Monthly Archives:: May 2014

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Flavor of the week:

The Truth About Alice
Jennifer Mathieu
Publication date: June 3rd 2014
by Roaring Brook Press

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Everyone knows Alice slept with two guys at one party. When Healy High star quarterback, Brandon Fitzsimmons, dies in a car crash, it was because he was sexting with Alice. Ask anybody.  Rumor has it Alice Franklin is a slut. It’s written all over the “slut stall” in the girls’ bathroom: “Alice had sex in exchange for math test answers” and “Alice got an abortion last semester.” After Brandon dies, the rumors start to spiral out of control. In this remarkable debut novel, four Healy High students tell all they “know” about Alice–and in doing so reveal their own secrets and motivations, painting a raw look at the realities of teen life. But in this novel from Jennifer Mathieu, exactly what is the truth about Alice? In the end there’s only one person to ask: Alice herself.

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *

– Fall from India Place (On Dublin Street #4) by Samantha Young [Purchase]
– The Girl Who Never Was (Otherworld #1) by Skylar Dorset [Purchase]
– Devil’s Game (Reapers MC #3) by Joanna Wylde [Purchase]
– Hold on Tight (Sea Breeze #8) by Abbi Glines [Purchase]

– Mended (Connections #3) by Kim Karr [Purchase]
– Twisted Together (Monsters in the Dark #3) by Pepper Winters [Purchase]
– A Shiver of Light (Merry Gentry #9) by Laurell K. Hamilton [Purchase]
– Heated (Most Wanted #2) by J. Kenner [Purchase]

– Toxic (Pretty Little Liars #15) by Sara Shepard [Purchase]
– Prince of Fools (The Red Queen’s War #1) by Mark Lawrence [Purchase]
– Shield of Winter (Psy-Changeling #13) by Nalini Singh [Purchase]
– Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern [Purchase]

– China Dolls by Lisa See [Purchase]
– Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King [Purchase]
– Take Back the Skies (Take Back the Skies #1) by Lucy Saxon [Purchase]
– Hungry by H.A. Swain [Purchase]

– Unstoppable (The Nature of Grace #3) by S.R. Johannes
– Gasp (Visions #3) by Lisa McMann [Purchase]
– Beginnings: Obsidian & Onyx (Lux #1-2) by Jennifer L. Armentrout [Purchase]
– Consequences: Opal & Origin (Lux #3-4) by Jennifer L. Armentrout [Purchase]

– My Best Friend, Maybe by Caela Carter [Purchase]
– The Prince of Venice Beach by Blake Nelson [Purchase]
– Vivian Divine Is Dead by Lauren Sabel [Purchase]
– My Faire Lady by Laura Wettersten [Purchase]

– Perfect Kind of Trouble (Finding Fate #2) by Chelsea Fine [Purchase]
– Push Girl by Chelsie Hill and Jessica Love [Purchase]
– Tiger’s Promise (The Tiger Saga 0.5) by Colleen Houck [Purchase]
– Rivals in the City (The Agency #4) by Y.S. Lee [Purchase]

– Resistance (Night School #4) by C.J. Daugherty [Purchase]
– Sweet Evil 3-Book Collection by Wendy Higgins [Purchase]
– Stardawn (Starglass 0.5) by Phoebe North [Purchase]
– Love by the Morning Star by Laura L. Sullivan [Purchase]

– Witch Hunt (Witch Finder #2) by Ruth Warburton [Purchase]
– Since Last Summer (Rules of Summer #2) by Joanna Philbin [Purchase]
– The Fear Trials (The Murder Complex 0.5) by Lindsay Cummings [Purchase]
– The Book of David by Anonymous [Purchase]

– The Feral Child (Feral Child Trilogy #1) by Che Golden [Purchase]
– Haunt by Curtis Jobling [Purchase]
– Cinderella’s Dress by Shonna Slayton [Purchase]
– Chasing Stars (After Eden #2) by Helen Douglas [Purchase]

– Coin Heist by Elisa Ludwig [Purchase]
– Dark Days by Kate Ormand [Purchase]
– Essence by Lisa Ann O’Kane [Purchase]
– Just Sing (Seven Oaks #1) by René Gilley [Purchase]

– Shiverton Hall: The Creeper by Emerald Fennell [Purchase]

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