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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Fresh Batch (October 11th – 17th)

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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 Rose Society
Marie Lu
Series: The Young Elites #2
Publication date: October 13th 2015
by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young

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Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, and she destroyed them all.

Adelina Amouteru’s heart has suffered at the hands of both family and friends, turning her down the bitter path of revenge. Now known and feared as the White Wolf, she and her sister flee Kenettra to find other Young Elites in the hopes of building her own army of allies. Her goal: to strike down the Inquisition Axis, the white-cloaked soldiers who nearly killed her.

But Adelina is no heroine. Her powers, fed only by fear and hate, have started to grow beyond her control. She does not trust her newfound Elite friends. Teren Santoro, leader of the Inquisition, wants her dead. And her former friends, Raffaele and the Dagger Society, want to stop her thirst for vengeance. Adelina struggles to cling to the good within her. But how can someone be good, when her very existence depends on darkness?


Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *




Truly, Madly, Famously (Famous in Love #2) by Rebecca Serle [Purchase]
Ice Like Fire (Snow Like Ashes #2) by Sara Raasch [Purchase]
The Favorite (The Selection #2.6) by Kiera Cass [Purchase]
Happily Ever After (The Selection 0.4, 0.5, 2.5, 2.6) by Kiera Cass [Purchase]


The Immortal Heights (The Elemental Trilogy #3) by Sherry Thomas [Purchase]
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg [Purchase]
First & Then by Emma Mills [Purchase]
Black Widow: Forever Red by Margaret Stohl [Purchase]


See Me by Nicholas Sparks [Purchase]
Slow Play (The Rules #3) by Monica Murphy [Purchase]
Hard to Break (Alpha’s Heart #2) by Bella Jewel [Purchase]
Wendy Darling: Stars (Wendy Darling #1) by Colleen Oakes [Purchase]


The Masked Truth by Kelley Armstrong [Purchase]
The Toymaker’s Apprentice by Sherri L. Smith [Purchase]
Leading Lines (Pippa Greene #3) by Chantel Guertin [Purchase]
The Fifteenth Minute (The Ivy Years #5) by Sarina Bowen [Purchase]


Everything I Left Unsaid (Everything I Left Unsaid #1) by Molly O’Keefe [Purchase]
Darkthaw (Winterkill #2) by Kate A. Boorman [Purchase]
Newt’s Emerald by Garth Nix [Purchase]
Winter Stroll (Winter #2) by Elin Hilderbrand [Purchase]


The Axe of Sundering (Adventurers Wanted #5) by M.L. Forman [Purchase]
Dark Tide (Waterfire Saga #3) by Jennifer Donnelly [Purchase]
Dirty English by Ilsa Madden-Mills
An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes by Randy Ribay [Purchase]


Trust Me, I’m Trouble (Trust Me #2) by Mary Elizabeth Summer [Purchase]
Juba! by Walter Dean Myers [Purchase]
Chasing Forgiveness by Neal Shusterman [Purchase]
yolo (Internet Girls #4) by Lauren Myracle [Purchase]


A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond [Purchase]
Blue Voyage by Diana Renn [Purchase]
The Beast of Cretacea by Todd Strasser [Purchase]
No True Echo by Gareth P. Jones [Purchase]


Heartache and Other Natural Shocks by Glenda Leznoff [Purchase]
Wishing for You (I Wish #2) by Elizabeth Langston [Purchase]
Never Let Me Sleep (The Melissa Allen Trilogy Book 1) by Jennifer Brozek [Purchase]
Burned by Natasha Deen [Purchase]


Unleashed by Sigmund Brouwer [Purchase]
Exposed (Retribution) by Judith Graves [Purchase]
The Bubble Wrap Boy by Phil Earle [Purchase]
Set You Free by Jeff Ross [Purchase]


What’s catching your eye this week?

 

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Find previous Fresh Batch posts here!

Review: The Next Together by Lauren James

Posted by on 10/09/2015 • 11 Comments

Wow… just wow.

When you hear the word “time-travel”, the first thing that comes to mind (usually) is “science fiction”. You think of the technology and machines that make this feat possible; you think of the physics involved, of subatomic atoms transferring from one place to another (or however that is supposed to be done); you think of action-packed plots, of conspiracy theories, that push our heroes and heroines to time travel in the first place.

But… romance? With time-travel? To be quite honest, the cynic in me long believed a time-travel with romance in the center would be hard to pull off without it being too cheesy. With a different audience in mind, it would also be hard to talk about the technicalities of how time travel works in the…

Fresh Batch (October 4th – 10th)

Fresh Batch (October 4th – 10th)

Posted by on 10/03/2015 • 8 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Carry On Rainbow Rowell Publication date: October 6th 2015by St. Martin’s Griffin

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Rainbow Rowell continues to break boundaries with Carry On, an epic fantasy following the triumphs and heartaches of Simon and Baz from her beloved bestseller Fangirl.

Simon Snow just wants to relax and savor his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him. His girlfriend broke up with him, his best friend is a pest, and his mentor keeps trying to hide him away in the mountains where maybe he’ll be safe. Simon can’t even enjoy the fact that his roommate and…

Review: What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler

Posted by on 10/02/2015 • 5 Comments

You know how I would describe “being speechless” by something? It’s when you’re overwhelmed with so much emotions that words escape you. Something made you happy so much that you could only cry. Something made you so sad that your throat tightens and you can croak nothing out. Something made you so angry that find it hard to mutter a single word because you’re just fuming inside. This is basically what happened to me after reading What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler. It rendered me completely speechless.

I honestly don’t know how to review this book, if I can even review this book and give it the justice it deserves. It’s the sort that you know everyone – and I mean, everyone – should read; the sort in which when people ask you why…

Fresh Batch (Sept 27th – Oct 3rd)

Fresh Batch (Sept 27th – Oct 3rd)

Posted by on 09/26/2015 • 4 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo Series: Six of Crows #1 Publication date: September 29th 2015by Henry Holt and Company

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Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone…

A convict with a thirst for revenge.

A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager.

A runaway with a privileged past.

A spy known as the Wraith.

A Heartrender using…

Fresh Batch (September 20th – 26th)

Fresh Batch (September 20th – 26th)

Posted by on 09/19/2015 • 5 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Walk on Earth a Stranger Rae Carson Series: The Gold Seer Trilogy #1 Publication date: September 22nd 2015by Greenwillow Books

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Lee Westfall has a secret. She can sense the presence of gold in the world around her. Veins deep beneath the earth, pebbles in the river, nuggets dug up from the forest floor. The buzz of gold means warmth and life and home—until everything is ripped away by a man who wants to control her. Left with nothing, Lee disguises herself as a boy and takes to the trail across the country. Gold was discovered in California, and where else…

Review: Ice Like Fire by Sara Raasch

Review: Ice Like Fire by Sara Raasch

Posted by on 09/18/2015 • 8 Comments

Have you ever had one of those days where you feel like something was… incomplete? That things dragged on more than they should have had? Like the story could’ve been tighter, could’ve had the same essential elements and plot points, AND still give a sense of completeness, as if this small story arc of a bigger story arc has been reached?

This is one of those days – those days where I felt nothing but underwhelmed.

You guys might be well-aware of my love for the first book. I flailed over it, gave it 5-fantastic-stars, and shoved the book (and its pretty cover!) pretty much to everyone’s faces, imploring them, demanding them, that they read Snow Like Ashes as soon as they could, and that I wouldn’t be accepting any flimsy excuses. It was…

Giveaway: A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Giveaway: A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Posted by on 09/15/2015 • 3 Comments

Thanks to the lovely people at Disney-Hyperion, we’ve got a copy of A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston up for giveaway today! A THOUSAND NIGHTS is a dazzling retelling of Arabian Nights by E.K. Johnston – in stores October 6th! All samples and prizing are provided by Disney-Hyperion.

Make sure to: Learn more on un-requiredreading.com Check out the first four chapters of A THOUSAND NIGHTS here. #AThousandNights

Giveaway!

PRETTY THINGS IN A DANGEROUS PLACE prize pack One (1) winner receives: · Copy of A Thousand Nights; · Branded nail polish set & tea bag dispenser.

 

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