Sunday, July 1, 2012

Book News: July Releases


July Releases!

Coming July 3rd . . .


by 
Jodi Lynn Anderson

Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy, he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair. . . .

Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily doesn't believe in love stories or happy endings. Then she meets the alluring teenage Peter Pan in the forbidden woods of Neverland and immediately falls under his spell.

Peter is unlike anyone she's ever known. Impetuous and brave, he both scares and enthralls her. As the leader of the Lost Boys, the most fearsome of Neverland's inhabitants, Peter is an unthinkable match for Tiger Lily. Soon, she is risking everything—her family, her future—to be with him. When she is faced with marriage to a terrible man in her own tribe, she must choose between the life she's always known and running away to an uncertain future with Peter.

With enemies threatening to tear them apart, the lovers seem doomed. But it's the arrival of Wendy Darling, an English girl who's everything Tiger Lily is not, that leads Tiger Lily to discover that the most dangerous enemies can live inside even the most loyal and loving heart.



by 
Anna Carey

When you're being hunted, who can you trust?

For the first time since she escaped from her school many months ago, Eve can sleep soundly. She's living in Califia, a haven for women, protected from the terrifying fate that awaits orphaned girls in The New America.

But her safety came at a price: She was forced to abandon Caleb, the boy she loves, wounded and alone at the city gates. When Eve gets word that Caleb is in trouble, she sets out into the wild again to rescue him, only to be captured and brought to the City of Sand, the capital of The New America.

Trapped inside the City walls, Eve uncovers a shocking secret about her past--and is forced to confront the harsh reality of her future. When she discovers Caleb is alive, Eve attempts to flee her prison so they can be together--but the consequences could be deadly. She must make a desperate choice to save the ones she loves . . . or risk losing Caleb forever.


Coming July 5th . . . 


by
Kat Rosenfield

Becca has always longed to break free from her small, backwater hometown. But the discovery of an unidentified dead girl on the side of a dirt road sends the town--and Becca--into a tailspin. Unable to make sense of the violence of the outside world creeping into her backyard, Becca finds herself retreating inward, paralyzed from moving forward for the first time in her life.

Short chapters detailing the last days of Amelia Anne Richardson's life are intercut with Becca's own summer as the parallel stories of two young women struggling with self-identity and relationships on the edge twist the reader closer and closer to the truth about Amelia's death.


by 
Tara Altebrando

An all-day scavenger hunt in the name of eternal small-town glory

With only a week until graduation, there's one last thing Mary and her friends must do together: participate in the Oyster Point High Official Unofficial Senior Week Scavenger Hunt. And Mary is determined to win.

Mary lost her spot at Georgetown to self-professed "it" bully Jake Barbone, and she's not about to lose again. But everyone is racing for the finish line with complicated motives, and the team's all-night adventure becomes all-night drama as shifting alliances, flared tempers, and crushing crushes take over. As the items and points pile up, Mary and her team must reinvent their strategy--and themselves--in order to win.

Coming July 10th . . .

by
Rachel Carter

Lydia Bentley has heard stories about the Montauk Project all her life: stories about the strange things that took place at the abandoned military base near her home and the people who've disappeared over the years. Stories about people like her own great-grandfather.

When Lydia stumbles into a portal that transports her to a dangerous and strange new reality, she discovers that all the stories she's ever heard about the Montauk Project are true, and that she's in the middle of one of the most dangerous experiments in history.

Alongside a darkly mysterious boy she is wary to trust, Lydia begins to unravel the secrets surrounding the Project. But the truths behind these secrets force her to question all her choices--and if Lydia chooses wrong, she might not save her family but destroy them . . . and herself.


Coming July 17th . . .

by 
James Preller

The summer before his senior year, Jude (yes, he’s named after the Beatles song) gets his first job, falls in love for the first time, and starts to break away from his parents. Jude’s house is kept dark, and no one talks much—it’s been that way since his little sister drowned in a swimming pool seven years ago when Jude was supposed to be watching her.

Now, Jude is finally, finally starting to live. Really live. And then, life spins out of control. Again.

Acclaimed author James Preller explores life, death, love, faith, and resilience in his first young adult novel that will grip readers from the book’s dramatic first few pages to its emotional end.


Coming July 24th . . .

by 
T.M. Goeglein

Sara Jane Rispoli is a normal sixteen-year-old coping with school and a budding romance--until her parents and brother are kidnapped and she discovers her family is deeply embedded in the Chicago Outfit (aka the mob).

Now on the run from a masked assassin, rogue cops and her turncoat uncle, Sara Jane is chased and attacked at every turn, fighting back with cold fury as she searches for her family. It's a quest that takes her through concealed doors and forgotten speakeasies--a city hiding in plain sight. Though armed with a .45 and 96K in cash, an old tattered notebook might be her best defense--hidden in its pages the secret to "ultimate power." It's why she's being pursued, why her family was taken, and could be the key to saving all of their lives.


What books are you waiting for this month??

14 comments:

  1. Tiger Lily looks really good! I adore Peter Pan so I can't wait to read it.

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  2. I can't wait to read Tiger Lily and Cold Fury! Tiger Lily has such lovely premise! I like Peter Pan so I'm eager to meet him again in Tiger Lily! x) Cold Fury sounds really cool! I love the cover, and wow, mafia? Sounds like my kind of book! Hopefully the girl is a kickass heroine! x)

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    1. What I want to know is whether Tiger Lily is in the original story or not? I've never heard of her, so I'm excited to read this new perspective of the story! I think I'm looking forward to Cold Fury the most! The synopsis sounds like an action movie =)

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  3. I have a bunch of these with me on vacation!
    Look forward to your review of Pushing the Limits. I haven't read it yet, and like hearing different opinions.

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  4. Yay! Thank you for listing all of these. :) Sigh. So much awesome. I read Once many months ago. <3 Was lucky enough to get an ARC of it :D:D And omg. Once is amazing. If you haven't read Eve yet, you really must do so, and then read Once. :) It is an awesome series ;p
    Love, Carina

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    1. Oh ya, I remember reading your review of Once! =) I was able to borrow an ARC from someone and read it awhile ago, I just never got around to writing a review =/ I still plan to though! It was really good! Looking forward to Rise!!

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  5. I can't wait for Cold Fury and So Close to You! :D

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    1. Me too, especially Cold Fury! Thanks for stopping by =)

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  6. I loved Best Night of Your Pathetic Life and am planning to read Amelia Anne and Tiger Lily!

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    1. Glad to hear you enjoyed Best Night of Your Pathetic Life!! I've requested a couple of these and am just waiting for them to come in at the library!

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  7. Somehow I don't have any of these on my list. I'm surprised, I feel like I have everything on my list :) but it's always great to get recommendations. Thanks Amanda!

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    1. Glad I could introduce you to some new material =)

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