Ashley Poston
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it. So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ashley Poston, acclaimed author of Heart of Iron, returns with a dark, lush fairy tale-inspired fantasy for fans of Sara Raasch and Susan Dennard. Cerys is safe in the Kingdom of Aloriya. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed,...
Author
Series
Once upon a con volume 3
Publisher
Quirk Books
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rosie Thorne is feeling stuck: on her college application essays, on that mysterious General Sond cosplayer she met at ExcelsiCon, but most of all in her grief over her mother's death. Her only solace was her late mother's library of rare Starfield novels, but the family sold it to pay off hospital bills. Vance Reigns has always been Hollywood royalty, with all the privilege and scrutiny that entails. After a tabloid scandal, he's forced to hide out...
Author
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cinderella goes to the con in this charming young adult romance that puts a fandom twist on the classic fairy tale—from a New York Times bestselling author!
“With geekily adorable characters, a show that’s part Star Trek and part Firefly, a cosplay contest, and a food truck fairy godmother, this is a love letter to fandom.” —Booklist
Geek girl...
“With geekily adorable characters, a show that’s part Star Trek and part Firefly, a cosplay contest, and a food truck fairy godmother, this is a love letter to fandom.” —Booklist
Geek girl...
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem--after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won't give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Prince and the Pauper gets a Geekerella-style makeover in this witty and heartfelt novel for those who believe in the magic of fandom—now with an excerpt from Bookish and the Beast.
Imogen Lovelace is an ordinary fangirl on an impossible mission: to save her favorite Starfield character, Princess Amara, from being killed off. On the other hand, the actress who plays Amara...
Imogen Lovelace is an ordinary fangirl on an impossible mission: to save her favorite Starfield character, Princess Amara, from being killed off. On the other hand, the actress who plays Amara...
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Physical Desc
467 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09--one of the last remaining illegal Metals--has been glitching. Ana's efforts to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offer all the answers. At the last moment, a spoiled Ironblood boy beats Ana to her prize. The two end up as fugitives, with the entire kingdom is after...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Physical Desc
424 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Once Ana was an orphaned space outlaw. Then she was the Empress of the Iron Kingdom. Now, thought dead by most of the galaxy after she escaped from the dark AI program called the HIVE, Ana is desperate for a way to save Di from the HIVEs evil clutches and take back her kingdom. Anas only option is to find Starbright, the one person who hacked into the HIVE and lived to tell the tale. But when Anas desperation costs the crew of the Dossier a terrible...
Author
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Return to the geek-tastic world of Starfield fandom with a tale of a superstar and a superfan who swap lives in this sweet and funny companion novel to Geekerella. Movie star Jessica Stone can't go up onstage at another con and pretend to love Starfield anymore--except that she's contractually obligated. She never dreamed she'd be playing Princess Amara for life, but people love Princess Amara, and for better or worse, Princess Amara has Jessica Stone's...
10) Geekerella
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Geek girl Ellie hopes to go to ExcelsiCon Cosplay to meet the actor (closet nerd Darien) scheduled to play Federation Prince Carmindor in a reboot of the movie Starfield.
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects sixteen interconnected short stories about a high school's battle of the bands competition, from such authors as Shaun David Hutchinson, Brittany Cavallaro, and Preeti Chhibber.
For many, the Raritan River High School Battle of the Bands is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform onstage for their peers and maybe win a real recording session. For others it is a too-loud obligation or a chaotic test of their technological and organizational...