Swooning Saturdays
We saw this posted over at the Bloody Bookaholic's blog and thought we'd join in. It is like (and inspired by) Waiting on Wednesday (by Breaking the Spine) but the covers we can swoon over can be old or new. This week we picked two new titles and one old one. They are:
ANXIOUS HEARTS
by Tucker Shaw.
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Amulet Books (May 1, 2010)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to this title!
Our Comment: Look at those rich colors. The bright sun behind her, the autumn leaves on her left, and the model is so pretty. All we can say is this cover is alluring. We haven't been fortunate enough to read this yet, but it's on our Wish list.
Description: “Evangeline,” he repeated, calling at a whisper. “Evangeline.” He was not calling that she may hear, he was calling that somehow her soul might know that he was devoted entirely to her, only to her. “Evangeline, I will find you.”
Eva and Gabe explore the golden forest of their seaside Maine town, unknowingly tracing the footsteps of two teens, Evangeline and Gabriel, who once lived in the idyllic wooded village of Acadia more than one hundred years ago. On the day that Evangeline and Gabriel were be wed, their village was attacked and the two were separated. And now in the present, Gabe has mysteriously disappeared from Eva.
A dreamlike, loose retelling of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous love poem “Evangeline,” Anxious Hearts tells an epic tale of unrequited love and the hope that true love can be reunited.
HALO by Alexandra Adornett
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends (September 14, 2010)
COMMENT: It's breathtaking, isn't it? The sunlight captued behind them, the impending embrace, the open wings. Wow, we would pick this up on a bookstore shelf just to stare at the picture. We also like angel stories.
DESCRIPTION: Three angels are sent down to bring good to the world: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. But she is the most human, and when she is romantically drawn to a mortal boy, the angels fear she will not be strong enough to save anyone—especially herself—from the Dark Forces.
Is love a great enough power against evil?
TWELVE by Jasper Kent
Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Bantam Press (January 1, 2009)
COMMENT: This cover caught our eye for its creep factor and also for the mystery it projects. Having half the guy's face covered and the murky people walking below his cape, not to mention the huge moon behind him, certainly oozes that coolness factor. This is one title we've put on our Wish List.
DESCRIPTION: Zmyeevich had remained standing and now began to speak in very precise, but very formal and strangely accented French. His voice had a darkness to it that seemed to emit not from his throat but from deep in his torso. Somewhere inside him it was as if giant millstones were turning against one another, or as though the lid were being slowly dragged aside to open a stone sarcophagus...On 12th June 1812, Napoleon's massive grande armee forded the River Niemen and so crossed the Rubicon - its invasion of Russia had begun. In the face of superior numbers and tactics, the imperial Russian army began its retreat. But a handful of Russian officers - veterans of Borodino - are charged with trying to slow the enemy's inexorable march on Moscow. Indeed, one of their number has already set the wheels of resistance in motion, having summoned the help of a band of mercenaries from the outermost fringes of Christian Europe.Comparing them to the once-feared Russian secret police - the Oprichniki - the name sticks. As rumours of plague travelling west from the Black Sea reach the Russians, the Oprichniki - but twelve in number - arrive. Preferring to work alone, and at night, the twelve prove brutally, shockingly effective against the French. But one amongst the Russians, Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov, is unnerved by the Oprichniki's ruthlessness...as he comes to understand the true, horrific nature of these strangers, he wonders at the nightmare they've unleashed in their midst...
by Tucker Shaw.
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Amulet Books (May 1, 2010)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to this title!
Our Comment: Look at those rich colors. The bright sun behind her, the autumn leaves on her left, and the model is so pretty. All we can say is this cover is alluring. We haven't been fortunate enough to read this yet, but it's on our Wish list.
Description: “Evangeline,” he repeated, calling at a whisper. “Evangeline.” He was not calling that she may hear, he was calling that somehow her soul might know that he was devoted entirely to her, only to her. “Evangeline, I will find you.”
Eva and Gabe explore the golden forest of their seaside Maine town, unknowingly tracing the footsteps of two teens, Evangeline and Gabriel, who once lived in the idyllic wooded village of Acadia more than one hundred years ago. On the day that Evangeline and Gabriel were be wed, their village was attacked and the two were separated. And now in the present, Gabe has mysteriously disappeared from Eva.
A dreamlike, loose retelling of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous love poem “Evangeline,” Anxious Hearts tells an epic tale of unrequited love and the hope that true love can be reunited.
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends (September 14, 2010)
COMMENT: It's breathtaking, isn't it? The sunlight captued behind them, the impending embrace, the open wings. Wow, we would pick this up on a bookstore shelf just to stare at the picture. We also like angel stories.
DESCRIPTION: Three angels are sent down to bring good to the world: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. But she is the most human, and when she is romantically drawn to a mortal boy, the angels fear she will not be strong enough to save anyone—especially herself—from the Dark Forces.
Is love a great enough power against evil?
Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Bantam Press (January 1, 2009)
COMMENT: This cover caught our eye for its creep factor and also for the mystery it projects. Having half the guy's face covered and the murky people walking below his cape, not to mention the huge moon behind him, certainly oozes that coolness factor. This is one title we've put on our Wish List.
DESCRIPTION: Zmyeevich had remained standing and now began to speak in very precise, but very formal and strangely accented French. His voice had a darkness to it that seemed to emit not from his throat but from deep in his torso. Somewhere inside him it was as if giant millstones were turning against one another, or as though the lid were being slowly dragged aside to open a stone sarcophagus...On 12th June 1812, Napoleon's massive grande armee forded the River Niemen and so crossed the Rubicon - its invasion of Russia had begun. In the face of superior numbers and tactics, the imperial Russian army began its retreat. But a handful of Russian officers - veterans of Borodino - are charged with trying to slow the enemy's inexorable march on Moscow. Indeed, one of their number has already set the wheels of resistance in motion, having summoned the help of a band of mercenaries from the outermost fringes of Christian Europe.Comparing them to the once-feared Russian secret police - the Oprichniki - the name sticks. As rumours of plague travelling west from the Black Sea reach the Russians, the Oprichniki - but twelve in number - arrive. Preferring to work alone, and at night, the twelve prove brutally, shockingly effective against the French. But one amongst the Russians, Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov, is unnerved by the Oprichniki's ruthlessness...as he comes to understand the true, horrific nature of these strangers, he wonders at the nightmare they've unleashed in their midst...
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