Fresh Batch (April 26th – May 2nd)

Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
Publication date: April 28th 2015
by Razorbill

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I WILL TELL YOU THE SAME THING I TELL EVERY SLAVE.

THE RESISTANCE HAS TRIED TO PENETRATE THIS SCHOOL COUNTLESS TIMES. I HAVE DISCOVERED IT EVERY TIME.

IF YOU ARE WORKING WITH THE RESISTANCE, IF YOU CONTACT THEM, IF YOU THINK OF CONTACTING THEM, I WILL KNOW

AND I WILL DESTROY YOU.

Laia is a slave.
Elias is a soldier.
Neither is free.

Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.

It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.

But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy.

There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *

– Clipped by Love (Bellevue Bullies #2) by Toni Aleo [Purchase]
– The Girl at Midnight (The Girl at Midnight #1) by Melissa Grey [Purchase]
– Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley [Purchase]
– Black Iris by Leah Raeder [Purchase]

– Overruled (The Legal Briefs #1) by Emma Chase [Purchase]
– Rook by Sharon Cameron [Purchase]
– The Secrets We Keep by Trisha Leaver [Purchase]
– Rogue (Talon #2) by Julie Kagawa [Purchase]

– Broken Juliet (Starcrossed #2) by Leisa Rayven [Purchase]
– Lying Out Loud by Kody Keplinger [Purchase]
– Cold Burn of Magic (Black Blade #1) by Jennifer Estep [Purchase]
– Invincible (Invincible #1) by Amy Reed [Purchase]

– The Secrets of Attraction by Robin Constantine [Purchase]
– The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough [Purchase]
– In a World Just Right by Jen Brooks [Purchase]
– Valiant by Sarah McGuire [Purchase]

– The Other Side of Envy (The Ghost Bird #8) by C.L. Stone [Purchase]
– Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Magical Creatures (Pip Bartlett #1) by Jackson Pearce and Maggie Stiefvater [Purchase]
– Hunted (Sinners #2) by Abi Ketner and Missy Kalicicki [Purchase]
– The Replaced (The Taking #2) by Kimberly Derting [Purchase]

– Omega City (Omega City #1) by Diana Peterfreund [Purchase]
– Watch Your Back by Tracy Bilen [Purchase]
– Sweet (Contours of the Heart #3) by Tammara Webber [Purchase]
– Ferals (Ferals #1) by Jacob Grey [Purchase]

– The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste [Purchase]
– Deception’s Pawn (Deception’s Princess #2) by Esther M. Friesner [Purchase]
– Strange Skies: Burn Out Book Two by Kristi Helvig [Purchase]
– The Revelation of Louisa May by Michaela MacColl [Purchase]

– Backlash by Sarah Darer Littman [Purchase]
– Some Kind of Normal by Juliana Stone [Purchase]
– Encore to an Empty Room (Exile #2) by Kevin Emerson [Purchase]
– Trouble from the Start by Rachel Hawthorne [Purchase]

– The Boyfriend Project by Rachel Hawthorne [Purchase]
– Diva Rules by Amir Abrams [Purchase]
– Life Unaware by Cole Gibsen [Purchase]
– One Perfect Summer: Labor of Love and Thrill Ride by Rachel Hawthorne [Purchase]

– You’re the Kind of Girl I Write Songs About by Daniel Herborn [Purchase]
– Fire & Chasm by Chelsea M. Campbell [Purchase]
– A Magic Dark and Bright (The Asylum Saga #1) by Jenny Adams Perinovic [Purchase]
– Be Not Afraid by Cecilia Galante [Purchase]

– Lois Lane: Fallout (Lois Lane #1) by Gwenda Bond [Purchase]
– Drive Me Crazy by Terra Elan McVoy [Purchase]
– The Shattered Court (A Novel of the Four Arts #1) by M.J. Scott [Purchase]

Anything that’s catching your eye this week?

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Giselle

Canadian blogger, wife, mother, coffee lover, and sarcastic at heart! She has had a love for all things bookish since before Amazon and eReaders existed *le gasp*. You can also find her organizing tours and other fun things at Xpresso Book Tours.

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