Posts Categorized: Fresh Batch

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Fresh Batch (Jan 31st – Feb 6th)

Posted by Giselle • 6 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Starflight
Melissa Landers
Series: Starflight #1
Publication date: February 2nd 2016
by Disney-Hyperion

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Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She’s so desperate to reach the realm that she’s willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith.

When a twist of fate lands them instead on the Banshee, a vessel of dubious repute, Doran learns he’s been framed on Earth for conspiracy. As he pursues a set of mysterious coordinates rumored to hold the key to clearing his name, he and Solara must get past their enmity to work together and evade those out for their arrest. Life on the Banshee may be tumultuous, but as Solara and Doran are forced to question everything they once believed about their world–and each other–the ship becomes home, and the eccentric crew family. But what Solara and Doran discover on the mysterious Planet X has the power to not only alter their lives, but the existence of everyone in the universe…

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *

– Low (Low #1) by Mary Elizabeth [Purchase]
– The Moonlit Garden by Corina Bomann [Purchase]
– Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys [Purchase]
– Wicked Sexy Liar (Wild Seasons #4) by Christina Lauren [Purchase]

– Almost Midnight (Shadow Falls: After Dark #3,5) by C.C. Hunter [Purchase]
– Assassin’s Heart (Assassin’s Heart #1) by Sarah Ahiers [Purchase]
– Grave Visions (Alex Craft #4) by Kalayna Price [Purchase]
– Remembrance (The Mediator #7) by Meg Cabot [Purchase]

– Unhooked by Lisa Maxwell [Purchase]
– Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto [Purchase]
– The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee [Purchase]
– Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin [Purchase]

– Fighting Solitude (On the Ropes #3) by Aly Martinez [Purchase]
– Missing Pieces by Heather Gudenkauf [Purchase]
– Brotherhood in Death (In Death #42) by J.D. Robb [Purchase]
– Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser [Purchase]

– Games Wizards Play (Young Wizards #10) by Diane Duane [Purchase]
– Pax by Sara Pennypacker [Purchase]
– The Truth by Jeffry W. Johnston [Purchase]
– Dare to Run (The Sons of Steel Row #1) by Jen McLaughlin [Purchase]

– Simon Thorn and the Wolf’s Den (Simon Thorn #1) by Aimee Carter [Purchase]
– Banished (Forbidden #2) by Kimberley Griffiths Little [Purchase]
– I Wish You Were Mine (Oxford #2) by Lauren Layne [Purchase]
– He Will Be My Ruin by K.A. Tucker [Purchase]

– A Criminal Magic by Lee Kelly [Purchase]
– Burning Midnight by Will McIntosh [Purchase]
– Harmony Black (Harmony Black #1) by Craig Schaefer [Purchase]
– Stars Above (The Lunar Chronicles 0.5, 0.6, 1.5, 3.1, 3.6) by Marissa Meyer [Purchase]

– Raging Sea (Undertow #2) by Michael Buckley [Purchase]
– Spirit Level by Sarah N. Harvey [Purchase]
– The Sapphire Cutlass (The Diamond Thief #3) by Sharon Gosling [Purchase]
– The V-Word: True Stories About First-Time Sex [Purchase]

– Jockey Girl by Shelley Peterson [Purchase]
– Of Better Blood by Susan Moger [Purchase]
– Trace Evidence: A Virals Short Story Collection (Virals 0.5-2.5-3.5-5.5) by Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs [Purchase]
– Hope Girl (River #2) by Wendy Dunham [Purchase]

What’s catching your eye this week?

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Fresh Batch (January 24th – 30th)

Posted by Giselle on 01/23/2016 • 4 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Dark Days Club Alison Goodman Series: Lady Helen #1 Publication date: January 26th 2016by Viking Books for Young Readers

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New York Times bestseller Alison Goodman’s eagerly awaited new project: a Regency adventure starring a stylish and intrepid demon-hunter!

London, April 1812. On the eve of eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall’s presentation to the queen, one of her family’s housemaids disappears-and Helen is drawn into the shadows of Regency London. There, she meets Lord Carlston, one of the few who can stop the perpetrators: a cabal of demons infiltrating every level of society. Dare she ask for his help, when his reputation…

Fresh Batch (January 17th – 23rd)

Posted by Giselle on 01/16/2016 • 4 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Up to This Pointe Jennifer Longo Publication date: January 19th 2016by Random House Books for Young Readers

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A refreshingly original contemporary YA, unlike anything readers have seen before. Perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson, John Corey Whaley, and Libba Bray. She had a plan. It went south.

Harper is a dancer. She and her best friend, Kate, have one goal: becoming professional ballerinas. And Harper won’t let anything—or anyone—get in the way of The Plan, not even the boy she and Kate are both drawn to.

Harper is a Scott. She’s related to Robert Falcon Scott, the explorer who…

Fresh Batch (January 10th – 16th)

Posted by Giselle on 01/09/2016 • 3 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Other Broken Things Christa Desir Publication date: January 12th 2016by Simon Pulse

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Nat’s not an alcoholic. She doesn’t have a problem. Everybody parties, everybody does stupid things, like get in their car when they can barely see. Still, with six months of court-ordered AA meetings required, her days of vodka-filled water bottles are over.

Unfortunately her old friends want the party girl or nothing. Even her up-for-anything ex seems more interested in rehashing the past than actually helping Nat.

But then a recovering alcoholic named Joe inserts himself into Nat’s life and things start looking up. Joe is funny,…

Fresh Batch (January 3rd – 9th)

Posted by Giselle on 01/02/2016 • 10 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Truthwitch Susan Dennard Series: The Witchlands #1 Publication date: January 5th 2016by Tor Teen

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On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with a “witchery”, a magical skill that sets them apart from others.

In the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are ways to get in trouble—as two desperate young women know all too well.

Safiya is a Truthwitch, able to discern truth from lie. It’s a powerful magic that many would kill to have on their side, especially amongst the nobility to which Safi was born. So Safi must keep her gift…

Fresh Batch (December 20th – January 2nd)

Posted by Giselle on 12/19/2015 • 6 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

This Raging Light Estelle Laure Publication date: December 22nd 2015by HMH Books for Young Readers

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Can the best thing happen at the worst time?

Her dad went crazy. Her mom left town. She has bills to pay and a little sister to look after. Now is not the time for level-headed seventeen-year-old Lucille to fall in love. But love—messy, inconvenient love—is what she’s about to experience when she falls for Digby Jones, her best friend’s brother. With blazing longing that builds to a fever pitch, Estelle Laure’s soulful debut will keep readers hooked and hoping until the very last page.

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Fresh Batch (December 13th – 19th)

Posted by Giselle on 12/12/2015 • 5 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Frozen Tides Morgan Rhodes Series: Falling Kingdoms #4 Publication date: December 15th 2015by Razorbill

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Rebels, royals, and monsters wage war over the Mytican throne in the shocking fourth book of the Falling Kingdoms series, from New York Times bestselling author Morgan Rhodes.

CLEO: Reeling after a bloody showdown in Limeros ending with Amara’s abduction of the water crystal, and a vacancy in the Mytican throne, Princess Cleo must cast aside her feelings and look toward her kingdom with the eyes of a Queen.

MAGNUS: With the kingdom in chaos, Princess Lucia still missing and quite possibly in danger, and a shocking…

Fresh Batch (December 6th – 12th)

Posted by Giselle on 12/05/2015 • 5 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Come Back to Me Mila Gray Series: Come Back to Me #1 Publication date: December 8th 2015by Simon Pulse

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In this heart-wrenching tale of love and loss, a young Marine and his best friend’s sister plunge into a forbidden love affair while he’s home on leave.

When a Marine Chaplain knocks on her door, Jessa’s heart breaks—someone she loves is dead. Killed in action, but is it Riley or Kit? Her brother or her boyfriend…

Three months earlier, Marine Kit Ryan finds himself back home on leave and dangerously drawn to his best friend Riley’s sister, Jessa—the one girl he can’t…