Fresh Batch (November 18th - 24th)

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

Flavor of the week:

Elemental
Antony John
Publication date: November 21st 2012
by Dial

 

A lost colony is reborn in this heart-pounding fantasy adventure set in the near future . . .

Sixteen-year-old Thomas has always been an outsider. The first child born without the power of an Element—earth, water, wind or fire—he has little to offer his tiny, remote Outer Banks colony. Or so the Guardians would have him believe.

In the wake of an unforeseen storm, desperate pirates kidnap the Guardians, intent on claiming the island as their own. Caught between the plague-ridden mainland and the advancing pirates, Thomas and his friends fight for survival in the battered remains of a mysterious abandoned settlement. But the secrets they unearth will turn Thomas’ world upside-down, and bring to light not only a treacherous past but also a future more dangerous than he can possibly imagine.

Read the first chapter, here!

Antony's Website / Goodreads / Facebook

Antony John was born in England and raised on a balanced diet of fish and chips, obscure British comedies, and ABBA's Greatest Hits. In a fit of teenage rebellion, he decided to pursue a career in classical music, culminating in a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Duke University. Along the way, he worked as an ice cream seller on a freezing English beach, a tour guide in the Netherlands, a chauffeur in Switzerland, a barista in Seattle, and a university professor. Writing by night, he spends his days as a stay-at-home dad—the only job that allows him to wear his favorite pair of sweatpants all the time. He lives in St. Louis with his family.

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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*

- Into the Hollow (Experiment in Terror #6) by Karina Halle

- Amarok by Angela J. Townsend [Purchase]

- Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey [Purchase]

- Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky [Purchase]

 -  Dangerous Waters by Toni Anderson [Purchase]

- Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland by Bill Willingham [Purchase]

- Every Which Way by Calia Read

- Timeless (Transcend Time Saga #3) by Michelle Madow

- The Prince (The Original Sinners #3) by Tiffany Reisz [Purchase]

- Notorious Nineteen (Stephanie Plum #19) by Janet Evanovich  [Purchase]

- Miss Fortune Cookie by Lauren Bjorkman [Purchase]

- Middle Ground (Awaken #2) by Katie Kacvinsky [Purchase]

   

- Undeadly (The Reaper Diaries #1) by Michele Vail [Purchase]

What's on your to-buy list this week?

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