Thursday, March 31, 2011

Shelf Cravings (12)


 
Welcome to Shelf Cravings a weekly feature all about books coming out soon, just discovered and cant wait to reads. This week Im excited for........

 
~Coming Soon ~ 
 


There You'll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones

October 4, 2011 by Thomas Nelson

In There You’ll Find Me, Finley is a senior and spending the year in Ireland in a foreign exchange program. She is trying to come back from a devastating loss, but pretty much failing. While she stays with her host family, who own a B&B, she meets Beckett Rush, the hottest teen actor in Hollywood and star of a series of popular vampire films. While Finley tours the countryside, determined to walk in the same steps her brother did when he was there years ago, she finds her stay in Ireland not nearly as inspiring. Between an assignment that has her babysitting a cranky old woman with troubles of her own and working as Beckett’s personal assistant against her wishes and her good judgment, Finley is finding little time to do the healing God is calling her to do. And little time to deal with the secrets from her own past that threaten to pull her under.
 
 
 
The Bakers Wife by Erin Healy
October, 2011 by Thomas Nelson

If what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, why is Audrey growing weaker by the day? It's been a tough year for Audrey's family. Her husband Geoff, a pastor, lost his job after a scandal rocked their congregation. Audrey's never lost faith. She's held her family together. Their attempt to resurrect a failing bakery is an effort to heal the family wounds and restore their place in the community. Late to the bakery one dim, foggy morning, Audrey strikes a vehicle that she can't see even after the collision settles. Emerging from her car into the fog, she discovers she's hit a motor scooter. There's no rider in sight. There's blood, though, so much that she slips in it, injuring her wrists. The absence of the scooter driver is a mystery, especially to Sergeant Jack Mansfield, the detective and church member who drove Geoff from his pulpit. The scooter belongs to Jack's wife, Julie, a teacher at the local high school. She has vanished like morning fog. Though there is no evidence to support Jack's growing suspicion that Audrey and Geoff were involved in Julie's disappearance, the detective is convinced of their guilt. Jack's ability to reason slips as the leads on his wife dry up. When Jack takes the tiny bakery and its patrons hostage, Audrey must find Julie and unravel the secret of her own mysterious suffering before Jack comes undone.
 


The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
September, 2011 by HarperCollins (GreenWillow)

Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness.

Elisa is the chosen one.

But she is also the younger of two princesses, the one who has never done anything remarkable. She can’t see how she ever will.

Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king—a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs the chosen one, not a failure of a princess.

And he’s not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies seething with dark magic are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people’s savior. And he looks at her in a way that no man has ever looked at her before. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake.

Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within herself. If she doesn’t die young. Most of the chosen do.  
 
 


Save Me by Lisa Scottoline
April 12, 2011 by St. Martins Press


Susan Pressman volunteers as a lunch mom in her daughter Melly's school in order to keep an eye on Amanda, a mean girl who's been bullying her daughter. Her fears come true when the bullying begins, sending Melly to the bathroom in tears. Just as Susan is about to follow after her daughter, a massive explosion goes off in the kitchen, sending the room into chaos. Susan finds herself faced with the horrifying decision of whether or not to run to the bathroom to rescue her daughter or usher Amanda to safety. She believes she has accomplished both, only to discover that Amanda, for an unknown reason, ran back into the school once out of Susan's sight. In an instance, Susan goes from hero to villain as the small community blames Amanda's injuries on her. In the days that follow, Susan's life starts to fall to pieces, Amanda's mother decides to sue, her marriage is put to the test, and worse, when her daughter returns to school, the bullying only intensifies. Susan must take matters into her own hands and get down to the truth of what really happened that fateful day in order to save herself, her marriage and her family.

 
~Just Discovered~
 
 

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
June, 2010 by Penguin

Remember the woman you used to be ...
Alice is twenty-nine. She is whimsical, optimistic and adores sleep, chocolate, her ramshackle new house and her wonderful husband Nick. What's more, she's looking forward to the birth of the 'Sultana' - her first baby. But now Alice has slipped and hit her head in her step-aerobics class and everyone's telling her she's misplaced the last ten years of her life. In fact, it would seem that Alice is actually thirty-nine and now she loves schedules, expensive lingerie, caffeine and manicures. She has three children and the honeymoon is well and truly over for her and Nick. In fact, he looks at her like she's his worst enemy. What's more, her beloved sister Elisabeth isn't speaking to her either. And who is this 'Gina'everyone is so carefully trying not to mention? Alice isn't sure that she likes life ten years on. Every photo is another memory she doesn't have and nothing makes sense. Just how much can happen in a decade? Has she really lost her lovely husband for ever? 
 

 
~Cant Wait to Read~
 
 The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
April 5, 2011 by Riverhead

When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war-a strange spell seems to be cast over the school. Or, at least, over the women. One by one throughout the high school community, perfectly healthy, normal women and teenage girls turn away from their husbands and boyfriends in the bedroom, for reasons they don't really understand. As the women worry over their loss of passion, and the men become by turns unhappy, offended, and above all, confused, both sides are forced to look at their shared history, and at their sexual selves in a new light. 



WOW- The Uncoupling sounds like an interesting read.....I also cant wait to read Jenny B. Jones new one and lets not even talk about how excited I am to read The Girl of Fire and Thorns!! All these look fabulous!

7 comments:

  1. Juju at Tales of Whimsy.comMarch 31, 2011 at 10:54 AM

    Wow. Save Me sounds amazing. I'm sad to admit I would probably save my own child and then move towns.

    What Alice Forgot sounds great.

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  2. I swore I was going to stop visiting this post since it's bad for my wallet, but I can't. I'm addicted to your shelf cravings. The Girl of Fire and Thorns is one I'm super excited about, I just stumbled on it the other day and it went on the list immediately:)

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  3. I agree with Jenny! Thanks for bringing such great books to our attention. But boy, I could use some extra $$ this summer and fall to get these books!

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  4. There You'll Find Me and What Alice Forgot need to me in my hands like now.

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  5. Nic @ Irresistible ReadsApril 1, 2011 at 6:32 AM

    What Missie said^^! Those two books are at the top of my to be ordered list :)

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  7. Jenny B. JonesJuly 25, 2011 at 7:36 PM

    Thanks for the shoutout for There You'll Find Me. And now I have a whole list of books on my Amazon wish list...

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