Showing posts with label November. Show all posts
Showing posts with label November. Show all posts

Monday, November 30, 2015

New to the TBR Pile (44) - November 2015



Freebie from Amazon.ca:
The Gifting (Gifting #1)
by K. E. Ganshert

If science is right, then I am crazy. And crazy is dangerous.

Tess Eckhart has always felt things nobody else can feel. Then the Ouija board incident happens at a high school party. Her complete freak out sends her family across the country--next to a nationally-renowned facility for the mentally ill. Worried Tess suffers from the same illness that tormented her grandmother, her parents insist she see a psychiatrist.

Tess is more concerned about fitting in at her new school, and hiding the fact that she's seeing a therapist at the Edward Brooks Facility. She's used to whispers and stares, but when it comes to Luka Williams, a reluctantly popular boy in her class, she's unused to a stare that intense. Then the headaches start, and the seemingly prophetic dreams that haunt her at night. As Tess tries to hide them, she becomes increasingly convinced that Luka knows something--that he might somehow be responsible.

But what if she's wrong? What if Luka Williams is the only thing separating her from a madness too terrifying to fathom?

Mindspeak (Mindspeak #1)
by Heather Sunseri

She was created for a purpose so revolutionary, someone was willing to kill for it.

Seventeen-year-old Lexi Matthews keeps two secrets from her elite boarding school classmates—she’s the daughter of a famous and controversial geneticist, and she can influence people’s thoughts.

But after new student Jack DeWeese heals her broken arm with an anything-but-simple touch, he forces Lexi to face a new reality—her abilities reach much further than speaking to the minds of others.

After Lexi’s father goes missing and she receives threatening emails, she can’t decide whether to fall into Jack’s arms or run and hide.

As Lexi seeks answers to what she and Jack are, she discovers a truth more unsettling than anything her science books can teach. And letting Jack into her life of secrets is not only a threat to her very existence, but it just might break her heart wide open.

A Monstrous Place (Tales From Between)
by Matthew Stott

Things live between awake and asleep. In the moment after your eyes grow too heavy to stay open, but before the dreams take you...

Molly lives with her Mother in a large, creaking house that she wishes were haunted. There may be no ghosts, but what about monsters? Monsters with an unending appetite that like to steal people away in the black of night.

When, one morning, Molly wakes to find her own Mother missing, she discovers she has a potentially fatal task ahead of her. With only her dead Gran and a retired adventurer by her side, Molly must travel to a dangerous and untrustworthy land somewhere between awake and asleep, before her Mother finds herself planted in a most monstrous garden.


What's new to your TBR pile this month?
Did you get any books you're really looking forward to reading?
Let me know in the comments!

Sunday, November 30, 2014

The Ladybug Looks Back... November 2014


Here's a look back at what happened on my blog in November 2014:

I was nominated for the Liebster Award.

I participated in Top Ten Tuesday:

Books I Want To Reread
Characters You Wish Would Get Their OWN Book
Sequels I Can't Wait To Get
Book On My Winter TBR List

I participated in Booking Through Thursday:

Helpful
Better Endings
Quantity

I shared the new books I got in New to the TBR Pile.  I got 16 new books this month.

I reviewed 10 books.  2 of those were novels; 1 was a poetry collection; 7 were picture books.

Novels:

Free as a Bird by Gina McMurchy-Barber
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Poetry Collections:

Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty by Christine Heppermann

Picture Books:

I Had a Favorite Dress by Boni Ashburn & Julia Denos
Lulu & Pip by Nina Gruener & Stephanie Rausser
Llama Llama Mad at Mama by Anna Dewdney
Llama Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney
Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
Big Red Lollipop by Rukhsana Khan & Sophie Blackall
You Are Stardust by Elin Kelsey & Soyeon Kim


So that's what happened in November!
Join me next month when I look back on December!