Waiting on Wednesday (118): Ruins (Pathfinder) by Orson Scott Card

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Ruins (Pathfinder) by Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Publish Date: March 6, 2012

Publisher's Description
Rigg has the power to change the past. But nothing can prepare him for the future...

The adventure, suspense, and time travel continue in this second installment in the critically acclaimed New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling Pathfinder series.

Why Jessica wants to read this: I loved the first book in the series and can't wait to see where the journey goes!  (Check out my review of Pathfinder, - I gave it 5/5!)

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Media Mail (6)

Media Mail is a weekly meme which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox.

Let us know what looks good & leave us a link so we can check out what you got over the week. 

FOR REVIEW

Passenger by Andrew Smith
This is the follow-up to The Marbury Lensand Kole can't wait to read it!


Outpost by Ann Aguirre
This is the follow-up to Enclave and Jessica is dying to start it!

Thanks to Macmillan Children's for the books for review.

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More posts from the week:

• Book Review: Something Strange and Deadly (Something Strange and Deadly - Trilogy) by Susan Dennard

• Giveaway & Guest Post by KB Walker

• Comic Post: Grammar

• Waiting on Wednesday (117): Gravity (The Taking) by Melissa West

• 1000 Free Books from Author Kevin McGill

• Book Review: Refuge (The Refuge Trilogy, Book 3) by Rebecca McKinnon

Waiting on Wednesday (117): Gravity (The Taking) by Melissa West

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.


Gravity (The Taking) by Melissa West
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Publish Date: October 16, 2012

Publisher Description

In the future, only one rule will matter:

Don’t. Ever. Peek.

Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed — arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.

Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know — especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.

Why Jessica wants to read this: This one sounds kinda weird with the whole "hovering above her bed" part and sounds like it is a good sci-fi read.

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1000 Free Books from Author Kevin McGill

From author Kevin McGill:

Take The Ride: 1000 signed copies of my book, Nikolas and Company: The Merman and The Moon Forgotten, will be given away on July 6th.

I explain more in the announcement video: (Also, you can watch my book go into space!)



http://nikolasandco.com/taketheride

July 6th, Aero Studios will mail 1000 free, signed copies of my book, Nikolas and Company: The Merman and The Moon Forgotten to those who get their orders in first. You don’t have to pay for the book, or shipping and handling. To qualify: Be between the ages of 10 and 17 (If you know someone between 10 and 17, feel free to order for them) and live in the US (adults can also get a free digital copy).

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Oh, and you also have to LOVE crazy, fantasy adventures about a fourteen-year-old boy being chased by monsters aboard a shuttle launch, automaton-legged mermen walking on land, and travelling down murky waterways deep underground…on the moon!

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- Take The Ride
Kevin McGill

Media Mail (5)

Media Mail is a weekly meme which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox.

Let us know what looks good & leave us a link so we can check out what you got over the week. 

FOR REVIEW

Grammar Girl's 101 Troublesome Words You'll Master in No Time by Mignon Fogarty


Eve and Adam by Katherine Applegate


Portlandtown: A Tale of the Oregon Wyldes by Rob DeBorde


Junk-Box Jewelry: 25 DIY Low Cost (or No Cost) Jewelry Projects by Sarah Drew

Thanks to St Martin's Press, Feiwel & Friends, and Zest Books for the books for review.

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More posts from the week:

• Graphic Novel Review: Unwritten Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity by Mike Carey (Author) and Peter Gross (Illustrator) 
• Book Review: Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown 
• Waiting on Wednesday (116): Breathe by Sarah Crossan  
• Book Review: The Not-So-Nude Ride of Lady Godiva by David Haviland
• Altered Book Art

Waiting on Wednesday (116): Breathe by Sarah Crossan

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.


Breathe by Sarah Crossan
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Publish Date: October 2, 2012

Publisher Description

Inhale. Exhale.
Breathe.
Breathe.
Breathe . . .
The world is dead.
The survivors live under the protection of Breathe, the corporation that found a way to manufacture oxygen–rich air.

Alina
has been stealing for a long time. She's a little jittery, but not terrified. All she knows is that she's never been caught before. If she's careful, it'll be easy. If she's careful.

Quinn
should be worried about Alina and a bit afraid for himself, too, but even though this is dangerous, it's also the most interesting thing to happen to him in ages. It isn't every day that the girl of your dreams asks you to rescue her.

Bea
wants to tell him that none of this is fair; they'd planned a trip together, the two of them, and she'd hoped he'd discover her out here, not another girl.

And as they walk into the Outlands with two days' worth of oxygen in their tanks, everything they believe will be shattered. Will they be able to make it back? Will they want to?

Why Jessica wants to read this: I really like end of the world / dystopian tales and this seems like one that our world could really reach one day.  Scary!

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Media Mail (4)

Media Mail is a weekly meme which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox.
Let us know what looks good & leave us a link so we can check out what you got over the week. 

*We've been lax on accepting and requesting books for review right now - so many in the queue at the moment - so there are only a few books.

FOR REVIEW

Crewel (Crewel World) by Gennifer Albin


Thy Neighbor: A Novel by Norah Vincent


The Legacy of Tril: Soulbound by Heather Brewer

BOUGHT (both bought for Kole for required summer reading for his AP English class - but we are excited to read these!)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot


The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater


WON

Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson (Thank you Books to the Sky)
 

Thanks to Penguin and Macmillan Children's for the books for review.

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