Posts Categorized: Fresh Batch

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

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Dreams of Gods and Monsters Laini Taylor Series: Daughter of Smoke and Bone #3 Publication date: April 8th 2014by Little, Brown & Company

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By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz.

Common enemy, common cause.

When Jael’s brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. It is a twisted…

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

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Dorothy Must Die Danielle Paige Series: Dorothy Must Die #1 Publication date: April 1st 2014by HarperTeen

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I didn’t ask for any of this. I didn’t ask to be some kind of hero. But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado—taking you with it—you have no choice but to go along, you know?

Sure, I’ve read the books. I’ve seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can’t be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be…

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Nearly Gone Elle Cosimano Publication date: March 25th 2014by Kathy Dawson Books

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Bones meets Fringe in a big, dark, scary, brilliantly-plotted urban thriller that will leave you guessing until the very end.

Nearly Boswell knows how to keep secrets. Living in a DC trailer park, she knows better than to share anything that would make her a target with her classmates. Like her mother’s job as an exotic dancer, her obsession with the personal ads, and especially the emotions she can taste when she brushes against someone’s skin. But when a serial killer goes on a killing spree and starts attacking students, leaving cryptic ads in the newspaper that only Nearly can decipher, she confides in the one person she…

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

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The Wicked We Have Done Sarah Harian Series: Chaos Theory #1 Publication date: March 18th 2014by Penguin/InterMix Books

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Evalyn Ibarra never expected to be an accused killer and experimental prison test subject. A year ago, she was a normal college student. Now she’s been sentenced to a month in the compass room—an advanced prison obstacle course designed by the government to execute justice.

If she survives, the world will know she’s innocent.

Locked up with nine notorious and potentially psychotic criminals, Evalyn must fight the prison and dismantle her past to stay alive. But the system prized for accuracy appears…

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

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Ruins Dan Wells Series: Partials Sequence #3 Publication date: March 11th 2014by Balzer + Bray

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Kira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war between Partials and humans in the gripping final installment in the Partials Sequence, a series that combines the thrilling action of The Hunger Games with the provocative themes of Blade Runner and The Stand.

There is no avoiding it—the war to decide the fate of both humans and Partials is at hand. Both sides hold in their possession a weapon that could destroy the other, and Kira Walker has precious little time to prevent that…

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

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The Winner’s Curse Marie Rutkoski Series: The Winner’s Trilogy #1 Publication date: March 4th 2014 by Farrar Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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Winning what you want may cost you everything you love

As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions.

One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction. Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him—with unexpected consequences. It’s…

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

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Faking Normal Courtney C. Stevens Publication date: February 25th 2014 by HarperTeen

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An edgy, realistic, and utterly captivating novel from an exciting new voice in teen fiction.

Alexi Littrell hasn’t told anyone what happened to her over the summer. Ashamed and embarrassed, she hides in her closet and compulsively scratches the back of her neck, trying to make the outside hurt more than the inside does.

When Bodee Lennox, the quiet and awkward boy next door, comes to live with the Littrells, Alexi discovers an unlikely friend in “the Kool-Aid Kid,” who has secrets of his own. As they lean on…

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