiracy on Earth and Solara cons him into playing the role of her servant on board the Banshee, a ship manned by an eccentric crew with their own secrets. Given the price on both Doran and Solara's heads, it may just be the safest place in the universe. It's been a long time since Solara has believed in anyone, and Doran is the last person she expected to trust. But when the Banshee's dangerous enemies catch up with them, Solara and Doran must come together to protect the ship that has become their home-and the eccentric crew that feels like family.The Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they've always known and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul. Mare Barrow's blood is red - the color of common folk - but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from the prince who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Pursued by a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat.Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?Riders by Veronica Rossi
Release Date: February 16, 2016
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For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake nothing but death can keep him from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does. Recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can't remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny. He has become War, one of the legendary four horsemen of the apocalypse. He and the other horsemen--Conquest, Famine, and Death--are brought together by a beautiful but frustratingly secretive girl to help save humanity from an ancient evil. They fail. Now bound, bloodied, and drugged - Gideon is interrogated by the authorities about his role in a battle that has become an international incident. If he stands any chance of saving his friends and the girl he's fallen for--not to mention all of humankind--he needs to convince the skeptical government officials the world is in imminent danger. But will anyone believe him?The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury
Release Date: Feb. 23, 2016
These are some good looking titles. I am glad to see Riders was included. Male protagonists are harder to find in YA and I can definitely see my male teens more interested in reading about the embodiment of War than time travelling girls in love. Then again, some of them might prefer the time travelling girls in love as long as their friends don't see them reading it.
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