Sunday, May 26, 2013

Stacking MY Shelves ~ 5/26/13



Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.  Make sure to checkout her post with links to all the other participates.


For review


Good Vibrations by S. L. Scott
(For upcoming tour - thank you)

I grab her exploring finger just as it reaches my happy trail—a trail that if I let her wander down further will lead us to do things we can’t take back. Things like three-word phrases being confessed that would end me if I was rejected. Things like selfishly wanting to own her body and doing things to her that would make my fantasies blush. And things like making her promises too soon that won’t do either of us any good. She makes me want a future that’s not possible, and one I don’t deserve.

Listening to my ego got me into this situation. Will listening to my heart get me out?




Redesigned by Denise Grover Swank
(For an upcoming tour - thank you)

While fashion design major Caroline Hunter may have been born economically unlucky, in college, she’s been lucky in love. Until her senior year at Southern University. She’s gone from a serious long term boyfriend to a string of crappy dates.

Then she meets mathematics grad student Reed Pendergraft.

Reed is everything she’s not looking for. Serious. Headed for a low paying university job. Boring. Caroline spent the first eighteen years of her life wondering where her next meal was coming from. She sure wasn’t getting trapped in that life again with a man living on a professor’s salary.

An encounter with Reed in a club proves she might have pegged him wrong. He brings out a lusty side she never knew she had. But just when she’s about to give in to her hormones, Reed makes a fool out of her.

When she shows up for the first committee meeting for Southern University’s Fall fashion show, a fundraiser for underprivileged kids, Caroline’s horrified to discover the insufferable Reed is the committee chairman. While she refuses to tolerate his totalitarian rule of the committee, she’s not sure she’ll survive the month with her heart—and her pride—intact. Just when she thinks she has everything figured out, she finds that her entire life has been redesigned, thanks to Reed Pendergraft.






Click by Lisa Becker
(From the author - thank you)

Fast approaching her 30th birthday and finding herself not married, not dating, and without even a prospect or a house full of cats, Renee Greene, the heroine of Click: An Online Love Story, reluctantly joins her best guy pal on a journey to find love online in Los Angeles. The story unfolds through a series of emails between Renee and her best friends (anal-compulsive Mark, the overly-judgmental Ashley and the over-sexed Shelley) as well as the gentlemen suitors she meets online. From the guy who starts every story with "My buddies and I were out drinking one night," to the egotistical "B" celebrity looking for someone to stroke his ego, Renee endures her share of hilarious and heinous cyber dates. Fraught with BCC's, FWD's and inadvertent Reply to All's, readers will root for Renee to "click" with the right man.





Double Click by Lisa Becker
(From the author - thank you)

Fans of the romantic hit Click: An Online Love Story will enjoy another voyeuristic dive into the lives of Renee, Shelley, Ashley, Mark and Ethan, as Double Click picks up with their lives six months later. Are Renee and Ethan soul mates? Does Mark ever go on a date? Has Shelley run out of sexual conquests in Los Angeles? Will Ashley's judgmental nature sabotage her budding relationship? Through a marriage proposal, wedding, new baby and unexpected love twist, Double Click answers these questions and more. Readers will continue to cheer, laugh, cry and cringe following the email exploits of Renee and friends.



Obsession by Jennifer L Armentrout
(From the publisher for up coming tour - thank you)

He’s arrogant, domineering, and... To. Die. For.

Hunter is a ruthless killer. And the Department of Defense has him firmly in their grasp, which usually doesn’t chafe too badly because he gets to kill bad guys. Most of the time he enjoys his job. That is, until he’s saddled with something he’s never had to do before: protect a human from his mortal enemy.

Serena Cross didn’t believe her best friend when she claimed to have seen the son of a powerful senator turn into something... unnatural. Who would? But then she witnesses her friend’s murder at the hands of what can only be an alien, thrusting her into a world that will kill to protect their secret.

Hunter stirs Serena’s temper and her lust despite their differences. Soon he’s doing the unthinkable—breaking the rules he’s lived by, going against the government to keep Serena safe. But are the aliens and the government the biggest threats to Serena’s life…or is it Hunter?




Bought


Then Again by Karen Strivali
(I had pre-ordered this and it came in) 


Sometimes you have to lose it all to find what you really need.

Photographer Kay Turner is dealt a double whammy when she flies home for her grandmother’s funeral to find her boyfriend with another woman. Now with two losses to mourn, she retreats to her newly inherited beach house to clear her head.

Everything at the beach is familiar: the sounds of the ocean, the scent of her grandmother’s perfume—and the irresistible smile of James Margolis. The man Kay spent her adolescence pining for is every bit as charming as she remembers.

James always thought of Kay as “a nice kid”, but he feels something very different for the woman she’s become. Especially when he asks if she’d be willing to part with some of her grandmother’s recipes for his new restaurant—and they wind up sharing much more than culinary secrets.

But as their relationship deepens, Kay finds herself caught between the demands of her dream career as a travel photographer, and a chance for happiness with the one man she’s wanted for a lifetime.





I'm Not Her by Janet Gurtler
(Picked up free)


“For the first time in my life, I didn’t feel envy…”

Tess is the exact opposite of her beautiful, athletic sister. And that’s okay. Kristina is the sporty one, Tess is the smart one, and they each have their place. Until Kristina is diagnosed with cancer. Suddenly Tess is the center of the popular crowd, everyone eager for updates. There are senior boys flirting with her. Yet the smiles of her picture-perfect family are cracking and her sister could be dying. Now Tess has to fill a new role: the strong one. Because if she doesn’t hold it together, who will?




 What about you? What's stacking your shelves this week?  Leave me a comment.

18 comments:

  1. Great haul! Redesigned and I'm Not Her sounds pretty good :_

    Check out my STS too : http://mnkbooklife.blogspot.com/2013/05/stacking-shelves-4.html

    Sincerely,
    Neysa Kristanti

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  2. Great stack of books. I've heard good things about I'm Not Her.

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  4. Oh, you got Click & Double Click! I really enjoyed those books. I'm looking forward to Redesigned, too. Enjoy!

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  5. I think Redesigned sounds great. I think the covers by Lisa Becker look soooo cute.

    http://booksandcollege.blogspot.com/2013/05/stacking-shelves-15.html

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  6. wuahhh waiting for obsession ...

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  7. I would like to read "Then Again." I like reading about grandmothers, beaches, romance and traveling photographers. I think it's cute how she gives him her grandma's recipes. I hope some of the recipes are in the book.

    1dozenstars@gmail.com

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  8. I got "I'm Not Her' too! I love FREE books!! lol

    Great haul!

    Here's what I got in books this month:
    http://romancebookie.blogspot.com/2013/05/imm-20stacking-shelves-1.html

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  9. I read Click a little before it came out or maybe a little after but either way I read it and loved it! I have an e-copy of the second book I need to read it soon! I hope you enjoy everything :)

    My IMM

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  10. Obsession looks real good, and how does not love a little secret agent protection. I like the premise of Redesign too! Great Haul I hope you enjoy all your new books!

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  11. Good Vibrations sounds like a good summer read. :)

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  12. OBSESSION looks really good! I will definitely have to chak it out :)

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  13. OMG!!! You are a very lucky girl for getting Obsession :D! Can't wait to read your review on it. I also got I Am Not Her on Amazon for Free. Hope you enjoy these books :).

    Here is my StS:
    Kassandra @Kassie's Book Thoughts
    http://www.kassiesthoughts30.blogspot.com/2013/05/stacking-shelves-2.html

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  14. You got Obsession. You are one lucky lady. Plus some of these are new to me. I will have to investigate these books further.

    Grace

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  15. Ohhh Obsession!! I am almost done with it and actually should finish as soon as I catch up commenting on blogs!! I love it!! I got Click and Double Click also. The author was so nice to gift them to me! I can't wait to get a chance to read them. Great haul babe!!

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  16. I got Click and Double Click too, but I already had my post done. They look cute and Andrea said I'll like them. Enjoy Pal!

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  17. I'll have to check out some of these that I haven't heard of before. thanks!

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  18. These all sound like great books! Will definitely be adding these to my to read list.

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