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All summaries are from Goodreads.
Received from publishers:
Pushing the Limits - Katie McGarry
No one knows what
happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock
boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with “freaky” scars on her arms.
Even Echo can’t remember the whole truth of that horrible night. All she
knows is that she wants everything to go back to normal.
But
when Noah Hutchins, the smokinghot, girl-using loner in the black
leather jacket, explodes into her life with his tough attitude and
surprising understanding, Echo’s world shifts in ways she could never
have imagined. They should have nothing in common. And with the secrets
they both keep, being together is pretty much impossible.
Yet the
crazy attraction between them refuses to go away. And Echo has to ask
herself just how far they can push the limits and what she’ll risk for
the one guy who might teach her how to love again.
I am looking forward to reading this so much! I've heard so many great things about it. Thank you so much Mira Ink!
Brought:
Insignia - S. J. Kincaid
More than anything, Tom
Raines wants to be important, though his shadowy life is anything but
that. For years, Tom's drifted from casino to casino with his unlucky
gambler of a dad, gaming for their survival. Keeping a roof over their
heads depends on a careful combination of skill, luck, con artistry, and
staying invisible.
Then one day, Tom stops being invisible.
Someone's been watching his virtual-reality prowess, and he's offered
the incredible--a place at the Pentagonal Spire, an elite military
academy. There, Tom's instincts for combat will be put to the test and
if he passes, he'll become a member of the Intrasolar Forces, helping to
lead his country to victory in World War III. Finally, he'll be someone
important: a superhuman war machine with the tech skills that every
virtual-reality warrior dreams of. Life at the Spire holds everything
that Tom's always wanted--friends, the possibility of a girlfriend, and a
life where his every action matters--but what will it cost him?
Stolen - Lucy Christopher
Gemma, a British city-living teenager, is kidnapped while
on holiday with her parents. Her kidnapper, Ty, takes her to the wild
land of outback Australia. To Gemma’s city-eyes, the landscape is harsh
and unforgiving and there are no other signs of human life for hundreds
of kilometres in every direction. Here, there is no escape. Gemma must
learn to deal with her predicament, or die trying to fight it.
Ty,
a young man, has other ideas for her. His childhood experience of
living in outback Australia has forever changed the way he sees things.
But he too has been living in the city; Gemma’s city. Unlike Gemma,
however, he has had enough. In outback Australia he sees an opportunity
for a new kind of life; a life more connected to the earth. He has been
watching and learning about Gemma for many years; when he kidnaps her,
his plan finally begins to take shape.
But Ty is not a
stereotypical kidnapper and, over time, Gemma comes to see Ty in a new
light, a light in which he is something more sensitive. The mysteries of
Ty, and the mystery of her new life, start to take hold. She begins to
feel something for her kidnapper when he wakes screaming in the night.
Over the time spent with her captor, Gemma’s appreciation of him
develops …but is this real love, or Stockholm Syndrome?
The Swan Kingdom - Zoë Marriott
When Alexandra’s mother
is slain by an unnatural beast, shadows fall on the once-lush kingdom.
Too soon the widowed king is entranced by a cunning stranger — and in
one chilling moment Alexandra’s beloved brothers disappear, and she is
banished to a barren land. Rich in visual detail, sparked by a
formidable evil, and sweetened with familial and romantic love, here is
the tale of a girl who discovers powerful healing gifts — and the
courage to use them to save her ailing kingdom.
Shift - Em Bailey
She obediently takes
her meds and stays under the radar at school. After “the incident,”
Olive just wants to avoid any more trouble, so she knows the smartest
thing is to stay clear of the new girl who is rumored to have quite the
creepy past.
But there’s no avoiding Miranda Vaile. As mousy Miranda
edges her way into the popular group, right up to the side of queen bee
Katie – and pushes the others right out – only Olive seems to notice
that something strange is going on. Something almost . . . parasitic.
Either Olive is losing her grip on reality, or Miranda Vaile is stealing
Katie’s life.
But who would ever believe crazy Olive, the girl
who has a habit of letting her imagination run away with her? And what
if Olive is the next target?
One of Our Thursdays is Missing - Jasper Fforde
It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld.
Only
the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert
a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday
vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this
something more sinister?
All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet
end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove
herself worthy of her illustrious namesake.
The fictional
Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego, and quickly
stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threatens the very BookWorld
itself.
Yay for Pushing the Limits and Stolen! They're both seriously amazing books.
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