HI HI HI!!! I'm Genie and welcome to the October Book Haul. I will haul 5 books including 2 graphic novels.
The first book I'll hauling is...
CROWN OF ICE by VICKI L. WEAVIL
Ooooooh, nice cover! Suits the title so well.
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SYNOPSIS
Thyra
Winther's seventeen, the Snow Queen, and immortal, but if she can't
reassemble a shattered enchanted mirror by her eighteenth birthday she's
doomed to spend eternity as a wraith. Armed with magic granted by a
ruthless wizard, Thyra schemes to survive with her mind and body intact.
Unencumbered by kindness, she kidnaps local boy Kai Thorsen, whose
mathematical skills rival her own. Two logical minds, Thyra calculates,
are better than one. With time rapidly melting away she needs all the
help she can steal. A cruel lie ensnares Kai in her plan, but three
missing mirror shards and Kai's childhood friend, Gerda, present more
formidable obstacles. Thyra's willing to do anything – venture into
uncharted lands, outwit sorcerers, or battle enchanted beasts -- to
reconstruct the mirror, yet her most dangerous adversary lies within her
breast. Touched by the warmth of a wolf pup's devotion and the fire of a
young man's desire, the thawing of Thyra's frozen heart could be her
ultimate undoing.
CROWN OF ICE is a YA Fantasy that reinvents
Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" from the perspective of a
young woman who discovers that the greatest threat to her survival may
be her own humanity.
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Here are some details about this book.
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 300
Publish Date: September 9th 2014
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If you are interested in this book, you can click on to any link to buy it online.
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1939765439/ref=x_gr_w_bb?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwgoodco-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1939765439&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
Book Depository:
http://www.bookdepository.com/Crown-Ice-Vicki-Weavil/9781939765437
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The next book is no other than...
RITES OF PASSAGE by JOY N. HENSLEY
Interesting title, interesting synopsis and now its time to see if we are really interested. Plus, it gained my attention.
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SYNOPSIS
Sam McKenna’s never turned down a dare. And she's not going to start with the last one her brother gave her before he died.
So
Sam joins the first-ever class of girls at the prestigious Denmark
Military Academy. She’s expecting push-ups and long runs, rope climbing
and mud-crawling. As a military brat, she can handle an obstacle course
just as well as the boys. She's even expecting the hostility she gets
from some of the cadets who don’t think girls belong there. What she’s
not expecting is her fiery attraction to her drill sergeant. But dating
is strictly forbidden and Sam won't risk her future, or the dare, on
something so petty...no matter how much she wants him.
As Sam
struggles to prove herself, she discovers that some of the boys don’t
just want her gone—they will stop at nothing to drive her out. When
their petty threats turn to brutal hazing, bleeding into every corner of
her life, she realizes they are not acting alone. A decades-old secret
society is alive and active… and determined to force her out.
At any cost.
Now time's running short. Sam must decide who she can trust...and choosing the wrong person could have deadly consequences.
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Here are some details about this book.
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Publish Date: September 9th 2014
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If you are interested in this book, click on any link below to buy it online.
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062295195/ref=x_gr_w_bb?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwgoodco-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062295195&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
Book Depository:
http://www.bookdepository.com/Rites-Passage-Joy-Hensley/9780062295194
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The third book might be your your number 1 favorite if you have read this. Its...
THE FINE ART OF PRETENDING
(THE FINE ART OF PRETENDING #1) by RACHEL HARRIS
Romantic cover with a mischievous title. Me likey... OK I have to say, I think I might buy this book soon. I think you might be too.
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SYNOPSIS
According
to the guys at Fairfield Academy, there are two types of girls: the
kind you hook up with, and the kind you're friends with.
Seventeen-year-old Alyssa Reed is the second type. And she hates it.
With just one year left to change her rank, she devises a plan to become
the first type by homecoming, and she sets her sights on the perfect
date—Justin Carter, Fairfield Academy’s biggest hottie and most
notorious player.
With 57 days until the dance, Aly launches
Operation Sex Appeal and sheds her tomboy image. The only thing left is
for Justin actually to notice her. Enter best friend Brandon Taylor, the
school’s second biggest hottie, and now Aly’s pretend boyfriend. With
his help, elevating from “funny friend” to “tempting vixen” is only a
matter of time.
But when everything goes according to plan, the
inevitable “break up” leaves their friendship in shambles, and Aly and
Brandon with feelings they can’t explain. And the fake couple discovers
pretending can sometimes cost you the one thing you never expected to
want.
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Here are some details about this book.
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publish Date: September 30th 2014
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If you want to buy this book online, click on any link below.
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1939392284/ref=x_gr_w_bb?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwgoodco-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1939392284&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
Book Depository:
http://www.bookdepository.com/Fine-Art-Pretending-Rachel-Harris/9781939392282
(34% discount)
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The fourth book... Gonna be over but before that, I have just received the book that was sent by the publisher. I don't know which book since I won 2 books. So happy...
Oh... Eheem. Because I'm super happy I will show you a very wonderful book.
COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI by HARUKI MURAKAMI
New York Times best-selling book. Been dying to have this, want to have this.
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SYNOPSIS
Tsukuru
Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names
contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red
pine', and Oumi, ‘blue sea', while the girls' names were Shirane, ‘white
root', and Kurono, ‘black field'. Tazaki was the only last name with no
colour in it.
One day Tsukuru Tazaki’s friends announced that they didn’t want to see him, or talk to him, ever again.
Since
that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form
intimate connections with anyone. But then he meets Sara, who tells him
that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago.
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Here are some details about this book.
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 387
Publish Date: August 12th 2014
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If you are interested in this book and want to buy this online, click on any link below.
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385352107/ref=x_gr_w_bb?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwgoodco-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385352107&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
Book Depository:
http://www.bookdepository.com/Colorless-Tsukuru-Tazaki-His-Years-Pilgrimage-Haruki-Murakami/9780385352109
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The fifth book and after that 2 graphical novels. Lets see... I think you might love...
JACKABY
(JACKABY #1) by WILLIAM RITTER
Beautiful synopsis, wonderful cover and so much more.
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SYNOPSIS
“Miss
Rook, I am not an occultist,” Jackaby said. “I have a gift that allows
me to see truth where others see the illusion--and there are many
illusions. All the world’s a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the
only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain.”
Newly
arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job,
Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained
with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see
supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but
important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s
assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a
thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are
convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it’s a
nonhuman creature, whose existence the police--with the exception of a
handsome young detective named Charlie Cane--deny.
Doctor Who meets Sherlock
in William Ritter’s debut novel, which features a detective of the
paranormal as seen through the eyes of his adventurous and intelligent
assistant in a tale brimming with cheeky humor and a dose of the
macabre.
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Here are some details about this book.
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 299
Publish Date: September 16th 2014
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If you want to buy this book online, click on any link below.
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616203536/ref=x_gr_w_bb?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwgoodco-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1616203536&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
Book Depository:
http://www.bookdepository.com/Jackaby-William-Ritter/9781616203535
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And now is the time for the graphic novels section. Before that, I will post one graphic novel and one manga. (Manga means Japanese graphic novel).
And now the first one...
THE TERRIBLE AND WONDERFUL DISTANCE WHY I RUN LONG DISTANCE
Wow, I'm intrigued by it. I might just have to give this graphic novel a go. Plus, there are race stickers inside. I LOVE STICKERS.
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SYNOPSIS
"All
runners wonder, at some point or another, why we do what we do. Mr.
Inman's explanation is the best I've ever seen. And the funniest.
Because he is clinically insane."
-Mark Remy, editor at large, Runner's World, author of The Runner's Rule Book
"He
runs. He sweats. He heaves. He hates it. He loves it. He runs so hard
his toenails fall off. He asks himself, why? Why do I do this? Here,
gorgeously, bravely, hilariously, is Matt's deeply honest answer."
-Robert Krulwich, NPR
"Finally! A voice that sings with the Blerches of angels!"
-Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run
This is not just a book about running. It's a book about cupcakes. It's a book about suffering.
It's
a book about gluttony, vanity, bliss, electrical storms, ranch
dressing, and Godzilla. It's a book about all the terrible and wonderful
reasons we wake up each day and propel our bodies through rain, shine,
heaven, and hell.
From #1 New York Times best-selling author,
Matthew Inman, AKA The Oatmeal, comes this hilarious, beautiful,
poignant collection of comics and stories about running, eating, and one
cartoonist's reasons for jogging across mountains until his toenails
fall off.
Containing over 70 pages of never-before-seen material,
including "A Lazy Cartoonist's Guide to Becoming a Runner" and "The
Blerch's Guide to Dieting," this book also comes with Blerch race
stickers.
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Longest synopsis I've ever read but hey, its worth it.
Here are some details about this book.
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 148
Publish Date: September 30th 2014
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Click on any link below if you want to buy this book online.
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449459951/ref=x_gr_w_bb?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwgoodco-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1449459951&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
Book Depository:
http://www.bookdepository.com/Terrible-Wonderful-Reasons-Why-I-Run-Long-Distances-Matthew-Inman/9781449459956
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And now the last one for this haul. Feast your eyes on...
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (MANGA VERSION) by Jane Austen
OMG!!! There's a manga version of Pride and Prejudice. So guys, this is how a manga drawing looks like. Even is the name of the author isn't a Japanese but the drawing concept is.
P.S. Love the cover.
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SYNOPSIS
Beloved
by millions the world over, Pride & Prejudice is delightfully
transformed in this bold, new manga adaptation. All of the joy,
heartache, and romance of Jane Austen's original, perfectly illuminated
by the sumptuous art of manga-ka Po Tse, and faithfully adapted by Stacy
E. King.
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Shortest synopsis I have ever read. But hey, its still worth it (copying the line from the 1st graphic novel)
Here are some details about this book.
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 377
Publish Date: August 19th 2014
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Click on any link below if you want to buy this manga online.
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1927925185/ref=x_gr_w_bb?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwgoodco-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1927925185&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
Book Depository:
http://www.bookdepository.com/Manga-Classics-Pride-Prejudice-Softcover-Jane-Austen/9781927925188
