Jamie Baker PROMO

More Than Jamie Baker, the second book in the Jamie Baker series by Kelly Oram is almost here! 

Haven't read book one yet? No problem! 

For a limited time Being Jamie Baker(Jamie Baker #1) is available for $.99 on Amazon and Barnes&Noble!

Don't miss out on this electrifying tale of superpowers, bad guys, and heart-stopping kisses. Literally, heart-stopping...

An accident that should end in tragedy instead gives seventeen-year-old Jamie Baker a slew of uncontrollable superhuman abilities.  To keep her secret safe Jamie socially exiles herself, earning the title of Rocklin High's resident ice queen. But during a supercharged encounter with star quarterback Ryan Miller she literally kisses anonymity goodbye. Now the annoyingly irresistible Ryan will stop at nothing to melt the heart of the ice queen and find out what makes her so special.  Unfortunately, Ryan is not the only person on to her secret. Will Jamie learn to contain her unstable powers before being discovered by the media or turned into a government lab rat? More importantly, can she throw Ryan Miller off her trail before falling in love with him?

Author Bio

Kelly Oram wrote her first novel at age fifteen–a fan fiction about her favorite music group, The Backstreet Boys, for which family and friends still tease her. She's obsessed with reading, talks way too much, and loves to eat frosting by the spoonful. She lives outside of Phoenix, Arizona with her husband and four children.

You can find her (far too often) on Goodreads and Twitter as well as http://www.kellyoram.com.

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Cover Reveal of Bitter Peel by Stacey Kade + Giveaway!

Bitter Peel by Stacey Kade

Publisher: Stacey Kade Books

Release Date: October 28th 2013

Blurb:

The truth is a bitter pill...

Rennie Harlow is having a bad year. She had a handsome husband, a good job, and a renovated condo in Chicago. Now, thanks to one "exotically beautiful" paralegal, she’s divorced, faking her way through a writing career, and living above her hypochondriac mother's garage back in Morrisville, the small town she couldn't leave fast enough at eighteen. On top of all of that, she just found Doc Hallacy, the local pharmacist, dead behind his counter. And the worst part is, he's the third body she’s stumbled across this year. 

Jake Bristol has lived in Morrisville his whole life. A former bad boy turned sheriff, he doesn’t believe it’s just Rennie’s luck or timing that’s the problem. He thinks she’s too nosy for her own good. The last thing he needs is her messing around with his murder investigation so that she can freelance for the Morrisville Gazette.  But as they both delve deeper into Doc's death, they find that things don't add up. This isn't a robbery gone wrong or the work of a desperate junkie. Someone has a secret they're killing to keep. The only question is—who's next? 

A note from the author...

Thank you so much for participating in the reveal for Bitter Pill. I’m so excited to be able to share it with you guys! It is one of those incredibly rare books where it almost felt like it wrote itself, and I just had to keep up. Well, the first draft anyway! :D
When I wrote this story, I was desperately homesick for the very tiny town where I lived in junior high. As some of you know, my dad is a Lutheran pastor, so we moved quite a bit during my childhood. For whatever reason, that small town in Southern Illinois really stuck with me. Morrisville is a (very) fictionalized version of that place. 

There’s an odd mix of intense gossip and deep reserve that seems inherent to small towns. It’s part of the culture—“We know everything about everybody, but we don’t talk about that.” Certain things were just not discussed, which makes small towns a prime environment for secrets. And secrets are at the heart of every mystery.

So, when I sat down to write this story, that element of knowing someone well but not really knowing what they might be capable of intrigued me.
Rennie Harlow is my grown-up version of Nancy Drew, I suppose. Except, unlike cool, calm and collected Nancy, Rennie’s life is a disaster. She’s trying to make it through a particularly rough patch, but she’s flailing and fumbling, and I can so relate to that. 

As for Sheriff Jake Bristol…well, what can I say, there’s something about an honorable man in a tough situation that’s pretty irresistible. :DThank you again for checking out Bitter Pill, and I hope you’ll give it a try! 

   

Author Bio

As an award-winning corporate copywriter, Stacey Kade has written about everything from backhoe loaders to breast pumps. But she prefers to make things up instead.

She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband, Greg, and three retired racing greyhounds, Joezooka (Joe), Tall Walker (Walker) and SheWearsThePants (Pansy). When she’s not reading or writing, you’ll likely find her parked in front of the television with her Roswell DVDs, staring rapturously at Jason Behr.

The Ghost and the Goth is her first YA novel. You can find her (far too often) on Facebook and Twitter as well as http://www.staceykade.com.

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THE RULES (Project Paper Doll Book One), Hyperion Books, Available Now

THE GHOST AND THE GOTH, QUEEN OF THE DEAD, and BODY & SOUL, Hyperion Books, Available Now!

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Melissa de la Cruz, Alyson Noel and Margaret Stohl book signings at National Book Store

National Book Store brings three New York Times bestselling authors—Melissa de la Cruz, Alyson Noel and Margaret Stohl—for book signing events on September 13 at 6 pm in the Activity Center of Ayala Center Cebu, on September 14 at 4 pm in The Podium Atrium and on September 15 at 2 pm in the National Book Store booth at the Manila International Book Fair in the SMX Convention Center.

Filipino-American Melissa de la Cruz is the author of the Blue Blood series, a popular vampire novel which has three million copies in print. Her latest novel Frozen is the first book in the Heart of Dread series, co-authored by her husband Michael Johnston. It narrates Natasha Kestal’s journey out of New Vegas, a city blanketed in ice, to the paradise-like and mythical land called “the Blue,” where the sun shines and where she will not be persecuted even if her darkest secret comes to light.

Alyson Noel is the bestselling author of the Immortals series and its spinoff the Riley Bloom series. Her books have been translated into 37 languages and sold in over 50 countries with over seven million copies in print. She is currently working on her latest series The Soul Seekers, which includes Fated, Echo and Mystic. It tells the story of Daire Santos, who after setting out to harness her powers as a Soul Seeker, one who can navigate the worlds between living and dead, is forced to discover if the boy from her dreams is the one she’s meant to be with or is allied with the enemy she’s destined to destroy.

Margaret Stohl is the co-author of the Beautiful Creatures series with Kami Garcia. It was named as Amazon’s #1 Teen Book of 2009, and its movie adaptation was released by Warner Bros. earlier this year. Her latest novel Icons, the first book in a new young adult dystopian series, follows the story of four teens, who use their superpowers to save the world after an alien invasion referred to as “The Day.” Dol, Ro, Tima and Lucas try to piece together the mysteries of their pasts and discover that their uncontrollable emotions may actually be their greatest strengths.

The events are made possible in partnership with Raffles Makati, The Podium and Ayala Center Cebu.

Books by Melissa de la Cruz, Alyson Noel and Margaret Stohl are available in National Book Store, Powerbooks and Bestsellers branches. Shop online at nationalbookstore.com. Follow National Book Store on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (@nbsalert) for the latest events, promos and contests.  

Book Signing Events at Ayala Center Cebu and The Podium 

Frequently Asked Questions 

When and where are the book signings? 
September 13, 6:00 pm, at the Activity Center of Ayala Center Cebu September 14, 4:00 pm, at The Podium Atrium 

When will the registration be? 
Registration opens at 10:00 am on September 13 at the Activity Center of Ayala Center Cebu and at 10:00 am on September 14 at The Podium Atrium. Each guest will be asked to fill out the registration form upon arrival. Separate registrations for each event is required should you wish to attend both events. First come, first served. 

Is there a limit as to how many people can have their books signed? 
We do not have any preset limit. However, should there be an excessive number of people, we reserve the right to limit the number of people who can have their books signed. 

Is there a registration fee? 
No. There is no registration fee. 

How many books can I have signed? 
You may have up to 6 books total signed. The 6 books can be in any combination as long as the total number of books to be signed is 6. For example, 3 with Melissa De La Cruz, 3 with Alyson Noel and 0 Margaret Stohl; or 6 with Margaret Stohl and 0 for Melissa De La Cruz and Alyson Noel. Only books purchased from National Book Store, Bestsellers or Powerbooks will be accommodated. 

Can I bring old books or other editions of the books? 
Yes, as long as the books were purchased from National Book Store, Bestsellers or Powerbooks. 

Do I need to buy on-site? 
No. You can buy books before or during the events. 

Can I have other items signed? 
No. Only books will be allowed to be signed by the authors. 

Can we have our photo taken with the authors? 
Yes, you can have your photo with each author when they sign your book. However, we strictly allow only one photo per person for each author. 

How much are the books? 
Melissa De La Cruz titles: 
BLUE BLOODS 1: BLUE BLOODS (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS 2: MASQUERADE (Trade Paperback – 325) 
BLUE BLOODS 3: REVELATIONS (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS 4: VAN ALEN LEGACY (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS 5: MISGUIDED ANGEL (Trade Paperback – P285) 
BLUE BLOODS 6: LOST IN TIME (Trade Paperback – P315) 
BLUE BLOODS 7: GATES OF PARADISE (Hardcover – P589) 
BLUE BLOODS: KEYS TO THE REPOSITORY (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS: BLOODY VALENTINE (Trade Paperback – P299) 
WITCHES OF EAST END and SERPENT'S KISS BUNDLE (Trade Paperback – P565) 


Alyson Noel titles: 
EVERMORE (Trade Paperback – P395) 
BLUE MOON (Trade Paperback – P395) 
SHADOWLAND (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P649) 
DARK FLAME (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P675) 
NIGHT STAR (Trade Paperback – P465) 
EVERLASTING (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P789) 
RADIANCE (Trade Paperback – P345) 
SHIMMER (Trade Paperback – P345) 
DREAMLAND (Trade Paperback – P345) 
WHISPER (Trade Paperback – P345) 
FATED (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P879) 
ECHO (Trade Paperback – P465) 
MYSTIC (Trade Paperback – P465) 
KISS & BLOG (Trade Paperback – P465) 
KEEPING SECRETS (Trade Paperback – P465) 


Margaret Stohl titles: 
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL CHAOS (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (Movie Tie-in, Mass Market Paperback – P325) 
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES THREE BOOK BOXED SET (Trade Paperback – P1,159) 
ICONS (Trade Paperback – P399) 

Book Signing Event at the Manila International Book Fair 

Frequently Asked Questions 

When and where is the book signing at the Manila International Book Fair (MIBF)? 
The MIBF signing will be on Sunday, September 15 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the National Book Store booth. For more information on the MIBF, you can go to www.manilabookfair.com. 

Do I need a separate ticket to get into the MIBF? 
Yes, you will still need a separate ticket to get into the MIBF. 

When will the registration be? 
Registration for the book signing at the Manila International Book Fair opens at 10:00 am. Only the first 200 registrants will be given a signing slot. Each guest will be asked to fill out the registration form upon arrival. First come, first served. 

Is there a registration fee? 
No. There is no registration fee. 

How many books can I have signed? 
You may have up to 6 books total signed. The 6 books can be in any combination as long as the total number of books to be signed is 6. For example, 3 with Melissa De La Cruz, 3 with Alyson Noel and 0 Margaret Stohl; or 6 with Margaret Stohl and 0 for Melissa De La Cruz and Alyson Noel. Only books purchased from National Book Store, Bestsellers or Powerbooks will be accommodated. 

Can I bring old books or other editions of the books? 
Yes, as long as the books were purchased from National Book Store, Bestsellers or Powerbooks. 

Do I need to buy on-site? 
No. You can buy books before or during the events. 

Can I have other items signed? 
No. Only books will be allowed to be signed by the authors. 

Can we have our photo taken with the author? 
Yes, you can have your photo with each author when they sign your book. However, we strictly allow only one photo per person for each author. 

How much are the books? 
Melissa De La Cruz titles: 
BLUE BLOODS 1: BLUE BLOODS (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS 2: MASQUERADE (Trade Paperback – 325) 
BLUE BLOODS 3: REVELATIONS (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS 4: VAN ALEN LEGACY (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS 5: MISGUIDED ANGEL (Trade Paperback – P285) 
BLUE BLOODS 6: LOST IN TIME (Trade Paperback – P315) 
BLUE BLOODS 7: GATES OF PARADISE (Hardcover – P589) 
BLUE BLOODS: KEYS TO THE REPOSITORY (Trade Paperback – P325) 
BLUE BLOODS: BLOODY VALENTINE (Trade Paperback – P299) 
WITCHES OF EAST END and SERPENT'S KISS BUNDLE (Trade Paperback – P565) 


Alyson Noel titles: 
EVERMORE (Trade Paperback – P395) 
BLUE MOON (Trade Paperback – P395) 
SHADOWLAND (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P649) 
DARK FLAME (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P675) 
NIGHT STAR (Trade Paperback – P465) 
EVERLASTING (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P789) 
RADIANCE (Trade Paperback – P345) 
SHIMMER (Trade Paperback – P345) 
DREAMLAND (Trade Paperback – P345) 
WHISPER (Trade Paperback – P345) 
FATED (Trade Paperback – P465; Hardcover – P879) 
ECHO (Trade Paperback – P465) 
MYSTIC (Trade Paperback – P465) 
KISS & BLOG (Trade Paperback – P465) 
KEEPING SECRETS (Trade Paperback – P465) 


Margaret Stohl titles: 
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL CHAOS (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION (Trade Paperback – P399) 
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (Movie Tie-in, Mass Market Paperback – P325) 
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES THREE BOOK BOXED SET (Trade Paperback – P1,159) 
ICONS (Trade Paperback – P399) 

 

(Blog Tour) Going Under by S. Walden Guest Post & Giveaway!

Going Under by S. Walden

Paperback: 344 pages
Publisher: Penny Press

Release Date: March 19th 2013

Blurb:

Brooke Wright has only two goals her senior year at Charity Run High School: stay out of trouble and learn to forgive herself for the past. Forgiveness proves elusive, and trouble finds her anyway when she discovers a secret club at school connected to the death of her best friend. She learns that swim team members participate in a “Fantasy Slut League,” scoring points for their sexual acts with unsuspecting girls.

Brooke, wracked with guilt over her friend’s death, decides to infiltrate the league by becoming one of the “unsuspecting girls,” and exact revenge on the boys who stole away her best friend. An unexpected romance complicates her plans, and her dogged pursuit of justice turns her reckless as she underestimates just how far the boys will go to keep their sex club a secret.

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S. Walden's Top 5 Pick of Most-Emotionally Moving Books

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with herbs and magic. 'We cannot let her live her last days in loneliness,' says Antonio's mother. 'It is not the way of our people,' agrees his father. And so Ultima comes to live with Antonio's family in New Mexico. Soon Tony will journey to the threshold of manhood. Always, Ultima watches over him. She graces him with the courage to face childhood bigotry, diabolical possession, the moral collapse of his brother, and too many violent deaths. Under her wise guidance, Tony will probe the family ties that bind him, and he will find in himself the magical secrets of the pagan past—a mythic legacy equally as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America in which he has been schooled. At each turn in his life there is Ultima who will nurture the birth of his soul.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor—and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story.

Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life—from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy—to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction—to the philosopher who becomes a pirate—to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph—to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad—to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.

You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions. This is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man’s body, but about the murder—and rebirth—of man’s spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them—the world of cricket and homework and adventure stories—and another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible. Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature.

Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies has established itself as a true classic.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Esau have I hated . . . Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever since they were born, Caroline has been the pretty one, the talented one, the better sister. Even now, Caroline seems to take everything: Louise's friends, their parents' love, her dreams for the future.

For once in her life, Louise wants to be the special one. But in order to do that, she must first figure out who she is . . . and find a way to make a place for herself outside her sister's shadow.

  

Author Bio

S. Walden used to teach English before making the best decision of her life by becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Georgia with her very supportive husband who prefers physics textbooks over fiction and has a difficult time understanding why her characters must have personality flaws. She is wary of small children, so she has a Westie instead. Her dreams include raising chickens and owning and operating a beachside inn on the Gulf Coast (chickens included). When she’s not writing, she’s thinking about it. She loves her fans and loves to hear from them. Email her at swaldenauthor@hotmail.com and follow her blog at http://swaldenauthor.blogspot.com where you can get up-to-date information on her current projects.

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