Posts By: Giselle

Saturday, April 09, 2016

Fresh Batch (April 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:

Dreamology
Lucy Keating
Publication date: April 12th 2016
by Harper Teen

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For as long as Alice can remember, she has dreamed of Max. Together they have traveled the world and fallen deliriously, hopelessly in love. Max is the boy of her dreams—and only her dreams. Because he doesn’t exist.

But when Alice walks into class on her first day at a new school, there he is. It turns out, though, that Real Max is nothing like Dream Max, and getting to know each other in reality isn’t as perfect as Alice always hoped.

When their dreams start to bleed dangerously into their waking hours, the pair realize that they might have to put an end to a lifetime of dreaming about each other. But when you fall in love in your dreams, can reality ever be enough?

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *

– A Shard of Ice (The Black Symphony Saga #1) by Alivia Anders [Purchase]
– Listen to Me (Fusion #1) by Kristen Proby [Purchase]
– Bloodtraitor (The Maeve’ra Trilogy #3) by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes [Purchase]
– The Player and the Pixie (Rugby #2) by L.H. Cosway and Penny Reid [Purchase]

– The Obsession by Nora Roberts [Purchase]
– A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry [Purchase]
– Shadow Magic by Joshua Khan [Purchase]
– The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry [Purchase]

– Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo [Purchase]
– Masks and Shadows by Stephanie Burgis [Purchase]
– Can You Keep a Secret? (Fear Street Relaunch #4) by R.L. Stine [Purchase]
– Crossing the Line (The Raven Files #1) by Meghan Rogers [Purchase]

– Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood by Liesl Shurtliff [Purchase]
– Counting Thyme by Melanie Conklin [Purchase]
– This Is the Story of You by Beth Kephart [Purchase]
– Hush (Black Lotus #3) by E.K. Blair [Purchase]

– Stuck-Up Suit by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward [Purchase]
– Strike (Hit #2) by Delilah S. Dawson [Purchase]
– Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett [Purchase]
– You Got This!: Unleash Your Awesomeness, Find Your Path, and Change Your World by Maya Penn [Purchase]

– Twenty Questions for Gloria by Martyn Bedford [Purchase]
– Magnetic Shift by Lucy D. Briand [Purchase]
– Dan Versus Nature by Don Calame [Purchase]
– Finding Hope by Colleen Nelson [Purchase]

– Klickitat by Peter Rock [Purchase]
– Defender by Graham McNamee [Purchase]
– Away Running by Luc Bouchard and David Wright [Purchase]

What’s catching your eye this week?

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Giveaway: The Haters by Jesse Andrews

Posted by Giselle on 04/04/2016 • 1 Comment

Thanks to the lovely people at Abrams Books, we have a copy of The Haters by Jesse Andrews up for grabs today! Jesse Andrews’s debut novel, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, was published to critical acclaim and starred reviews. His adaptation of the book for the big screen won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Jesse is also a musician and screenwriter. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Visit Jesse at www.jesseandrews.com.

PRAISE for The Haters:

“truly hilarious….a teen road trip packed with music and drama.” — Kirkus

“an uproariously funny addition to the teen-road-trip canon…readers will be sucked into this story, a raunchy bromance in the vein…

Fresh Batch (April 3rd – 9th)

Posted by Giselle on 04/02/2016 • 4 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

When We Collided Emery Lord Publication date: April 5th 2016by Bloomsbury USA Childrens

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Meet Vivi and Jonah: A girl and a boy whose love has the power save or destroy them.

Vivi and Jonah couldn’t be more different. Vivi craves anything joyful or beautiful that life can offer. Jonah has been burdened by responsibility for his family ever since his father died. As summer begins, Jonah resigns himself to another season of getting by. Then Vivi arrives, and suddenly life seems brighter and better. Jonah is the perfect project for Vivi, and things finally feel right for Jonah. Their…

Fresh Batch (March 27th – April 2nd)

Posted by Giselle on 03/26/2016 • 2 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Winner’s Kiss Marie Rutkoski Series: The Winner’s Trilogy #3 Publication date: March 29th 2016by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it with untrustworthy new allies and the empire as his enemy. Though he has convinced himself that he no longer loves Kestrel, Arin hasn’t forgotten her, or how she became exactly the kind of person he has always despised. She cared more for the empire than she did for the lives of innocent people—and certainly more than she did for him.

At least, that’s what he thinks.

In the frozen north,…

Fresh Batch (March 20th – 26th)

Posted by Giselle on 03/19/2016 • 2 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Way I Used to Be Amber Smith Publication date: March 22nd 2016by Margaret K. McElderry Books

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In the tradition of Speak, this extraordinary debut novel shares the unforgettable story of a young woman as she struggles to find strength in the aftermath of an assault.

Eden was always good at being good. Starting high school didn’t change who she was. But the night her brother’s best friend rapes her, Eden’s world capsizes.

What was once simple, is now complex. What Eden once loved—who she once loved—she now hates. What she thought she knew to be true, is now…

Review: Night Speed by Chris Howard

Posted by Giselle on 03/18/2016 • 7 Comments

A Young Adult book with high-intensity action, drugs, and catching villains in the metropolitan city in the US of A. That sounds like a pretty good premise, don’t you think? Reminds me of all those superhero books we all adore, except this one has young teenagers taking drugs to give them superstrength/speed/and whatever super-what-have-you. Reading this book a few weeks ago, it actually was pretty enjoyable…

…until it didn’t.

Here’s the thing: this book had potential. The first seventy percent was such an amazing ride. Here we are, introduced to a main character who is supposedly the best runner in her department. Her job as a teenage tool of the government? To use the Tetra (which is the drug, if the cliché drug name itself wasn’t self-explanatory enough) to catch people…

Fresh Batch (March 13th – 19th)

Posted by Giselle on 03/12/2016 • 4 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The First Time She Drowned Kerry Kletter Publication date: March 15th 2016by Philomel Books

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The beautiful struggle of a girl desperate for the one relationship that has caused her the most pain

Cassie O’Malley has spent the past two and a half years in a mental institution—dumped there by her mother, against her will. Now, at 18, Cassie emancipates herself, determined to start over. She attends college, forms new friendships, and even attempts to start fresh with her mother. But before long, their unhealthy relationship threatens to pull Cassie under once again. As Cassie struggles to reclaim her life, childhood memories persist…

Fresh Batch (March 6th – 12th)

Posted by Giselle on 03/05/2016 • 2 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Steep and Thorny Way Cat Winters Publication date: March 8th 2016by Amulet Books

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A thrilling reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, The Steep and Thorny Way tells the story of a murder most foul and the mighty power of love and acceptance in a state gone terribly rotten.

1920s Oregon is not a welcoming place for Hanalee Denney, the daughter of a white woman and an African-American man. She has almost no rights by law, and the Ku Klux Klan breeds fear and hatred in even Hanalee’s oldest friendships. Plus, her father, Hank Denney, died a year ago, hit by…