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I was sent a copy of You and Me and Him by Kris Dinnison You and Me and Him by Kris Dinnison Release Date: 2016-07-12 “Do not ignore a call from me when you know I am feeling neurotic about a boy. That is Best Friend 101.” —Nash Maggie and Nash are outsiders. She’s overweight. He’s out of the closet. The best of friends, they have seen each other through thick and thin, but when Tom moves to town at the start of the school year, they have something…
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I was sent a copy of Wax by Gina Damico Wax by Gina Damico Release Date: 2016-08-02 Paraffin, Vermont, is home to the Grosholtz Candle Factory. There, seventeen-year-old Poppy finds something dark and unsettling: a room filled with dozens of startlingly lifelike wax sculptures. Later, she’s shocked when one of the figures—a teenage boy who doesn’t seem to know what he is—jumps naked and screaming out of the trunk of her car. Poppy wants to return him to the factory, but before she can, a fire destroys the mysterious…
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I was sent a copy of Vengeance Obtained by Eric M Gore Vengeance Obtained by Eric M Gore Release Date: 2016-05-09 Marcel Dekrey, angel of The Lord and nine-hundred year old vampire, is a double agent in service to The Most High God. Marcel is charged with a clear mandate; observe and report to the heavenly host events as they unfold in the dangerous world of anomalies–vampires, werewolves, witches, warlocks, demonic creatures, and variations of each–which exists within our own, and intercede if and when necessity demands. Necessity does…
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I was sent a copy of The Shattered Lens: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians) by Brandon Sanderson The Shattered Lens: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians) by Brandon Sanderson Release Date: 2016-07-19 The Shattered Lens is the fourth action-packed fantasy adventure in the Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series for young readers by the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. These fast-paced and funny novels are now available in deluxe hardcover editions illustrated by Hayley Lazo. Alcatraz Smedry…
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I was sent a copy of Black River Falls by Jeff Hirsch Black River Falls by Jeff Hirsch Release Date: 2016-07-05 Seventeen-year-old Cardinal has escaped the virus that ravaged his town, leaving its victims alive but without their memories. He chooses to remain in the quarantined zone, caring for a group of orphaned kids in a mountain camp with the help of the former brutal school bully, now transformed by the virus into his best friend. But then a strong-willed and mysterious young woman appears, and the closed-off world…
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I was sent a copy of Agatha Parrot and the Odd Street School Ghost by Kjartan Poskitt Agatha Parrot and the Odd Street School Ghost by Kjartan Poskitt Release Date: 2016-07-05 Meet Agatha Parrot, the irresistible star—and narrator—of the first in a series of very funny illustrated novels! A mysterious bell tolls at night and a glowing face is seen in a distant window—is Odd Street School haunted? Agatha and her gang of friends are determined to help their teachers find out. Add in a turtle named Tony, a…
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I was sent a copy of Mirage by Tracy Clark Mirage by Tracy Clark Release Date: 2016-07-05 Seventeen-year-old Ryan Poitier Sharpe is a gutsy, outgoing girl who spends her summer days hurling herself out of planes at her parents’ skydiving center in the Mojave Desert. Fiercely independent and willing to take risks, she challenges those around her to live life fully. But after a brush with death, Ryan is severely altered—she’s not the same thrill-seeking girl she once was and seems to be teetering on the edge of psychosis.…
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I was sent a copy of Eureka!: 50 Scientists Who Shaped Human History by John Grant Eureka!: 50 Scientists Who Shaped Human History by John Grant Release Date: 2016-08-02 Galileo, Einstein, Curie, Darwin, Hawking — we know the names, but how much do we really know about these people? Galileo gained notoriety over his battle with the Vatican, but did you know that this “father of modern science” was also an accomplished lute player? And Darwin of course discovered the principle by which new species are formed, but his…
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We were sent a copy of Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World’s Brightest Bird (Scientists in the Field Series) by Pamela S. Turner Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World’s Brightest Bird (Scientists in the Field Series) by Pamela S. Turner Release Date: 2016-08-02 One of the biggest differences between humans and animals is the ability to understand the idea of “If I do X, Y might happen.” New Caledonian crows seem to possess the intelligence to understand this “causal” concept. Why do crows have this ability?…
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We were sent a copy of Ninth City Burning by J. Patrick Black Ninth City Burning by J. Patrick Black Release Date: 2016-09-06 Centuries of war with aliens threaten the future of human civilization on earth in this gripping, epic science fiction debut… We never saw them coming. Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity.…
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