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Saturday, February 27, 2016

Fresh Batch (Feb 28th – Mar 5th)

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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:

A Study in Charlotte
Brittany Cavallaro
Series: Charlotte Holmes #1
Publication date: March 1st 2016
by Katherine Tegen Books

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The last thing sixteen-year-old Jamie Watson–writer and great-great-grandson of the John Watson–wants is a rugby scholarship to Sherringford, a Connecticut prep school just an hour away from his estranged father. But that’s not the only complication: Sherringford is also home to Charlotte Holmes, the famous detective’s enigmatic, fiercely independent great-great-granddaughter, who’s inherited not just his genius but also his vices, volatile temperament, and expertly hidden vulnerability. Charlotte has been the object of his fascination for as long as he can remember–but from the moment they meet, there’s a tense energy between them, and they seem more destined to be rivals than anything else.

Then a Sherringford student dies under suspicious circumstances ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Holmes stories, and Jamie and Charlotte become the prime suspects. Convinced they’re being framed, they must race against the police to conduct their own investigation. As danger mounts, it becomes clear that nowhere is safe and the only people they can trust are each other.

Equal parts tender, thrilling, and hilarious, A Study in Charlotte is the first in a trilogy brimming with wit and edge-of-the-seat suspense.

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *


– Seven Black Diamonds (Untitled #1) by Melissa Marr [Purchase]
– You Were Here by Cori McCarthy [Purchase]
– The Passenger by Lisa Lutz [Purchase]
– Midnight Marked (Chicagoland Vampires #12) by Chloe Neill [Purchase]


– Into the Dim (Into The Dim #1) by Janet B. Taylor [Purchase]
– In Real Life by Jessica Love [Purchase]
– Midnight Lily by Mia Sheridan [Purchase]
– The Girl Who Fell by Shannon M. Parker [Purchase]


– The Last Days of Magic by Mark Tompkins [Purchase]
– The Last Girl (The Dominion Trilogy #1) by Joe Hart [Purchase]
– Siren’s Song (The Storm Siren Trilogy #3) by Mary Weber [Purchase]
– Blood Passage (Dark Caravan Cycle #2) by Heather Demetrios [Purchase]


– The Leaving Season by Cat Jordan [Purchase]
– The Lifeboat Clique by Kathy Parks [Purchase]
– The Awakening of Sunshine Girl (The Haunting of Sunshine Girl #2) by Paige McKenzie [Purchase]
– A Daring Sacrifice (An Uncertain Choice #2) by Jody Hedlund [Purchase]


– The Land of Forgotten Girls by Erin Entrada Kelly [Purchase]
– Chaos Choreography (InCryptid #5) by Seanan McGuire [Purchase]
– Sinner’s Creed (Sinner’s Creed MC #1) by Kim Jones [Purchase]
– The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home (Fairyland #5) by Catherynne M. Valente [Purchase]


– Nowhere Girl: A Novel by Susan Strecker [Purchase]
– The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever by Jeff Strand [Purchase]
– The Crown and the Arrow (The Wrath and the Dawn 0.5) by Renee Ahdieh [Purchase]
– Tru and Nelle by G. Neri [Purchase]


– Dear Emma by Katie Heaney [Purchase]
– Charmed (Fairy Tale Reform School #2) by Jen Calonita [Purchase]
– Burning Glass (Burning Glass #1) by Kathryn Purdie [Purchase]
– Beyond the Red by Ava Jae [Purchase]


– The Black Knife (The Orphan Queen 0.4) by Jodi Meadows [Purchase]
– Unleash the Storm (Steel & Stone #5) by Annette Marie [Purchase]
– Nora & Kettle by Lauren Nicolle Taylor [Purchase]
– Beautiful Boss (Beautiful Bastard #4.5) by Christina Lauren [Purchase]


– Character, Driven by David Lubar [Purchase]
– Holding Court by K.C. Held [Purchase]
– Guile by Constance Cooper [Purchase]
– Under Threat by Robin Stevenson [Purchase]


– Pearl by Deirdre Riordan Hall [Purchase]
– Snow Job by Charles Benoit [Purchase]
– The Glass Castle by Trisha Priebe & Jerry B. Jenkins [Purchase]
– Love, Lexi: Letters to God by Sherry Kyle [Purchase]


– Did I Mention I Need You? (The DIMILY Trilogy #2) by Estelle Maskame [Purchase]
– Midnight Bites: Stories of the Morganville Vampires (The Morganville Vampires) by Rachel Caine [Purchase]
– Terminal (Virals #5) by Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs [Purchase]
– My Senior Year of Awesome by Jennifer DiGiovanni [Purchase]


– Talon (Uncompromising #1) by Sybil Bartel [Purchase]


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Fresh Batch (February 21st – 27th)

Fresh Batch (February 21st – 27th)

Posted by on 02/20/2016 • 4 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Forbidden Wish Jessica Khoury Publication date: February 23rd 2016by Razorbill

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She is the most powerful Jinni of all. He is a boy from the streets. Their love will shake the world…

When Aladdin discovers Zahra’s jinni lamp, Zahra is thrust back into a world she hasn’t seen in hundreds of years — a world where magic is forbidden and Zahra’s very existence is illegal. She must disguise herself to stay alive, using ancient shape-shifting magic, until her new master has selected his three wishes.

But when the King of the Jinn offers Zahra a chance to be…

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Fresh Batch (February 14th – 20th)

Fresh Batch (February 14th – 20th)

Posted by on 02/13/2016 • 2 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Girl from Everywhere Heidi Heilig Series: The Girl from Everywhere #1 Publication date: February 16th 2016by Greenwillow Books

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It was the kind of August day that hinted at monsoons, and the year was 1774, though not for very much longer.

Sixteen-year-old Nix Song is a time-traveller. She, her father and their crew of time refugees travel the world aboard The Temptation, a glorious pirate ship stuffed with treasures both typical and mythical. Old maps allow Nix and her father to navigate not just to distant lands, but distant times – although a map will only take you somewhere once….

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Fresh Batch (February 7th – 13th)

Fresh Batch (February 7th – 13th)

Posted by on 02/06/2016 • 4 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Blackhearts Nicole Castroman Publication date: February 9th 2016by Simon Pulse

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Blackbeard the pirate was known for striking fear in the hearts of the bravest of sailors. But once he was just a young man who dreamed of leaving his rigid life behind to chase adventure in faraway lands. Nothing could stop him—until he met the one girl who would change everything.

Edward “Teach” Drummond, son of one of Bristol’s richest merchants, has just returned from a year-long journey on the high seas to find his life in shambles. Betrothed to a girl he doesn’t love and sick of the high…

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Fresh Batch (Jan 31st – Feb 6th)

Fresh Batch (Jan 31st – Feb 6th)

Posted by on 01/31/2016 • 6 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Starflight Melissa Landers Series: Starflight #1 Publication date: February 2nd 2016 by Disney-Hyperion

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Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She’s so desperate to reach the realm that she’s willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith.

When…

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Fresh Batch (January 24th – 30th)

Fresh Batch (January 24th – 30th)

Posted by on 01/23/2016 • 4 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Dark Days Club Alison Goodman Series: Lady Helen #1 Publication date: January 26th 2016by Viking Books for Young Readers

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New York Times bestseller Alison Goodman’s eagerly awaited new project: a Regency adventure starring a stylish and intrepid demon-hunter!

London, April 1812. On the eve of eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall’s presentation to the queen, one of her family’s housemaids disappears-and Helen is drawn into the shadows of Regency London. There, she meets Lord Carlston, one of the few who can stop the perpetrators: a cabal of demons infiltrating every level of society. Dare she ask for his help, when his reputation…

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Interview with Laurie Elizabeth Flynn + Giveaway!

Posted by on 01/22/2016 • 2 Comments

I’m happy to have the Firsts blog tour stop by today for an author interview plus a chance to win! Let’s see what this book is all about first:

Interview with Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Hi Laurie! Thanks so much for visiting this little blog of mine! Let’s start with telling us a little something about your book that might surprise us:

Hi Giselle! Thank you so much for having me on your blog. That’s a great question! I think readers may be surprised to find out the reasons behind why Mercedes tries to help the boys. While she puts on a tough front and can be even cruel at times in her incisiveness, Mercedes is soft and vulnerable in a lot of ways, and things that happened…

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Fresh Batch (January 17th – 23rd)

Fresh Batch (January 17th – 23rd)

Posted by on 01/16/2016 • 4 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Up to This Pointe Jennifer Longo Publication date: January 19th 2016by Random House Books for Young Readers

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A refreshingly original contemporary YA, unlike anything readers have seen before. Perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson, John Corey Whaley, and Libba Bray.   She had a plan. It went south.

Harper is a dancer. She and her best friend, Kate, have one goal: becoming professional ballerinas. And Harper won’t let anything—or anyone—get in the way of The Plan, not even the boy she and Kate are both drawn to.

Harper is a Scott. She’s related to Robert Falcon Scott, the explorer who…

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