Fresh Batch (November 25th - December 1st)

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

Flavor of the week:

City of Dark Magic
Magnus Flyte
Publication date: November 27th 2012
by Penguin Books

 

Cosmically fast-paced and wildly imaginative, this debut novel is a perfect potion of magic and suspense

Once a city of enormous wealth and culture, Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers, and, as it’s whispered, hell portals. When music student Sarah Weston lands a summer job at Prague Castle cataloging Beethoven’s manuscripts, she has no idea how dangerous her life is about to become. Prague is a threshold, Sarah is warned, and it is steeped in blood.

Soon after Sarah arrives, strange things begin to happen. She learns that her mentor, who was working at the castle, may not have committed suicide after all. Could his cryptic notes be warnings? As Sarah parses his clues about Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved,” she manages to get arrested, to have tantric sex in a public fountain, and to discover a time-warping drug. She also catches the attention of a four-hundred-year-old dwarf, the handsome Prince Max, and a powerful U.S. senator with secrets she will do anything to hide.

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Magnus Flyte is a pseudonym for the writing duo of Meg Howrey and Christina Lynch. Howrey is a former dancer with the Joffrey II and the winner of an Ovation Award. She is the author of the novels The Cranes Dance and Blind Sight and lives in Los Angeles. Lynch is a television writer and former Milan correspondent for W Magazine. She lives near Sequoia National Park in California.

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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*

- Falling for Summer (Loving Summer #1.9) by Kailin Gow

- Angel in Chains (The Fallen #3) by Cynthia Eden [Purchase]

- Touched (Sense Thieves #1) by Corrine Jackson [Purchase]

- Trapped (Iron Druid Chronicles #5) by Kevin Hearne [Purchase]

 -  Wicked Fate by Tabatha Vargo

- Elixir (Covenant #3.5) by Jennifer L. Armentrout [Purchase]

- Checkmate (A Neighbor from Hell #3) by R.L. Mathewson

- Wild About You (Love at Stake #13) by Kerrelyn Sparks [Purchase]

- Not Dead Yet (Roy Grace #8) by Peter James [Purchase]

- The Lucky Ones (Bright Young Things #3) by Anna Godbersen [Purchase]

- Lullaby (Watersong #2) by Amanda Hocking [Purchase]

- Shadow's Claim (The Dacians #1) by Kresley Cole [Purchase]

- The Gilded Lily by Deborah Swift [Purchase] 

- SEAL Team 666: A Novel by Weston Ochse  [Purchase]

- Kept (Coveted #2) by Shawntelle Madison [Purchase]

- Moonshifted (Edie Spence #2) by Cassie Alexander [Purchase]

- Cold Days (The Dresden Files #14) by Jim Butcher [Purchase] 

- Undead to the World (The Bloodhound Files #6) by D.D. Barant [Purchase]

- Avoiding Responsibility (Avoiding #2) by K.A. Linde

- Never Seen (Shadows, #1) by Matthew Leeth

- The Emperor's Conspiracy by Michelle Diener [Purchase] 

- Unspoken by Lisa Jackson [Purchase]

- The Black Box (Harry Bosch #18) by Michael Connelly [Purchase]

- Secret Sins (The Callahan's #3) by Lora Leigh [Purchase]

- Deadwood by Kell Andrews [Purchase] 

- The Hour of Dreams (The Pace #4) by Shelena Shorts  [Purchase]

- Steel's Edge (The Edge #4) by Ilona Andrews [Purchase]

- Lust for Life (WVMP Radio #4) by Jeri Smith-Ready[Purchase]

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