Saturday, August 21, 2010

Library Loot (62)

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Conspiracy 365: July by Gabrielle Lord
On New Year's Eve, Callum Ormond is chased down the street by a crazed man with a deadly warning:

They killed your father.
They'll kill you.
You must survive the next 365 days.

Cal is running out of places to hide. Everywhere he goes, someone seems to be behind him, tracking his every move. They don’t care who they hurt to get to him.
As his sixteenth birthday approaches, the threat to him and his family increases. Nobody is safe while the secret of the Ormond Singularity remains unsolved. And Cal’s enemies will do anything to make sure he doesn’t see his sixteenth ...

He has 184 days.
He can’t hide for ever ...

Withering Tights by Louise Rennison
The misadventures of Tallulah Casey…
Hilarious new series from Queen of Teen – laugh your tights off at the (VERY) amateur dramatic antics of Talullah and her bonkers mates. Boys, snogging and bad acting guaranteed!

Picture the scene: Dother Hall performing arts college somewhere Up North, surrounded by rolling dales, bearded cheesemaking villagers (male and female) and wildlife of the squirrely-type.
On the whole, it’s not quite the showbiz experience Tallulah was expecting… but once her mates turn up and they start their ‘FAME! I’m gonna liiiiive foreeeeeever, I’m gonna fill my tiiiiights’ summer course things are bound to perk up.
Especially when the boys arrive. (When DO the boys arrive?)
Six weeks of parent-free freedom.
BOY freedom.
Freedom of expression…
cos it’s the THEATRE dahling, theatre!!


White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick
It's summer. Rebecca is an unwilling visitor to Winterfold - taken from the buzz of London and her friends and what she thinks is the start of a promising romance. Ferelith already lives in Winterfold - it's a place that doesn't like to let you go, and she knows it inside out - the beach, the crumbling cliff paths, the village streets, the woods, the deserted churches and ruined graveyards, year by year being swallowed by the sea. Against her better judgement, Rebecca and Ferelith become friends, and during that long, hot, claustrophobic summer they discover more about each other and about Winterfold than either of them really want to, uncovering frightening secrets that would be best left long forgotten. Interwoven with Rebecca and Ferelith's stories is that of the seventeenth century Rector and Dr Barrieux, master of Winterfold Hall, whose bizarre and bloody experiments into the after-life might make angels weep, and the devil crow.

The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
by Francisco X Stork
When Pancho arrives at St. Anthony's Home, he knows his time there will be short. If his plans succeed, he'll soon be arrested for the murder of his sister's killer. But then he's assigned to hep DQ, whose brain cancer has slowed neither his spirit nor his mouth. DQ tells Pancho all about his "Death Warrior's Manifesto", which will help him to live out his last days fully - ideally, he says with the love of the beautiful Marisol. As Pancho tracks down his sister's murderer, he finds himself falling under the influence of DQ and Marisol, and beginning to understand that there's more to life than revenge and more to death than sadness.

Impossible by Nancy Werlin
Lucy has nine months to break an ancient curse in order to save both herself and her unborn daughter.

Inspired by the ballad “Scarborough Fair,” this riveting novel combines suspense, fantasy, and romance for an intensely page-turning and masterfully original tale.

Lucy is seventeen when she discovers that the women of her family have been cursed through the generations, forced to attempt three seemingly impossible tasks or to fall into madness upon their child’s birth. But Lucy is the first girl who won’t be alone as she tackles the list. She has her fiercely protective foster parents and her childhood friend Zach beside her. Do they have love and strength enough to overcome an age-old evil?

9 comments:

  1. You found some good books! I have the first two months of Conspiracy 365 but haven't had a chance to read them yet. My mailboxes are here and here. Happy reading!

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  2. Wow, your library really cares for their books. They're all in perfect condition! Happy reading!

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  3. Great week Karen! Withering Tights is funny, and I love Marcus Sedgwick. Enjoy!

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  4. Great books you got there. Impossible by Nancy Werlin is really good. I loved it. Happy reading to you!

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  5. Ooh, I'm going to have to check out Withering Tights. ;) Great mailbox! My IMM Birthday Edition is here.

    xx,
    E.J
    From the Shadows

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  6. Great mailbox this week!! Hope you enjoy them all! =)

    Please stop in and check out mailbox. =)

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  7. Withering Tights sounds so good and funny. Happy Reading :)

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  8. I'm 3/4s through Withering Tights and it's making me LOL! Tallulah is a funny heroine. This my first Louise Rennison book.

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