Sponsored by Udon Entertainment
Oscar François de Jarjeyes is a young noblewoman raised as a son by her father. As commander of Marie Antoinette’s palace guard, Oscar is brought face-to-face with the luxury of King Louis XVI’s court at Versailles. Joined by her servant André, Oscar is privy to the intrigue and deceit of France’s last great royal regime.
Sponsored by Hawk by James Patterson
A story for a new generation of Maximum Ride fans! 17-year-old Hawk is growing up hard and fast in post-apocalyptic New York City . . . until a perilous destiny forces her to take flight.
Hawk doesn’t know her real name. She doesn’t know who her family was, or where they went. The only thing she remembers is that she was told to wait on a specific street corner, at a specific time, until her parents came back for her.
She stays under the radar to survive…until a destiny that’s perilously close to Maximum Ride’s forces her to take flight.
We’re giving away five copies of The Yield by Tara June Winch to five lucky Riot readers!
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Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award!
A celebration of language and an exploration of what makes a place “home.” A young Australian woman searches for her grandfather’s dictionary, the key to halting a mining company from destroying her family’s home and ancestral land. The Yield is a story of a people and a culture dispossessed, and a joyful reminder of what once was and what endures—a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling, and identity, that offers hope for the future.
Sponsored by Peachtree Publishing Company
After Frances Perkins witnessed the Triangle Waist Factory fire in 1911, she was inspired to work to bring about groundbreaking worker rights and safety laws. She became Secretary of Labor—the first woman cabinet member—under FDR, and she went on to create the Social Security program, a system that includes unemployment and benefits millions of Americans today.
Deborah Hopkinson’s energetic text and Kristy Caldwell’s appealing illustrations introduce readers to a fascinating woman who has changed many American lives.
We’re giving away 10 advanced reader copies of Traitor by Amanda McCrina to 10 lucky Riot readers!
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Amanda McCrina’s Traitor is a tightly woven thrill ride exploring political conflict, deep-seated prejudice, and the terror of living in a world where betrayal is a matter of life or death.
“Alive with detail and vivid with insight, Traitor is an effortlessly immersive account of a shocking and little-known moment in the turbulent history of Poland and Ukraine—and ironically, a piercing and bittersweet story of unflinching loyalty. I think Tolya has left my heart a little damaged forever.” —Elizabeth Wein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Code Name Verity and The Enigma Game
Sponsored by Malorie, the thrilling sequel to Bird Box, from New York Times bestselling author Josh Malerman.
Twelve years after Malorie and her children found a semblance of safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. One glimpse of the creatures will drive a person to unspeakable violence. Don’t get lazy, Malorie tells her kids. Don’t take off your blindfold. AND DON’T LOOK.
Then comes what feels like impossible news: Someone very dear to her may be alive.
Now Malorie has a choice to make: to live by the rules of survival that have served her so well, or to venture into the darkness and reach for hope once more.
We’re giving away five copies of Hawk by James Patterson to five lucky Riot readers!
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story for a new generation of Maximum Ride fans! 17-year-old Hawk is growing up hard and fast in post-apocalyptic New York City . . . until a perilous destiny forces her to take flight. Hawk doesn’t know her real name. She doesn’t know who her family was, or where they went. The only thing she remembers is that she was told to wait on a specific street corner, at a specific time, until her parents came back for her. She stays under the radar to survive…until a destiny that’s perilously close to Maximum Ride’s forces her to take flight.
Sponsored by Oni Press
Collect all of the bestselling Invader ZIM comics based on the hit Nickelodeon TV series! Every single horrible, hilarious detail comes to life in these enlarged Invader ZIM deluxe hardcover editions featuring art and stories by Jhonen Vasquez, Eric Trueheart, Sam Logan, Warren Wucinich, Sarah Graley and more! Hear from some of your favorite creators in the virtual SDCC Panel “Invader Zim Conquers Everything” on Sunday, July 26 at 2:00PM PT and find Invader ZIM Vol. 1-4 Deluxe editions available from Oni Press!
Sponsored by Scarlet Odyssey by C. T. Rwizi
They won’t accept him. Now they need him. Eighteen-year-old Salo has never been good at conforming to his tribe’s expectations, preferring books and magic to the typical tools of a warrior. But when his village is attacked by a cruel enchantress, Salo knows it’s his time to be a hero. Joined by three fellow outcasts, he embarks on an epic quest to gather information on a growing threat to his tribe and to defeat the enchantress who attacked his village. Read the action-packed and thought-provoking debut novel by C. T. Rwizi today.
We’re giving away five copies of Kind of a Big Deal by Shannon Hale to five lucky Riot readers!
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There’s nothing worse than peaking in high school. Nobody knows that better than Josie Pie. She was kind of a big deal—but the bigger you are, the harder you fall. And Josie fell. Hard. Ouch. Meanwhile, her life keeps imploding. Desperate to escape, Josie gets into reading. Literally. She reads a book and suddenly she’s inside it. It’s alarming. But also . . . kind of amazing? It’s the perfect way to live out her fantasies. Book after book, Josie the failed star finds a new way to shine. But the longer she stays in a story, the harder it becomes to escape. Will Josie find a story so good that she just stays forever?