Waiting on Wednesday #26

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Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano

Release date: March 25^th, 2014 (Kathy Dawson Books)

Pages: 388

Bones meets Fringe in a big, dark, scary, brilliantly-plotted urban thriller that will leave you guessing until the very end.

Nearly Boswell knows how to keep secrets. Living in a DC trailer park, she knows better than to share anything that would make her a target with her classmates. Like her mother's job as an exotic dancer, her obsession with the personal ads, and especially the emotions she can taste when she brushes against someone's skin. But when a serial killer goes on a killing spree and starts attacking students, leaving cryptic ads in the newspaper that only Nearly can decipher, she confides in the one person she shouldn't trust: the new guy at school—a reformed bad boy working undercover for the police, doing surveillance. . . on her.

Nearly might be the one person who can put all the clues together, and if she doesn't figure it all out soon—she'll be next. [Description from Goodreads]

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Waiting on Wednesday #26

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These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman

Release date: December 10^th, 2013 (Disney Hyperion)

Pages: 384

It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone.

Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they're worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help.

Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other's arms. Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder-would they be better off staying here forever?

Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won't be the same people who landed on it.

The first in a sweeping science fiction trilogy, These Broken Stars is a timeless love story about hope and survival in the face of unthinkable odds. [Description from Amazon]

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Waiting on Wednesday #25

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Twinmaker by Sean Williams

Release date: November 5th, 2013 (Balzer + Bray)

Pages: 352

M. T. Anderson meets Cory Doctorow in this teen debut from #1 New York Times bestseller Sean Williams, who also coauthors the Troubletwisters series with Garth Nix.

When a coded note promises improvement—the chance to change your body any way you want, making it stronger, taller, more beautiful—Clair thinks it's too good to be true, but her best friend, Libby, falls into a deadly trap.

With the help of the school freak and a mysterious stranger, Clair races against the clock and around the world to save Libby, even as every step draws her deeper into a deadly world of cover-ups and conspiracies.

Action and danger fuel this near-future tale of technology, identity, and the lengths one girl will go to save her best friend. [Description from Amazon]

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Waiting on Wednesday #24

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Just Like Fate by Cat Patrick and Suzanne Young

Release date: August 27^th, 2013 (Simon

Pulse)

Pages: 304

One decision changes everything in this compelling novel that explores split realities of romance and family loyalties.

Caroline is at a crossroads.

Her grandmother is sick, maybe dying. Like the rest of her family, Caroline’s been at Gram’s bedside since the stroke. With the pressure building, all Caroline wants to do is escape—both her family and the reality of Gram’s failing health. So when Caroline’s best friend offers to take her to a party one fateful Friday night, she must choose: Stay by Gram’s side for what might be her final hours, or go to the party and live her life.

The consequences of this one decision will split Caroline’s fate into two separate paths—and she is about to live them both. And though there are two distinct ways for her fate to unfold, there is only one happy ending… [Description from Amazon]

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Waiting on Wednesday #23

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The Sound by Sarah Alderson

Release date: August 1^st, 2013

Pages: 320

When aspiring music journalist Ren Kingston takes a job nannying for a wealthy family on the exclusive island of Nantucket, playground for Boston's elite, she's hoping for a low-key summer reading books and blogging about bands. Boys are firmly off the agenda. What she doesn't count on is falling in with a bunch of party-loving private school kids who are hiding some dark secrets; falling (possibly) in love with the local bad boy; and falling out with a dangerous serial killer...[Description from Amazon]

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Waiting on Wednesday #22

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SYLO by D.J. McHale

Release date: July 2^nd, 2013

Pages: 416

The ultimate action-fueled end-of-the-world conspiracy trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author D.J. MacHale

THEY CAME FROM THE SKY
parachuting out of military helicopters to invade Tucker Pierce’s idyllic hometown on Pemberwick Island, Maine.

They call themselves SYLO and they are a secret branch of the U.S. Navy. SYLO’s commander, Captain Granger, informs Pemberwick residents that the island has been hit by a lethal virus and must be quarantined. Now Pemberwick is cut off from the outside world.

Tucker believes there’s more to SYLO’s story. He was on the sidelines when the high school running back dropped dead with no warning. He saw the bizarre midnight explosion over the ocean, and the mysterious singing aircraft that travel like shadows through the night sky. He tasted the Ruby—and experienced the powers it gave him—for himself.

What all this means, SYLO isn’t saying. Only Tucker holds the clues that can solve this deadly mystery.

LOOK TO THE SKY
because Pemberwick is only the first stop.

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Waiting on Wednesday #21

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Does it still count that I’m waiting on this one even though it’s out today? *grin*

One by LeighAnn Kopans

Release date: June 11^th, 2013

Pages: 374

When having two powers makes you a Super and having none makes you a Normal, having only one makes you a sad half-superpowered freak.

It makes you a One.

Sixteen-year-old Merrin Grey would love to be able to fly – too bad all she can do is hover.

If she could just land an internship at the Biotech Hub, she might finally figure out how to fix herself. She busts her butt in AP Chem and salivates over the Hub’s research on the manifestation of superpowers, all in hopes of boosting her chances.

Then she meets Elias VanDyne, another One, and all her carefully crafted plans fly out the window. Literally. When the two of them touch, their Ones combine to make them fly, and when they’re not soaring over the Nebraska cornfields, they’re busy falling for each other.

Merrin's mad chemistry skills land her a spot on the Hub's internship short list, but as she gets closer to the life she always wanted, she discovers that the Hub’s purpose is more sinister than it has always seemed. Now it’s up to her to decide if it's more important to fly solo, or to save everything - and everyone - she loves. [Description from Goodreads]

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Waiting on Wednesday #20

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These Broken Stars (Starbound#1) by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

Release date: December 10^th, 2013 (Disney

Hyperion)

Pages: 384

It's a night like any other on board the

Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the

 massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of

hyperspace and plummets into the

nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver

Merendsen survive. And they seem to be

 alone. 

Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver

comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that

girls like Lilac are more trouble than they’re worth. But with only

each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together,

making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to

seek help. 

Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in

the tragedy that has thrown them into each other’s arms.

Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they

begin to wonder—would they be better off staying here forever?

Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the

chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may

find a way off this planet. But they won’t be the same people

who landed on it.

The first in a sweeping science fiction trilogy, These Broken Stars is

a timeless love story about hope and survival in the face of

unthinkable odds. [Description from Goodreads]

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Waiting on Wednesday #19

 

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Tadem (Many-Worlds Trilogy #1) by Anna Jarzab

Release date: October 8^th, 2013

Pages: 448

Everything repeats

You. Your best friend. Every person you know

Many worlds. Many lives--infinite

 possibilities.

Welcome to the multiverse.

Sixteen-year-old Sasha Lawson has only ever known one small

ordinary life. When she was young, she loved her grandfather's

stories of parallel worlds inhabited by girls who looked like her

 but led totally different lives. Sasha never believed such worlds

 were real--until now, when she finds herself thrust into one

 against her will.

To prevent imminent war, Sasha must slip into the life of an

 alternate version of herself, a princess who has vanished on the

eve of her arranged marriage. If Sasha succeeds in fooling

everyone, she will be returned home; if she fails, she'll be trapped

 in another girl's life forever. As time runs out, Sasha finds herself

torn between two worlds, two lives, and two young men vying for

 her love--one who knows her secret, and one who thinks she's

 someone she's not.

The first book in the Many-Worlds Trilogy, Tandem is a riveting

 saga of love and betrayal set in parallel universes in which

nothing--and no one--is what it seems.

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Waiting on Wednesday #18

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The Uprising (The Forsaken #2) by Lisa Stasse

Release date: August 6^th, 2013 (Simon and Schuster Books for

 Young Readers)

Pages: 400

In this dystopian sequel to The Forsaken, Alenna has survived the brutality of life on the wheel—and now she’s going back for more.

Alenna escaped. It was expected that she would die on the wheel, the island where would-be criminals are sent as directed by the UNA—the totalitarian supercountry that was once the United States, Mexico, and Canada. But Alenna and her boyfriend, Liam, made it to safety. Except safety, they will soon learn, is relative.

In order to bring down the UNA, they must first gain control of the wheel. If the mission succeeds, the wheel will become a base of revolution. But between betrayals, a new Monk leading a more organized army of Drones, and the discovery of a previously unknown contingent, Alenna, Liam, and their allies might be in over their heads. One thing Alenna knows for sure: There will be a reckoning. And not everyone she loves will make it out alive.

[Description from Goodreads]

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Waiting on Wednesday #17

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Viral Nation by Shaunta Grimes

Release date: July 2^nd, 2013 (Berkley Trade)

Pages: 320

After a virus claimed nearly the entire global population, the world changed. The United States splintered into fifty walled cities where the surviving citizens clustered to start over. The Company, which ended the plague by bringing a life-saving vaccine back from the future, controls everything. They ration the scant food and supplies through a lottery system, mandate daily doses of virus suppressant, and even monitor future timelines to stop crimes before they can be committed.

Brilliant but autistic, sixteen-year-old Clover Donovan has always dreamed of studying at the Waverly-Stead Academy. Her brother and caretaker, West, has done everything in his power to make her dream a reality. But Clover’s refusal to part with her beloved service dog denies her entry into the school. Instead, she is drafted into the Time Mariners, a team of Company operatives who travel through time to gather news about the future.

When one of Clover’s missions reveals that West’s life is in danger, the Donovans are shattered. To change West’s fate, they’ll have to take on the mysterious Company. But as its secrets are revealed, they realize that the Company’s rule may not be as benevolent as it seems. In saving her brother, Clover will face a more powerful force than she ever imagined… and will team up with a band of fellow misfits and outsiders to incite a revolution that will change their destinies forever

. [Description from Goodreads]

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Waiting on Wednesday #16

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Parallel by Lauren Miller

Release date: May 14^th, 2013 (HarperTeen)

Pages: 432

Abby Barnes had a plan. The Plan. She'd go to Northwestern, major in journalism, and land a job at a national newspaper, all before she turned twenty-two. But one tiny choice—taking a drama class her senior year of high school—changed all that. Now, on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Abby is stuck on a Hollywood movie set, miles from where she wants to be, wishing she could rewind her life. The next morning, she's in a dorm room at Yale, with no memory of how she got there. Overnight, it's as if her past has been rewritten.

With the help of Caitlin, her science-savvy BFF, Abby discovers that this new reality is the result of a cosmic collision of parallel universes that has Abby living an alternate version of her life. And not only that: Abby's life changes every time her parallel self makes a new choice. Meanwhile, her parallel is living out Abby's senior year of high school and falling for someone Abby's never even met.

As she struggles to navigate her ever-shifting existence, forced to live out the consequences of a path she didn't choose, Abby must let go of the Plan and learn to focus on the present, without losing sight of who she is, the boy who might just be her soul mate, and the destiny that's finally within reach.

[Description from Goodreads]

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Waiting on Wednesday #15

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The Program by Suzanne Young

Release date: April 30^th, 2013 (Simon Pulse)

Pages: 416

In Sloane’s world, true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program.

Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane’s parents have already lost one child; Sloane knows they’ll do anything to keep her alive. She also knows that everyone who’s been through The Program returns as a blank slate. Because their depression is gone—but so are their memories.

Under constant surveillance at home and at school, Sloane puts on a brave face and keeps her feelings buried as deep as she can. The only person Sloane can be herself with is James. He’s promised to keep them both safe and out of treatment, and Sloane knows their love is strong enough to withstand anything. But despite the promises they made to each other, it’s getting harder to hide the truth. They are both growing weaker. Depression is setting in. And The Program is coming for them.

[Description from Goodreads]

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Waiting on Wednesday #14

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Once Upon a Prince (Royal Wedding Series #1) by Rachel Hauck

Release date: May 7^th, 2013 (Zondervan)

Pages: 320

Susanna Truitt never dreamed of a great romance or being treated like a princess---just to marry the man she has loved for twelve years. But life isn’t going according to plan. When her high-school-sweetheart-turned-Marine-officer breaks up instead of proposing, Susanna scrambles to rebuild her life.

The last thing Prince Nathaniel expects to find on his American holiday to St. Simon’s Island is the queen of his heart. A prince has duties, and his family’s tense political situation has chosen his bride for him. When Prince Nathaniel comes to Susanna’s aid under the fabled Lover’s Oak, he is blindsided by love.

Their lives are worlds apart. He’s a royal prince. She’s a ordinary girl. But everything changes when Susanna receives an invitation to Nathaniel’s coronation.

This sounds kind of like The Princess by Lori Wick (see my review here), with a little “Will and Kate” thrown in. Can’t wait to read it this summer by the pool!

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Waiting on Wednesday #13

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Taken by Erin Bowman

Pages: 352

Release Date: April 16^th, 2013 (HarperTeen)

There are no men in Claysoot. There are boys—but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends…and he’s gone.

They call it the Heist.

Gray Weathersby’s eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he’s prepared to meet his fate–until he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to question everything he’s been raised to accept: the Council leaders and their obvious secrets. The Heist itself. And what lies beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoot–a structure that no one can cross and survive.

Climbing the Wall is suicide, but what comes after the Heist could be worse. Should he sit back and wait to be taken–or risk everything on the hope of the other side?

[Description from Goodreads]

This sounds soooo much like Maze Runner, which I thoroughly hated on my first attempt at reading it (didn’t finish it). But I have this…feeling…that Taken is going to be a whole lot better. That I’ll like it a whole lot more. And I love the cover. *grin*

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Waiting on Wednesday #12

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Today’s book is quite an obvious one. I mean, who isn’t dying to read Unravel Me? Oh, you aren’t? Well, read the summary below and join the crowd.

Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

February 5^th, 2013 (HarperCollins)

Pages: 465

Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick
it's almost
time for war.

Juliette has escaped to Omega Point. It is a place for people like her—people with gifts—and it is also the headquarters of the rebel resistance.

She's finally free from The Reestablishment, free from their plan to use her as a weapon, and free to love Adam. But Juliette will never be free from her lethal touch.

Or from Warner, who wants Juliette more than she ever thought possible.

In this exhilarating sequel to Shatter Me, Juliette has to make life-changing decisions between what she wants and what she thinks is right. Decisions that might involve choosing between her heart—and Adam's life.

Eeee! I know, right? More Juliette, more Adam, more Warner, more amazing metaphors by Ms. Tahereh! *attempts to calm down* What are you waiting on this Wednesday? Leave a link or share in the comments!