Saturday, June 02, 2012

Fresh Batch (June 3rd – 9th)

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

Flavor of the week:

All These Lives
Sarah Wylie
Release date: June 5th, 2012
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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Sixteen-year-old Dani is convinced she has nine lives. As a child she twice walked away from situations where she should have died. But Dani’s twin, Jena, isn’t so lucky.  She has cancer and might not even be able to keep her one life. Dani’s father is in denial. Her mother is trying to hold it together and prove everything’s normal.  And Jena is wasting away.  To cope, Dani sets out to rid herself of all her extra lives.  Maybe they’ll be released into the universe and someone who wants to live more than she does will get one.  Someone like Jena.  But just when Dani finds herself at the breaking point, she’s faced with a startling realization.  Maybe she doesn’t have nine lives after all.  Maybe she really only ever had one.

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Sarah Wylie has been writing for as long as she can remember. In May 2011, she graduated from the University of Lethbridge with a degree in Neuroscience. She lives in Canada. This is her first novel.

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

A collection of short stories by the following authors: Jocelyn Adams, Claire Gillian, Julie Reece, Kelly Said

Andrew Dare is a werewolf. He’s the enforcer for the Roanoke pack, and responsible for capturing or killing any Were intruders in Roanoke’s territory. But the lone Were he’s tracking doesn’t smell or act like anyone he’s ever encountered. And when he catches her, it doesn’t get any better.

Morris Gleitzman’s acclaimed story of friends Felix and Zelda in Nazi-occupied Poland has captured the hearts and minds of readers worldwide. In “Now”, he delivers the final chapter, bringing this most moving of stories into the present day.

In the magical world that lies hidden beneath our own, witches and conjurers play deadly games. They know just the right spell to kill a man with one kiss—or raise him back again.

Annajane Hudgens truly believes she is over her ex-husband, Mason Bayless.  They’ve been divorced for four years, she’s engaged to a new, terrific guy.  She is so over Mason that she has absolutely no problem attending his wedding to the beautiful, intelligent, delightful Celia. 

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Megan is a miracle. At least, that’s what everyone says. Having survived a plane crash that killed everyone else on board, Megan knows she should be grateful just to be alive. But the truth is, she doesn’t feel like a miracle. In fact, she doesn’t feel anything at all. Then memories from the crash start coming back.

James has known magic since just after he was born. As a sorcerer, his skills are exceptional yet when he wakes in The Never, his abilities are gone. Armed with nothing but determination and the will to survive, he braves a land wrought with dangers, mysteries and temptations meant to ensnare both body and mind and prevent escape forever.

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Snow White is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman who was dispatched to kill her.

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Zoë is just about ready to breathe fire, especially once she uncovers a new threat that targets her friends. Although Zoë thought the Mages were defeated, they’re back and have invoked an old spell to give them new power—they plan to eliminate all shape shifters on the night of the big dance.

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Amelia—still caught between life and death—must fight for every moment of her relationship with the human boy Joshua. They can hardly even kiss without Amelia accidentally dematerializing.

A mysterious war has been waged among the Others. As witches and humans turn against each other, as faes retreat in fear, and as vampires rise, Lark and Simon discover that an unseen force is behind it. A single, hungry entity older than recorded history has returned to gorge on the magick of his victims.

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When it came to overcoming the odds of a tragic past, Lily was determined to move on. The three Colter brothers helped her do it. Now is a time for celebration, and what better way than with a long-awaited family reunion, a homecoming that will bring together the entire Colter family and a few surprises no one anticipated.

Farrah “Digit” Higgins may be going to MIT in the fall, but this L.A. high school genius has left her geek self behind in another school district so she can blend in with the popular crowd at Santa Monica High and actually enjoy her senior year.

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Jett is a girl disguised as a boy, living as a gambler in the old West as she searches for her long-lost brother. Honoria Gibbons is a smart, self-sufficient young woman who also happens to be a fabulous inventor. Both young women travel the prairie alone – until they are brought together by a zombie invasion!

It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.

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Following a desperate night-long battle, a group of beleaguered soldiers in an isolated base in Kandahar are faced with a lone woman demanding the return of her brother’s body. Is she a spy, a black widow, a lunatic, or is she what she claims to be?

Technology makes them superhuman. But mere mortals want them kept in their place. Enter a stunning world where technology and humanity clash in terrifying and surprising ways.

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Fourteen-year-old Jeremy Barker is obsessed with zombie movies. He attends an all-boys Catholic High School where roving gangs in plaid make his days a living hell. His mother is an absentee pillhead, his older brother a self-diagnosed sex-addict, and his father an ex-Marine realtor who disappears night after night without explanation.
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We usually tell our best friends everything. Our crushes, our embarrassing stories, our secrets—but sometimes there are truths so deep and dark that we can’t tell anyone.

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Determined to find a husband, Miss Eleanor “Nell” Bowman attends a ball put on by the Duchess of Greycliffe, fondly referred to as the Duchess of Love. But she roundly dismisses the suitors the matchmaking hostess has invited on her behalf. For it’s the duchess’s dashing son Ned, Lord Edward, who long ago captured Nell’s heart.

In this thrilling gothic suspense debut by Sara Foster in the tradition of Rosamund Lupton and Sophie Hannah, a young mother searches Yorkshire’s windswept moors for the truth behind her husband’s mysterious disappearance.

Whitley Johnson’s dream summer with her divorcé dad has turned into a nightmare. She’s just met his new fiancée and her kids. The fiancée’s son? Whitley’s one-night stand from graduation night. Just freakin’ great.

After a rocky start in Spoiled, Brooke Berlin and her newly discovered half sister, Molly Dix, have settled into something like sisterly love, but the drama is far from over. Now that Brooke’s caught a taste of fame and her movie star father’s attention, she wants to launch a blog that will position her as the ultimate Hollywood insider.

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Betsy Taylor is determined to change the future for herself and her loved ones, but her actions could have life-shattering repercussions. That’s to be expected when a friend returns from the dead, when your dear sister just happens to be the Antichrist, and when your mother is the devil.

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Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free.

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Julianne can’t understand why Isaac suddenly gave up Boston’s music scene to return to the South. He doesn’t know her life depends on escaping it before she inherits her mother’s madness. Isaac knows he must resist his attraction to a student ten years his junior, but loneliness and jealousy threaten his resolve.

He may have given her up without a fight, but Sawyer Vincent is far from over losing the girl he’s loved all of his life. Instead of giving up his best friend and the girl he thought he’d spend forever with, he gave Ashton and his brother Beau his blessing.

When a visit to the Tower of London triggers an overwhelmingly real vision of a beheading that occurred centuries before, Cole Ryan fears she is losing her mind. A mysterious boy, Griffon Hall, comes to her aid, but the intensity of their immediate connection seems to open the floodgate of memories even wider.
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In a near future, society is segregated according to whether people are genetically disposed to mental illness. 17-year-old Ana has been living the privileged life of a Pure due to an error in her DNA test.

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Tempest Maguire is happy with her decision to embrace her mermaid nature and live among her mother’s clan within the ocean’s depths. Even though training to one day ascend the throne for the aging mermaid queen is rigorous, she finds refuge in the arms of Kona, the selkie who first opened her up to her mermaid side.
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Seventeen-year-old Violet McKenna is back for her senior year at Winterhaven, and thrilled to be with Aidan after a long summer apart. But when a violent and disturbing vision begins to haunt her, Violet suddenly feels unsure of everything: who to trust, if she is in danger, and—worst of all—whether she and Aidan are really meant to be together.

When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it’s up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, she’s faced with something she’s never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people—kids, grandparents, soccer moms—all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master.

Six high school kids (some popular, some not), two eighth graders (one a tech genius), and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. While outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill, seems to be tearing the world apart.

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Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears.

Raine has always been a good girl. She lives by the rules in Freedom. After all, they are her father’s rules: He’s the Director. It’s because of him that Raine is willing to use her talent—a power so dangerous, no one else is allowed to know about it. Not even her roommate, Vi.

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Giselle

Canadian blogger, wife, mother, coffee lover, and sarcastic at heart! She has had a love for all things bookish since before Amazon and eReaders existed *le gasp*. You can also find her organizing tours and other fun things at Xpresso Book Tours.

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23 Responses to “Fresh Batch (June 3rd – 9th)”

  1. Jennifer Messerschmidt

    Monument 14 is already coming out?! I better hurry up and read and review it. I loved Arise! I think Silver sounds interesting. I love werewolves. A Midsummer’s Nightmare sounds cute. I also plan to read Undead and Unstable even though that series is on my nerves lately.

  2. Eunice

    Wow! So many great books coming this week! I’m so looking forward for The Glimpse, Monument 12, Shadow and Bone and A Midsummmer’s Nightmare! Oh, and The Vincent Brothers too! Great post, Giselle. 🙂

  4. Julie

    Wow, I can’t believe these books are already coming out! It feels like their book deals were just announced a month ago. I can’t wait to get my hands on Shadow and Bone and A Midsummer’s Nightmare. Thanks for posting!

  5. The Teen Book Guru

    Wow! I am SO excited for all of these books!! Especially A Midsummer’s Nightmare, which seems awesome, and also Surrender!! Because I LOVE LOVE LOVEd Posession. Arise was fantabulous!! I loved that too!!! Am also really excited for Miracle as I am a HUGE fan of Elizabeth Scott and I think she’s awesome and kind of worship the ground she walks on. 😛 Awesome feature, Giselle! <3

  7. Mirjam

    Most definitely! I have already ordered Kiss the Dead and Blazing The Trail. Bedding Lord Ned and Tempest Unleashed sound pretty good too!

  8. Nick

    Goodness grief, there are so many books I want to read this week.
    They all seem so awesome ! Ughh …
    My purse is going to be empty ! -_-

  9. Sam

    There are a lot of new releases coming up! I can’t wait to get my hands on Miracle and Silver. I love the sound of those two. Plus I am eager of get a finished copy of Shadow & Bone. 🙂

  14. Amy

    OMG look at all of that awesome!! I loved Surrender, Monument 14 was okay. I still need to read Transcendence.(oops) I need The Vincent Brothers!!! Silver, Amped, and Zombie look really good, but since I am trying to stick to my book buying ban the only one I am getting this week is The Vincent Brothers. (Assuming it’s not going to be Amazon only for a while. I will cry if it is.)

  15. bookworm105

    Wow. There are so many books coming out this week. Can’t wait to read them, specially, A Midsummer’s Nightmare, The Glimpse and Shadow and Bone. Lastly, can’t wait to watch and read Snow White and the Huntsman!

    Thanks for sharing! =D

  17. margie c {the bumble girl}

    Hmmm, to read Snow White and the Huntsmen before seeing the movie or not, that is the question, lol!
    A Midsummer’s Nightmare sounds great! and I really am going to need a finished copy of Shadow and Bone, it’s gorgeous!
    Great titles, can’t wait! Enjoy 🙂

  18. Kathy Ann Coleman

    From that list I am intrigued by The Glimpse, A Midsummer’s Nightmare and The Vincent Brothers. Definitely a lot of great stuff coming out, but I can’t keep up with what I already have. 🙂

  20. Vegan YA Nerds

    How are we supposed to read all these amazing-sounding books, Giselle? I feel like I will never catch up!

    Also happy to see Morris Gleitzman on the list, I read some of his books as a kid 🙂

  21. Amber Hughes

    I really want to read Monument 14 and I’ve also got Shadow and Bone, A Midsummer’s Nightmare and The Vincent Brothers (& The Vincent Boys) on my TBR. I hadn’t heard of Silver before, but I do love werewolf books, so I’ll be adding that one to my TBR as well 🙂