Fresh Batch (May 5th - 11th)

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

Flavor of the week:

The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey 

Series: The 5th Wave, #1
Publication date: May 7th 2013
by Putnam Juvenile

The Passage meets Ender’s Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.

Watch the epic book trailers, here!

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Rick is a native Floridian and a graduate of Roosevelt University in Chicago. He earned a B.A. in English which he put to use as a field officer for the Internal Revenue Service. Inspired and encouraged by his wife, he decided his degree might also be useful in writing books and in 2004 he began writing full-time.

Since then he has launched two critically acclaimed series: The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, for young readers, and The Highly Effective Detective, for adults. Both books are set in Knoxville, Tennessee, where Rick lived for ten years before returning to Florida. 

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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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- Click to Subscribe by L.M. Augustine

- Game On by Tracy Solheim [Purchase]

- Call Me Zelda by Erika Robuck [Purchase]

- Silence (The Queen of the Dead #1) by Michelle Sagara [Purchase]

- Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger [Purchase]

- Lost and Found by Nicole Williams

- Icons (Icons #1) by Margaret Stohl [Purchase]

- Fall of Night (The Morganville Vampires #14) by Rachel Caine [Purchase]

- Dead Ever After (Sookie Stackhouse #13) by Charlaine Harris [Purchase]

- If I Should Die (Revenants #3) by Amy Plum [Purchase]

- Invisibility by Andrea Cremer and David Levithan [Purchase]

- Coda (Coda) by Emma Trevayne [Purchase]

- Maid of Secrets (Maids of Honor #1) by Jennifer McGowan [Purchase]

- The Lucy Variations by Sara Zarr [Purchase]

- Chantress (Chantress Trilogy #1) by Amy Butler Greenfield [Purchase]

- The Heiresses by Allison Rushby [Purchase]

- Heart of Iron (London Steampunk #2) by Bec McMaster [Purchase]

- The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell [Purchase]

- Reboot (Reboot #1) by Amy Tintera [Purchase]

- Down London Road (On Dublin Street #2) by Samantha Young [Purchase]

- The Lake House by Marci Nault [Purchase]

- Inhale, Exhale by Sarah M. Ross

- Doll Bones by Holly Black [Purchase]

- The Savage Blue (The Vicious Deep #2) by Zoraida Córdova [Purchase]

- Blush by Lauren Jameson [Purchase]

- Tremble (Denazen #3) by Jus Accardo [Purchase]

- The Originals by Cat Patrick [Purchase]

- How My Summer Went Up in Flames by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski [Purchase]

- Lost in You by Heidi McLaughlin

- Ours To Love (Wicked Lovers #7) by Shayla Black [Purchase]

- Loki's Wolves (The Blackwell Pages #1) by K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr [Purchase]

- True by Erin McCarthy [Purchase]

- Wednesdays in the Tower (Castle Glower #2) by Jessica Day George [Purchase] 

- The End Games by T. Michael Martin [Purchase]

- The Summer I Became a Nerd by Leah Rae Miller [Purchase]

- Silken Prey (Lucas Davenport #23) by John Sandford [Purchase]

- The Cursed (League of the Black Swan #1) by Alyssa Day [Purchase] 

- Beauty by Nancy Ohlin [Purchase]

- Hopeless (Hopeless #1) by Colleen Hoover [Purchase]

- Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland [Purchase]

- The Grimoire of the Lamb (The Iron Druid Chronicles 0.4) by Kevin Hearne [Purchase] 

- Zenn Scarlett by Christian Schoon [Purchase]

- The Week Before the Wedding by Beth Kendrick [Purchase]

- Thorn Abbey by Nancy Ohlin [Purchase]

- Once Upon a Prince (Royal Wedding Series #1) by Rachel Hauck [Purchase] 

- The Inquisitor's Wife: A Novel of Renaissance Spain by Jeanne Kalogridis [Purchase]

- Ever Enough by Stacy Borel

- Levitating Las Vegas by Jennifer Echols

 

- The S-Word by Chelsea Pitcher [Purchase] 

- Mystic (The Soul Seekers #3) by Alyson Noel [Purchase]

- Criminal by Terra Elan McVoy [Purchase]

- Fifteenth Summer by Michelle Dalton [Purchase]

- Seven Deadly Sins Vol. 1: Lust; Envy by Robin Wasserman [Purchase] 

- Seven Deadly Sins Vol. 2: Pride; Wrath by Robin Wasserman [Purchase]

- The Reluctant Assassin (W.A.R.P. #1) by Eoin Colfer [Purchase] 

- 15 Days Without a Head by Dave Cousins [Purchase]

  - The Star Shards Chronicles: Scorpion Shards, Thief of Souls, Shattered Sky by Neal Shusterman [Purchase]  

- Riptide by Lindsey Scheibe [Purchase]

This week is pretty freaking awesome! 
What on top of your wishlist?

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