Beautiful Creatures
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Winner of the 2013 Goodreads Choice Award for Graphic Novels & Comics! There were no surprises in Gatlin County. We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.At least, that's what I thought.Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.There was a curse.There was a girl.And in the end, there was a grave.Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.
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There were no surprises in Gatlin County. We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.At least, that's what I thought.Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.There was a curse.There was a girl.And in the end, there was a grave. Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town ofGatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them. In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

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Kami Garcia is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and international bestselling author and comic book writer. She is the coauthor of the Beautiful Creatures and Dangerous Creatures novels and her solo works include the YA fantasy novels UNBREAKABLE and UNMARKED (THE LEGION SERIES), YA contemporary romances THE LOVELY RECKLESS and BROKEN BEAUTIFUL HEARTS, and THE X-FILES ORIGINS: AGENT OF CHAOS. She is also the writer of the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling YA graphic novel TEEN TITANS: RAVEN, with artist Gabriel Picolo, the first graphic novel in their TEEN TITANS series for DC, the upcoming YA graphic novel CONSTANTINE: DISTORTED ILLUSIONS, with artist Isaac Goodhart, and JOKER/HARLEY: CRIMINAL SANITY for DC Black Label, with artists Mico Suayan, Jason Badower, and Mike Mayhew.

Her debut novel, BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, has been published in 50 countries and translated in 39 languages, and the series has sold over 5 million copies. BEAUTIFUL CREATURES was a finalist for the ALA’s William C. Morris Debut Author Award, a SCIBA Award Finalist, Amazon’s #1 Teen Book of 2009 and #5 on the Editor’s Top 100 List, a YALSA “Teen Top Ten” Pick, and a New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age” selection. The film adaptation Beautiful Creatures released in theaters in 2013, from Warner Brothers.

Kami is a cofounder of the KidLit book festival YALLFest, and a board member of YALLWest, the sister festival. She's also a member of the NaNoWriMo Writer's Board.

Kami has an MA in education, and she was a teacher for seventeen years before co-authoring her first novel on a dare from seven of her students. Kami can teach you how to escape from a pair of handcuffs or bake a Coca-Cola cake. She lives in Maryland with her family, and their dogs Spike and Oz. Visit Kami at www.kamigarcia.com.

Find Kami online at www.kamigarcia.com, Facebook: KamiGarciaYA, Twitter: @kamigarcia, Instagram: @kamigarcia, Tumblr: kamigarcia, & Pinterest: kamigarcia.

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Margaret Stohl is a #1 New York Times bestselling & award-winning author of books, comics and videogames. Best known for the BEAUTIFUL CREATURES novels and Marvel's LIFE OF CAPTAIN MARVEL comics, her latest book is CATS VS ROBOTS: THIS IS WAR (with husband Lewis Peterson, illustrated by their child Kay Peterson.) When not writing, she builds game worlds (#Bungie) or book festivals (#Yallwest #Yallfest) Find more about her at mstohl.com // @mstohl on twitter // margaret_stohl at instagram // margaret_stohl on snapchat.

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Margaret is the USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Indie-Bound, Wall Street Journal and Internationally Bestselling author of twelve YA novels, and has been published in 37 languages and 48 countries.

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES was adapted into a film (2013) by Warner Brothers and Alcon Entertainment, and was an ALA William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist in 2010, as well as a SCIBA award finalist, a NYPL Book for the Teen Age, and a YALSA Teen Top Ten Pick. Beautiful Creatures was named the #1 Teen Pick from Amazon in 2009, and the #5 Editors Pick, Overall.

Aside from the BEAUTIFUL CREATURES novels, Margaret has written the DANGEROUS CREATURES novels (both series with Kami Garcia), the ICONS novels, Marvel's BLACK WIDOW novels, ROYCE ROLLS and CATS VS ROBOTS: THIS IS WAR.

In addition to novels, Margaret is also the author of many comics, including MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL, CAPTAIN MARVEL DARK ORIGINS, CAPTAIN MARVEL GENERATIONS, and LIFE OF CAPTAIN MARVEL for MARVEL COMICS.

Prior to her career in books and comics, Margaret worked in the video game industry for sixteen years, eventually co-founding 7 Studios game developer with her husband, Lewis Peterson, serving as Creative Director until the company was acquired. Margaret now splits time between Santa Monica and Seattle, where she builds game worlds at Bungie Inc.

Margaret's passion project is literacy outreach; as the co-founder of YALLFEST (Charleston, SC) and YALLWEST (Santa Monica, CA), two of the biggest kid/teen book festivals in the country, she loves nothing more than talking books with teen and youth readers.