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Saturday, May 09, 2015

Fresh Batch (May 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:

The Wrath and the Dawn
Renee Ahdieh
Series: The Wrath and the Dawn #1
Publication date: May 12th 2015
by Putnam Juvenile

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A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights

Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi’s wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend.

She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all.

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *


– Under the Influence by L.B. Simmons
– Burn (Scan #2) by Sarah Fine and Walter Jury [Purchase]
– Echo (Black Lotus #2) by E.K. Blair [Purchase]
– All Played Out (Rusk University #3) by Cora Carmack [Purchase]


– The Cost of All Things by Maggie Lehrman [Purchase]
– Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll [Purchase]
– Making Pretty by Corey Ann Haydu [Purchase]
– The Artisans by Julie Reece [Purchase]


– The Crown of Ptolemy (Percy Jackson & Kane Chronicles Crossover #3) by Rick Riordan [Purchase]
– Love Fortunes and Other Disasters by Kimberly Karalius [Purchase]
– 5 to 1 by Holly Bodger [Purchase]
– Heat of the Moment (Moment of Truth #1) by Lauren Barnholdt [Purchase]


– The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest (Medieval Fairy Tale Romance #1) by Melanie Dickerson [Purchase]
– Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge [Purchase]
– Bruja (Alpha Girl #4) by Aileen Erin [Purchase]
– Vanished (Vanished #1) by E.E. Cooper [Purchase]


– Velvet by Temple West [Purchase]
– Nil Unlocked (Nil #2) by Lynne Matson [Purchase]
– End of Days (Penryn & the End of Days #3) by Susan Ee [Purchase]
– Capture (Elements of Chemistry #3) by Penny Reid [Purchase]


– Black Rainbow by J.J. McAvoy [Purchase]
– The Fugitive (Theodore Boone #5) by John Grisham [Purchase]
– The Rise and Fall of the Gallivanters by M. J. Beaufrand [Purchase]
– Six by M.M. Vaughan [Purchase]


– If I Were You by Leslie Margolis [Purchase]
– Second Kiss: Spell Crossed (Spell Crossed #2) by Robert Priest [Purchase]
– The Hunted (The Living #2) by Matt de la Pena [Purchase]
– Hysteria (Reign #2) by Lily Blake [Purchase]


– A Tale of Two Besties: A Hello Giggles Novel by Sophia Rossi [Purchase]
– Fierce Reads: Kisses and Curses [Purchase]
– Fell of Dark by Patrick Downes [Purchase]
– We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen [Purchase]


– The Messengers by Edward Hogan [Purchase]
– A Matter of Heart by Amy Fellner Dominy [Purchase]
– The Disappearance of Emily H. by Barrie Summy [Purchase]
– Out of Control by Sarah Alderson [Purchase]


– Empty World by John Christopher [Purchase]
– The Boys of Fire and Ash by Meaghan McIsaac [Purchase]


What are you excited for this week?

 

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Fresh Batch (May 3rd – 9th)

Fresh Batch (May 3rd – 9th)

Posted by on 05/02/2015 • 12 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

A Court of Thorns and Roses Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses #1 Publication date: May 5th 2015by Bloomsbury Children’s

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A thrilling, seductive new series from New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas, blending Beauty and the Beast with faerie lore.

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.

As she dwells on his…

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Fresh Batch (April 26th – May 2nd)

Fresh Batch (April 26th – May 2nd)

Posted by on 04/25/2015 • 7 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

An Ember in the Ashes Sabaa Tahir Publication date: April 28th 2015by Razorbill

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I WILL TELL YOU THE SAME THING I TELL EVERY SLAVE.

THE RESISTANCE HAS TRIED TO PENETRATE THIS SCHOOL COUNTLESS TIMES. I HAVE DISCOVERED IT EVERY TIME.

IF YOU ARE WORKING WITH THE RESISTANCE, IF YOU CONTACT THEM, IF YOU THINK OF CONTACTING THEM, I WILL KNOW

AND I WILL DESTROY YOU.

Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free.

Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution…

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Fresh Batch (April 19th – 25th)

Fresh Batch (April 19th – 25th)

Posted by on 04/18/2015 • 6 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Things We Know by Heart Jessi Kirby Publication date: April 21st 2015by HarperTeen

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When Quinn Sullivan meets the recipient of her boyfriend’s donated heart, the two form an unexpected connection.

After Quinn loses her boyfriend, Trent, in an accident their junior year, she reaches out to the recipients of his donated organs in hopes of picking up the pieces of her now-unrecognizable life. She hears back from some of them, but the person who received Trent’s heart has remained silent. The essence of a person, she has always believed, is in the heart. If she finds Trent’s, then maybe she…

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Fresh Batch (April 12th – 18th)

Fresh Batch (April 12th – 18th)

Posted by on 04/11/2015 • 7 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

All the Rage Courtney Summers Publication date: April 14th 2015by St. Martin’s Griffin

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The sheriff’s son, Kellan Turner, is not the golden boy everyone thinks he is, and Romy Grey knows that for a fact. Because no one wants to believe a girl from the wrong side of town, the truth about him has cost her everything—friends, family, and her community. Branded a liar and bullied relentlessly by a group of kids she used to hang out with, Romy’s only refuge is the diner where she works outside of town. No one knows her name or her past there; she…

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Fresh Batch (April 5th – 11th)

Fresh Batch (April 5th – 11th)

Posted by on 04/04/2015 • 8 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

None of the Above I.W. Gregorio Publication date: April 7th 2015by Balzer + Bray

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A groundbreaking story about a teenage girl who discovers she was born intersex . . . and what happens when her secret is revealed to the entire school. Incredibly compelling and sensitively told, None of the Above is a thought-provoking novel that explores what it means to be a boy, a girl, or something in between.

What if everything you knew about yourself changed in an instant?

When Kristin Lattimer is voted homecoming queen, it seems like another piece of her ideal life has fallen…

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Fresh Batch (March 29th – April 4th)

Fresh Batch (March 29th – April 4th)

Posted by on 03/28/2015 • 12 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Start of Me and You Emery Lord Publication date: March 31st 2015by Bloomsbury

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Following her pitch-perfect debut Open Road Summer, Emery Lord pens another gorgeous story of best friends, new love, & second chances.

Brimming with heartfelt relationships and authentic high-school dynamics The Start of Me and You proves that it’s never too late for second chances.

It’s been a year since it happened—when Paige Hancock’s first boyfriend died in an accident. After shutting out the world for two years, Paige is finally ready for a second chance at high school . . . and she has a plan….

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Fresh Batch (March 22nd – 28th)

Fresh Batch (March 22nd – 28th)

Posted by on 03/21/2015 • 11 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Walls Around Us Nova Ren Suma Publication date: March 24th 2015 by Algonquin Young Readers

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“Ori’s dead because of what happened out behind the theater, in the tunnel made out of trees. She’s dead because she got sent to that place upstate, locked up with those monsters. And she got sent there because of me.”

The Walls Around Us is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices—one still living and one long dead. On the outside, there’s Violet, an eighteen-year-old dancer days away from the life of her dreams when something threatens to expose the shocking truth…

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