Showing posts with label greenwillow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greenwillow. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Waiting On Wednesday #135 - The Girl From Everywhere

Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine.

This week's choice is -


The Girl From Everywhere - Heidi Heilig
ISBN - 9780062380753
Publisher - Greenwillow
Release date - February 16 2016
Find - Goodreads

Heidi Heilig’s debut teen fantasy sweeps from modern-day New York City to nineteenth-century Hawaii to places of myth and legend. Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father’s ship. But when he gambles with her very existence, it all may be about to end. The Girl from Everywhere, the first of two books, will dazzle readers of Sabaa Tahir, Rae Carson, and Rachel Hartman.

Nix’s life began in Honolulu in 1868. Since then she has traveled to mythic Scandinavia, a land from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, modern-day New York City, and many more places both real and imagined. As long as he has a map, Nix’s father can sail his ship, The Temptation, to any place, any time. But now he’s uncovered the one map he’s always sought - 1868 Honolulu, before Nix’s mother died in childbirth. Nix’s life - her entire existence - is at stake. No one knows what will happen if her father changes the past. It could erase Nix’s future, her dreams, her adventures . . . her connection with the charming Persian thief, Kash, who’s been part of their crew for two years. If Nix helps her father reunite with the love of his life, it will cost her her own.

In The Girl from Everywhere, Heidi Heilig blends fantasy, history, and a modern sensibility with witty, fast-paced dialogue, breathless adventure, and enchanting romance.


A severe case of cover love and the synopsis sounds fantastic!  Imagine being able to sail to any place in any time, regardless of whether it's real or fictional. I'll take that adventure please...

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Waiting on Wednesday #113 - Walk On Earth A Stranger


Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine.

This week's choice is -


Walk On Earth A Stranger - Rae Carson
Publisher - Greenwillow Books
Release date - September 22 2015
Find - Goodreads 

The first book in a new trilogy from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Rae Carson. A young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold must flee her home, taking her on a sweeping and dangerous journey across Gold Rush–era America.

Lee Westfall has a secret. She can sense the presence of gold in the world around her. Veins deep beneath the earth, pebbles in the river, nuggets dug up from the forest floor. The buzz of gold means warmth and life and home - until everything is ripped away by a man who wants to control her. Left with nothing, Lee disguises herself as a boy and takes to the trail across the country. Gold was discovered in California, and where else could such a magical girl find herself, find safety? Rae Carson, author of the acclaimed Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy, dazzles with this new fantasy that subverts both our own history and familiar fantasy tropes.

Walk on Earth a Stranger, the first book in this new trilogy, introduces - as only Rae Carson can - a strong heroine, a perilous road, a fantastical twist, and a slow-burning romance. Includes a map and author’s note on historical research.


Not much to say except I'd like it now please!


Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Top Ten Tuesday #38 - 2014 Debuts I'm Excited For!

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely people at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Nine 2014 Debuts I'm Excited For

This was harder than I thought it would be, a lot of the books I'm excited about this year are by authors previously published but I (almost) got there in the end. Here's my list of top nine books by debut authors I can't wait to read!

The Copper Promise | Banished | Stolen Songbird

Dorothy Must Die | The Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender | Hexed

Blackfin Sky | Half Bad | The Murder Complex

Saturday, 14 December 2013

Book Haul #55


Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews and Letterbox Love is a UK edition hosted by Narratively Speaking. Here we can share what new books we've picked up this past week. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

So Christmas is a handy time of year for us compulsive book buyers, any parcels that get delivered are - of course! - Christmas presents and most definitely not more books... I'm making the most of it though as I know come January 1st I'm cut off from all the lovely, shiny new books and will instead be reading everything I've bought this year and not got around to! I didn't actually buy many this week but I did order a few from the Book Depository which haven't turned up yet so next week should be a good week :)

Bought

Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug - Chronicles: Art & Design

Kindle

Truly Madly Deadly - Hannah Jayne

Breathe - Sarah Crossan

Crash Into You - Katie McGarry

From Orion

The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales - Kate Mosse
Review - Edelweiss/Netgalley

Black Dog - Rachel Neumeier

The Seers - Julianna Scott

Hang Wire - Adam Christopher

The Islands of Chaldea - Diana Wynne Jones

Sleep No More - Aprilynne Pike

The Murder Complex - Lindsay Cummings

After The End - Amy Plum



Saturday, 7 December 2013

Book Haul #54


Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews and Letterbox Love is a UK edition hosted by Narratively Speaking. Here we can share what new books we've picked up this past week. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

And normal service is resumed... You can tell Christmas is coming, for every present I bought I'm pretty sure I bought myself a book. Ooops! I did have a whale of time buying new picture books for Fred & Em so I can honestly say I've bought books for other people this week too :)

Bought

Carousel Tides - Sharon Lee

The Dark Is Rising - Susan Cooper

The Language of Dying - Sarah Pinborough

Hogfather - Terry Pratchett

Soul Music - Terry Pratchett

Glamour In Glass - Mary Robinette Kowal

Kindle Buys

Night of Cake & Puppets - Laini Taylor

Proxy - Mindee Arnett

Ten Tiny Breaths - K A Tucker

Declare - Tim Powers

On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers

Edelweiss Splurge

Don't You Forget About Me - Kate Karyus Quinn

The Eighth Day - Dianne K Saleri

A Creature of Moonlight - Rebecca Hahn

The Cabinet of Curiosities - Stefan Bachman

Carousel Sun - Sharon Lee





Saturday, 16 November 2013

Book Haul #51


Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews and Letterbox Love is a UK edition hosted by Narratively Speaking. Here we can share what new books we've picked up this past week. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

Wow, what a week! I only left the house once this week to go and see Thor: The Dark World but thanks to the wonder of the internet I still had the pleasure of a few a lot of books arriving this week. I've decided that I might as well carry on until the end of the year and then come January 1st that's it. No more new books for me...

Bought

S. - JJ Abrams & Doug Dorst

Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett

Long Live The Queen - Kate Locke

Gossamer Wing - Delphine Dryden




Kindle

Chaos Born - Rebekah Turner

Under The Empyrean Sky - Chuck Wendig



Edelweiss/Netgalley

The Taking - Kimberly Derting

Great - Sarah Benincasa

Talker 25 - Joshua McCune

The Almost Girl - Amalie Howard

From the publisher

everything you know - Mary Beth Bass
What did you get this week?
 
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