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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. I'm finally back to blogging! ALA was tons of fun but very busy and then summer reading has kept me busy at work. Of course, ALA gave me lots of books to book lust over. Maybe it's my Fabulous Films Committee theme of "Song and Dance" but I've been book lusting over these ballet books! Bunheads by Sophie Flack About the Book: As a dancer with the ultra-prestigious Manhattan Ballet Company, nineteen-year-old Hannah Ward juggles intense rehearsals, dazzling performances and complicated backstage relationships. Up until now, Hannah has happily devoted her entire life to ballet. But when she meets a handsome musician named Jacob, Hannah's universe begins to change, and she must decide if she wants to compete against the other "bunheads" in the company for a star soloist spot or strike out on her own in the real world. Does she dare give up the gilded confines of the ballet for t...

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine . I don't always post Waiting on Wednesday posts, but I like to post them around ALA so I can keep track of my most anticipated books. These are books that my librarian self are very excited about and I can't wait to see if they live up the hype! Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler, illustrated by Maira Kalman About the Book: Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship. Item after item is illustrated and accounted for, and then the box, like a girlfriend, will be dumped. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin About the Book: Mara Dyer doesn't think life can get any stranger ...

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine Withering Tights by Louise Rennison Release Date: 7/1/2011 About the Book: Hilarious new series from Queen of Teen – laugh your tights off at the (VERY) amateur dramatic antics of Talullah and her bonkers mates. Boys, snogging and bad acting guaranteed! Picture the scene: Dother Hall performing arts college somewhere Up North, surrounded by rolling dales, bearded cheesemaking villagers (male and female) and wildlife of the squirrely-type. On the whole, it’s not quite the showbiz experience Tallulah was expecting… but once her mates turn up and they start their ‘FAME! I’m gonna liiiiive foreeeeeever, I’m gonna fill my tiiiiights’ summer course things are bound to perk up. Especially when the boys arrive. (When DO the boys arrive?) Six weeks of parent-free freedom. BOY freedom. Freedom of expression... cos it’s the THEATRE dahling, theatre!! GreenBeanTeenQueen Says: I lurved the Georgia Nicolson books-they were fabbity fab fa...

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine . I'm not a regular WoW poster, but I had to share this one. The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin Add to Goodreads About the Book: (from Goodreads) Beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, the wealthiest debutante in America, is spirited away from the glamour and comfort of her Park Avenue mansion and suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, mistress of Lulworth Castle, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. As Cora is soon to discover, nothing in this strange new world is quite as it seems. Her handsome new husband is withdrawn and secretive; the English social scene is stuffed with pitfalls and traps; and there are increasingly dangerous forces at work, people who wish she'd never met Ivo in the first place. THE AMERICAN HEIRESS is a dazzling debut novel from Daisy Goodwin, whose brilliant new voice is reminiscent of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Kate Morton Why I Want It: Yes it's an adult novel,...

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine ! So the new year is almost here, so I've been going through various publisher catalogs and making my 2011 wish lists. There are so many awesome books coming out in 2011 but I had to share a few that made me do a little happy dance in my office. The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines -Release Date: July 2011 From Goodreads : It’s the Fall of 1942 and Iris’s world is rapidly changing. Her Pop is back from the war with a missing leg, limiting his ability to do the physically grueling part of his detective work. Iris is dying to help, especially when she discovers that one of Pop’s cases involves a boy at her school. Now, instead of sitting at home watching Deanna Durbin movies, Iris is sneaking out of the house, double crossing her friends, and dancing at the Savoy till all hours of the night. There’s certainly never a dull moment in the private eye business. OMG-I WANT I WANT I WANT!!! When the catalog copy describe...

I don't normally post Waiting on Wednesday posts (at least not on a regular basis) but there have been so many lust worthy covers out recently, I had to share!! Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine . Wither by Lauren DeStefano March 2011 This cover goes into the cover dresses I want in real life pile The Vespertine by Saundra Mitchell March 2011 Another dress I love-I like this cover much better than the other one I've seen floating around! Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis April 2011 I've been waiting for this book forever- I've serious got a waiting list already at my library of girls who want to read it! I love this new cover! Small Town Sinners by Melissa Walker July 2011 I've been wanting to read this since I heard Melissa was writing it which seems like forever ago-can't wait to read it! Divergent by Veronica Roth May 2011 There's lots of early buzz around this one, and author Veronica Roth is awesome! She lives...

Waiting on Wednesday is brought to you by Breaking the Spine ! As you know, ALA is coming up fast-I leave tomorrow!! Mr. GreenBeanSexyMan is traveling with me and here's his ALA Waiting on Wednesday list: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud -Mr. GreenBeanSexyMan is so excited for this one, it would make his ALA trip! The Fiend and the Forge by Henry Neff As you can see, Mr. GreenBeanSexyMan loves fantasy, so he'll be on the lookout for great fantasy series and I'll of course ask him to write reivews for you all!

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine . With ALA coming up, I thought I'd share some of my wish list! Crave by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz -I loved, loved, loved Melinda Metz's books as a teen, so I was thrilled she had a new book coming out! I've only been checking Amazon obsessively for the last ten years!! I have no idea if this book will even be there-I'm just keeping my fingers crossed! The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud -the newest Bartimaeus book (no final cover art yet). This is my husband's top pick for ALA. He's not as excited about the conference as I am, although he'll go and help carry my books. So if he could get his hands on this one, it would make the trip worth it! A lot of my other wist list I've done WOW's on before, so I'm listing the titles mostly so I can remember them all! Matched by Ally Condie (she's there signing-can't wait) Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly (finally she writes a...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine . I don't normally post Waiting on Wednesday's unless there's a book that I'm very excited about! Matched by Ally Condie Release Date: 11/30/2010 From Goodreads: In the novel, a 17-year-old girl, who has waited her entire life to be told by a group known as “the Society” who her soul mate is, has her world upended when she discovers she’s in love with someone other than the group’s pick. Don Weisberg, president of Penguin Young Readers Group, along with Lauri Hornik, president and publisher of Dutton Children’s Books, and Julie Strauss-Gabel, associate publisher of Dutton Children’s, all worked on the deal, which is for North American rights. Gabel, who will edit the book, said that it “will make readers crave the passion of uncertainty and cherish the power of the written word.” And Reamer, expectedly perhaps, drew the Meyer parallel, saying reading Matched reminded her of the first time she re...

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine . Faithful by Janet Fox Release Date: 5/13/2010 About the Book (from author's website): In 1904 Margaret Bennet has it all – money, position, and an elegant family home in Newport, Rhode Island. But just as she is to enter society, her mother ruins everything, first with public displays, and finally by disappearing. Maggie’s confusion and loss are compounded when her father drags her to Yellowstone National Park, where he informs her that they will remain. At first Maggie’s only desire is to return to Newport. But the mystical beauty of the Yellowstone landscape, and the presence of young Tom Rowland, a boy unlike the others she has known, conspire to change Maggie from a spoiled girl willing to be constrained by society to a free-thinking and brave young woman living in a romantic landscape at the threshold of a new century. GreenBeanTeenQueen Says: This one just sound great all around-and I really like historical roma...

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine . Grace by Elizabeth Scott Release Date: 9/16/2010 Add to Goodreads About the Book: A fable of a terrifying near future by critically acclaimed author Elizabeth Scott. Grace was raised to be an Angel, a herald of death by suicide bomb. But she refuses to die for the cause, and now Grace is on the run, daring to dream of freedom. In search of a border she may never reach, she travels among malevolent soldiers on a decrepit train crawling through the desert. Accompanied by the mysterious Kerr, Grace struggles to be invisible, but the fear of discovery looms large as she recalls the history and events that delivered her uncertain fate. Told in spare, powerful prose, this tale of a dystopian near future will haunt readers long after they've reached the final page. GreenBeanTeenQueen Says: Elizabeth Scott is one of those authors who can write no wrong in my eyes. She's one of my author heroes and I think she's amaz...

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine . I had to post a WOW this week because I wanted to spread the word about this book! Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly Release Date: 9/28/2010 About the Book: (From Goodreads) BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break. PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want—and couldn’t escape. Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is mo...

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine . I haven't posted a WOW post in a long time, but I saw this a couple weeks ago and I had to share!! Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen Release Date: 10/26/2010 About the Book: (From GoodReads) Bright Young Things is the first in an epic four-book series about three teenage girls finding their way in the glittering metropolis of New York City and the glamorous mansions of Long Island. It’s 1929 and Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey have escaped their small Midwestern town to chase big dreams and even bigger secrets. In New York, they meet Astrid Donal, a flapper who has everything she could ever want, except for the one thing Letty and Cordelia have to offer—true friendship. Set in the dizzying summer before the market crash, against the vast lawns of the East End and on the blindingly lit stages of Broadway, the three girls will find romance, intrigue, and adventure. Just as The Luxe books brought the...