The Wolf Who Ate the Sky
Title: The Wolf Who Ate the Sky Author: Mary Daniel Hobson, Anna Isabel Rauh, Charles Hobson, Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: Heyday Books Release Date: 2015-03 Pages: 32 A very hungry wolf eats the sky, plunging the whole world into darkness, but a brave boy and a menagerie of animals are determined to bring back the light. Includes author’s note on how the story was developed with her three-year-old daughter, Anna, then illustrated by Anna’s grandfather. Review: Three generations of […]
I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
Title: I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves Author: Ryan O'Connell Publisher: Simon and Schuster Release Date: June 2, 2015 Format: Paperback Pages: 208 This hilarious part-memoir, part-manifesto reveals what sets apart the latest generation of young people coming of age in an all-wired, overeducated, and underemployed world. People are obsessed with Ryan O’Connell’s blogs. With tens of thousands reading his pieces on Thought Catalog and Vice, watching his videos on YouTube, and hanging on to each and every […]
Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice From Yesteryear
Title: Ask the Past Author: Elizabeth P. Archibald Genre: Humor Publisher: Hachette Books Release Date: 2015-05-05 Pages: 304 Want to know how to garden with lobsters? How to sober up? Grow a beard? Or simply how to make a perfect omelet? Look no further. Rather, look backward. Based on the popular blog, Ask the Past is full of the wisdom of the ages–as well as the fad diets, zany pickup lines, and bacon Band-Aids of the ages. Drawn from centuries […]
Ricochet: Riding a Wave of Hope with the Dog Who Inspires Millions
Title: Ricochet Author: Judy Fridono Genre: Pets Publisher: HCI Release Date: 2015-05-05 Pages: 312 Ride the wave of hope with Ricochet – the only SURFice dogTM in the world who chose her own purpose! She surfs with children with special needs, people with disabilities, wounded warriors, and veterans with PTSD as an assistive aid and intuitive muse, healing hearts and souls on every wave. This tears-to-triumph story takes readers behind the TV and video sensation and shares the true journey […]
A Magic Dark and Bright (Asylum Series)
Title: A Magic Dark and Bright Series: Asylum, Book 1 Author: Jenny Adams Perinovic Publisher: Bookish Group Press Release Date: February 5, 2015 Format: Paperback Pages: 328 She meant to help a ghost…not unleash a curse. Amelia Dupree hasn’t seen the Woman in White since the night her brother died. The ghost seems to have disappeared from the woods surrounding Asylum, Pennsylvania—that is, until Charlie Blue moves into the creepy old MacAllister House next door. Amelia can’t help liking him, […]
Untaken
Title: Untaken Author: J.E. Anckorn Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press Release Date: March 23, 2015 Format: Hardcover Pages: 262 It turns out that a real alien invasion is nothing like the Sci-fi shows 14-year-old Gracie loves. Not when it’s your own family who are swallowed whole by those big silver ships. Not if it could be you next. In her search for her family, Gracie meets Brandon, a high school dropout who would never have been caught dead hanging out with […]
Three (Article 5)
Title: Three Series: Article 5, Book 3 Author: Kristen Simmons Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: Macmillan Release Date: 2014-02-11 Pages: 384 When Ember and Chase finally arrive at the safe house and find it in ruins, they follow tracks leading away until they find a group of refugees and join forces with them to seek the rumored settlement known as Three. Review: After reading “Three”, the finale to the wonderful “Article 5” series, I feel as though I have found […]
Intimacy Idiot
Title: Intimacy Idiot Author: Isaac Oliver Publisher: Scribner Release Date: June 2, 2015 Format: Hardcover Pages: 288 This big-hearted, laugh-until-you-can’t-breathe collection of personal essays, stories, and riffs on finding love and intimacy in New York City announces the arrival of a “a monstrous new talent” (New York magazine) in the vein of David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, and Tina Fey. In this uproariously funny debut collection, award-winning writer and performer Isaac Oliver serves up a comedic cornucopia of sketches, vignettes, lists, […]
Lying Out Loud
Title: Sonny Author: Kody Keplinger Publisher: Scholastic Press Release Date: 2015-04-28 Pages: 304 Kody Keplinger returns to the world of The DUFF in this brand-new companion novel! Sonny Ardmore is an excellent liar. She lies about her dad being in prison. She lies about her mom kicking her out. And she lies about sneaking into her best friend’s house every night because she has nowhere else to go. Amy Rush might be the only person Sonny shares everything with — […]
Weightless
Title: Weightless Author: Sarah Bannan Genre: Fiction Publisher: St. Martin's Press Release Date: 2015-06-30 Pages: 336 When 15-year-old Carolyn moves from New Jersey to Alabama with her mother, she rattles the status quo of the junior class at Adams High School. A good student and natural athlete, she’s immediately welcomed by the school’s cliques. She’s even nominated to the homecoming court and begins dating a senior, Shane, whose on again/off again girlfriend Brooke becomes Carolyn’s bitter romantic rival. When a video of […]
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