Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
Publication Date: February 5, 2013
It's one thing to learn
to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a
knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school.
Fourteen-year-old
Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence. Sophronia is more
interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper
etiquette at tea--and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy. Mrs.
Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. She
enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for
Young Ladies of Quality.
But little do Sophronia or her mother
know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish,
all right--but it's a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle
Geraldine's certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance,
dress, and etiquette, but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine
arts of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries.
Sophronia and her friends are going to have a rousing first year at
school.
First in a four book YA series set 25 years before the Parasol Protectorate but in the same universe.
Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz
Publication Date: January 01, 2013
Be careful what you believe in.
Rudy’s
life is flipped upside-down when his family moves to a remote island in
a last attempt to save his sick younger brother. With nothing to do but
worry, Rudy sinks deeper and deeper into loneliness and lies awake at
night listening to the screams of the ocean beneath his family’s rickety
house.
Then he meets Diana, who makes him wonder what he even
knows about love, and Teeth, who makes him question what he knows about
anything. Rudy can’t remember the last time he felt so connected to
someone, but being friends with Teeth is more than a little bit
complicated. He soon learns that Teeth has terrible secrets. Violent
secrets. Secrets that will force Rudy to choose between his own
happiness and his brother’s life.
My Name is Rapunzel by K.C. Helton
Publication Date: @013
Fairy tales are for children. My name is Rapunzel and I will tell you my story. I will tell you the truth.
**More to come..