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These are some of the books our books editor received recenetly. They may be reviewed later

The Future of Us

by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler (Simon and Schuster)

It’s 1996 and less than half of all high school pupils have used the internet.

Facebook will not be invented for another eight years.

Josh and Emma have been neighbours their whole lives.

They were best friends – but that has changed; things have been awkward.

Then Josh’s family gets a free AOL CD in the mail and his mom makes him take it to Emma to install on her new computer.

When they log on, Josh and Emma discover their profiles on Facebook and they look at themselves 15 years in the future.

Everyone wonders what their destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to find out.

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Soul Beach

by Kate Harrison (Orion, R105)

Alice receives an e-mail from her dead sister and assumes it’s just a sick practical joke.

Then she receives an invitation to the virtual world of Soul Beach, an idyllic online paradise of sun, sea and sand where Alice can finally meet her sister again – and find a new world of friendship, secrets and even love.

But questions nag at Alice – like why is Soul Beach inhabited only by the young, the beautiful and the dead? Who really murdered her sister? And the most pressing question: could Alice be next?

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Order of Darkness: Changeling

by Philippa Gregory (Simon & Schuster, R170)

The year is 1453. All signs point to it being the end of the world.

Accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, 17-year-old Luca Vera is recruited by a mysterious stranger to record the end of time. Isolde, also 17, is trapped in a nunnery to prevent her claiming her inheritance.

As the nuns are driven to madness, Luca is sent to investigate and the evidence points to Isolde’s guilt.

Luca and Isolde embark on a search for truth, destiny and even love as they face the greatest fears in the medieval world.

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Pandemonium

by Lauren Oliver (Hodder & Stoughton)

The third book in the best-selling Delirium series, Pandemonium is Lena’s story and it promises to once again take you to the edge. – Meneesha Govender