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Flavor of the week:
Pushing the Limits
Katie McGarry
Release date: July 31st, 2012
by Harlequin Teen
So wrong for each other…and yet so right.
No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with “freaky” scars on her arms. Even Echo can’t remember the whole truth of that horrible night. All she knows is that she wants everything to go back to normal. But when Noah Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in the black leather jacket, explodes into her life with his tough attitude and surprising understanding, Echo’s world shifts in ways she could never have imagined. They should have nothing in common. And with the secrets they both keep, being together is pretty much impossible.Yet the crazy attraction between them refuses to go away. And Echo has to ask herself just how far they can push the limits and what she’ll risk for the one guy who might teach her how to love again.
KATIE MCGARRY was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, and reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.
Other releases this week (click on cover for Goodreads):
*In no particular order* *Purchase links are for Book Depository*
Since both girls were small, Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy’s best friend and right-hand lieutenant. Now they’re seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls – until the young new coach arrives.
Dez is a good girl who does as she’s told and tries not to be noticed. Then she rescues a boy from a cage, and he tells her secrets about herself. Now inside her burns a darkness that will transform her.
After being kicked out of the Order of Knights of Merciful Aid, Andrea’s whole existence is in shambles. All she can do is try to put herself back together, something made easier by working for Cutting Edge, a small investigative firm owned by her best friend, Kate Daniels.
When I was alive, my family seemed picture-perfect. My adoptive parents adored me, and my little sister, Laurel, copied my every move. But now that my long-lost twin, Emma, has taken my place to solve my murder, we’re both learning just how flawed my family really is.
When twelve-year-old Lady Lilah decides to disguise herself and sneak out of the palace one night, she has more of an adventure than she expected–for she learns very quickly that the country is on the edge of revolution.
On a sailboat ten miles off the Florida coast, Grace MacBride, partner in Monkeewrench Software, thwarts an assassination attempt on retired FBI agent John Smith. A few hours later, in Minneapolis, a fifteen-year-old girl is discovered in a vacant lot, her throat slashed.
It’s the summer of 2008. For the past decade Nick and Bryony Skinner and their four children have ridden high on the economic boom, but their luck is about to run out. Suddenly, the privileged family finds itself at the center of a financial scandal.
Riley’s always known that Beck had a chequered history, but she’s not prepared for what it actually means to be in love with a guy with this many dark secrets. Now that he’s finally admitted to himself that he’s in love with her too, there’s no more hiding the truth about his past. And as it turns out, fending off a demon apocalypse is nothing compared to what’s to come…
The electrifying sequel to the acclaimed urban fantasies The Better Part of Darkness, The Darkest Edge of Dawn, and The Hour of Dust and Ashes!
Struggling to control both her growing power and her deepening feelings for Alex, Lila decides the time has finally come to stop running and start fighting. But the plan requires Lila to return alone to California, make friends with the enemy, and to risk losing everything – Alex, her family, and even her life.
It’s 1923 and London is a whirl of jazz, dancing and parties. Violet, Daisy, Poppy and Rose Derrington are desperate to be part of it, but stuck in an enormous crumbling house in the country, with no money and no fashionable dresses, the excitement seems a lifetime away.
Sarah O’Brien is only alive because of the pact she and her brother made twelve years ago—James will protect her from their violent father if she promises to never leave him.
For fans of The Paris Wife, a sparkling glimpse into the life of Edith Wharton and the scandalous love affair that threatened her closest friendship.
Jane is on a plane on her way home to Montclair, New Jersey, from a mental hospital. She is about to kill herself. Just before she can swallow a lethal dose of pills, the plane hits turbulence and everything goes black.
Can a summer fling turn into love that lasts a lifetime? Former underwear model turned entrepreneur Clay Stryker has loved, tragically lost and vowed that he’ll never risk his heart again.
In the Second Book of Lharmell, Zeraphina and Rodden must travel across the sea to find the elusive ingredients that will help them to win the coming battle against the Lharmellin – but shadows from Rodden’s dark past may come back to haunt him.
Everyone’s heard the stories about Graylock Hall. It was meant to be a place of healing—a hospital where children and teenagers with mental disorders would be cared for and perhaps even cured. But something went wrong.
With his proven knack for humorously exploring the intrigues, fads, and dramas of middle school, Tom Angleberger has crafted a worthy follow-up to his breakout bestsellers “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda” and “Darth Paper Strikes Back.”
For millennia we’ve caught only glimpses of the lives and loves of the gods and goddesses on Olympus. Now Aimee Carter pulls back the curtain on how they became the powerful, petty, loving and dangerous immortals that Kate Winters knows.
Kit Colbana—half breed, assassin, thief, jack of all trades—has a new job: track down the missing ward of one of the local alpha shapeshifters. It should be a piece of cake.
When Poppy Johnson throws away a full scholarship to Columbia, she can only blame the jelly beans. The yucky green ones? Midnight cram sessions and Saturday’s spent studying. The delicious red? Columbia, and a future in finance. Except now it’s starting to look like Poppy’s jelly bean theory is wrong.
Stories within stories. Secrets within secrets. In accepting powers from the legendary witch Baba Yaga, Anne must tackle a complex set of missions.
Master vampires from dozens of cities have also gathered in London for a conference of their own. With the help of the Master of London, Kitty gets more of a glimpse into the Long Game—a power struggle among vampires that has been going on for centuries—than she ever has before.
Alice isn’t having the best of days. She was late for work, she missed her bus, and now she’s getting rained on. What she doesn’t know is that her day’s about to get worse: the epic, grand-scale kind of worse that comes from the arrival of two angels who claim everything about her life is a lie.
Funny and feisty witch Jolie Wilkins is back—or rather, she’s back to her humble beginnings. Propelled into the past to her old Los Angeles fortune-telling shop, Jolie has no idea she possesses extraordinary powers, and she definitely doesn’t remember becoming Queen of the Underworld.
Everything is connected. We weave in and out of one another’s lives, like circles within circles, and everything is for a purpose. “Destiny” is the stunning conclusion to this gripping series about sisterhood, the circles of time, and love.
Emma Rayburn lived a quiet life in the sleepy town of Baron Hollow, until she injured her head in a riding accident. Afterwards, her dreams were full of nameless girls being tortured and murdered, nightmares that didn’t seem to have any link with her life…until her estranged sister, Jessie, returns.
What’s on your shopping list this week?
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Danny
Of course I am most excited about Pushing The Limits!!! But there are some great books coming out toon :))
Misa G.
I’m probably most excited about Skylark and Survive, but there’s a whole bunch of awesome books coming out soon 😀
So many books, so little time…
Misa
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Philip Tucker
Good Lord. How could one hope to ever read this many novels? A deluge of books!
Giselle
@Danny: Me too! I want a pretty finished copy on my shelf! 😀
@Misa: Survive looks SO good! Also – lots of books being compared to Lost lately!
@Philip Tucker: I agree! Lots of great new releases this week!
Amy
Wow tons of great books this week!! I loved Pushing the Limits and need to get myself a finished copy of it. I also really want Survive and Skylark. Oh and The Goddess Legacy was good too. I will have to get that for my nook at some point to go with the rest of the series. The Ghost of Graylock sounds interesting.
Zino
The Debutantes and Otherkin look really interesting, I’d love to read them 🙂
Kristilyn (Reading in Winter)
I almost forgot The Goddess Legacy comes out this week! Can’t wait to get a copy to add to the rest of the series. 🙂
The Susan Mallery book looks good!
Thanks for sharing!
Camille Picott
Wow, looks like lots of good stuff is coming out! I’m intrigued by the Better Part of Darkness trilogy!
The Bumble Girl
I am reading Pushing the Limits right now! and I really enjoy H.P. Mallory’s books! I can’t wait to read this one too!
Alisa Selene
Debutantes looks appealing to me being a bit obsessed with all things 1920s! 🙂
Kelly @ Dandelion Dreams
Since I’ve been reading Pretty Little Liars, it’s got me wanting to read the Lying Game series as well so I may have to pick up those and the newest one Hide and Seek as well!
Suzanne @ Paranormal Book Fan
I just finished Pushing the Limits today and I loved it. The US cover is SO much better than the UK one which I don’t like at all. I also recently read the Goddess Legacy which I enjoyed too. After reading some great reviews for Losing Lila, I got Hunting Lila from the library the other day, so that’s one I could be adding to the TBR soon.
Sasha
Wow, lots of fantastic books coming out soon! On one hand I’m super excited because… look at them all! On the other hand, I’m miserable because there’s no way I’ll get to read all of them with my TBR pile looming over my head, haha 😉
Rebecca - Kindle Fever
LOL, I wonder how many in the blogoverse that are waiting for Pushing the Limits. 😉 A real awesome-looking book, that one!! I’m waiting for Otherkin the most, myself, I think. 😮
Shooting Stars Mag
Oh fun week. I can’t believe Pushing the Limits hasn’t come out yet, from all the talk about it, you would think it was already released.
I want to read Flawed so so much. It sounds great. I also want to read Dare Me and I’m just now hearing about The Ghost of Graylock, sounds intense. Gonna add that to my wish list.
-Lauren
Aneeqah
Pushing the Limits!!! I really am going to have to get my hands on a hardcover of that book. I need it sitting on my shelves. 😉 Survive also looks really great, I may end up getting that one!
Thanks for the list Giselle! <3 August is going to be a crazy month for books [especially August 28th- all the awesome books are coming out on that day!].
Sam
I’m so excited for Foretold! I loved the last book in the series and can’t wait to find out what happens to Beck and Riley next. 🙂 I’m eager to get my hands on a finished copy of Pushing the Limits and Skylark too! 🙂
Tarah Schaeffer
I just recently started reading Pushing The Limits myself and its a major page turner so far.
Savannah Valdez
There are just too many books that I need to get!!!
Silverlight
That cover and snyopsis to Haven looks good! I totally forgot about Blade Song(on the ole’ Kindle) and should read it, right now! Pushing The Limits, I guess is a must read-since you loved it! Thanks for the batch, <3 it, chick! 🙂
roro
I am most excited about Pushing The Limits and blood and feathers
Meg K.
Yay! PUSHING THE LIMITS comes out today! I absolutely adored it! 😀 The other books look great, especially SURVIVE.
Thanks for sharing, Giselle!
Mel - Thedailyprophecy.
Wow, there are more books than I expected! I never heard of ‘The spy princess’ but that one looks great! It goes on my list right away ^^