Tag Archives: Margaret Stohl

YA trend report: The truth is out there

A few years ago, YA lit fans were calling for more sci-fi, and it’s safe to say that the genre answered. With YA’s built-in fanbase for apocalyptic thrillers, the opportunities were endless: zombies, contagions, aliens, interplanetary romances and doomsdays that … Continue reading

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‘Beautiful Creatures’ opens in theaters

Valentine’s Day, Schmalentine’s Day. For fans of the Castor Chronicles, today has little to with real love and much more to do with paranormal YA romance Beautiful Creatures. Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s Southern Gothic series were blockbuster novels in … Continue reading

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Book fortune: “Memoirs of not-famous people”

Click here for more info on this feature. Reader name: Lynn Hometown: Travelers Rest, SC Favorite genres: memoirs of not-famous people, YA, gothic, mystical Favorite authors: Janis Cooke Newman, Sonny Brewer, Ursula Hegi Favorite books: A Gracious Plenty, Ellen Foster, … Continue reading

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Monday Contest: Books that give you chills

Halloween is only a week away, so we thought it appropriate to give away something nice a spooky . . . actually, three things nice and spooky. I was introduced to Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s Beautiful Creatures series about … Continue reading

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Audiobooks for beginners

Readers, I have a confession—I don’t like audiobooks. Or rather, I haven’t given audiobooks a chance since my days of long family trips, when my grandparents wanted to listen to thrillers in the front seat and I wanted to read … Continue reading

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