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    Post by Katerina on Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:56 pm

    Jennifer Estep-(Elemental Assassin Book 5)-By a Thread
    RD Feb 28, 2012

    Genre: Urban Fantasy
    Summary

    When killing people is your job, there’s no such thing as a vacation.
    Then again, how often does an assassin live long enough to enjoy her retirement? In this line of work, you either get lucky or you get dead. And since I destroyed my nemesis Mab Monroe a few weeks ago, all of Ashland’s lowlifes are gunning to make a name for themselves by taking out the lethal Spider—me, Gin Blanco. So I’m leaving behind my beloved barbecue joint and heading south with my baby sister, Bria, to cool my heels in a swanky beach town. Call it a weekend of fun in the sun. But when a powerful vampire with deadly elemental magic threatens an old friend of Bria’s, it looks like I’ll have to dig my silverstone knives out of my suitcase after all. Complicating matters further is the reappearance of Detective Donovan Caine, my old lover. But Donovan is the least of my problems. Because this time, the danger is hot on my trail, and not even my elemental Ice and Stone magic may be enough to save me from getting buried in the sand—permanently.


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    Post by Katerina on Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:11 pm

    Meg Cabot -Insatiable Book #2- Overbite
    RD Feb 7, 2012

    Genre: Paranormal Romance
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    Meena Harper has bitten off more than she can chew . . .

    Meena has a special gift, but only now does anyone appreciate it. Her ability to predict how everyone she meets will die has impressed the Palatine Guard—a powerful secret demon-hunting unit of the Vatican—and they’ve hired her to work at their new branch in Lower Manhattan. Sure, Meena’s ex-boyfriend was Lucien Antonescu, son of Dracula. But that was before he (and their relationship) went up in flames, and now she’s sworn off vampires for good—even though she firmly believes that just because they’ve lost their souls, it doesn’t mean they can’t love.

    Convincing her new partner, Über-demon-hunter Alaric Wulf, that vampires can be redeemed won’t be easy . . . especially when a deadly new threat arises, endangering not only the Palatine, but Meena’s friends and family as well. As she unravels the truth, Meena will find her loyalties tested, her true feelings laid bare . . . and temptations she never even imagined before nearly impossible to resist.

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    Post by Katerina on Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:20 pm

    Kristen Callihan - A prequel to Firelight - Ember
    RD Feb 1, 2012

    Genre: Paranormal Romance
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    After a fire consumes the Ellis family fortune, the beautiful and resourceful Miranda finds herself faced with an impossible dilemma: enter a life of petty crime or watch her family succumb to poverty. But once her fiancée learns of her descent into danger--and of the strange, new powers she's discovered --saving her family may come at the high price of her heart.

    When Lord Benjamin Archer's one chance for redemption is destroyed by corrupt London antiquarian Hector Ellis, he vows to take what Ellis values most-his daughter Miranda. Forced to hide his face behind masks, Archer travels the world hoping to escape the curse that plagues him so that he can finally claim his prize.

    But once Archer returns home to London, will it be revenge he seeks? Or will the flame-haired beauty ignite new, undeniable desires?

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    Post by Katerina on Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:25 pm

    Sara Wilson Etienne - Harbinger
    RD Feb 2, 2012

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    Girl, Interrupted meets Beautiful Creatures in this fast-paced thriller

    When sixteen-year-old Faye arrives at Holbrook Academy, she doesn't expect to find herself exactly where she needs to be. After years of strange waking visions and nightmares, her only comfort the bones of dead animals, Faye is afraid she's going crazy. Fast.

    But her first night at Holbrook, she feels strangely connected to the school and the island it sits on, like she's come home. She's even made her first real friends, but odd things keep happening to them. Every morning they wake on the floors of their dorm rooms with their hands stained red.

    Faye knows she's the reason, but what does it all mean? The handsome Kel tries to help her unravel the mystery, but Faye is certain she can't trust him; in fact, he may be trying to kill her - and the rest of the world too.

    Rich, compelling writing will keep the pages turning in this riveting and tautly told psychological thriller.

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    Post by Katerina on Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:35 pm

    Alex Flinn - (The Kendra Chronicles Book #1)- Bewitching
    RD Feb 14, 2012

    Genre:Y/A
    Summary

    Bewitching can be a beast. . . .

    Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. That one turned out all right. Others didn't.

    I go to a new school now - one where no one knows that I should have graduated long ago. I'm not still here because I'm stupid; I just don't age.

    You see, I'm immortal. And I pretty much know everything after hundreds of years - except for when to take my powers and butt out.

    I want to help, but things just go awry in ways I could never predict. Like when I tried to free some children from a gingerbread house and ended up being hanged. After I came back from the dead (immortal, remember?), I tried to play matchmaker for a French prince and ended up banished from France forever. And that little mermaid I found in the Titanic lifeboat? I don't even want to think about it.

    Now a girl named Emma needs me. I probably shouldn't get involved, but her gorgeous stepsister is conniving to the core. I think I have just the thing to fix that girl - and it isn't an enchanted pumpkin. Although you never know what will happen when I start . . . bewitching.

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    Post by Katerina on Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:39 pm

    Caitlin Kittredge - (The Iron Codex Book #2)- The Nightmare Garden
    RD Feb 14, 2012

    Genre:Y/A
    Summary

    Everything Aoife thought she knew about the world was a lie. There is no Necrovirus. And Aoife isn't going to succomb to madness because of a latent strain—she will lose her faculties because she is allergic to iron. Aoife isn't human. She is a changeling—half human and half from the land of Thorn. And time is running out for her.

    When Aoife destroyed the Lovecraft engine she released the monsters from the Thorn Lands into the Iron Lands and now she must find a way to seal the gates and reverse the destruction she's ravaged on the world that's about to poison her.

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    Post by Katerina on Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:46 pm

    Kai Meyer - (Arcadia Trilogy Book #1)- Arcadia Awakens
    RD Feb 14, 2012

    Genre:Y/A
    Summary

    To New Yorker Rosa Alcantara, the exotic world of Sicily, with its network of Mafia families and its reputation for murder and intrigue, is just that—exotic, and wholly unknown. But when tragedy strikes, she must travel there, to her family’s ancestral home, where her sister and aunt have built their lives and where centuries of family secrets await her. Once there, Rosa wastes no time falling head over heels for Alessandro Carnevare, the son of a Sicilian Mafia family, whose handsome looks and savage grace both intrigue and unsettle her. But their families are sworn enemies, and her aunt and sister believe Alessandro is only using Rosa to infiltrate the Alcantara clan. And when Rosa encounters a tiger one night—a tiger with very familiar eyes—she can no longer deny that neither the Carnevares nor the Alcantaras are what they seem.

    Ancient myths brought to life in the Sicilian countryside, dangerous beasts roaming the hills, and a long history of familial bloodlust prove to Rosa that she can’t trust anyone—not even her own family. Torn between loyalty to her aunt and love for her family’s mortal enemy, Rosa must make the hardest decision of her life: stay in Sicily with her new love . . . or run as far and as fast as she can.

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    Post by Katerina on Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:52 am

    Kelly Keaton - Gods & Monsters Book #2-A Beautiful Evil
    RD Feb 21, 2012

    Genre: Urban Fantasy
    Summary

    Myth and mayhem inhabit a richly reimagined New Orleans in this sequel to Darkness Becomes Her.After the epic graveyard battle at the end of Darkness Becomes Her, Ari and her friends know what they’re up against: Ari is facing the Medusa curse and is haunted by the image of what she will become. To make matters worse, the heinous goddess Athena has kidnapped young Violet and is threatening to destroy Ari.
    Ari, along with the superhot Sebastian, is doing everything she can to learn more about Athena and to get Violet back. But the battle of good and evil is bigger than she realizes, and she’s about to be pulled into a world more horrific than she could ever imagine....

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    Post by Katerina on Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:04 am

    Cayla Kluver - Legacy Trilogy Book #2-Allegiance
    RD Feb 28, 2012

    Genre: Young Adult Romance
    Summary

    He couldn't help his past any more than he could help the way those intense, deep blue eyes pierced me and held me captive.
    An eighteen-year-old queen in love with the enemy as their countries pass the point of no return…

    Bound to a man she cannot love, Queen Alera of Hytanica must forget Narian, the young man who holds her heart. For Narian is destined to conquer Hytanica at the behest of his master, the powerful magic-user known as the Overlord. Alera doesn't truly believe Narian will fight against Hytanica—until Cokyrian troops attack with Narian commanding the charge.

    Faced with the greatest betrayal a heart can know, Alera must set aside personal feelings and lead her kingdom through its darkest time. And when all hope, will and courage seem lost, she must find strength and remember that even the blackest night must have a dawn….

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    Post by Katerina on Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:12 am

    Melissa Marr - Faery Tales & Nightmares
    RD Feb 21, 2012

    Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
    Summary

    Dangerous promises and beguiling threats swirl together in a dozen stories of enchantments, dark and light, by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr. Uncanny and unexpected creatures appear from behind bushes, rise from under the seas, or manifest from seasonal storms to pursue the objects of their attention—with amorous or sinister intent—relentlessly.

    From the gentle tones of a story-teller’s cadences to the terror of a blood sacrifice, tales of favorite characters from Marr’s Wicked Lovely novels mix with accounts of new characters for readers to fall in love with . . . or to fear.

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    Post by Katerina on Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:19 am

    Leah Clifford - (Touch, book 2)- A Touch Morbid
    RD Feb 28, 2012

    Genre: Paranormal Romance
    Summary

    Eden won the battle-she saved her true love from the darkest evil. But the war has only just begun. With secrets swirling around her, powerful allies unraveling, and life-and death-as she knows it eroding, Eden and those she loves tread dangerous ground. Can she trust anyone? Will her unearthly powers be her salvation or her downfall? A sweeping, dark, and sexy paranormal romance that will haunt readers with an inventive mythology and a cinematic New York City filled with shadows and longing.

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    Post by Katerina on Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:50 am

    Lauren Oliver - (Delirium, book 2)- Pandemonium
    RD Feb 28, 2012


    Genre: Paranormal Romance
    Summary


    I'm pushing aside
    the memory of my nightmare,
    pushing aside thoughts of Alex,
    pushing aside thoughts of Hana
    and my old school,
    push,
    push,
    push,
    like Raven taught me to do.
    The old life is dead.
    But the old Lena is dead too.
    I buried her.
    I left her beyond a fence,
    behind a wall of smoke and flame.

    Lauren Oliver delivers an electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed New York Times bestseller, delirium. This riveting, brilliant novel crackles with the fire of fierce defiance, forbidden romance, and the sparks of a revolution about to ignite.

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    Post by Katerina on Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:56 am

    Tate Hallaway-(Vampire Princess of St.Paul Book #3)- Almost Everything
    RD Feb 7, 2012

    Genre: Paranormal Romance Y/A
    Summary

    Ever since her father banished the half-witch, half-vampire Ana Parker and vampire knight Elias from the court of the Northern vampires, Ana has been trying to live a normal life. But when the Prince of the Southern Region vampires informs Ana that they're on the brink of war and she accidentally offers up Elias as a peace offering, the princess knows that she's going to need some help to get out of this situation.

    With Ana's boy drama meter hitting an all time high, summer in St. Paul is heating up for all the wrong reasons...

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    Post by Katerina on Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:27 pm

    Karen Mahoney-(Iron Witch, book 2)-The Wood Queen
    RD Feb 8, 2012

    Genre: Urban Fantasy Y/A
    Summary

    Donna Underwood is facing an alchemist tribunal for stealing the elixir of life when her ailing mother takes a turn for the worse. Donna seeks an audience with Aliette, the Wood Queen, who offers a deal: if Donna can use her powers to open the door to Faerie and send the wood elves home, Aliette will free her mother from the elven curse that shattered her mind.

    Along with friends Navin and the half-fey Xan, Donna struggles to unlock the secrets of her iron tattoos in time to save her mother’s life. But she discovers that some secrets might be better left untold . . .

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    Post by Katerina on Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:33 pm

    Lisa McMann - Dead to You
    RD Feb 7, 2012

    Genre:Y/A Fiction
    Summary

    A page-turning realistic novel with a shocking twist from bestselling author Lisa McMann.Ethan was abducted from his front yard when he was just seven years old. Now, at sixteen, he has returned to his family. It’s a miracle…at first. Then the tensions start to build. His reintroduction to his old life isn’t going smoothly, and his family is tearing apart all over again. If only Ethan could remember something, anything, about his life before, he’d be able to put the pieces back together. But there’s something that’s keeping his memory blocked. Something unspeakable..

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