Fresh Batch (October 18th – 24th)

Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

Illuminae
Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Series: The Illuminae Files #1
Publication date: October 20th 2015
by Knopf Books for Young Readers

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This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do.

This afternoon, her planet was invaded.

The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to fight their way onto an evacuating fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.

But their problems are just getting started. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results; the fleet’s AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a tangled web of data to find the truth, it’s clear only one person can help her bring it all to light: the ex-boyfriend she swore she’d never speak to again.

Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents—including emails, schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more—Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes.

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *

– Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike #3) by Robert Galbraith [Purchase]
– Born to Endless Night (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy #9) by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan [Purchase]
– Nuts (Hudson Valley #1) by Alice Clayton [Purchase]
– Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor [Purchase]

– Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente [Purchase]
– The Distance from Me to You by Marina Gessner [Purchase]
– Time’s Divide (The Chronos Files #3) by Rysa Walker [Purchase]
– Willful Machines by Tim Floreen [Purchase]

– Velvet Undercover by Teri Brown [Purchase]
– Signs Point to Yes by Sandy Hall [Purchase]
– Girl Online On Tour (Girl Online #2) by Zoe Sugg [Purchase]
– The Lake House by Kate Morton [Purchase]

– Dead Investigation by Charlie Price [Purchase]
– Wolf By Wolf (Wolf By Wolf #1) by Ryan Graudin [Purchase]
– Losers Take All by David Klass [Purchase]
– Beach of Bones (Empath Book 1) by Dawn Peers [Purchase]

– The Many Lives of John Stone by Linda Buckley-Archer [Purchase]
– Tell the Story to Its End by Simon P. Clark [Purchase]
– Red Girl, Blue Boy (If Only . . . #5) by Lauren Baratz-Logsted [Purchase]
– Harmonious Hearts 2015 (Annual Young Author Challenge) [Purchase]

– If You’re Lucky by Yvonne Prinz [Purchase]
– Surfacing by Mark Magro [Purchase]
– Of Delicate Pieces (Of Breakable Things #2) by A. Lynden Rolland [Purchase]
– A Sliver of Stardust (A Sliver of Stardust #1) by Marissa Burt [Purchase]

– Roped In (Armed & Dangerous #2) by L.P. Dover [Purchase]
– Naked and Far from Home by J.P. Grider [Purchase]
– Pretty When You Cry (Stripped #3) by Skye Warren [Purchase]

What are you most excited for this week?

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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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