Posts Categorized: Fresh Batch

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Fresh Batch (May 17th – 23rd)

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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:

Made You Up
Francesca Zappia
Publication date: May 19th 2015
by Greenwillow Books

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Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to be—sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. Made You Up tells the story of Alex, a high school senior unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion. This is a compelling and provoking literary debut that will appeal to fans of Wes Anderson, Silver Linings Playbook, and Liar. Alex fights a daily battle to figure out the difference between reality and delusion. Armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, her camera, a Magic 8-Ball, and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college. She’s pretty optimistic about her chances until classes begin, and she runs into Miles. Didn’t she imagine him? Before she knows it, Alex is making friends, going to parties, falling in love, and experiencing all the usual rites of passage for teenagers. But Alex is used to being crazy. She’s not prepared for normal. Funny, provoking, and ultimately moving, this debut novel featuring the quintessential unreliable narrator will have readers turning the pages and trying to figure out what is real and what is made up.

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *


– Thor’s Serpents (The Blackwell Pages #3) by K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr [Purchase]
– Maximum Ride Forever (Maximum Ride #9) by James Patterson [Purchase]
– Eighth Grave After Dark (Charley Davidson #8) by Darynda Jones [Purchase]
– Illusionarium by Heather Dixon [Purchase]


– Dangerous Deception (Dangerous Creatures #2) by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl [Purchase]
– Uprooted by Naomi Novik [Purchase]
– Conviction by Kelly Loy Gilbert [Purchase]
– The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne [Purchase]


– Seveneves by Neal Stephenson [Purchase]
– The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak by Brian Katcher [Purchase]
– A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House #1) by Kathleen Baldwin [Purchase]
– Lion Heart (Scarlet #3) by A.C. Gaughen [Purchase]


– The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan [Purchase]
– Nothing but Shadows (Tales from Shadowhunter Academy #4) by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan [Purchase]
– The Choosing by Rachelle Dekker [Purchase]
– Off the Page (Between the Lines #2) by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer [Purchase]


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– The Last Good Day of the Year by Jessica Warman [Purchase]
– A Sense of the Infinite by Hilary T. Smith [Purchase]
– Scarlett Undercover by Jennifer Latham [Purchase]


– From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess (From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess #1) by Meg Cabot [Purchase]
– Chantress Fury (Chantress Trilogy #3) by Amy Butler Greenfield [Purchase]
– Nimona by Noelle Stevenson [Purchase]
– In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World by Joey Graceffa [Purchase]


– Center Ice (Corrigan Falls Raiders #1) by Cate Cameron [Purchase]
– Ruins (Sentinel Trilogy #2) by Joshua Winning [Purchase]
– From a Distant Star by Karen McQuestion [Purchase]
– Mia and the Bad Boy (Backstage Pass #2) by Lisa Burstein [Purchase]


– Eternity’s Wheel (InterWorld #3) by Michael Reaves, Neil Gaiman, and Mallory Reaves [Purchase]
– Bone Deep by Kim O’Brien [Purchase]
– Elena Vanishing by Elena Dunkle and Clare B. Dunkle [Purchase]
– Hold Me Like a Breath (Once Upon a Crime Family #1) by Tiffany Schmidt [Purchase]


– Hit Count by Chris Lynch [Purchase]
– Three Day Summer by Sarvenaz Tash [Purchase]
– Sparks in Scotland by Rhonda Helms [Purchase]
– Killer Within (Killer Instinct #2) by S. E. Green [Purchase]


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Fresh Batch (May 10th – 16th)

Fresh Batch (May 10th – 16th)

Posted by on 05/09/2015 • 7 Comments

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 2015by 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…

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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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