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Teen & Young Adult
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$10.99
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Deal begins:
May 15, 2023
Deal ends:
May 15, 2023
Best-selling creator Rick Riordan presents Daniel José Older’s music-and-magic-filled YA city fantasy about two teenagers who uncover one another and their powers throughout a political battle inside a novel diaspora group.
“Brimming with mystery, mayhem, and heart, Ballad and Dagger gives us wondrous new magic steeped in deep traditions. It’s a gorgeous romance, a wild adventure, and a powerful story that unravels not only the pain of diaspora, but the strength of community and the ways we provide refuge for one another.”–Leigh Bardugo, New York Times #1 best-selling creator of Shadow and Bone.
Almost sixteen years in the past, Mateo Matisse’s island homeland disappeared into the ocean. Weary and hopeless, the survivors of San Madrigal’s sinking escaped to New York.
While the remainder of his tight-knit Brooklyn diaspora group goals of sometime discovering a means again dwelling, Mateo–now a highschool junior and piano prodigy residing together with his two aunts (one who’s alive, the opposite not a lot)–is centered on one factor: getting the eye of locally-grown musical legend Gerval. Mateo lastly will get his likelihood on the night time of the Grand Fete, an annual occasion celebrating the blended tradition of pirates, Cuban Santeros, and Sephardic Jews that created San Madrigal all these centuries in the past.
But the evil that sank their island has lastly caught up with them, and on the night time of the celebration, Mateo’s life is perpetually modified when he witnesses a brutal homicide by an individual he thought he knew.
Suddenly Mateo is thrust into an historical battle that spans years and oceans. Deadly secrets and techniques are unraveled and Mateo awakens an influence inside himself–a energy that not solely hyperlinks him to the killer however might additionally maintain the important thing to unlocking the darkish thriller behind his misplaced homeland.
From the creator of the award-winning Shadowshaper Cypher sequence comes the primary novel within the Outlaw Saints duology–a sensible story that can transport readers to a world the place magic, delusion, and gods reign over the streets of Brooklyn.
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