2010 Releases – Page 4 – LDS Publisher

Adam-Ondi-Ahman by Wendie L. Edwards

Title: Adam-Ondi-Ahman (Millennial Glory, vol X)

Publisher: Seventh Seal Publishing

Release Date: September 23, 2010

ISBN: 978-0982733301

Size: 428 pages, softcover

Genre: Speculative

Series: Hidden Light (bk 1), Wars of Light (bk 2), Apocalypse, the Unveiling (bk 3), The Ascension (bk 4), Hanging By a Thread (bk 5), Justice of Affliction (bk 6), United We Stand (bk 7), He Is Coming (bk 8), Babylon (bk 9)

Words of light are twisted into darkness. Death to all who will not submit to the all knowing eye! Death to bring in the era of peace! Beings of light communicate with Bones, but they are not angels. Devils wish to steal her soul. …On the other side of the world, armies of angels guard Zion! The power of God rocks the earth and changes the course of rivers for the Saint’s defense! The temple rises at the hands of Ephraim and Manasseh. Soon all will have the seal of God in their foreheads! The day of Adam-ondi-ahman has come!

Earth Sink by Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Title: Earth Sink

Author: Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Publisher: Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Release Date: September?, 2010

ISBN: 978-0976800439

Size: 496 pages, softcover

Genre: Speculative

A war erupts on a heaven-like planet and spills over to Earth, embroiling a cast of characters in the desperate birth of a new age for mankind. Early on in Lavanway’s complex, problematic work, a main character has a dream. When he wakes, he finds the dividing line between dreaming and waking disturbingly blurred… Readers who grapple with Lavanway’s dense, incantatory prose…will feel the same way: the threads of his narrative are often completely lost in the profuse detail of his imagined alternate reality-but the ultimate sensation also has some of the good qualities of being trapped inside a dream. On one surface level, this is a very old story of rebellion in Heaven. In the perfect alien world of Antecedeon, all is peace and harmony among its older and wiser inhabitants, when gradually younger spirits, dubbing themselves the New Order, grow impatient… As the New Order spreads its resistance across space and dimensions to Earth, a story evolves that is both evocatively detailed and maddeningly vague. Lavanway has the courage to envision what seems at first to be an entire cosmology, and that’s no small undertaking. He has a vigorous talent for description, which is often pitted against sentences such as, “One of the main reasons behind the World Order’s campaign to bring immortality and immersive interconnectivity to the global population was to preserve the World Order’s bank of human assets and ensure control over the human resource pool upon which the World Order elites floated.” The work shares the apocalyptic, phantasmal sensibility of the biblical book of Revelation, and includes a section at the end citing specific religious passages that inspired much of the story. A taxing text, but readers prepared to do the work will find some grand and gripping concepts here. – Kirkus Discoveries, A KIRKUS service for self-published and independent authors

Life and Death at Hoover Dam by Jerry Borrowman

Title: Life and Death at Hoover Dam

Author: Jerry Borrowman

Publisher: Black Canyon Press

Release Date: September, 2010

ISBN: 978-0984383603

Size: 256 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Historical

It’s 1931 and men are desperate for jobs. A lucky few will get to work in the searing heat of the Nevada desert on the massive Hoover Dam, the single largest public works project in history. Their goal is to tame the mighty Colorado River with a dam that
towers sixty stories high from the base of the canyon to the crest of the dam and that will create the largest manmade lake in the world.

Life and Death at Hoover Dam tells the story of a handful of these men, and the sacrifices they endured from choking on gasoline fumes in five-story tunnels that exceeded 120 degrees to dangling by slender cables from the thousand foot walls of the canyon to blast the loose rock and gravel into oblivion. And together they’ll fight the river with all their might, and perhaps their lives, as flash floods threaten to destroy all they have worked to accomplish.

Meet the Conroy brothers; David an engineer who works directly with Frank Crowe, Chief Engineer and the world’s foremost builder of dams, and Pete, his older brother who is as wild as the Colorado River itself. Pete is a crew foreman, first working on the scraping and blasting of the sheer cliff walls into which the dam must be anchored, and then in the massive forms where seven million tons of concrete will settle—some say to last a thousand years. Sean O’Donnell, a scrappy Irishman who worked on the Empire State Building in New York City whose family desperately wants him to come home. And Tony Capelli, the worker who will pay the greatest price of all—a farmer from southern California whose land will become verdant and productive once the flow of Colorado River water is assured. But prejudice is rampant against those of foreign birth, even though American citizens, and Tony will face mortal danger as he struggles to stay on the job and feed his family. In the end, these men and the 20,000 others who worked on the dam will build a monument that will make possible the palm trees of Los Angeles and the desert oasis of Phoenix. This is the story of their lives—the men who built the matchless Hoover Dam.

5 Blanks by M. Erickson

Title: 5 Blanks

Author: M. Erickson

Publisher: lulu.com

Release Date: September 17, 2010

ISBN: 978-0557639922

Size: 338 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Speculative

Nick has been killed for the fourth time. His soul was transferred into the wrong Blank. Not just any Blank, but Creed: a Combat- Ready- E-series- Elimination- Drone. And he has to share it.

It’s supposed to be impossible. That isn’t what bothers him. It’s the irony that he’s to blame for making the E-series a reality. He always said it would be the death of him. He may be right.

He’s homeless and being hunted by the people who killed him four times. They want to make him dead—dead before he can expose the truth. That’s if the original Creed doesn’t return from war and kill him first.

Nick has a lethal to-do list: He needs to gain Creed’s co-operation so he can save the friends who risk their lives to hide them, find out how and why they are sharing the same Blank before the original Creed shows up, and uncover the truth about Leigh, a beautiful scary woman that claims she’s Creed’s fiancée and Nick’s friend, but whom neither man remembers.

Welcome to day one of Blank Five.

Heart of a Hero by Marie Higgins

Title: Heart of a Hero

Author: Marie Higgins

Publisher: Walnut Springs

Release Date: September 15, 2010

ISBN: 978-1935217763

Size: 292 pages, 5.5×8.5, hardcover

Genre: Romance

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There’s a new hero in town…

When Summer Bennett returns to Richfield after a five-year stint at her aunt’s finishing school, she discovers a lot has changed. Her father has suffered a crippling injury, and Summer is desperate to get the money to pay for surgery that could allow him to walk again. She hears of a reward offered for the capture of a cunning gang of bank robbers, and her years of etiquette training fall by the dusty roadside.

What Summer doesn’t count on in her quest to capture the bandits is the competition from her family’s longtime friend, Jesse Slade. Now a deputy marshal and local hero, Jesse keeps thwarting Summer’s plans, just like he did when she wore pigtails. She would like nothing more than to use Jesse’s head for a slingshot target, but soon Summer finds her aim shifting from his head to his heart. Problem is, Jesse is engaged to her sister Violet.

For seven years, little Summer Bennett was the burr under Jesse’s saddle. Now he feels a different irritation as Summer is always on his mind, whether he wants her to be or not. But Summer’s father expects him to marry Violet, and he won’t let him down. So why does Jesse find himself encouraging Summer’s attentions, and why do sparks fly every time they are together?

Sun Tunnels and Secrets by Carole Thayne Warburton

Title: Sun Tunnels and Secrets

Author: Carole Thayne Warburton

Publisher: Walnut Springs

Release Date: September ?, 2010

ISBN: 978-1935217756

Size: 337 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: General? Romantic Suspense?

Series: A Question of Trust (Sun Tunnels continues this story but can stand alone.)

On a trip to the Sun Tunnels in the Utah desert, Norma and her sisters find a body on the side of the road. But this awful discovery turns out to be the least of their problems. Norma’s husband just passed on, and she learns he kept a secret from her for sixty years. LaRue is keeping a secret from Norma. The sisters’ young friend Tony is keeping a secret about his famous father, and Tony’s mother is keeping a secret of her own. Tony is secretly in love with his friend Kelli, who recently escaped from a polygamist cult. And who is the mysterious young car thief with whom Norma feels a special connection? Everything converges in Grouse Creek at the Fourth of July celebration. Will secrets prove everyone’s undoing?

Across a Harvested Field by Robert Goble

Title: Across a Harvested Field

Author: Robert Goble

Publisher: Parables/Bentley Enterprises

Release Date: September 7, 2010

ISBN: 978-1427646859

Size: 288 pages, 6×9″, softcover

Genre: General

Read excerpt here.

To Jordan Fairchild, the dark-haired girl renting his basement apartment seems somewhat quiet and reclusive. Just a business arrangement, he thinks, as he watches her sign the name “Nattie Hand” on the contract. Though two thousand miles away, Celeste Betancourt, an attractive Georgetown graduate student he met through a mutual friend, has captured his attention. A budding friendship with Nattie soon begins to bloom. Little does Jordan know his girl-next-door renter is none other than the world-famous pop star, a.k.a. Natalia Antonali, who recently disappeared from the public eye; little does he know how much his friendship will come to mean to her, how, for the first time a love begins to grow, untainted by “Natalia,” and how she hopes Jordan never discovers the truth.

*Note on cover: This is the cover shown on Amazon and on the publisher’s website. There is a much more attractive cover shown in other places, but from what I can tell, this is the one you’ll get if you order the book.

The Legend of Shannonderry by Carol Warburton

Title: The Legend of Shannonderry

Author: Carol Warburton

Publisher:

Release Date: September, 2010

ISBN:

Size: 304 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Historical Romance

Gwyneth Beddows, a young woman of nineteenth-century England, has often felt lonely and unloved by her father, who believes the rumors that his pretty daughter might not actually be his child. The one place the young woman can find consolation is in the saddle of her spirited stallion. The magnificent horse shows promise as a racehorse and has drawn the attention of Irish horse master Cormac D’Arcy, who is visiting England on business. The handsome young man also brings a lifechanging message from Gwyneth’s grandmother—a frail yet feisty Irish woman Gwyneth has never met.

Events orchestrated by her father force Gwyneth to flee England, and with the help of D’Arcy, she arrives at Shannonderry, her maternal family’s ancestral home, where Gwyneth learns of a legend that will have a profound impact on her life and the lives of those around her.

Touched by the promise of destiny, Gwyneth seeks to save the family estate from certain ruin. But with fierce rivals on the scene and her embittered father in the periphery, Gwyneth faces grave danger that may place her far beyond the reach of D’Arcy’s rescuing hand—and she must call on the strength of her heart if the historic legend of Shannonderry will ever be fulfilled.

The Year Money Grew On Trees by Aaron Hawkins

Title: The Year Money Grew On Trees

Author: Aaron Hawkins

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

Release Date: September 6, 2010

ISBN: 978-0547279770

Size: 304 pages, 6×8, hardcover

Genre: Middle Grade (10 & up)

Jackson Jones is surrounded by 300 wild apple trees and he needs to make them grow apples — thousands and thousands of them. He convinces his sisters and cousins to help, but what do they know about pruning, irrigating or fertilizing? How can a group of kids fight killer frost and apple loving insects? And even assuming they can make the apples grow, how can they pick and sell enough of them in time?

With frostbitten fingers, stinking shoes, sunburns, and sore muscles, Jackson and his young crew unexpectantly discover the lost art of winging it — and have a year they will never forget.

With maps and spot illustrations of mechanical equipment and irrigation systems, and mathematical calculations of the great amount of money to be earned, this debut middle-grade novel evokes the adventure and can-do spirit from a time when parents allowed kids to figure things out for themselves.

Backlash by Traci Hunter Abramson

Title: Backlash

Author: Traci Hunter Abramson

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: September 2010

ISBN: 978-1-59811- 987-9

Size: 240 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Series: Saint Squad Books: Freefall, Lockdown, Crossfire

In the five years she’s been married to Navy SEAL Kel Bennett, Marilyn has lived with fear as a near-constant companion. But the morning she sees two men in naval uniforms approaching her doorway with solemn faces, her fear turns to terror. This is what she signed up for when she exchanged wedding vows with that stunning man in military dress whites: a husband who leaves home whenever the phone rings and who might not ever come back. Turns out Marilyn is lucky this time: Kel is still alive, although gravely injured from the Saint Squad op that thwarted a terrorist attack in the southwestern US. While his wife is relieved to have him stationary in a hospital bed, Kel’s necessary lack of openness about his work puts a strain on their already troubled marriage. As the distance between the couple widens, Marilyn turns to the book she’s secretly writing to express her unspeakable emotions.

Meanwhile, the backlash from the foiled terrorist mission brings Halim Karel to the States in search of Seth, the undercover agent who’d infiltrated his organization and spearheaded the abduction of his boss’s niece. As danger mounts and the SEAL team springs into action, Marilyn is shocked by her first glance into the grisly realities of her husband’s profession: violence, deception, even killing. And when she becomes a central ploy in Halim’s revenge plan, she struggles to find needed trust and confidence in this military man she loves—not just to save their marriage but to save their lives.

The Limit by Kristen Landon

Title: The Limit

Author: Kristen Landon

Publisher: Aladdin

Release Date: September 7, 2010

ISBN: 978-1442402713

Size: 304 pages, hardcover

Genre: Middle Grade Speculative

An eighth grade girl was taken today . . .

With this first sentence, readers are immediately thrust into a fast-paced thriller that doesn’t let up for a moment. In a world not too far removed from our own, kids are being taken away to special workhouses if their families exceed the monthly debt limit imposed by the government. Thirteen-year-old Matt briefly wonders if he might be next, but quickly dismisses the thought. After all, his parents are financially responsible, unlike the parents of those other kids. As long as his parents remain within their limit, the government will be satisfied and leave them alone. But all it takes is one fatal visit to the store to push Matt’s family over their limit—and to change his reality forever.

The Abraham Enigma by Jack Lyon

Title: The Abraham Enigma

Author: Jack Lyon

Publisher: Deseret Book

Release Date: September, 2010

ISBN: 978-1606411063

Size: 256 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Suspense? (Borders lists it as Historical Fiction?)

Egypt was hot as a furnace, as a refiner’s fire; even the Nile breezes as they crept through Cairo made little difference. But the men were meeting anyway, in a private room in the back of a coffee house near Orabi Square.

One of the men smoothed back his thick, white hair, then looked around the circle before turning to a large man, dressed in black. “All is ready in America?”

“Yes. The attacks will be sudden—and devastating.” The big man paused. “But the FBI is investigating the embassy, so we must move slowly and carefully.”

“You are a cautious man—maybe too cautious. Some might even wonder whose side you are on.” The white haired man narrowed his eyes. He looked up as a newcomer joined the group, settling his skinny frame into a chair by the door.

“Soon it will not matter,” the man shrugged. “The embassy will be destroyed. Then the attacks in America will drive the point home, on their own soil. Perhaps then the Americans will keep to their own business.”

When FBI agent and cryptologist David Hunter is temporarily assigned to decipher coded terrorist communications in Egypt, he imagines an extended honeymoon with his new wife, April, exploring the ancient land and pyramids. He could not have been more wrong.

The symbols used in the code are nearly impossible to interpret, while other evidence points to a possible traitor inside the embassy. As David realizes that time is running out, he turns to an unlikely source for help—an authentic Egyptian document containing the pharaohs’ priestly writing code, hieroglyphics that bear a striking similarity to characters in the fascimiles in the book of Abraham.

When Angels Wept by Eric G. Swedin

Title: When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Author: Eric G. Swedin

Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.

Release Date: August 31, 2010

ISBN: 978-1597975179

Size: 316 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Historical/Speculative

In 1961 at the Bay of Pigs, CIA-trained and -organized Cuban exiles aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro were soundly defeated. Most were taken prisoner by Cuban armed forces. Fearing another U.S. invasion of its new ally, the Soviet Union sneaked into Cuba strategic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads and Soviet troops armed with tactical nuclear weapons. However, a U-2 spy plane flight would soon find the Soviet missile sites, thus sparking the famous missile crisis. For thirteen terrifying days, the world watched nervously as the two superpowers moved toward escalation, holding the world’s fate in their hands. Finally, Nikita Khrushchev blinked. He agreed to withdraw the weapons from Cuba in return for John F. Kennedy’s pledge not to invade the island.

But what if it had not turned out this way? What if the U-2 flight had been delayed? If the confrontation had set off a nuclear war, what would have happened to the United States and Soviet Union in 1962? What kind of account would a historian have written in a world scarred by nuclear war?

Body Heat by Brenda Novak

Title: Body Heat

Author: Brenda Novak

Publisher: Mira

Release Date: August 31, 2010

ISBN: 978-0778328032

Size: 448 pages, 4×6″ mass market paperback

Genre: Romantic Thriller

Series: White Heat (1)

Caution: This book may contain objectionable content.

Read an excerpt here.

The heat is on…

Twelve people have been shot at pointblank range and left to rot in the desert sun. It’s Sophia St. Claire’s job to do something about it. She’s Bordertown, Arizona’s new chief of police—and she’s out of her depth.

Help arrives in the form of Department 6 hired gun Roderick Guerrero. As far as Sophia’s concerned, his involvement only makes things worse. Maybe he’s managed to turn his life around. And maybe he’s a good investigator. But as the bastard son of a wealthy local rancher, he has a history he can’t get past. A history that includes her.

Rod refuses to leave town until the killer is caught. He’s not worried about the danger posed by some vigilante. It’s Sophia who threatens him. Because he’s used to risking his life–but his heart is another story.

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

Title: Paranormalcy

Author: Kiersten White

Publisher: Harper Teen

Release Date: August 30, 2010

ISBN: 978-0061985843

Size: 352 pages, 6×8, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

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Evie’s always thought of herself as a normal teenager, even though she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she’s falling for a shape-shifter, and she’s the only person who can see through paranormals’ glamours.

But Evie’s about to realize that she may very well be at the center of a dark faerie prophecy promising destruction to all paranormal creatures.

So much for normal.

Billy: Messenger of Powers by Michaelbrent Collings

Title: Billy: Messenger of Powers

Author: Michaelbrent Collings

Publisher: Borgo Press

Release Date: August 27, 2010

ISBN: 978-1434411501

Size: 406 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

Billy is a normal boy trying to get through school when he discovers that Powers walk among us. These are divided into the Dawnwalkers, protectors of mankind, and the Darksiders, who want to enslave humanity. The truce between them is wavering. The Darksiders are on the rise–and only Billy can save the world!

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Title: The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, v1)

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Publisher: TOR

Release Date: August 31, 2010

ISBN: 978-0765326355

Size: 1008 pages, 6×9, hardcover

Genre: Fantasy

Read Sample Chapters here.

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.

It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.

One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.

Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar’s niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan’s motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

Mayan Intrigue by Linda Weaver Clarke

Title: Mayan Intrigue

Author: Linda Weaver Clarke

Publisher: American Book Publishing

Release Date: August 30, 2010

ISBN: 978-1589826168

Size: 250 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: Suspense

Series: Anasazi Intrigue (bk 1)

Read Chapter 1 HERE

Watch book trailer HERE

The discovery of a priceless artifact puts Julia’s life in great danger! From valuable artifacts to shady businessmen, the Yucatan Peninsula becomes a dangerous vacation spot for John and Julia Evans. While on assignment for the newspaper, the Evanses try to enjoy a romantic vacation among the Mayan ruins, but when Julia accidentally comes upon a couple suspicious men exchanging an item, she quickly turns and leaves but it is too late. The men have seen her. As a reporter, Julia does not easily give up and her curiosity gets them in a mess of trouble. Before John and Julia realize what is going on, they are both in danger and find themselves running for their lives through the jungles of the Yucatan.

Unbroken Connection by Angela Morrison

Title: Unbroken Connection

Author: Angela Morrison

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: August 26, 2010

ISBN: 978-1453758960

Size: 320 pages, 6×9″, softcover

Genre: Young Adult

Series: Taken by Storm

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Against all odds, the couple that swept you away in TAKEN BY STORM is back. Michael is in Thailand diving his dream. Leesie is at BYU living hers.

And they just can’t leave each other alone.

Their romance rekindles, deeper than before. They grow desperate to see one another again. To hold one another again. Michael decides there is only one direction their relationship can go and asks Leesie the ultimate question. Her answer challenges everything Michael is and wants to be.

Can she change for him?

Can he change for her?

Enough?

Finding Rose by Stephanie Humphreys

Title: Finding Rose

Author: Stephanie Humphreys

Publisher: Walnut Springs Press

Release Date: August 2010

ISBN: 971935217770

Size: 292 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Historical Romance

On his deathbed, Rose Sterling’s father asks her to consider Miles Crandall as a suitor. Then Rose is sent to live with an uncle in Spring Creek, Montana, far from her carefree life with her family in Utah. Miles is returning to his hometown of Spring Creek to set up a medical practice, so Rose is certain her being sent there is a setup. Yet Miles doesn’t seem interested in her, and after Rose falls ill in Montana, he seems content to act as her physician and friend. When Rose captures the attention of Mile’s younger, flamboyant brother as well as the town sheriff, Miles retreats even further from any attempt at courtship. How can Rose honor her father’s last wish if Miles doesn’t even try to court her? Will she have the courage to put her heart on the line and fight for the one she really loves?

Earthdust by Gary Blackburn

Title: Earthdust

Author: Gary Blackburn

Publisher: Black Rose Writing

Release Date: August 26, 2010

ISBN: 978-1935605614

Size: 212 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Science Fiction

Escaping death from a roadside exploding car, Aaron James retrieves, from a dying college professor, a mystery disc containing secret information about the future of Planet Earth. A quick goodbye to his fiancée, Laura, Aaron races his Z400 to Utah, while evading arrest by Dickson, the Civilian Protector District Captain. Aaron and best friend, Lee, break the password code on the disc and learn of Earth’s impending disaster, too late to stop a gigantic meteor from striking the Sahara Desert causing massive worldwide destruction while sending a giant mushroom dust cloud into the sky, encircling the earth.

With the planet’s temperatures dropping, Aaron discovers this event, along with an abduction/hybrid process, is a conspiracy to subjugate the earth into a one-world government. A murderous firefight at his mountain cabin and an interplanetary trip with the beautiful hybrid Celeste, to The Pleiades begging for assistance, Aaron and Celeste have one last chance, in a battle against Shapeshifter forces, at their secret mountain location, to alter the dark destiny of the Earth.

Curse of the Bizarro Beetle by Julie Gardner Berry

Title: Curse of the Bizarro Beetle (Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys, #2)

Author: Julie Gardner Berry

Illustrator: Sally Faye Gardner

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Release Date: August 12, 2010

ISBN: 978-0448453606

Size: 208 pages, 5×7, softcover

Genre: Middle Grade Graphic Novel

Series: The Rat Brain Fiasco

This book is not eligible for a Whitney Award.

With Cody’s archnemesis, Headmaster Farley, banished from the school, Cody should be celebrating . . . but something is bothering him, eating at him . . . literally gnawing on him. Dark forces are on the rise at Splurch Academy and Cody Mack isn’t sure which side of the battle he’s on.

Learn more about the Splurch Academy HERE.

The Rat Brain Fiasco by Julie Gardner Berry

Title: The Rat Brain Fiasco (Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys, #1)

Author: Julie Gardner Berry

Illustrator: Sally Faye Gardner

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Release Date: August 12, 2010

ISBN: 978-0448453590

Size: 208 pages, 5×7, softcover

Genre: Middle Grade Graphic Novel

This book is not eligible for a Whitney Award.

When Cody Mack is called to the principal’s office yet again, he finds something far worse than detention awaiting him: Splurch Academy, a frightfully sinister boarding school for disobedient children run by a group of monstrous teachers. Can Cody Mack avoid becoming “Midnight Snack?”

Learn more about the Splurch Academy HERE.

Winning Mr. Wrong by Marie Higgins

Title: Winning Mr. Wrong

Author: Marie Higgins

Publisher: Walnut Springs

Release Date: August 2, 2010

ISBN: 978-1935217763

Size: 352 pages, 6×9, hardcover

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Read excerpt here.

View trailer here.

Will an internet list help Charley win her man?

Whoever said the quest for love wasn’t comical never met Charlene Randall. Charley is looking for a man who wants to start a family, a man who will take her to the temple. Problem is, she has never dated a man for longer than three months. When she reads an internet article called “Ten Ways to Win Your Man,” she decides to try it on her new coworker, Maxwell Harrington. Max was her crush in high school, but the superstar sports anchorman doesn’t even remember her.

Enter ladies’ man Damien Giovianni, Charley’s handsome neighbor, who agrees to help her win Max over. What follows is a hilarious tale of mishaps and misunderstandings where Charley learns that what she really needs may be right in front of her.