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Flavor of the week:

I Was Here
Gayle Forman
Publication date: January 27th 2015
by Viking Juvenile

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Cody and Meg were inseparable.
Two peas in a pod.
Until . . . they weren’t anymore.

When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, who broke Meg’s heart. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets thrown into question.

I Was Here is Gayle Forman at her finest, a taut, emotional, and ultimately redemptive story about redefining the meaning of family and finding a way to move forward even in the face of unspeakable loss.

 

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *

– Bound by Flames (Night Prince #3) by Jeaniene Frost [Purchase]
– The Mime Order (The Bone Season #2) by Samantha Shannon [Purchase]
– A Cold Legacy (The Madman’s Daughter #3) by Megan Shepherd [Purchase]
– Playlist for the Dead by Michelle Falkoff [Purchase]

– Take Me with You (Take Me #2) by K.A. Linde [Purchase]
– Cut Me Free by J.R. Johansson [Purchase]
– Love, Lucy by April Lindner [Purchase]
– Risking it All (Crossing the Line #1) by Tessa Bailey [Purchase]

– One Step Too Far by Tina Seskis [Purchase]
– Breaking Creed (Ryder Creed #1) by Alex Kava [Purchase]
– Woven by Michael Jensen and David Powers King [Purchase]
– Tear You Apart (Beau Rivage) by Sarah Cross [Purchase]

– We Can Work It Out (The Lonely Hearts Club #2) by Elizabeth Eulberg [Purchase]
– The Empty Throne (Heirs of Chrior #2) by Cayla Kluver [Purchase]
– Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles 0.1) by Marissa Meyer [Purchase]
– Unveiled (One Night #3) by Jodi Ellen Malpas [Purchase]

– The Last Leaves Falling by Sarah Benwell [Purchase]
– The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence (Zodiac #1) by Stan Lee [Purchase]
– The Originals: The Rise (The Originals #1) by Julie Plec [Purchase]
– The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart [Purchase]

– Beneath by Roland Smith [Purchase]
– The Inquisitor’s Mark (Eighth Day #2) by Dianne K. Salerni [Purchase]
– Chaos (Fates #2) by Lanie Bross [Purchase]
– The End of Feeling by Cindy C. Bennett [Purchase]

– Geek Girl (Geek Girl #1) by Holly Smale [Purchase]
– Zombified (Zombie Apocalypse #2) by Adam Gallardo [Purchase]
– The Book of Storms by Ruth Hatfield [Purchase]
– Burning Nation (Divided We Fall Trilogy #2) by Trent Reedy [Purchase]

– I’m Glad I Did by Cynthia Weil [Purchase]

Anything catching your eye this week?

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