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Free Ebook July 23rd Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance Publisher: Musvit Books Publication Date: June 4, 2014 In the Pacific Northwest of 1928,  Julian Powell lives a life that for most appears to be one of privilege—a  perfect life in a huge house, servants, and carefully groomed grounds. No  matter how idyllic it might seem, it has become a prison for Julian. His days  are filled with the endless monotony of family gatherings, gossip, and brown  suits. Overshadowing him is a life-long illness. Julian finds his only freedom  from his overbearing family in secretly writing books celebrating the beauty of  nature. Occasionally he escapes to the local bookstore, with the hope of seeing  the town’s eccentric, William Neill. Julian’s life changes forever when he  makes the boldest decision of his life. He leaves to take care of an ailing  childhood friend, moving to a place that will take him away from all he has ever kn...

Author: K.J. Colt Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Series: The Healers of Meligna #1 Publication Date: June 4, 2013 Copy Provided By: Purchased “There was an illness much worse than anything I had ever seen, and that was the sickness of my country.” Fourteen year old Adenine is blind and isolated in her small attic bedroom. The last carrier of the Death Plague that wiped out thousands of her country’s people twenty-five years ago, she must avoid contact with the outside world. When her mother fails to bring her food Adenine begins to starve. Driven by her hunger, Adenine ventures into the house discovering her mother bedridden and sick. Despite her terror of infecting others, Adenine fumbles her way onto the streets of Borrelia in search of the town’s doctor. Soon, she is surrounded by new friends… and enemies she never knew existed. Adenine’s mother is keeping dark secrets, her friends are lying to her and when threats arise she must decide who to trust. Rev...

Author: Mindy McGinnis Genre: Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Young Adult Format: E-Book Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Expected Publication: September 24, 2013 Copy Provided By: Edelweiss   Regret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water. Lynn knows every threat to her pond: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and, most importantly, people looking for a drink. She makes sure anyone who comes near the pond leaves thirsty, or doesn't leave at all. Confident in her own abilities, Lynn has no use for the world beyond the nearby fields and forest. Having a life means dedicating it to survival, and the constant work of gathering wood and water. Having a pond requires the fortitude to protect it, something Mother taught her well during their quiet hours on the rooftop, rifles in hand. But wisps of smoke on the horizon mean one thing: strangers. The mysterious footprints by the pond, nighttime threats, and gunshots make it all too clea...

Author: Peter Stenson Genre: Apocalyptic, Horror, Zombies Publisher: Crown Format: E-Book Publication Date: July 9, 2013 Copy Provided By: Edelweiss When Chase Daniels first sees the little girl in umbrella socks tearing open the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As a longtime meth addict, he’s no stranger to horrifying, drug-fueled hallucinations. But as he and his fellow junkies soon discover, the little girl is no illusion. The end of the world really has arrived. The funny thing is, Chase’s life was over long before the apocalypse got here, his existence already reduced to a stinking basement apartment and a filthy mattress and an endless grind of buying and selling and using. He’s lied and cheated and stolen and broken his parents’ hearts a thousand times. And he threw away his only shot at sobriety a long time ago, when he chose the embrace of the drug over the woman he still loves. And if your life’s already shattered beyond any normal hopes of redemption…well...

Author: Wendy Owens Genre: Post Apocalyptic, Zombies Series: Ruination Part One Publication: July 28,2012   Publisher: Four Bean Publishing   Seventeen year old Marin finds herself alone in a broken world. Everyone she knows has either abandoned her or somehow been swallowed up by the misery that has become day to day life. Marin struggles to survive alone. After the government has failed to contain the zombie outbreak the nation has crumbled, there is no law and order. If it weren't bad enough to have to outrun the violent creatures whose sole desire seems to be to devour you, Marin must also manage to avoid the strangers left in the world who find the end of society to mean the end of any morals. Marin has decided to set out on a quest to find a place where the zombie infection has not reached. She is not sure if it's a myth, but she is sure a life without hope would leave her with nothing. On her journey she manages to meet Zac and his sister Alice....

Author: Annie Walls Series: The Famished Trilogy #1 Genre: Zombies, Horror, Post Apocalyptic Format: E-Book Published: September 20, 2012 Copy Provided By: Author Life for Kansas was perfect until the day the world changed. She has been hiding out for four years in solitude. It's the only way to survive. The only way not to draw the living dead. Helping a small group of people, she learns the new world might not be what she assumes. Venturing out of her refuge and comfort zone, she meets Rudy, who helps her find a greater purpose. She realizes that the world has moved on without her. Only it's not what she expects. Her knowledge of the living dead grows and only makes her more curious as humanity continues to hang on by a thread. While on her search for answers she finds comfort in new friendships and love, but her past seems as if it will haunt her forever. Kansas takes it upon herself to help other survivors, which would be easy if the famished were the only...

Add To Goodreads Rating:★★★★★ Author: William Sutcliffe Title: The Wall Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary Format: E-Book Publisher: Walker Children's Expected Publication: June 4,2013 Review Copy Provided By: Netgalley  Pre-Order:  Amazon   Barnes & Noble   Joshua lives with his mother and step-father in Amarias, an isolated town, where all the houses are brand new. Amarias is surrounded by a high wall, guarded by soldiers, which can only be crossed through a heavily fortified checkpoint. Joshua has been taught that the Wall is the only thing keeping his people safe from a brutal and unforgiving enemy. One day, Joshua stumbles across a tunnel that leads underneath the Wall. The chance to catch a glimpse of life on the other side of The Wall is too tempting to resist. He's heard plenty of stories about the other side, but nothing has prepared him for what he finds . . . Set in a tense reality closely mirroring Israel's West bank, th...

Rating : ★★ ★★ ★ Author: Robin LaFevers Series: His Fair Assassin #2 Genre: Historical Fiction, Young Adult Format: E-Book Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books For Children Publication Date: April 2013 Sybella's duty as Death's assassin in 15th-century France forces her return home to the personal hell that she had finally escaped. Love and romance, history and magic, vengeance and salvation converge in this thrilling sequel to Grave Mercy. Sybella arrives at the convent’s doorstep half mad with grief and despair. Those that serve Death are only too happy to offer her refuge—but at a price. The convent views Sybella, naturally skilled in the arts of both death and seduction, as one of their most dangerous weapons. But those assassin's skills are little comfort when the convent returns her to a life that nearly drove her mad. And while Sybella is a weapon of justice wrought by the god of Death himself, He must give her a reason to live. When she ...

Rating: ★★★★ Series: C.H.A.O.S. #1 Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Action Adventure Format: E-Book Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publication Date: January 4,2011 Copy Provided By: Publisher     He didn't ask for the job, but now all that stands between us and chaos... is Colt Colt McAlister was having the summer of his life. He spent his days surfing and his nights playing guitar on the beach with friends. He even met a girl and got his first car. But everything changes when his parents are killed in a freak accident. He's forced to leave his old life behind and move to Arizona with his grandfather. The only person he knows at the new high school is a childhood friend named Dani. And Oz, a guy he's sure he's never met but who is strangely familiar. But what if his parents' death wasn't an accident? His mother, an investigative reporter, was going to expose a secret mind-control program run by one of the world's largest companies. Before ...

 Rating: ★★★★ Author: Nicole Cushing Title: Children Of No One Format: E-Book Publisher: Dark Fuse Copy Provided By: Netgalley Expected Publication Date: March 26,2013   Sadism, nihilism, poverty, wealth, screams, whimpers, sanity and madness collide in Nowhere, Indiana For Thomas Krieg, Nowhere is a miles-long, pitch-black underground maze in which he's imprisoned dozens of boys for the past ten years -- all in the name of art. For two brothers, Nowhere is the only place they clearly remember living. A world unto itself, in which they must stay alert to stay alive. A world from which the only escape is death. But for an English occultist known only as Mr. No One, Nowhere is much more...and much less: the perfect place in which to perform a ritual to unleash the grandest of eldritch deities, the God of Nothingness, the Great Dark Mouth. Review: This was my reaction when I completed Children Of No One. I'm not even exaggerating here the Novella is ...

Add To Goodreads Rating: ★★★ Author: Helen Smith Title: The Miracle Inspector Genre: Dystopian,Adult,Fantasy Format: E-Book Publisher:  Tyger Books Publication Date: September 4,2012 Copy Provided By: Author Buy It Now:  Amazon Barnes&Noble A darkly comic literary novel set in the near future. England has been partitioned and London is an oppressive place where poetry has been forced underground, theatres and schools are shut, and women are not allowed to work outside the home. A young couple, Lucas and Angela, try to escape from London - with disastrous consequences. Review Kinda,sort of,maybe : The Miracle Inspector can only be described as a very British Dystopian. I imagined the lovely Helen Mirren narrating this in my head. Once I switched from my normal internal monologue to that with her narrating The Miracle Inspector transformed into quite an enjoyable read. Of course that is not to say that this book didn't have some hiccups along t...

Add To Goodreads Author: Rebecca Talley Title: Aura Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy Publication Date: November 9,2012 Format: E-Books Copy Provided By: Author as part of Blog Tour Rating: ★★★ Buy It Now:  Amazon      Barnes & Noble   In the fight between good and evil, Light is your only weapon. Crystal Scott finally feels like a normal teenager. She has a lead in the high school play, a best friend, and a gorgeous boyfriend. With prom only a few days away, Crystal's ordinary life seems perfect. Endowed with great Light because of her virtuous choices and her inherent gifts, Crystal's aura has become visible to those with the ability to see auras. Unfortunately, her power has also attracted the attention of demons intent on destroying all Light. When Vincent Crandall, the human host for a powerful demon, discovers that Crystal's Light is strong enough to disrupt the connection between demons and their hosts, he rea...

Add To Goodreads Rating: ★★★★ Author: Bethany Wiggins Title: Stung Genre: Dystopian, Horror, Post-Apocalyptic Format: Ebook Publisher: Walker Children's Copy Provided By: Edelweiss Expected Publication: April 2, 2013   There is no cure for being stung. Fiona doesn’t remember going to sleep. But when she opens her eyes, she discovers her entire world has been altered—her house is abandoned and broken, and the entire neighborhood is barren and dead. Even stranger is the tattoo on her right hand—a black oval with five marks on either side—that she doesn’t remember getting but somehow knows she must cover at any cost. She’s right. Those bearing the tattoo have turned into mindless, violent beasts that roam the streets and sewers, preying upon the unbranded while a select few live protected inside a fortress-like wall, their lives devoted to rebuilding society and killing all who bear the mark. Now Fiona has awakened branded, alone—and on the wrong side of t...