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Portrait of a Donor
2013
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3.54
Average Rating
32
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A digital-only short story set in the STARTERS world, told from Briona's point of view. Would you rent out your body to the elderly so they could be young again? Includes a sneak peek at the sequel to STARTERS, Lissa Price’s ENDERS, where Callie is ready to fight for the truth—even if it kills her. PRAISE FOR “A bona fide page-turner.” —MTV.com “A smart, swift, inventive, altogether gripping story.” —DEAN KOONTZ “Readers who have been waiting for a worthy successor to Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games will find it here. Dystopian sci-fi at its best.” — Los Angeles Times “A must-read for fans of The Hunger Games and Legend. Fast-paced, romantic, and thought-provoking.” — Justine

Avg Rating
3.54
Number of Ratings
342
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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Author

Lissa Price
Lissa Price
Author · 9 books

Lissa Price’s debut novel STARTERS is an award-winning, international bestseller published in over thirty countries. Dean Koontz called this YA futuristic thriller “a smart, swift, inventive, altogether gripping story.” The LA Times said it is “Dystopian science-fiction at its best,” and “Readers who have been waiting for a worthy successor to ‘The Hunger Games’ will find it here.” STARTERS was a Barnes & Noble pick of the month and one of only four debuts on the B&N Best Teen Books of 2012. It was awarded the its Eselsohr for Best YA Book in 2012, selected by a jury of teens in Germany, and was chosen as a top ten favorite book of 2012 by both French and German readers. It won the Crimezone Award for Best YA Thriller and is one of the LAPL's and Chicago Public Library's Best Teen Books of 2012. Starters was chosen for the IRA Reading List and is the only book nominated for both the Florida Teens Read List and the SSYRA Middle School List 2013-14. In Germany, Starters launched a brand-new YA imprint of the established Piper Verlag publisher called IVI. Audiobooks have been recorded in English and German. See the book trailer that played in front of the Hunger Games film in selected theaters in the US and abroad at her site. The release dates for Enders will be announced by the publishers of each country, with some starting in May 2013. If you want to contact Lissa, please do it through her website, fb, twitter or tumblr and not here. She's happy to email you back if you reach out to her that way. She thanks everyone for their support!

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