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Title:  A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1) Author: Sarah J. Maas Pages: 432 Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's/RazorbillCA Release Date: May 5, 2015 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N Summary ( Goodreads ) A thrilling, seductive new series from  New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas, blending  Beauty and the Beast  with faerie lore. When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world. As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient...

HERE’S THE SCOOP! Fans of Cora Carmack’s Rusk University , we have a SUPER exciting announcement:   ALL CLOSED OFF, Book 4 in the Rusk University Series, is coming!!! Check out this message from Cora! * WARNING : This letter contains spoilers for All Broke Down. If you haven't yet read that book, read at your own peril.  SECOND WARNING : this letter talks about fictional characters as if they are real people. Sorry I'm not sorry.  THIRD WARNING : The letter below broaches a serious topic that could be a trigger for some people* Hello beloved readers!  The first person who read one of my Rusk University books was my older sister. I gave her All Lined Up when I finished, and her first question was "Are Ryan and Stella going to be together?" At the time, I told her no. I had plans for both of them that included their own storylines. I thought they were too much alike. They'd make great friends. They might even hook-up, but in the end... I couldn...

Title: Until Friday Night (The Field Party #1) Author: Abbi Glines Pages: 352 Genre: Teen/Contemporary Publisher: Simon Pulse Release Date: August 25, 2015 Pre-Order: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo Summary (Goodreads) To everyone who knows him, West Ashby has always been that guy: the cocky, popular, way-too-handsome-for-his-own-good football god who led Lawton High to the state championships. But while West may be Big Man on Campus on the outside, on the inside he’s battling the grief that comes with watching his father slowly die of cancer. Two years ago, Maggie Carleton’s life fell apart when her father murdered her mother. And after she told the police what happened, she stopped speaking and hasn’t spoken since. Even the move to Lawton, Alabama, couldn’t draw Maggie back out. So she stayed quiet, keeping her sorrow and her fractured heart hidden away. As West’s pain becomes too much to handle, he knows he needs to talk to someone about his father—so in th...

I am so excited that AN EMBER IN THE ASHES by Sabaa Tahir releases today and that I get to share the news, along with a special introduction from Sabaa herself! If you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author Sabaa Tahir, be sure to check out all the details below. This blitz also includes a giveaway for a signed copies of the book and some of those awesome sword letter openers we’ve seen around courtesy of Sabaa, Penguin Teen, and Rockstar Book Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post. A letter from Sabaa Tahir. Dear Readers, Today, my “baby” AN EMBER IN THE ASHES is finally out in the world! From inception to pub date, this journey took eight years. And what a journey it was: writing, rewriting, revising, editing, querying, submitting; Meeting other debuts, bloggers, booksellers and librarians, and hearing their thoughts on EMBER. There aren’t enough superlatives to describe the radness. ...

Title: An Ember in the Ashes Author: Sabaa Tahir Pages: 443 Genre: Fantasy (YA) Publisher: Razorbill Release Date: April 28, 2015 Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo | B&N *Received e-ARC for honest review* Summary ( Goodreads ) Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world,  An Ember in the Ashes  is an epic fantasy debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom. It’s a story that’s literally burning to be told. LAIA is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire’s greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution. ELIAS is the academy’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias is considering deserting the military, but before he can, he’s ordered to participate in a ruthless contest to choose the next Martial ...

Title: The Deal (Off-Campus #1) Author: Elle Kennedy Pages: 358 Genre: New Adult/Romance Release Date: February 24, 2015 Buy: Amazon | Kobo Summary ( Goodreads ) She’s about to make a deal with the college bad boy...   Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. But while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she’s carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. If she wants to get her crush’s attention, she’ll have to step out of her comfort zone and make him take notice... even if it means tutoring the annoying, childish, cocky captain of the hockey team in exchange for a pretend date.  ...and it’s going to be oh so good.   All Garrett Graham has ever wanted is to play professional hockey after graduation, but his plummeting GPA is threatening everything he’s worked so hard for. If helping a sarcastic brunette make another guy jealous will help him secure his position on the team, he’s all for it. ...

Title: Things We Know by Heart Author: Jessi Kirby Pages: 304 Genre: YA Contemporary Publisher: HarperTeen Release Date: April 21, 2015 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N *Received from publisher for honest review* Summary ( Goodreads ) When Quinn Sullivan meets the recipient of her boyfriend’s donated heart, the two form an unexpected connection. After Quinn loses her boyfriend, Trent, in an accident their junior year, she reaches out to the recipients of his donated organs in hopes of picking up the pieces of her now-unrecognizable life. She hears back from some of them, but the person who received Trent’s heart has remained silent. The essence of a person, she has always believed, is in the heart. If she finds Trent’s, then maybe she can have peace once and for all. Risking everything in order to finally lay her memories to rest, Quinn goes outside the system to track down nineteen-year-old Colton Thomas—a guy whose life has been forever changed by th...

Title: Play On Author: Michelle Smith Pages: 258 Genre: YA Publisher : Spencer Hill Contemporary Release Date: April 21, 2015 Buy: Amazon | B&N | Book Depo |   Summary ( Goodreads )   In the small town of Lewis Creek, baseball is everything. Especially for all-star pitcher Austin Braxton, who has a one-way ticket out of town with his scholarship to a top university. All that stands between him and a new start is one final season. But when Austin starts flunking Chemistry, his picture-perfect future is in jeopardy. A failing grade means zero playing time, and zero playing time means no scholarship. Enter Marisa Marlowe, the new girl in town who gets a job at his momma's flower shop. Not only is Marisa some home-schooled super-genius; she's also a baseball fanatic and more than willing to help Austin study. As the two grow closer, there's something about Marisa that makes Austin want more than just baseball and out of Lewis Creek -- he wants ...