What's New: Week Three

This idea occurred to me while I was thinking about doing some non-review stuffs on my blog.

What's New will be a weekly blog post where  I'll be blogging about 3 books (each week) that are recently released.

I'll be posting this on every Monday.

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Book One:

Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac

Information Regarding The Book:

• Author(s): Joseph Bruchac
• Publisher: Tu Books
• Genre(s): Dystopian
• Release Date: October 1, 2013
• You'll Find This Book At: Amazon, IndieBound.

Plot: 

Years ago, seventeen year old Apache hunter Lozen and her family lives in a world of haves and have-nots. There were the Ones (people so augmented with technology and genetic enhancements that they were barely human) and there was everyone else who served the Ones. Then the Cloud came, and everything changed. Tech stopped working. The world plunged back into a new steam age. The Ones' pets — genetically engineered monsters — turned on them and are now loose on the world. Lozen was not one of the lucky ones pre-C, but fate has given her a unique set of survival skills and magical abilities. She hunts monsters for the Ones who survived the apocalyptic events of the Cloud, which ensures the safety of her kidnapped family. But with every monster she takes down, Lozen's powers grow, and she connects those powers to an ancient legend of her people. It soon becomes clear to Lozen that she is not just a hired gun… Lozen is meant to be a hero.

Book Two: 

Wild Card by Simone Elkeles 

Information Regarding The Book:

• Author(s): Simone Elkeles
• Publisher: Walker Childrens
• Genre(s): Contemporary, Teen Fiction, Family Drama
• Release Date: Oct 1, 2013
• You'll Find This Book At: Amazon, IndieBound.

Plot:

After getting kicked out of boarding school, bad boy Derek Fitzpatrick has no choice but to live with his ditzy stepmother while his military dad is deployed. Things quickly go from bad to worse when he finds out she plans to move them back to her childhood home in Illinois. Derek’s counting the days before he can be on his own, and the last thing he needs is to get involved with someone else’s family drama. 

Ashtyn Parker knows one thing for certain - people you care about leave without a backward glance. A football scholarship would finally give her the chance to leave. So she pours everything into winning a state championship, until her boyfriend and star quarterback betrays them all by joining their rival team. Ashtyn needs a new game plan, but it requires trusting Derek - someone she barely knows, someone born to break the rules. Is she willing to put her heart on the line to try and win it all?

Book Three:

Hitler's Secret by William Osborne

Information Regarding The Book:

• Author(s): William Osborne
• Publisher: Chicken House Publishing
• Genre(s): Historical Fiction, World War II, Adventure
• Release Date :Sept 23, 2013
• You'll Find This Book At: Amazon, IndieBound.

Plot:

Otto and Leni thought they were safe: They escaped -- barely -- from war-torn Europe and are living as refugees in England. But now the Crown has recruited them: Great Britain wants them to go back. As spies!

Dropped behind enemy lines, Otto and Leni embark on a top-secret operation. Code name: Wolfsangel. Their mission? Capture the one person who can defeat the ultimate evil of Nazism! Der Fuhrer has destroyed Otto's and Leni's families, but what if the tables were turned? What if Hitler's ultimate legacy was in their hands?

By the screenwriter of Goldeneye, HITLER'S SECRET is a cinematic tale of revenge with an unexpected twist. A note by the author explains the truth behind the fiction and lets readers know what really became of history's greatest villains.

What's New: Week Two

This idea occurred to me while I was thinking about doing some non-review stuffs on my blog.

What's New will be a weekly blog post where  I'll be blogging about 3 books (each week) that are recently released.

I'll be posting this on every Monday.

This week I'm posting about newly released books by Indian authors.

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Book One:

It Started With A Friend Request by Sudeep Nagarkar

Information Regarding The Book:

• Author(s): Sudeep Nagarkar
• Publisher: Random House India
• Genre(s): Romance
• Release Date: July 17, 2013
• You'll Find This Book At: Goodreads, Flipkart, Amazon.

Plot:

A brand new love story and a story of friendship from the bestselling author of Few Things Left Unsaid and That’s the Way We Met! It will take every emotions to one step higher.

Why don’t we feel the moment when we fall in love but always remember when it ends? Akash is young, single, and conservative with a preference for girls with brains than in miniskirts. One day, he runs into free-spirited Aleesha at a local discotheque. A Mass Media student, Aleesha is a pampered brat, the only child of her parents who dote on her. This brief meeting leads them to exchange their BlackBerry pins and they begin chatting regularly. As BlackBerry plays cupid, they fall in love. When they hit a rough patch in their life, Aditya, Akash’s close pal, guides them through it.

But just when they are about to take their relationship to the next level, a sudden misfortune strikes. Can Aditya bring Akash’s derailed life back on track?

It Started with a Friend Request is a true story which will make you believe in love like you never knew before.

Book Two: 

Roll over image to magnify Good Night and Good Luck! : A New Mum Battles Manuals and Myths by Kusumanjali Ravindranath

Information Regarding The Book:

• Author(s): Kusumanjali Ravindranath
• Publisher:Harper Collins India
• Genre(s): Personal experience
• Release Date:April 1st, 2013
• You'll Find This Book At:  Goodreads.

Plot:

Can a good mum get a good night’s sleep?

Kusumanjali Ravindranath – Anju to her family – has just had her first child. She revels in motherhood, and does not miss her job, her old body, or even the freedom to check emails whenever she wants to.But she does miss her sleep.

Fast turning into an insomniac, Anju accepts the inevitability of her sleep-deprived existence. Until she meets the local miracle mum and her child – a child who has been sleeping from 7 pm to 7 am since he was three months old.

Good Night & Good Luck is Anju’s journey to peaceful slumber – for herself and her baby. It’s an obstacle course, strewn with ‘booby’ traps, warring baby gurus, indulgent and obsessive grandmothers, jet lag, and colliding cultures. All part of the new mother’s vertiginous learning curve.

A witty, heartwarming book about the magical first year of a baby, and about navigating the myths and truths of modern parenting , Anju’s experience could be your guide to (dare we say it?) a good night’s sleep.

Book Three:

Like It Happened Yesterday by Ravinder Singh

Information Regarding The Book:

• Author(s): Ravinder Singh
• Publisher:Penguin
• Genre(s): Love, Romance
• Release Date :June, 2013
• You'll Find This Book At: Goodreads, Flipkart, Amazon.

Plot:

Has anyone ever asked you - What were the best days of your life? 

That one period of your life you always wanted to go back to? And live that life . . . one more time? 

When asked this, I closed my eyes and went back in my own past. And I thought . . . 

. . . of the days, when lifes most complex choices had a simple solution of Akkad Bakkad Bambey Bo! 
. . . of the seasons when rains were celebrated by making paper boats. 
. . . of the times when waiting at the railway crossing meant counting the bogies of the train passing by.

When I opened my eyes, it seems Like it Happened Yesterday! Like it was yesterday that I broke my first tooth and fell in love for the first time. Like it was yesterday, when I was about to lose my friend, and suddenly he became my best friend. 

I look back and it becomes a journey full of adventure. It makes me laugh, it makes me cry and I know Im here because I was . . . 

Come, hold my hand, and take this trip with me. It will be yesterday for you, once again!

What's New: Week One

This idea occurred to me while I was thinking about doing some non-review stuffs on my blog.

What's New will be a weekly blog post where  I'll be blogging about 3 books (each week) that are recently released.

This is the first time I'm posting this topic and I really hope that you, my readers, will like the idea. I'd be glad if this turns out to be helpful for you guys. I'll be posting this on every Monday.

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Book One: 

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

Information Regarding The Book:

• Author(s): Holly Black
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books For Young Readers
• Genre(s): Vampires, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
• Age Range: 14+
• Release Date: September 03, 2013
• ISBN: 0316213101
• You'll Find This Book At: Amazon, Indie Bound.

Plot:

Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown’s gates, you can never leave.

One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black.

Book Two:

Antigoddess (Antigoddess #1) by Kendare Blake

Information Regarding The Book:

• Author(s): Kendare Blake
• Publisher: Tor Teen
• Genre(s): Teen Fiction, Mythology & Folklore, Fantasy
• Age Range: 13+
• Release Date: September 10, 2013
• ISBN: 978-0765334435
• You'll Find This Book At: Amazon, Indie Bound.

Plot: 

Old Gods never die…

Or so Athena thought. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her skin, invading her lungs like a strange cancer, and Hermes showed up with a fever eating away his flesh. So much for living a quiet eternity in perpetual health.

Desperately seeking the cause of their slow, miserable deaths, Athena and Hermes travel the world, gathering allies and discovering enemies both new and old. Their search leads them to Cassandra—an ordinary girl who was once an extraordinary prophetess, protected and loved by a god.

These days, Cassandra doesn’t involve herself in the business of gods—in fact, she doesn’t even know they exist. But she could be the key in a war that is only just beginning.

Because Hera, the queen of the gods, has aligned herself with other of the ancient Olympians, who are killing off rivals in an attempt to prolong their own lives. But these anti-gods have become corrupted in their desperation to survive, horrific caricatures of their former glory. Athena will need every advantage she can get, because immortals don’t just flicker out.

Every one of them dies in their own way. Some choke on feathers. Others become monsters. All of them rage against their last breath.

The Goddess War is about to begin.

Book Three:

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Information Regarding The Book:

• Author(s): Rainbow Rowell
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Genre(s): Contemporary Romance, Realistic Fiction
• Age Range: 14+
• Release Date: September 10, 2013
• ISBN: 1250030951
• You'll Find This Book At: Amazon, Indie Bound.

Plot:

In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.

Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.
Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?