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Hello and welcome to our stop on the Since You Asked Blog Tour hosted by Book Nerd Tours . We have a fantastic Top Ten post and there's a giveaway for everyone to enter. Happy reading! Since You Asked  by Maurene Goo YA contemporary romance Hardcover/eBook, 262 pages Published June 25th 2013 by Scholastic A humorous, debut novel about a Korean-American teenager who accidentally lands her own column in her high school newspaper, and proceeds to rant her way through the school year while struggling to reconcile the traditional Korean values of her parents with contemporary American culture.       Top 10 Favorite Things
 Holly's favorite things to do with her closest friends  Watch bad movies and make fun of them  Eat burritos at the Burrito Shack  Sit with their feet in the water at the beach  Watch marathons of favorite TV shows  Go to shows of their favorite bands   Take bad photos of each ot...

Welcome to our stop--the very first stop on the Untimed blog tour . Come along and join Andy Gavin, author of the Young Adult Time Travel/Adventure novel, Untimed , as he tours the blogosphere July 1 - July 26, 2013. This book tour is presented by Pump Up Your Book! Untimed by Andy Gavin YA steampunk, time travel Paperback/eBook, 325 pages Published December 17th 2012 by Mascherato Charlie's the kind of boy that no one notices. Hell, his own mother can't remember his name. So when a mysterious clockwork man tries to kill him in modern day Philadelphia, and they tumble through a hole into 1725 London, Charlie realizes even the laws of time don't take him seriously. Still, this isn't all bad. Who needs school when you can learn about history first hand, like from Ben Franklin himself. And there's this girl... Yvaine... another time traveler. All good. Except for the rules: boys only travel into the past and girls only into the future. And the ba...

Embracing the Wolf by Stephanie Nelson For the first time, Anna Avery was looking forward to the future. She’s mated to her soul mate. The pack has become her new family, and she has friends she can confide in. She had every reason to look ahead, until a vision put her future happiness in jeopardy. Someone is set on destroying her mate, Adam, and only Anna can prevent this possible future. While trying to unravel the hazy web of her premonition, she finds out the annual pack conference will take place on her mountain. And Adam’s parents will be attending. As only a “made” wolf, Anna will have to face their prejudice and possibly make the hardest decision she has ever had to make. Because saving Adam’s life might just mean walking away from him for forever. Buy: Amazon / Amazon UK / Barnes & Noble About Stephanie Stephanie resides in the Midwest with her husband and furry children. When she's not cooking up Gwen and Anna's next adventures, she enjoys rea...

The Freedom to Read Giveaway Hop is now underway. This hop is hosted by Bookhounds and I Am A Reader, Not A Writer and runs through midnight on July 9th. Here's what we're offering: We have a brand new ARC of this for one lucky reader  (open to US residents only): Identity Theft by Anna Davies YA thriller*Paperback/eBook, 256 pages Published April 30th 2013 by Point Hayley is going to have the best year ever. After years of careful planning, she's ready to serve as student council president AND editor-in-chief of the newspaper. Ivy League, here she comes! However, just before student council elections, someone creates a fake facebook profile for Hayley and starts posting inappropriate photos and incriminating updates. It must be the work of a highly skilled Photoshopper, but the attention to detail is scary. The embarrassing photos of "Hayley" in her bathing suit reveal a birthmark on her back--a birth mark Hayley has never shown ...

Nearly Broken by Devon Ashley New Adult Romantic Suspense Paperback/eBook, 367 pages Release date: June 4, 2013 Purchase:   Amazon  |  Barnes and Noble  |  Kobo  |  Kindle US , UK , DE , FR, IT , ES , CA , BR , and JP ; Kobo and Nook . We’d both gone missing at one point, but Claire had one thing I didn’t. Someone to notice. So why was I the one still here and she the one still gone?  Nineteen year old Megan Smith has spent the past year working in a small town diner in the middle of nowhere. Life is quiet, simple, safe. Then comes the news that her look-a-like has gone missing.  Claire. Still damaged both physically and mentally, Megan's not looking to be noticed. Wherever she goes from here, it's a road she needs to take alone. But when Nickolas Ellis takes the job as the new nightshift cook, it scares her how easily her defenses crumble down, down, down for him. But there are secrets she can't bear ...

Never Too Far by Thomas Christopher Kindle Edition, 272 pages Published May 10th 2012 by Kalmaha Press A harrowing story of love and survival. In a future of scarce resources, where the possession of gas and diesel is punishable by death, a teenage boy and a pregnant girl must save their impoverished family. They risk their lives on a terrifying journey to sell stolen fuel on the black market. Mary surprised Joe by knocking his arms away. She was stronger than she looked. Then she swept her legs off the bed and sprang to her feet. She took two steps and turned to face him as if to prove there was nothing wrong with her. But there was definitely something wrong. She wavered a moment. Her already white face turned ghostly. Her eyelids trembled. She seemed to realize she was becoming faint, and what that meant. “I’m fine,” she said. “You don’t have to go.” Joe got ready to catch her in case she fell, but somehow she held herself s...

Sebastian Falls by Celeste Holloway YA fantasy*Paperback/eBook, 300 pages Published May 19th 2013 by World Castle Publishing A year after her parents’ death, seventeen-year-old, Meadow Parker is close to having a grave of her own Beyond her shrink’s false diagnosis of PTSD, there’s no medical reason for her failing health. Only she knows the cause. But if Meadow told the truth—told them what comes for her at night—they’d lock her in a padded cell. Grasping to help her find closure, Meadow’s best friend, Casey Somner, drags her to the place her parents were obsessed with—the historical landmark that fuels Meadow’s fears and nightmares. Once Meadow steps foot on the hallowed ground, she has a supernatural encounter that leaves her stricken with terror, but charged with power, fulfilling the legendary prophesy about the coming of The Keeper. Both the holy and the unholy have waited over a hundred years for a new Keeper to resurface. Like it or not, Meadow’s d...