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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Return to the Secret Garden by Holly Webb
Apologies for the radio silence, all. It’s been a rocky couple of weeks here at HDB headquarters, and unfortunately that means blogging takes a back seat. Rest assured that we haven’t gone anywhere for good though! You’re stuck with us, and our bookish ramblings. Now then, on to the spotlight book of the day! Before you run screaming from my incessant gushing, let me very simply say that this is a book that I was really excited for. I’m sure many of us grew up walking the halls of Misselthwaite Manor with Mary, and have a soft spot in our heart for Dickon.…
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Book Spotlight + Author Interview: Outward Blonde by Trish Cook
There’s a lot of fun to be had with today’s spotlight, because Trish Cook was kind enough to stop by for a stellar interview! If you haven’t already added Outward Blonde to your TBR, let me tell you that you absolutely should. It’s funny, adorable, and so easy to relate to! If you have ever been in the “great outdoors” against your will? Well, Lizzie feels your pain. Sixteen-year-old Lizzie Finkelstein is a hard-partying socialite who lives a charmed life with her mother in Manhattan. After a public drunken sexual escapade results in both an arrest and an embarrassing viral video…
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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Confessions of an Undercover Girlfriend by Kay Marie
Happy Monday! What better way to start your week than with a new romantic comedy? Just look at that adorable cover! Don’t you just want to get cozy with a cup of coffee and read? So, I’m no longer a virgin sex columnist—thank you, Ollie—but if I thought that was going to make my life easier, boy was I wrong! John is back in town determined to win my forgiveness. Blythe is more ready than ever to take me down. Bridget is totally onto the new twinkle in my eye. And, well, Ollie is just as distractingly delicious as usual.…
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Book Blitz: The Rift Uprising by Amy S. Foster
Today we’re celebrating the book birthday of The Right Uprising by Amy S. Foster. In my opinion, there’s nothing better than a book birthday! A new read, going out into the world, for everyone to enjoy. What could be better than that? Check it out! Normal seventeen-year-old girls go to high school, binge watch TV shows all weekend, and flirt with everyone on the face of the Earth. But Ryn Whitaker is trying to save it. Ryn is a Citadel. A soldier. A liar. Ryn and her fellow Citadels were specially chosen and trained to guard a Rift—one of fourteen unpredictable…
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Cover Reveal: Boondocks by Casey Peeler
Happy Wednesday readers! What better way to get over the hump of the week than an enticing new cover reveal? When I heard about Casey Peeler’s new book, I just knew it would be a yummy cover. Let’s take a look shall we? One twist of the lid changed everything… The devil sat on my shoulder from my first breath, he watched my every move, and with the first strike of lightnin’ I was pulled under. Walking into Boondocks the voice of an angel called to me and I vowed to live a better life. She kept me on the…
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Book Blitz + Giveaway: The Surrendered by Case Maynard
Good morning, darling bookish people! It’s time for another spotlight, and this time it’s a dystopian story with a dire premise. What if children were the nation’s most valuable resource? That’s what Case Maynard ponders in The Surrendered. The Surrendered Case Maynard Published by: Blaze Publishing Publication date: September 20th 2016 Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult After a financial collapse devastates the United States, the new government imposes a tax on the nation’s most valuable resource—the children. Surrendered at age ten—after her parents could no longer afford her exorbitant fees—Vee Delancourt has spent six hard years at the Mills, alongside her…
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Book Spotlight and Giveaway: Decoherence by Liana Brooks
Today’s spotlight is one that caught my eye based on the cover art. Portals to other universes? Sign me up. These interesting book just released yesterday so now is your chance to grab it! Samantha Rose and Linsey MacKenzie have established an idyllic life of married bliss in Australia, away from the Commonwealth Bureau of Investigation, away from mysterious corpses, and—most of all—away from Dr. Emir’s multiverse machine. But Sam is a detective at heart, and even on the other side of the world, she can’t help wonder if a series of unsolved killings she reads about are related—not just…
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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Fish Wielder by Jim Hardison
Today’s spotlight is one that, admittedly, made me giggle when I first happened upon it. There’s a lot to be said for a good cover, and when that cover is definitely out of the ordinary it’s even better! I present to you, the spotlight for today, Fish Wielder in all its glory. Fish Wielder is kind of like Lord of the Rings, set in Narnia, if it was written by the guys who made Monty Python and the Holy Grail while they were listening to the music of They Might Be Giants. In ancient times, the Dark Lord Mauron cooked…
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Book Spotlight + Author Interview: Against All Silence by E.C. Myers
Today I’m more than happy to put a glaringly bright spotlight onto E.C. Myers and the SOS series! Myers is one of my favorite authors, both because his writing is consistently amazing and because he’s just a wonderful person overall. If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to discover his books, please do yourself a favor, and do so! It’s great timing too, because Against All Silence just released exclusively in B&N stores yesterday. So you won’t even need to wait patiently for the sequel. You lucky duck, you. The Silence of Six (SOS #1) Paperback, Released May 31st WHAT IS…
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Author Interview + Giveaway: Serenity by India R Adams
Serenity India R. Adams (Forever, #1) Publication date: July 26th 2016 Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult To say I know where this story begins is to say I remember what lifetime started it all…and why. What I do know is this lifetime is hard and cruel…maybe like the rest. That is until I meet him–the light that shines and guides me. To where I don’t know but my soul chooses to follow regardless. I believe it has done this before. I believe I will follow him…forever. A destructive home life silently tears Serenity, a 16 year old girl, apart until her…