Saturday, January 28, 2012

Fresh Batch (Jan. 29th – Feb. 4th)

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

Flavour of the week:

=”1″> Harbinger

Sara Wilson Etienne
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Girl, Interrupted meets Beautiful Creatures in this fast-paced thriller

When sixteen-year-old Faye arrives at Holbrook Academy, she doesn’t expect to find herself exactly where she needs to be. After years of strange waking visions and nightmares, her only comfort the bones of dead animals, Faye is afraid she’s going crazy. Fast.

But her first night at Holbrook, she feels strangely connected to the school and the island it sits on, like she’s come home. She’s even made her first real friends, but odd things keep happening to them. Every morning they wake on the floors of their dorm rooms with their hands stained red.

Faye knows she’s the reason, but what does it all mean? The handsome Kel tries to help her unravel the mystery, but Faye is certain she can’t trust him; in fact, he may be trying to kill her – and the rest of the world too.

Harbinger book trailer:

I used to dream of being a marine biologist but quickly realized that I love fantasy more than fact. Now I enjoy combining both to create stories that ask “What if?” I write in sunny California alongside my artist husband and my two dogs. My favorite days are spent disappearing into different universes, whether it’s traveling with Dr. Who, popping into a parallel world with Diana Wynne Jones, writing my own stories, or just taking a nap. Harbinger is my first novel.

 Other releases this week (click on cover for Goodreads):
*In no particular order*  *Purchase links are for Book Depository*

7th grader Louise should be the captain of her school’s gymnastics team – but she isn’t. She’s fun and cute and should have lots of friends – but she doesn’t. And there’s a dreamy boy who has a crush on her – but somehow they never connect. Louise has everything going for her – so what is it that’s holding her back?

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Teenagers Polly and Odd are the only survivors of a MRSA (Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus–also known as flesh-eating bacteria) outbreak that killed several people in their town.

They call me ‘New Girl’… Ever since I arrived at exclusive, prestigious Manderly Academy, that’s who I am. New girl. Unknown. But not unnoticed—because of her. Her going missing is the only reason a spot opened up for me at the academy. And everyone stares at me like it’s my fault.

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Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why.

Miranda Ellis is a woman tormented. Plagued since birth by a strange and powerful gift, she has spent her entire life struggling to control her exceptional abilities. Yet one innocent but irreversible mistake has left her family’s fortune decimated and forced her to wed London’s most nefarious nobleman.

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Balancing real life with the responsibility of being Heaven’s warrior is a challenge for Ellie. Her relationship with Will has become all business, though they both long for each other. And now that the secret of who she really is has come out, so have Hell’s strongest reapers. Grown bold and more vicious, the demonic threaten her in the light of day and stalk her in the night.

Grim reaper extraordinaire. Whatever. Charley Davidson is back! And she’s drinking copious amounts of caffeine to stay awake because, every time she closes her eyes, she sees him: Reyes Farrow, the parthuman, part-supermodel son of Satan.

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CUT meets HATCHET in this lacerating debut about girls, knives, and redemption. The Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area stretches across two million acres in northern Idaho. In its heart sits the Alice Marshall School, where fifty teenage girls come to escape their histories and themselves 

As a child, Angelina spent years in counseling learning that Josie, her imaginary friend, wasn’t real, but it turns out her childhood friend wasn’t imaginary after all. Now Angelina has to accept she’s either (A) crazy or (B) able to see ghosts.

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After Michael’s parents die, he is invited to stay with his guardian in a desolate country house. He begins to suspect something is not quite right on the day he arrives when he spots a mysterious woman out in the frozen mists. But little can prepare him for the solitude of the house itself.

Jenna Lord’s first sixteen years were not exactly a fairytale. Her father is a controlling psycho and her mother is a drunk. She used to count on her older brother—until he shipped off to Afghanistan. And then, of course, there was the time she almost died in a fire.

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Sherry has lived with her family in a sealed bunker since things went wrong up above. But when they run out of food, Sherry and her dad must venture outside. There they find a world of devastation, desolation…and the Weepers: savage, mutant killers.

The sensational fourth novel in the 13 to Life series sees Jessica and the Rusakuvas fighting to overcome one of their biggest challenges yet–the possibility of a cure for lycanthropy.

New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned. The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes. There are no more police—instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior—instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. People who get arrested usually don’t come back.  

Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside she’s still reeling from the loss of her beloved mother and grandmother after Hurricane Katrina washed away their home. Laurel’s new life is going well, with a new best friend, a place on the cheerleading squad and T-Boom, co-captain of the basketball team, for a boyfriend. Yet Laurel is haunted by voices and memories from her past.

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Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone–but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.

The second in the enthralling new mini-series of novellas from the #1 bestselling authors of the House of Night, Lenobia’s Vow tells the gripping story behind the House of Night’s enigmatic riding instructor – and one of Zoey’s closest allies against evil.

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 A few “sexy” bullet points about Jay: • He is in love with a cheerleader named Cameo “Appearance” Parnell • He is forever losing “Love-15” to tennis-playing goddess Caroline Richardson • He rocks a touché array of pop-culture references, jokes, and puns • His family-life cookie is about to crumble.

Something wicked this way comes… She thought she’d be safe in the country, but you can’t escape your own nightmares, and Lis London dreams repeatedly that someone is trying to kill her. Lis thinks she’s being paranoid – after all who would want to murder her?

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The nightmarish adventure picks up sixteen years after Melanie’s return in Half World. With a new dark hero whose unlikely companions are a heartless cat and a self-destructive Neo Goth girl, Darkest Light is a compelling journey through despair in a desperate search for redemption.

In this final instalment of the Bloodlines trilogy, Keira and her friends face their toughest battles yet. Not only with the ones they believe have set out to destroy them, but also with themselves and each other.

Constance started to keen as the air around us began to thrash and twist, the caustic scent of ozone burning my nose. As I watched, her dark gold hair began to lift and kink into knots. “I’m here. It’ll be okay.” It was the last thing I said before my best friend’s little sister went supernova in the second-floor girls’ bathroom, taking me with her.  

Which new releases are you most excited for?

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Giselle

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16 Responses to “Fresh Batch (Jan. 29th – Feb. 4th)”

  1. roro

    there so many i want
    meth moon
    edumacation of jay baker
    the other life
    /new girl and article 5 r awesome glad i got the chance 2 read them

  2. Christy D

    You know, I almost feel like going offline for a month, and do nothing but read. There are so many books that keep coming out, and I want to read them all. Death by books, that’s how I’m gonna go….

  3. Shirley

    SHDUSAKHDAUSHDSIAHDSAHD I WANT THEM ALL!!!!
    Such an amazing variety of books this week! I’m so pumped for HARBINGER! Heard such amazing things about it – I don’t think I can wait any longer! Incarnate sounds fantastic too, and can’t wait to read Angelfire’s sequel 😀

  6. A. Knight

    Sooo many people seem to want Harbinger, and I admit I’m starting to fall into the mix. It just looks so cool and different!

    I just got Article 5 in the mail and I’m soooo excited to get started. This year’s releases just keep getting better and better!

    – Asher (from Paranormal Indulgence)

  9. Giselle

    @ChristyD: Your comment made me LOL. Death by Books would be the best way to go IMO! >.<

    @A. Knight: That’s what I’m reading now and it’s really good so far. Scary world!

    @Sam: Ha! My TBR list is scary 🙁

  10. Tee

    Oh my gosh–looks like I am going to be busy reading -which is good..I wont have the money to go out after I buy all the books I have been waiting for LOL

  11. Lexie

    So many awesome books this week! I’m really excited for Harbinger, because it looks awesomely creepy and the trailer is amazing. I’ve heard great things about Incarnate and Article 5, and they both have ridiculously cool premises (plus, Incarnate’s cover *-*). And Drowning Instinct, well . . .

  12. Kathy Ann Coleman

    Definitely Lenobia’s Vow! I’m a huge fan of the House of Night books and the novellas are great, too. I really enjoyed Dragon’s Oath. I’m *really* trying to be careful what I buy, because I’m so overloaded with books already that it’s ridiculous. :p But I know my resistance can’t last. My birthday is in February. *laughs*

  13. Elodie

    I’m really curious about Harbinger, Article 5 and Incarnate 🙂 !! I have Angelfire on my shelves but haven’t read it yet !!
    Great post 🙂

  14. Rubita

    Harbinger, definitely! I’ve already got my copy on preorder! I can’t wait to read it, even more so since I read just now that the author is a Diana Wynne Jones fan.

    Also, Article 5 looks good, too. I’ve been hearing it mentioned a bit. It looks a bit post-apocalyptic rather than Dystopian, which I enjoy.
    Ruby

  16. Ailsa

    Yay, Hollow Pike! I read it recently (review here) and loved it – I’m going to buy it for as many people as I can. Firelight sounds pretty good too.

    ~Ailsa