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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A GREAT AND
TERRIBLE BEAUTY "Compulsively readable."
–VOYA 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?
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PRAISE FOR A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY
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
“A delicious, elegant gothic…gripping and suspenseful.”
--PW, Starred
“A Gothic novel touched by modern conceptions of adolescence, shivery with both passion and terror.”
--Kirkus Reviews
"Compulsively readable."
–VOYA
“There’s no doubt the mystical elements, along with a touch of forbidden romance, will draw a large, enthusiastic audience, who will come away wanting more about stubborn, willful Gemma and the strange world whose doors she can open at will.”
–Booklist
“A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfriends, and a dark other-worldly fantasy–jumble them all together and you have this complicated and unusual first novel… an impressive first book in what should prove to be a fascinating trilogy.”
–Amazon.com
--PW, Starred
“A Gothic novel touched by modern conceptions of adolescence, shivery with both passion and terror.”
--Kirkus Reviews
"Compulsively readable."
–VOYA
“There’s no doubt the mystical elements, along with a touch of forbidden romance, will draw a large, enthusiastic audience, who will come away wanting more about stubborn, willful Gemma and the strange world whose doors she can open at will.”
–Booklist
“A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfriends, and a dark other-worldly fantasy–jumble them all together and you have this complicated and unusual first novel… an impressive first book in what should prove to be a fascinating trilogy.”
–Amazon.com
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
REBEL ANGELS
"Extraordinary"
--VOYA in a Perfect 10 Review It’s the end of the year, and Gemma’s looking forward to living it up in London. Balls, fancy gowns and dancing with the handsome Simon Middleton beckon. Best of all, it’s time away from Spence Academy—and from the Realms.
But the lure of the enchanted world is strong, and the magic flows freely. Gemma’s visions intensify—visions of three girls dressed in white, suffering horror and menace. Clearly, all is not well in the Realms—or out of them. Set against the backdrop of Victorian London, a place of shadows and light, in a time of strict morality and barely repressed sensuality, this compelling gothic sequel reveals that inside great beauty can lie a rebel angel… |
PRAISE FOR REBEL ANGELS
A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • A Publishers Weekly Bestseller • A Book Sense Bestseller • A Book Sense Top Ten Selection • BBYA (ALA/YALSA Best Book for Young Adults) • Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award • Iowa High School Book Award • Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award • Golden Spur Children’s Literature Book Award (TX)
“This extraordinary novel moves along at breathtaking speed from beginning to end…astounding.”
--VOYA in a Perfect 10 Review
“Readers…will find the same rich social commentary, romance, and adventure, even more sumptuously created…compelling.”
–Booklist
“Gemma’s shivery adventures, lacking easy answers, make for an exciting mystical quest.”
–Kirkus Reviews
“Remarkable.”
—School Library Journal
--VOYA in a Perfect 10 Review
“Readers…will find the same rich social commentary, romance, and adventure, even more sumptuously created…compelling.”
–Booklist
“Gemma’s shivery adventures, lacking easy answers, make for an exciting mystical quest.”
–Kirkus Reviews
“Remarkable.”
—School Library Journal
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
THE SWEET FAR THING
"A huge work of massive ambition.”
--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father alaudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds.
The Order—the mysterious group her mother was once part of—is grappling for control of the realms, as is the Rakshana. Spence’s burned East Wing is being rebuilt, but why now? Gemma and her friends see Pippa, but she is not the same. And their friendship faces its gravest trial as Gemma must decide once and for all what role she is meant for |
PRAISE FOR THE SWEET FAR THING
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year • A 2008 Amazon Top 10 Customer Favorite—Teen Category • A New York Times Bestseller • A #1 Book Sense Bestseller • A Publishers Weekly Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age • CCBC Choice (Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
