Cinder

Start: 08/16/2012 7:00 pm

	*One of this year's best selling Young Adult authors, Marissa Meyer will be in store in August to promote her book, Cinder.*
	Cinder is a modern retelling of the Cinderella fairytale. Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.
	"Terrific." —Los Angeles Times “Author Marissa Meyer rocks the fractured fairy tale genre with a sci-fi twist on Cinderella.” –*The Seattle Times*
Cinder is the first book in the Lunar Trilogy. Scarlet, the second book in the trilogy, will be released next year.	To listen to an audio-exerpt of the book, click here.