Fresh Batch (October 14th - 20th)

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

Ashen Winter
Mike Mullin
Series: Ashfall, #2
Publication date: October 16th 2012
by Tanglewood Press

 

It’s been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It’s also been six months of waiting for Alex’s parents to return from Iowa. Alex and Darla decide they can wait no longer and must retrace their journey into Iowa to find and bring back Alex’s parents to the tenuous safety of Illinois. But the landscape they cross is even more perilous than before, with life-and-death battles for food and power between the remaining communities. When the unthinkable happens, Alex must find new reserves of strength and determination to survive.

Read the first 2 chapters here!

The Ashfall series:

 

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Mike Mullin’s first job was scraping the gum off the undersides of desks at his high school. From there, things went steadily downhill. He almost got fired by the owner of a bookstore due to his poor taste in earrings. He worked at a place that showed slides of poopy diapers during lunch (it did cut down on the cafeteria budget). The hazing process at the next company included eating live termites raised by the resident entomologist, so that didn’t last long either. For a while Mike juggled bottles at a wine shop, sometimes to disastrous effect. Oh, and then there was the job where swarms of wasps occasionally tried to chase him off ladders. So he’s really hoping this writing thing works out.
Mike holds a black belt in Songahm Taekwondo. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with his wife and her three cats. ASHFALL is his first novel.

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 Other releases this week (Click on title links for Goodreads):
*In no particular order*  *Purchase links are for The Book Depository*

- Crewel (Crewel World #1) by Gennifer Albin [Purchase]

- The Innocents (The Innocents #1) by Lili Peloquin [Purchase]

- Out of Reach by Carrie Arcos [Purchase]

- Angel's Ink (The Asylum Tales #1) by Jocelynn Drake [Purchase] 

 -  Starstruck (Fame Game #2) by Lauren Conrad [Purchase]

- The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski [Purchase]

- Toxic (Denazen #2) by Jus Accardo [Purchase]

- Zom-B (Zom-B #1) by Darren Shan [Purchase]

-Second Chance (The Slayer Chronicles #2) by Heather Brewer [Purchase]

- Hidden (House of Night #10) by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast [Purchase]

-Beta (Annex #1) by Rachel Cohn [Purchase]

-The Twelve (The Passage #2) by Justin Cronin [Purchase]

-Only Superhuman by Christopher L. Bennett [Purchase]

- Conjure (The Hoodoo Apprentice #1) by Lea Nolan [Purchase]

-The Elementals by Francesca Lia Block [Purchase]

-Sanctum (Guards of the Shadowlands #1) by Sarah Fine [Purchase]

- The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury (The Governor Trilogy #2) by Robert Kirkman & Jay Bonansinga [Purchase]

-Two and Twenty Dark Tales: Dark Retellings of Mother Goose Rhymes [Purchase]

-The Space Between Us by Jessica Martinez [Purchase]

-Cold Light by Jenn Ashworth [Purchase] 

- Break My Heart 1,000 Times by Daniel Waters [Purchase]

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