New Shelf Goodies & The Weekly Nutshell {86}

For New Shelf Goodies, I'll be showing you what lovely books I acquired this week, whether from publishers, or the library, or from whatever half-crazed book-buying binge I happened to go on. :D (Inspired by Tynga's Stacking the Shelves) The Weekly Nutshell will be just that...my week here at Stories & Sweeties, in a nutshell. (inspired by Ginger @ GReads and her recaps at the end of the TGIF posts)

The lovely haul this week: 

For review: 

Linked by Imogen Howsen

Read this one last year, so I'll be giving this away close to the release of the next book in July!

Chantress Alchemy by Amy Butler Greenfield

Need to get cracking on this series, it looks really good!

Dissonance by Erica O'Rourke

YES, excited about this one!

Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times by Emma Trevayne

One of my fave covers of the year! Plus, time travel, steampunk, clockwork dragons???

A Creature of Moonlight by Rebecca Hahn

Girl who is half-dragon must reclaim her throne. This sounds awesome. 

Love by the Morning Star by Laura L. Sullivan

Spies, pre-WWII, mistaken identities---sounds fun!

 

 I also won this awesome Violet Hour prize back with a copy of the book, a Vision Crest mug (which has to do with the story), hair chalk, a Sex Pistols tee, and a $25 BN gift card! 

Many thanks to HMH books, Flux, and Simon & Schuster for all this fun stuff!!

The Weekly Nutshell: 

{Monday} Cover Story

{Tuesday} Waiting on Wednesday: Boneseeker

{Thursday} Liv, Forever by Amy Talkington Review

This week I'm reading Don't You Forget About Me and it is so bizarre from the get-go! Enjoying it now that I've wrapped my head around what's going on! LOL  I'm liking Kate Karyus Quinn's writing style, it reminds me a little of Alice Hoffman, whose books I love. Also planning to start Flights and Chimes this week---guys, I am SO excited to dive into this one. It looks so fun.
Hope everyone had a great week!

 

Win DEEP BLUE by Jennifer Donnelly + custom nail polish set!

I'm sure you've all witnessed this gorgeousness:

Well, today I'm happy to be able to host this awesome giveaway: 

TWO winners will each win a copy of DEEP BLUE and a custom nail polish set inspired by the book!! 

 Prizing & samples  courtesy of Disney Publishing

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The first in a series of epic tales set in the depths of the ocean, where six mermaids seek to protect and save their hidden world.  

Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe. 

When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be winning the love of handsome Prince Mahdi. And yet Sera finds herself haunted by strange dreams that foretell the return of an ancient evil. Her dark premonitions are confirmed when an assassin’s arrow poisons Sera's mother. 

Now, Serafina must embark on a quest to find the assassin’s master and prevent a war between the Mer nations. Led only by her shadowy dreams, Sera searches for five other mermaid heroines who are scattered across the six seas. Together, they will form an unbreakable bond of sisterhood and uncover a conspiracy that threatens their world’s very existence.

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jennifer Donnelly is an award-winning author of both adult and young adult books, including Deep Blue, the first book in the Waterfire Saga. For adults she has written a trilogy of best-selling books that includes The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and The Wild Rose. Her first young adult novel, A Northern Light, received many accolades, among them the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Carnegie Medal in the UK, and a Michael L. Printz Honor. Her second young adult novel, Revolution, was named a Best Book of 2010 by Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal, and the audiobook received a 2011 American Library Association Odyssey Honor. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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