New Tour Title: Ink by Amanda Sun

Hello fellow book nerds and superbly awesome people! We've got another debut waiting to hop into the hands of five lucky participants in the 2013 Debut Author Challenge!

If you're taking part in the 2013 Debut Author Challenge hosted by Hobbitsies, here's your chance to read INK by Amanda Sun!

 

I looked down at the paper, still touching the tip of my shoe. I reached for it, flipping the page over to look.

Scrawls of ink outlined a drawing of a girl lying on a bench.

A sick feeling started to twist in my stomach, like motion sickness.

And then the girl in the drawing turned her head, and her inky eyes glared straight into mine.

On the heels of a family tragedy, the last thing Katie Greene wants to do is move halfway across the world. Stuck with her aunt in Shizuoka, Japan, Katie feels lost. Alone. She doesn’t know the language, she can barely hold a pair of chopsticks, and she can’t seem to get the hang of taking her shoes off whenever she enters a building.

Then there’s gorgeous but aloof Tomohiro, star of the school’s kendo team. How did he really get the scar on his arm? Katie isn’t prepared for the answer. But when she sees the things he draws start moving, there’s no denying the truth: Tomo has a connection to the ancient gods of Japan, and being near Katie is causing his abilities to spiral out of control. If the wrong people notice, they'll both be targets.

Katie never wanted to move to Japan—now she may not make it out of the country alive.

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New Tour Title: Belle Epoque

Hello fellow book lovers and super readers! We've got another debut waiting to hop into the hot little hands of five luck participants in the 2013 Debut Author Challenge!

If you're taking part in the 2013 Debut Author Challenge hosted by Hobbitsies, here's your chance to read BELLE EPOQUE by Elizabeth Ross.

When Maude Pichon runs away from provincial Brittany to Paris, her romantic dreams vanish as quickly as her savings. Desperate for work, she answers an unusual ad. The Durandeau Agency provides its clients with a unique service—the beauty foil. Hire a plain friend and become instantly more attractive. 

Monsieur Durandeau has made a fortune from wealthy socialites, and when the Countess Dubern needs a companion for her headstrong daughter, Isabelle, Maude is deemed the perfect foil.

But Isabelle has no idea her new "friend" is the hired help, and Maude's very existence among the aristocracy hinges on her keeping the truth a secret. Yet the more she learns about Isabelle, the more her loyalty is tested. And the longer her deception continues, the more she has to lose.

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New Tour Title: How My Summer Went Up in Flames by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

Hello fellow book lovers and super readers! We've got another debut waiting to hop into the hot little hands of five luck participants in the 2013 Debut Author Challenge!

If you're taking part in the 2013 Debut Author Challenge hosted by Hobbitsies, here's your chance to read HOW MY SUMMER WENT UP IN FLAMES by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski!

First she lost her heart. Then she lost her mind. And now she’s on a road trip to win back her ex. This debut novel’s packed with drama and romance!

Rosie’s always been impulsive. She didn’t intend to set her cheating ex-boyfriend’s car on fire. And she never thought her attempts to make amends could be considered stalking. So when she’s served with a temporary restraining order on the first day of summer vacation, she’s heartbroken—and furious. 
To put distance between Rosie and her ex, Rosie’s parents send her on a cross-country road trip with responsible, reliable neighbor Matty and his two friends. Forget freedom of the road, Rosie wants to hitchhike home and win back her ex. But her determination starts to dwindle with each passing mile. Because Rosie’s spark of anger? It may have just ignited a romance with someone new…

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New Tour Title: Hammer of Witches!

Hello there fellow book lovers and generally awesome people! We've got another debut waiting to make it's way through the hands of five lucky participants of the 2013 Debut Author Challenge!

If you are taking part in the 2013 Debut Author Challenge hosted by Hobbitsies, here's your chance to read HAMMER OF WITCHES by Shana Mlwaski

Baltasar Infante can weasel out of any problem with a good story.

But when he encounters a monster straight out of stories one night, Baltasar faces trouble even he can’t talk his way out of. Captured by the Malleus Maleficarum, a mysterious witch-hunting arm of the Spanish Inquisition, Baltasar is put to the question. The Inquisitor demands he reveal the whereabouts of Amir al-Katib, a legendary Moorish sorcerer who can bring myths and the creatures within them to life.

Now Baltasar must escape, find al-Katib, and defeat a dreadful power that may destroy the world.

As Baltasar’s journey takes him into uncharted lands on Columbus’s voyage westward, he learns that stories are more powerful than he once believed them to be—and much more dangerous.

Shana Mlawski’s magical debut novel takes a fresh look at one of the pivotal moments in human history.

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New Tour Title! In the Shadow of Blackbirds

Hello there fellow book lovers and generally awesome people! We've got another debut waiting to make it's way through the hands of five lucky participants of the 2013 Debut Author Challenge!

If you are taking part in the 2013 Debut Author Challenge hosted by Hobbitsies, here's your chance to read IN THE SHADOW OF BLACKBIRDS by Cat Winters.

In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, and the government ships young men to the front lines of a brutal war, creating an atmosphere of fear and confusion. Sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches as desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort, but she herself has never believed in ghosts. During her bleakest moment, however, she’s forced to rethink her entire way of looking at life and death, for her first love—a boy who died in battle—returns in spirit form. But what does he want from her?

Featuring haunting archival early-twentieth-century photographs, this is a tense, romantic story set in a past that is eerily like our own time.

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New Tour Title: Parallel by Lauren Miller!

Hello there fellow book lovers and generally awesome people! We've got another debut waiting to make it's way through the hands of five lucky participants of the 2013 Debut Author Challenge!

If you are taking part in the 2013 Debut Author Challenge hosted by Hobbitsies, here's your chance to read PARALLEL by Lauren Miller!

Abby Barnes had a plan. Get into a great college, major in journalism, and land her dream job at a major newspaper. But on the eve of her 18th birthday, she's stuck on a Hollywood movie set instead, wishing she could rewind her life. But the next morning, she’s in a dorm room at Yale, with no memory of how she got there. A collision of parallel worlds has left Abby living a new reality every time her younger parallel self makes a new decision. Forced to live out the consequences of a path she didn't choose, Abby must let go on her plans for the future and learn to focus on the present, without losing sight of who she is, the boy who might just be her soul mate, and the destiny that’s finally in reach.

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New Tour Title: Mortality by Kellie Sheridan!

Hello there fellow book lovers and generally awesome people! We've got another debut waiting to make it's way through the hands of five lucky participants of the 2013 Debut Author Challenge!

 If you are taking part in the 2013 Debut Author Challenge hosted by Hobbitsies, here's your chance to read MORTALITY by Kellie Sheridan!

After surviving a deadly plague outbreak, sixteen-year-old Savannah thought she had lived through the very worst of human history. There was no way to know that the miracle vaccine would put everyone at risk for a fate worse than un-death.

Now, two very different kinds of infected walk the Earth, intent on nothing but feeding and destroying what little remains of civilization. When the inoculated are bitten, infection means watching on in silent horror as self-control disappears and the idea of feasting on loved ones becomes increasingly hard to ignore.

Starving and forced to live inside of the abandoned high school, all Savannah wants is the chance to fight back. When a strange boy arrives with a plan to set everything right, she gets her chance. Meeting Cole changes everything. Mere survival will never be enough.

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