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THIS WEEK:
So, I should really be trying to chill out with the amount of books I buy, but obviously that has not worked out for me very well so far. Oops! To be fair, I have already received some money from friends/relatives for my birthday, so I spent that money on books (naturally). I apparently have very little self control when I got into Barnes&Noble and Half Price Books. One of these books was also a birthday gift, and one is from a giveaway I won...Let's just get started!
*All book titles are linked to their Goodreads page.
PURCHASED:
She has everything she's ever wanted. But not her memory...
When
Chloe fell asleep in study hall, it was the middle of May. When she
wakes up, snow is on the ground and she can't remember the last six
months of her life.
Before, she'd been a mediocre student. Now,
she's on track for valedictorian and being recruited by Ivy League
schools. Before, she never had a chance with super jock Blake. Now he's
her boyfriend. Before, she and Maggie were inseparable. Now her best
friend won't speak to her.
What happened to her? Remembering the truth could be more dangerous than she knows...
Keeping secrets ruined her life. But the truth might just kill her.
Piper
Woods can't wait for the purgatory of senior year to end. She skirts
the fringes of high school like a pro until the morning she finds a
notebook with mutilated photographs and a list of student sins. She's
sure the book is too gruesome to be true, until pretty, popular Stella
dies after a sex-tape goes viral. Everyone's sure it's suicide, but
Piper remembers Stella's name from the book and begins to suspect
something much worse.
Drowning in secrets she doesn't want to
keep, Piper's fears are confirmed when she receives an anonymous text
message daring her to make things right. All she needs to do is choose a
name, the name of someone who deserves to be punished...
21 Proms by 21 Different Authors (too many to list!)
From many
mega-bestselling authors, including John Green, Libba Bray, Holly Black,
and David Levithan, 21 prom stories you'll never forget.
From
an amazing array of authors including John Green, David Levithan, E.
Lockhart, Libba Bray, Ned Vizzini, and Holly Black... Prom. It's
supposed to be one of the best nights of your life. Or, at least, you're
supposed to have a good time. But what if you'd rather be going with
your best friend's date than your own? What if a sinister underground
society of students has spiked the punch? What if your date turns out to
be more of a frog than a prince? Or what if he's (literally) an ape?
There are ways you can fight it. You can protest the silliness of the
regular prom by hosting a backwards prom - also known as a morp. You can
throw a prom for fat girls. You can stay at home to watch old teen
movies and get your cute neighbor and his cuter brother to join you. You
can dance to your own music.
(Don't Get Mad #1)
The Breakfast Club meets
Pretty Little Liars in Gretchen McNeil’s witty and suspenseful novel
about four disparate girls who join forces to take revenge on high
school bullies and create dangerous enemies for themselves in the
process.
Bree, Olivia, Kitty, and Margot have nothing in
common—at least that’s what they’d like the students and administrators
of their elite private school to think. The girls have different goals,
different friends, and different lives, but they share one very big
secret: They’re all members of Don’t Get Mad, a secret society that
anonymously takes revenge on the school’s bullies, mean girls, and
tyrannical teachers.
When their latest target ends up dead with a
blood-soaked “DGM” card in his hands, the girls realize that they’re
not as anonymous as they thought—and that someone now wants revenge on
them. Soon the clues are piling up, the police are closing in . . . and
everyone has something to lose.
Maddy Spier has been in
love with the boy next door forever. As his figure skating partner she
spends time in his arms every day. But she’s also seen his arms around
other girls—lots of other girls.
Gabe can't imagine skating
with anyone but Maddy, and together they have a real chance at winning
some serious gold medals. So, he’s determined to keep thinking of her
like a sister. After all, he’s never had a romantic relationship that
lasted for more than two weeks.
But when their coach assigns a
new romantic skating program, everything changes. Will this be the big
break that Maddy’s been hoping for or the big breakup that Gabe has
always feared?
For as long as she can
remember, Wren Gray’s goal has been to please her parents. But as high
school graduation nears, so does an uncomfortable realization: Pleasing
her parents once overlapped with pleasing herself, but now... not so
much. Wren needs to honor her own desires, but how can she if she
doesn’t even know what they are?
Charlie Parker, on the other
hand, is painfully aware of his heart’s desire. A gentle boy with a
troubled past, Charlie has loved Wren since the day he first saw her.
But a girl like Wren would never fall for a guy like Charlie—at least
not the sort of guy Charlie believes himself to be.
And yet
certain things are written in the stars. And in the summer after high
school, Wren and Charlie’s souls will collide. But souls are
complicated, as are the bodies that house them...
(Superlatives #2)
As yearbook
photographer, Harper is responsible for capturing those candid moments
that make high school memorable. But her own life is anything but
picture perfect. Her parents' bitter divorce has left her wondering what
a loving relationship would look like. And ever since the senior class
voted her and star quarterback Brody the “Perfect Couple That Never
Was,” her friends have been on her case to ask Brody out.
Brody
doesn’t lack in female admirers, but Harper can't see herself with him.
He seems confused about why they were matched together, too. They’re
total opposites—the last people in the world who would ever be
compatible, let alone the “perfect couple.” Yet ever since the class
paired the two of them, they've found themselves drawn together--first
by curiosity, then by an undeniable bond.
The trouble is, though
they're very attracted to each other and both of them admit this, they
have a hard time getting along or even communicating clearly. If they’re
the perfect couple, this shouldn’t be so difficult! Soon it becomes
clear their class was wrong, and they throw in the towel. But after they
walk away, both of them feel so changed from making the effort that
they can’t forget each other. What if that means this match made in hell
is the perfect couple after all?
Falling Into Place by Amy ZhangOn the day Liz
Emerson tries to die, they had reviewed Newton’s laws of motion in
physics class. Then, after school, she put them into practice by running
her Mercedes off the road.
Why? Why did Liz Emerson decide
that the world would be better off without her? Why did she give up?
Vividly told by an unexpected and surprising narrator, this
heartbreaking and nonlinear novel pieces together the short and
devastating life of Meridian High’s most popular junior girl. Mass,
acceleration, momentum, force—Liz didn’t understand it in physics, and
even as her Mercedes hurtles toward the tree, she doesn’t understand it
now. How do we impact one another? How do our actions reverberate? What
does it mean to be a friend? To love someone? To be a daughter? Or a
mother? Is life truly more than cause and effect? Amy Zhang’s haunting
and universal story will appeal to fans of Lauren Oliver, Gayle Forman,
and Jay Asher.
(Embassy Row #1)
This exciting new series
from NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Ally Carter focuses on Grace,
who can best be described as a daredevil, an Army brat, and a rebel. She
is also the only granddaughter of perhaps the most powerful ambassador
in the world, and Grace has spent every summer of her childhood running
across the roofs of Embassy Row.
Now, at age sixteen, she's come
back to stay--in order to solve the mystery of her mother's death. In
the process, she uncovers an international conspiracy of unsettling
proportions, and must choose her friends and watch her foes carefully if
she and the world are to be saved.
Atlantia by Ally Condie - It's signed!For as long as she can
remember, Rio has dreamt of the sand and sky Above—of life beyond her
underwater city of Atlantia. But in a single moment, all her plans for
the future are thwarted when her twin sister, Bay, makes an unexpected
decision, stranding Rio Below. Alone, ripped away from the last person
who knew Rio’s true self—and the powerful siren voice she has long
hidden—she has nothing left to lose.
Guided by a dangerous and
unlikely mentor, Rio formulates a plan that leads to increasingly
treacherous questions about her mother’s death, her own destiny, and the
complex system constructed to govern the divide between land and sea.
Her life and her city depend on Rio to listen to the voices of the past
and to speak long-hidden truths.
GIFTED:
Gifted from my friend Megan!
Thug Kitchen started
their wildly popular web site to inspire people to eat some Goddamn
vegetables and adopt a healthier lifestyle. Beloved by Gwyneth Paltrow
(“This might be my favorite thing ever”) and named Saveur’s
Best New Food blog of 2013—with half a million Facebook fans and
counting—Thug Kitchen wants to show everyone how to take charge of their
plates and cook up some real f*cking food.
Yeah, plenty of blogs
and cookbooks preach about how to eat more kale, why ginger fights
inflammation, and how to cook with microgreens and nettles. But they are
dull or pretentious as hell—and most people can’t afford the hype.
Thug
Kitchen lives in the real world. In their first cookbook, they’re
throwing down more than 100 recipes for their best-loved meals, snacks,
and sides for beginning cooks to home chefs. (Roasted Beer and Lime
Cauliflower Tacos? Pumpkin Chili? Grilled Peach Salsa? Believe that
sh*t.) Plus they’re going to arm you with all the info and techniques
you need to shop on a budget and go and kick a bunch of ass on your own.
This
book is an invitation to everyone who wants to do better to elevate
their kitchen game. No more ketchup and pizza counting as vegetables. No
more drive-thru lines. No more avoiding the produce corner of the
supermarket. Sh*t is about to get real.
WON:
(Firebird #1)
I won this through a giveaway on my friend Sarah's blog!
Every Day meets
Cloud Atlas in this heart-racing, space- and time-bending, epic new
trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray.
Marguerite
Caine’s physicist parents are known for their radical scientific
achievements. Their most astonishing invention: the Firebird, which
allows users to jump into parallel universes, some vastly altered from
our own. But when Marguerite’s father is murdered, the killer—her
parent’s handsome and enigmatic assistant Paul—escapes into another
dimension before the law can touch him.
Marguerite can’t let the
man who destroyed her family go free, and she races after Paul through
different universes, where their lives entangle in increasingly familiar
ways. With each encounter she begins to question Paul’s guilt—and her
own heart. Soon she discovers the truth behind her father’s death is
more sinister than she ever could have imagined.
A Thousand
Pieces of You explores a reality where we witness the countless other
lives we might lead in an amazingly intricate multiverse, and ask
whether, amid infinite possibilities, one love can endure.
What did you add to your shelves this week?
