I am joining in on Stacking The Shelves, a weekly meme hosted over at Tynga's Reviews. It is an easy way to share what books you picked up that week, and to see what other people have picked up to read themselves.
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THIS WEEK:
Like I mentioned last Saturday in my STS post, I actually made two purchases during the time Book Outlet was holding their Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale. On Cyber Monday I received and email saying that they still had the low prices, but that they had some new books listed, so I could not resist. Despite already making the one purchase, I picked up these 8 for a crazy price as well, especially since several are new-ish and hardcover.
The Books:
Her life by the sea in
ruins, Pen has lost everything in the Earth Shaker that all but
destroyed the city of Los Angeles. She sets out into the wasteland to
search for her family, her journey guided by a tattered copy of Homer’s
Odyssey. Soon she begins to realize her own abilities and strength as
she faces false promises of safety, the cloned giants who feast on
humans, and a madman who wishes her dead. On her voyage, Pen learns to
tell stories that reflect her strange visions, while she and her fellow
survivors navigate the dangers that lie in wait. In her signature style,
Francesca Lia Block has created a world that is beautiful in its
destruction and as frightening as it is lovely. At the helm is Pen, a
strong heroine who holds hope and love in her hands and refuses to be
defeated.
When a virus makes
everyone over the age of eighteen infertile, would-be parents pay teen
girls to conceive and give birth to their children, making teens the
most prized members of society. Girls sport fake baby bumps and the
school cafeteria stocks folic-acid-infused food.
Sixteen-year-old
identical twins Melody and Harmony were separated at birth and have
never met until the day Harmony shows up on Melody’s doorstep. Up to
now, the twins have followed completely opposite paths. Melody has
scored an enviable conception contract with a couple called the Jaydens.
While they are searching for the perfect partner for Melody to bump
with, she is fighting her attraction to her best friend, Zen, who is way
too short for the job.
Harmony has spent her whole life in
Goodside, a religious community, preparing to be a wife and mother. She
believes her calling is to convince Melody that pregging for profit is a
sin. But Harmony has secrets of her own that she is running from.
When
Melody is finally matched with the world-famous, genetically flawless
Jondoe, both girls’ lives are changed forever. A case of mistaken
identity takes them on a journey neither could have ever imagined, one
that makes Melody and Harmony realize they have so much more than just
DNA in common.
Mila 2.0 is the
first book in an electrifying sci-fi thriller series about a teenage
girl who discovers that she is an experiment in artificial intelligence.
Mila
was never meant to learn the truth about her identity. She was a girl
living with her mother in a small Minnesota town. She was supposed to
forget her past—that she was built in a secret computer science lab and
programmed to do things real people would never do.
Now she has
no choice but to run—from the dangerous operatives who want her
terminated because she knows too much and from a mysterious group that
wants to capture her alive and unlock her advanced technology. However,
what Mila’s becoming is beyond anyone’s imagination, including her own,
and it just might save her life.
A twisty story about
love, loss, and lies, this contemporary oceanside adventure is tinged
with a touch of dark magic as it follows seventeen-year-old Wendy
Darling on a search for her missing surfer brothers. Wendy’s journey
leads her to a mysterious hidden cove inhabited by a tribe of young
renegade surfers, most of them runaways like her brothers. Wendy is
instantly drawn to the cove’s charismatic leader, Pete, but her search
also points her toward Pete's nemesis, the drug-dealing Jas. Enigmatic,
dangerous, and handsome, Jas pulls Wendy in even as she's falling hard
for Pete. A radical reinvention of a classic, Second Star is an
irresistible summer romance about two young men who have yet to grow
up--and the troubled beauty trapped between them.
Seventeen-year-old
Bonnie™ Baker has grown up on TV—she and her twelve siblings are the
stars of one-time hit reality show Baker’s Dozen. Since the show’s
cancellation and the scandal surrounding it, Bonnie™ has tried to live a
normal life, under the radar and out of the spotlight. But it’s about
to fall apart…because Baker’s Dozen is going back on the air. Bonnie™’s
mom and the show’s producers won’t let her quit and soon the life she
has so carefully built for herself, with real friends (and maybe even a
real boyfriend), is in danger of being destroyed by the show. Bonnie™
needs to do something drastic if her life is ever going to be her
own—even if it means being more exposed than ever before.
Annie and Fia are ready to fight back.
The
sisters have been manipulated and controlled by the Keane Foundation
for years, trapped in a never ending battle for survival. Now they have
found allies who can help them truly escape. After faking her own death,
Annie has joined a group that is plotting to destroy the Foundation.
And Fia is working with James Keane to bring his father down from the
inside.
But Annie's visions of the future can't show her who to
trust in the present. And though James is Fia's first love, Fia knows
he's hiding something. The sisters can rely only on each other - but
that may not be enough to save them.
An empty mind is a safe mind.
Yulia
knows she must hide her thoughts and control her emotions to survive in
Communist Russia. But if she sometimes manipulates the black market
traders by reading their thoughts when she touches their skin, so what?
Anything to help her survive.
Russia's powerful spy agency, the
KGB, is recruiting young people with mind-reading capabilities for their
psychic espionage program. Their mission: protect the Soviet space
program from American CIA spies. Why shouldn't the KGB use any means
necessary to make the young psychic cooperate? Anything to beat the
American capitalist scum to the moon.
Yulia is a survivor. She
won't be controlled by the KGB, who want to harness her abilities for
the State with no regard for her own hopes and dreams. She won't let
handsome Sergei plan her life as a member of elite Soviet society, or
allow brooding Valentin to consume her with his dangerous mind and even
more dangerous ideas. And she certainly won't become the next victim of
the powerful American spy who can scrub a brain raw—and seems to be
targeting Yulia.
Gigi, Bea, and Neerja
are best friends and total overachievers. Even if they aren't the most
popular girls in school, they aren't too worried. They know their real
lives will begin once they get to their Ivy League colleges. There will
be ivy, and there will be cute guys in the libraries (hopefully with
English accents)! But when an unexpected event shows them they're
missing out on the full high school experience, it's time to come out of
the honors lounge and into the spotlight. They make a pact: They will
each take on their greatest challenge—and they will totally rock it.
Gigi
decides to run for student rep, but she'll have to get over her fear of
public speaking—and go head-to-head with gorgeous California Will. Bea
used to be one of the best skiers around, until she was derailed. It
could be time for her to take the plunge again. And Neerja loves the
drama club but has always stayed behind the scenes—until now.
These
friends are determined to show the world that smart girls really can
get what they want—but that could mean getting way more attention than
they ever bargained for. . . .
What did you add to your shelves this week? Have you already read any of the books I picked up?
