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World Weaver Press' newest anthology, Scarecrow , Volume Three of Rhonda Parrish's Magical Menageries will be released on Tuesday, August 4th.  We are thrilled to be part of the cover reveal and here it is! About the anthology: Hay-men, mommets, tattie bogles, kakashi, tao-tao—whether formed of straw or other materials, the tradition of scarecrows is pervasive in farming cultures around the world. The scarecrow serves as decoy, proxy, and effigy—human but not human. We create them in our image and ask them to protect our crops and by extension our very survival, but we refrain from giving them the things a creation might crave—souls, brains, free-will, love. In Scarecrow, fifteen authors of speculative fiction explore what such creatures might do to gain the things they need or, more dangerously, think they want. Within these pages, ancient enemies join together to destroy a mad mommet, a scarecrow who is a crow protects solar fields and stores long-lost family secr...

Welcome. We are today's stop on the Stone Rider blog tour presented by Random House Children's Books. Along with our review, we also have a giveaway. Enter! Stone Rider  by David Hofmeyr YA dystopia Hardcover/eBook, 336 pages Published July 14th 2015 by Delacorte (first published January 1st 2015) In the vein of The Outsiders and the early Western novels of Elmore Leonard, this inventive debut novel, a cross between the cult classic Mad Max movie series and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road , blends adrenaline-fueled action with an improbable yet tender romance to offer a rich and vivid portrayal of misfits and loners forced together in their struggle for a better life. Adam Stone wants freedom and peace. He wants a chance to escape Blackwater, the dust-bowl desert town he grew up in. Most of all, he wants the beautiful Sadie Blood. Alongside Sadie and the dangerous outsider Kane, Adam will ride the Blackwater Trail in a brutal race that will test them all, bod...

On this Wednesday we bring to you a New Adult contemporary romance book tour. Enjoy!   Make Me Believe  ( Believe #1)  by   Karen Ferry   Publication Date:  July 6, 2015  Genres:   Contemporary ,  New Adult ,  Romance Sometimes, a chance meeting is just the push you need in order to break free from the darkness within… My name is Emma, I’m 23, and I’ve never been kissed. I’m no virgin…But kissing is too intimate, too intense, and I don’t want that – not ever. I like sex, though, and most of my hook-ups don’t seem to mind the no-kissing part.  But then I meet Daniel, who’s such a geek, and definitely not the kind of guy I’d normally take an interest to. He’s the shy, quiet type, but with such a charming smile, and he makes my heart race – something I’ve never experienced before.  Daniel has his own issues to work through, and I know my hardened heart shouldn’t melt when he looks at me. I really shouldn’...

We have romance mixed with some steampunk and a hunky djinn today. Welcome to our stop on the Wish For Me blog tour . Giveaway too! Wish for Me  by A. Star (The Djinn Order #1) Publication date: April 27th 2015 Genres: Adult, Fantasy,  Romance, Steampunk Synopsis: Three wishes. Two lovers. One destiny. When the snarky Glory St. Pierre discovers the gold mechanical vase in her deceased grandmother’s basement, she has no idea that she has uncovered a priceless treasure: a genie lamp. With a real genie inside. A very sexy genie with a not-so-sexy grudge against the entire human race. Irving Amir hates being called a genie. He’s a Djinn, and he is none too happy to be in the service of Glory, who is as intolerable, and beautiful, as humans come. Now he owes her his gratitude for freeing him and three wishes. Damn his luck. But an arrow through the shoulder alerts Irving to the fact that he is being hunted, and after a truce dinner wi...

The Red Sun: Legends of Orkney  by Alane Adams Middle Grade/YA fantasy Paperback, eBook, 346 pages Publisher: SparkPress (August 4, 2015) After meeting a strange dwarf in his garage and finding out his substitute English teacher is a witch, twelve-year-old Sam Baron travels through a stonefire to the magical realm of Orkney where he finally learns the truth about his past: his mother is a witch and his father is a descendant of the Norse god, Odin.

The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach Hardcover, 40 pages Published January 6th 2015 by Knopf Books for Young Readers Bear meets sandwich, adventure ensues. . . . A sly classic-in-the-making for fans of Jon Klassen, Peter Brown, and Mo Willems. By now I think you know what happened to your sandwich. But you may not know how it happened. So let me tell you. It all started with the bear . . .

Toucan Can! by Juliette MacIver, Sarah Davis (Illustrations) Hardcover, 32 pages Published March 1st 2014 by Gecko Press (first published February 1st 2014) A mad-cap, wacky picture book frolic with Toucan as he demonstrates all the things he can do! A tongue-twisting, high-energy, ludicrous rhyme full of hilarity and off-the-wall characters. Toucan can do lots of things. Toucan dances, Toucan sings. Toucan bangs a frying pan. Can YOU do what Toucan can?