Libba Bray Books In Order

A Great and Terrible Beauty

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? From the Hardcover edition.

Rebel Angels

Ah, Christmas! Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy, spending time with her friends in the city, attending ritzy balls, and on a somber note, tending to her ailing father. As she prepares to ring in the New Year, 1896, a handsome young man, Lord Denby, has set his sights on Gemma, or so it seems. Yet amidst the distractions of London, Gemma’s visions intensify visions of three girls dressed in white, to whom something horrific has happened, something only the realms can explain…
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The lure is strong, and before long, Gemma, Felicity, and Ann are turning flowers into butterflies in the enchanted world of the realms that Gemma alone can bring them to. To the girls great joy, their beloved Pippa is there as well, eager to complete their circle of friendship.
But all is not well in the realms or out. The mysterious Kartik has reappeared, telling Gemma she must find the Temple and bind the magic, else great disaster will befall her. Gemma s willing to do his intrusive bidding, despite the dangers it brings, for it means she will meet up with her mother s greatest friend and now her foe, Circe. Until Circe is destroyed, Gemma cannot live out her destiny. But finding Circe proves a most perilous task.

From the Hardcover edition.

The Sweet Far Thing

A huge work of massive ambition. Publishers Weekly, Starred

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.

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A 1 Book Sense Bestseller
A New York Times Bestseller
A Publishers Weekly Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
A 2008 New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age

Julia (By:Melinda Metz)

Life begins at 16…
Driving. Dating. A real social life. And the one night where it all comes together…
the Sweet Sixteen is the ultimate party. Whether a total blast or a total bust, it’s a memory to last a lifetime. Now you’re invited to six Sweet Sixteens, in six locations across the country. The party is just getting started…
JULIA and Maggie have more in common than just their looks they both dread their Sweet Sixteen parties. What if they were to change places? It’s a modern day princess and pauper story set in New York City. Life begins at 16…
Driving. Dating.A real social life. And the one night where it all comes together…
the Sweet Sixteen is the ultimate party. Whether a total blast or a total bust, it’s a memory to last a lifetime. Now you’re invited to six Sweet Sixteens, in six locations across the country. The party is just getting started. Julia and Maggie have more in common than just their looks they both dread their Sweet Sixteen parties. What if they were to change places? It’s a modern day princess and pauper story set in New York City…
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Lucy (By:Jessica Barondes)

Life begins at 16…
Driving. Dating. A real social life. And the one night where it all comes together…
the Sweet Sixteen is the ultimate party. Whether a total blast or a total bust, it’s a memory to last a lifetime. Now you’re invited to six Sweet Sixteens, in six locations across the country. The party is just getting started…
LUCY moved from one suburb of Chicago to another and reinvented herself as a preppy good girl. When she met her new boyfriend, she invented yet another identity. Now she’s invited to three can’t say no Sweet Sixteen parties, and it’s going to take a miracle, and several costume changes, to pull off the charade.

Kari

Life begins at 16…
Driving. Dating. A real social life. And the one night where it all comes together…
the Sweet Sixteen is the ultimate party. Whether a total blast or a total bust, it’s a memory to last a lifetime. Now you’re invited to six Sweet Sixteens, in six locations across the country. The party is just getting started…
Kari has one night to make a big impression on the guy she’s secretly loved since seventh grade and a Sweet Sixteen bash featuring the coolest swing band in South Carolina seems the perfect place to do it. But when things go haywire thanks to her embarrassing family, the impression she makes isn’t quite the one she had planned…

Dates from Hell (By:Kim Harrison)

She thought her date was out of this world. Actually, he was not of this world…
We’ve all been on bad dates, nightmare dates, dreadful experiences that turned out to be uniquely memorable in the very worst way. But at least our partners for these detestable evenings were more or less…
human! Now Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Kelley Armstrong, and Lori Handeland four of the very best writers currently exploring the dangerous seduction of the supernatural offer up dating disasters and unexpected delights of a completely different sort: dark, wicked, paranormally sensual assignations with werewolves, demon lovers, and the romantically challenged undead. Sexy, witty, chilling, and altogether remarkable, here is proof positive that some love matches are made someplace other than heaven.

Holidays Are Hell (By:Kim Harrison)

This holiday, spend quality time with family and loved ones living and dead…
There’s no place like home for the horrordays unless you’d prefer a romantic midnight walk through a ghost infested graveyard…
or a haunted house candlelight dinner with the sexy vampire of your dreams. The black magical season is here and whether it’s a solstice’s ance gone demonically wrong with the incomparable Kim Harrison, a grossly misshapen Christmas with the remarkable Lynsay Sands, a blood chilling and spilling New Year’s with the wonderful Marjorie M. Liu, or a super powered Thanksgiving with the phenomenal Vicki Pettersson, one thing is for certain: in the able hands of these exceptional dark side explorers, the holidays are going to be deliciously hellish!

Weddings from Hell (By:Kathryn Smith)

Some marriages are made in heaven…
Some are not. What happens when ‘the happiest day of your life’ turns into a nightmare? Forget the drunken best man or the bridesmaid dresses from the ’80s…
none of these wedding day disasters can compare to a cursed bride determined to make it down the aisle, or a vampire who is about to disrupt your wedding. Join New York Times bestselling authors Maggie Shayne and Jeaniene Frost, USA Today bestseller Kathryn Smith, as well as Terri Garey in four unforgettable tales of unholy matrimony…
where the grooms are dark, dangerous, and mostly dead, and to love and cherish till death takes on a whole new meaning.

Going Bovine

Can Cameron find what he’s looking for?All 16 year old Cameron wants is to get through high school and life in general with a minimum of effort. It s not a lot to ask. But that s before he s given some bad news: he s sick and he s going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure if he s willing to go in search of it. With the help of a death obsessed, video gaming dwarf and a yard gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America into the heart of what matters most. From the Hardcover edition.

Beauty Queens

From bestselling Printz Award winning author Libba Bray, the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island. FORMAT: 10 CDs, UnabridgedNARRATOR: TBATeen Beauty Queens. A ‘Lost’ like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to e mail. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.

Up All Night

A brush with the supernatural? A rock concert? A reunion? A poolside revelation? The need to know what’s up? The confessions of a friend? The dream of escape? A sick pet? An English assignment? The rear window view of a murder next door? The search for the mother you never met? What keeps you Up All Night? This remarkable collection of award winning and bestselling authors is thought provoking, insightful, heartfelt, and powerful.

Vacations from Hell

Life’s a beach…
and then you’re undead? in this must have collection, five of today’s hottest writers Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty, Cassandra Clare City of Bones, Claudia Gray Evernight, Maureen Johnson 13 Little Blue Envelopes, and Sarah Mlynowski Bras & Broomsticks tell supernatural tales of vacations gone awry. Lost luggage is only mildly unpleasant compared to bunking with a witch who holds a grudge. And a sunburn might be embarrassing and painful, but it doesn’t last as long as a curse. Of course, even in the most hellish of situations, love can thrive…
. From light and funny to dark and creepy, these stories have something for everyone. You definitely won’t want to leave this collection at home!

Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd

Acclaimed authors Holly Black Ironsideand Cecil Castellucci Boy Proof have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best selling and most promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, John Green, Tracy Lynn, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Barry Lyga, Wendy Mass, Garth Nix, Scott Westerfield, Lisa Yee, and Sara Zarr. With illustrated interstitials from comic book artists Hope Larson and Bryan Lee O’Malley, Geektastic covers all things geeky, from Klingons and Jedi Knights to fan fiction, theater geeks, and cosplayers. Whether you’re a former, current, or future geek, or if you just want to get in touch with your inner geek, Geektastic will help you get your geek on!