Sunday, July 08, 2012

Fresh Batch (July 8th – 14th)

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

*note: After trying it out, I decided to revert to my good ol’ posting dates for Fresh Batch and Stacking the shelves. As of next week, Fresh Batch will be back on Saturdays, and my Stacking the Shelves on Sundays*

Flavor of the week:

Never Enough
Denise Jaden
Release date: July 10th 2012
by Simon Pulse

 

From the author of Losing Faith, a novel about two sisters and the eating disorder that threatens to destroy their family.

Loann’s always wanted to be popular and pretty like her sister, Claire. So when Claire’s ex-boyfriend starts flirting with her, Loann is willing to do whatever it takes to feel special… even if that means betraying her sister.

But as Loann slips inside Claire’s world, she discovers that everything is not as it seems. Claire’s quest for perfection is all-consuming, and comes at a dangerous price. As Claire increasingly withdraws from friends and family, Loann struggles to understand her and make amends. Can she heal their relationship —and her sister—before it’s too late?

Never Enough book trailer:

Denise Jaden’s first novel for teens, LOSING FAITH, was released from Simon Pulse, fall 2010. The first draft was written in 21 days during NaNoWriMo. NEVER ENOUGH, her second novel, is due out July 10, 2012. She lives just outside Vancouver, Canada with her husband and son.

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

High school senior Leah Jones loves nothing more than flying. When her flight instructor, Mr. Hall, hires her to fly for his banner advertising business, she sees it as her ticket out of the trailer park. And when he dies suddenly, she’s afraid her flying career is gone forever.   

As a Grave Witch, Alex solves murders by raising the dead—an ability that comes at a cost, and after her last few cases, that cost is compounding. But her magic isn’t the only thing causing havoc in her life.

 

The rich stew of the author’s creations—SingleEarth, vampires, shapeshifters, Tristes, the Bruja Guilds—are at full boil here in the story of two 20-ish young women trying to out run their very different pasts, and figure out where they fit in and who they might become.

Writing in free verse honed to a wicked edge, the incomparable Ron Koertge brings dark and contemporary humor to twenty iconic fairy tales.

Now, picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London, a world of spies, subterfuge, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the mysterious School of Night that includes Christopher Marlowe and Walter Raleigh.

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Alenna learned at an early age to blend in and be quiet. But Alenna can’t help but stand out when she fails a test that all sixteen-year-olds have to take: The test says she has a high capacity for brutal violence, and so she is sent to The Wheel, an island where all would-be criminals end up.

At the end of Siren’s Storm, the Sirens were defeated, and now the town of Walfang is once again a peaceful beach community.

Or is it?

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The BookWorld’s leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. She returns home to Swindon for what you’d expect to be a time of recuperation. If only life were that simple.

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Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860’s to the present, and ends with the narrator’s death.

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The time has come at last for Elspeth Gordie to leave the Land on her quest to find and stop the computermachine Sentinel from unleashing the deadly Balance of Terror arsenal. But before she can embark on her journey, she must find a lost key.

Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. But just as the reunion is getting under way, tragedy strikes, jolting the family to their core and setting the stage for a summer of crisis and profound change.

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Gigi Levangie Grazer, the New York Times bestselling author of The Starter Wife, returns with a hilarious and spirited tale of love—both lost and found.

With David’s Juilliard audition approaching, and his relationship teetering on the brink of disaster, Oak Fields is thrown into chaos as a mysterious prankster begins attacking the school’s highest achievers, determined to sabotage their college aspirations.

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Dazzling in its wit and effervescent insight, this kaleidoscopic tour de force of cultural observation and seductive storytelling alternates between the present and the 1960s—and indelibly captures the enduring impact of that time on the ways we live now.

Are the woods behind St. Bede’s Academy really haunted, or does bad stuff just happen there? When Calista Wood, a new student, arrives midway through her junior year, St. Bede’s feels like a normal school . . . until she discovers that a girl had disappeared a couple of months earlier.

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When plain and unpopular Annie Nutter gets zapped by one of her dad’s whacked-out inventions, she lands in a parallel universe where her life becomes picture-perfect. Now she’s Ayla Monroe, daughter of the same mother but a different father—and she’s the gorgeous, rich queen bee of her high school.

Orphaned, two sisters are left to find their own fortunes. With the arrival of a foreign bard into the quiet city, dangerous secrets are unearthed, and both sisters find themselves at the center of a plot that threatens not only to upset their newly found lives, but also to destroy their kingdom.

When seventeen-year-old Vanessa reunites with her biological mother, she faces the dilemma of a siren’s existence, that in order to survive she must endanger the lives of those she loves most.

It’s the most advanced computer role-playing game ever: When you play you’re really there—in a dark dream teeming with evil creatures, danger-filled fortresses, and malevolent sorceries.

It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High—until a massive explosion devastated the school. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died right in front of him. And that was just the beginning.

In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universe—and the inner workings of our absurdly dysfunctional music industry.

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Parties, bad boys, speakeasies—life in Manhattan has become a woozy blur for Clara Knowles. If Marcus Eastman truly loved her, how could he have fallen for another girl so quickly?

In Fever Moon, we meet the most ancient and deadly Unseelie ever created, the Fear Dorcha. For eons, he’s traveled worlds with the Unseelie king, leaving behind him a path of mutilation and destruction. Now he’s hunting Dublin, and no one Mac loves is safe.

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It’s summer break and the campus is quiet. But that doesn’t mean Heather can relax…because that ambulance she just saw pulling up in front of Death Dorm is there for none other than Tania Trace, now married to – and pregnant by – Heather’s ex…who just happens to be covered in his wife’s bodyguard’s blood.

Seemingly nothing in this world daunts the young criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl. In the fairy world, however, there is a small thing that has gotten under his skin on more than one occasion: Opal Koboi.

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Eighteen year old Birdie may be homeless, but she’s surviving, that is until a mysterious guy throws money in the air like a crazy game show host, and she grabs some with the idea she’ll be able to buy dinner that night.

In an exquisitely chilling debut novel, four children unravel the mystery of a family curse – and a ghostly creature known in folklore as Long Lankin.

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Someone’s been watching Tom’s virtual-reality prowess, and he’s offered the incredible—a place at the Pentagonal Spire, an elite military academy. There, Tom’s instincts for combat will be put to the test, and if he passes, he’ll become a member of the Intrasolar Forces, helping to lead his country to victory in World War Three.

For centuries, the Petrescu family has been protecting society from a danger that moves among the population undetected. Eighteen-year-old Vasi Petrescu has never had a problem carrying out his duty, but, when ordered to eliminate an eighteen-year-old girl, he is immediately taken out of his comfort zone.

Grace Pizzelli is the average one, nothing like her brilliant older sister, Emily, who works for Rasmussem, creators of the world’s best virtual reality games. The games aren’t real, though—or at least they weren’t. Now Emily has hidden herself inside a pink and sparkly game meant for little girls.




True love . . . and an undying obsession. Catlyn Youngblood has a secret life. Despite being a natural-born vampire hunter like her two older brothers, Cat has fallen for Jesse–an ageless boy from a centuries-old vampire clan.

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Kendra has always felt overshadowed by her older brother, Grayson, whose OCD forces him to live a life of carefully coordinated routines. The only way Kendra can stand out next to Grayson is to be perfect, and she has perfection down to an art — until a cheating scandal threatens her flawless reputation.

Cruel Intentions meets The Vampire Diaries in this sexy packaging of a classic vampire series from bestselling author R.L. Stine.

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When Lydia stumbles into a portal that transports her to a dangerous and strange new reality, she discovers that all the stories she’s ever heard about the Montauk Project are true, and that she’s in the middle of one of the most dangerous experiments in history.

When Kelsey and Isaac meet, it’s anything but love at first sight. She thinks he’s an entitled brat, and he thinks she’s a stuck-up snob. So it surprises them both when they start to fall for each other.

Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers.

 
A pretty fantastic week in releases!
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Giselle

Canadian blogger, wife, mother, coffee lover, and sarcastic at heart! She has had a love for all things bookish since before Amazon and eReaders existed *le gasp*. You can also find her organizing tours and other fun things at Xpresso Book Tours.

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23 Responses to “Fresh Batch (July 8th – 14th)”

  1. booktasty

    There are so many good looking books I want to read! I can’t wait to
    Read the new Heather Wells book, I love that series! Also The Little Woods sounds sooo awesome! 🙂

  2. Beverley

    So many amazing books released this week! I must read Never Enough – I like the sound of it from your review 🙂 Such a Rush and Don’t You Wish seem like fab contemporaries and Insignia sounds awesome too. I’m desperate to get my hands on The Thing About the Truth and Perfect Escape too! Aahh, there are too many books I wanna read…

    Thanks for sharing, Giselle <3

  3. Silverlight

    So many books that I haven’t even heard of!!
    House Shadows,Lost Girls, Dark Water, and Long Lankin are some that I’m interested in.
    Thanks for the batch this week, sweetie!

  5. Amy

    There are tons of great books coming out. Wow!! I really liked So Close to You. I am going to be reading The Little Woods this week. I was going to go to the Deborah Harkness signing for Shadow of Night on July 20th, but dude, the book is $28.99 and I can’t have anything signed unless I buy the book there. I don’t mind like $20 but I think that’s a bit ridiculous for one book, so I’m not going. 🙁 I haven’t even read the first book yet so I decided to not go. Anyways…thanks for the Fresh Batch. so many awesome books!!

  6. bookworm105

    There are some really awesome books i want to get! I really want to read Such A Rush – it sounds like a fun summer read! I’ve been wanting to read Crux for awhile. The Forsaken sounds really good and i prefer the Uk cover than the US one. And the trailer is really good!

    Thanks for sharing and happy reading! =D

  7. Mary @ BookSwarm

    So many books, so little time. I’ve heard wonderful things about A Discovery of Witches but just haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. If #1 was a cliffhanger, #2 probably is, too. Think I might be better off waiting for #3 so I won’t throw books!

  10. Maji Bookshelf

    wow so many awesome books!! And sooo little time 🙁
    Been excited for many of these books so far! Thanks for sharing Giselle!
    – Farah @MajiBookshelf

  12. Eileen

    So. Many. Good. Books. I’m overwhelmed by all those amazing releases! Never Enough and Such a Rush sound exceptionally good! Enjoy!

  19. Amber Hughes

    Wow…there’s a bunch I hadn’t heard of before and a couple I forgot were coming out this week! I’m going to definitely be checking some of these out when I have more time 🙂

  20. Mel - Thedailyprophecy.

    I still don’t know whtat to think about “Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses”, but I can’t wait to give it a try!

    The forsaken is also high on my list. Love the cover 🙂

    I’ve never heard of Quarantine before, so I’ve added it to my Goodreads list ^^ Sounds great!

  21. Christina

    Good choice for a feature. I totally loved Never Enough. 😀

    Denise Jaden definitely became a favorite. I need to find myself a copy of her other book…

  23. Suzanne @ Paranormal Book Fan

    There are some good books this week. I just finished Crux yesterday and it is SO good. I really recommend it. I’m interested in The Forsaken this week, and Dark Water and The Syndicate sound interesting too.