New Releases by Abigail Tarttelin

"Abigail Tarttelin is a fearless writer." --Emily St. John Mandel From the award-winning author of Golden Boy, a riveting novel that traces one girl''s journey to understand what happened to her best friend, and what it might mean to be a girl. Eastcastle, England in the late 1990s is a peaceful, rural community where children disappear into wheat fields to play until nightfall. There are no mobile phones and no cause to worry. For families, it''s a place that allows the ultimate freedom, and this is the way eleven-year-old Thera Wilde and her friends are brought up: free. So when Thera''s best friend goes missing, Thera assumes Billie is off on another adventure. Then detectives come to question Thera at school, and she realises the worst has happened. Thera starts to ask, what is a pervert? Why are girls particularly at risk? And why do the men around her think she''s theirs to touch? Questions the adults around her don''t want to answer. Meanwhile, Billie has entered the realm of the dead girls; the girls that go missing and who no one finds. Does Thera really see her ghost, or is she hallucinating, mentally marked by the horror of losing her friend? The investigation continues. The rural police are slow, and overwhelmed by the unexpected nature of the case. Urged on by what she believes to be Billie''s ghost, Thera decides to find out what happened to her friend. It''s the 90s. Girls can do anything. Thera will hunt down the killer herself. An authentic, tender portrayal of a young girl''s grief and determination in the face of unbearable loss, as well as a smart, suspenseful exploration of how we talk to young girls about the men who would hurt them. Dead Girls is Tarttelin''s riveting, fiercely feminist follow up to critically-acclaimed LAMBDA Finalist and ALEX Award winner, Golden Boy.

"Flick is young, smart and stoned and in love. Stranded in his hometown by a lack of education, cash and anything really worth doing, he muses on whether Pepsi is better than Coke, the art of the right amount of stoned ... But when a dangerous figure from his past threatens his future with Rainbow, Flick finds himself torn between the ties that bind him to his old life and the freedom that she represents."--P. [4] of cover.

Max Walker tiene una vida perfecta... Max Walker tiene un secreto... y alguien se ha enterado. Max Walker es un chico de oro. Bronceado, rubio, atractivo y atlético, es el hijo perfecto, el deportista perfecto y un partido perfecto para las chicas de su escuela. También es el modelo a seguir para su hermano pequeño. Su aparentemente modélica familia ocupa unaposición más que envidiable: su padre es candidato a las elecciones al Parlamento y, entretanto, Max se enamora por primera vez. Sin embargo, todos ellos están a punto de convertirse en el punto de mira de los medios de comunicación, que pronto los cercarán en unintento de averiguar aquello que siempre han ocultado. Reseña: «Un libro conmovedor, valiente, importante.» S. J. Watson

Contemporary fiction. Max Walker is the golden boy. He''s the perfect son, the perfect friend and the perfect crush for the girls at his school. He''s attractive, he''s intelligent, he''s athletic He''s even nice to his little brother. But he has a terrible secret. If his secret gets out, his perfect life will be blown apart.

The Atria Summer 2013 Beach-Read Bag: A free collection of thirteen excerpts from novels by some of our favorite writers. There’s nothing that goes better with beach season than a delicious novel. With that in mind, we present Atria’s Summer 2013 Beach-Read Bag: a free collection of 13 excerpts from novels by some of our favorite writers. Selections include: The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally The Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwartz Five Days by Douglas Kennedy Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin The Lavender Garden by Lucinda Riley With All My Love by Patricia Scanlon The Mouse-Proof Kitchen by Saira Shah The Longings of Wayward Girls by Karen Brown Waiting for Jules by Tamara N. Houston No matter whether you’re on a plane traveling to your getaway destination or on your couch planted firmly in front of the air conditioner, we’ve got a great story guaranteed to whisk you away on a reading vacation.