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Waiting on Wednesday

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Waiting on Wednesday   was started by   breaking the spine. This week we're anxiously awaiting Katie MacAlister's In the Company of Vampires: A Dark Ones Novel . Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Signet (November 2, 2010) Book summary: When Francesca arrives at GothFaire to save her mother from the trickster god, Loki, things go from bad to worse. Her immortal ex, Benedikt, is there, full of secrets-and with a new girlfriend. Now Fran must battle a power-hungry group who wishes to dominate both the immortal and mortal worlds-and the woman who claimed Ben's heart. It's a good thing Fran's no ordinary mortal... Now some of you may know Fran and Benedikt from Katie's YA novels, Got Fangs? (2005) and Circus of the Darned (2006) under her pan name Katie Maxwell. Both of Fran's stories are being repackaged and released this November under the title Confessions of a Vampire's Girlfriend . But Fran and Ben are moving up to join MacAlister's adul...

Teaser Tuesdays

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Teaser Tuesday  is a weekly meme hosted by   hosted by MizB of   ShouldBeReading .  This week's teaser (a day late) is from The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller. "There you are," was all he said before he took her in his arms, bent down, and kissed her. Once she'd managed to convince herself he was real, Haven began to kiss him back." (Page 161, ARC) Reading level: Young Adult Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Razorbill (August 10, 2010) Haven Moore cannot control her visions of a past with a boy called Ethan and a life in New York that ended in fiery tragedy. In our present, she designs beautiful dresses for her classmates with her best friend Beau. Dressmaking keeps her sane, since she lives with her widowed and heartbroken mother in her tyrannical grandmotherAs house in Snope City, a tiny town in Tennessee. Then an impossible group of coincidences conspire to force her to flee to New York, to discover who she is, and who she was. In New York,...