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Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Changing His Game (Gamers #1) Author : Megan Erickson Publication Date : April 28th 2015 Publisher : Entangled Brazen Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble He controls the game, but she’s rewriting all the rules… Marley Lake is no stranger to awkwardness, but getting caught watching a dirty GIF by the company’s hot new IT guy exceeds even her standards. That is, until she realizes he's as turned on by it as she is. But with a big promotion on the line, she refuses to let her current dry spell be her downfall. Maybe. Austin Rivers has no business lusting after the irresistible editor of Gamers Magazine. He's a secret partner in the business—and technically Marley’s boss. One look at that GIF, though, and he’s ready to install a whole lot more than just software…as long as she never finds out who he really is. But reality’s not as virtual as it seems, and when Austin’s identity jeopardizes Marley’s promotion, he has to change his g...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : The Summer After You and Me Author : Jennifer Salvato Doktorski Publication Date : May 1st 2015 Publisher : Sourcebooks Fire Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Sunbathing, surfing, eating funnel cake on the boardwalk—Lucy loves living on the Jersey Shore. For her, it's not just the perfect summer escape, it is home. And as a local girl, she knows not to get attached to the tourists. They breeze in over Memorial Day weekend, crowding the shore and stealing moonlit kisses, only to pack up their beach umbrellas and empty promises on Labor Day. Lucy wants more from love than a fleeting romance, even if that means keeping her distance from her summertime neighbor and crush, Connor. Then Superstorm Sandy tears apart her barrier island, briefly bringing together a local girl like herself and a vacationer like Connor. Except nothing is the same in the wake of the storm. And day after day, week after week, Lucy is left to pick up the piec...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at   Breaking the Spine to show the  upcoming titles that we're mostly eager for. Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Bounce (Boomerang #3) Author : Noelle August Publication Date : August 25th 2015 Publisher : William Morrow Goodreads Playing the occasional club gig just isn’t cutting it for twenty-two-year-old cellist Skyler Canby, who’s trying to support herself and her mother back home in Kentucky. Persuaded by her best friend Beth to accompany her on an audition for the first feature film launched by Blackwood Entertainment, she figures why not? Beth’s a shoe-in for the lead, but maybe Skyler’s newly dyed pink hair will help her stand out enough to score a small speaking part. Never in her wildest dreams does Skyler imagine she’ll land the lead role or that she’ll have her shoes knocked off her feet by the kiss her audition partner, Grey Blackwood, plants on her—a kiss that feels very real and...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Taking What's His (Shillings Agency #4) Author : Diane Alberts Publication Date : April 28th 2015 Publisher : Entangled Brazen Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble A sexy category romance from Entangled's Brazen imprint... Some lines are meant to be crossed... One explosive device was all it took to turn Holt Cunningham from ass-kicking Marine to IT technician. Hell, he's still not over it. So when the cute little strawberry blonde at the bar asks him to kiss her, Holt can't resist the temptation of a sexy distraction. Before he knows it, she's blown his mind...and then skipped out the next morning. Lydia Thomas never expected things with Holt to go quite that far, but oh, it was worth it. After being far too good for way too long, she was ready to be bad. Except that there's that tiny detail that Lydia kept to herself-Holt just spent the night doing naughty things...with his best friend's little sister. One n...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : The Fill-In Boyfriend Author : Kasie West Publication Date : May 5th 2015 Publisher : Harper Teen Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble When Gia Montgomery's boyfriend, Bradley, dumps her in the parking lot of her high school prom, she has to think fast. After all, she'd been telling her friends about him for months now. This was supposed to be the night she proved he existed. So when she sees a cute guy waiting to pick up his sister, she enlists his help. The task is simple: be her fill-in boyfriend— two hours, zero commitment, a few white lies. After that, she can win back the real Bradley. The problem is that days after prom, it's not the real Bradley she's thinking about, but the stand-in. The one whose name she doesn't even know. But tracking him down doesn't mean they're done faking a relationship. Gia owes him a favor and his sister intends to see that he collects: his ex-girlfriend's graduation pa...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : All the Rage Author : Courtney Summers Publication Date : April 14th 2015 Publisher : St Martin's Press Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble The sheriff’s son, Kellan Turner, is not the golden boy everyone thinks he is, and Romy Grey knows that for a fact. Because no one wants to believe a girl from the wrong side of town, the truth about him has cost her everything—friends, family, and her community. Branded a liar and bullied relentlessly by a group of kids she used to hang out with, Romy’s only refuge is the diner where she works outside of town. No one knows her name or her past there; she can finally be anonymous. But when a girl with ties to both Romy and Kellan goes missing after a party, and news of him assaulting another girl in a town close by gets out, Romy must decide whether she wants to fight or carry the burden of knowing more girls could get hurt if she doesn’t speak up. Nobody believed her the first time—and the...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : The Mistake (Off-Campus #2) Author : Elle Kennedy Publication Date : April 28th 2015 Publisher : Self-Published Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble He’s a player in more ways than one… College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hook-ups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he’ll be forced to walk after graduation. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final year proving to her that he’s worth a second chance. Now he’s going to need to up his game… After a less than stellar freshman year, Grace is back at Briar University, older, wiser, and so over the arrogant hockey player she nearly handed her V-card to. She’s not a charity case, and she’s not the quiet butterfly she was when they first hooked u...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at   Breaking the Spine to show the  upcoming titles that we're mostly eager for. Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Ana of California Author : Andi Teran Publication Date : June 30th 2015 Publisher : Penguin Teen Goodreads A modern take on the classic coming-of-age novel, inspired by Anne of Green Gables In the grand tradition of Anne of Green Gables , Bridget Jones’s Diary , and The Three Weissmanns of Westport , Andi Teran’s captivating debut novel offers a contemporary twist on a beloved classic. Fifteen-year-old orphan Ana Cortez has just blown her last chance with a foster family. It’s a group home next—unless she agrees to leave East Los Angeles for a farm trainee program in Northern California. When she first arrives, Ana can’t tell a tomato plant from a blackberry bush, and Emmett Garber is skeptical that this slight city girl can be any help on his farm. His sister Abbie, however, thinks...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Hold Me Like a Breath (Once Upon a Crime Family #1) Author : Tiffany Schmidt Publication Date : May 19th 2015 Publisher : Bloomsbury Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Penelope Landlow has grown up with the knowledge that almost anything can be bought or sold—including body parts. She’s the daughter of one of the three crime families that control the black market for organ transplants. Penelope’s surrounded by all the suffocating privilege and protection her family can provide, but they can't protect her from the autoimmune disorder that causes her to bruise so easily. And in her family's line of work no one can be safe forever. All Penelope has ever wanted is freedom and independence. But when she’s caught in the crossfire as rival families scramble for prominence, she learns that her wishes come with casualties, that betrayal hurts worse than bruises, that love is a risk worth taking . . . and maybe she’s not as fragile a...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : The Remedy (The Program #0.5) Author : Suzanne Young Publication Date : April 21st 2015 Publisher : Simon Pulse Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble In a world before The Program… Quinlan McKee is a closer. Since the age of seven, Quinn has held the responsibility of providing closure to grieving families with a special skill—she can “become” anyone. Recommended by grief counselors, Quinn is hired by families to take on the short-term role of a deceased loved one between the ages of fifteen and twenty. She’s not an exact copy, of course, but she wears their clothes and changes her hair, studies them through pictures and videos, and soon, Quinn can act like them, smell like them, and be them for all intents and purposes. But to do her job successfully, she can’t get attached. Now seventeen, Quinn is deft at recreating herself, sometimes confusing her own past with those of the people she’s portrayed. When she’s given her longest ass...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : The Secrets of Attraction Author : Robin Constantine Publication Date : April 28th 2015 Publisher : Balzer + Bray Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Set in the same world as The Promise of Amazing , this smart, surprising, and romantic follow-up to Robin Constantine's debut novel follows two New Jersey teens as they become friends and fall in love. Perfect for fans of Stephanie Perkins, Sarah Mlynowski, and Jennifer E. Smith. Madison Pryce thinks she's got everything figured out—she's working on a portfolio for a summer art program and hanging with her friends. Plus she has her hot boyfriend, Zach. But then a visit from a family friend turns Maddie's life upside down. Jesse McMann is still reeling from a breakup that shattered his heart and his band. Then pride (and some goading from his bass player and fellow barista) forces him to find a new drummer—and the inspiration to write music again. Kismet arrives in the unli...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke (Prisoner of Night and Fog #2) Author : Anne Blankman Publication Date : April 21st 2015 Publisher : Balzer & Bray Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble The girl known as Gretchen Whitestone has a secret: She used to be part of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle. More than a year after she made an enemy of her old family friend and fled Munich, she lives with a kindly English family, posing as an ordinary German immigrant, and is preparing to graduate from high school. Her love, Daniel Cohen, is a reporter in town. For the first time in her life, Gretchen is content. But then, Daniel gets a telegram that sends him back to Germany, and Gretchen’s world turns upside-down. And when she receives word that Daniel is wanted for murder, she has to face the danger she thought she’d escaped-and return to her homeland. Gretchen must do everything she can to avoid capture and recognition, even though saving Daniel will mea...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at   Breaking the Spine to show the  upcoming titles that we're mostly eager for. Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : How To Be Brave Author : E. Katherine Kottaras Publication Date : September 2015 Publisher : St. Martin's Press Goodreads Reeling from her mother's death, Georgia has a choice: become lost in her own pain, or enjoy life right now, while she still can. She decides to start really living for the first time and makes a list of fifteen ways to be brave - all the things she's wanted to do but never had the courage to try. As she begins doing the things she's always been afraid to do - including pursuing her secret crush, she discovers that life doesn't always go according to plan. Sometimes friendships fall apart and love breaks your heart. But once in a while, the right person shows up just when you need them most - and you learn that you're stronger and braver than you ev...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Unrequited (Woodlands #4) Author : Jen Frederick Publication Date : April 13th 2015 Publisher : Self-Published Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Winter Donovan loves two things: her sister and her sister's ex boyfriend. She's spent her whole life doing the right thing except that one time, that night when Finn O'Malley looked hollowed out by his father's death. Then she did something very wrong that felt terribly right. Finn can't stop thinking about Winter and the night and he'll do anything to make her a permanent part of his life, even if it means separating Winter from the only family she has. Their love was supposed to be unrequited but one grief stricken guy and one girl with too big of a heart results in disastrous consequences. Personal Thoughts When it comes to this series and new adult, Jen Frederick can do absolutely no wrong. If you didn't know this yet, the Woodlands series is one of my all-tim...