Sunday, September 1, 2013
The 5th Wave by Rich Yancey
The Passage meets Ender’s Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.
Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.
Review by Goodreads
Rick Yancy's Website
Saturday, June 1, 2013
SYLO by D. J. MacHale (Author Explains)
Description:
“THEY CAME FROM THE SKY
parachuting out of military helicopters to invade Tucker Pierce’s idyllic
hometown on Pemberwick Island, Maine. They call themselves SYLO and they
are a secret branch of the U.S. Navy. SYLO’s commander, Captain Granger,
informs Pemberwick residents that the island has been hit by a lethal virus and
must be quarantined. Now Pemberwick is cut off from the outside world.
Tucker believes there’s more to SYLO’s story. He was on the sidelines when the
high school running back dropped dead with no warning. He saw the bizarre
midnight explosion over the ocean, and the mysterious singing aircraft that
travel like shadows through the night sky. He tasted the Ruby— and experienced
the powers it gave him —for himself. What all this means, SYLO isn’t
saying. Only Tucker holds the clues that can solve this deadly mystery.
LOOK TO THE SKY because Pemberwick is only the first stop. “SYLO will
have your pulse racing and your head spinning. Make plans to stay up all night
finishing it." Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the
Gone series.”
-Shelfari
Still Interested?
Visit D. J. MacHale’s website!
Saturday, March 23, 2013
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - Movie Trailer
Description:
“May the odds be ever in your favor.
In the ruins of a place once known as
North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve
outlying districts. In the previous war the Capitol took over and now, the
Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all
to send one boy and one girl from each district, between the ages of twelve and
eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on
live TV. Every single second of this dreadful event is recorded twenty four
seven and broadcasted across the nation.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards
it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the
Games. Katniss has been close to dead before. For her, survival, is second
nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. If she is to win,
she will have to start making choices that are very well the difference between
life and death. What lies ahead is great rewards and fortune if she makes the
right choices and if luck is on her side. But also, a love triangle between
Katniss, Peeta, and Gale slowly unfolds, forcing Katniss to decide whom she
really wants to be with—a situation complicated by the fact .
Will she win or will she die?Who shall she
pick?
Happy Hunger games...”
-Shelfari
Still
Interested? View Suzanne Collins’ website!
Friday, February 8, 2013
Pure by Julianna Baggott
Description:
“We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . .
Pressia barely remembers the Detonations
or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble
of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about
what is lost - how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters,
birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent
burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required
to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if
they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no
longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.
Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . .
There are those who escaped the apocalypse
unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their
healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most
influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks
about loss - maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally
distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their
shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has
become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests
his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to
find her.
When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds
shatter all over again.”
-Shelfari
Still
Interested? Visit Julianna Baggott’s website!
Pure Trilogy:
Book 1: Pure
Book 2: Fuse
Book 3: Burn - out February 14, 2014
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