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Saturday, June 02, 2018

Fresh Batch (June 3rd – 9th)

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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 Kiss Quotient
Helen Hoang
Series: The Kiss Quotient #1
Publication date: June 5th 2018
by Berkley

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A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there’s not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.

Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases–a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.

It doesn’t help that Stella has Asperger’s and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice–with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can’t afford to turn down Stella’s offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan–from foreplay to more-than-missionary position…

Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but to crave all the other things he’s making her feel. Soon, their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic…

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *


– Smoke in the Sun (Flame in the Mist #2) by Renee Ahdieh [Purchase]
– Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl [Purchase]
– Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno [Purchase]
– Bring Me Their Hearts by Sara Wolf [Purchase]


– Sweet Black Waves (Sweet Black Waves #1) by Kristina Pérez [Purchase]
– The Bird and the Blade by Megan Bannen [Purchase]
– Bruja Born (Brooklyn Brujas #2) by Zoraida Córdova [Purchase]
– Invisible Ghosts by Robyn Schneider [Purchase]


– Always Forever Maybe by Anica Mrose Rissi [Purchase]
– Tell Me No Lies (Follow Me Back #2) by A.V. Geiger [Purchase]
– Fat Girl on a Plane by Kelly deVos [Purchase]
– Eden Conquered (Dividing Eden #2) by Joelle Charbonneau [Purchase]


– City of Bastards (Royal Bastards #2) by Andrew Shvarts [Purchase]
– The Opposite of Here by Tara Altebrando [Purchase]
– The History of Jane Doe by Michael Belanger [Purchase]
– Mariam Sharma Hits the Road by Sheba Karim [Purchase]


– Whisper of the Tide (Song of the Current #2) by Sarah Tolcser [Purchase]
– Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner [Purchase]
– Save the Date by Morgan Matson [Purchase]
– Running With Lions by Julian Winters [Purchase]


– A Thousand Perfect Notes by C.G. Drews [Purchase]
– There Goes Sunday School by Alexander C. Eberhart [Purchase]
– How We Roll by Natasha Friend [Purchase]
– The Art of French Kissing by Brianna R. Shrum [Purchase]


– The Summer of Us by Cecilia Vinesse [Purchase]
– Blood Will Out by Jo Treggiari [Purchase]
– Jacked Up by Erica Sage [Purchase]
– The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls by Jessica Spotswood [Purchase]


– Little Do We Know by Tamara Ireland Stone [Purchase]
– Kissing Games (Aurora Skye #2) by Tara Eglington [Purchase]
– Social Intercourse by Greg Howard [Purchase]
– Mariam Sharma Hits the Road by Sheba Karim [Purchase]


– When Stars Go Out by Ransom Grey [Purchase]
– Pregnant at 17 by Christine Conradt [Purchase]
– The Revolution Handbook by Alice Skinner [Purchase]
– Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe by Preston Norton [Purchase]


– What You Left Me by Bridget Morrissey [Purchase]


Anything on your wishlist this week?

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Fresh Batch (May 27th – June 2nd)

Fresh Batch (May 27th – June 2nd)

Posted by on 05/26/2018 • 1 Comment

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

Flavor of the week:

LIFEL1K3 Jay Kristoff Series: Lifelike #1 Publication date: May 29th 2018by Knopf Books for Young Readers

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On a floating junkyard beneath a radiation sky, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap.

Eve isn’t looking for secrets—she’s too busy looking over her shoulder. The robot gladiator she’s just spent six months building has been reduced to a smoking wreck, and the only thing keeping her Grandpa from the grave was the fistful of credits she just lost to the bookies. To top it off, she’s discovered she can destroy electronics with the power of her mind, and the puritanical Brotherhood are…

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Fresh Batch (May 20th – 26th)

Fresh Batch (May 20th – 26th)

Posted by on 05/19/2018 • 1 Comment

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

Flavor of the week:

Aftermath Kelley Armstrong Publication date: May 22nd 2018by Crown Books for Young Readers

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Three years after losing her brother Luka in a school shooting, Skye Gilchrist is moving home. But there’s no sympathy for Skye and her family because Luka wasn’t a victim; he was a shooter.

Jesse Mandal knows all too well that the scars of the past don’t heal easily. The shooting cost Jesse his brother and his best friend–Skye.

Ripped apart by tragedy, Jesse and Skye can’t resist reopening the mysteries of their past. But old wounds hide darker secrets. And the closer Skye and Jesse get to…

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Fresh Batch (May 13th – 19th)

Fresh Batch (May 13th – 19th)

Posted by on 05/12/2018 • 1 Comment

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

Flavor of the week:

Onyx and Ivory Mindee Arnett Publication date: May 15th 2018 by Balzer + Bray

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They call her Traitor Kate. It’s a title Kate Brighton inherited from her father after he tried to assassinate the high king years ago. Now Kate lives as an outcast, clinging to the fringes of society as a member of the Relay, the imperial courier service. Only those most skilled in riding and bow hunting ride for the Relay; and only the fastest survive, for when dark falls, the nightdrakes—deadly flightless dragons—come out to hunt. Fortunately, Kate has a secret edge: she is a wilder, born with…

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Diverse Books out April 2018

Posted by on 05/06/2018 • 5 Comments

Helloooooo. Look at me. I didn’t publish this post late this time. Anyway, so. Welcome to the April roundup of Diverse Releases. These roundups focus on Young Adult and Middle Grade releases with the occasional romance release (which, there are way way way better roundups out there of diverse romance books.) I do also include books by authors of color that don’t necessarily have characters of color. Anyway, let me know if I miss a book or include one with bad rep!

                     

 Any of these on your TBR? What are you most looking forward to diving into??

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Fresh Batch (May 6th – 12th)

Fresh Batch (May 6th – 12th)

Posted by on 05/05/2018 • 1 Comment

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

Flavor of the week:

The Way You Make Me Feel Maurene Goo Publication date: May 8th 2018by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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From the author of I Believe in a Thing Called Love, a laugh-out-loud story of love, new friendships, and one unique food truck.

Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn’t so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty…

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Fresh Batch (April 29th – May 5th)

Fresh Batch (April 29th – May 5th)

Posted by on 04/28/2018 • 0 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Royals Rachel Hawkins Series: Royals #1 Publication date: May 1st 2018by Penguin Random House

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Meet Daisy Winters. She’s an offbeat sixteen-year-old Floridian with mermaid-red hair; a part time job at a bootleg Walmart, and a perfect older sister who’s nearly engaged to the Crown Prince of Scotland. Daisy has no desire to live in the spotlight, but relentless tabloid attention forces her to join Ellie at the relative seclusion of the castle across the pond.

While the dashing young Miles has been appointed to teach Daisy the ropes of being regal, the prince’s roguish younger brother kicks up scandal wherever…

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Fresh Batch (April 22nd – 28th)

Fresh Batch (April 22nd – 28th)

Posted by on 04/21/2018 • 0 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Sky in the Deep Adrienne Young Publication date: April 24th 2018by Wednesday Books

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OND ELDR. BREATHE FIRE.

Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield—her brother, fighting with the enemy—the brother she watched die five years ago.

Faced with her brother’s betrayal, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. But…

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