Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare doesn’t quite pick up where The Infernal Devices left off. This first book in The Last Hours trilogy is set a generation later, in Edwardian London. It introduces a whole new set of characters, including but not limited to Will Herondale and Tessa Gray’s children, James and Lucie.
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Ghosts of the Shadow Market is a companion to Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, and The Dark Artifices series written in collaboration with Maureen Johnson, Sarah Rees Brennan, Robin Wasserman, and Kelly Link. It’s a world full of Shadowhunters — human Angel hybrids with a mandate to protect the rest of humanity from demons, Downworlders — anybody who is neither Shadowhunter nor demon, such as vampires, werewolves, and faeries — and, of course, demons. Beings that are neither Shadowhunters nor Downworlders — ordinary humans, in other words — are called mundanes. Some mundanes, however, have what’s called the Sight. This means that they can see everything: Shadowhunters, Downworlders, and possibly even demons.
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Chances are everyone knows someone like Ove. An old man, set in his ways, with a black and white sense of right and wrong. Gets up at the crack of dawn to make sure everything — literally everything in his neighborhood — is in proper order, same as the day before. Because God forbid something changes!
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Teenager Amy Lennox is spending her summer vacation on the Scottish island of Stormsay, where she meets her grandmother for the first time and learns she is a book jumper — someone who can “read” a book by physically being inside it. All they have to do is open a book and put it over their face. A book jumper’s sworn duty is to preserve literature, but someone has been jumping and stealing main ideas from the stories. It’s up to Amy and her friend Will Macalister to figure out who is committing the thefts, and how and why they are committed.
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A prequel to The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes chronicles Coriolanus Snow’s rise to power. It all starts with the tenth annual Hunger Games. Coriolanus and his classmates at the Academy in the Capitol have been assigned tributes from the districts of Panem to mentor in the Games. The Hunger Games were created after Panem’s — what used to be North America — civil war as a way to keep the 12 districts of the country in check and ensure that there wouldn’t be another rebellion. A girl and a boy are chosen from each of the districts to compete against each other in an arena. The last tribute standing wins the Games.
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