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The Cadet of Tildor by Alex Lidell YA fantasy*hardcover & e-book, 400 pages Published by Dial (January 10, 2013) Purchase: Amazon Tour organized by:  AToMR Tours Tamora Pierce meets George R. R. Martin in this smart, political,  medieval fantasy-thriller. There is a new king on the throne of Tildor. Currents of political unrest sweep the country as two warring crime families seek power, angling to exploit the young Crown's inexperience. At the Academy of Tildor, the training ground for elite soldiers, Cadet Renee de Winter struggles to keep up with her male peers. But when her mentor, a notorious commander recalled from active duty to teach at the Academy, is kidnapped to fight in illegal gladiator games, Renee and her best friend Alec find themselves thrust into a world rife with crime, sorting through a maze of political intrigue, and struggling to resolve what they want, what is legal, and what is right. About the author: Alex Lidell Web

Obscura   Burning  by Suzanne van Rooyen  December 7th 2012 /  Etopia Press Purchase:  Amazon  |  Barnes & Noble  |  OmniLit The world's going to end in fire…and it's all Kyle's fault. Kyle Wolfe's world is about to crash and burn. Just weeks away from graduation, a fire kills Kyle's two best friends and leaves him permanently scarred. A fire that Kyle accidentally set the night he cheated on his boyfriend Danny with their female friend, Shira. That same day, a strange new planet, Obscura, appears in the sky. And suddenly Kyle's friends aren't all that dead anymore.  Each time Kyle goes to sleep, he awakens to two different realities. In one, his boyfriend Danny is still alive, but Shira is dead. In the other, it's Shira who's alive...and now they're friends with benefits. Shifting between realities is slowly killing him, and he's not the only one dying. The world is dying with him. He's pretty sureObscura h