Fresh Batch (May 12th - 18th)

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

Flavor of the week:

Golden
Jessi Kirby 

Publication date: May 14th 2013
by Simon & Schuster BfYR

Seventeen-year-old Parker Frost has never taken the road less traveled. Valedictorian and quintessential good girl, she’s about to graduate high school without ever having kissed her crush or broken the rules. So when fate drops a clue in her lap—one that might be the key to unraveling a town mystery—she decides to take a chance.

Julianna Farnetti and Shane Cruz are remembered as the golden couple of Summit Lakes High—perfect in every way, meant to be together forever. But Julianna’s journal tells a different story—one of doubts about Shane and a forbidden romance with an older, artistic guy. These are the secrets that were swept away with her the night that Shane’s jeep plunged into an icy river, leaving behind a grieving town and no bodies to bury.

Reading Julianna’s journal gives Parker the courage to start to really live—and it also gives her reasons to question what really happened the night of the accident. Armed with clues from the past, Parker enlists the help of her best friend, Kat, and Trevor, her longtime crush, to track down some leads. The mystery ends up taking Parker places that she never could have imagined. And she soon finds that taking the road less traveled makes all the difference.

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Jessi Kirby is a former English teacher and librarian. She lives in Orange County, CA with her husband and two kids, where she writes stories and runs the beach every day. Well, almost every day. 

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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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- Under the Light (Light #2) by Laura Whitcomb [Purchase]

- Eternal Embrace (Darkness Within #3) by Jennifer Turner

- School Spirits (School Spirits #1) by Rachel Hawkins [Purchase]

- Five Summers by Una LaMarche [Purchase]

- Purgatory Reign by L.M. Preston [Purchase]

- Spirit and Dust (Goodnight Family) by Rosemary Clement-Moore [Purchase]

- Inferno (Robert Langdon #4) by Dan Brown [Purchase]

- The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil #1) by Soman Chainani [Purchase]

- The Forgotten Ones (The Danaan Trilogy #1) by Laura Howard [Purchase]

- Towering by Alex Flinn [Purchase]

- The Rithmatist (Rithmatist #1) by Brandon Sanderson [Purchase]

- The Rules for Disappearing by Ashley Elston [Purchase]

- Pieces of You (Shattered Hearts #2) by Cassia Leo

- Winger by Andrew Smith [Purchase]

- The Rose Throne (The Rose Throne, #1) by Mette Ivie Harrison [Purchase]

- He's Gone by Deb Caletti [Purchase]

- Parallel by Lauren Miller [Purchase]

- Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible by Suzanne Kamata [Purchase]

- The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story by Dean King [Purchase]

- The Beautiful and the Cursed (The Dispossessed #1) by Page Morgan [Purchase]

- Truth or Dare (Truth or Dare #1) by Jacqueline Green [Purchase]

- The Boleyn King (The Boleyn Trilogy #1) by Laura Andersen [Purchase]

- Eyes Wide Open (The Blackstone Affair #3) by Raine Miller [Purchase]

- Trying Not To Love You by Megan Smith

 

- The Kissing Booth by Beth Reekles [Purchase] 

- Formerly Shark Girl (Shark Girl #2) by Kelly Bingham [Purchase]

- Poppet (Jack Caffery) by Mo Hayder [Purchase]

- Firecracker by David Iserson [Purchase]

- The Color of Rain by Cori McCarthy [Purchase]  

- The Last Hour (Thompson Sisters) by Charles Sheehan-Miles [Purchase]

- The Cydonian Pyramid (The Klaatu Diskos #2) by Pete Hautman [Purchase]

So what is everyone excited for this week?

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