Posts Categorized: Fresh Batch

Saturday, October 03, 2015

Fresh Batch (October 4th – 10th)

Posted by Giselle • 8 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Carry On
Rainbow Rowell
Publication date: October 6th 2015
by St. Martin’s Griffin

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Rainbow Rowell continues to break boundaries with Carry On, an epic fantasy following the triumphs and heartaches of Simon and Baz from her beloved bestseller Fangirl.

Simon Snow just wants to relax and savor his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him. His girlfriend broke up with him, his best friend is a pest, and his mentor keeps trying to hide him away in the mountains where maybe he’ll be safe. Simon can’t even enjoy the fact that his roommate and longtime nemesis is missing, because he can’t stop worrying about the evil git. Plus there are ghosts. And vampires. And actual evil things trying to shut Simon down. When you’re the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savor anything.

Carry On is a ghost story, a love story, a mystery and a melodrama. It has just as much kissing and talking as you’d expect from a Rainbow Rowell story — but far, far more monsters.

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *

– A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg #1-3) by George R.R. Martin [Purchase]
– Rock Redemption (Rock Kiss #3) by Nalini Singh [Purchase]
– The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #1) by Rick Riordan[Purchase]
– Shadows of Self (Mistborn #5) by Brandon Sanderson [Purchase]

– A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston [Purchase]
– A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis [Purchase]
– The White Rose (The Lone City #2) by Amy Ewing [Purchase]
– Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis [Purchase]

– Dreamstrider by Lindsay Smith [Purchase]
– The Tournament at Gorlan (Ranger’s Apprentice: The Early Years #1) by John Flanagan [Purchase]
– Romancing the Dark in the City of Light by Ann Jacobus [Purchase]
– We’ll Never Be Apart by Emiko Jean [Purchase]

– A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic by Lisa Papademetriou [Purchase]
– Nameless by Jennifer Jenkins [Purchase]
– The House by Christina Lauren [Purchase]
– Madame X (Madame X #1) by Jasinda Wilder [Purchase]

– White Trash Zombie Gone Wild (White Trash Zombie #5) by Diana Rowland [Purchase]
– The Nest by Kenneth Oppel [Purchase]
– Claimed (Outlaws #1) by Elle Kennedy [Purchase]
– Brighter Than the Sun (Charley Davidson #8.5) by Darynda Jones [Purchase]

– My Secret to Tell by Natalie D. Richards [Purchase]
– The Chess Queen Enigma (Stoker & Holmes #3) by Colleen Gleason [Purchase]
– Bliss: A Novel by Shay Mitchell and Michaela Blaney [Purchase]
– Sky Key (Endgame #2) by James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton [Purchase]

– Irresistibly Yours (Oxford #1) by Lauren Layne [Purchase]
– Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt [Purchase]
– The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness [Purchase]
– Sinner’s Steel (Sinner’s Tribe Motorcycle Club #3) by Sarah Castille [Purchase]

– A Step Toward Falling by Cammie McGovern [Purchase]
– Through the Dark (The Darkest Minds #1.5, 2.5, 3.5) by Alexandra Bracken [Purchase]
– It’s a Wonderful Death by Sarah J. Schmitt [Purchase]
– Future Perfect by Jen Larsen [Purchase]

– An Inheritance of Ashes by Leah Bobet [Purchase]
– The Amazing Book is Not on Fire by Dan Howell and Phil Lester [Purchase]
– Ms. Manwhore (Manwhore #2.5) by Katy Evans [Purchase]
– Wild Sky (Night Sky #2) by Suzanne Brockmann and Melanie Brockmann [Purchase]

– The Storm (The Rain #2) by Virginia Bergin [Purchase]
– The Edge (Peak #2) by Roland Smith [Purchase]
– Cinderella’s Shoes (Cinderella’s Dress #2) by Shonna Slayton [Purchase]
– This May Sound Crazy by Abigail Breslin [Purchase]

– Poet Anderson …Of Nightmares by Tom DeLonge and Suzanne Young [Purchase]
– The Detour by S.A. Bodeen [Purchase]
– The Hagen Family Secret by K M Roberson [Purchase]
– Witch Hunt (The Witch-Game #2) by K.C. Blake [Purchase]

– Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks [Purchase]
– Dark Days (Dead City #3) by James Ponti [Purchase]
– A Frozen Heart by Elizabeth Rudnick [Purchase]
– Wrong by Jana Aston [Purchase]

– Barren by Elizabeth Miceli [Purchase]

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Fresh Batch (Sept 27th – Oct 3rd)

Posted by Giselle on 09/26/2015 • 4 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo Series: Six of Crows #1 Publication date: September 29th 2015by Henry Holt and Company

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Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone…

A convict with a thirst for revenge.

A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager.

A runaway with a privileged past.

A spy known as the Wraith.

A Heartrender using…

Fresh Batch (September 20th – 26th)

Posted by Giselle on 09/19/2015 • 5 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Walk on Earth a Stranger Rae Carson Series: The Gold Seer Trilogy #1 Publication date: September 22nd 2015by Greenwillow Books

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Lee Westfall has a secret. She can sense the presence of gold in the world around her. Veins deep beneath the earth, pebbles in the river, nuggets dug up from the forest floor. The buzz of gold means warmth and life and home—until everything is ripped away by a man who wants to control her. Left with nothing, Lee disguises herself as a boy and takes to the trail across the country. Gold was discovered in California, and where else…

Fresh Batch (September 13th – 19th)

Posted by Giselle on 09/13/2015 • 8 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Dumplin’ Julie Murphy Publication date: September 15th 2015by Balzer + Bray

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Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed “Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked . . . until Will takes a job at Harpy’s, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn’t surprised to find herself attracted to Bo. But she is surprised when he…

Fresh Batch (Sept 6th – 12th)

Posted by Giselle on 09/05/2015 • 2 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Fans of the Impossible Life Kate Scelsa Publication date: September 8th 2015by Balzer + Bray

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A captivating and profound debut novel about complicated love and the friendships that have the power to transform you forever, perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Mira is starting over at Saint Francis Prep. She promised her parents she would at least try to pretend that she could act like a functioning human this time, not a girl who can’t get out of bed for days on end, who only feels awake when she’s with Sebby.

Jeremy is the painfully…

Fresh Batch (Aug 30th – Sept 5th)

Posted by Giselle on 08/29/2015 • 8 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Queen of Shadows Sarah J. Maas Series: Throne of Glass #4 Publication date: September 1st 2015by Bloomsbury USA Childrens

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Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she’s at last returned to the empire—for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past . . .

She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die just to see her again. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen’s…

Fresh Batch (May 31st – June 6th)

Posted by Giselle on 05/30/2015 • 5 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Witch Hunter Virginia Boecker Series: The Witch Hunter #1 Publication date: June 2nd 2015by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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The magic and suspense of Graceling meet the political intrigue and unrest of Game of Thrones in this riveting fantasy debut.

Your greatest enemy isn’t what you fight, but what you fear.

Elizabeth Grey is one of the king’s best witch hunters, devoted to rooting out witchcraft and doling out justice. But when she’s accused of being a witch herself, Elizabeth is arrested and sentenced to burn at the stake.

Salvation comes from a man she thought was her…

Fresh Batch (May 24th – 30th)

Posted by Giselle on 05/23/2015 • 8 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Daughter of Deep Silence Carrie Ryan Publication date: May 26th 2015by Dutton Books for Young Readers

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I’m the daughter of murdered parents. I’m the friend of a dead girl. I’m the lover of my enemy. And I will have my revenge.

In the wake of the devastating destruction of the luxury yacht Persephone, just three souls remain to tell its story—and two of them are lying. Only Frances Mace knows the terrifying truth, and she’ll stop at nothing to avenge the murders of everyone she held dear. Even if it means taking down the boy she loves and possibly…