Stacking the Shelves #272
2August 8, 2020 by ceresbooksworld
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Supergirl, Being Super by mariko Tamaki
À seize ans – du moins, c’est à peu près l’âge qu’elle pense avoir -, Kara aimerait être aussi insouciante et pleine d’assurance que Jennifer et Dolly, ses deux meilleures amies. Les deux jeunes femmes savent ce qu’elles veulent et ce qu’elles sont, contrairement à Kara, qui semble pourtant tout avoir pour être heureuse, notamment des parents adoptifs aimants qui n’ont jamais craints sa différence. Pourtant, les huit premières années de sa vie restent une énigme qui ne cesse de hanter ses nuits, et la perte de ses pouvoirs au moment où elle en avait le plus besoin ne fera qu’accentuer son mal être et sa profonde remise en question. Le chemin vers la vérité est encore long.
Wonder Woman Legendary de Renae De Liz
Née du désir profond de la reine Hippolyte d’avoir un enfant, Diana vit ses premières années entre quatre murs, elle que l’effronterie et l’inépuisable curiosité poussent pourtant sans cesse vers le monde extérieur. Les obligations liées à son rang et la destinée que les amazones semblent déjà avoir tracée pour elle ne lui conviennent pas.
Elle en est convaincue, son avenir est ailleurs, et sa rencontre avec le pilote Steve Trevor ne fera que confirmer son ressenti. Car même le coeur de la légendaire Wonder Woman n’échappe pas à l’adage : il a ses raisons que la raison ignore, et il est prêt à la mener jusqu’au bout du monde !
Injustice 2 tome 6 de Tom Taylor
La menace est sans précédent !
Les Red Lantern ont deux nouveaux membres parmi leurs rangs : Hal Jordan, le plus grand de tous les Green Lantern mais également Starro, le conquérant. Alors que Hal tente de prévenir les Gardiens de la menace imminente, le corps des Red Lantern attaque de plein fouet OA et la source du pouvoir des Green Lantern. Dépassés, les Gardiens vont trouver une aide inattendue de la part des Titans, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold et … Lobo !
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Sparks by Wendy Higgins
At twenty-four, Harlow Robinson has run headfirst into a quarter-life crisis. Her high school girlfriends have dropped like flies, one wedding after another, forcing her into panic mode. It’s fight or flight time, and flight wins—literally. She breaks off a loveless engagement with her childhood sweetheart and abandons a teaching degree to become a flight attendant for Omega Skies.
Now Harlow is living her best glamorous, single life as a self-proclaimed sky muffin, at least that’s how it appears from the outside. But 3:00AM wakeup calls and nights alone in hotels make the days blend into a blur of loneliness. When her seven roommates sign her up for the dating app Sparks, Harlow finds herself navigating an entirely new lifestyle with more men than she can handle.
What’s a girl to do? Date them all, of course.
From New York Times bestseller, Wendy Higgins, comes her first contemporary adult romcom. Please sit back and keep your seatbelts fastened because this will be a bumpy ride. Enjoy your flight.
A Kingdom Of Flesh And Fire by Jennifer L Armentrout
A Betrayal…
Everything Poppy has ever believed in is a lie, including the man she was falling in love with. Thrust among those who see her as a symbol of a monstrous kingdom, she barely knows who she is without the veil of the Maiden. But what she does know is that nothing is as dangerous to her as him. The Dark One. The Prince of Atlantia. He wants her to fight him, and that’s one order she’s more than happy to obey. He may have taken her, but he will never have her.
A Choice…
Casteel Da’Neer is known by many names and many faces. His lies are as seductive as his touch. His truths as sensual as his bite. Poppy knows better than to trust him. He needs her alive, healthy, and whole to achieve his goals. But he’s the only way for her to get what she wants—to find her brother Ian and see for herself if he has become a soulless Ascended. Working with Casteel instead of against him presents its own risks. He still tempts her with every breath, offering up all she’s ever wanted. Casteel has plans for her. Ones that could expose her to unimaginable pleasure and unfathomable pain. Plans that will force her to look beyond everything she thought she knew about herself—about him. Plans that could bind their lives together in unexpected ways that neither kingdom is prepared for. And she’s far too reckless, too hungry, to resist the temptation.
A Secret…
But unrest has grown in Atlantia as they await the return of their Prince. Whispers of war have become stronger, and Poppy is at the very heart of it all. The King wants to use her to send a message. The Descenters want her dead. The wolven are growing more unpredictable. And as her abilities to feel pain and emotion begin to grow and strengthen, the Atlantians start to fear her. Dark secrets are at play, ones steeped in the blood-drenched sins of two kingdoms that would do anything to keep the truth hidden. But when the earth begins to shake, and the skies start to bleed, it may already be too late.
Crowning Soul by Sahira Javaid
Be swept away in this unique fantasy debut from Sahira Javaid. A spellbinding adventure of belonging, finding hope and where the price of a soul is another soul’s fate. Perfect for fans of InuYasha, Children of Blood and Bone and The Candle and The Flame.
Nezha Zaman considers her gift to control fire a dangerous secret. A secret that unravels when she encounters a vengeful shadow jinni in a maze garden that has been stalking her family, and knows about her power. Weeks after seeing the demonic being, Nezha is torn from her world through her backyard pond and transported to another dimension which sought out the light inside her heart.
Nezha learns from two unicorns that the dimension is her family’s roots, and the light is a fragment of an angel’s shattered soul. The three must work together to find the soul’s shards in a land teeming with shape-shifting jinn. If Nezha fails to stop the corrupted Iron Prince, the malevolent jinn at his side will shatter her soul next.
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic.
After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.
A flying demon feeding on human energies.
A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down.
And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.
The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.
She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.
Cole by Diana Nixon
COME AND GET THIS BACHELOR ON SALE BEFORE HE’S SOLD!
My name is Madison Hall and I am the most popular marriage broker in New York. I know everything about the most wanted bachelors and I will sell their every dark secret to help you make one of them yours forever.
But this story isn’t about me.
It’s about two people who never wanted to get in a serious relationship, not to mention with each other.
The morning Cole Griffin finds a beautiful stranger in his bedroom, his far-from-fun-and-anything-romantic life turns into disaster.
And so does Harlee’s.
Who would have thought that renting a house would end up with a non-stop fight with its owner?
Every new day will become a challenge to live through. But Cole and Harlee never give up easily. If they start a fire, they will burn down everything in their way to get what they both desire.
Which in this particular case, might also become the desire to burn the sheets together…
A romantic comedy that will make you laugh hard, and swoon a lot.
The Bright and Breaking Sea by Chloe Neill
Chloe Neill brings her trademark wit and wild sense of adventure to a stunning seafaring fantasy starring a dauntless heroine in a world of magic and treachery.
Kit Brightling, rescued as a foundling and raised in a home for talented girls, has worked hard to rise through the ranks of the Isles’ Crown Command and become one of the few female captains in Queen Charlotte’s fleet. Her ship is small, but she’s fast–in part because of Kit’s magical affinity to the sea. But the waters become perilous when the queen sends Kit on a special mission with a partner she never asked for.
Rian Grant, Viscount Queenscliffe, may be a veteran of the Continental war, but Kit doesn’t know him or his motives–and she’s dealt with one too many members of the Beau Monde. But Kit has her orders, and the queen has commanded they journey to a dangerous pirate quay and rescue a spy who’s been gathering intelligence on the exiled emperor of Gallia.
Kit can lead her ship and clever crew on her own, but with the fate of queen and country at stake, Kit and Rian must learn to trust each other, or else the Isles will fall…
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Blood Moon by Lucy Cuthew
A timely feminist YA novel in verse about periods, sex, shame and going viral for all the wrong reasons.
BLOOD MOON is a YA novel about the viral shaming of a teenage girl. During her seminal sexual experience with the quiet and lovely Benjamin, physics-lover and astronomy fan Frankie gets her period – but the next day a gruesome meme goes viral, turning an innocent, intimate afternoon into something sordid, mortifying and damaging.
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This is my America by Kim Johnson
Dear Martin meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting YA novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system.
Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time—her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy’s older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a “thug” on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town’s racist history that still haunt the present?
Fans of Nic Stone and Jason Reynolds won’t want to miss this provocative and gripping debut.
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Magus of the library T1 de Mitsu Izumi
Protéger les livres, c’est protéger le monde!
“Le livre. Une source de savoir, une accumulation de signes chargés de sens, un précieux héritage qui relie passé et futur. C’est un mage qui me l’a dit un jour: protéger les livres, c’est tout simplement… protéger le monde!’
Pour le jeune Shio, qui passe son temps libre plongé dans les romans, les récits extraordinaires sont un refuge face à la brutalité du quotidien. Son rêve est de partir pour la capitale des livres, où sont rassemblées toutes les connaissances du monde. Un projet utopique pour un gamin sans ressources… jusqu’au jour où des envoyées de la fameuse bibliothèque centrale débarquent dans son village! Le miracle qu’il appelle de ses vœux depuis si longtemps est-il sur le point de se réaliser?
Magus of the Library T2 de Mitsu Izumi
À travers les livres, deviens le héros de ta propre histoire !
Lorsqu’un groupe de kahunas débarque dans son village, la vie de Shio Fumis est bouleversée à jamais. Jusque-là traité en paria, le petit garçon amoureux des livres comprend qu’il ne tient qu’à lui de devenir le héros de sa propre histoire… C’est décidé, il sera lui aussi un protecteur des écrits !
Sept ans plus tard, déterminé à passer le concours, Shio se met en route afin de rejoindre la bibliothèque centrale d’Afshak. Mais le chemin pour s’y rendre est loin d’être de tout repos ! En effet, l’adolescent est témoin d’une bagarre dès son arrivée à Hamse, la ville des cascades… Et s’il suffisait d’ouvrir un livre pour se réconcilier ?
Magus of the Library T3 de Mitsu Izumi
Lorsqu’un groupe de kahunas débarque dans son village, la vie de Shio Fumis est bouleversée à jamais. Jusque-là traité en paria, le petit garçon amoureux des livres comprend qu’il ne tient qu’à lui de devenir le héros de sa propre histoire… C’est décidé, il sera lui aussi un protecteur des écrits !
Sept ans plus tard, déterminé à passer le concours, Shio se met en route afin de rejoindre la bibliothèque centrale d’Afshak. Mais le chemin pour s’y rendre est loin d’être de tout repos ! En effet, l’adolescent est témoin d’une bagarre dès son arrivée à Hamse, la ville des cascades… Et s’il suffisait d’ouvrir un livre pour se réconcilier ?
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Beyond the break by Heather Buchta
For fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han, Beyond the Break is a funny and gorgeous debut about a girl experiencing her first love. Well, second, if you count her faith… and that’s where things may get complicated.
Manhattan Beach native Lovette has two rules in life. One: no surfing. Not after her brother’s accident. Two: absolutely, no dating. And going into her junior year of high school, she’s pretty happy with that arrangement. She has friends, her church youth group, and God to fall back on when things get dicey. But after Jake Evans walks into her life, following these two simple rules gets a lot more complicated.
Jake is the boy from Lovette’s childhood who grew up. Handsome and sweet, he unlocks the part of Lovette that wants nothing more than to surf the waves again. And as their relationship grows, she begins to question what it means to be faithful: to her family, to God, but mostly, to herself.
Told with humor and heart, Heather Buchta delivers a sparkling debut that asks the question: Can you fall in love, be a teenager, and also be a good Christian?
The Summer King Bundle by Jennifer L Armentrout
From #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes The Summer King Bundle… THE PRINCEShe’s everything he wants….Cold. Heartless. Deadly. Whispers of his name alone bring fear to fae and mortals alike. The Prince. There is nothing in the mortal world more dangerous than him. Haunted by a past he couldn’t control, all Caden desires is revenge against those who’d wronged him, trapping him in never-ending nightmare. And there is one person he knows can help him. She’s everything he can’t have…Raised within the Order, Brighton Jussier knows just how dangerous the Prince is, reformed or not. She’d seen firsthand what atrocities he could be capable of. The last thing she wants to do is help him, but he leaves her little choice. Forced to work alongside him, she begins to see the man under the bitter ice. Yearning for him feels like the definition of insanity, but there’s no denying the heat in his touch and the wicked promise is his stare. She’s everything he’ll take….But there’s someone out there who wants to return the Prince to his former self. A walking, breathing nightmare that is hell bent on destroying the world and everyone close to him. The last thing either of them needs is a distraction, but with the attraction growing between them each now, the one thing he wants more than anything may be the one thing that will be his undoing.She’s everything he’d die for….THE KINGAs Caden and Brighton’s attraction grows despite the odds stacked against a happily ever after, they must work together to stop an Ancient fae from releasing the Queen, who wants nothing more than to see Caden become the evil Prince once feared by fae and mortals alike.THE QUEENThe King must have his Queen….Bestowed the forbidden Summer’s Kiss by the King of the Summer fae, Brighton Jussier is no longer just human. What she is, what she will become, no one knows for sure, but that isn’t her biggest concern at the moment. Now Caden, the King, refuses to let her go, even at the cost of his Court. When the doorway to the Otherworld is breached, both Brighton and Caden must do the unthinkable—not just to survive themselves, but also to save mankind from the evil that threatens the world
The Exact opposite of Okay by Laura Steven
Izzy O’Neill is an aspiring comic, an impoverished orphan, and a Slut Extraordinaire. Or at least, that’s what the malicious website flying round the school says. Izzy can try all she wants to laugh it off – after all, her sex life, her terms – but when pictures emerge of her doing the dirty with a politician’s son, her life suddenly becomes the centre of a national scandal. Izzy’s never been ashamed of herself before, and she’s not going to start now. But keeping her head up will take everything she has…
Wonderland by Juno Dawson
What happens when you fall down the rabbit hole? The compulsive must-have follow-up to CLEAN and MEAT MARKET from bestselling author Juno Dawson
Alice lives in a world of stifling privilege and luxury – but none of it means anything when your own head plays tricks on your reality. When her troubled friend Bunny goes missing, Alice becomes obsessed with finding her. On the trail of her last movements, Alice discovers a mysterious invitation to ‘Wonderland’: the party to end all parties – three days of hedonistic excess to which only the elite are welcome.
Will she find Bunny there? Or is this really a case of finding herself? Because Alice has secrets of her own, and ruthless socialite queen Paisley Hart is determined to uncover them, whatever it takes.
Alice is all alone, miles from home and without her essential medication. She can trust no-one, least of all herself, and now she has a new enemy who wants her head…
A searing exploration of mental health, gender and privilege, from the most addictive YA novelist in the UK today.
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The Chase de Elle Kennedy
Summer parviendra-t-elle à se faire une place parmi les trois sportifs dont elle partage dorénavant la maison ?
On dit que les opposés s’attirent. Et s’il y en a bien une qui est d’accord avec ça, c’est Summer, parce qu’il n’y a aucune raison logique pour qu’elle soit attirée par Colin Fitzgerald.
En règle générale, elle n’aime ni les intellos tatoués, ni les jeux vidéo, ni les joueurs de hockey qui pensent qu’elle est volage et superficielle.
De son côté, Fitz n’est pas persuadé que cette fille solaire, sûre d’elle, en un mot magnifique, soit celle qu’il lui faut.
Et pourtant, il va falloir qu’il s’y fasse car… ils sont colocataires !
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The Damned by Renee Ahdieh
New York Times bestselling author Renée Ahdieh returns with the second installment of her new sumptuous, sultry and romantic series, The Beautiful.
Following the events of The Beautiful, Sébastien Saint Germain is now cursed and forever changed. The treaty between the Fallen and the Brotherhood has been broken, and war between the immortals seems imminent. The price of loving Celine was costly. But Celine has also paid a high price for loving Bastien.
Still recovering from injuries sustained during a night she can’t quite remember, her dreams are troubled. And she doesn’t know she has inadvertently set into motion a chain of events that could lead to her demise and unveil a truth about herself she’s not quite ready to learn.
Forces hiding in the shadows have been patiently waiting for this moment for centuries. And just as Bastien and Celine begin to uncover the danger around them, they learn their love could tear them apart.
Shielded by Kaylynn Flanders
For fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Furyborn comes a thrilling new fantasy about a kingdom ravaged by war, and the princess who might be the key to saving not only those closest to her, but the kingdom itself, if she reveals the very secret that could destroy her.
The kingdom of Hálendi is in trouble. It’s losing the war at its borders, and rumors of a new, deadlier threat on the horizon have surfaced. Princess Jennesara knows her skills on the battlefield would make her an asset and wants to help, but her father has other plans.
As the second-born heir to the throne, Jenna lacks the firstborn’s–her brother’s–magical abilities, so the king promises her hand in marriage to the prince of neighboring Turia in exchange for resources Hálendi needs. Jenna must leave behind everything she has ever known if she is to give her people a chance at peace.
Only, on the journey to reach her betrothed and new home, the royal caravan is ambushed, and Jenna realizes the rumors were wrong–the new threat is worse than anyone imagined. Now Jenna must decide if revealing a dangerous secret is worth the cost before it’s too late–for her and for her entire kingdom.
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Le fléau des Locustes de Rebecca Roanhorse
Quatre semaines se sont écoulées depuis le sanglant affrontement de Black Mesa. Maggie s’efforce de faire bonne figure, mais sa dernière mission s’est très mal terminée : elle a perdu son seul ami, et elle doit à présent veiller malgré elle sur une adolescente qui possède un pouvoir clanique des plus étranges. Puis lui parvient une sinistre nouvelle : Kai a été recruté par une mystérieuse secte dirigée par la Locuste blanche, un personnage sorti tout droit des légendes navajos. Maggie refuse d’y croire et se lance sur sa piste, convaincue qu’il a besoin de son aide.
Sa quête l’emmène au-delà des Murs de Dinétah, au coeur des horreurs d’un monde ravagé par les Grandes Eaux. Accompagnée d’une poignée disparate d’alliés, Maggie devra affronter des trafiquants d’organes, des dieux navajos et la Locuste blanche en personne. Mais le chef de la secte ne correspond pas à l’image qu’elle s’en faisait, et Kai n’a peut-être pas besoin qu’on vienne à son secours. Le terrible projet de la Locuste blanche va mettre à rude épreuve la confiance toute neuve qu’éprouve Maggie envers ses amis et la faire douter d’elle-même. Tous ne survivront pas à cette aventure…
Midnight Sun de Stephenie Meyer
Midnight Sun est le roman tant attendu par les fans de la saga Twilight, où Edward Cullen raconte de son point de vue l’histoire relatée dans Fascination, le premier tome du cycle.
La rencontre entre Edward Cullen et Bella Swan dans Fascination, le premier tome de la saga Twilight, a donné naissance à une histoire d’amour iconique. Mais jusqu’à présent, les fans n’avaient pu lire de cette histoire que la version de Bella. Ce conte inoubliable prend, à travers le regard d’Edward, un tour nouveau et résolument sombre. La rencontre de Bella constitue dans sa longue vie de vampire l’expérience la plus intrigante et la plus troublante qui soit. Plus nous apprenons de détails sur le passé d’Edward et la complexité de son monde intérieur, mieux nous comprenons que cet événement constitue le combat déterminant de son existence.
You have a great selection of books, I’m starting to get in to Manga more and I’m always on the look out for more to try, thanks for sharing!
“The book. A source of knowledge, an accumulation of signs charged with meaning, a precious heritage that links past and future. A wise man once told me: “Protecting books is simply… protecting the world!”