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Title: Torch Author: Cambria Hebert Series: Take It Off, #1 Publication Date: August 23, 2013 Synopsis: If you can’t take the heat… stay away from the flame. Katie Parks has been on her own since the age of fifteen. All she’s ever wanted is a place to call her own—a life that is wholly hers that no one can take away. She thought she finally had it, but with the strike of a single match, everything she worked so hard for is reduced to a pile of smoking ash. And she almost is too.  Now she’s being stalked by someone who’s decided it’s her time to die. The only thing standing in the path of her blazing death is sexy firefighter Holt Arkain.  Katie’s body might be safe with Holt… but her heart is another story.  As the danger heats up, sparks fly and the only thing Katie knows for sure is that her whole life is about to go up in flames. About the Author: Cambria Hebert is a latte sipping author of the Heven & Hell series, the Death Escorts series, and the Take It Off...

Title: Cress Author: Marissa Meyer Series: Lunar Chronicles, #3 Publisher: Feiwel and Friends Publication Date: February 4, 2014 Synopsis: Rapunzel's tower is a satellite. She can't let down her hair - or her guard.  In this third book in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.  Their best hope lies with Cress, who has been trapped on a satellite since childhood with only her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker – unfortunately, she’s just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.  When a daring rescue goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing stop her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world...

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Title: Frigid Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout writing as J. Lynn Publisher: Spencer Hill Press Publication Date: July 30, 2013 Synopsis: For twenty-one-year-old Sydney, being in love with Kyler isn't anything new. They'd been best friends ever since he pushed her down on the playground and she made him eat a mud pie. Somewhere over the years, she fell for him and fell hard. The big problem with that? Kyler puts the 'man' in man-whore. He's never stayed with a girl longer than a few nights, and with it being their last year in college, Syd doesn't want to risk their friendship by declaring her love. Kyler has always put Syd on a pedestal that was too high for him to reach. To him, she's perfect and she's everything. But the feelings he has for her, he's always hidden away or focused on any other female. After all, Kyler will always be the poor boy from the wrong side of tracks, and Syd will always be the one girl he can never have. But when they...

Title: Anomaly Author: Krista McGee Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers Publication Date: July 9, 2013 Synopsis: Thalli has fifteen minutes and twenty-three seconds left to live. The toxic gas that will complete her annihilation is invading her bloodstream. But she is not afraid. Thalli is different than others in The State. She feels things. She asks questions. And in the State, this is not tolerated. The Ten scientists who survived the nuclear war that destroyed the world above believe that emotion was at the core of what went wrong—and they have genetically removed it from the citizens they have since created. Thalli has kept her malformation secret from those who have monitored her for most of her life, but when she receives an ancient piece of music to record as her community’s assigned musician, she can no longer keep her emotions secreted away. Seen as a threat to the harmony of her Pod, Thalli is taken to the Scientists for immediate annihilation. But before that can happe...

Title: Addicted to You Author: Krista & Becca Ritchie Series: Addicted, #1 Publication Date: July 1, 2013 Synopsis: No one would suspect shy Lily Calloway’s biggest secret. While everyone is dancing at college bars, Lily stays in the bathroom. To get laid. Her compulsion leads her to one-night stands, steamy hookups and events she shamefully regrets. The only person who knows her secret happens to have one of his own. Loren Hale’s best friend is his bottle of bourbon. Lily comes at a close second. For three years, they’ve pretended to be in a real relationship, hiding their addictions from their families. They’ve mastered the art of concealing flasks and random guys that filter in and out of their apartment. But when they go on a family boat trip, surrounded by open seas and limited male bodies in sight, Lily’s confronted with a big fear. Only one guy onboard can fill her addiction, and she’s sworn off going there with Loren Hale ever again. Now the only person who can truly ...

A wise person once said, “Write your name on the heart of a child.” We hope to emblazon our stories there. Emblazon is a collection of authors–some indie, some traditionally published–who have each produced at least one children’s novel. Our audiences range from fifth grade to young adult, but we have a particular focus on ages 11 to 14. Some call them upper middle grade; others call them low young adult. They’re somewhere in the middle and can lean either way. We call them Tweens. The first three Wednesdays of every month, we post about some aspect of reading and writing tween literature. We hope our experiences help you to emblazon your own story. The fourth Wednesday is your turn. That’s when we host a monthly feature called Tween the Weekends . We hope you’ll join us on this adventure! Emblazon launches its first post on July 10. We also have an upcoming Sizzling Freebies bash that will be hosted on August 1 during which a great selection of ebooks will be free for one day ...

Hello my lovely bloggy followers! I have decided to do something fun this summer and participate in Good Books and Good Wine 's 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge so that you lovely people can get to know me better!  :)) Day 1: Make 15-book related confessions 1. Books are sacred! Thou shall not crease thy spine. Thou shall not dog-ear thy pages. Thou shall not buy any book that is not in pristine condition. 2. I don't like audio books. I think audio books are great for some people- but me, I like the actual act of reading . 3. Authors are my celebrities. Seriously. I would much rather meet Veronica Roth over Justin Bieber any day. 4. Sometimes I just sit and admire my bookshelf. Yeah, this might be slightly weird but books are just so pretty when they're sitting side-by-side on a shelf. 5. I don't own an e-reader. No, this isn't some protest against ebooks, because I love 'em! Trust me, I am absolutely dying to get my hands on a Kindle Fire! In the mean time, I have...

Rush  (The Game #1) by  Eve Silver Release Date: June 11, 2013 Publisher: Harper Teen Summary from Goodreads: So what’s the game now? This, or the life I used to know? When Miki Jones is pulled from her life, pulled through time and space into some kind of game—her carefully controlled life spirals into chaos. In the game, she and a team of other teens are sent on missions to eliminate the Drau, terrifying and beautiful alien creatures. There are no practice runs, no training, and no way out. Miki has only the guidance of secretive but maddeningly attractive team leader Jackson Tate, who says the game isn’t really a game, that what Miki and her new teammates do now determines their survival, and the survival of every other person on this planet. She laughs. He doesn’t. And then the game takes a deadly and terrifying turn. Available from:         Teaser #1: He smiles, a faint curve of his lips that reveals the barest hint of a long dimple carved in his right...

Title: Love Overdue Author: Pamela Morsi Publisher: Harlequin Publication Date: August 27, 2013 Synopsis:   Meet Dorothy Jarrod: devotedly unsexy librarian  Buttoned-up book lover DJ is all sensible shoes, drab skirts and studious glasses. After an ill-advised spring-break-fueled fling left her mortified, she's committed to her prim and proper look. When she's hired by a rural library in middle-of-nowhere Kansas, she finally has the lifestyle to match-and she can't wait to get her admin on. But it's clear from day one that the small-town library is more interested in circulating rumors than books. DJ has to organize her unloved library, win over oddball employees and avoid her flamboyant landlady's attempts to set her up with the town pharmacist. Especially that last part-because it turns out handsome Scott Sanderson is her old vacation fling! She is not sure whether to be relieved or offended when he doesn't seem to recognize her. But with every meeting, DJ...

Title: Anatomy of a Boyfriend Author: Daria Snadowsky Series: Anatomy, #1 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: January 9, 2007 Synopsis: Before this all happened, the closest I'd ever come to getting physical with a guy was playing the board game Operation. Okay, so maybe that sounds pathetic, but it's not like there were any guys at my high school who I cared to share more than three words with, let alone my body. Then I met Wes, a track star senior from across town. Maybe it was his soulful blue eyes, or maybe my hormones just started raging. Either way, I was hooked. And after a while, he was too. I couldn't believe how intense my feelings became, or the fact that I was seeing—and touching—parts of the body I'd only read about in my Gray's Anatomy textbook. You could say Wes and I experienced a lot of firsts together that spring. It was scary. It was fun. It was love. And then came the fall. Title: Anatomy of a Single Girl Author: Daria Snadowsky Ser...