Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, to celebrate we’ve curated books that warm the heart and make you smile, and if you’re craving something a little different from the usual love story! Check out a book today and fall in love with reading again!
Juvenile
Tiny T. Rex and the Perfect Valentine
Tiny T. Rex wants to make the perfect valentine for his friend, Pointy, but the paint spills, and the sparkles are all over the place, and soon he has a big mess–but Pointy assures him that just being a friend is the best valentine of all.
Flubby Does Not Like Valentine’s Day
“Kami wants to show Flubby some love for Valentine’s Day, but no gift seems like a good fit. Can Kami find the perfect present?”–Page 4 of cover.
Teen
Reggie and Delilah’s Year of Falling
“Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She goes with the flow–which is how she ends up singing in her friends’ punk band as a favor, even though she’d prefer to hide at the merch table. Reggie is a D&D Dungeon Master and self-declared Blerd. He spends his free time leading quests and writing essays critiquing the game under a pseudonym, keeping it all under wraps from his disapproving family. These two, who have practically nothing in common, meet for the first time on New Year’s Eve. And then again on Valentine’s Day. And then again on St. Patrick’s Day. It’s almost like the universe is pushing them together for a reason”–Dust jacket flap.
Cemetery Boys meets Legendborn in this thrillingly romantic, irresistibly fun YA contemporary fantasy debut following a teenage Chinese American ghost speaker who (reluctantly) makes a deal to raise her nemesis from the dead. Cara Tang doesn’t want to be haunted. Look, the dead have issues, and Cara has enough of her own. Her overbearing mother insists she be the “perfect” Chinese American daughter—which means suppressing her ghost-speaking powers—and she keeps getting into fights with Zacharias Coleson, the local golden boy whose smirk makes her want to set things on fire. Then she stumbles across Zach’s dead body in the woods. He’s even more infuriating as a ghost, but Cara’s the only one who can see him—and save him. Agreeing to resurrect him puts her at odds with her mother, draws her into a dangerous liminal world of monsters and magic—and worse, leaves her stuck with Zach. Yet as she and Zach grow closer, forced to depend on each other to survive, Cara finds the most terrifying thing is that she might not hate him so much after all. Maybe this is why her mother warned her about ghosts. Delightful and compulsively readable, this contemporary fantasy has something for every reader: a snarky voice, a magnetic enemies-to-lovers romance, and a spirited adventure through a magical, unpredictable world hidden within our own.
“Even with the blood, rituals, and resurrections, the most surprising thing about the summer of 2003 was Ivy Wexler.” When offered a chance to avoid summer school, goth girl Frankie Tanner reluctantly agrees to help Ivy Wexler, a cheerleader who has just resurrected her cat in preparation for bigger and better (dead) things. Perfect for people who wanted The Craft to be sapphic. BABYLOVE is a spooky sapphic romance YA novella, and takes place in the ZOMBABE universe. You don’t have to read any other series to understand this one.
Adult
Back under the same roof and bickering like old times before her best friend’s February 14th wedding, maid-of-honor Lissette Alonso and Brian Anderson, who is the reason for all her Valentine’s Day hatred, call a truce when someone he is trying to avoid shows up at the reception.
“There’s much ado about everything when two adversaries become allies and fake a relationship to fool their meddling friends in this swoony, inclusive reimagining of the Bard’s beloved play Much Ado About Nothing. Jamie and Bea have nothing in common except a meet-disaster and the mutual understanding that they couldn’t be more wrong for each other. But when the people closest to them play Cupid and trick them into dating, Jamie and Bea realize they have something else in common after all–an undeniable need for revenge. Soon their plan is in place: 1. Fake date. Obnoxiously. Convince the meddlers they’re madly in love. 2. Break up. Spectacularly. Dash everyone’s hopes and put a stop to the matchmaking madness–once and for all. To convince everyone they’ve actually fallen for each other, Jamie and Bea will have to nail the performance of their lives. But as their final act nears and playing parts becomes easier than not, what once felt fake now seems all too real. What if Cupid’s arrow wasn’t so off the mark? And what if two wrongs do make a right?”– Provided by publisher.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
A mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton–and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy.
“Así empieza Orgullo y prejuicio y zombis, una versión ampliada de la clásica novela de Jane Austen, sólo que con escalofriantes escenas de zombis que siembran el terror y devoran a seres humanos. Cuando esa misteriosa plaga llega a la apacible población inglesa de Meryton y los difuntos empiezan a resucitar convertidos en temibles muertos vivientes, la intrépida heroína Elizabeth Bennet tendrá que acabar con la amenaza y, al mismo tiempo, evitar que la llegada del altivo y arrogante señor Darcy la distraiga de su empeño. Reescritura en clave de solfa de un clásico fundamental, Orgullo y prejuicio y zombis es una comedia deliciosa, aderezada con civilizadas peleas entre los dos jóvenes enamorados y otras más violentas en el ensangrentado campo de batalla donde Elizabeth libra una guerra sin cuartel contra legiones de zombis que se alimentan de seres humanos. Orgullo y prejuicio y zombis, con sus desenganos amorosos, sus duelos, su canibalismo y sus cadáveres putrefactos, transforma un obra maestra de la literatura mundial en algo que realmente desearemos leer”–Cover.
When Ophelia and her sister find their mother brutally murdered, Ophelia has no time to grieve: not only has she inherited her family’s magic but she is now responsible for her mother’s debt. If the siblings don’t come up with the money in one month, their childhood home will be demolished by the city. But when her sister recklessly tries to win the money by entering Phantasma, Ophelia cannot abandon her–even if most contestants never escape alive. No one knows how Phantasma started or who rules its terrors: the haunted competition travels from city to city, and winning is rumored to cost your soul.” — Provided by publisher.
A coming of RAGE love story about a teenager and her infatuation, who happens to be a corpse. After a set of horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a journey to find love, happiness, and a few missing body parts.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in nineteenth century England is faced with a new challenge, an army of undead zombies.