Book Haul – Oct 29 2012
Well, I meant to post this last weekend, and forgot. Then I was going to post this THIS weekend and well… My baby girl turned 12, and the weekend got away from me. Like at that very important business meeting. aka… when we had lunch out our favorite Mexican restaurant and they serenaded Monk with Happy Birthday in Spanish and then gave her the traditional – pie in the face (with a SUNDAY!) haha!!
Anyway! For your viewing pleasure…
Its a book haul!
Haha, these books were all sent to me for review through out the month of October.
BOOKS:
The Last Dragonslayer (The Chronicles of Kazam) by Jasper Fforde
Release Date: 2012-10-02
In the good old days, magic was indispensable—it could both save a kingdom and clear a clogged drain. But now magic is fading: drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and magic carpets are used for pizza delivery.
Fifteen-year-old foundling Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians—but it’s hard to stay in business when magic is drying up. And then the visions start, predicting the death of the world’s last dragon at the hands of an unnamed Dragonslayer. If the visions are true, everything will change for Kazam—and for Jennifer. Because something is coming.
Something known as . . .
Big Magic.
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Drawing Blood by Richard Finney
Release Date: 2012-10-09
With humanity at the edge of self-annihilation… Another species, living in the shadows of humans for thousands of years, fear the extermination of their food supply, which will trigger their extinction as well. Vampires finally make their presence known and end up taking over a war ravaged world. Matt Haynes and Tyra Redmond briefly met in the Green Zone. He was a world weary mercenary protecting a U.S. dignitary. She was working for the State Department trying to rebuild a country. Years later, when their paths cross again, the world has completely changed. Both are now at a “Blood Donation Center” located in a rural area once known as the East Coast of the United States. The inmates of CCC197 must endure a daily dehumanizing existence of being kept alive only to serve as a source of blood for their captors. Matt and Tyra must overcome their clashing personalities if they are to rally their fellow prisoners to plan and execute an audacious escape to freedom. Standing in their way is a security system manned by human traitors working for the Vampires. And of course any attempt to escape from the concentration camp will mean defeating a species that has superior strength, cunning, and intelligence. And for Matt Haynes, there is an even more compelling complication — one of the vampire commanders of CCC197 is Ian Hayes, his brother… before he became a member of the undead. Drawing Blood is a heart stopping, paranormal, thrill ride about the fight for survival, and the emotional struggle to maintain human relationships in an apocalyptic world. This is the first book in the RELICT SERIES depicting the fall of humanity and the attempt by the Vampires to maintain control of their new world order. WARNING to all interested readers: The last page ends with: “TO BE CONTINUED” Many of the books in THE RELICT BOOK SERIES will end with cliffhanger moments. Even if readers have read dozens of books about the undead, they will discover Drawing Blood is not your typical Vampire novel.
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What the Cat Saw by Carolyn G. Hart
Release Date: 2012-10-02
National bestselling author Carolyn Hart presents an original new novel about a woman with a curious ability that drops her headfirst into a world of intrigue and murder…
Ever since the death of her fiancé, Nela Farley has found herself plagued by a sixth sense: she understands the thoughts of cats when she looks into their eyes. Nela knows that what she’s experiencing is completely irrational and tries to convince herself that she is simply transferring her own thoughts that she doesn’t want to face.
When her adventurous sister, Chloe, goes on a trip and asks for a favor, Nela welcomes the distraction and agrees to substitute at Chloe’s job at a charitable foundation. Chloe has arranged a place for her sister to stay, but when Nela shows up, she encounters the previous tenant’s cat and gets a flash of thought: “. . . dead . . . dead and gone . . . She loved me . . . board rolled on the second step . . .”
Nela wants to ignore what the cat saw, but the idea that the death of former tenant Marian Grant wasn’t an accident is something she can’t ignore. As Nela begins to do some research into Marian’s life, strange events begin to occur, all seeming to lead back to the Haklo Foundation. But when a detective becomes suspicious of Nela’s sister and a second murder occurs, Nela realizes she’ll have to make the most of her unwanted ability to figure out what’s really going on, before she meets her own untimely end…
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AUDIO BOOKS:
Rise of the Guardians Movie Novelization by Stacia Deutsch
Release Date: 2012-10-02
Join forces with the Guardians to defeat Pitch in this retelling of the animated feature Rise of the Guardians.When Pitch, the boogeyman, decides that children should believe in him and not the Guardians, he adds a little fear to their dreams, turning them into nightmares. If children around the world are afraid, there will be no more room for hope. The Guardians must band together to stop him. But in order to do so they need a little help from an unlikely source: Jack Frost. Jack loves to have fun, but he’s not usually one for heroics. Will Jack find the hero within him before Pitch can carry out his master plan? Join Jack Frost and the entire gang of Guardians—North, Bunnymund, Tooth, and Sandman—as they band together to vanquish the boogeyman and his nightmarish threats and to preserve the very spirit of childhood. This junior novelization includes eight pages of color images from the movie.
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Dork Diaries 5: Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All by Rachel Renee Russell
Release Date: 2012-10-02
Nikki Maxwell authors an advice column for the school newspaper in this fifth installment of the New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series.Nikki Maxwell develops a sudden interest in student journalism that may or may not (okay, definitely does) have to do with the fact that mean girl Mackenzie has started writing a gossip column. And there just might be some info involving Nikki’s crush, Brandon, that Nikki doesn’t want Mackenzie reporting to the world. So Nikki joins the school newspaper staff—and ends up as an advice columnist! It’s fun at first, answering other kids’ letters. But when Miss Know-It-All’s inbox is suddenly overflowing with pleas for guidance, Nikki feels in need of some help herself. Fortunately she has BFFs Chloe and Zoey on her side—and at her keyboard!
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Red Rain: A Novel by R.L. Stine
Release Date: 2012-10-09
R.L. Stine, New York Times bestselling author of the Goosebumps and Fear Street series—the biggest selling children’s books of all time—delivers a terrifying new adult horror novel centered on a town in the grip of a sinister revolt. Before there was J.K. Rowling, before there was Stephenie Meyer or Suzanne Collins, there was R.L. Stine. Witty, creepy, and compulsively readable, he defined horror for a generation of young readers—readers who have now come of age. Travel writer Lea Sutter finds herself on a small island off the coast of South Carolina, the wrong place at the wrong time. A merciless, unanticipated hurricane cuts a path of destruction and Lea barely escapes with her life. In the storm’s aftermath, she discovers orphaned twin boys and impulsively decides to adopt them. The boys, Samuel and Daniel, seem amiable and immensely grateful; Lea’s family back on Long Island—husband Mark and their two children, Ira and Elena—aren’t quite so pleased. But even they can’t anticipate the twins’ true nature—or predict that, within a few weeks’ time, Mark will wind up implicated in two brutal murders, with the police narrowing in. For the millions of readers who grew up on Goosebumps, and for every fan of deviously inventive horror, this is a must-read from a beloved master of the genre.
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In the Tall Grass by Stephen King
Release Date: 2012-10-09
Mile 81 meets “N” in this collaboration between Stephen King and Joe Hill, now available from Simon & Schuster Audio.As USA TODAY said of Stephen King’s Mile 81: “Park and scream. Could there be any better place to set a horror story than an abandoned rest stop?” In the Tall Grass begins with a sister and brother who pull off to the side of the road after hearing a young boy crying for help from beyond the tall grass. Within minutes they are disoriented, in deeper than seems possible, and they’ve lost one another. The boy’s cries are more and more desperate. What follows is a terrifying, entertaining, and masterfully told tale, as only Stephen King can deliver.
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EBOOKS:
In the Tall Grass (Kindle Single) by Stephen King
Release Date: 2012-10-19
Mile 81 meets “N.” in this eBook collaboration between Stephen King and Joe Hill. As USA TODAY said of Stephen King’s Mile 81: “Park and scream. Could there be any better place to set a horror story than an abandoned rest stop?” In the Tall Grass begins with a sister and brother who pull off to the side of the road after hearing a young boy crying for help from beyond the tall grass. Within minutes they are disoriented, in deeper than seems possible, and they’ve lost one another. The boy’s cries are more and more desperate. What follows is a terrifying, entertaining, and masterfully told tale, as only Stephen King and Joe Hill can deliver.
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Thats all for this part of the haul. I’ll post my “purchases” next. How bout you, what did you get last month? Anything good?