Stacking the Shelves is all about sharing the books you recently acquired, be it a physical or virtual copy, a book borrow from the library or purchased. This is a weekly meme that is hosted by
Tynga's Reviews, so be sure to check there on Saturdays and see what everyone else has added to their shelves!
This continues the ALA haul from January 27th. All titles link to Goodreads.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Spiritualism and
séances are all the rage—even in the scholarly town of Cambridge, England.
While mediums dupe the grief-stricken, a group of local fringe scientists seeks
to bridge the gap to the spirit world by investigating the dark corners of the
human mind.
Each running from a shadowed past, Kate, Asher, and Elsie
take refuge within the walls of Summerfield College. But their peace is soon
shattered by the discovery of a dead body nearby. Is this the work of a
flesh-and-blood villain, or is something otherworldly at play? This unlikely
trio must illuminate what the scientists have not, and open a window to secrets
taken to the grave—or risk joining the spirit world themselves.
On the alien, sunless planet they call Eden, the 532 members
of the Family shelter beneath the light and warmth of the Forest’s lantern
trees. Beyond the Forest lie the mountains of the Snowy Dark and a cold so
bitter and a night so profound that no man has ever crossed it.
The Oldest among the Family recount legends of a world where
light came from the sky, where men and women made boats that could cross the
stars. These ships brought us here, the Oldest say—and the Family must only wait
for the travelers to return.
But young John Redlantern will break the laws of Eden,
shatter the Family and change history. He will abandon the old ways, venture
into the Dark…and discover the truth about their world.
Zach, Poppy and Alice have been friends for ever. They love
playing with their action figure toys, imagining a magical world of adventure
and heroism. But disaster strikes when, without warning, Zach’s father throws out
all his toys, declaring he’s too old for them. Zach is furious, confused and
embarrassed, deciding that the only way to cope is to stop playing . . . and
stop being friends with Poppy and Alice. But one night the girls pay Zach a
visit, and tell him about a series of mysterious occurrences. Poppy swears that
she is now being haunted by a china doll – who claims that it is made from the
ground-up bones of a murdered girl. They must return the doll to where the girl
lived, and bury it. Otherwise the three children will be cursed for eternity .
. .
Exile / Kevin
Emerson / April 29, 2014
Catherine Summer Carlson knows how to manage bands like a
professional—she’s a student at the PopArts Academy at Mount Hope High, where
rock legends Allegiance to North got their start. Summer knows that falling for
the lead singer of her latest band is the least professional thing a manager
can do. But Caleb Daniels isn’t an ordinary band boy—he’s a hot, dreamy,
sweet-singing, exiled-from-his-old-band, possibly-with-a-deep-dark-side band
boy. And he can do that thing. That thing when someone sings a song and it
inhabits you, possesses you, and moves you like a marionette to its will.
Summer also finds herself at the center of a mystery she
never saw coming. When Caleb reveals a secret about his long-lost father, one
band’s past becomes another’s present, and Summer finds it harder and harder to
be both band manager and girlfriend. She knows what the well-mannered Catherine
side of her would do, but she also knows what her heart is telling her. Maybe
it’s time to accept who she really is, even if it means becoming an exile
herself. . . .
The Eye of Minds is the first book in The Mortality
Doctrine, a series set in a world of hyperadvanced technology, cyberterrorists,
and gaming beyond your wildest dreams . . . and your worst nightmares. This
sounds super interesting to me.
Fangirl / Rainbow
Rowell / September 10, 2013
I have been hearing such great things about this that I have
no Idea how I have put it off this long. I will definitely be picking it up
soon.
A historical fiction novel about the lives of an unwed
seamstress, fighting to support her daughter, and poet, making her next grand
tour, colliding. Set in the late 1920’s and early 30’s this looks like an
interesting story chock full of amazing historical details.
Fates / Lanie Bross
/ February 11, 2014
One moment. One foolish desire. One mistake. And Corinthe
lost everything.
She fell from her tranquil life in Pyralis Terra and found
herself exiled to the human world. Her punishment? To make sure people's fates
unfold according to plan. Now, years later, Corinthe has one last assignment:
kill Lucas Kaller. His death will be her ticket home.
But for the first time, Corinthe feels a tingle of doubt. It
begins as a lump in her throat, then grows toward her heart, and suddenly she
feels like she is falling all over again--this time for a boy she knows she can
never have. Because it is written: one of them must live, and one of them must
die. In a universe where every moment, every second, every fate has already
been decided, where does love fit in?
You may think me
biased, being murdered myself. But my state of being has nothing to do with the
curiosity toward my own species, if we can be called such. We do not go gentle,
as your poet encourages, into that good night.
A dead girl walks the streets. She
hunts murderers. Child killers, much like the man who threw her body down a
well three hundred years ago.
And when a strange boy bearing stranger tattoos moves into
the neighborhood so, she discovers, does something else. And soon both will be
drawn into the world of eerie doll rituals and dark Shinto exorcisms that will
take them from American suburbia to the remote valleys
and shrines of Aomori,
Japan. Because the boy has a terrifying secret - one that would
just kill to get out.
Sixteen-year-old Austin Szerba interweaves the story of his
Polish legacy with the story of how he and his best friend , Robby, brought
about the end of humanity and the rise of an army of unstoppable, six-foot tall
praying mantises in small-town Iowa.
To make matters worse, Austin's hormones are totally
oblivious; they don't care that the world is in utter chaos: Austin is in love
with his girlfriend, Shann, but remains confused about his sexual orientation.
He's stewing in a self-professed constant state of maximum horniness, directed
at both Robby and Shann. Ultimately, it's up to Austin to save the world and
propagate the species in this sci-fright journey of survival, sex, and the
complex realities of the human condition.
Feel free to leave a comment and let me know if any sound interesting to you or if you have read any of them. I can't wait to see some of your shelves!!
