The Buffet’s “Bouquet of Books” sale will be open May 1-3. More than 175 ebooks, all reduced in price to just 99 cents. Save in categories such as Young Adult, Contemporary, Paranormal, Suspense, Erotic Romance, and more!
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Rachael Anderson is the author of four books: Divinely Designed, Luck of the Draw, Minor Adjustments, and The Reluctant Bachelorette. She’s the mother of four and is pretty good at breaking up fights, or at least sending guilty parties to their rooms. She can’t sing, doesn’t dance, and despises tragedies. But she recently figured out how yeast works and can now make homemade bread, which she is really good at eating.
Working It Out A chance encounter . . . Grace Warren’s life is safe and predictable—exactly the way she likes it. But when she gets roped into going to an auction to help out a friend, everything changes. She meets Seth Tuttle—a guy who unexpectedly kisses her then disappears, leaving her flustered and upset. If she never sees him again, it will be too soon.
A chance for love . . . Weeks later, when Seth limps into Grace’s rehab clinic post surgery, she immediately recognizes him. Unfortunately, he’s every bit as frustrating and annoying as she remembered. Yet there’s something about him that makes her second-guess her carefully placed boundaries even though he’s everything she’s sure she doesn’t want in a man. But maybe Seth is exactly what Grace has needed all along—assuming she’s willing to risk safe and predictable for a chance at love.
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SIGNED copies of: Hopeless by Colleen Hoover Easy by Tammara Webber Fallen Too Far & Never Too Far by Abbi Glines FATE by Elizabeth Reyes CRUSH by Nicole Williams Disastrous by EL Montes
SIGNED copies of: Slammed & Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover What a Boy Wants, What a Boy Needs and Measuring Up by Nyrae Dawn Sleep My Child by Eyvonna Rains ebooks: Shark Bait & The Other Fish in the Sea by Jenn Cooksey
SIGNED copies of: Suddenly Royal by Nichole Chase Inhale Exhale by Sarah Ross Destined to Change by Lisa Harley Music of the Heart by Katie Ashley Wide Awake by Shelly Crane
SIGNED copies of: Love Unscripted & Love Unrehearsed by Tina Reber Collide by Gail McHugh Love Em’ or Leave Em’ by Angie Stanton On The Island byTracey Garvis-Graves
SIGNED copies of: Fall Guy & Perfectly Unmatched by Liz Reinhardt Lengths & Depths by Steph Campbell Charade & Freeing Carter by Nyrae Dawn Destined to Change by Lisa Harley A Prior Engagement by SL Scott
SIGNED copies of: The Proposition and The Proposal by Katie Ashley Chocolate Lovers Series by Tara Sivec His Perfect Passion and The Undoing of a Libertine by Raine Miller
Series: Swift #2 Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal Publisher: Heather London Hit the shelves on: March 14, 2013 Pages: 240 Find on Barnes & Noble BN ID: 2940016327396
She thought the people she loved would always be there.
She was wrong.
Just as Meredith begins to embrace her new world, her life is again turned upside down. She finds herself traveling across the world to pursue the one person who has the knowledge and power to help her. As Meredith struggles with who to trust and what to do next, she is unaware that the biggest battle of her life is fast approaching.
My Rating: (3.5)
**This is the sequel to Swift so the following review will contain spoilers from the first book if you haven’t read it**
Series:Swift #1 Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal Publisher: Heather London Hit the shelves on: August 29, 2012 Pages: 346 Find on Barnes & Noble BN ID: 2940015130201
Two men who will stop at nothing to take her power.
One family who will do whatever it takes to protect her.
After graduating from high school, Meredith is ready to leave the place that has been a constant reminder of what happened to her as a child. She was just eight years old when her family died in a mysterious car accident, taking the secret of her destiny with them. It’s not until a new family moves to town that she realizes leaving may not be as easy as she once thought.
Meredith feels an instant connection towards the Harpers, especially the good-looking, mysterious Blake and his overly friendly sister, Abby. After a series of bizarre events that happen too often to be coincidence, Meredith begins to realize that she is at the center of something larger than herself—possibly the same thing that killed her parents and twin sister many years ago. Nightmarish visions and resurfacing memories push Meredith closer to Blake, leading her to discover her destiny and other buried secrets.
As Meredith tries to understand her new world, she will be put to the ultimate test, and her strength and courage will be challenged more than she ever imagined.
So, I managed to not post this last night… I actually started to but something distracted me (go figure that I don’t even remember what). But, since I started it last night (plus I must have missed that Friday existed last week too) and just didn’t get to post it I’m going to cheat a little and still do it… I can pretend a little right?
Rules (from Freda’s Voice): *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don’t spoil it) that grabs you. *Post it. *Go back to Freda’s Voice (just click on The Friday 56 logo) add your (url) post in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url. It’s that simple.
This week’s Friday 56 is from Blackbird by Nicole Salmond
“She death-stared him, but his eyes were still focused on her behind. She watched him take his bottom lip into his teeth and bite down. Heat radiated off her body. Even on crutches, Nate’s sex appeal wasn’t lost.”
Friday finds is a weekly meme so bloggers (and readers.. just comment if you don’t have a blog) can share all the wonderful things they’ve found and added to their TBR list throughout the week.
Have an amazing weekend and happy reading everyone! Here are this Friday’s Finds!
Genre: New Adult/Mature, Paranormal Romance Publisher: Twisted Fairy Publishing Hit the shelves on: February 13, 2013 Pages: 300 Find on Barnes & Noble ISBN: 2940016368832
Ember Brycin has been called them all. She’s always known she’s different. No one has ever called her normal, even under the best circumstances. Bizarre and inexplicable things continually happen to her, and having two different colored eyes, strange hair, and an unusual tattoo only contributes to the gossip about her.
When the latest school explosion lands her in a facility for trouble teens, she meets Eli Dragen, who’s hot as hell and darkly mysterious. Their connection is full of passion, danger, and secrets. Secrets that will not only change her life, but what and who she is—leading her down a path she never imagined possible.
Between Light and Dark, Ember finds a world where truth and knowledge are power and no one can be trusted. But her survival depends on finding out the truth about herself. In her pursuit, she is forced between love and destiny and good and evil, even when the differences between them aren’t always clear. At worst, she will incite a war that could destroy both worlds. At best, she will not only lose her heart but her life and everyone she loves. Once the truth is out, however, there will be no going back. And she’ll definitely wish she could.
Series: Paige Tailor #1 Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal Fantasy Publisher: Cambridge Press US Hit the shelves on: November 21, 2012 Pages: 238 Find on Barnes & Noble ISBN: 2940015771510
Paige couldn’t help but question her sanity. What other explanation could there be for her hearing a conversation held barely above a whisper in the back of a classroom full of students? What about coming home to find one of those very classmates lying in wait in the darkness of her home, ready to attack her?
Confused, frustrated and feeling every ounce of her social ostracism, Paige confides in the one person she’s always been able to count on: her mom. But when her mom reveals a deeply rooted, unbelievable family secret, Paige discovers her world is filled with more than she ever imagined possible. A world where fairytales live alongside nightmares and secrets are the glue that binds them together. Suddenly no one is who they seem and Paige is faced with more questions than answers. Can she survive in a world filled with creatures scarier than anything she could imagine and where deceit runs as thick as blood? Or will the truth send her over the edge?
My Rating:
**Warning: May contain minor spoilers that aren’t in the synopsis**
Genre: Adult, Family Memoir Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Hit the shelves on: October 2, 2012 Pages: 352 Find on Barnes & Noble ISBN: 9780307594037
That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary Anne returned from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering from what her doctors believed was a rare type of hepatitis. Months later she was diagnosed with a form of advanced pancreatic cancer, which is almost always fatal, often in six months or less.
This is the inspiring true story of a son and his mother, who start a “book club” that brings them together as her life comes to a close. Over the next two years, Will and Mary Anne carry on conversations that are both wide-ranging and deeply personal, prompted by an eclectic array of books and a shared passion for reading. Their list jumps from classic to popular, from poetry to mysteries, from fantastic to spiritual. The issues they discuss include questions of faith and courage as well as everyday topics such as expressing gratitude and learning to listen. Throughout, they are constantly reminded of the power of books to comfort us, astonish us, teach us, and tell us what we need to do with our lives and in the world. Reading isn’t the opposite of doing; it’s the opposite of dying.
Will and Mary Anne share their hopes and concerns with each other—and rediscover their lives—through their favorite books. When they read, they aren’t a sick person and a well person, but a mother and a son taking a journey together. The result is a profoundly moving tale of loss that is also a joyful, and often humorous, celebration of life: Will’s love letter to his mother, and theirs to the printed page.
Rules (from Freda’s Voice): *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don’t spoil it) that grabs you. *Post it. *Go back to Freda’s Voice (just click on The Friday 56 logo) add your (url) post in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url. It’s that simple.
This week’s Friday 56 is from Ashes and Ice by Rochelle Maya Callen
“From the back, I can see I turned down a girl, not a guy. She has black hair dangling to the middle of her back. She’s wearing long sleeves, so, obviously she’s crazy. She turns and I suddenly regret my antisocial behavior.”
Friday finds is a weekly meme so bloggers (and readers.. just comment if you don’t have a blog) can share all the wonderful things they’ve found and added to their TBR list throughout the week.
Have an amazing weekend and happy reading everyone! Here are my finds for the week (with maybe one or two from last week since I completely blanked and missed it!):
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(3.5)
