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Crash (Visions #1)

by Lisa McMann

ebook, 256 pages

Expected publication: January 8, 2013 

Publisher: Simon Pulse

 

SYNOPSIS

If what you see is what you get, Jules is in serious trouble. The suspenseful first of four books from the New York Timesbestselling author of the Wake trilogy.Jules lives with her family above their restaurant, which means she smells like pizza most of the time and drives their double-meatball-shaped food truck to school. It’s not a recipe for popularity, but she can handle that.

What she can’t handle is the recurring vision that haunts her. Over and over, Jules sees a careening truck hit a building and explode...and nine body bags in the snow.

The vision is everywhere—on billboards, television screens, windows—and she’s the only one who sees it. And the more she sees it, the more shesees. The vision is giving her clues, and soon Jules knows what she has to do. Because now she can see the face in one of the body bags, and it’s someone she knows. Someone she has been in love with for as long as she can remember.

In this riveting start to a gripping series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa McMann, Jules has to act—and act fast—to keep her vision from becoming reality.

     

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Live Through This

by Mindi Scott

Paperback, 304 pages

Published October 2, 2012 

by Simon Pulse

SYNOPSIS

From the outside, Coley Sterling’s life seems pretty normal . . . whatever that means. It’s not perfect—her best friend is seriously mad at her and her dance team captains keep giving her a hard time—but Coley’s adorable, sweet crush Reece helps distract her. Plus, she has a great family to fall back on—with a mom and stepdad who would stop at nothing to keep her siblings and her happy.

But Coley has a lot of secrets. She won’t admit—not even to herself—that her almost-perfect life is her own carefully-crafted façade. That for years she’s been burying the shame and guilt over a relationship that crossed the line. Now that Coley has the chance at her first real boyfriend, a decade’s worth of lies are on the verge of unraveling.

In this unforgettable powerhouse of a novel, Mindi Scott offers an absorbing, layered glimpse into the life of an everygirl living a nightmare that no one would suspect.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

by Jess Rothenberg 

Kindle Edition

Published February 2, 2012

SYNOPSIS

Dying of a broken heart is just the beginning.... Welcome to forever.

BRIE'S LIFE ENDS AT SIXTEEN: Her boyfriend tells her he doesn't love her, and the news breaks her heart—literally.

But now that she's D&G (dead and gone), Brie is about to discover that love is way more complicated than she ever imagined. Back in Half Moon Bay, her family has begun to unravel. Her best friend has been keeping a secret about Jacob, the boy she loved and lost—and the truth behind his shattering betrayal. And then there's Patrick, Brie's mysterious new guide and resident Lost Soul . . . who just might hold the key to her forever after.

With Patrick's help, Brie will have to pass through the five stages of grief before she's ready to move on. But how do you begin again, when your heart is still in pieces?

So what's new on your shelf? I love to add to my TBR pile!

                           

                                   

FRIDAY FINDS… hosted by I Should Be Reading, is where you share the book titles you discovered or heard about during the past week. These can be books you were told about, books you discovered while browsing blogs/bookstores online, or books that you actually purchased. MOST of the books MizB shares in her Friday Finds are titles that she discovered somewhere online — not actually books she’s purchased.

                                        

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Publisher: HarperTeen

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There are no men in Claysoot. There are boys—but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends...and he’s gone.

They call it the Heist.

Gray Weathersby’s eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he’s prepared to meet his fate–until he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to question everything he’s been raised to accept: the Council leaders and their obvious secrets. The Heist itself. And what lies beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoot–a structure that no one can cross and survive. 

Climbing the Wall is suicide, but what comes after the Heist could be worse. Should he sit back and wait to be taken–or risk everything on the hope of the other side?

Remember
by Shannon Dermott
Expected publication: December 18, 2012

SYNOPSIS

Sixteen year old Charlize Daniels didn’t crave the limelight and relished being ignored. That until she finds herself being hunted. With no memory of how she ended up lost near her home, it was an angel face boy with an uncanny ability to disappear who saved her. Her obsession with the supernatural, one she developed after her father’s unnatural death, had her hoping her rescuer was her guardian angel. But little did she know, that couldn’t be further from the truth. With a new resolve gained after her brush with death, she no longer wanted live in the shadows. But her biggest obstacle will be to survive being hunted. Her only hope might be to remember the truth.

     

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SYNOPSIS 

The world is about to be cloaked in darkness. Only one can stop the night.

Kellen St. James has spent his entire life being overlooked as an unwanted, ordinary, slightly geeky kid. That is until a beautiful girl, one who has haunted his dreams for the past eleven years of his life, shows up spinning tales of a prophecy. Not just any old prophecy either, but one in which Kellen plays a key role.

Suddenly, Kellen finds himself on the run through a Celtic underworld of faeries and demons, angels and gods, not to mention a really ticked off pack of hellhounds, all in order to save the world from darkness. But will they make it in time?

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Ianni gave up her angelic existence to save a human soul. Killing the Dark Guides caused her to be banished from Heaven. Now she will be sent to earth to live as a human. But becoming a human is complicated. She must learn their ways and try to let go of her past life as a Spirit Guide. As if that wasn’t hard enough, now she learns there is a new threat to her friends. 

This is all I stacked for YA paranormal. I just love the cover.






So what's new on your shelf? I love to add to my TBR pile!

                           

                                   

FRIDAY FINDS… hosted by I Should Be Reading, is where you share the book titles you discovered or heard about during the past week. These can be books you were told about, books you discovered while browsing blogs/bookstores online, or books that you actually purchased. MOST of the books MizB shares in her Friday Finds are titles that she discovered somewhere online — not actually books she’s purchased.

My finds this week:

                          

  Okay, so both of these sound crazy don't they?! What an imagination these authors have. That book cover of Magisterium is creepy as heck!


I love comments!  So what did you find this week?!

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Published: Entangled Publishing, LLC

Synopsis

Be careful what you search for...

Emma Guthrie expects this summer to be like any other in the South Carolina Lowcountry--hot and steamy with plenty of beach time alongside her best friend and secret crush, Cooper Beaumont, and Emma’s ever-present twin brother, Jack. But then a mysterious eighteenth-century message in a bottle surfaces, revealing a hidden pirate bounty. Lured by the adventure, the trio discovers the treasure and unwittingly unleashes an ancient Gullah curse that attacks Jack with the wicked flesh-eating Creep and promises to steal Cooper’s soul on his approaching sixteenth birthday.

When a strange girl appears, bent on revenge; demon dogs become a threat; and Jack turns into a walking skeleton; Emma has no choice but to learn hoodoo magic to undo the hex, all before summer—and her friends--are lost forever.

And . . . 

League of Strays

by L.B. Schulman

Hardcover, 288 pages

Expected publication: October 1, 2012 

Published: Amulet

SYNOPSIS

This suspenseful debut follows a group of teenage misfits in their delicious quest for revenge on those who have wronged them at their high school. When a mysterious note appears in Charlotte’s mailbox inviting her to join the League of Strays, she’s hopeful it will lead to making friends. What she discovers is a motley crew of loners and an alluring, manipulative ringleader named Kade. Kade convinces the group that they need one another both for friendship and to get back at the classmates and teachers who have betrayed them. But Kade has a bigger agenda. In addition to vandalizing their school and causing fights between other students, Kade’s real intention is a dangerous plot that will threaten lives and force Charlotte to choose between her loyalty to the League and her own conscience.

MY THOUGHTS:

I just can't wait to read these books! Both of the covers are awesome too.

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Publisher: Razorbill

Synopsis

What if you could dream your way into a different life? What if you could choose to live that life forever?
Sloane and Maggie have never met. Sloane is a straight-A student with a big and loving family. Maggie lives a glamorously independent life as an up-and-coming actress in New York. The two girls couldn’t be more different—except for one thing. They share a secret that they can’t tell a soul. At night, they dream that they’re each other.

The deeper they’re pulled into the promise of their own lives, the more their worlds begin to blur dangerously together. Before long, Sloane and Maggie can no longer tell which life is real and which is just a dream. They realize that eventually they will have to choose one life to wake up to, or risk spiraling into insanity. But that means giving up one world, one love, and one self, forever.

Publisher: Spencer Hill Press

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Jodi Marshall isn’t sure how she went from normal teenager to walking disaster. One minute she’s in her junior year of high school, spending time with her amazing boyfriend and her best friend. The next she’s being stalked by some guy no one seems to know.

After the stranger, Alex, reveals himself, Jodi learns he’s not a normal teenager and neither is she. With a kiss that kills and a touch that brings the dead back to life, Jodi discovers she’s part of a branch of necromancers born under the 13th sign of the zodiac, Ophiuchus. A branch of necromancers that are descendents of Medusa. A branch of necromancers with poisoned blood writhing in their veins.

Jodi’s deadly to the living and even more deadly to the deceased. She has to leave her old, normal life behind before she hurts the people she loves. As if that isn’t difficult enough, Jodi discovers she’s the chosen one who has to save the rest of her kind from perishing at the hands of Hades. If she can’t figure out how to control her power, history will repeat itself, and her race will become extinct.

           MY THOUGHTS:

What awesome covers, you think?  Hmm, what would I want to do if I could dream my way into another life? No kissing without killing someone ... now that would be hard to deal with ...

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Much thanks to ABG Reads Book Tours for giving me the opportunity to help promote author Amber Polo's book The Shapeshifters' Library. Also there's a giveaway!!! 

The Shapeshifters' Library
(The Shapeshifters' Library, #1)
by Amber Polo
ebook, 266 pages
Published: July 8, 2012 

Publisher: Blue Merle Publishing

BOOK BLURB:

Lovedogs? Love books? Love libraries? Hate Book-burning werewolves?

Once long ago the Shipsfeather Academy was a training ground for an ancientrace of dog-shifters whose mission was to protect the world’s knowledge. Apowerful curse sealed these librarians in the basement of their building andgave the control of the town to a pack of book-burning werewolves.

Librarian Liberty Cutter watches in horror as the town’s public library goes upin flames and plans to re-establish the library in the abandoned ShipsfeatherAcademy building. Chronus, the Old English Sheepdog headmaster of the academyand leader of the dog-shifters, knows he must make some changes to continue tokeep his pack safe. But even if he could persuade Liberty to believe in atalking sheepdog, how far can she be trusted? And will she ever be able to carefor him as a man. He has to try, because Liberty Cutter and her staff of zanylibrarians may hold the key to the dog-shifters’ freedom…and the future of the town.

AUTHOR BIO

Amber Polo into a career as a librarian. A greater love turned her into a writer.The Shapeshifters’ Library series is an urban fantasy filled with books, librarians and dogs and a library everyone will love.The mystical side of Sedona, AZ became the paranormal setting for her first novel Romancing Rebecca.One day a plane flew past her office window and she turned her pen to her own airpark backyard and Flying Free was the result. 

In addition to her two novels and short romantic fiction, she is proud of her self-produced, Relaxation One Breath at a Time a CD that uses her voice to teach relaxation to calm your body and mind and/or help you fall asleep.

Relaxing the Writer: Guidebook to the Writer’s High offers hundreds of tips to help writers and readers relax. Sample her writing and see why Midwest Book Review called her work “quirky” and “profound” (is that After living in seven states),she happily calls a small town in Arizona home.

BOOK EXCERPT

Liberty andGregory – First Kiss

When the twelfth boxwas packed, she followed him up the steps and closed the doors behind her. Thenight was so quiet she listened to the sound of the oak leaves on the moonlitloading dock while he hefted the last box into the back of the van. He turnedto her, looked down at her happy face, and brushed tousled strands ofhoney-colored hair from her eyes. 

“Thank you,” Libertywhispered and hesitantly raised her arms and touched his back. Her hands slidover stiff jumpsuit fabric, feeling the strong shape of him. He still smelledof that woodsy cologne. Buoyed after their successful adventure, with gentlepressure she pulled him closer and he responded by pressing her into a warmhug. She leaned against him, enjoying the closeness. He used his fingers toraise her chin and she watched his lips come down to meet hers. She couldn’tpush him away. Or talk. Or close her eyes. 

The kiss, soft,powerful, and protective, was unlike any she’d ever experienced. She feltexcited and so close to him. 

His lips movedhungrily, then pulled back. “Oh Liberty, This evening has taken more than youcan imagine. I cannot stay much longer.” 

“What are yousaying? We need to take the books back to the library.” She placed her hands onthe sides of his head and again kissed him deeply. 

They jumped apart atthe sound of footfalls. Gregory looked over her shoulder and saw three wolvesemerge from the bushes edging the parking lot. He pushed Liberty away from himand gruffly yelled, “Get in the van and drive. Now!” 

“Come with me!” 

“No. Go! Don’targue.” He slammed the back door closed. 

As she ran to theopen driver’s door and pulled herself in, she heard wind whipping leaves into afrenzy followed by rapid crunching like a meat grinder devouring bone andgristle. She shuddered and turned the key in the ignition. The old van coughed.On the third try it sputtered to life. 

She pushed hard onthe gas pedal and on the third try the van heaved forward with its book-heavyload. She looked into the rearview mirror. Three dark dog-shaped beasts withshining eyes and drooling jaws flanked the back of the parking lot. 

Again Gregoryyelled, “Go home!” 

Wolves. It had to bethe werewolves. She’d left Gregory to the werewolves. 

As she drove fromthe parking lot she glanced frantically into the rearview mirror one more time.She saw the back end of a large hairy grey and white dog facing the threesnarling fiends. 

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Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

   

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We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . .
Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.

Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . .
There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her.

When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again.

Cross My Heart

by Katie Klein

Kindle Edition, 225 pages

Published March 15th 2011

SYNOPSIS:

True love can blossom in unexpected places. This is Jaden pretending not to notice. . . .

Jaden McEntyre and Parker Whalen are a wrong fit from the start. Jaden is driven and focused, Harvard Med School within reach. Parker has a past-a reputation-and the rumors about his mysterious habits abound. So there's no reason why, when they're assigned to work together on a project in English, they should discover they have anything in common, or even like each other, and they definitely shouldn't be falling in love.

As they bond over Edith Wharton's tragic novella, Ethan Frome, the "bad boy" vibe Parker plays begins to dissipate. Soon, Jaden finds herself shedding her own "good girl" image: sneaking around to be with him, confiding in him, and ultimately falling hard for this leather-wearing, motorcycle-driving loner who plays into the rebel stereotype.

Still, Jaden can't shake the feeling that there's more to Parker than he's letting on. He's hiding something from her, and discovering the truth means reconciling the Parker she's grown to love with the person he really is. Because it's possible that his life inside the classroom-everything Jaden knows-is one, massive lie.

I was in that "mushy love story with some family drama" mood these past few days. So I bought these two novels. They both seems like page-turners.

So what's new on your shelf? I love to add to my TBR pile!