Happy book birthday to the following awesome authors and their spectacular books!
TIME BETWEEN US by Tamara Ireland Stone (Disney*Hyperion)
Anna
and Bennett were never supposed to meet: she lives in 1995 Chicago and
he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett has the unique ability to
travel through time and space, which brings him into Anna’s life, and
with him a new world of adventure and possibility.
As their
relationship deepens, the two face the reality that time may knock
Bennett back to where he belongs, even as a devastating crisis throws
everything they believe into question. Against a ticking clock, Anna and
Bennett are forced to ask themselves how far they can push the bounds
of fate, what consequences they can bear in order to stay together, and
whether their love can stand the test of time.
Fresh, exciting,
and deeply romantic, Time Between Us is a stunning, spellbinding debut
from an extraordinary new voice in YA fiction.
"A beautifully written, unique love story." -- Melissa Marr, New York Times best-selling author of The Wicked Lovely series
“A warm, time-bending romance… [that] will have readers rooting for the couple that keeps daring fate.” -- Publishers Weekly
"Time
Between Us is the very best kind of love story -- heart-pounding,
intense, and unputdownable!" -- Elizabeth Scott, author of Bloom and
Perfect You
"The story will hold readers with its twists and
turns, present and future; its love, sadness, and anger; and especially,
its surprising secrets." -- Booklist
How can you talk about something you can’t remember?
Before
the ski trip, sixteen-year-old Cassidy “Sid” Murphy was a cheerleader
(at the bottom of the pyramid, but still...), a straight-A student, and a
member of a solid trio of best friends. When she ends up on a ski lift
next to handsome local college boy, Dax Windsor, she’s thrilled; but Dax
takes everything from Sid—including a lock of her perfect red curls—and
she can’t remember any of it.
Back home and unable to relate to
her old friends, Sid drops her college prep classes and takes up
residence in the A/V room with only Corey “The Living Stoner” Livingston
for company. But as she gets to know Corey (slacker, baker, total
dreamboat), Sid finds someone who truly makes her happy. Now, if she can
just shake the nightmares and those few extra pounds, everything will
be perfect... or so she thinks.
witty and poignant, Colleen Clayton’s stunning debut is a story about moving on after the unthinkable happens.
VELVETEEN by Daniel Marks (Delacorte)
Velveteen Monroe is dead. At 16, she was kidnapped and murdered by a madman named Bonesaw. But that’s not the problem.
The
problem is she landed in purgatory. And while it’s not a fiery inferno,
it’s certainly no heaven. It’s gray, ashen, and crumbling more and more
by the day, and everyone has a job to do. Which doesn’t leave Velveteen
much time to do anything about what’s really on her mind.
Bonesaw.
Velveteen
aches to deliver the bloody punishment her killer deserves. And she’s
figured out just how to do it. She’ll haunt him for the rest of his
days.
It’ll be brutal... and awesome.
But crossing the
divide between the living and the dead has devastating consequences.
Velveteen’s obsessive haunting cracks the foundations of purgatory and
jeopardizes her very soul. A risk she’s willing to take—except fate has
just given her reason to stick around: an unreasonably hot and
completely off-limits coworker.
Velveteen can’t help herself when
it comes to breaking rules... or getting revenge. And she just might be
angry enough to take everyone down with her.
