In My Mailbox (7)

Sunday July 19, 2009

In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren is a way to share what you new books get each week. So, the following books are all ARCs I received in the mail this week for review...*yippeee* :o)


The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Kidnapped
by Yxta Maya Murray
Available January 2010

Princess P is the fast bad girl Michelle Pena used to be: the dirty dancing, foul mouthed, gang-princess daughter of Reina, Queen of the 99's, one of the most formidable gangs in California. Princess P was once set to inherit supremacy over her own gang, the Snakes. With Silver, the love of her life and partner in crime, she was unstoppable--until Reina got thrown in jail, her brother Samson got carted off to juvie, and everything in her old world went extinct.

Now Michelle's turned her life around with a devoted foster-pop, a prestigious scholarship on the horizon, and a new best friend. Kiki knows nothing about Michelle's gang-princess past. But what Michelle doesn't know is that the Snakes are back, and they'll do anything for the blood money Samson still has. Anything, including holding his beloved sister for ransom. When Silver brutally kidnaps Michelle and Kiki, Michelle has to put to use everything her mama taught her about being Princess P.

Michelle has one shot at freedom. One more chance to be herself. But will she survive long enough to discover who she really is?

Rampant
by Diana Peterfreund
Available August 25, 2009

Forget everything you ever knew about unicorns . . .

Real unicorns are venomous, man-eating monsters with huge fangs and razor-sharp horns. Fortunately, they've been extinct for a hundred and fifty years.

Or not.

Astrid had always scoffed at her eccentric mother's stories about killer unicorns. But when one of the monsters attacks her boyfriend—thereby ruining any chance of him taking her to the prom—Astrid finds herself headed to Rome to train as a unicorn hunter at the ancient cloisters the hunters have used for centuries.

However, at the cloisters all is not what it seems. Outside, the unicorns wait to attack. And within, Astrid faces other, unexpected threats: from the crumbling, bone-covered walls that vibrate with a terrible power to the hidden agendas of her fellow hunters to—perhaps most dangerously of all—her growing attraction to a handsome art student . . . an attraction that could jeopardize everything.

Evil?
by Timothy Carter
Available August 1, 2009

Stuart Bradley is an openly gay teenager who has been caught by his little brother "pleasuring" himself in the shower. Soon, the entire town of Ice Lake in rural Ontario finds out about it and becomes obsessed with the act, deeming it the worst sin of them all. To get the truth about what actually constitutes a sin, Stuart summons the demon Fon Pyre, who let's it slip that the new Biblical Studies teacher at Stuart's school is a actually a fallen angel who is controlling the minds of the townspeople, fueling their hatred of the sin he finds the most repugnant. It falls to Stuart to save his feeble-minded neighbors before their intense fanaticism tears a rift in the thin veil protecting the human world from the demon hoards waiting to attack on the other side.

Beautiful
by Cindy Martinusen-Coloma
Available November 3, 2009

Truth's Found When Beauty's Lost.

Since childhood, seventeen-year-old Ellie Summerfield has fought to overcome her grandfather's painful words that push her to be driven, determined, and successful to the detriment of those around her. She always strives to do more, be more, help more. But when a tragedy stops her world short, Ellie is confronted with her deepest fears and this question: what is her life really worth?

Experience one girl's journey to rebuild herself into someone who is truly beautiful.

Ruby Unscripted
by Cindy Martinusen-Coloma
Available Now

Small-town girl Ruby Madden has moved to Marin County, California; home of high-dollar homes and green living. The girls wear shoes that cost more than her entire paycheck at the Underground Coffeehouse & Theater, and the students are well-traveled and full of life experiences that Ruby can only dream of.

All the stresses of adjusting to her new life have put a strain on her ability to trust God. Yet when mysterious and eye-catching Kaden invites Ruby to join the school's film group, the puzzle pieces start to fit. Her love of art finds perfect expression and the film friends seem to really get her. When a major Hollywood director hosts an amateur film contest, Ruby and her friends are stoked.

But Ruby's old life is tugging her backward and her frantic balancing act throws her new life totally off track. To top things off, Ruby makes a mistake that could cost her the chance of a lifetime.

Life would be so much easier if Ruby just had a script to follow with a happy ending guaranteed. But what's the fun in that?

How I Found the Perfect Dress
by Maryrose Wood
Available Now
On a bike tour of Ireland last summer, Morgan Rawlinson fell for Colin, the hunky guide, and entered a portal that turned her into the goddess Morganne. Now she’s back to her painfully normal life and her relationship with Colin has fizzled to the occasional e-mail…until he writes saying he’s coming to Connecticut—just in time for the prom.

But when he arrives, he’s exhausted. It seems that when Morgan crossed the portal as Morganne, a spell was cast on Colin. In his dreams he’s being forced to dance ’til dawn with the faeries, who want to boogie with him for eternity. Somehow she has to break the spell on her date, help plan the prom, and find the perfect dress. Oh, what a night…



Why I Let My Hair Grow Out
by Maryrose Wood
Available now
Being sent to your room is one thing. But being sent to another country?

Morgan's boyfriend dumped her on the last day of school-it seemed the only thing to do was to hack off her hair and dye the stubble orange. Unfortunately, Morgan's parents freaked and decided a change of scenery would do her good. So they're sending her off on a bike tour of Ireland.

But Morgan gets more than she bargained for on the Emerald Isle-including a strange journey into some crazy, once upon a time corner of the past. There, she meets fairies, weefolk, and a hunky warrior-dude named Fergus, and figures out that she's got some growing to do-and she doesn't just mean her hair.