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Teaser Tuesday - Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

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Title: Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1) Author: Sarah J. Maas Pages: 416 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's  Release Date : August 7, 2012    Summary: (Goodreads)     After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men—thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the kings council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she’ll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom. Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. But she’s bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her... but i

Stacking the Shelves (12) Raincoast Edition

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Review: Where We Belong by Emily Giffin--> REVIEW Dark Companion by Marta Acosta  Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally  Entice (The Violet Eden Chapters #2) by Jessica Shirvington Wake (Watersong #1) by Amanda Hocking Who I Kissed by Janet Gurtler  Death and the Girl Next Door (Darklight #1) by Darynda Jones  Heaven ( Halo #3) by Alexandra Adornetto  Eve & Adam by Katherine Applegate, Micheal Grant  Thank You- St. Martin Press, Tor Teen, Macmillan, and the Awesome Raincoast Books Bought: Endlessly (Paranormalcy #3) by Kiersten White Something Strange and Deadly (#1) by Susan Dennard  Seraphina (#1) by Rachel Hartman Shadow and Bone (The Grisha Trilogy #1) by Leigh Bardugo

Giveaway: UnWholly (Unwind #2) by Neal Shusterman

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Hey everyone!! I have not read the first book in the Unwind series by Neal Schusterman. I am offering up an ARC of UnWholly today for giveaway!!  to enter: a Rafflecopter giveaway

Waiting on Wednesday (49) Losing Lila (Lila #2) by Sarah Alderson

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Title: Losing Lila Author: Sarah Alderson Pages: 320 Publisher: Simon and Schuster UK Release Date: August 2, 2012 Pre-order: Book Depository Summary: ( Goodreads ) Alex and Lila are on the run, desperately trying to stay one step ahead of the Unit, which somehow is managing to track their every move. Whilst Alex is determined to keep Lila safe and her ability secret at any cost, Lila’s only thought is of finding a way back to California so that she can rescue her brother and mother from the military base where they’re being held. Struggling to control both her growing power and her deepening feelings for Alex, Lila decides the time has finally come to stop running and start fighting. Together with Alex, Demos, and the people she’s come to think of as family, Lila plans not just to save her brother and mother, but to completely destroy the Unit and everything it stands for. But the plan requires Lila to return alone to California, make friends

Where We Belong by Emily Giffin

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Title: Where We Belong Author: Emily Giffin Pages: 384 Publisher: St. Martins Press/Raincoast Books Expected Release: July 24, 2012 Buy: AmazonCA | AmazonUS | Chapters Indigo | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository |  Audiobook Preview the Audiobook Summary: ( Goodreads ) Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in New York City. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced everyone, including herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be. But one night, Marian answers a knock on the door . . . only to find Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off forever. From the moment Kirby appears on her doorstep, Marian’s perfectly constructed world—and her very identity—will be shaken to its core, resurrecting ghosts and memories of a passionate young love affair that threaten everything that has come to define her. For the precocious

Such A Rush by Jennifer Echols

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Title: Such A Rush Author: Jennifer Echols Pages: 325 Publisher: MTV Books Release Date : July 10, 2012 Buy: AmazonCA | Chapters Indigo | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | Kobo Summary: ( Goodreads ) A sexy and poignant romantic tale of a young daredevil pilot caught between two brothers. High school senior Leah Jones loves nothing more than flying. While she’s in the air, it’s easy to forget life with her absentee mother at the low-rent end of a South Carolina beach town. When her flight instructor, Mr. Hall, hires her to fly for his banner advertising business, she sees it as her ticket out of the trailer park. And when he dies suddenly, she’s afraid her flying career is gone forever.     But Mr. Hall’s teenage sons, golden boy Alec and adrenaline junkie Grayson, are determined to keep the banner planes flying. Though Leah has crushed on Grayson for years, she’s leery of getting involved in what now seems like a doomed business — until

Stacking the Shelves (11) Venom Edition

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Review: Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose #1) by Fiona Paul Beautiful Disaster by Jaime McGuire (Read *its really good*!!) Thank you Penguin Canada/Razorbill and Atria Books  Bought: Where We Belong by Emily Giffin (LOVED, LOVED, LOVED IT) *Already Read* *review soon* 52 Reasons To Hate My Father by Jessica Brody  Crash by Nicole Williams

Waiting on Wednesday (48) Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally

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Title: Stealing Parker Author: Miranda Kenneally Pages: 245 Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire/Raincoast Books Release Date: October 1, 2012 Summary: (Goodreads) Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She’s on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she’s made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother’s scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her. Now Parker wants a new life. So she quits softball. Drops twenty pounds. And she figures why kiss one guy when she can kiss three? Or four. Why limit herself to high school boys when the majorly cute new baseball coach seems especially flirty? But how far is too far before she loses herself completely?    

Vote for NOAH SHAW

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Introduction Hello my name is Amanda from Stuck In YA Books , I am representing Noah, who is from the debut novel: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin.  Noah is Mara Dyer’s love interest. He is one of the most interesting characters because he is smart, British and is a ladies’ man.  Once you read this book you will not be able to put this down!! Noah is one crush worthy guys in the YA Crush Tourney and he is very good with words (especially Euphemisms) He is one HOT bad boy who is super sweet to Mara. First Meeting+ LOOKS “I whipped around at the sound of the warm, lilting British accent behind me.          The person it belonged to sat on the picnic table under the tiki hut. His general state of disarray was almost enough to distract me from his face. The boy- if he could be called that, looking like he belonged in college not high school- wore Chucks with holes worn through, no laces. Slim charcoal pants and a white button down shirt covered his

Inbetween by Tara Fuller Cover Reveal

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Publication Date:  August, 2012 Imprint:  Entangled Teen Novel length:  400 pages  Format:  Trade paperback and eBook            Add Inbetween to Goodreads            Pre order: Amazon / Barnes & Noble / The Book Depository / Books A Million   Blurb: Since the car crash that took her father’s life two years ago, Emma’s life has been a freaky—and unending—lesson in caution. Surviving “accidents” has taken priority over being a normal seventeen-year-old, so Emma spends her days taking pictures of life instead of living it. Falling in love with a boy was never part of the plan. Falling for a reaper who makes her chest ache and her head spin? Not an option. It’s not easy being dead; especially for a reaper in love with a girl fate has put on his list not once, but twice. Finn’s fellow reapers give him hell about spending time with Emma, but Finn couldn’t let her die before, and he’s not about to let her die now. He  will  protect the girl he loves fro