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Flavor of the week:

Scan
Sarah Fine, Walter Jury
Series: Scan #1
Publication date: May 1st 2014
by Putnam Children’s

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Tate and his father don’t exactly get along. As Tate sees it, his father has unreasonably high expectations for Tate to be the best—at everything. Tate finally learns what he’s being prepared for when he steals one of his dad’s odd tech inventions and mercenaries ambush the school, killing his father in the process and sending Tate on the run from aliens who look just like humans.

All Tate knows–like how to make weapons out of oranges and lighter fluid–may not be enough to save him as he’s plunged into a secret inter-species conflict that’s been going on for centuries. Aided only by his girlfriend and his estranged mother, with powerful enemies closing in on all sides, Tate races to puzzle out the secret behind his father’s invention and why so many are willing to kill for it. A riveting, fast-paced adventure, Scan is a clever alien thriller with muscle and heart.

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *

– Catch a Falling Star by Kim Culbertson [Purchase]
– Losing Logan (Losing Logan #1) by Sherry D. Ficklin [Purchase]
– It Ain’t Me, Babe by Tillie Cole
– https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16007855-sweet-reckoning?ac=1[Purchase]

– Nash (Marked Men #4) by Jay Crownover [Purchase]
– Burning Dawn (Angels of the Dark #3) by Gena Showalter [Purchase]
– The Taking (The Taking #1) by Kimberly Derting [Purchase]
– Of Breakable Things by A. Lynden Rolland [Purchase]

– Broken Visions (Shattered Promises #3) by Jessica Sorensen [Purchase]
– The Treatment (The Program #2) by Suzanne Young [Purchase]
– Take Me for Granted (Take Me #1) by K.A. Linde
– Searching for Perfect (Searching For #2) by Jennifer Probst [Purchase]

– Tease by Amanda Maciel [Purchase]
– The Break-Up Artist by Philip Siegel [Purchase]
– Exile (Exile #1) by Kevin Emerson [Purchase]
– Love and Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan [Purchase]

– Sleep No More by Aprilynne Pike [Purchase]
– Out of Mind (Out of Line #3) by Jen McLaughlin and Diane Alberts
– In the Shadows by Kiersten White [Purchase]
– Girl Missing: A Novel by Tess Gerritsen [Purchase]

– At Any Turn (Gaming the System #2) by Brenna Aubrey
– Creators (The Lost Souls #3) by Tiffany Truitt [Purchase]
– The Recruit (MTG Agencies #1) by Fiona Palmer [Purchase]
– Summer Love by Jill Santopolo [Purchase]

– Camp Payback (Camp Boyfriend #2) by J.K. Rock [Purchase]
– Shattered (Slated #3) by Teri Terry [Purchase]
– The Rising King (Keepers of Life #3) by Shea Berkley [Purchase]
– The One Safe Place by Tania Unsworth [Purchase]

– The End or Something Like That by Ann Dee Ellis [Purchase]
– The Drowning by Rachel Ward [Purchase]
– Starfall (The Darkborn Legacy #3) by Michael Griffo [Purchase]
– Deliver Me by Kate Jarvik Birch [Purchase]

– The Worst Girlfriend in the World by Sarra Manning [Purchase]
– A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman [Purchase]

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