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Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly blog post hosted by  Breaking The Spine  where readers showcase which books they are highly anticipating. This week I'm turning my spotlight on Harry Potter: The Creature Vault ( The Creatures and Plants of the Harry Potter Films)  by Jody Revenson. Expected Publication: October 28, 2014 from Harper Design ADD TO GOODREADS / Pre-Order Dementors and House-elves, merpeople and Chinese Fireball Dragons—these are just a few of the magical creatures and frightening monsters populating J. K. Rowling's wizarding world. Harry Potter: The Creature Vault is a fascinating look at how this menagerie was brought to life for the blockbuster Harry Potter film series. Detailed profiles of each creature include rare concept illustrations, behind-the-scenes photography, and filmmaking secrets from the Warner Bros. archive. A removable poster picturing each of the creatures and an interactive Eeylops Owl Emporium catalog complete this must-ha...

Book Trailer Tuesday is a Weekly Blog Post hosted by me at Blood Sweat and Books. Each week I choose two Book Trailers to showcase. One Trailer will be for an upcoming book and the other will be one that has already been released. This week I focus my spotlight on Don't Touch by Rachel M. Wilson & Made for You by Melissa Marr. Available Now: Don't Touch by Rachel M. Wilson Step on a crack, break your mother’s back. Touch another person’s skin, and Dad’s gone for good. Caddie can’t stop thinking that if she keeps from touching another person’s skin, her parents might get back together... which is why she wears full-length gloves to school and covers every inch of her skin. It seems harmless at first, but Caddie’s obsession soon threatens her ambitions as an actress. She desperately wants to play Ophelia in her school’s production of Hamlet. But that would mean touching Peter, who’s auditioning for the title role—and kissing him. Part of Caddie would...

Author: Natalie C. Parker Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Publisher: Harper Teen Expected Publication: October 21, 2014 It's an oppressively hot and sticky morning in June when Sterling and her brother, Phin, have an argument that compels him to run into the town swamp -- the one that strikes fear in all the residents of Sticks, Louisiana. Phin doesn't return. Instead, a girl named Lenora May climbs out, and now Sterling is the only person in Sticks who remembers her brother ever existed. Sterling needs to figure out what the swamp's done with her beloved brother and how Lenora May is connected to his disappearance -- and loner boy Heath Durham might be the only one who can help her. Review What I really liked about Beware the Wild was how smartly the Author unraveled the story. It was quite like Hansel and Gretel following those breadcrumbs in the hope they would find their way home safely and yet, the story embodied many elements of a classic whodunit just...

  This week I want to share an awesome Zombie related event with you coming up on September 24th. Day of the Zombies is a Facebook event that will be bringing together Authors, Fans, and some of the best creators and contributors of the genre to talk about and share the love for all things Zombie.  Every participating guest will have an hour to interact live with the audience (that's you!) answering questions, talking about their work and their involvement in the world of zombies. In addition, each guest will have the opportunity to host individual giveaways and contests!!  This event will take place on Facebook from 10am to 10pm on September 24th only so mark your calendars now!! For your convenience, A full schedule of guests and their times are listed below. DOC OF THE DEAD • Alexandre O. Philippe — Director • Robert Muratore – Producer/Director of Photography • Cory Cascaito – Zombie Expert • Kyle Bishop – English Department Chair & Professor of...

Welcome to the book promo and HUGE giveaway for  In the Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken!! Author: Alexandra Bracken Series: The Darkest Minds #3 Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Expected Publication:October 28, 2014 Ruby can't look back. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. With them is a prisoner: Clancy Gray, son of the president, and one of the few people Ruby has encountered with abilities like hers. Only Ruby has any power over him, and just one slip could lead to Clancy wreaking havoc on their minds. They are armed only with a volatile secret: proof of a government conspiracy to cover up the real cause of IANN, the disease that has killed most of America's children and left Ruby and others like her with powers the government will kill to keep contained. But internal strife may destroy their only chance to free the "rehabilitation camp...

Author: Kiersten White Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Historical Fiction Publisher: Harper Teen Publication: September 9, 2014 “I did my best to keep you from crossing paths with this world. And I shall do my best to protect you now that you have.” Jessamin has been an outcast since she moved from her island home of Melei to the dreary country of Albion. Everything changes when she meets Finn, a gorgeous, enigmatic young lord who introduces her to the secret world of Albion’s nobility, a world that has everything Jessamin doesn’t—power, money, status…and magic. But Finn has secrets of his own, dangerous secrets that the vicious Lord Downpike will do anything to possess. Unless Jessamin, armed only with her wits and her determination, can stop him. Review After Jessamin leaves her simple Island home to attend a prestigious school in Albion, life becomes a perfect balance of work and school with little time for social interactions. When Jessamin meets a strange but...

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly blog post hosted by  Breaking The Spine  where readers showcase which books they are highly anticipating. This week I'm turning my spotlight on The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Expected Publication: 2015 from Orbit Books ADD TO GOODREADS The Fifth Season is set in a world which has suffered frequent, repeated Extinction Level Events for millions of years, and all life (and magic) in this world has adapted to it. Hundreds of years might pass between these events—easy, plentiful years in which great cities rise, and people have the leisure for art and science and rapid advancement—but then, again and again, the cities fall. The world is littered with the detritus of these times of plenty, and this cover hints at them: past ages of decadence, now decaying; stone that endures beneath flaking gilt. ____________________________________ Why Am I Waiting? Even though I don't really know much about this one yet it sti...