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2015 Cover Reveals- Just Released This Week!

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Comes out March 31, 2015 from Bloomsbury About:  Following her pitch-perfect debut  Open Road Summer , Emery Lord pens another gorgeous story of best friends, new love, & second chances. It’s been two years since it happened—when Paige Hancock’s first boyfriend died in an accident. After shutting out the world for two years, Paige is finally ready for a second chance at high school . . . and she has a plan. First: Get her old crush, Ryan Chase, to date her—the perfect way to convince everyone she’s back to normal. Next: Join a club—simple, it’s high school after all. But when Ryan’s sweet, nerdy cousin, Max, moves to town and recruits Paige for the Quiz Bowl team (of all things!) her perfect plan is thrown for a serious loop. Will Paige be able to face her fears and finally open herself up to the life she was meant to live? Brimming with heartfelt relationships and authentic high-school dynamics  The Start of Me and You  proves that it’s never too late for ...

Stacking the Shelves (19)

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Review: Vortex (Tempest #2) by Julie Cross Breaking Point (Article 5 #2) by Kristen Simmons ~Thank You Macmillan! Bought:  Bared To You (A Crossfire novel) by Sylvia Day Hidden (Firelight #3) by Sophie Jordan Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr Origin by Jessica Khoury

Teaser Tuesday - Origin by Jessica Khoury

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Title: Origin Author: Jessica Khoury Pages: 372 Publisher: Razorbill Release Date: September 4, 2012 Summary: ( Goodreads ) Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home—and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life. Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark on a race against time to discover the truth about Pia’s origin—a truth with deadly consequences that will change their lives forever. Origin is a beautifully told, shocking new way to look at an age-old desire: to live forever, no matter the cost. This is a supremely compelling debut novel that blends the awakening romance of Matched with the mystery and jungle conspiracy of Lost ...