Thursday, July 31, 2014

Servants of the Storm by Delilah S. Dawson




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Author: by Delilah S. Dawson



Dovey learns that demons lurk in places other than the dark corners of her mind in this southern gothic fantasy from the author of the Blud series.

A year ago, Hurricane Josephine swept through Savannah, Georgia, leaving behind nothing but death and destruction and taking the life of Dovey’s best friend, Carly. Since that night, Dovey has been in a medicated haze, numb to everything around her.

But recently she’s started to believe she’s seeing things that can’t be real…including Carly at their favorite cafĂ©. Determined to learn the truth, Dovey stops taking her pills. And the world that opens up to her is unlike anything she could have imagined.

As Dovey slips deeper into the shadowy corners of Savannah where the dark and horrifying secrets lurk she learns that the storm that destroyed her city and stole her friend was much more than a force of nature. And now the sinister beings truly responsible are out to finish what they started.




  • Print Length: 384 pages

  • Publisher: Simon Pulse (August 5, 2014)


  • Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00FNVSTD6



Servants of the Storm by Delilah S. Dawson


Chasing Before by Lenore Appelhans




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Author: Lenore Appelhans



Perfect for fans of The Matrix and Inception, Chasing Before follows Felicia as she grapples with a futuristic afterlife in this riveting sequel to The Memory of After.



It’s been four months since Felicia saved Level 2 from the Morati, the corrupted angels who trapped her and her boyfriend, Neil, in the afterlife. Now, she and Neil are finally ready to move on to the mysterious Level 3, an afterlife training facility where humans pick a career to pursue until they supposedly retire to the next level.



Shortly after arriving, Felicia learns some shocking truths about her life that make her question everything. Neil wants to focus on the future, but Felicia insists on looking for answers about her past. Just when Felicia thinks things can’t get any more complicated, deadly explosions begin to rock Level 3, and Julian her charming former love who might still be aligned with the Morati reappears.



Felicia has a choice: Will she do everything in her power to expose the Morati and end the destruction of Level 3, even if it means never knowing who she really is? Or will she chase after the desires of her heart and risk losing her past humanity, her present afterlife, and a future with Neil?




  • Print Length: 368 pages

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (August 26, 2014)


  • Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B005C757OA



Chasing Before by Lenore Appelhans


Maid of Deception by Jennifer McGowan




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Author: M. Anjelais



The closest he will ever come to happiness is when he's hurting her.
Will she let him? A beautiful and twisted story of first love and
innocence lost - written when the author was just eighteen.

Sphinxie
and Cadence. Promised to each other in childhood. Drawn together again
as teens. Sphinxie is sweet, compassionate, and plain. Cadence is
brilliant, charismatic. Damaged. And diseased. When they were kids, he
scarred her with a knife. Now, as his illness progresses, he becomes
increasingly demanding. She wants to be loyal - but fears for her life.
Only the ultimate sacrifice will give this love an ending.




  • Print Length: 277 pages

  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0545667666

  • Publisher: The Chicken House (August 26, 2014)


  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00I5T2MN6



Breaking Butterflies by M. Anjelais


Breaking Butterflies by M. Anjelais




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Author: M. Anjelais



The closest he will ever come to happiness is when he's hurting her.
Will she let him? A beautiful and twisted story of first love and
innocence lost - written when the author was just eighteen.

Sphinxie
and Cadence. Promised to each other in childhood. Drawn together again
as teens. Sphinxie is sweet, compassionate, and plain. Cadence is
brilliant, charismatic. Damaged. And diseased. When they were kids, he
scarred her with a knife. Now, as his illness progresses, he becomes
increasingly demanding. She wants to be loyal - but fears for her life.
Only the ultimate sacrifice will give this love an ending.




  • Print Length: 277 pages

  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0545667666

  • Publisher: The Chicken House (August 26, 2014)


  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00I5T2MN6



Breaking Butterflies by M. Anjelais


Wednesday, July 30, 2014

The Scarlets by Madeleine Roux




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Author: Madeleine Roux





In this chilling e-original story set in the world of Madeleine Roux's New York Times bestselling novel Asylum, which Publishers Weekly called "a strong YA debut," one teen's descent into the ranks of a secret society leaves him with a secret he'll have to take to his grave.

When Dan and his friends meet Cal in Sanctum the sequel to Asylum their impression of the privileged New Hampshire College student is less than stellar. But Cal wasn't always the cold, sarcastic guy he is now. In this digital original story preceding the events of Sanctum, we meet Cal when he is experiencing college like any other kid with a group of close friends and a dad who piles on the pressure. Only, when the pressure starts getting to him and Cal accepts an invitation to meet a selective group of students and alumni known only as the Scarlets, the course of Cal's life changes forever. And the price of joining the Scarlets might be higher than he can pay.

With plenty of twists, turns, and thrills, The Scarlets is an exhilarating installment in the Asylum series that can stand on its own for new readers or provide a missing piece of the puzzle for series fans.

HarperTeen Impulse is a digital imprint focused on young adult short stories and novellas, with new releases the first Tuesday of each month.



Print Length: 65 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen (August 5, 2014)
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
Language: English
ASIN: B00JOGB2GC


The Scarlets by Madeleine Roux


Sisters' Fate by Jessica Spotswood




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Author: Jessica Spotswood



A fever ravages New London, but with the Brotherhood sending suspected witches straight to the gallows, the Sisters are powerless against the disease. They can’t help without revealing their powers as Cate learns when a potent display of magic turns her into the most wanted witch in all of New England.

To make matters worse, Cate has been erased from the memory of her beloved Finn. While she’s torn between protecting him from further attacks and encouraging him to fall for her all over again, she’s certain she can never forgive Maura’s betrayal. And now that Tess’s visions have taken a deadly turn, the prophecy that one Cahill sister will murder another looms ever closer to its fulfillment.



Print Length: 368 pages
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile (August 14, 2014)
Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00FX7LXR4


Sisters' Fate by Jessica Spotswood


Deliverance by C.J. Redwine




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Author: C.J. Redwine



In this final installment of C. J. Redwine's Defiance trilogy, a rich postapocalyptic YA fantasy perfect for fans of Graceling and Tamora Pierce, Rachel Adams has been kidnapped by enemy forces and is being taken to Rowansmark while her love, Logan McEntire, is imprisoned and awaiting trial, unable to leave Lankenshire. As uneasy alliances are tested and their enemies plot against them, will the two manage to find a way to rid their world of the tyrannical Commander and destroy the tech that controls the deadly Cursed One once and for all?



Print Length: 480 pages
Publisher: Balzer + Bray (August 26, 2014)
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
Language: English
ASIN: B00H1U9T1S


Deliverance by C.J. Redwine


Breaking Free by S.M. Koz




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Author: S.M. Koz



Kelsie Sullivan’s life has changed forever. The once outgoing
cheerleader has a secret to hide. The car accident that killed her best
friend Jenna? She caused it.



With an absent father and unforgiving stepmother, Kelsie has nowhere
to turn. She manages her guilt and grief with razor blades. The
fleeting release she experiences becomes an obsession and soon she's
unable to hide it any longer. Once her cutting is revealed, Kelsie’s
parents enroll her in a Wilderness Therapy program designed to
rehabilitate troubled teens, but North Carolina is a world away from
California.



Kelsie fights against everything the program has to offer until she
befriends JC, a boy with a tortured past of his own. He’s also the only
one who is able to ease her pain. The two grow close, but quickly
discover that nature both human and otherwise can easily rip them apart.



Disclaimer: This book contains adult language, sexual themes, and
explicit self-harm behavior. Parental discretion is recommended for
those under 15 years of age


Print Length: 280 pages
Publisher: SM Koz (July 25, 2014)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00M4Y83XG


Breaking Free by S.M. Koz


Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Sanctum by Madeleine Roux




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Author: Madeleine Roux





In this haunting, fast-paced sequel to the New York Times bestselling photo-illustrated novel Asylum, three teens must unlock some long-buried secrets from the past before the past comes back to get them first. Featuring found photographs, many from real vintage carnivals, Sanctum is a mind-bending reading experience that blurs the lines between past and present, genius and insanity, perfect for fans of the smash hit Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

Dan, Abby, and Jordan remain traumatized by the summer they shared in the Brookline asylum. Much as they'd love to move on, someone is determined to keep the terror alive, sending the teens photos of an old-timey carnival, with no note and no name. Forsaking their plan never to go back, the teens return to New Hampshire College under the guise of a weekend for prospective students, and there they realize that the carnival from the photos is not only real, it's here on campus, apparently for the first time in many years.

Sneaking away from sample classes and college parties, Dan and his friends lead a tour of their own one through the abandoned houses and hidden places of the surrounding town. Camford is hiding a terrible past, and the influence of the asylum runs deeper than Dan ever imagined.



Print Length: 352 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins (August 26, 2014)
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
Language: English
ASIN: B00H1UDZ40


Sanctum by Madeleine Roux


A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall




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Author: Sandy Hall



The distinctive new crowdsourced publishing imprint Swoon Reads proudly presents its first published novel an irresistibly sweet romance between two college students told from 14 different viewpoints.
The creative writing teacher, the delivery guy, the local Starbucks baristas, his best friend, her roommate, and the squirrel in the park all have one thing in common they believe that Gabe and Lea should get together.

Lea and Gabe are in the same creative writing class. They get the same pop culture references, order the same Chinese food, and hang out in the same places. Unfortunately, Lea is reserved, Gabe has issues, and despite their initial mutual crush, it looks like they are never going to work things out.

But somehow even when nothing is going on, something is happening between them, and everyone can see it. You'll be rooting for Gabe and Lea too, in Sandy Hall's quirky, completely original novel A Little Something Different, chosen by readers, writes, and publishers, to be the debut titles for the new Swoon Reads imprint!



Print Length: 272 pages
Publisher: Swoon Reads (August 26, 2014)
Sold by: Macmillan
Language: English
ASIN: B00IEPECT8


A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall


Of Metal and Wishes by Sarah Fine




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Author: Sarah Fine



This love story for the ages, set in a reimagined industrial Asia, is a little dark, a bit breathless, and completely compelling.



Sixteen-year-old Wen assists her father in his medical clinic, housed in a slaughterhouse staffed by the Noor, men hired as cheap factory labor. Wen often hears the whisper of a ghost in the slaughterhouse, a ghost who grants wishes to those who need them most. And after one of the Noor humiliates Wen, the ghost grants an impulsive wish of hers brutally.



Guilt-ridden, Wen befriends the Noor, including the outspoken leader, a young man named Melik. At the same time, she is lured by the mystery of the ghost. As deadly accidents fuel tensions within the factory, Wen is torn between her growing feelings for Melik, who is enraged at the sadistic factory bosses and the prejudice faced by his people at the hand of Wen’s, and her need to appease the ghost, who is determined to protect her against any threat real or imagined. Will she determine whom to trust before the factory explodes, taking her down with it?



Print Length: 336 pages

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (August 5, 2014)

Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc

Language: English

ASIN: B00FNVSTOU


Of Metal and Wishes by Sarah Fine


The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco




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Author: Rin Chupeco


I am where dead children go.

Okiku is a lonely soul. She has wandered the world for centuries, freeing the spirits of the murdered-dead. Once a victim herself, she now takes the lives of killers with the vengeance they're due. But releasing innocent ghosts from their ethereal tethers does not bring Okiku peace. Still she drifts on.

Such is her existence, until she meets Tark. Evil writhes beneath the moody teen's skin, trapped by a series of intricate tattoos. While his neighbors fear him, Okiku knows the boy is not a monster. Tark needs to be freed from the malevolence that clings to him. There's just one problem: if the demon dies, so does its host.




  • Print Length: 272 pages

  • Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire (August 5, 2014)


  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00IJEVNCS



The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco


Between the Spark and the Burn by April Genevieve Tucholke




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Author: April Genevieve Tucholke



Freddie once told me that the Devil created all the fear in the world.

But then, the Devil once told me that it's easier to forgive someone for scaring you than for making you cry.

The problem with River West Redding was that he'd done both to me.

The crooked-smiling liar River West Redding, who drove into Violet's life one summer day and shook her world to pieces, is gone. Violet and Neely, River's other brother, are left to worry until they catch a two a.m. radio program about strange events in a distant mountain town. They take off in search of River but are always a step behind, finding instead frenzied towns, witch hunts, and a wind-whipped island with the thrum of something strange and dangerous just under the surface. It isn't long before Violet begins to wonder if Neely, the one Redding brother she thought trustworthy, has been hiding a secret of his own . . .




  • Print Length: 222 pages

  • Publisher: Dial (August 14, 2014)


  • Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00G3L161W



Between the Spark and the Burn by April Genevieve Tucholke


Monday, July 28, 2014

Mortal Danger by Ann Aguirre




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Author: Ann Aguirre



Revenge is a dish best served cold.

In Ann Aguirre's Mortal Danger, Edie Kramer has a score to settle with the beautiful people at Blackbriar Academy. Their cruelty drove her to the brink of despair, and four months ago, she couldn’t imagine being strong enough to face her senior year. But thanks to a Faustian compact with the enigmatic Kian, she has the power to make the bullies pay. She’s not supposed to think about Kian once the deal is done, but devastating pain burns behind his unearthly beauty, and he’s impossible to forget.

In one short summer, her entire life changes and she sweeps through Blackbriar, prepped to take the beautiful people down from the inside. A whisper here, a look there, and suddenly . . . bad things are happening. It’s a head rush, seeing her tormentors get what they deserve, but things that seem too good to be true usually are, and soon, the pranks and payback turns from delicious to deadly. Edie is alone in a world teeming with secrets and fiends lurking in the shadows. In this murky morass of devil’s bargains, she isn’t sure who or what she can trust. Not even her own mind.




  • Print Length: 384 pages

  • Publisher: Feiwel & Friends (August 5, 2014)


  • Sold by: Macmillan

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00IWUXVRY



Mortal Danger by Ann Aguirre


Gates of Thread and Stone by Lori M. Lee




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Author: Lori M. Lee





In the Labyrinth, we had a saying: keep silent, keep still, keep safe.

In a city of walls and secrets, where only one man is supposed to possess magic, seventeen-year-old Kai struggles to keep hidden her own secret she can manipulate the threads of time. When Kai was eight, she was found by Reev on the riverbank, and her “brother” has taken care of her ever since. Kai doesn’t know where her ability comes from or where she came from. All that matters is that she and Reev stay together, and maybe one day move out of the freight container they call home, away from the metal walls of the Labyrinth. Kai’s only friend is Avan, the shopkeeper’s son with the scandalous reputation that both frightens and intrigues her.

Then Reev disappears. When keeping silent and safe means losing him forever, Kai vows to do whatever it takes to find him. She will leave the only home she’s ever known and risk getting caught up in a revolution centuries in the making. But to save Reev, Kai must unravel the threads of her past and face shocking truths about her brother, her friendship with Avan, and her unique power.

Lori M. Lee makes her debut with this captivating YA fantasy.





  • Print Length: 349 pages

  • Publisher: Skyscape (August 5, 2014)


  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00HYMUYIA



Gates of Thread and Stone by Lori M. Lee


Spark by Anthea Sharp




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Author: Anthea Sharp



What if a high-tech game was a gateway to the treacherous Realm of Faerie?

Superstar gamer Spark Jaxley's life might look easy, but she's part of an elite few who guard a shocking secret; the Realm of Faerie exists, and its dark magic is desperate for a foothold in the mortal world.

Aran Cole hacks code and sells his gaming cheats on the black market. It's barely a living, and one he's not proud of. But when he turns his skills to unlocking the secrets behind Feyland the most exciting and immersive game on the market he discovers power and magic beyond his wildest dreams.

Spark's mission is clear; pull Aran from the clutches of the fey folk and restore the balance between the worlds. But can she risk her life for someone who refuses to be rescued?



Print Length: 258 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: Fiddlehead Press (December 20, 2013)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00HATNROA


Spark by Anthea Sharp


Exposed by Susan Vaught




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Author: Susan Vaught



Chan Shealy is an all American girl, a baton-twirler, straight-A
student. But when she looks for a boyfriend online, sure that she's
following the rules and staying safe, she finds herself the victim of a
pedophile whose interests are worse than she ever imagines... it is
almost too late when she realizes what she must do to stop him.





  • Print Length: 352 pages

  • Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens (April 10, 2011)


  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B004VLZ5PY



Exposed by Susan Vaught


Shadow of the Wolf by Tim Hall




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Author: Tim Hall



A world of gods and monsters. An elemental power rising. This is Robin Hood, reborn, as he has never been seen before . . . Robin Loxley is seven years old when his parents disappear without trace. Years later the great love of his life, Marian, is also taken from him. Driven by these mysteries, and this anguish, Robin follows a darkening path into the ancient heart of Sherwood Forest. What he encounters there will leave him transformed, and will alter for ever the legend of Robin Hood . . .




  • Print Length: 450 pages

  • Publisher: David Fickling Books (July 3, 2014)


  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00LB698A0



Shadow of the Wolf by Tim Hall


Revolutionary by Krista McGee




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Author: Krista McGee



Back in the hands of the State after months aboveground, Thalli, Berk, Alex, and Kristie find themselves caught in a horrible game of power . . . with consequences reaching farther than they ever imagined.

After months in New Hope and Athens, Thalli had almost forgotten what living in the State was like. Programmed to be without emotions or curiosity, she was always an anomaly there. Too emotional. Too curious. Citizens of the State should behave exactly the way the Scientists designed them to behave: working in their assigned fields, maintaining productivity.

Thalli’s entire genetically engineered generation has been eradicated by a scientocracy that believes human life is expendable. Now, a pawn in a mad game of manipulation, held hostage and tortured in the name of the State, Thalli can barely summon the strength to hope that the future of humanity could be any better.

She clings to her new faith in the Designer. But when Thalli discovers that even the surviving aboveground villages are in danger of State domination, her fragile faith begins to crumble.

As Thalli, Berk, and Alex make plans to overthrow the evil Dr. Loudin, a chilling secret explains why they have been left alive at all . . . a personal secret that will haunt Thalli forever. And as she struggles with this new truth, she also struggles with decisions of the heart.



Can the State’s expansion be stopped? Or will humanity above and below the surface be irreparably damaged?  Thalli is faced with a purpose both overwhelming and undeniable: to assume the role of a Revolutionary.



Print Length: 319 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1401688764
Publisher: Thomas Nelson (July 8, 2014)
Sold by: HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Language: English
ASIN: B00I5QX15W


Revolutionary by Krista McGee


All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr




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Author: Anthony Doerr



From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.  Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.  In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.





  • Print Length: 545 pages

  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0007548664

  • Publisher: Scribner (May 6, 2014)


  • Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00DPM7TIG



All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr


We Were Liars by E. Lockhart




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Author: E. Lockhart



A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends the Liars whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.

We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.
Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.





  • Print Length: 242 pages

  • Publisher: Delacorte Press (May 13, 2014)


  • Sold by: Random House LLC

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00FPOSDGY



We Were Liars by E. Lockhart


Friday, July 25, 2014

Girl Wonder by Alexa Martin




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Author: Alexa Martin



As if transferring senior year weren't hard enough, Charlotte Locke has
been bumped to lower level classes at her new school. With no friends, a
terrible math SAT score, and looming college application deadlines, the
future is starting to seem like an oncoming train for which she has no
ticket. Then Amanda enters her orbit like a hot-pink meteor, offering
Charlotte a ticket to something else: popularity. Amanda is fearless,
beautiful, brilliant, and rich. As her new side kick, Charlotte is
brought into the elite clique of the debate team and closer to Neal,
Amanda's equally brilliant friend and the most perfect boy Charlotte has
ever seen. But just when senior year is looking up, Charlotte's life
starts to crumble. The more things heat up between Charlotte and Neal,
the more Neal wants to hide their relationship. Is he ashamed?
Meanwhile, Amanda is starting to act strangely competitive, and she's
keeping a secret Charlotte doesn't want to know. Talented newcomer Alexa
Martin delivers a poignant story of first love, jealousy and
friendship, where the ups and downs of senior year have never been so
complicated. What else can Charlotte do but throw her hands up and ride?


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  • Print Length: 304 pages

  • Publisher: Disney Hyperion (May 4, 2011)


  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B004ZA5TIO



Girl Wonder by Alexa Martin


Since You Asked by Maurene Goo




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Author: Maurene Goo



No, no one asked, but Holly Kim will tell you what she thinks anyway.

Fifteen-year-old
Holly Kim is the copyeditor for her high school's newspaper. When she
accidentally submits an article that rips everyone to shreds, she gets
her own column and rants her way through the school year. Can she
survive homecoming, mean-girl cliques, jocks, secret admirers,
Valentine's Day, and other high school embarrassments, all while
struggling to balance her family's traditional Korean values?
In this
hilarious debut, Maurene Goo takes a fresh look at trying to fit in
without conforming to what's considered "normal" in high school and how
to manage parental expectations without losing one's individuality...or
being driven insane.




  • Print Length: 272 pages

  • Publisher: Scholastic Press (June 25, 2013)


  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00CFT6MX8



Since You Asked by Maurene Goo


The Quick by Lauren Owen




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Author: Lauren Owen



“This book starts out slowly, with an unconventional Victorian-era
romance and builds to an unexpected development by the end of part one.
Owen continues the slow boil of suspense with a curiously-enticing plot,
centering on members of an exclusive London gentleman’s club who are
testing the boundaries of their own organization. For those who enjoy
historical fiction with a twist.”





  • Print Length: 544 pages

  • Publisher: Random House (June 17, 2014)


  • Sold by: Random House LLC

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00GL3PYF6

  • ISBN-10: 0812993276

  • ISBN-13: 978-0812993271



The Quick by Lauren Owen


Thursday, July 24, 2014

The Hurricane Sisters by Dorothea Benton Frank




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Author: Dorothea Benton Frank


Hurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long, well into September. Often people's lives reflect the weather and The Hurricane Sisters is just such a story.

Once again Dorothea Benton Frank takes us deep into the heart of her magical South Carolina Lowcountry on a tumultuous journey filled with longings, disappointments, and, finally, a road toward happiness that is hard earned. There we meet three generations of women buried in secrets. The determined matriarch, Maisie Pringle, at eighty, is a force to be reckoned with because she will have the final word on everything, especially when she's dead wrong. Her daughter, Liz, is caught up in the classic maelstrom of being middle-age and in an emotionally demanding career that will eventually open all their eyes to a terrible truth. And Liz's beautiful twenty-something daughter, Ashley, whose dreamy ambitions of her unlikely future keeps them all at odds.

Luckily for Ashley, her wonderful older brother, Ivy, is her fierce champion but he can only do so much from San Francisco where he resides with his partner. And Mary Beth, her dearest friend, tries to have her back but even she can't talk headstrong Ashley out of a relationship with an ambitious politician who seems slightly too old for her.

Actually, Ashley and Mary Beth have yet to launch themselves into solvency. Their prospects seem bleak. So while they wait for the world to discover them and deliver them from a ramen-based existence, they placate themselves with a hare-brained scheme to make money but one that threatens to land them in huge trouble with the authorities.

So where is Clayton, Liz's husband? He seems more distracted than usual. Ashley desperately needs her father's love and attention but what kind of a parent can he be to Ashley with one foot in Manhattan and the other one planted in indiscretion? And Liz, who's an expert in the field of troubled domestic life, refuses to acknowledge Ashley's precarious situation. Who's in charge of this family? The wake-up call is about to arrive.

The Lowcountry has endured its share of war and bloodshed like the rest of the South, but this storm season we watch Maisie, Liz, Ashley, and Mary Beth deal with challenges that demand they face the truth about themselves. After a terrible confrontation they are forced to rise to forgiveness, but can they establish a new order for the future of them all?

Frank, with her hallmark scintillating wit and crisp insight, captures how a complex family of disparate characters and their close friends can overcome anything through the power of love and reconciliation. This is the often hilarious, sometimes sobering, but always entertaining story of how these unforgettable women became The Hurricane Sisters.





  • Print Length: 341 pages

  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0062132520

  • Publisher: William Morrow (June 3, 2014)


  • Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00FJ314YE



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The Lobster Kings by Alexi Zentner




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Author: Alexi Zentner


"Confirms what Touch already prophesied: Alexi Zentner is one of the greatest literary architects and mythmakers working today."TĂ©a Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife

From the internationally acclaimed author of Touch, praised as "breathtaking" (People) and "lovely…at once dreamy and riveting" (Washington Post), comes a powerful family saga steeped in the legends of the sea. Set in a lobster fishing village, The Lobster Kings introduces a fiery and unforgettable heroine, Cordelia Kings.

The Kings family has lived on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, blessed with the bounty of the sea. But for the Kings, this blessing comes with a curse: the loss of every firstborn son. Now, Woody Kings, the leader of the island’s lobster fishing community and the family patriarch, teeters on the throne, and Cordelia, the oldest of Woody’s three daughters, stands to inherit the crown. To do so, however, she must defend her island from meth dealers from the mainland while navigating sibling rivalry and the vulnerable nature of her own heart when she falls in love with her sternman.

Inspired by King Lear, The Lobster Kings is the story of Cordelia’s struggle to maintain her island’s way of life in the face of danger from offshore and the rich, looming, mythical legacy of her family’s namesake.






  • Print Length: 353 pages

  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0393089576

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (May 20, 2014)


  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00FQUDRW2



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The Matchmaker by Elin Hilderbrand




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Author: Elin Hilderbrand



A touching new novel from bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand in
which a woman sets out to find love for those closest to her - before
it's too late.


48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball
Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability
mystical, while others like her husband, celebrated economist John
Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the
wrong man call it meddlesome, but there's no arguing with her results:
With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together,
Dabney has never been wrong about romance.

Never, that is,
except in the case of herself and Clendenin Hughes, the green-eyed boy
who took her heart with him long ago when he left the island to pursue
his dream of becoming a journalist. Now, after spending 27 years on the
other side of the world, Clen is back on Nantucket, and Dabney has never
felt so confused, or so alive.

But when tragedy threatens her
own second chance, Dabney must face the choices she's made and share
painful secrets with her family. Determined to make use of her gift
before it's too late, she sets out to find perfect matches for those she
loves most. The Matchmaker is a heartbreaking story about losing and finding love, even as you're running out of time.





  • Print Length: 368 pages

  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (June 10, 2014)


  • Sold by: Hachette Book Group

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00FPQA7HK



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The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman




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Author: Susan Jane Gilman



In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street.

Taken in by a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to survive through cunning and inventiveness. As she learns the secrets of his trade, she begins to shape her own destiny. She falls in love with a gorgeous, illiterate radical named Albert, and they set off across America in an ice cream truck. Slowly, she transforms herself into Lillian Dunkle, "The Ice Cream Queen" doyenne of an empire of ice cream franchises and a celebrated television personality.

Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything she has spent her life building is at stake.




  • Print Length: 512 pages

  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (June 10, 2014)


  • Sold by: Hachette Book Group

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00FPQCTXU



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Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey




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Author: Emma Healey


In this darkly riveting debut novel a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared, and her search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences.

Maud, an aging grandmother, is slowly losing her memory and her grip on everyday life. Yet she refuses to forget her best friend Elizabeth, whom she is convinced is missing and in terrible danger.

But no one will listen to Maud not her frustrated daughter, Helen, not her caretakers, not the police, and especially not Elizabeth’s mercurial son, Peter. Armed with handwritten notes she leaves for herself and an overwhelming feeling that Elizabeth needs her help, Maud resolves to discover the truth and save her beloved friend.

This singular obsession forms a cornerstone of Maud’s rapidly dissolving present. But the clues she discovers seem only to lead her deeper into her past, to another unsolved disappearance: her sister, Sukey, who vanished shortly after World War II.

As vivid memories of a tragedy that occurred more fifty years ago come flooding back, Maud discovers new momentum in her search for her friend. Could the mystery of Sukey’s disappearance hold the key to finding Elizabeth?





  • Print Length: 323 pages

  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0062309668

  • Publisher: Harper (June 10, 2014)


  • Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00FJ3AAWQ



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Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman




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Author: Tom Bouman

When an elderly recluse discovers a corpse on his land, Officer Henry Farrell follows the investigation to strange places in the countryside, and into the depths of his own frayed soul.

In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generations. The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border, Henry Farrell expected to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, his evenings playing old-time music. Instead, he has watched the steady encroachment of gas drilling bring new wealth and erode neighborly trust. The drug trade is pushing heroin into the territory. There are outlaws cooking meth in the woods, guys Henry grew up with. When a stranger turns up dead, Henry’s search for the killer will open old wounds, dredge up ancient crimes, and exact a deadly price.

With vivid characters and flawless pacing, Tom Bouman immerses readers in rural northeastern Pennsylvania, a region in the grip of change. In these derelict woods full of whitetail deer and history, the hunt is on.





  • Print Length: 288 pages

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (July 1, 2014)


  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00FQUDNG2



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Dollbaby by Laura Lane McNeal




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Author: Laura Lane McNeal



A big-hearted coming-of-age debut set in civil rights-era New Orleans a novel of Southern eccentricity and secrets

When Ibby Bell’s father dies unexpectedly in the summer of 1964, her mother unceremoniously deposits Ibby with her eccentric grandmother Fannie and throws in her father’s urn for good measure. Fannie’s New Orleans house is like no place Ibby has ever been and Fannie, who has a tendency to end up in the local asylum is like no one she has ever met. Fortunately, Fannie’s black cook, Queenie, and her smart-mouthed daughter, Dollbaby, take it upon themselves to initiate Ibby into the ways of the South, both its grand traditions and its darkest secrets.

For Fannie’s own family history is fraught with tragedy, hidden behind the closed rooms in her ornate Uptown mansion. It will take Ibby’s arrival to begin to unlock the mysteries there. And it will take Queenie and Dollbaby’s hard-won wisdom to show Ibby that family can sometimes be found in the least expected places.

For fans of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt and The Help, Dollbaby brings to life the charm and unrest of 1960s New Orleans through the eyes of a young girl learning to understand race for the first time.

By turns uplifting and funny, poignant and full of verve, Dollbaby is a novel readers will take to their hearts.




  • Print Length: 338 pages

  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0670014737

  • Publisher: Viking Adult (July 3, 2014)


  • Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00G3L7X4Q



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World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters




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Author: Ben H. Winters



Critically acclaimed author Ben H. Winters delivers this explosive final
installment in the Edgar Award winning Last Policeman series. With the
doomsday asteroid looming, Detective Hank Palace has found sanctuary in
the woods of New England, secure in a well-stocked safe house with other
onetime members of the Concord police force. But with time ticking away
before the asteroid makes landfall, Hank’s safety is only relative, and
his only relative his sister Nico isn’t safe. Soon, it’s clear that
there’s more than one earth-shattering revelation on the horizon, and
it’s up to Hank to solve the puzzle before time runs out . . . for
everyone.




  • Print Length: 322 pages

  • Publisher: Quirk Books (July 15, 2014)


  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00HXYHVNU



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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian




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Author: Chris Bohjalian



A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a teenage runaway, from the bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls.
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is
the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of
ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a
nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a
cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed.
Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown
may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of
people are forced to flee their homes in the Kingdom; rivers and forests
are destroyed; and Emily feels certain that as the daughter of the most
hated man in America, she is in danger. So instead of following the
social workers and her classmates after the meltdown, Emily takes off on
her own for Burlington, where she survives by stealing, sleeping on the
floor of a drug dealer's apartment, and inventing a new identity for
herself an identity inspired by her favorite poet, Emily Dickinson.
When Emily befriends a young homeless boy named Cameron, she protects
him with a ferocity she didn't know she had. But she still can't outrun
her past, can't escape her grief, can't hide forever and so she comes up
with the only plan that she can.

A story of loss, adventure, and the search for friendship in the wake of catastrophe, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is one of Chris Bohjalian’s finest novels to date breathtaking, wise, and utterly transporting.





  • Print Length: 288 pages

  • Publisher: Doubleday (July 8, 2014)


  • Sold by: Random House LLC

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00HTMBEN4



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The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen




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Author: Erika Johansen



Magic, adventure, mystery, and romance combine in this epic debut in
which a young princess must reclaim her dead mother’s throne, learn to
be a ruler and defeat the Red Queen, a powerful and malevolent sorceress
determined to destroy her.

On her nineteenth birthday, Princess
Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, raised in exile, sets out on a perilous journey
back to the castle of her birth to ascend her rightful throne. Plain and
serious, a girl who loves books and learning, Kelsea bears little
resemblance to her mother, the vain and frivolous Queen Elyssa. But
though she may be inexperienced and sheltered, Kelsea is not
defenseless: Around her neck hangs the Tearling sapphire, a jewel of
immense magical power; and accompanying her is the Queen’s Guard, a
cadre of brave knights led by the enigmatic and dedicated Lazarus.
Kelsea will need them all to survive a cabal of enemies who will use
every weapon from crimson-caped assassins to the darkest blood magic to
prevent her from wearing the crown.

Despite her royal blood,
Kelsea feels like nothing so much as an insecure girl, a child called
upon to lead a people and a kingdom about which she knows almost
nothing. But what she discovers in the capital will change everything,
confronting her with horrors she never imagined. An act of singular
daring will throw Kelsea’s kingdom into tumult, unleashing the vengeance
of the tyrannical ruler of neighboring Mortmesne: the Red Queen, a
sorceress possessed of the darkest magic. Now Kelsea will begin to
discover whom among the servants, aristocracy, and her own guard she can
trust.

But the quest to save her kingdom and meet her destiny has
only just begun a wondrous journey of self-discovery and a trial by
fire that will make her a legend . . . if she can survive.





  • Print Length: 448 pages

  • Publisher: Harper (July 8, 2014)


  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00FVW7CVM



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The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day




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Author: Lori Rader-Day



For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic until a student she'd never met shot her.



He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she can't let go: Why?



All she wants is for life to get back to normal, but normal is looking hard to come by. She's thirty-eight and hobbles with a cane. Her first student interaction ends in tears (hers). Her fellow faculty members seem uncomfortable with her, and her ex whom she may or may not still love has moved on.



Enter Nathaniel Barber, a graduate student obsessed with Chicago's violent history. Nath is a serious scholar, but also a serious mess about his first heartbreak, his mother's death, and his father's disapproval. Assigned as Amelia's teaching assistant, Nath also takes on the investigative legwork that Amelia can't do. And meanwhile, he's hoping she'll approve his dissertation topic, the reason he came to grad school in the first place: the student attack on Amelia Emmet.



Together and at cross-purposes, Amelia and Nathaniel stumble toward a truth that will explain the attack and take them both through the darkest hours of their lives.




  • Print Length: 331 pages

  • Publisher: Seventh Street Books (July 8, 2014)


  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00HTM8DUQ



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One Plus One by Jojo Moyes




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Author: Jojo Moyes



One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You

American audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moyes. Ever since she debuted Stateside she has captivated readers and reviewers alike, and hit the New York Times bestseller list with the word-of-mouth sensation Me Before You. Now, with One Plus One, she’s written another contemporary opposites-attract love story.

Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied, and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can’t afford to pay for. That’s Jess’s life in a nutshell until an unexpected knight in shining armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess’s knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose vacation home she happens to clean. But Ed has big problems of his own, and driving the dysfunctional family to the Math Olympiad feels like his first unselfish act in ages . . . maybe ever.


One Plus One is Jojo Moyes at her astounding best. You’ll laugh, you’ll weep, and when you flip the last page, you’ll want to start all over again.





  • Print Length: 369 pages

  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0525426582

  • Publisher: Viking Adult (July 1, 2014)


  • Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00G3L7VPC



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The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar




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Author: Thrity Umrigar



From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book Review
calls a “perceptive and . . . piercing writer,” comes a profound,
heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets,
forgiveness, and second chances.

An experienced psychologist,
Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But
when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her
professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India,
Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage to a
domineering man who limits her world to their small restaurant and
grocery store.

Moved by her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi in her
home office for free, quickly realizing that the despondent woman
doesn’t need a shrink; she needs a friend. Determined to empower Lakshmi
as a woman who feels valued in her own right, Maggie abandons protocol,
and soon doctor and patient have become close friends.

But while
their relationship is deeply affectionate, it is also warped by
conflicting expectations. When Maggie and Lakshmi open up and share
long-buried secrets, the revelations will jeopardize their close bond,
shake their faith in each other, and force them to confront painful
choices.





  • Print Length: 336 pages

  • Publisher: Harper (August 19, 2014)


  • Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00GWKTTQS



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An Unwilling Accomplice by Charles Todd




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Author: Charles Todd





World War I Battlefield nurse Bess
Crawford’s career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her
watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd.

 Home
on leave, Bess Crawford is asked to accompany a wounded soldier
confined to a wheelchair to Buckingham Palace, where he’s to be
decorated by the King. The next morning when Bess goes to collect
Wilkins, he has vanished. Both the Army and the nursing service hold
Bess negligent for losing the war hero, and there will be an inquiry.

Then
comes disturbing word from the Shropshire police, complicating the
already difficult situation: Wilkins has been spotted, and he’s killed a
man. If Bess is to save her own reputation, she must find Wilkins and
uncover the truth. But the elusive soldier has disappeared again and
even the Shropshire police have lost him. Suddenly, the moral
implications of what has happened that a patient in her charge has
committed murder become more important to Bess than her own future.
She’s going to solve this mysterious puzzle, but righting an injustice
and saving her honor may just cost Bess her life.






  • Print Length: 352 pages

  • Publisher: William Morrow (August 12, 2014)


  • Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00G2ACIY8



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Sunday, July 20, 2014

The Truth about Leo by Katie MacAlister




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Author: Katie MacAlister



The much-anticipated, brand-new Regency romance from New York Times bestselling author Katie MacAlister.



Can Dagmar flee Denmark

Dagmar Marie Sophie is a poverty-stricken Danish princess whose annoying royal cousin is about to have her stuffed away in a convent. When she finds a wounded man unconscious in her garden, she sees a way out of her desperate situation.



By Lying to Leo?

Leopold Ernst George Mortimer, seventh earl of March, and spy in the service of the king, finds himself on the wrong end of a saber and left for dead. He wakes up not remembering what happened...in the care of a beautiful woman who says she is his wife.



Back in London, Leo-with the help of his old friends the eccentric Britton family-sets out to unravel what he's forgotten... Is Dagmar truly the wonderful, irrepressible woman who makes his heart sing, or is she a dangerous enigma bent on his destruction?



RT Book Reviews praise for Katie MacAlister:



"Cheerful mayhem and...witty banter that sparkles...MacAlister is a rare talent."



"Saucy, sexy, and outrageously fun."



  • Print Length: 384 pages

  • Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca (August 5, 2014)


  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00JS4J83O



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The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton




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Author: Jessie Burton





Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam a city
ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion a masterful debut
steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of
Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant.

”There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . .“

On
a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in
Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader
Johannes Brandt. But her new home, while splendorous, is not welcoming.
Johannes is kind yet distant, always locked in his study or at his
warehouse office leaving Nella alone with his sister, the sharp-tongued
and forbidding Marin.

But Nella’s world changes when Johannes
presents her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica
of their home. To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a
miniaturist an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny creations mirror
their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways . . .

Johannes’
gift helps Nella to pierce the closed world of the Brandt household.
But as she uncovers its unusual secrets, she begins to understand and
fear the escalating dangers that await them all. In this repressively
pious society where gold is worshipped second only to God, to be
different is a threat to the moral fabric of society, and not even a man
as rich as Johannes is safe. Only one person seems to see the fate that
awaits them. Is the miniaturist the key to their salvation . . . or the
architect of their destruction?

Enchanting, beautiful, and exquisitely suspenseful, The Miniaturist is a magnificent story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and truth.






  • Print Length: 416 pages

  • Publisher: Ecco (August 26, 2014)


  • Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00H1UK3UO



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Heroes Are My Weakness by Susan Elizabeth Phillips




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Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips


New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is back with a delightful novel filled with her sassy wit and dazzling charm

Deepest winter.
An isolated island off the coast of Maine.
A man. A woman.
Puppets. (Yes, puppets . . .)
And . . .
A mysterious house looming over the sea . . .

He's a reclusive writer whose imagination creates chilling horror novels. She's a down-on-her-luck actress reduced to staging kids' puppet shows. He knows a dozen ways to kill his characters with his bare hands. She knows a dozen ways to kill an audience with laughs. But she's not laughing now.

Annie Hewitt has arrived on Peregrine Island in the middle of a snowstorm and at the end of her resources. She's broke, dispirited, but not quite ready to give up. Her red suitcases hold the puppets she uses to make her living: sensible Dilly, spunky Scamp, and Leo, the baddest of bad guys. Her puppets, the romantic novels she loves, and a little bit of courage are all she has left.

Annie couldn't be more ill prepared for what she finds when she reaches Moonraker Cottage or for the man who dwells in Harp House, the mysterious mansion that hovers above the cottage. When she was a teenager, he betrayed her in a way she can never forget or forgive. Now they're trapped together on a frozen island along with a lonely widow, a mute little girl, and townspeople who don't know how to mind their own business.

Is he the villain she remembers, or has he changed? Her head says no. Her heart says yes.

It's going to be a long, hot winter.





  • Print Length: 384 pages

  • Publisher: William Morrow (August 26, 2014)


  • Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00H7LT5II



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Lucky Us by Amy Bloom




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Author: Amy Bloom



“My father’s wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.”



So begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose critically acclaimed Away was called “a literary triumph” (The New York Times). Lucky Us is a brilliantly written, deeply moving, fantastically funny novel of love, heartbreak, and luck.



Disappointed
by their families, Iris, the hopeful star and Eva the sidekick, journey
through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune. Iris’s ambitions
take the pair across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station
wagon, from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous Hollywood, and
to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island.



With
their friends in high and low places, Iris and Eva stumble and shine
though a landscape of big dreams, scandals, betrayals, and war. Filled
with gorgeous writing, memorable characters, and surprising events, Lucky Us
is a thrilling and resonant novel about success and failure, good luck
and bad, the creation of a family, and the pleasures and inevitable
perils of family life, conventional and otherwise. From Brooklyn’s
beauty parlors to London’s West End, a group of unforgettable people
love, lie, cheat and survive in this story of our fragile, absurd,
heroic species.




  • Print Length: 257 pages

  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1400067243

  • Publisher: Random House (July 29, 2014)


  • Sold by: Random House LLC

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00IBZ5ZRY



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Author: Chelsea Cain



From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers: The first in a nail-biting new series featuring Kick Lannigan, a young woman whose complicated past has given her a very special skill set.



Famously kidnapped at age six, Kick captured America’s hearts when she was rescued five years later. Now, twenty-one, she finds herself unexpectedly entangled in a missing child case that will put her talents to the test.



Trained as a marksman, lock picker, escape artist and bomb maker by her abductor, Kick could not return to the life of the average young girl after her release. So, in lieu of therapy, she mastered martial arts, boxing, and knife throwing; learned how to escape from the trunk of a car, jimmy a pair of handcuffs, and walk without making a sound all before she was thirteen.



Kick has trained herself to be safe. But then two children go missing in three weeks, and an enigmatic and wealthy former weapons dealer approaches her with a proposition. John Bishop uses his fortune and contacts to track down missing children. Not only is he convinced Kick can help recover the two children he won’t take no for an answer.



With lives hanging in the balance, Kick is set to be the crusader she has always imagined herself. Little does she know that the answers she and Bishop seek are hidden in one of the few places she doesn’t want to navigate the dark corners of her own mind.



A heart-stopping, entertaining thrill ride, One Kick announces the arrival of a blistering new series by a stunning talent in the thriller realm.




  • Print Length: 320 pages

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (August 19, 2014)


  • Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc

  • Language: English

  • ASIN: B00GEEB5UA



One Kick by Chelsea Cain