Stacking the Shelves 10

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 STS concludes my ALA haul from Jan. 27th. All titles link to Goodreads.

The Ruining / Anna Collomore / February 7, 2013

Annie Phillips is thrilled to leave her past behind and begin a shiny new life on Belvedere Island, as a nanny for the picture-perfect Cohen family. In no time at all, she falls in love with the Cohens, especially with Libby, the beautiful young matriarch of the family. Life is better than she ever imagined. She even finds romance with the boy next door.

All too soon cracks appear in Annie's seemingly perfect world. She's blamed for mistakes she doesn't remember making. Her bedroom door comes unhinged, and she feels like she's always being watched. Libby, who once felt like a big sister, is suddenly cold and unforgiving. As she struggles to keep up with the demands of her new life, Annie's fear gives way to frightening hallucinations. Is she tumbling into madness, or is something sinister at play?

See Jane Run / Hannah Jayne / January 7, 2014

I know who you are.

When Riley first gets the postcard tucked into her bag, she thinks it's a joke. Then she finds a birth certificate for a girl named Jane Elizabeth O'Leary hidden inside her baby book.

Riley's parents have always been pretty overprotective. What if it wasn't for her safety...but fear of her finding out their secret? What have they been hiding? The more Riley digs for answers, the more questions she has.

The only way to know the truth? Find out what happened to Jane O'Leary.

The Splendour Falls / Susanna Kearsley / January 14, 2014 

Chinon-chateau of legend, steeped in the history of France and England. It is to Chinon that Emily goes on a long-awaited holiday, to meet her charming but unreliable cousin, Harry. Harry wanted to explore the old town and the castle, where Queen Isabelle, child bride of King John, had withstood the siege of Chinon many centuries ago, and where, according to legend, she hid her casket of jewels. But when Emily arrives at her hotel she finds that Harry has disappeared, and as she tries to find him she becomes involved with some of the other guests and learns of a mystery dating from the German occupation during the Second World War. Another Isabelle, a chambermaid at the hotel, fell in love with a German soldier, with tragic results.

Emily becomes increasingly aware of strange tensions, old enmities and new loves; as she explores the city, with its labyrinthine dungeons and tunnels and its ancient secrets, she comes ever closer to the mystery of what happened to both the Isabelles of Chinon's history.

Steelheart / Brandon Sanderson / September 24, 2013

There are no heroes.

Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics.

But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his wills.

Nobody fights the Epics... nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them.

And David wants in. He wants Steelheart—the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father. For years, like the Reckoners, David's been studying, and planning—and he has something they need. Not an object, but an experience.

He's seen Steelheart bleed. And he wants revenge.

Tease / Amanda Maciel / April 29, 2014

This story sounds very realistic and heavy. After a classmate commits suicide because of all the bullying she has endures, the tormenters are ostrisized by their peers and community. If that was not bad enough, they are now facing criminal charges.

Undone / Cat Clarke / January 31, 2013

Jem Halliday is in love with her gay be

st friend. Not exactly ideal, but she's learning to live with it.

Then the unspeakable happens. Kai is outed online ... and he kills himself.

Jem knows nothing she can say or do will bring him back. But she wants to know who was responsible. And she wants to take them down.

UnSouled / Neal Shusterman / November 7, 2013

The third book in the Unwind dystology, I have read the first book, Unwind and it was amazing. I can’t wait to continue the story.

Winger / Andrew W. Smith / May 14, 2013

Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids. He’s living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he’s madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy.

With the help of his sense of humor, rugby buddies, and his penchant for doodling comics, Ryan Dean manages to survive life’s complications and even find some happiness along the way. But when the unthinkable happens, he has to figure out how to hold on to what’s important, even when it feels like everything has fallen apart.

Stacking the Shelves 9

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 STS continues my ALA haul from Jan. 27th. All title link to Goodreads.

Half Bad / Sally Green / March 25, 2014

I have no idea how I have put this one off. It is one of my most anticipated reads for this year. Set in modern day England, two factions of witches are living amongst humans. Nathan, the MC, is a hybrid, born form a good witch and a bad. He must break free from his cage to find the one man who can bring him into his powers, his father the most feared witch in the world. 

Haze / Paula Weston / May 22, 2013

This is the sequel to Shadows, which I have not read yet. I don’t want to look too far into this one and spoil the story for myself.

The Impossible Knifeof Memory / Laurie Halse Anderson / January 7, 2014

For the past five years, Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend school. Perhaps, for the first time, Hayley can have a normal life, put aside her own painful memories, even have a relationship with Finn, the hot guy who obviously likes her but is hiding secrets of his own.

Will being back home help Andy’s PTSD, or will his terrible memories drag him to the edge of hell, and drugs push him over? The Impossible Knife of Memory is Laurie Halse Anderson at her finest: compelling, surprising, and impossible to put down.

Insanity / Susan Vaught / February 14, 2014

Never, Kentucky is not your average scenic small town. It is a crossways, a place where the dead and the living can find no peace. Not that Forest, an 18-year-old foster kid who works the graveyard shift at Lincoln Hospital, knew this when she applied for the job. Lincoln is a huge state mental institution, a good place for Forest to make some money to pay for college. But along with hundreds of very unstable patients, it also has underground tunnels, bell towers that ring unexpectedly, and a closet that holds more than just donated clothing....When the dead husband of one of Forest's patients makes an appearance late one night, seemingly accompanied by an agent of the Devil, Forest loses all sense of reality and all sense of time. Terrified, she knows she has a part to play, and when she does so, she finds a heritage that she never expected.

Just One Day / Gayle Forman / August 20, 2013

Allyson Healey's life is exactly like her suitcase—packed, planned, ordered. Then on the last day of her three-week post-graduation European tour, she meets Willem. A free-spirited, roving actor, Willem is everything she’s not, and when he invites her to abandon her plans and come to Paris with him, Allyson says yes. This uncharacteristic decision leads to a day of risk and romance, liberation and intimacy: 24 hours that will transform Allyson’s life.

Lovely, Dark and Deep / Amy McNamara / October  16, 2012

Since the night of the crash, Wren Wells has been running away. Though she lived through the accident that killed her boyfriend Patrick, the girl she used to be didn’t survive. Instead of heading off to college as planned, Wren retreats to her father’s studio in the far-north woods of Maine. Somewhere she can be alone.

Then she meets Cal Owen. Dealing with his own troubles, Cal’s hiding out too. When the chemistry between them threatens to pull Wren from her hard-won isolation, Wren has to choose: risk opening her broken heart to the world again, or join the ghosts who haunt her.

Maybe One Day / Melissa Kantor / February 18, 2014

Zoe and her best friend, Olivia, have always had big plans for the future, none of which included Olivia getting sick. Still, Zoe is determined to put on a brave face and be positive for her friend.

Even when she isn't sure what to say.

Even when Olivia misses months of school.

Even when Zoe starts falling for Calvin, Olivia's crush.

The one thing that keeps Zoe moving forward is knowing that Olivia will beat this, and everything will go back to the way it was before. It has to. Because the alternative is too terrifying for her to even imagine.

Orphan Train / Christina Baker Kline / April 2, 2013

A captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask.

Out of the Easy / Ruta Sepetys / February 12, 2013

It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer.

She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled in an investigation that will challenge her allegiance to her mother, her conscience, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on Conti Street. Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine underworld. New Orleans lures her in her quest for truth, dangling temptation at every turn, and escalating to the ultimate test.

Prodigy / Marie Lu / January 29, 2013

I refuse to learn anything about this book or Champion, which I have already stacked. One day I will marathon read all of these!!!!

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!!

Stacking the Shelves #2

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!

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Here is the rest of my Saturday, January 25th haul and the start of my verrrry big Sunday, January 26th finds. 

The Other Typist / Suzanne Rindell / May 7, 2013

I am super excited about this book! It has been on my to-read list since I first heard about it and I was lucky enough to get a really nice signed hardcover copy. It sound like a really interesting story, set in 1923, of a one woman’s decent into obsession of another woman and the lifestyle that she has been shown.

Outcasts / Jill Williamson / January 7, 2014

When I picked this book up I didn’t realize that it was part two in a three book series. I am still intrigued by the story that follows three brothers and will definitely be on the lookout for the first book so I can get reading!

Savage Girl / Jean Zimmerman / March 6, 2014

This story sounds amazing. A young woman who was, reportedly, raised by wolves is adopted by a wealthy New York family in 1875. Her immersion into high society is plagued by secrets and murder. What I find most interesting is that the story is narrated by the son of the family that adopted the woman, who also happens to be in love with her. Oh, and he is telling the story from jail where he is taking the fall for “his Savage Girl.”

The Scar Boys / Len Vlahos / January 21, 2014

A young man gives us an account of his life as he writes his admissions essay for the colleges that he is trying to get into. He has gone through some hard times, being disfigured at a young age due to bullying and made friends and started a band to get through the struggles that came after. 

Tremor / Patrick Carman / February 25, 2014

I have been meaning to read Pulse for a while now and I am hoping that having the sequel will push me to grab it from the library soon!

White Space / Isla Bick / February 11, 2014

The blurb from the back of the ARC reads, “…the first in a new YA series in the mind-bending tradition of The Matrix and Inception: where realities are fluid and nightmares live in a lost world between the lines.” Now, I don’t really know how to explain the rest of it, but it sounds very interesting from what I have been reading. 

This marks the beginning of my Sunday, January 26th haul!

The Angel of Losses / Stephanie Feldman / July 29, 2014

The death of her grandfather sends Marjorie on an adventure to uncover the secrets hidden in his past and the dangers that lurk there with them. I am looking forward to exploring the Jewish folktales that are interwoven in this story.

Ask Me / Kimberly Pauley / April 8, 2014

The premise of this book sounds very interesting, but I am worried that it will not live up to its potential. As an oracle, Aria Moore has the power to gain answers to any question a person asks of her. When a classmate goes missing she may be the only one who has the ability to find out what happened, even if the truth puts her in danger of becoming the next victim. 

Bittersweet / Miranda Beverly-Whittemore / May 13, 2014

I don’t really know what to make of this one, I just read the first chapter and I think I will enjoy it, but who knows. It is about a scholarship student at a prestigious East Coast college who gets enmeshed in the life of her roommate’s family, who happen to be very wealthy. Upon learning some damning secrets about the family she must choose whether or not to hold in what she knows and continue living a lavish life or to tell and lose everything.

The Body in the Woods / April Henry / June 17, 2014

Three teens become friends after joining a Search and Rescue team. Their relationship strengths when in the course of looking for an autistic man lost in the woods they uncover a dead girl’s body. This takes them on an adventure to figure out what happened and who the killer is, hopefully before one of them gets hurt.

 Burn Out / Kristi Helvig / April 8, 2014

I think I am going to like this one. It is about a girl who has been living in an underground shelter by herself after losing her family when the sun turns “red giant” and damages the earth. Her one purpose in life now is to protect the bio-energetic weapons her father created. Her will is tested when old friends and the government show up to take the weapons she must make a choice on who she can trust, not only with her life but a with her father’s weapons as well.

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Feel free to leave some comments and let me know if any sound interesting to you or  if you have any questions about any of the books. I can't wait to see some of your shelves!!