Friday, June 08, 2012

Fresh Batch (June 9th – 15th)

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

Flavor of the week:

For Darkness Shows the Stars
Diana Peterfreund
Release date: June 12th, 2012
by Balzer + Bray

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Generations ago, a genetic experiment gone wrong—the Reduction—decimated humanity, giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.

Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family’s estate over love. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot’s estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth—an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she let him go.

But Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a secret—one that could change their society . . . or bring it to its knees. And again, she’s faced with a choice: cling to what she’s been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she’s ever loved, even if she’s lost him forever.

Read the first 84 pages here!

Also, you can read the prequel for FREE! 
Click on the cover to download the PDF:

Diana Peterfreund has been a costume designer, a cover model, and a food critic. Her travels have taken her from the cloud forests of Costa Rica to the underground caverns of New Zealand (and as far as she’s concerned, she’s just getting started). Diana graduated from Yale University in 2001 with dual degrees in Literature and Geology, which her family claimed would only come in handy if she wrote books about rocks. Now, this Florida girl lives with her husband and their puppy in Washington D.C., and writes books that rock

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

Tough, brainy alchemist Sydney Sage and doe-eyed Moroi princess Jill Dragomir are in hiding at a human boarding school in the sunny, glamorous world of Palm Springs, California.

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One year ago, Sadie Matthau was living among humans, existing as one of them. But now she wakes each morning in a house in the Survivors’ City, listening to the invocations and insults of her family members as they cope with their new future. A war. Rogue abandoners turned monsters.

Vanguard Maria Martinez has lived her entire life within the towering walls of steel. She yearns for a life away from the overcrowded streets, rolling blackouts, and food shortages, but there is no hope for anyone as long as the Inferi Scourge howl outside the high walls.

1 Concert
2000 Miles
3 Ex-Best Friends

Four girls. One magical, and possibly dangerous Italian summer. Family mysteries, ancient castles, long hot nights of dancing under the stars . . . and, of course, plenty of gorgeous Italian boys!

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Kaleb Ballard’s relentless flirting is interrupted when Jack Landers, the man who tried to murder his father, timeslips in and attacks before disappearing just as quickly.

Faced with the extinction of the human race, the government began the Council of Creators, meant to search out alternative methods of creating life. The resulting artificial human beings, or Chosen Ones, were extraordinarily beautiful, unbelievably strong, and unabashedly deadly.

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Calder White lives in the cold, clear waters of Lake Superior, the only brother in a family of murderous mermaids. To survive, Calder and his sisters prey on humans, killing them to absorb their energy. But this summer the underwater clan targets Jason Hancock out of pure revenge.

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Lexi is cursed with a dark secret. The water calls to her, draws her in, forces her to sing her deadly song to unsuspecting victims. If she succumbs, she kills. If she doesn’t, the pain is unbearable.

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Lexi has always been stunning. Her butter-colored hair and perfect features have helped her attract friends, a boyfriend, and the attention of a modeling scout. But everything changes the night Lexi’s face goes through a windshield.

A city where the only law was peace now knows violence and oppression. And nightmares: a mysterious and deadly plague haunts the citizens of Gujaareh, dooming the infected to die screaming in their sleep.

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Stranded on Earth four thousand years they’ve waited for the arrival of the One: some to save her, others to kill her. With her birth, the ancient prophecy could at last be fulfilled and the doorway between the worlds would open.

The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, numerous, messy, affectionate. And every day from her balcony perch, seventeen-year-old Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them . . . until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs her terrace and changes everything.

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The Vindico are a group of supervillains who have been fighting the League of Heroes for as long as anyone can remember. Realizing they’re not as young as they used to be, they devise a plan to kidnap a group of teenagers to take over. 

Sixteen-year-old Violet loves reading manga and wearing scarves made from kimono fabric, so she’s thrilled that her father’s new painting commission means a summer trip to Japan. But what starts as an exotic vacation quickly turns into a dangerous treasure hunt.

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Seventeen-year-old Althea is the sole support of her entire family, and she must marry well. But there are few wealthy suitors in their small Yorkshire town of Lesser Hoo. Then, the young and attractive (and very rich) Lord Boring arrives, and Althea sets her plans in motion.

Like sand in an hourglass, time is running out for Luce and Daniel. To stop Lucifer from erasing the past they must find the place where the angels fell to earth.

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Told through the alternating viewpoints of each character, The Red House becomes a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly-guarded secrets and illicit desires, all adding up to a portrait of contemporary family life that is bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt.
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It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount France. The Nazis know he’s coming

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Ellie Hart made a brilliant marriage in New York, but it ended in a scandalous divorce and thirty days in Sierra Tucson rehab. Now, returning home to Cleveland, she finds that, despite feminist lip service, she will still need a husband to be socially complete.

Like any sixteen-year-old, Julia’s used to dealing with problems. From her overprotective father to her absent mother to a teacher who definitely has it in for her. But everything changes when Julia’s reactions become oddly vicious and angry—more animal than human.

The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.

He’s a fallen angel. She’s a rockabilly reporter. Together they must solve a deadly string of murders plaguing the mortal and the immortal worlds.

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With the centuries-old restriction against practicing magic lifted, casting spells, mixing potions, and curing troubled souls has never felt so good for the three witches. That is, until everything gets turned upside down

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Connor knows that Izzy will never fall in love with him the way he’s fallen for her. But somehow he’s been let into her crazy, exhilarating world and become her closest confidante. But the closer they get, the more Connor realizes that Izzy’s highs are too high and her lows are too low

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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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26 Responses to “Fresh Batch (June 9th – 15th)”

  3. Nick

    I WANT ALL OF THEM !
    *Sobs
    Why do all the awesome books come out at the same time ? Now, I’m going to have to pick only a few. 🙁

  4. Maji Bookshelf

    wow… how will I ever be able to read all this awesomeness? I can’t wait to pick up Reunited, My life in black and white, my life next door, and Tokyo Heist!!

    – juhina

  5. Indigo Wayworth

    I’m excited to read all of these! I’ve read Lies Beneath and I recommend it to everyone! Such a phenomenal book! I also really want to read My Life in Black and White.

  6. Sam

    Too many awesome books! I really can’t wait to read For Darkness Shows the Stars. And thanks for posting about the prequel. I will have to check that out. 🙂

  7. Kara_Malinczak

    I want 4 books this week. That’s not too bad. I think I will Have to wait to get them though until I get back from Florida. I JUST bought 8 books the other day. Sigh.

  8. Silverlight

    Thanks for the hu! I’ve never ordered anything from book depo, but after checking out your links and the AMAZING prices I’m pre-ordering from them today!! It seems some of their prices are super cheap! I just cheked out the pre-order price to Once Burned and saw it listed @ $5.99 O-o Amazon is $7.99!! Thanks, and I’ll be using your BD link ups from now on!
    I do have one question for u, do they deliver in a timely fashion? I see some say ships in 48 hrs. but with pre-orders do u usually get the book on the day it’s released or a few days later? -#clueless

  9. Giselle

    @Silverlight: Yeah their prices are always cheaper than Amazon. Usually it will ship right away, if it says within 48hours it must be for a reason, a lot of the time it ships like asap. For pre-orders though they ship it the day of release so it would arrive a bit after the release. But I find it’s still worth it for the price different and it’s free shipping worldwide (I’m not just saying this so you use my link either lol but thanks for using it )

  10. Amy

    Wow there’s a lot of awesome books coming out. I am super excited to read Bastion!! It’s coming up on y list super quick! SQUEE!! I really want Tokyo Heist too. Chosen Ones was pretty good and I’m reading Lies Beneath now. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

  12. Katie @ BlookGirl

    I so badly want to read For Darkness Shows the Stars! <3 Thank you for the heads-up about the prequel 🙂 I'll download it when I get home.

    Point of Origin is actually next on my TBR List, as I’m reading the first book, The Survivors, now.

    Hooray for new books! 🙂

  14. Shooting Stars Mag

    Ooh thanks for the list! I hadn’t heard of some of these. I really want to read The Red House as it’s a sequel and I really loved the first!

    I do recommend The Taken. I had to review that for Romantic Times and I really enjoyed it!!

    -Lauren

  20. Lexie

    DUDE. o_o This week is freaking awesome. I mean, there are very few weeks that AREN’T packed with insanely awesome books, but this one is particularly wonderful. For Darkness Shows the Stars, Reunited, Flirting in Italian, The Last Bastion of the Living, Chosen Ones, Lies Beneath, My Life Next Door, Crazy . . . yep. If I go to B&N this week, I suspect I’ll emerge with an empty purse.

  21. Aleksandra

    I didn’t know about the prequel, so thank you so much for sharing it 🙂 I’ll definitely read it, ’cause I really want to get For Darkness Shows the Stars 🙂

  24. Mel - Thedailyprophecy.

    Again so many great releases!

    For darkness shows the stars has such a beautiful cover.
    Chosen Ones.

    I’m reading Lies beneath now thanks to Netgalley and so far, it’s really good. I can’t wait to get my own copy.

    My life in black and white sounds great.

    The one looks fascinating and My life next door sounds like a great summer read 😀

    Thanks for making this batch ^^