Bunco Babes Tell All

Bunco Babes Tell All
By Maria Geraci
ISBN-10: 0425227588
ISBN-13: 978-0425227589
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Publisher: Berkley Trade

Woman cannot live by Bunco alone...

Meet the Bunco Babes of Whispering Bay. Every Thursday night they roll dice, drink frozen margaritas, and catch up on all the gossip in their small north Florida town. Kitty Burke is the only Bunco Babe who is still single-which is okay-but she's thirty-five and may need to face the fact that her image of Mr. Right is all wrong.

Take Steve. Very sexy-but on paper, with three failed marriages and a shady career, maybe not great husband material. And yes, his ring tone is "Freebird." Fellow Babes Shea and Pilar definitely vote thumbs down. But maybe there's more to Steve than meets the eye. Is it time for Kitty to roll the dice and hope that she can be as lucky in love as she is in Bunco?

Intertwined

Intertwined
By Gena Showalter
Release Date: September 1, 2009
ISBN-10: 0373210027
ISBN-13: 978-0373210022
Publisher: Harlequin Teen

Most sixteen-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him:

One can time-travel.

One can raise the dead.

One can tell the future.

And one can possess another human.

With no other family and a life spent in and out of institutions, Aden and the souls have become friends. But now they're causing him all kinds of trouble. Like, he'll blink and suddenly he's a younger Aden, reliving the past. One wrong move, and he'll change the future. Or he'll walk past a total stranger and know how and when she's going to die.

He's so over it. All he wants is peace.

And then he meets a girl who quiets the voices. Well, as long as he's near her. Why? Mary Ann Gray is his total opposite. He's a loner; she has friends. He doesn't care what anyone thinks; she tries to make everyone happy. And while he attracts the paranormal, she repels it. For her sake, he should stay away. But it's too late....

Somehow, they share an inexplicable bond of friendship. A bond about to be tested by a werewolf shape-shifter who wants Mary Ann for his own, and a vampire princess Aden can't resist.

Two romances, both forbidden. Still, the four will enter a dark underworld of intrigue and danger but not everyone will come out alive....

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My Big Nose And Other Natural Disaster

My Big Nose And Other Natural Disaster
By Sydney Salter
Release Date: April 6, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-15-206643-7
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Graphia

Welcome to the summer of passion. For seventeen-year-old Jory Michaels, that means three sun-and-fun filled months of spending time with her best friends, obsessing over her crush, trying to find something she is passionate about, and…saving for a nose job. Jory is determined to lose the big, honking, bumpy monstrosity she calls the Super Schnozz—the one thing standing between her and happiness.

So accident-prone Jory takes a job delivering wedding cakes to save up for surgery; she even keeps a book filled with magazine cutouts of perfect noses to show the doctor. To find her passion, she tries yoga; she tries becoming a foreign film buff; but nothing is quite as interesting as finding a boyfriend. And that can’t happen until Super Schnozz disappears…right?

Jory is in for some big surprises when passion finds her—and she discovers the beautiful people she longs to look like are not as perfect as they seem. In her hilarious and heartbreaking debut novel, Sydney Salter delivers a story about broadening your horizons, accepting yourself, and finding love right under your nose.

Octopus Intelligence

Octopus Intelligence
By Timothy Quinn
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Release Date: September 30, 2009
ISBN-13: 9781550712971
ISBN-10: 1550712977

Set in New York, Tehran, Port au Prince and Tegucigalpa, Octopus Intelligence tells the story of two desperate men. One, a former intelligence contractor suffering from a mysterious ailment, has returned home to find an oblique message spelled out on his bedroom floor. Another, a self-medicating paleontologist, has just discovered a four hundred million year old transitional cephalopod in the Moroccan desert.

One will be liberated, and the other lost, in this extraordinary novel of paranoia, politics, scientific rivalry, pain management and postmodern theatre.

Timothy Quinn's work has appeared in Z Magazine, The New Orleans Review, The Antigonish Review and Whiskey Island Magazine, among others. He currently lives in Toronto. To learn more, please visit octopusintelligence.com.

SHINE, COCONUT MOON

SHINE, COCONUT MOON
By Neesha Meminger
Release Date: March/2009
ISBN: 1-4169-5495-3
Publisher: McElderry Books (Simon & Schuster)

Seventeen-year-old Samar--a.k.a. Sam--has never known much about her Indian heritage. Her mom has deliberately kept Sam away from her old-fashioned family. It's never bothered Sam, who is busy with school, friends, and a really cute but demanding boyfriend.

But things change after 9/11. A guy in a turban shows up at Sam's house, and he turns out to be her uncle. He wants to reconcile the family and teach Sam about her Sikh heritage. Sam isn't sure what to do, until a girl at school calls her a coconut--brown on the outside, white on the inside. That decides it: Why shouldn't Sam get to know her family? What is her mom so afraid of? Then some boys attack her uncle, shouting, "Go back home, Osama!" and Sam realizes she could be in danger--and also discovers how dangerous ignorance can be. Sam will need all her smarts and savvy to try to bridge two worlds and make them both her own.

Ghost Huntress

Ghost Huntress Book 1: The Awakening
Ghost Huntress Book 2: The Guidance
By Marley Gibson
Publisher: Graphia
Both Out Now!

Kendall and her ghost hunting team is the talk of Radisson, Georgia, but one person isn’t so pleased. Courtney Langdon doesn’t appreciate Kendall’s new popularity or her relationship with Jason, Courtney’s ex.

So Courtney begins dabbling in the paranormal world. At first it’s all a game to draw attention away from Kendall. But Courtney doesn’t know what she’s getting into—or what wants in her. This is one game that’s about to turn deadly serious.

And for more about Kendall and the ghost huntresses, check out www.ghosthuntress.com!

Candor

Candor
By Pam Bachorz
Release Date: 9/22/09
ISBN: 978-1606840122
Publisher: Egmont USA

Everything is perfect in the town of Candor, Florida. Teens respect their elders, do their chores, and enjoy homework…because they’re controlled by subliminal messages.

Oscar Banks, the son of the town’s founder, is the model of perfection: class president, top student, shining example. But it’s only a disguise. Unlike all the other Candor teens, he knows about the Messages, and he fights them with his own counterprogramming.

Only Oscar knows how to get kids out of Candor—for a price. Nobody suspects that he smuggles the richest new kids out of town before they change. It’s risky: if Oscar were caught, he’d be sent straight to the Listening Room, where the most resistant minds are wiped clean.

When Nia moves into town, Oscar is smitten by her tart attitude and ability to see through his perfect-boy front. He can’t stand to see her changed by the Messages. Now he must decide to help Nia escape Candor and lose her forever, or keep her close and risk exposure.

The Embers

The Embers
By Hyatt Bass
Released 6.23.09
ISBN13/EAN: 9780805089943
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.

A once-charmed family is forced to confront the devastating tragedy that struck it years ago in this fiercely tender tale of betrayal and reconciliation. Moving between past and present over the course of sixteen years, The Embers is a skillfully structured debut novel of buried secrets and deep regrets that crush a family while bonding its members irrevocably.

Returnable Girl

RETURNABLE GIRL
By Pamela Lowell
RELEASE DATE: October 20, 2009 (PAPERBACK)
ISBN: 978-0-7614-5592-9
PUBLISHER: MARSHALL CAVENDISH



EVER SINCE MY MOTHER LEFT ME I'VE NEVER BEEN GOOD AT GOOD-BYES...

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Queen of His Heart

By Adrianne Byrd

ISBN: 9780373831661

Publisher: Harlequin

A good man can be hard to find. Jalila Goodwyn has had enough bad dates to know. Television producer Keenan Armstrong believes Jalilas search for love will make a hit reality show. Now bachelors are vying for her attention, its the shows producer thats really turning up the heat. Queen of His Heart Adrianne Byrd Book Trailer Find out more about this author here http://www.adriannebyrd.com/ Find out more about this book http://tinyurl.com/mcg4mj Romance