My Book Stash #17

I almost remade this video because my kids interrupted a couple times, but I decided to keep it the way it is.

My Book Stash #16

Head on over to Tynga's Reviews to participate in her
Stacking The Shelves!

Happy Mother's Day to all the mommies out there!!!

My Book Stash #15

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My Book Stash #12

Here's my vlog...please ignore my zit face! I'm horrible, I totally pick at my zits.

My Book Stash #11

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My Book Stash #8

If you don't want to see me a HOT MESS...don't watch!

My Book Stash #7

I tried really hard to be quick with this IMM because I hate doing vlogs and I don't want to bore you all to death!

My Book Stash #6

Purchased
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
A Touch Mortal by Leah Clifford

Received for trades
The Iron Knight by Julie Kagawa
★From Andrea with The Bookish Babes
Wildefire by Karsten Knight
★From Kristina with Kristina's World of Books

Received from Penguin Group
Acquainted with the Night by Piper Maitland
Fate's Edge by Ilona Andrews
Winging It by Deborah Cooke

Received from Hachette Book Group
Pure by Julianna Baggott

Received from HarperCollins
Wings of the Wicked by Courtney Allison Moulton
Bewitching by Alex Flinn
Incarnate by Jodi Meadows

My Book Stash #5

Here is my book stash from this week!...OH! And I'm impatiently waiting no longer! You will see why in my vlog!

The reason for my loooong vlog post is because I picked up a lot of books by attending NCIBA Trade Show. The majority of the books are ARC's of upcoming books for The Fall 2011 through the Spring of 2012.









---->>Hey! You want a copy of A Million Suns? ***TAKEN***<<----
Leave me a comment if you have something would be willing to trade (US shipping only please) for one of my copies of A Million Suns by Beth Revis. I would prefer a copy of one or both of Across the Universe or Delirium. I'll check my comments 24 hours after this post to see if there is a reasonable offer I can't refuse for a trade. BUT...if you have another book that you think I may be even more excited to accept that to trade let me know!

My Book Stash #4

Thanks for stopping by to check out my new book stash! I really wanted to attempt to do another vlog...but I'm not a fan. I really like watching other vlogs because I feel like it's a way to get to know my fellow bloggers but I'm just not very comfortable doing them myself.


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Received from Tiffany
Forgotten Souls by Tiffany King
Summary: Any chance Krista Miller had at a normal teenage life is now gone. Less than a year ago she lived under the radar, avoiding any relationships that would send her emotional sensitivities out of control. Little did she know that her life was destined for something more. Something that will test her very soul. After facing certain death at the hands of the man responsible for their mysterious past, Krista and her friends learn the truth behind their origins and the purpose for their newly discovered abilities. Now, they must band together to fulfill their inherited, sacred duty. As Guides and Protectors, they must save Mankind's Forgotten Souls before they are lost forever.

My two cents: I have already read Forgotten Souls but being as sweet as she always is, Tiffany sent me a personalized copy to match my copy of Meant to Be.


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Purchased
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
Summary: In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees . . . .

Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figuring out what that is, though, isn't easy.

Her visions of a raging forest fire and an alluring stranger lead her to a new school in a new town. When she meets Christian, who turns out to be the boy of her dreams (literally), everything seems to fall into place—and out of place at the same time. Because there's another guy, Tucker, who appeals to Clara's less angelic side.

As Clara tries to find her way in a world she no longer understands, she encounters unseen dangers and choices she never thought she'd have to make—between honesty and deceit, love and duty, good and evil. When the fire from her vision finally ignites, will Clara be ready to face her destiny?

Unearthly is a moving tale of love and fate, and the struggle between following the rules and following your heart.

My two cents: When I received Hollowed in the mail from Harper I sent out a tweet asking what people thought of Unearthly, immediately I received responses from people telling me how much they loved Hallowed so I purchased a copy of Unearthly! So I'm super excited to read this series.


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Received from HarperCollins

Hallowed by Cynthia Hand
Summary: For months part-angel Clara Gardner trained to face the raging forest fire from her visions and rescue the alluring and mysterious Christian Prescott from the blaze. But nothing could prepare her for the fateful decisions she would be forced to make that day, or the startling revelation that her purpose—the task she was put on earth to accomplish—is not as straightforward as she thought. Now, torn between her increasingly complicated feelings for Christian and her love for her boyfriend, Tucker, Clara struggles to make sense of what she was supposed to do the day of the fire. And, as she is drawn further into the world of part angels and the growing conflict between White Wings and Black Wings, Clara learns of the terrifying new reality that she must face: Someone close to her will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning.


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Received from St. Martin's Press

Tempest by Julie Cross
Summary: The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun.

That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future.

Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.

But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler. Recruit… or kill him.

Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he’s willing to go to save Holly… and possibly the entire world.

My two cents: Tempest was a surprise in the mail but a very happy surprise! So I am really excited to read this one.

My Book Stash #3

Received from Penguin Group

The Doomsday Vault by Steven Harper


In a Britannia of clockwork automatons and airships, Alice Michaels’s prospects are looking grim.

The Honorable Alice B. Michaels is in a life or death struggle for survival—socially speaking, that is. At twenty-one, her age, her unladylike interest in automatons, and the unfortunate deaths of most of her family from the plague have sealed her fate as a less than desirable marriage prospect.

But a series of strange occurrences are about to lead Alice in a direction quite beyond the pale. High above the earth on the American airship USS Juniper, Gavin Ennock lives for the wind and the sky and his fiddle. After privateers attack the Juniper, he is stranded on the dank, dirty, and merciless streets of London. When Alice’s estranged aunt leaves her a peculiar inheritance, she encounters Gavin under most unusual—even shocking—circumstances.

Then Alice’s inheritance attracts the attention of the Third Ward, a clandestine organization that seizes the inventions of mad geniuses the plague leaves behind—all for the good of the Empire. But even the Third Ward has secrets. And when Alice and Gavin discover them, a choice must be made between the world and the Empire, no matter the risk to all they hold dear.

Magic on the Line (Allie Beckstrom #7) by Devon Monk


I took a deep breath, set a Disbursement-a headache this time-and drew a Sight spell. I pulled magic into it. The world broke into shades of old magic among vibrant new spells, bright neon dripping down buildings, pastels drifting along the empty street.

Allison Beckstrom has willingly paid the price of pain to use magic, and has obeyed the rules of the Authority, the clandestine organization that makes-and enforces-all magic policy. But when the Authority's new boss, Bartholomew Wray, refuses to believe that the sudden rash of deaths in Portland might be caused by magic, Allie must choose to follow the Authority's rules, or turn against the very people for whom she's risked her life.

To stop the plague of dark magic spreading through the city, all that she values will be on the line: her magic, her memories, her life. Now, as dead magic users rise to feed upon the innocent and the people closest to her begin to fall, Allie is about to run out of options.

The Shadow Reader by Sandy Williams


There can only be one allegiance.
It’s her time to choose.

Some humans can see the fae. McKenzie Lewis can track them, reading the shadows they leave behind. But some shadows lead to danger. Others lead to lies.

A Houston college student trying to finish her degree, McKenzie has been working for the fae king for years, tracking vicious rebels who would claim the Realm. Her job isn’t her only secret. For just as long, she’s been in love with Kyol, the king’s sword-master—and relationships between humans and fae are forbidden.

But any hope for a normal life is shattered when she’s captured by Aren, the fierce and uncompromising rebel leader. He teaches her the forbidden fae language and tells her dark truths about the Court, all to persuade her to turn against the king. Time is running out, and as the fight starts to claim human lives, McKenzie has no choice but to decide once and for all whom to trust and where she ultimately stands in the face of a cataclysmic civil war.



Received from Julie @ My 5 Monkeys

The Shattering by Karen Healey


Seventeen-year-old Keri likes to plan for every possibility. She knows what to do if you break an arm, or get caught in an earthquake or fire. But she wasn't prepared for her brother's suicide, and his death has left her shattered with grief. When her childhood friend Janna tells her it was murder, not suicide, Keri wants to believe her. After all, Janna's brother died under similar circumstances years ago, and Janna insists a visiting tourist, Sione, who also lost a brother to apparent suicide that year, has helped her find some answers.

As the three dig deeper, disturbing facts begin to pile up: one boy killed every year; all older brothers; all had spent New Year's Eve in the idyllic town of Summerton. But when their search for the serial killer takes an unexpected turn, suspicion is cast on those they trust the most.

As secrets shatter around them, can they save the next victim? Or will they become victims themselves?

My Book Stash #2

***My vlog has a spoiler*** If you haven't read the Blue Blood series yet then skip over my description of Bloody Valentine.

Won from #YASCRAMBLE
Anathema by K.A. Tucker (eBook is currently free)
Tris & Izzie by Mette Ivie Harrison
The Iron Witch by Karen Mahoney
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

Received from HarperCollins
Everneath by Brodi Ashton

Jaime @Two Chicks On Books
Dark Eden by Patrick Carman

Received by Pam @Bookalicious
The Space Between by Brenna Yovanoff

Received from Penguin Group
Last Breath (Morganville Vampires) by Rachel Caine
Fox & Phoenix by Beth Bernobich
Sins of the Angels by Linda Poitevin
In Memories We Fear (Vampire Memories) by Barb Hendee
Bloodstone (Deadtown) by Nancy Holzner
Dead Mann Walking by Stefan Petrucha

Purchased
Enthralled (Anthology)
Lost in Time (Blue Bloods) by Melissa De La Cruz
Bloody Valentine (Blue Bloods) by Melissa De La Cruz
If I Die (Soul Screamers) by Rachel Vincent

My Book Stash #1

Check out my first In My Mailbox!



Won from #YASCRAMBLE
Sleepers by Megg Jensen
Between by Cyndi Tefft
Winnemucca by Laura A. H. Elliott
PERCEPTION by Heather Cashman

From HarperCollins
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
A Beautiful Dark by Jocelyn Davies

From Ace
In Blood We Trust by by Christine Cody

Purchased on:

Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready
Shift by Jeri Smith-Ready
Vanish (Firelight Series) by Sophie Jordan
Blood Bound by Rachel Vincent
My Soul to Take (Soul Screamers Series #1) by Rachel Vincent
My Soul to Save (Soul Screamers Series #2) by Rachel Vincent
My Soul to Keep (Soul Screamers Series #3) by Rachel Vincent
My Soul to Steal (Soul Screamers Series #4) by Rachel Vincent
Bloodlines (Bloodlines Series #1) by Richelle Mead
Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Trial by Fire (Raised by Wolves Series) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes