Posts Categorized: Fresh Batch

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Fresh Batch (New Releases June 23rd – 28th)

Posted by Giselle • 10 Comments

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

Ashes on the Waves
Mary Lindsey

Publication date: June 27th, 2013

by Philomel/Penguin

Liam MacGregor is cursed. Haunted by the wails of fantastical Bean Sidhes and labeled a demon by the villagers of Dòchas, Liam has accepted that things will never get better for him—until a wealthy heiress named Annabel Leighton arrives on the island and Liam’s fate is changed forever.

With Anna, Liam finally finds the happiness he has always been denied; but, the violent, mythical Otherworlders, who inhabit the island and the sea around it, have other plans. They make awager on the couple’s love, testing its strength through a series of cruel obstacles. But the tragedies draw Liam and Anna even closer. Frustrated, the creatures put the couple through one last trial—and this time it’s not only their love that’s in danger of being destroyed.

Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling poem, “Annabel Lee,” Mary Lindsey creates a frighteningly beautiful gothic novel that glorifies the power of true love.

Ashes on the Waves Book Trailer:

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YA author of SHATTERED SOULS (2011), ASHES ON THE WAVES (2013), and FRAGILE SPIRITS (2014), all from Philomel/Penguin.

Represented by Ammi-Joan Paquette from the Erin Murphy Literary Agency.

Also writes under the pseudonym Marissa Clarke

Other releases this week (Click on title links for Goodreads):

*In no particular order* *Purchase links are for The Book Depository*

– The Lost Sun (The United States of Asgard #1) by Tessa Gratton [Purchase]

– Branded (Sinners #1) by Abi Ketner and Missy Kalicicki [Purchase]

– The Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Robin Palmer [Purchase]

– Wrong Kind of Love (Young Love #3) by Amanda Heath and Dawn Martens

– The Game Changer (The Perfect Game #2) by J. Sterling [Purchase]

– Accidents Happen: A Novel by Louise Millar [Purchase]

– Cold Steel (Spiritwalker #3) by Kate Elliott [Purchase]

– The Newcomer (Thunder Point #2) by Robyn Carr [Purchase]

– The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence [Purchase]

– Own the Wind (Chaos #1) by Kristen Ashley [Purchase]

– Copper Girl (Copper Legacy #1) by Jennifer Allis Provost [Purchase]

– Spartan Frost (Mythos Academy #4.5) by Jennifer Estep [Purchase]

– The Last Husband (Forever Love #2) by J.S. Cooper

– The Summer Girls by Mary Alice Monroe [Purchase]

– Hidden by Catherine McKenzie [Purchase]

– Weather Witch (Weather Witch #1) by Shannon Delany [Purchase]

– Sisterland: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld [Purchase]

– Damaged 2 (Damaged #2) by H.M. Ward [Purchase]

– After Daybreak (Darkness Before Dawn Trilogy #3) by J.A. London [Purchase]

– Hunted (The Iron Druid Chronicles #6) by Kevin Hearne [Purchase]

– Hidden (Avena #1) by Marianne Curley [Purchase]

– Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein [Purchase]

– Forged in Steele (KGI #7) by Maya Banks [Purchase]

– In the After (In the After #1) by Demitria Lunetta [Purchase]

– The Summer Everything Changed by Holly Chamberlin [Purchase]

– After Dark (Lords of the Underworld #4.5) by Gena Showalter and Kait Ballenger [Purchase]

– Ink (Paper Gods #1) by Amanda Sun [Purchase]

– fml by Shaun David Hutchinson [Purchase]

– Data Runner (Data Runner #1) by Sam A. Patel [Purchase]
– Neptune’s Tears (Timedance #1) by Susan Waggoner [Purchase]
– Invisible by Marni Bates [Purchase]
– Forevermore by Cindy Miles [Purchase]

– Winterveil (Wintercraft #3) by Jenna Burtenshaw [Purchase]
– A Moment Comes by Jennifer Bradbury [Purchase]

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Fresh Batch (New Releases June 16th – 22nd)

Posted by Giselle on 06/15/2013 • 13 Comments

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week. Flavor of the week:

Star Cursed Jessica Spotswood Series: The Cahill Witch Chronicles #1 Publication date: June 18th, 2013 by Putnam Juvenile

With the Brotherhood persecuting witches like never before, a divided Sisterhood desperately needs Cate to come into her Prophesied powers. And after Cate’s friend Sachi is arrested for using magic, a war-thirsty Sister offers to help her find answers—if Cate is willing to endanger everyone she loves.

Cate doesn’t want to be a weapon, and she doesn’t want to involve her friends and Finn in the Sisterhood’s schemes. But when Maura and Tess join the Sisterhood, Maura makes it clear that she’ll do whatever it takes to lead the witches to victory….

Fresh Batch (New Releases June 9th – 15th)

Posted by Giselle on 06/08/2013 • 14 Comments

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week. Flavor of the week:

Charm & Strange Stephanie Kuehn Publication date: June 11th, 2013 by St. Martin’s Griffin

When you’ve been kept caged in the dark, it’s impossible to see the forest for the trees. It’s impossible to see anything, really. Not without bars . . .

Andrew Winston Winters is at war with himself.

He’s part Win, the lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a family tragedy. The guy who shuts all his classmates out, no matter the cost.

He’s part Drew, the angry young boy with violent impulses that control him. The boy who spent a fateful, long-ago summer with his brother and teenage cousins,…

Fresh Batch (June 2nd – 8th)

Posted by Giselle on 06/01/2013 • 17 Comments

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week. Flavor of the week:

Gameboard of the Gods Richelle Mead Series: Age of X #1 Publication date: June 4th by Dutton Adult

In a futuristic world nearly destroyed by religious extremists, Justin March lives in exile after failing in his job as an investigator of religious groups and supernatural claims. But Justin is given a second chance when Mae Koskinen comes to bring him back to the Republic of United North America (RUNA). Raised in an aristocratic caste, Mae is now a member of the military’s most elite and terrifying tier, a soldier with enhanced reflexes and skills.

When Justin and Mae are assigned to work together to solve a string of ritualistic murders,…

Fresh Batch (May 26th – June 1st)

Posted by Giselle on 05/25/2013 • 14 Comments

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week. Flavor of the week:

Spirit Brigid Kemmerer Series: Elemental #3 Publication date: May 28th 2013 by K Teen

With power comes enemies. Lots of them.

Hunter Garrity just wants to be left alone. He’s learned the hard way that his unusual abilities come at a price. And he can’t seem to afford any allies.

He’s up to his neck in hostiles. His grandfather, spoiling for a fight. The Merrick brothers, who think he ratted them out. Calla, the scheming psycho who wants to use him as bait.

Then there’s Kate Sullivan, the new girl at school. She’s not hostile. She’s bold. Funny. Hot. But she’s got an agenda, too.

With supposedly secret powers rippling…

Fresh Batch (May 19th – 25th)

Posted by Giselle on 05/18/2013 • 11 Comments

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week. Flavor of the week:

The Book of Broken Hearts Sarah Ockler Publication date: May 21st 2013 by Simon Pulse

When all signs point to heartbreak, can love still be a rule of the road? A poignant and romantic novel from the author of Bittersweet and Twenty Boy Summer.

Jude has learned a lot from her older sisters, but the most important thing is this: The Vargas brothers are notorious heartbreakers. She’s seen the tears and disasters that dating a Vargas boy can cause, and she swore an oath—with candles and a contract and everything—to never have anything to do with one.

Now Jude is the only sister still living at home, and she’s…

Fresh Batch (May 12th – 18th)

Posted by Giselle on 05/11/2013 • 13 Comments

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week. Flavor of the week:

Golden Jessi Kirby Publication date: May 14th 2013 by Simon & Schuster BfYR

Seventeen-year-old Parker Frost has never taken the road less traveled. Valedictorian and quintessential good girl, she’s about to graduate high school without ever having kissed her crush or broken the rules. So when fate drops a clue in her lap—one that might be the key to unraveling a town mystery—she decides to take a chance.

Julianna Farnetti and Shane Cruz are remembered as the golden couple of Summit Lakes High—perfect in every way, meant to be together forever. But Julianna’s journal tells a different story—one of doubts about Shane and a forbidden romance with an older,…

Fresh Batch (May 5th – 11th)

Posted by Giselle on 05/04/2013 • 15 Comments

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week. Flavor of the week:

The 5th Wave Rick Yancey Series: The 5th Wave, #1 Publication date: May 7th 2013 by Putnam Juvenile

The Passage meets Ender’s Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is…