tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46104720709027894672024-03-13T04:23:17.817-04:00Confessions of ... an Adult Teen Reader Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14045091715467101048noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4610472070902789467.post-34463452499090658782014-09-20T10:00:00.000-04:002014-09-20T10:00:00.944-04:00On My Wishist: September 20, 2014<br />
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two
girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed
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one of the town's most vocal opponents of school integration. She has been
taught all her life that the races should be kept separate but
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Boldly realistic and emotionally
compelling, Lies We Tell Ourselves is a brave and stunning novel about finding
truth amid the lies, and finding your voice even when others are determined to
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">In Amy Poehler’s highly anticipated
first book, </span><i style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Yes Please</i><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal
stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life
advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be
serious. Powered by Amy’s charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, </span><i style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Yes
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;"><b>So, what do you think? Is it one that you'd like to add to your wish list? Have you already read it?</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is the
bane of her mother's existence. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling
clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea--and god forbid anyone
see her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to
become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's
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mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish,
all right--but it's a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle Geraldine's
certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance, dress, and etiquette,
but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine arts of death, diversion,
deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries. Sophronia and her friends are
going to have a rousing first year at school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="text-align: center;">Pub. Date: October 28th, 2015</b><br />
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Times</i> and <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author Cora Carmack’s New Adult,
Texas-set Rusk University series, which began with <i>All Lined Up</i>, a young
woman discovers that you can’t only fight for what you believe in . . .
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Environmental issues, civil rights,
education—you name it, she’s probably been involved in a protest. When her
latest cause lands her in jail for a few hours, she meets Silas Moore. He’s in
for a different kind of fighting. And though he’s arrogant and not at all her
type, she can’t help being fascinated with him. Yet another lost cause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Football and trouble are the only
things that have ever come naturally to Silas. And it’s trouble that lands him
in a cell next to do-gooder Dylan. He’s met girls like her before—fixers, he
calls them, desperate to heal the damage and make him into their ideal boyfriend.
But he doesn’t think he’s broken, and he definitely doesn’t need a girlfriend
trying to change him. Until, that is, his anger issues and rash decisions
threaten the only thing he really cares about, his spot on the Rusk University
football team. Dylan might just be the perfect girl to help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="text-align: center;">Pub. Date: October 28th, 2014</b><br />
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Times bestselling mystery series, Veronica Mars is back with a case that will
expose the hidden workings of one of Neptune’s most murderous locations.</span></b><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the seaside town’s ritziest hotel, despite the shady dealings and high-profile
scandals that seem to follow its elite guests. When a woman claims that she was
brutally assaulted in one of its rooms and left for dead by a staff member, the
owners know that they have a potential powder keg on their hands. They turn to
Veronica to disprove—or prove—the woman's story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hard facts, mysterious occurrences, and uncooperative witnesses. The hotel
refuses to turn over its reservation list and the victim won’t divulge who she
was meeting that night. Add in the facts that the attack happened months ago,
the victim’s memory is fuzzy, and there are holes in the hotel’s surveillance
system, and Veronica has a convoluted mess on her hands. As she works to fill
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<span style="color: #323232; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b><i><u>Make It Count (Bowler University #1) </u></i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #323232; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b><i>by Megan Erickson</i></b></span></span><br />
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2014<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Kat Caruso wishes her brain had a
return policy, or at least a complaint hot-line. The defective organ is
constantly distracted, terrible at statistics, and absolutely flooded with
inappropriate thoughts about her boyfriend’s gorgeous best friend, Alec…who
just so happens to be her brand new math tutor. </span><i style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Who knew nerd was so hot?</i><br />
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like she does boyfriends—both always seem to bail when they realize how
hopeless she is. It’s safer for her heart to keep everyone at arm’s reach. But
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">But when secrets are revealed, the
lines of loyalty are blurred. To make it count, Alec must learn messy human
emotions can’t be solved like a trigonometry function. And Kat has to trust
Alec may be the first guy to want her for who she is, and not in spite of it.</span><br />
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Pub. Date: October 1st, 2013<br />
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">An international sensation, this
hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially
challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable
of true love.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Don Tillman, professor of genetics,
has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on
the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has
convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance
informs him that he would make a “wonderful” husband, his first reaction is
shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone
for everyone, and he embarks upon The Wife Project. In the orderly,
evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find
the perfect partner. She will be punctual and logical—most definitely not a
barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Yet Rosie Jarman is all these
things. She is also beguiling, fiery, intelligent—and on a quest of her own.
She is looking for her biological father, a search that a certain DNA expert
might be able to help her with. Don's Wife Project takes a back burner to the
Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically
minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie—and the
realization that love is not always what looks good on paper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">The Rosie Project</span></i><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> is a moving and hilarious novel for anyone who has ever
tenaciously gone after life or love in the face of overwhelming challenges.</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rare experience for me. I like a lot of books, but I absolutely adore very few.
From the unforgettable protagonist, to the melding of uproarious humour and a
lot of heart, I adored everything about Graeme Simsion’s <i>The Rosie
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Simsion hooked me from the very first line - “I may
have found a solution to the Wife Problem”. Without knowing how similar the two
characters actually are, I heard <i>The Big Bang Theory</i>’s Sheldon
Cooper speaking Geneticist Don Tillman's line in my head. Empirically
motivated, Don can memorize and master the production of each cocktail in a
bartender's how-to guide, but knows he struggles with emotional relationships,
capable of counting the number of people he considers a friend on one hand. Don
has Asperger’s, he just doesn't know it. To minimize the amount of
wasted time dating elicits in a quest to find a suitable wife, Don creates a
survey, with questions related to BMI levels, alcohol consumption, and
perceived intelligence. Don believes finding a life partner will be as easy as
knowing what he wants, and finding someone who matches those characteristics on
paper. While the reader may not be shocked, Don is quite surprised to learn
just how wrong this particular bit of logic can be. There are definitely
moments where Don’s way of thinking is funny, but I very much appreciate that
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Just like the rest of us, Don is who he is, and he is loved for it. Full
of heart-warming moments, funny revelations and the most abnormal courting
methods known to man, readers will easily connect with Don’s search to find
another person whose personal brand of weird meshes with his. I highly
recommend this novel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Rating 5/5</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Aubrey Duncan understands loss. She
knows what rock bottom looks like, and she is determined to crawl back up to
the top after the sudden death of her younger sister. She blames herself for
her part in the tragedy, convinced that she could have done <i>something, </i>anything,
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">In her effort to gain redemption,
Aubrey starts fresh at Longwood University and facilitates an addiction support
group, hoping she can support someone else in the way she failed her sister.
But what she doesn’t count on is an all-consuming fascination with group member
Maxx Demelo, a gorgeous, blond, blue-eyed enigma who hides dark secrets behind
a carefully constructed mask. He only reveals what he wants others to see. But
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attraction too intense to ignore, he pulls her into the dark underbelly of the
city club scene, where she is torn by her desire to save him and an
inexplicable urge to join him in his downward spiral. Worst of all, she is
beginning to love everything she should run away from—a man who threatens to
ignite in her a fire that could burn her alive…</span></div>
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intentionally imperfect and not entirely likeable, I want to give the author
kudos for bravery. So, A. Meredith Walters, kudos. I don’t think I’m alone when
I say that as a reader I want to root for characters. I want to connect with
them. I want to like them. I don’t like not liking the characters I invest my
time learning about. But, this was one of those rare books where I disliked the
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fallible. Aubrey knows how quickly
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<a name='more'></a>As a reader I got the impression that she felt above being susceptible
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substance and emotional addiction, before her own vulnerability to addiction is
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felt innately towards Maxx because of how out of control his addiction had
become – even though he thought he was completely in control – which I just
didn’t feel for Aubrey. I didn’t feel Aubrey the same kind of compassion or
understanding because I felt Aubrey knowingly walked into trouble by becoming involved
with a participant in the counseling group she was facilitating. I felt she was
smart enough to know better. Then I realized I was judging Aubrey in the exact
same way Aubrey judged Renee, and I realized how well Walters weaved together
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very powerful read that made me think, and made me feel. I felt so actively
involved in the story while reading that there were moments I literally started
yelling at the characters, and times I covered my face in frustration and fear
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<span style="text-align: center;"><i><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Drowned (Drowned #1) by Nichola Reilly</span></u></i></span></h2>
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<b>Pub. Date: June 24th, 2014</b><br />
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Deformed and weak, she is
constantly reminded that in a world where dry land dwindles at every high tide,
she is not welcome. The only bright spot in her harsh and difficult life is the
strong, capable Tiam—but love has long ago been forgotten by her society. The
only priority is survival.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Until the day their King falls ill,
leaving no male heir to take his place. Unrest grows, and for reasons Coe
cannot comprehend, she is invited into the privileged circle of royal aides.
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;"><b>So, what do you think? Is it one that you'd like to add to your wish list? Have you already read it?</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Water for Elephants meets The Night
Circus in The Magician’s Lie, a debut novel in which the country’s most
notorious female illusionist stands accused of her husband's murder --and she
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famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of
sawing a man in half on stage. One night in Waterloo, Iowa, with young
policeman Virgil Holt watching from the audience, she swaps her trademark saw
for a fire ax. Is it a new version of the illusion, or an all-too-real murder?
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fleeing magician and takes her into custody, she has a very different story to
tell. Even handcuffed and alone, Arden is far from powerless—and what she
reveals is as unbelievable as it is spellbinding. Over the course of one eerie night,
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<span style="color: #323232; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b><i><u>The Oleander Sisters by Elaine Hussey</u></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">An emotionally riveting tale of the
bonds of family and the power of hope in the sultry Deep South</span><br />
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">In 1969, the first footsteps on the
moon brighten America with possibilities. But along the Mississippi Gulf Coast,
a category five storm is brewing, and the Blake sisters of Biloxi are restless
for change. Beth "Sis" Blake has always been the caretaker, the
dutiful one, with the weight of her family's happiness—and their secrets—on her
shoulders. She dreams of taking off to pursue her own destiny, but not before
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to live down her past, wants the security of marriage for the sake of her
five-year-old son, Andy. But secure is the last thing she feels with her new
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stirring up havoc, two sisters—each desperate to break free—begin a remarkable
journey where they'll discover that in the wake of destruction lies new life,
unshakable strength and the chance to begin again. Dreams are reborn and the
unforgettable force of friendship is revealed in <i>The Oleander Sisters</i>,
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Five strangers. Countless
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runaway who seizes every Tuesday—and a few stolen goods along the way. ELLIOT
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important truth— sometimes, what you need most is right where you started. And
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">All her life, Imogene has been
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an incredibly embarrassing, and incredibly popular, blog about her since before
she was born. Hundreds of thousands of perfect strangers knew when Imogene had
her first period. Imogene's crush saw her "before and after"
orthodontia photos. But Imogene is fifteen now, and her mother is still
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of her life online...until she realizes that the project is the opportunity
she's been waiting for to tell the truth about her life under the virtual
microscope and to define herself for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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three sisters grew up not knowing their father and not quite catching a break.
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identity of their long-lost dad—a billionaire Las Vegas hotel owner who wants
them to come live in a gorgeous penthouse hotel suite. Suddenly the Strip's
most exclusive clubs are all-access, and with an unlimited credit card each, it
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I tried so hard to read this book. I picked it up more than
once, but I just could not finish this novel. I found the lead characters to be
entirely indistinguishable voice-wise from each other. They weren’t unique at
all, and within the first half of the novel, there was virtually no character
development. To make matters worse, for the most part the lead characters were
vapid and annoying. I kept hoping that the story would pick up and intrigue me
in a way that the characters weren’t, but that didn’t happen. The premise of
girls gone wild in Vegas took over the mystery element, and when the mystery
element was in play, the reveals were flat, predictable, and not enough to keep
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unthinkable: a murder in cold blood, ordered by her father and carried out by
her boyfriend. When Emilio pulled the trigger, Valentina disappeared. She made
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I love Cora Carmack's books and I love spreading the love by talking excessively about them. So, clearly if I have the chance to be part of a cover reveal I'm going to. Without further ado, enjoy the cover for All Broke Down, book 2 in the Rusk University series. (And</span>, in case you're interested, <a href="http://confessionsofanadultteenreader.blogspot.ca/2014/05/arc-review-all-lined-up-rusk-university.html">here</a> is my review of book 1, All Lined Up!) Enjoy!</div>
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We are so excited to get to share the cover for Cora Carmack's ALL BROKE DOWN today! A New Adult Contemporary Romance, and published by William Morrow-an imprint of HarperCollins, this is the second book in her Rusk University Series, and it is set to be released on October 28, 2014! But you can pre-order it NOW! Check out what it's about and then fall in love with this gorgeous cover!<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">ABOUT <i><span style="color: red;">ALL BROKE DOWN</span></i></span><i>:</i></strong><br />
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In this second book in <em>New York Times</em> and <em>USA Today</em> bestselling author Cora Carmack’s New Adult, Texas-set Rusk University series, which began with <em>All Lined Up</em>, a young woman discovers that you can’t only fight for what you believe in . . . sometimes you have to fight for what you love.<br />
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Dylan fights for lost causes. Probably because she used to be one.<br />
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Environmental issues, civil rights, corrupt corporations, and politicians—you name it, she’s probably been involved in a protest. When her latest cause lands her in jail overnight, she meets Silas Moore. He’s in for a different kind of fighting. And though he’s arrogant and infuriating, she can’t help being fascinated with him. Yet another lost cause.<br />
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Football and trouble are the only things that have ever come naturally to Silas. And it’s trouble that lands him in a cell next to do-gooder Dylan. He’s met girls like her before—fixers, he calls them, desperate to heal the damage and make him into their ideal boyfriend. But he doesn’t think he’s broken, and he definitely doesn’t need a girlfriend trying to change him. Until, that is, his anger issues and rash decisions threaten the only thing he really cares about, his spot on the Rusk University football team. Dylan might just be the perfect girl to help.<br />
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Because Silas Moore needs some fixing after all.
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<strong>About Cora Carmack:</strong> Cora Carmack is a twenty-something writer who likes to write about twenty-something characters. She's done a multitude of things in her life-- boring jobs (like working retail), Fun jobs (like working in a theatre), stressful jobs (like teaching), and dream jobs (like writing). She enjoys placing her characters in the most awkward situations possible, and then trying to help them get a boyfriend out of it. Awkward people need love, too. Her first book, LOSING IT, was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.<br />
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<b style="text-align: center;">Pub. Date: May 7th, 2013</b><br />
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practically his whole life — because of a curse his grandfather, a powerful
cursecaster, bestowed on Stephen’s mother before Stephen was born. So when
Elizabeth moves to Stephen’s NYC apartment building from Minnesota, no one is
more surprised than he is that she can see him. A budding romance ensues, and
when Stephen confides in Elizabeth about his predicament, the two of them
decide to dive headfirst into the secret world of cursecasters and spellseekers
to figure out a way to break the curse. But things don’t go as planned, especially
when Stephen’s grandfather arrives in town, taking his anger out on everyone he
sees. In the end, Elizabeth and Stephen must decide how big of a sacrifice
they’re willing to make for Stephen to become visible — because the answer
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<span style="color: #323232; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b><i><u>The Secret Lives of Baked Goods by Jessie Oleson Moore</u></i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Have you ever wondered where the
ideas for baking red velvet cupcakes, brownies, birthday cake, Girl Scout
cookies, and other dessert recipes came from? Discover the history behind
America's most popular and nostalgic desserts with popular CakeSpy blogger and
self-proclaimed "dessert detective" Jessie Oleson Moore. Moore has
put her sweet-sleuthing skills to work uncovering the fascinating histories and
tastiest recipes for America's favorite sweets, including whoopee pies,
chocolate chip cookies, Baked Alaska, and New York cheesecake. From romantic
musings on how desserts got their names to sugar-fueled scandals, these classic
recipes and photographs are guaranteed to offer food for thought and leave you
with plenty of room for dessert.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #323232; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b><i><u>Better Food for a Better World</u></i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Ideals and reality collide when six
college friends band together to start an ice cream store, promising
"Better Food for a Better World," but finding a worse world than they
had expected.</span><br />
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friends from college pool their money and energy to start an ice cream store.
Natural High Ice Cream: Better Food for a Better World. It's high-minded, with
a wink, like the marital self-help group they all belong to. The store finds a
ready clientele in its northern California college town filled with amiable
ex-hippies who are happy to contribute to a better world, even if all they have
to contribute is the price of an ice cream cone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">But the store, like the marriage
group, turns out to be work, not fun, and rifts start to appear between the
friends. Nancy, who had seemed so easygoing and sweetly sexy when they started,
turns stern. Cecilia, who had wanted to be a musician, is openly bored. And
flighty, excitable Vivy is crawling out of her skin. She yearns for the old
days, before Natural High, when she and her husband Sam traveled around the
country with countercultural musicians and dancers. She'd give anything to have
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partners, she starts to rev up the old company, contacting her old acts--the
fat contortionist, the muscle-bound juggler. She's going to save them all, and
Natural High, too. But saving turns out to be harder than it looks, and Vivy
isn't the only one with secrets.</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">My ‘On My Wishlist’ pick for this
weekend is themed because my best friend got married yesterday! Thankfully
there was no drama, unlike what seems to go down in Beth Kendrick’s <i>Two Weeks Before the Wedding</i>. </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #323232; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b><i><u>The Week Before the Wedding by Beth Kendrick</u></i></b></span></span><br />
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<b style="text-align: center;">Pub. Date: May 7th, 2013</b><br />
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<i><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Beth Kendrick sweeps you off your
feet with a captivating tale of how even the best-laid plans can falter at the
altar.</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">After enduring a chaotic childhood,
Emily McKellips yearns for a drama-free life, complete with a white picket
fence. Her dreams are about to come true: She has a stellar career, a gorgeous
house, and a fiancé any woman would die for. But as friends and family arrive
in picturesque Valentine, Vermont, for her wedding, an uninvited guest shows
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Ryan is Emily’s first husband from
a disastrous starter marriage. They wed on a whim, only to discover that
combustible chemistry couldn’t ensure a happily ever after. But Ryan is no
longer the headstrong boy she left behind. He’s now a successful film producer
who just happens to be scouting a resort in Valentine with his adorable
retriever in tow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">As the bridesmaids revolt and the
mothers of the bride and groom do battle, Emily is surprised to discover new
sides of both her ex and her fiancé. She thought she had life and love all
figured out, but the next seven days might change her mind—and her heart.</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a><span style="color: #323232; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b><i><u>Reality Boy by A.S. King</u></i></b></span></span><br />
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<b>Pub. Date: October 22nd, 2013</b></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Gerald Faust knows exactly when he
started feeling angry: the day his mother invited a reality television crew
into his five-year-old life. Twelve years later, he’s still haunted by his
rage-filled youth—which the entire world got to watch from every imaginable
angle—and his anger issues have resulted in violent outbursts, zero friends,
and clueless adults dumping him in the special education room at school.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Nothing is ever going to change. No
one cares that he’s tried to learn to control himself, and the girl he likes
has no idea who he really is. Everyone’s just waiting for him to snap…and he’s
starting to feel dangerously close to doing just that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on the edge, highly acclaimed Printz Honor author A.S. King explores the
desperate reality of a former child “star” who finally breaks free of his anger
by creating possibilities he never knew he deserved.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">Courtney Robertson joined season 16
of </span><i style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">The Bachelor </i><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">looking for love. A working model and newly
single, Courtney fit the casting call: She was young, beautiful, and a natural
in front of the cameras. Although she may have been there for all the right
reasons, as the season unfolded and sparks began to fly something else was
clear: She was not there to make friends.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Courtney quickly became one of the
biggest villains in <i>Bachelor </i>franchise history. She
unapologetically pursued her man, steamrolled her competition, and broke the
rules—including partaking in an illicit skinny-dip that sealed her proposal.
Now, after a very public breakup with her Bachelor, Ben Flajnik, Courtney opens
up and tells her own story—from her first loves to her first moments in the
limo. She dishes on life before, during, and after the <i>Bachelor, </i>including
Ben’s romantic proposal to her on a Swiss mountaintop and the tabloid frenzy
that continued after the cameras stopped rolling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">For the first time ever, a
former <i>Bachelor</i> contestant takes us along on her journey to
find love and reveals that “happily ever after” isn't always what it seems.
Complete with stories, tips, tricks, and advice from your favorite <i>Bachelor</i>
alumni, and filled with all the juicy details Courtney fans and foes alike want
to know, <i>I Didn’t Come Here to</i> <i>Make Friends </i>is a
must-read for every member of <i>Bachelor </i>nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;"> 1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;">The selling point as a <i>Bachelor</i> tell all is kind of misleading.
Only about half of the book is actually about Courtney’s time on <i>The Bachelor</i>.
Also kind of funny is that it is explicitly stated that <i>The Bachelor</i>
people operate with a ‘what happens in Vegas’ modus operandi when it come to not revealing details about each other to outsiders (non-Bachelor cast members). But, frequently people are outed for hookups etc.
(which let’s be honest – us Bachelor fans are reading to find out more of that <i>what you didn’t know</i> stuff). </span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;"> 2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;">Related to #1 – the behind the scenes stuff is the most
interesting, entertaining part of the entire novel. Learning more about living
arrangements, who actually gets along etc. was really fun. That being said,
some of the info revealed was somewhat mean spirited. There as cases where
people just don’t need to know what other people have done, and with whom they’ve
done it. I didn’t like the felling of vindictiveness I got when reading some of the ‘outings’.
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;"> 3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;">The ‘girl talk’ kind of feel is fun and funny a lot of the time,
but I never want to ever know anything about anyone’s body hair – especially
not a commentary about previous boyfriends below the belt business. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;"> 4.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;">As someone who read this on an ereader – unless some formatting
stuff gets figured out, I suggest reading a hardcopy. There were a bunch of little added commentaries from other
Bachelor cast members/ Courtney’s family, which I actually loved, but they had
a tendency to cut off the rest of the narrative midstream. (* I have a Kobo
Mini, so it could also just be because of my super tiny screen)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;"> 5. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;">Overall, Courtney kind of won me over. The book was funny, and
definitely a perfect summer quick read. While I’m not 100% convinced there isn’t
a bit of a mean girl in there, I definitely think she got the raw end of the
stick in terms of how her persona was edited on the show. After all, who wouldn’t
be a bit of a mean girl watching the guy you see yourself marrying kissing a
bunch of other chicks?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;">Sidenote – If half of what is
revealed about Ben is true, he may rival Juan Pablo as the most jerky bachelor
ever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;">** I received a copy of the novel
from the publisher to read and honestly review. I was in no way compensated. <span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14045091715467101048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4610472070902789467.post-57872463309391344112014-06-02T21:17:00.001-04:002014-06-02T21:17:22.918-04:00On My Wishlist: May 31, 2014<br />
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<span style="background-color: #7eeddc; color: #323232; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="color: #323232; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b><i><u>A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson</u></i></b></span></span><br />
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<b>Pub. Date: January 25th, 2012</b></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;"><u><b>Synopsis from Goodreads</b></u></span><br />
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;">A GROWN-UP KIND OF PRETTY is a
powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a
devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family.
Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb-spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood-is
shaken when a small grave is unearthed in the backyard, and determined to
figure out why it's there. Liza, her stroke-ravaged mother, is haunted by
choices she made as a teenager. But it is Jenny, Mosey's strong and big-hearted
grandmother, whose maternal love braids together the strands of the women's
shared past--and who will stop at nothing to defend their future.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia;"><b>So, what do you think? Is it one that you'd like to add to your wish list? Have you already read it?</b></span></div>
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