This was started by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday shares the upcoming books (or books i want) that I'm most excited about.
Wither (Chemical Garden) by Lauren DeStefano
What if you knew exactly when you would die?
Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb—males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live to age twenty. In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep the population from dying out.
When sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery is taken by the Gatherers to become a bride, she enters a world of wealth and privilege. Despite her husband Linden's genuine love for her, and a tenuous trust among her sister wives, Rhine has one purpose: to escape—to find her twin brother and go home.
But Rhine has more to contend with than losing her freedom. Linden's eccentric father is bent on finding an antidote to the genetic virus that is getting closer to taking his son, even if it means collecting corpses in order to test his experiments. With the help of Gabriel, a servant she trusts, Rhine attempts to break free, in the limted time she has left.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Waiting on Wednesday
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Waiting on Wednesday
This was started by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday shares the upcoming books (or books i want) that I'm most excited about.
Thatcher Hill is bored stiff of his summer job dusting the fake mermaids and shrunken heads at his uncle's seaside Museum of Curiosities. But when a mysterious girl steals an artifact from the museum, Thatcher's summer becomes an adventure that takes him from the top of the ferris wheel to the depths of the sea. Following the thief, he learns that she is a princess of the lost Atlantis. Her people have been cursed by an evil witch to drift at sea all winter and wash up on shore each summer to an even more terrible fate—working the midway games and food stands on the boardwalk. Can Thatcher help save them before he, too, succumbs to the witch's curse?
With sharp, witty writing that reads like a middle-grade Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Greg van Eekhout's first book for young readers is a wild ride packed with as many laughs as it has thrills.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Friday Finds
Not to kill him, but because he’s finally found what he thought he would never find. Someone fit to be his apprentice…
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Waiting on Wednesday
This was started by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday shares the upcoming books that I'm most excited about.
His son, that’s who.
Ever since his father’s arrest for the murder of Little
Red Riding Hood, teen wolf Henry Whelp has kept
a low profile in a Home for Wayward Wolves . . .
until a murder at the Home leads Henry to believe
his father may have been framed.
Now, with the help of his kleptomaniac roommate,
Jack, and a daring she-wolf named Fiona, Henry will
have to venture deep into the heart of Dust City: a
rundown, gritty metropolis where fairydust is craved
by everyone—and controlled by a dangerous mob of
Water Nixies and their crime boss leader, Skinner.
Can Henry solve the mystery of his family’s sinister
past? Or, like his father before him, is he destined
for life as a big bad wolf?
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Waiting on Wednesday
This was started by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday shares the upcoming books that I'm most excited about.
When seventeen-year-old Ellie starts seeing reapers - monstrous creatures who devour humans and send their souls to Hell - she finds herself on the front lines of a supernatural war between archangels and the Fallen and faced with the possible destruction of her soul.
A mysterious boy named Will reveals she is the reincarnation of an ancient warrior, the only one capable of wielding swords of angelfire to fight the reapers, and he is an immortal sworn to protect her in battle. Now that Ellie's powers have been awakened, a powerful reaper called Bastian has come forward to challenge her. He has employed a fierce assassin to eliminate her - an assassin who has already killed her once.
While balancing her dwindling social life and reaper-hunting duties, she and Will discover Bastian is searching for a dormant creature believed to be a true soul reaper. Bastian plans to use this weapon to ignite the End of Days and to destroy Ellie's soul, ending her rebirth cycle forever. Now, she must face an army of Bastian's most frightening reapers, prevent the soul reaper from consuming her soul, and uncover the secrets of her past lives - including truths that may be too frightening to remember.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Waiting on Wednesday
This was started by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday shares the upcoming books that I'm most excited about.
For once, sixteen-year-old Aden Stone has everything he’s ever wanted:
A home.
Friends.
The girl of his dreams.
Too bad he’s going to die...Since coming to Crossroads, Oklahoma, former outcast Aden Stone has been living the good life. Never mind that one of his best friends is a werewolf, his girlfriend is a vampire princess who hungers for his blood, and he’s supposed to be crowned Vampire King – while still a human! Well, kind of.
With four – oops, three now — human souls living inside his head, Aden has always been “different” himself. These souls can time travel, raise the dead, possess another’s mind, and, his least favorite these days, tell the future.
The forecast for Aden? A knife through the heart.
Because a war is brewing between the creatures of the dark, and Aden is somehow at the center of it all. But he isn’t about to lie down and accept his destiny without a fight. Not when his new friends have his back, not when Victoria has risked her own future to be with him, and not when he has a reason to live for the first time in his life...
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Waiting on Wednesday
This was started by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday shares the upcoming books that I'm most excited about.
Theia Alderson has always led a sheltered life, not allowed the same freedoms as the rest of the teenagers in the small California town of Serendipity Falls. But when a devastatingly handsome boy appears in the halls of her school, she feels every urge she’s ever denied burning through her at the slightest glance from Haden Black. Theia knows she’s seen Haden before—not around town, but in her dreams.
Theia doesn’t understand how she dreamed of Haden before they ever met, but every night has them joined in a haunting world of eerie fantasy. And as the Haden of both the night and the day beckons her forward one moment and pushes her away the next, the only thing Theia knows for sure is that the incredible pull she feels towards him is stronger than her fear. And as she slowly discovers what Haden truly is, Theia’s not sure if she wants to resist him, even if the cost is her soul.
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