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Saturday, July 30, 2016

Fresh Batch (July 31st – August 6th)

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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:

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany
Series: Harry Potter #8
Publication date: July 31st 2016
by Pottermore

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Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a new play by Jack Thorne, is the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. It will receive its world premiere in London’s West End on 30th July 2016

It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes darkness comes from unexpected places.

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *

– Day Zero (The Arcana Chronicles #3.5) by Kresley Cole [Purchase]
– Midair by Kodi Scheer [Purchase]
– The Beauty of Darkness (The Remnant Chronicles #3) by Mary E. Pearson [Purchase]
– United (Alienated #3) by Melissa Landers [Purchase]

– What’s a Girl Gotta Do? (Normal #3) by Holly Bourne [Purchase]
– Three Truths and a Lie by Brent Hartinger [Purchase]
– The Gilded Cage by Lucinda Gray [Purchase]
– Recreated (Reawakened #2) by Colleen Houck [Purchase]

– Forever Doon (Doon #4) by Carey Corp & Lorie Langdon [Purchase]
– A Week of Mondays by Jessica Brody [Purchase]
– Whatever.: or how junior year became totally f$@ked by S.J. Goslee [Purchase]
– See Me by Nicholas Sparks [Purchase]

– Enter Title Here by Rahul Kanakia [Purchase]
– It’s All Fun and Games by Dave Barrett [Purchase]
– Infinite Risk (Immortal Game #3) by Ann Aguirre [Purchase]
– The Smaller Evil by Stephanie Kuehn [Purchase]

– You Before Anyone Else by Julie Cross & Mark Perini [Purchase]
– How to Keep Rolling After a Fall by Karole Cozzo [Purchase]
– Wax by Gina Damico [Purchase]
– The Telling by Alexandra Sirowy [Purchase]

– It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover [Purchase]
– Finding Abbey Road (Exile #3) by Kevin Emerson [Purchase]
– Wake the Hollow by Gaby Triana [Purchase]
– Love You More by Dennis Jolley [Purchase]

– The Assassin Game by Kirsty McKay [Purchase]
– The Girl in a Coma by John Moss [Purchase]
– The Bad Decisions Playlist by Michael Rubens [Purchase]
– Order in the Court (The Survivor’s Club #2) by Casey Lawrence [Purchase]

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Fresh Batch (July 24th – 30th)

Posted by Giselle on 07/23/2016 • 2 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

P.S. I Like You Kasie West Publication date: July 26th 2016by Point

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What if the person you were falling for was a total mystery?

While Lily is spacing out in Chemistry one day, she picks up her pencil and scribbles a line from one of her favorite songs on the desk. The next day, someone else has written back to her on the desk! Soon enough Lily and the mystery student are exchanging notes, and lyrics, and even sharing secrets. When Lily finds out that her anonymous pen pal is a guy, she’s flustered — and kind of feels like…

Fresh Batch (July 17th – 23rd)

Posted by Giselle on 07/16/2016 • 1 Comment

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

Flavor of the week:

A World Without You Beth Revis Publication date: July 19th 2016by Razorbill

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Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he’s actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have “superpowers.”

At Berkshire, Bo falls in love with Sofia, a quiet girl with…

Fresh Batch (July 10th – 16th)

Posted by Giselle on 07/09/2016 • 2 Comments

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 2016by 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.

…

Fresh Batch (July 3rd – 9th)

Posted by Giselle 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…

Fresh Batch (June 26th – July 2nd)

Posted by Giselle 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…

Fresh Batch (June 19th – 25th)

Posted by Giselle 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…

Fresh Batch (June 12th – 18th)

Posted by Giselle on 06/11/2016 • 2 Comments

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 2016by 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…