Saturday, March 24, 2012

Fresh Batch (March 25th – 31st)

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Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

Slide

Jill Hathaway
Release date: March 27th, 2012
by Balzer + Bray

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Vee Bell is certain of one irrefutable truth—her sister’s friend Sophie didn’t kill herself. She was murdered.

Vee knows this because she was there. Everyone believes Vee is narcoleptic, but she doesn’t actually fall asleep during these episodes: When she passes out, she slides into somebody else’s mind and experiences the world through that person’s eyes. She’s slid into her sister as she cheated on a math test, into a teacher sneaking a drink before class. She learned the worst about a supposed “friend” when she slid into her during a school dance. But nothing could have prepared Vee for what happens one October night when she slides into the mind of someone holding a bloody knife, standing over Sophie’s slashed body.

Vee desperately wishes she could share her secret, but who would believe her? It sounds so crazy that she can’t bring herself to tell her best friend, Rollins, let alone the police. Even if she could confide in Rollins, he has been acting off lately, more distant, especially now that she’s been spending more time with Zane.

Enmeshed in a terrifying web of secrets, lies, and danger and with no one to turn to, Vee must find a way to unmask the killer before he or she strikes again.

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Jill Hathaway lives in the Des Moines area with her husband and young daughter. Having earned her BA in English Education from the University of Northern Iowa and her MA in Literature from Iowa State University, she teaches high school English and dual credit courses for Des Moines Area Community College.

SLIDE, her debut, will be released from Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins in 2012.

 Other releases this week (click on cover for Goodreads):
*In no particular order*  *Purchase links are for Book Depository*

As the other gods prepare for a war that could end them all, it is up to Kate to save Henry from the depths of Tartarus. But in order to navigate the endless caverns of the Underworld, Kate must enlist the help of the one person who is the greatest threat to her future.Henry’s first wife, Persephone.

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When Chess Putnam is ordered by an infamous crime boss—who also happens to be her drug dealer—to use her powers as a witch to solve a grisly murder involving dark magic, she knows she must rise to the challenge.
Purchase 

Have you ever heard of a Bludman? They’re rather like you and me—only more fabulous, immortal, and mostly indestructible. (They’re also very good kissers.)

Upset by his apparent callousness, missing her mother, and jealous for her dad’s attention, she begins to spiral into depression. Her grandparents suggest she joins a local theatre group, to meet people her own age and get away from the dark thoughts that threaten to engulf her. But then she gets roped into a seance at the theatre, and is the only one who actually sees a real ghost.

When homicide detective Alexandra Jarvis sees a photo of Seth Benjamin on a police bulletin, she knows that Heaven’s plan to halt Armageddon has gone terribly wrong. As the only mortal who knows of Seth’s true nature, only she can save him.

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After breaking a centuries-old romantic curse, Emma Connor is (almost) glad to get back to normal problems. Although…it’s not easy dealing with the jealous cliques and gossip that rule her exclusive Upper East Side prep, even for a sixteen-year-old newbie witch.

Fifteen-year-old Willo was out hunting when the trucks came and took his family away. Left alone in the snow, Willo becomes determined to find and rescue his family, and he knows just who to talk with to learn where they are. He plans to head across the mountains and make Farmer Geraint tell him where his family has gone.

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When Dez sacrifices herself to save the new Six they’d rescued from falling into the corp’s hands, Kale is lost. Denazen has brought out its best to get the job done. Samsen, a nightmare from Kale’s past—the only person he’s ever truly feared—has come for them, and it soon becomes obvious he has his own twisted agenda.

 



Now back in the Brotherhood – and unrecognisable as the vampire leader he once was – Tohrment is physically emaciated and heartbroken beyond despair. When he begins to see his beloved in his dreams – trapped in a cold, isolating netherworld – Tohr turns to a self-serving fallen angel in hopes of saving the one he has lost.

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The days are growing darker for 17-year-old demon trapper Riley Blackthorne. With her father’s reanimated body back safely, Beck barely speaking to her because of a certain hunky Fallen angel, and a freshly-made deal with Lucifer, she has enough on her hands to last a normal teenage lifetime.

Sabrina, an artist, is diagnosed with schizophrenia, and her parents check her into the Wellness Center. There she meets Alec, who is convinced it’s the world that’s crazy, not the two of them. But when Alec starts to convince Sabrina that her treatment will wipe out everything that makes her creative, she worries that she’ll lose hold of her dreams and herself.

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May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she’s dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River. Sue Ellen, May Lynn’s strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn’s body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around. If May Lynn can’t become a star, then at least her ashes will end up in the land of her dreams.

Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother’s death, Princess Azalea and her 11 sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.

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Sophomore Cammie Bliss has long been labeled a stalker by her peers, but when a cute new boy named Toby arrives at her small town high school, Cammie has a chance to be “normal.” Trouble is, she can’t really help herself and she’s up to her old tricks of “intense observation and following” pretty quick.

Reading of Jane’s isolation sparks a deep sense of kinship. Then fate takes things a leap further when a lightning storm catapults Emma right into Jane’s body and her nineteenth-century world.

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What is catching your eye this week?
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Giselle

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23 Responses to “Fresh Batch (March 25th – 31st)”

  1. Kristan

    OMGOSH! I had no idea it was already time for Lover Reborn! Gahh I need some more BDB in my life =) I might just have to push the TBR pile aside and spend my reading nights with Tohr!

    Kristan

  2. kimba88

    Sweet release week. Loved Slide and dang i still need to read the goddess test..so many books so little time. If only sleep was optional

  3. Sam

    I’m really excited for Forgiven! I love that series and can’t wait to read that book. I’m also really looking forward to Dark storm. That books sounds like my type of thing. 🙂

  4. Shirley

    OMGGGG I CANT WAIT FOR ENTWINED AND LIFE IS BUT A DREAM!! I finished Slide yesterday, and liked it! (Though I wish it was better in some ways..but still a fabulous debut!) Ooohhh After the Snow sounds really interesting, but it’s a pity you didn’t like it :S Awesome books out this week!

  5. Amy

    Ohh is Untouched finally coming out for real? I still need to read Touch, but still. Lol. Slide is one I have been wanting to read. Dark Storm sounds really cool.

  14. Sophia

    What? Dark Storm and A Breath of Eyre are already out? Must. Buy. Now. Thanks so much, Giselle, for posting these kinds of things. I always forget when books are coming out, haha. Oh my goodness, Dark Storm! A Breath of Eyre! Want!!

  15. Rebecca (Kindle Fever)

    Sin of the Sons! Can’t wait to read it. I loved the first one and after that ending I need to get my hands on it! I’m finally reading Slide too and enjoying it! Can’t wait to see what happens. Lots of new but good-looking reads coming out this week!

  16. Lexie

    YES TO SLIDE! 😀 I liked the book, but I mainly excited because Jill Hathaway is just really, really fantastic. I’m so happy for her, and I can’t wait to see SLIDE in stores. Also, Life is but a Dream and Entwined! 😀 I’ve wanted Life is but a Dream since I found out about it, and I’ve been lusting after Entwined for ages now but never quite been able to buy it. Now that it’s in paperback, that’ll be significantly easier.

  19. Maja (The Nocturnal Library)

    I can’t even begin to tell you how badly I want to get my hands on a copy of Slide. i have a good feeling about it.
    As for The Demon Trappers, I’ve already read the new book and it’s the best one yet, in my opinion.