Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Feature~ Shelf Cravings {53}


Welcome to Shelf Cravings, a weekly dish on books. New releases, coming soon, just discovered and my lastest eBook purchases. This week Im excited for:

~Coming Soon~

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield
July 10, 2012 by Random House

Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and their three children back for the festivities. In the midst of it all, Samuel and Willadee’s outspoken eleven-year-old daughter, Swan, is a bright light. Her high spirits and fearlessness have alternately seduced and bedeviled three generations of the family. But just as the reunion is getting under way, tragedy strikes, jolting the family to their core and setting the stage for a summer of crisis and profound change.

With the clear-eyed wisdom that illuminates the most tragic—and triumphant—aspects of human nature, Jenny Wingfield has created an enduring work of fiction.


Ashen Winter by Mike Mullen
October 16, 2012 by Tanglewood Press
It’s been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It’s also been six months of waiting for Alex’s parents to return from Iowa. Alex and Darla decide they can wait no longer and must retrace their journey into Iowa to find and bring back Alex’s parents to the tenuous safety of Illinois. But the landscape they cross is even more perilous than before, with life-and-death battles for food and power between the remaining communities. When the unthinkable happens, Alex must find new reserves of strength and determination to survive.


The Highgate Vampire by Asa Bailey
July 7, 2012 by Holder Publishing

Kathy is an innocent, an outsider who longs to belong somewhere. Anywhere. Dreams of her half-sister Amber and of the centuries old Highgate Vampire are taking her to places she doesn't want to go. Kathy can't stop the sequence of events. If her nightmares and reality collide, the Highgate Vampire will come to take her soul...



UnWholly by Neal Shusterman
August 28, 2012 by Simon & Schuster

Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa—and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp—people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens while simltaneously providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not only continue, but also expand to the unwinding of prisoners and the impoverished.

Cam is a product of unwinding; made entirely out of the parts of other unwinds, he is a teen who does not technically exist. A futuristic Frankenstein, Cam struggles with a search for identity and meaning and wonders if a rewound being can have a soul. And when the actions of a sadistic bounty hunter cause Cam’s fate to become inextricably bound with the fates of Connor, Risa, and Lev, he’ll have to question humanity itself.


~New Releases/Just Discovered~


Tributary by Lisa T. Bergren
June 8, 2012 by Author-eBook

TRIBUTARY, a novella (1/2 the length of a normal novel), picks up a year after BOURNE... Lia struggles to overcome the fear that constant battle has heaped upon her; Gabi and Marcello face an unexpected crisis; and Lord Greco just may be ready to leave the grief and loss of his past behind him, so that he might grab hold of the future...



Any other Night by Anne Pfeffer
or Known as Loving Emily~
May 19, 2012 by Bold Print Press

Any other night, Ryan Mills would have driven his best friend, Michael, to Emily's sweet sixteen party at the Breakers Club. Instead, determined to win over the birthday girl, he goes to the party early and alone, setting off a chain of events that ends with a car accident in which Michael dies. Ryan blames himself for what happened to Michael. As far as he's concerned, he doesn't deserve to have love or ever be happy again. Then he learns Michael left a secret behind. Ryan feels compelled to take on his friend's unfinished business, and in the process, changes his life forever and becomes a man.

Don't these books look great??? Im so excited to read Ashen Winter, Ashfall was awesome. I also cant wait to see what happens in the long awaited UnWholly. Which one looks good to you?

Here are some of my eBook purchases and finds this week.

The Ocean by Mia Castile~ .99 Cents
Slow Summer Kisses by Shannon Stacey~ 1.50
Cross my Heart by Katie Klein~ 3.99


Freebies
In His Eyes by Various Authors
Fairy Metal Thunder by JL Bryan
Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Verita by Tracy Rozzlynn {Free on Kindle last Week}
Nolander by Becca Mills {Free on Kindle last Week}
Nothing Stays in Vegas by Elena Aitken {Free on Kindle last Week}
Last Summer by Theresa Weir {One day Freebie, grabbed on Kindle}


Total Spent: $6.48

    
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18 comments:

  1. Felicia the Geeky BloggerJuly 3, 2012 at 8:21 AM

    Ashen Winter looks so good and differnt. I will have to check that one out :)

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    1. Read Ashfall first!!! It was sooooo good!!!

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  • TRIBUTARY TINA! GRECO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe I haven't read it yet, I need my Greco fix! Do you think we'll get his full story soon? Not that I'm complaining about these little novellas, they're awesome, but I'm ready for lots more Greco:)

    Also, Ashen Winter looks fantastic, Ashfall was such a surprising read for me last year. Loved it!

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    1. I know I know, Im like Greco fever.....must read ASAP!!!!

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  • Jen (In the Closet With a Bibliophile)July 3, 2012 at 2:13 PM

    Missie says you posted something about a Watermelon Cake, but all my searching has come up to nothing. :( Where is this cake? Also, I think I'm going to buy some of those in addition to GRAVE MEMORY. I also think one of Abbi Glinnes's books came out today. I want. That is all. LOL!

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    1. LOL- the watermelon cake was on my facebook...:D LOL- Ill go check out Abbi Glines releases.....hmmmmmmm

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  • I really liked Unwholly! My friend got an ARC and sent it to me. I just hope we don't have to wait 4 more years for the next one in the series. And I loved Tributary and wish Lisa would publish more in the series.

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    1. I know, I know!!! I hope Lisa writes more YA..>;D

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  • Peppermint Ph.D.July 4, 2012 at 6:24 PM

    I hadn't heard of Ashfall or Ashen Winter until now...definitely going to add those to the Amazon WishList. UnWholly sounds completely different from any other YA I've read in long time...gonna pick that one up as well:)

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    1. Before you read UnWholly read UnWind first...that book was crazy good..;)

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  • hey i was wondering how do you do that border around the text?

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    1. Karina- its called a block quote.....check out parajunkee's view (her links on my sidebar) she has an awesome tutorial about block quotes and how to do it in her Book Blogging 101 feature...;D

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