Yearly Archives:: 2016

Saturday, July 09, 2016

Fresh Batch (July 10th – 16th)

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

Flavor of the week:

The Killer in Me
Margot Harrison
Publication date: July 12th 2016
by Disney-Hyperion

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Seventeen-year-old Nina Barrows knows all about the Thief. She’s intimately familiar with his hunting methods: how he stalks and kills at random, how he disposes of his victims’ bodies in an abandoned mine in the deepest, most desolate part of a desert.

Now, for the first time, Nina has the chance to do something about the serial killer that no one else knows exists. With the help of her former best friend, Warren, she tracks the Thief two thousand miles, to his home turf—the deserts of New Mexico.

But the man she meets there seems nothing like the brutal sociopath with whom she’s had a disturbing connection her whole life. To anyone else, Dylan Shadwell is exactly what he appears to be: a young veteran committed to his girlfriend and her young daughter. As Nina spends more time with him, she begins to doubt the truth she once held as certain: Dylan Shadwell is the Thief. She even starts to wonder . . . what if there is no Thief?

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *


– All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker [Purchase]
– The Last One by Alexandra Oliva [Purchase]
– The Shadow Hour (The Girl at Midnight #2) by Melissa Grey [Purchase]
– Crystal Crowned (Air Awakens #5) by Elise Kova [Purchase]


– A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell #1) by Deanna Raybourn [Purchase]
– Knot (The Wake Family #1) by M. Mabie [Purchase]
– The Crimson Skew (The Mapmakers Trilogy #3) by S.E. Grove [Purchase]
– Serafina and the Twisted Staff (Serafina #2) by Robert Beatty [Purchase]


– Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things #2) by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton[Purchase]
– Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes [Purchase]
– The Season by Jonah Lisa Dyer and Stephen Dyer [Purchase]
– Sticks & Stones by Abby Cooper [Purchase]


– Rebellion (The Elysium Chronicles #3) by J.A. Souders [Purchase]
– On the Other Side by Carrie Hope Fletcher [Purchase]
– Dragon Speaker (The Shadow War Saga, #1). by Elana A. Mugdan [Purchase]
– Rampage (The Singular Menace #3) by John Sandford and Michele Cook [Purchase]


What are you excited for this week?

 

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Epic Cover Battles #8: Pride and Prejudice Edition

Posted by on 07/06/2016 • 9 Comments

You might love it, hate it, never have read it but you’ve probably heard of Pride and Prejudice. After all, Goodreads tells me there are 2557 published editions of it (and probably even more that haven’t been recorded on Goodreads). While it would be impossible for me to showcase all of them, I chose 3 that I thought were pretty and wanted to battle them out for this edition of Epic Cover Battles! Let me know if you have another fav edition in the comments so I can oooh and aaah over ittt 🙂

May the best cover win!

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Fresh Batch (July 3rd – 9th)

Fresh Batch (July 3rd – 9th)

Posted by on 07/02/2016 • 2 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

This Savage Song Victoria Schwab Series: Monsters of Verity #1 Publication date: July 5th 2016by Greenwillow Books

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There’s no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains—and friends or enemies—with the future of their home at stake. The first of two books.

Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city—a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be…

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Fresh Batch (June 26th – July 2nd)

Fresh Batch (June 26th – July 2nd)

Posted by on 06/25/2016 • 5 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Run Kody Keplinger Publication date: June 28th 2016by Scholastic Press

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Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and a mama who’s not exactly sober most of the time. Everyone in town knows the Dickinsons are a bad lot, but Bo doesn’t care what anyone thinks.

Agnes Atwood has never gone on a date, never even stayed out past ten, and never broken any of her parents’ overbearing rules. Rules that are meant to protect their legally blind daughter — protect her from what, Agnes isn’t quite sure.

Despite everything, Bo and Agnes become best friends. And…

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Epic Cover Battles #7: Series Redesign Edition

Posted by on 06/24/2016 • 9 Comments

Welcome to yet another edition of Epic Cover Battles. I absolutely hate it when a series gets a complete redesign mid-way through the series but sometimes the change is for the better. So today you can voteeee for whether or not you like the covers before the redesign or after… Can redesigns be for the better good? WE WILL FIND OUT. (I feel like an MC for a tv show as I write this)

 

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Fresh Batch (June 19th – 25th)

Fresh Batch (June 19th – 25th)

Posted by on 06/18/2016 • 2 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Never Ever Sara Saedi Publication date: June 21st 2016by Viking Books for Young Readers

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Wylie Dalton didn’t believe in fairy tales or love at first sight.

Then she met a real-life Peter Pan.

When Wylie encounters Phinn—confident, mature, and devastatingly handsome—at a party the night before her brother goes to juvie, she can’t believe how fast she falls for him. And that’s before he shows her how to fly.

Soon Wylie and her brothers find themselves whisked away to a mysterious tropical island off the coast of New York City where nobody ages beyond seventeen and life is a constant…

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How to Bookstagram in 9 Easy Steps

Posted by on 06/17/2016 • 9 Comments

I am slowly getting more and more into instagram and trying to be more creative with my pictures but it is SO hard and takes so much effforrrttt.. so I decided to share all my knowledge about bookstagramming with you. Basically, lots of deleting and hating your pictures.

How to Bookstagram in 9 Easy Steps 1. Get your bookstagraming spot set up 2. Look through all your shelves and contemplate what you feel like photographing. Pull out a shit ton of books, even though you won’t photograph all of them. 3. Take one photograph. Hate it and take 10 more. 4. Hate everything and delete all the photos. 5. Try something new. Re-arrange the books, put in some more props. Take a bunch more photographs. 6. Get your…

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The Long Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Posted by on 06/16/2016 • 3 Comments

Do you like Scandal? Do you like political thrillers? Do you like mind games? WELL. YOU HAVE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE. But also, go read book one which is called The Fixer and is amazing.

So, if The Fixer made you swoon and made your heart beat faster and nearly killed you, I have some real bad news for you. It all gets worse in The Long Game. I had my feels shredded, my OTPs stomped on and my heart set on fire. I hope Jennifer Lynn Barnes at least feels a little bad about what she did to me.

Tess is still as amazing as always if a little more nosy than she should be. She thinks she is nothing like her sister but we all know…

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