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Waiting on Wednesday: The Girl from Everywhere (#1) by Heidi Heilig

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Title: The Girl form Everywhere Author: Heidi Heilig Pages: 464 Genre: Y.A. Historical Fiction  Publisher: Greenwillow Books Release Date: February 16, 2016/HarperCollins Canada Preorder : Chapters Indigo | Amazon Summary (Goodreads) Heidi Heilig’s debut teen fantasy sweeps from modern-day New York City to nineteenth-century Hawaii to places of myth and legend. Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father’s ship. But when he gambles with her very existence, it all may be about to end.  The Girl from Everywhere , the first of two books, will dazzle readers of Sabaa Tahir, Rae Carson, and Rachel Hartman. Nix’s life began in Honolulu in 1868. Since then she has traveled to mythic Scandinavia, a land from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, modern-day New York City, and many more places both real and imagined. As long as he has a map, Nix’s father can sail his ship, The Temptation, to any place, any

Before We Were Strangers by Renee Carlino

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Title: Before We Were Strangers Author: Renee Carlino Pages: 320 Genre: Romance/New Adult Publisher: Atria Books/Simon Schuster Canada Release Date: August 18, 2015 Buy: AmazonCA | Chapters Indigo | Kobo  *received an ARC for review purposes from Atria Books* Summary ( Goodreads ) To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were go

Waiting on Wednesday: Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

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Title: Tell Me Three Things Author: Julie Buxbaum  Pages: 270 Genre: YA Contemporary  Publisher: Delacorte Press  Release Date: April 15, 2016 Summary (Goodreads) What if the person you need the most is someone you’ve never met? Julie Buxbaum mixes comedy and tragedy, love and loss, pain and elation, in her debut YA novel whose characters will come to feel like friends.  Tell Me Three Things  will appeal to fans of Rainbow Rowell, Jennifer Niven, and E. Lockhart.    Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week at her new ultra-intimidating prep school in Los Angeles. Just when she’s thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago—the closest place she has to something like home—she gets an email from a person calling themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for short), offering to help her navigate the wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on SN for some much-needed help? The thing is, Jessie

Cover Reveal: Inflict (Muse #2) by Cora Carmack

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We are absolutely thrilled to bring you the dual cover reveal for Cora Carmack’s Muse Series ! INSPIRE and INFLICT are New Adult Paranormal Romance novels and are book 1 and 2 in the Muse Series . INFLICT is due to be released in January 2016! These beautiful covers were designed by Regina Wamba of Mae I Design . Be sure to grab your copy of INSPIRE today!   Amazon eBook ** Amazon Paperback INSPIRE (Book 1): Kalliope lives with one purpose. To inspire. As an immortal muse, she doesn’t have any other choice. It’s part of how she was made. Musicians, artists, actors—they use her to advance their art, and she uses them to survive. She moves from one artist to the next, never staying long enough to get attached. But all she wants is a different life— a normal one. She’s spent thousands of years living lie after lie, and now she’s ready for something real. Sweet, sexy, and steady, Wilder Bell feels more real than anything else in her long existence. And most importantly… he

Waiting on Wednesday: He Will Be My Ruin by K.A. Tucker

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Title: He Will Be My Ruin Author: K.A. Tucker Pages: 352 Genre: Suspense  Publisher: Atria Books/Simon Schuster Canada Release Date: February 2, 2016 Summary (Goodreads) The  USA TODAY  bestselling author of the Ten Tiny Breaths and Burying Water series makes her suspense debut with this sexy, heartpounding story of a young woman determined to find justice after her best friend’s death, a story pulsing with the “intense, hot, emotional” (Colleen Hoover) writing that exhilarates her legions of fans. A woman who almost had it all . . . On the surface, Celine Gonzalez had everything a twenty-eight-year-old woman could want: a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a job that (mostly) paid the bills, and an acceptance letter to the prestigious Hollingsworth Institute of Art, where she would finally live out her dream of becoming an antiques appraiser for a major auction house. All she had worked so hard to achieve was finally within her reach. So why

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) by Leigh Bardugo

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Title: Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) Author: Leigh Bardugo Pages: 465 Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Henry Holt and Company/Raincoast Books Release Date: September 29, 2015 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | *Received for review from Raincoast Books* Summary ( Goodreads ) Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone... A convict with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged past. A spy known as the Wraith. A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums. A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes. Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don't kill each other first.

Waiting on Wednesday: The Year We Fell Apart by Emily Martin

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Title: The Year We Fell Apart Author: Emily Martin Pages: 320 Genre: YA Contemporary  Publisher: Simon Pulse Release Date: January 26, 2016 Summary (Goodreads) In the tradition of Sarah Dessen, this powerful debut novel is a compelling portrait of a young girl coping with her mother’s cancer as she figures out how to learn from—and fix—her past. Few things come as naturally to Harper as epic mistakes. In the past year she was kicked off the swim team, earned a reputation as Carson High’s easiest hook-up, and officially became the black sheep of her family. But her worst mistake was destroying her relationship with her best friend, Declan. Now, after two semesters of silence, Declan is home from boarding school for the summer. Everything about him is different—he’s taller, stronger…more handsome. Harper has changed, too, especially in the wake of her mom’s cancer diagnosis. While Declan wants nothing to do with Harper, he’s still Declan, her Declan, and the onl