Fresh Batch (June 12th – 18th)

Posted by Giselle

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

Flavor of the week:

How It Feels to Fly
Kathryn Holmes
Publication date: June 14th 2016
by HarperTeen

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The movement is all that matters.

For as long as Samantha can remember, she’s wanted to be a professional ballerina. She’s lived for perfect pirouettes, sky-high extensions, and soaring leaps across the stage. Then her body betrayed her.

The change was gradual. Stealthy.

Failed diets. Disapproving looks. Whispers behind her back. The result: crippling anxiety about her appearance, which threatens to crush her dancing dreams entirely. On her dance teacher’s recommendation, Sam is sent to a summer treatment camp for teen artists and athletes who are struggling with mental and emotional obstacles. If she can make progress, she’ll be allowed to attend a crucial ballet intensive. But when asked to open up about her deepest insecurities, secret behaviors, and paralyzing fears to complete strangers, Sam can’t cope.

What I really need is a whole new body.

Sam forms an unlikely bond with Andrew, a former college football player who’s one of her camp counselors. As they grow closer, Andrew helps Sam see herself as he does—beautiful. But just as she starts to believe that there’s more between them than friendship, disappointing news from home sends her into a tailspin. With her future uncertain and her body against her, will Sam give in to the anxiety that imprisons her?

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *

– Last Kiss (First and Last #2) by Laurelin Paige [Purchase]
– Sea Spell (Waterfire Saga #4) by Jennifer Donnelly [Purchase]
– Bay of Sighs (The Guardians Trilogy #2) by Nora Roberts [Purchase]
– The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library #1) by Genevieve Cogman [Purchase]

– Change Places with Me by Lois Metzger [Purchase]
– Escape from Asylum (Asylum 0.5) by Madeleine Roux [Purchase]
– I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid [Purchase]
– The Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love by Sarvenaz Tash [Purchase]

– Look Both Ways by Alison Cherry [Purchase]
– The King Slayer (The Witch Hunter #2) by Virginia Boecker [Purchase]
– The Gallery by Laura Marx Fitzgerald [Purchase]
– Steeplejack (Alternative Detective #1) by A.J. Hartley [Purchase]

– Gifted by H.A. Swain [Purchase]
– Cure for the Common Universe by Christian McKay Heidicker [Purchase]
– Autofocus by Lauren Gibaldi [Purchase]
– Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry [Purchase]

– How to Disappear by Ann Redisch Stampler [Purchase]
– The Girls by Emma Cline [Purchase]
– Allegiance of Honor (Psy-Changeling #15) by Nalini Singh [Purchase]
– Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale (Seasons of the Sword #1) by David Kudler [Purchase]

– The Hanging Tree (Peter Grant/ Rivers of London #6) by Ben Aaronovitch [Purchase]
– False Hearts (False Hearts #1) by Laura Lam [Purchase]
– Losing Gabriel by Lurlene McDaniel [Purchase]
– Genesis Girl (Blank Slate #1) by Jennifer Bardsley [Purchase]

– Into Deep Space (Galahad #3-4) by Dom Testa [Purchase]
– Tell Us Something True by Dana Reinhardt [Purchase]
– The Transatlantic Conspiracy by G.D. Falksen [Purchase]
– Remade by Alex Scarrow[Purchase]

– Read Me Like a Book by Liz Kessler [Purchase]
– A Safe Place With You by César L. Baquerizo [Purchase]
– Red Velvet Crush by Christina Meredith [Purchase]

What’s on your wishlist this week?

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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.