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We have a treat today for our readers. Like Lisa Desrochers' A Little Too Far series? Here is a Special Playlist Feature for her second novel in the series, A Little Too Much . There's also a giveaway! A Little Too Much   ( A Little Too Far, #2)  by Lisa Desrochers  New Adult Contemporary Romance Paperback/eBook, 416 pages  November 12, 2013  William Morrow Impulse  In the follow-up to Lisa Desrochers’ explosive New Adult novel A Little too Far, Alessandro Moretti must face the life he escaped and the girl he loved and left behind. Twenty-two year old Hilary McIntyre would like nothing more than to forget her past. As a teenager abandoned to the system, she faced some pretty dark times. But now that’s all behind her. Hilary has her life on track, and there’s no way she’ll head back down that road again. Until Alessandro Moretti—the one person who can make her remember—shows up on her doorstep. He’s even more devastatingly go...

Shelly Crane's Wide Open is now available! This is the second book in her Wide Awake New Adult contemporary romance series. We have a First Chapter reveal for our tour stop and a giveaway. Please dive in into Ms. Crane's latest novel. Wide Open (Wide Awake #2)  by Shelly Crane New Adult contemporary romance Paperback/eBook, 259 pages Published January 7th 2014 (first published January 5th 2014) Milo is trouble.  He lives it, breathes it. He embraces anything that numbs and takes his mind somewhere else, a world where his mother is herself and not just a shell, and his brother didn't almost kill her, severing any relationship they had. But more importantly, Milo drowns out the guilt for leaving his mother and not being able to forgive his brother. He drowns his pride and moves on to another girl and another party, pretending that life isn't moving on around him and he's stuck in the same place. He's stuck in the past and doesn't k...

  The Offering (The Pledge #3)  by Kimberly Derting  YA dystopian Hardcover, 304 pages Published December 31st 2013 by Margaret K. McElderry Books  True love—and world war—is at stake in the conclusion to The Pledge trilogy, a dark and romantic blend of dystopia and fantasy.   Charlie, otherwise known as Queen Charlaina of Ludania, has become comfortable as a leader and a ruler. She’s done admirable work to restore Ludania’s broken communications systems with other Queendoms, and she’s mastered the art of ignoring Sabara, the evil former queen whose Essence is alive within Charlie. Or so she thinks.   When the negotiation of a peace agreement with the Queendom of Astonia goes awry, Charlie receives a brutal message that threatens Ludania, and it seems her only option is to sacrifice herself in exchange for Ludanian freedom.   But things aren’t always as they seem. Charlie is walking into a trap—one set by Sabara...

The 3rd Annual Young Adult Faeries & Fantasy Giveaway Hop has started! Who doesn't like fantasy or fairies? We love em'! What better way to escape the cold winter weather than to curl up with some hot cocoa and a fantastical tale, right? This hop is hosted by Kathy from I Am A Reader and ends on midnight January 15th. There are over 80 blogs participating in this hop. Here's the link to see them all! Here's proof we met Maggie Stiefvater. She's holding our newly signed books! Reader Girls are doing something different this time. We recently went to an excellent book signing where we listened to, were enchanted and entertained by the one and only Maggie Stiefvater! If you've seen the author before, you'll know what we mean. She's a character and we loved meeting her. So we are going to give away to one lucky reader a SIGNED brand new paperback copy of Maggie's fantasy book, The Scorpio Races . We bought an extra copy to give away a...

Stolen Wishes (New Hope #1.5)  by Lexi Ryan New Adult contemporary romance Novella, 91 pages Published January 7th 2014 by Ever After, LLC (first published January 3rd 2014) Cally…   A sexy smile. Intense blue eyes. A goodness that makes him want to save me from these rumors when no one else would care. I didn't ask for a hero. William Bailey was never supposed to be anything more than a wish, a dream, an unrequited crush. Not for a girl like me--a girl whose fractured family has stolen her chance at a decent life. William…  Since the death of my parents, I've always done what’s expected of me, what's "best" for me. Until Cally. The moment her haunted eyes meet mine, the fractured pieces of my heart feel whole again. I don’t just want to save her. I need her to save me. Stolen chances. Unbroken wishes. Two lonely souls grasping for hope in the darkness.  **This novella takes place seven years before the events in WISH I MAY and...

About AFTERPARTY: A toxic friendship takes a dangerous turn in this riveting novel from the author of Where It Began. Emma is tired of being good. Always the dutiful daughter to an overprotective father, she is the antithesis of her mother—whose name her dad won’t even say out loud. That’s why meeting Siobhan is the best thing that ever happened to her…and the most dangerous. Because Siobhan is fun and alluring and experienced and lives on the edge. In other words, she’s everything Emma isn’t. And it may be more than Emma can handle. Because as intoxicating as her secret life may be, when Emma begins to make her own decisions, Siobhan starts to unravel. It’s more than just Dylan, the boy who comes between them. Their high-stakes pacts are spinning out of control. Elaborate lies become second nature. Loyalties and boundaries are blurred. And it all comes to a head at the infamous Afterparty, a bash where debauchery rages and an intense, inescapable confrontatio...