Shelf Candy Saturday: A French Girl in New York by Anna Adams

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A French Girl in New York

by Anna Adams

Maude Laurent is a spirited 16 year-old orphan who grew up in a small, provincial town in the North of France with a passion for piano and a beautiful voice. One day in Paris, she is discovered by an American music producer who takes her to New York to live with him and his close-knit family while producing her first album, with help from teen pop star, Matt. Maude will dive into a new fascinating world discovering New York City, music, family, love and the truth about her past.

A French Girl in New York on Goodreads, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble

Anna Adams' Website

I love this cover, it's so girly and pretty :). It also represents the two locations, in the description, really well.

Shelf Candy Saturday (52): Magic Study (Study #2) by Maria V. Snyder

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Magic Study

By Maria V. Snyder

Series: Study #2

Genre: fantasy, magic

You know your life is bad when you miss your days as a poison taster…

With her greatest enemy dead, and on her way to be reunited with the family she’d been stolen from long ago, Yelena should be pleased. But though she has gained her freedom, she can’t help feeling isolated in Sitia. Her Ixian background has changed her in many ways – and her newfound friends and relatives don’t think it’s for the better…

Despite the turmoil, she’s eager to start her magic training – especially as she’s been given one year to harness her power or be put to death. But her plans take a radical turn when she becomes involved with a plot to reclaim Ixia’s throne for a lost prince – and gets entangled in powerful rivalries with her fellow magicians.

If that wasn’t bad enough, it appears her brother would love to see her dead. Luckily, Yelena has some old friends to help her with all her new enemies…

Maria V. Snyder on Goodreads, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble

Maria V. Snyder’s website

I know this isn’t a new series or even a new cover but I do love this Turkish version of Magic Study!

And for Maria V. Snyder fans that haven’t seen them yet, I’ve included the three cover versions for the next book in her Healer series. Taste of Darkness releases December 31^st. 

Shelf Candy Saturday (51): Lost & Found by Nadia Simonenko

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Lost & Found series

 

by Nadia Simonenko

Lost (Lost & Found #1) 

Sometimes you need someone else to help you find your way.

Maria's life was torn apart when she was fifteen, and for seven years she's kept her terrible secret hidden from the world. Now, in her final semester of college, she still struggles against paralyzing fear jsut trying to speak up in class, and the terror and helplessness linger on in her nightmares.

Across campus, Own sees his scars in the mirror every morning while he gets ready for class. They remind him of the broken home he left behind, the father he hates and fears, and the little sister he couldn't protect. Now, in his final semester of college, he's scared that he may have to return to the hell he called home after staying away for almost five years.

When Owen becomes a teaching assistant for one of Maria's classes, they find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. As the two learn each other's secrets and grow closer, they realize that although they may be lost, they're not along anymore.

This new adult contemporary romance is recommended for ages 17+ due to heavy subject matter.

Found (Lost & Found #2)

All it took was one phone call to tear Owen's life apart. His father is dead and his mother is in critical condition. Even though he feared his abusive father and despised his family, losing them hurts in a way he never expected. Just weeks ago, Owen was terrified that he'd have to go home. Now, there is no home.

All it took was one phone call to shatter Maria's happily-ever-after and bring her nightmare back to life. Maria's estranged brother is coming up to see her graduation and he isn't coming alone. He's bringing Maria's parents, as she expected, but he's also bringing an old friend from college - someone who's haunted Maria's nightmares for seven years. Now, she's about to come face to face with the man who ruined her life.

Will the love and hapiness Maria and Owen found be enough to hold them together as their lives fall apart around them, or will their relationship slip away and be lost forever?

Lost & Found on Goodreads, Amazon (currently .99)

Nadia Simonenko's Website

Dramatic covers for what seem like very dramatic books. I love that they're marketed together on Amazon, listed as Lost & Found. It's quite clever.

Shelf Candy Saturday (50): Kelsey Sutton, Jessica Sorensen, & Susan Dennard

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Some Quiet Place and Where Silence Gathers

Books 1 & 2 in the Some Quiet Place series by Kelsey Sutton

 

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Forget Me Not

 by Jessica Sorensen

 

 

Goodreads

 

 

 

Something Strange and Deadly series

by Susan Dennard 

 

 

Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble

 

 

 

I love all of these covers. Kelsey Sutton's covers are so unique and Susan Dennard's are fantastically dark and yet so beautiful! I love that with both of these series the covers were made so you can clearly tell that they go together. Forget Me Not's cover reveal was fairly recent and I was immediately drawn to it.

 

What do you think of these covers? Love them or hate them?



Shelf Candy Saturday (49): Code Zero (Joe Ledger #6) by Jonathan Maberry

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Code Zero

By Jonathan Maberry

 

 

Series: Joe Ledger #6

Genre: Adult, Horror, Zombies

Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

 

 

Description from Amazon

For years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons – designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first bought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world’s most secure facility. Until now. Joe Ledger and Echo Team are scrambled when a highly elite team of killers breaks the unbreakable security and steals the world’s most dangerous weapons. Within days there are outbreaks of mass slaughter and murderous insanity across the American heartland. Can Joe Ledger stop a brilliant and devious master criminal from turning the Land of the Free into the land of the dead?

 

 

Code Zero on Goodreads, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble

Jonathan Maberry’s Website

 

 

I thought this cover would be perfectly gruesome since Halloween is right around the corner. I love the blood, the skin tears, the bone, and the overall creepy feel of this cover.

 

Shelf Candy Saturday (48): Stung by Bethany Wiggins

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It has been almost three months since I've posted a Shelf Candy Saturday and boy does time fly! I'm going to try to get back into the swing of things and start posting 2 each month...or more if the mood strikes me :)

 Stung (Stung #1) by Bethany Wiggins

There is no cure for being stung.

Fiona doesn't remember going to sleep. But when she opens her eyes, she discovers her entire world has been altered - her house is abandoned and broken, and the entire neighborhood is barren and dead. Even stranger is the tattoo on her right hand - a black oval with five marks on either side - that she doesn't remember getting but somehow knows she must cover at any cost. She's right.

Those bearing the tattoo have turned into mindless, violent beasts that roam the streets and sewers, preying upon the unbranded while a select few live protected inside a fortress-like wall, their lives devoted to rebuilding society and killing all who bear the mark.

Now Fiona has awakened branded, along - and on the wrong side of the wall.

Stung on Goodreads, Amazon, & Barnes & Noble

Bethany Wiggins' Website

Cured (Stung #2)

 Releases March 2014

I only heard about Stung because the kindle book just happened to have been on a sale list I was looking at and I'm glad it was because it sounds like a very good book. I'm an admitted cover whore so I also love all of these covers! One of the things that stands out to me is the detail of the bee on the Stung cover to the right. It took me a while to realize that it's actually a syringe within the body of the bee. These covers just have an overall ominous feel  which of course calls to me and my love of creepy books.

Shelf Candy Saturday (47): Ink (Paper Gods #1) by Amanda Sun

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I looked down at the paper, still touching the tip of my shoe. I reached for it, flipping the page over to look.

Scrawls of ink outlined a drawing of a girl lying on a bench.

A sick feeling started to twist in my stomach, like motion sickness.

And then the girl in the drawing turned her head, and her inky eyes glared straight into mine.

On the heels of a family tragedy, the last think Katie Greene wants to do is move halfway across the world. Stuck with her aunt in Shizuoka, Japan, Katie feels lost. Alone. She doesn’t know the language, she can barely hold a pair of chopsticks, and she can’t seem to get the hang of taking her shoes off whenever she enters a building.

Then there’s gorgeous but aloof Tomohiro, star of the school’s kendo team. How did he really get the scar on his arm? Katie isn’t prepared for the answer. But when she sees the things he draws start moving, there’s no denying the truth: Tomo has a connection to the ancient gods of Japan, and being near Katie is causing his abilities to spiral out of control. If the wrong people notice, they’ll both be targets.

Ink on Goodreads

Ink on Amazon and Barnes & Noble

Shadow (Paper Gods 0.5) is free on Amazon right now

Amanda Sun's website &  Twitter 

I know I usually go for the darker covers but I cannot help but LOVE this cover. I love the lighter colors as well as the artsy aspect to it! And the idea of drawings becoming animated is so interesting! I'm looking forward to reading this one!

Shelf Candy Saturday (46): Mystic (Soul Seekers #3) by Alyson Noël

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Blurb:

Since arriving in Enchantment, New Mexico, everything in Daire Santos life has changed. And not all for the better. While she’s come to accept and embrace her new powers as a Soul Seeker, Daire struggles with the responsibility she holds navigating between the worlds of the living and the dead. And with the fate of her boyfriend Dace in the balance, Daire must put aside her personal feelings and focus on defeating Cade, whose evil plans threaten everyone she loves and the world as she knows it.

I love the sea green color offset by the black of the dress. Also the waterfall in the background really caught my eye. I really want to read this series soon!

Shelf Candy Saturday (45): The Murmurings by Carly Anne West

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Everyone thinks Sophie’s sister, Nell, went crazy. After all, she heard strange voices that drove her to commit suicide. But Sophie doesn’t believe that Nell would take her own life, and she’s convinced that Nell’s doctor knows more than he’s letting on.

As Sophie starts to piece together Nell’s last days, every lead ends in a web of lies. And the deeper Sophie digs, the more danger she’s in – because now she’s hearing the same haunting whispers. Sophie’s starting to think she’s going crazy too. Or worse, that maybe she’s not…

The Murmurings on Goodreads, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble

Carly Anne West’s website

I love the creep factor of this cover!

Shelf Candy Saturday (44): Freaks by Kieran Larwood

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Sheba, the fur-faced Wolfgirl, can sniff out a threat from miles away. Monkeyboy clambers up buildings in the blink of an eye -- then drops deadly stink bombs of his own making (yes, THAT kind)! Sister Moon sees in the dark, and moves at the speed of light. Born with weird abnormalities that make them misfits, these FREAKS spend their nights on public display, trapped in a traveling Victorian sideshow. But during the day, they put their strange talents to use: They solve the most sinister crimes. And in a dank, desperate world of crooks and child-snatchers, they're determined to defend London's most innocent victims: the street urchins disappearing from the city's streets.

Freaks on Goodreads, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Kieran Larwood's Website

I love the spooky and mysterious look of this cover. It is one that caught my attention right away and is definitely one I added to my ever growing list.

Shelf Candy Saturday (43): BEA Edition

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BEA is just weeks away so I decided to pick a few books that will be there. They all have great covers and maybe, just maybe I'll be lucky enough to get some of them.

Reboot (Reboot #1) by Any Tintera

3:59 by Gretchen McNeil

Pretty Dark Nothing by Heather L. Reid

The Brokenhearted by Amelia Kahaney

Taken (Taken #1) by Erin Bowman

The Ward by Jordana Frankel

Some Quiet Place by Kelsey Sutton

These Broken Stars (Starbound #1) by Aime Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

Shelf Candy Saturday (41): Otherworld Assassins by Gena Showalter

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Summary of Last Kiss Goodnight (Otherworld Assassins #1)

THE SWEETEST TEMPTATION

Black ops agent Solomon Judah awakens caged and bound in a twisted zoo where otherworlders are the main attractions. Vika Lukas, the owner’s daughter, is tasked with Solo’s care and feeding. The monster inside him yearns to kill her on sight, even though she holds the key to his escape. But the human side of him realizes the beautiful deaf girl is more than she seems – she’s his.

THE ULTIMATE PRICE…

Vika endures the captives’ taunts and loathing, hoping to keep them alive even if she can’t free them. Only, Solo is different – he protects her. But as hostility turns to forbidden romance, his feelings for her will be used against him…and he’ll be put to a killer test.

Gena Showalter's website
Otherworld Assassins on Goodreads, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble



I originally planned on posting something different for this week's shelf candy saturday but I quickly scrapped that idea when I laid my eyes on the cover of Black and Blue! Both covers are absolutely stunning. I love that they are mostly grey aside from the bold colors of the fonts and dresses. It makes the brilliant blue (and red) stand out that much more. These are both covers that just jump off the shelf and say READ ME!!  And ironically enough, that's how I found Last Kiss Goodnight. I was cruising around my local book store looking for a different book and Last Kiss Goodnight practically jumped in my hands and asked to go home with me. I couldn't say no...I mean look at that cover!!