Fresh Batch (March 3rd - 9th)

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Flavor of the week:

Requiem

Lauren Oliver

Series: Delirium #3
Genre:YA Dystopian
Publication date: March 5th 2013
by HarperTeen

They have tried to squeeze us out, to stamp us into the past.

But we are still here.

And there are more of us every day.

Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has been transformed. The nascent rebellion that was under way in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight.

After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven—pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. Regulators now infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out the rebels, and as Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous terrain, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland as the fiancée of the young mayor.

Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings.

Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it.

But we have chosen a different road.

And in the end, that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.

We are even free to choose the wrong thing.

Requiem is told from both Lena’s and Hana’s points of view. The two girls live side by side in a world that divides them until, at last, their stories converge.

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Lauren Oliver comes from a family of writers and so has always (mistakenly) believed that spending hours in front of the computer every day, mulling over the difference between “chortling” and “chuckling,” is normal. She has always been an avid reader.

She attended the University of Chicago, where she continued to be as impractical as possible by majoring in philosophy and literature. After college, she attended the MFA program at NYU and worked briefly as the world’s worst editorial assistant, and only marginally better assistant editor, at a major publishing house in New York. Her major career contributions during this time were flouting the corporate dress code at every possible turn and repeatedly breaking the printer. Before I Fall is her first published 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*

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- Orleans by Sherri L. Smith [Purchase]

- Telling the Bees by Peggy Hesketh [Purchase]

- The Murmurings by Carly Anne West [Purchase]

- The Culling (The Torch Keeper #1) by Steven dos Santos [Purchase]

- The Conjuring Glass (The Phoenix Girls, #1) by Brian Knight 

- Dexter's Debut (Dexter #7) by Jeff Lindsay [Purchase]

- The Nightmare Affair (The Arkwell Academy #1) by Mindee Arnett [Purchase]

- Flirting with Maybe by Wendy Higgins [Purchase]

- Strength (Mark of Nexus #1) by Carrie Butler 

- Code (Virals #3) by Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs [Purchase]

- What Darkness Brings (Sebastian St. Cyr #8) by C.S. Harris [Purchase]

- Unravel by Calia Read

- Crave the Darkness (Shaede Assassin #3) by Amanda Bonilla [Purchase]

- The Prince (The Selection 0.5) by Kiera Cass [Purchase]

- Unremembered (Unremembered #1) by Jessica Brody [Purchase]

- Bruised by Sarah Skilton [Purchase]

- Mating Instinct (Moon Shifter #3) by Katie Reus [Purchase]

- Agave Kiss (Corine Solomon #5) by Ann Aguirre [Purchase]

- The Sun Trail (Warriors: Dawn of the Clans #1) by Erin Hunter [Purchase]

- Let the Sky Fall (Let the Sky Fall #1) by Shannon Messenger [Purchase]

- Spellcaster (Spellcaster #1) by Claudia Gray [Purchase]

- Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi [Purchase]

- The Turncoat: Renegades of the Revolution by Donna Thorland [Purchase]

- Notes from a Coma by Mike McCormack [Purchase]

- Thrown by a Curve (Play by Play #5) by Jaci Burton [Purchase]

- Legacy of the Clockwork Key (Secret Order of Modern Amusmentists #1) by Kristin Bailey [Purchase]

- Day of Doom (The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers #6) by David Baldacci [Purchase]

- A Conspiracy of Alchemists (The Chronicles of Light and Shadow #1) by Liesel Schwarz [Purchase]

- Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson #7) by Patricia Briggs [Purchase]

- Slashback (Cal Leandros #8) by Rob Thurman [Purchase]

- Thirst No. 5: The Sacred Veil (Thirst #5) by Christopher Pike [Purchase]

- The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper [Purchase]

- Death, Doom, and Detention (Darklight #2) by Darynda Jones [Purchase]

- Written in Red (The Others #1) by Anne Bishop [Purchase]

- Undead and Underwater (Undead #11.5) by MaryJanice Davidson [Purchase]

- Reckless (Thoughtless #3) by S.C. Stephens [Purchase]

- Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger [Purchase]

- The Holders (Holders #1) by Julianna Scott [Purchase]

- Dear Cassie by Lisa Burstein [Purchase]

- Real Vampires Know Hips Happen (Glory St. Clair #9) by Gerry Bartlett [Purchase]

- Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven (Delirium 0.5, 1.5, 2.5) by Lauren Oliver [Purchase]

- The Chalice (Crown #2) by Nancy Bilyeau [Purchase]

- Because You Are Mine by Beth Kery [Purchase]

- A Touch Menacing (A Touch Trilogy #3) by Leah Clifford [Purchase]

- Flowers in the Sky by Lynn Joseph [Purchase]

- When We Wake by Karen Healey [Purchase]

- Lessons in French: A Novel by Hilary Reyl [Purchase]

- Midnight Blue-Light Special (InCryptid #2) by Seanan McGuire [Purchase]

- The Watcher by Lisa Voisin [Purchase]

- Wild Invitation by Nalini Singh [Purchase]

- Infatuate (Gilded Wings #2) by Aimee Agresti [Purchase]

- How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid [Purchase]

- Raven (Delirium #2.5) by Lauren Oliver [Purchase]

- The Obituary Writer by Ann Hood [Purchase]

- Undone (Unraveling #1.5) by Elizabeth Norris [Purchase]

- Reservation (Preservation #2) by Rachael Wade 

 

- The Mapmaker's War: A Legend by Ronlyn Domingue [Purchase]

- When We Touch (When I'm With You #1) by Beth Kery [Purchase]

- The Wild Ones (The Wild Ones #1) by M. Leighton [Purchase]

- The Shape Stealer (Black Swan Rising #3) by Lee Carroll [Purchase]

- The Midnight Spell by Rhiannon Frater and Kody Boye

Well this is quite a great start of the month so far!

What are you the most excited for this week?

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