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Saturday, June 11, 2016

Fresh Batch (June 12th – 18th)

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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:

How It Feels to Fly
Kathryn Holmes
Publication date: June 14th 2016
by 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 with mental and emotional obstacles. If she can make progress, she’ll be allowed to attend a crucial ballet intensive. But when asked to open up about her deepest insecurities, secret behaviors, and paralyzing fears to complete strangers, Sam can’t cope.

What I really need is a whole new body.

Sam forms an unlikely bond with Andrew, a former college football player who’s one of her camp counselors. As they grow closer, Andrew helps Sam see herself as he does—beautiful. But just as she starts to believe that there’s more between them than friendship, disappointing news from home sends her into a tailspin. With her future uncertain and her body against her, will Sam give in to the anxiety that imprisons her?

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *


– Last Kiss (First and Last #2) by Laurelin Paige [Purchase]
– Sea Spell (Waterfire Saga #4) by Jennifer Donnelly [Purchase]
– Bay of Sighs (The Guardians Trilogy #2) by Nora Roberts [Purchase]
– The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library #1) by Genevieve Cogman [Purchase]


– Change Places with Me by Lois Metzger [Purchase]
– Escape from Asylum (Asylum 0.5) by Madeleine Roux [Purchase]
– I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid [Purchase]
– The Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love by Sarvenaz Tash [Purchase]


– Look Both Ways by Alison Cherry [Purchase]
– The King Slayer (The Witch Hunter #2) by Virginia Boecker [Purchase]
– The Gallery by Laura Marx Fitzgerald [Purchase]
– Steeplejack (Alternative Detective #1) by A.J. Hartley [Purchase]


– Gifted by H.A. Swain [Purchase]
– Cure for the Common Universe by Christian McKay Heidicker [Purchase]
– Autofocus by Lauren Gibaldi [Purchase]
– Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry [Purchase]


– How to Disappear by Ann Redisch Stampler [Purchase]
– The Girls by Emma Cline [Purchase]
– Allegiance of Honor (Psy-Changeling #15) by Nalini Singh [Purchase]
– Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale (Seasons of the Sword #1) by David Kudler [Purchase]


– The Hanging Tree (Peter Grant/ Rivers of London #6) by Ben Aaronovitch [Purchase]
– False Hearts (False Hearts #1) by Laura Lam [Purchase]
– Losing Gabriel by Lurlene McDaniel [Purchase]
– Genesis Girl (Blank Slate #1) by Jennifer Bardsley [Purchase]


– Into Deep Space (Galahad #3-4) by Dom Testa [Purchase]
– Tell Us Something True by Dana Reinhardt [Purchase]
– The Transatlantic Conspiracy by G.D. Falksen [Purchase]
– Remade by Alex Scarrow[Purchase]


– Read Me Like a Book by Liz Kessler [Purchase]
– A Safe Place With You by César L. Baquerizo [Purchase]
– Red Velvet Crush by Christina Meredith [Purchase]


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Fresh Batch (June 5th – 11th)

Fresh Batch (June 5th – 11th)

Posted by on 06/04/2016 • 3 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

My Lady Jane Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows Publication date: June 7th 2016by HarperTeen

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The comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey. In My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, and only a passing resemblance to actual history—because sometimes history needs a little help.

At sixteen, Lady Jane Grey is about to be married off to a stranger and caught up in a conspiracy to rob…

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Fresh Batch (May 29th – June 4th)

Fresh Batch (May 29th – June 4th)

Posted by on 05/28/2016 • 3 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Wanderlost Jen Malone Publication date: May 31st 2016by HarperTeen

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Not all those who wander are lost, but Aubree Sadler most definitely is on this novel’s whirlwind trip through Europe.

Aubree can’t think of a better place to be than in perfectly boring Ohio, and she’s ready for a relaxing summer. But when her older sister, Elizabeth, gets into real trouble, Aubree is talked into taking over Elizabeth’s summer job, leading a group of senior citizens on a bus tour through Europe.

Aubree doesn’t even make it to the first stop in Amsterdam before their perfect plan unravels, leaving her with no…

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Fresh Batch (May 22nd – 28th)

Fresh Batch (May 22nd – 28th)

Posted by on 05/21/2016 • 2 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Outrun the Moon Stacey Lee Publication date: May 24th 2016by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers

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San Francisco, 1906: Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from the poverty in Chinatown, and an education at St. Clare’s School for Girls is her best hope. Although St. Clare’s is off-limits to all but the wealthiest white girls, Mercy gains admittance through a mix of cunning and a little bribery, only to discover that getting in was the easiest part. Not to be undone by a bunch of spoiled heiresses, Mercy stands strong—until disaster strikes.

On April 18, an historic earthquake rocks San Francisco,…

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Fresh Batch (May 15th – 21st)

Fresh Batch (May 15th – 21st)

Posted by on 05/14/2016 • 0 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Places No One Knows Brenna Yovanoff Publication date: May 17th 2016by Delacorte

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Waverly Camdenmar spends her nights running until she can’t even think. Then the sun comes up, life goes on, and Waverly goes back to her perfectly hateful best friend, her perfectly dull classes, and the tiny, nagging suspicion that there’s more to life than student council and GPAs.

Marshall Holt is a loser. He drinks on school nights and gets stoned in the park. He is at risk of not graduating, he does not care, he is no one. He is not even close to being in Waverly’s world.

…

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Fresh Batch (April 17th – 23rd)

Fresh Batch (April 17th – 23rd)

Posted by on 04/16/2016 • 3 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here Anna Breslaw Publication date: April 19th 2016by Razorbill

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Meet Scarlett Epstein, BNF (Big Name Fan) in her online community of fanfiction writers, world-class nobody at Melville High. Her best (read: only) IRL friends are Avery, a painfully shy and annoyingly attractive bookworm, and Ruth, her pot-smoking, possibly insane seventy-three-year-old neighbor.

When Scarlett’s beloved TV show is canceled and her longtime crush, Gideon, is sucked out of her orbit and into the dark and distant world of Populars, Scarlett turns to the fanfic message boards for comfort. This time, though, her subjects aren’t the swoon-worthy stars of…

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Fresh Batch (March 20th – 26th)

Fresh Batch (March 20th – 26th)

Posted by 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…

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Fresh Batch (March 6th – 12th)

Fresh Batch (March 6th – 12th)

Posted by 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…

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