Sunday, February 28, 2010
Why Make a Book Trailer? Do They Work?
What makes for a good book trailer? Read it here, according to Arielle Ford (Publicist and Writer)
Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction by Arielle Ford
Browse Inside the book: http://browseinside.harpercollins.com...
Have you ever wondered what it takes to find the love of your life? Is it your dream to find a life-partner who will love, cherish and adore you? The Soulmate Secret will show you how to take control of your romantic destiny by using the Law of Attraction. Finding true love is possible for anyone at any age if youre willing to prepare yourself, on all levels, to become a magnet for love. Arielle Ford knows this from experience. She used the techniques in this book to bring her soulmate into her life at age 44. They were engaged six weeks later.
This ancient formula reveals that our Universe is set up to deliver the people and things that are consistent with our personal belief system. If you dont believe you will ever find the ONE, then guess what? You probably wont. If, however, you learn to believe that the ONE is not only out there but is also looking for you, then true love can be yours.
Using a series of processes called feelingizations - feeling in every cell of your being the outcome you want to create - Ford reveals how to manifest the man or woman of your dreams. The techniques, rituals, and projects found within these pages will allow you to prepare your home, body, mind, and spirit for the lover your heart truly desires.
The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction
Author: Arielle Ford
ISBN: 9780061692376
(From the YouTube description)
Friday, February 26, 2010
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
(@sethgs) From the New York Times bestselling author of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES comes the true history of our sixteenth president - Seth Grahame-Smith's ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER.
(From the YouTube description)
Robin and Ruby by K. M. Soehnlein
In his award-winning bestseller THE WORLD OF NORMAL BOYS, K.M. Soehnlein (kmsoehnlein.com) introduced readers to the unforgettable teenager Robin MacKenzie, a child of the disco ’70s. In ROBIN AND RUBY, he revisits Robin at twenty, in the middle of the turbulent 1980s, caught between his dreams of being a stage actor and the nightmare of negotiating relationships in an era when sex and death are unavoidably linked.
(From the Vimeo description)
Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
(@courtney_s) The book trailer for author of CRACKED UP TO BE Courtney Summers' edgy, sophomore YA novel, SOME GIRLS ARE, coming January 2010 from St. Martin's Press. Available for pre-order now!
VISIT http://courtneysummers.ca FOR MORE INFO.
Music by Kevin MacLeod: http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
(From the YouTube description)
My Way to Hell by Dakota Cassidy
(@DakotaCassidy) After defying Lucifer to save her best friend Delaney, ex-demon Marcella Acosta has been banished to exist in the plane between heaven and hell—and there isnt a shopping mall in sight. After numerous failed attempts to contact Delaney through a bunch of hack mediums, Marcellas at her wits end. But theres one medium shes hasnt tried yet, and he just happens to be Delaneys scorching hot brother—the one guy who never gave Marcella the time of day
Thanks to his recently inherited psychic abilities, Kellen Markham has had spirits haunting him day and night—and not only are they just plain annoying, somehow theyre able to touch him. To try and escape, Kellen moves into his sisters old apartment. But when he finds a box full of stuff that belonged to Marcella—the demon he spent years fighting his fierce attraction to—his not-so-pure thoughts drag her back to Earth. Now that Marcellas free from Plane Drab, theres no way in hell shes going back. Especially since theres a certain sexy medium she just cant seem to keep her hands off of
(From the YouTube description)
Eat When You Feel Sad by Zachary German
Eat When You Feel Sad-- a book trailer from Catherine Lacey on Vimeo.
A film by Catherine Lacey for Zachery German's debut novel, Eat When You Feel Sad. Buy it from Melville House Publishing or your favorite independent bookseller February 2010.
(From the Vimeo description)
Broken But Not Bound, The Making of Me by April Mason
@AprilMason releases her highly anticipated book "Broken But Not Bound, The Making of Me"
(From the YouTube description)
Stranded by J. T. Dutton
YA book trailer for @jtdutton's novel, Stranded. Produced by NoWickiProductions.com. Kelly Louise Sorenson is going to Heaven............Iowa, and life is not as boring there as you might think...................
(From the YouTube description)
Publisher: HarperTeen (June 8, 2010)
Dreaming Anastasia: A Novel of Love, Magic, and the Power of Dreams by Joy Preble
(@joypreble) A book trailer for Joy Preble's young adult novel, Dreaming Anastasia. Produced by NoWickiProductions.com. "What would you do if your nightmare turned out to be more than just a dream - and the only way to stop it was to believe the impossible?" A novel of Love. Magic. and the Power of Dreams
(From the YouTube description)
Freaked by J. T. Dutton
(@jtdutton) A simple, impactful, cost-effective book trailer by NoWickiProductions.com for the novel, Freaked by JT Dutton.
(From the YouTube description)
Good-Bye Bully Machine by Debbie Fox
The book teaches kids what bullying is, why it hurts, and what they can do to end bullying.
"Good-Bye Bully Machine" by Debbie Fox and Allan L. Beane, Ph.D., (Free Spirit Publishing, $6.99 softcover, $12.99 hardcover), part of the Bully Free Classroom™ line of resources, engages kids with clear messages and unique collage art.
The book opens with a note to grown-ups encouraging them to share it with the kids in their lives and to talk with them about bullying, taking their fears and reports of bullying seriously. The authors know that kids who are victims need to be heard and supported to stop the Bully Machine. A note to kids explains at the outset that bullying is a way of treating people that is hurtful, but that people who bully are not bad people: their behavior is bad.
Through "Good-Bye Bully Machine," kids gain awareness of their role in bullying, whether they are targets, bullies, bystanders—or all three. According to the authors, the role of the bystander is especially important. Part of the message in "Good-Bye Bully Machine" is the power of the bystander to become an ally by speaking up and standing up for others.
Bully-Busting Activities at the back of the book show how victims, witnesses, and kids who've bullied others can become Bully Free—including suggestions for building a school-wide campaign against bullying. http://www.freespirit.com/bullymachine
(From the YouTube description)
What's Up with My Family? (Middle School Confidential) by Annie Fox
(@Annie_Fox) The Middle School Confidential book series provides advice on common middle school issues like self-esteem, friendship, and family relations. Meet Jack, Jen, Mateo, Abby, Chris, and Michelle—six kids in middle school just trying to figure it all out. The Middle School Confidential series follows these six characters as they negotiate a shifting social scene, forge strong friendships, and deal with changing family dynamics. Fun and engaging character narratives are complemented by quizzes, quotes from real kids, tips, tools, and resources. An award-winning graphic-novel series featuring a blend of fiction and practical advice for the middle school years. http://www.freespirit.com/msc
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, February 25, 2010
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileens best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobodys business, but she cant mind her tongue, so shes lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we dont.
(From the YouTube description)
Part One of Kathryn Stockett reading from her bestselling novel The Help at Warwick's Books in La Jolla, California, March 27th, 2009. For more information about this and many more upcoming events, please visit www.warwicks.com.
(From the YouTube description)
The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, by Jessica Anya Blau
Watch the trailer for the best-selling book that was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by the San Francisco Chronicle!
(From the YouTube description)
Vanished by Joseph Finder
(@JoeFinder) The first in a brand-new series from international bestseller Joseph Finder. With a new ongoing lead character - Nick Heller - and a new focus - the world of high-powered corporate investigation - this is Finder at his very best.
(From the YouTube description)
Power Play by Joseph Finder
Here is a trailer for @JoeFinder's novel- POWER PLAY- a gripping suspense novel set at a mild corporate retreat.
(From the YouTube description)
The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective by Andy Andrews
(@AndyAndrews) talks about his book "The Noticer" behind the scenes.
Based on Andy's own remarkable true story, The Noticer beautifully blends fiction, allegory, and inspiration. It provides simple, yet powerful distinctions about love, relationships, value, and integrity and will inspire readers to take that first step toward a major life change.
(From the YouTube description)
The Butterfly Effect by Andy Andrews
(@AndyAndrews) What if it were possible to dramatically increase the productivity of your business and alter your personal relationships simply by giving a book to your employees and friends? It will happen with The Butterfly Effect . . . not by encouragement (which is temporary) but because of the PROOF contained in this small book about how much each of them matters!
(From the YouTube description)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Tribe by Roger Hurn and Jane A C West
A trailer for the soon to be out Tribe book series by Roger Hurn and Jane A C West. Illustrated and animated by StiK and published by Barrington Stoke.
(From the YouTube description)
Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead by Nancy Kilpatrick
Award winning Nancy Kilpatrick has gathered an all new collection of vampire short fiction from horror authors across Canada.
Kelley Armstrong, Tanya Huff and twenty-two other Canadian dark fantasy and horror writers re-imagine the future of vampires in this first Canadian all-vampire anthology of original fiction -- one of the most unusual and compelling vampire anthologies ever compiled. [www.vampires-evolve.com]
(From the YouTube description)
Love Is the Best Medicine: What Two Dogs Taught One Veterinarian about Hope, Humility, and Everyday Miracles by Nick Trout
Love is the Best Medicine immerses readers in the true life drama of beloved pets whose lives hang in the balance. Every page underscores the profound bond we have with the animals in our lives and the incredible responsibility Nick carries as their healer. Certainly Dr. Trout has an impressive array of fancy equipment, training and skills at his disposable, but his most important tool (as he powerfully illustrates here) is a fundamental belief in the power of hope, humility, and grace.
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/di...
(From the YouTube description)
Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch) by Michael Connelly
On location in Hong Kong, Michael Connelly reads a section of his new thriller, NINE DRAGONS.
From the streets of L.A. to the shimmering skyline of Hong Kong, Harry Bosch must find his missing daughter.
Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in a robbery. Joined by members of the department's Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies a suspect, a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad. But before Harry can close in, he gets the word that his young daughter Maddie, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, is missing.
Bosch drops everything to journey across the Pacific to find his daughter. Could her disappearance and the case be connected? With the stakes of the investigation so high and so personal, Bosch is up against the clock in a new city, where nothing is at it seems.
Nine Dragons will be released in hardcover in the UK and Ireland on October 1, 2009, in the USA and Canada on October 13, 2009, and in Australia and New Zealand on October 21, 2009.
(From the YouTube description)
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
Book trailer (@CharlieHuston): With a style that is razor sharp, an eye that never shies from the gritty details, and a taste for stories that simultaneously shock, disturb, and entertain, Charlie Huston is one of a kind. And The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death is the type of storyswift, twisted, hilarious, somehow hopefulthat only he could dream up.
The fact is, whether its a dog hit by a train or an old lady who had a heart attack on the can, someone has to clean up the nasty mess. And that someone is Webster Fillmore Goodhue, who just may be the least likely person in Los Angeles County to hold down such a gig.
(From the YouTube description)
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Short film looking at Sarah Waters' shortlisted novel, The Little Stranger. Produced by the BBC for the Man Booker Prize 2009
(From the YouTube description)
Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time by JJ Semple
Book Trailer (@jjsemple): A memoir, a how-to and a detective story, Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time, traces the author's life through his infatuation with the beautiful Madeleine to his discovery of Golden Flower Meditation, the method he used to activate Kundalini.
(From the YouTube description)
Beat the Reaper: A Novel by Josh Bazell
Book trailer: In the operating room. Everything hangs in the balance. Will this patient BEAT THE REAPER?
(From the YouTube description)
Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
Book trailer for @BryanGruley's first in a series of mystery novels by the new author. The debut is due in stores in March 2009.
(adapted from the YouTube description)
Unravellers by Tracey Morley
(@TheUnraveller) Book trailer for a fab new children's fantasy adventure set on the Cornish coast.
(adapted from the YouTube description)
Monday, February 22, 2010
The Karma Club by Jessica Brody
#Booktrailer for a young adult novel by @JessicaBrody.@DeepakChopra with a special guest appearance.
Releases April 27, 2010 from Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers.
http://www.jessicabrody.com
Copyright - 2010 - Jessica Brody Entertainment
(adapted from the YouTube description)
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Radiant Shadows (Wicked Lovely) by Melissa Marr
Return to @melissa_marr's enchanting world in Radiant Shadows, where romance, danger, and intrigue collide. The future of Faerie rests on the choices of two individuals: Ani, half mortal and half fey, and Devlin, assassin and brother to the High Queen. Drawn together by their natures, each has reason to fear the other and to fear for each other. Radiant Shadows Melissa Marr Book Trailer Find out more about this author here http://tiny.cc/eWKoI Find out more about this book http://tiny.cc/233Q3 YA
(From the YouTube description)
Hollywood Deception (Urban Soul Presents) by Shelia M. Goss
Paparazzi...drama...deranged fans...and that's just the beginning of Hollywood Deception. This book trailer highlights the drama-packed novel-Hollywood Deception by Shelia Goss. To learn more about the book, go to www.sheliagoss.com
(From the YouTube description)
Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert
(@writerstephanie) book trailer by JM Books 2 Movies, www.myspace.com/jennsbooktrailers (or email tangotootzie@yahoo.com)
Ballads of Suburbia comes out July 21, 2009
from MTV Books
Music by Office, song: "Suburban Perfume", album A Night at the Ritz
Stephanie Kuehnert is also the author of I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
(From the YouTube description)
Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide by William Hussey
Trailer of new book. Published by Oxford University Press
(From the YouTube description)
Saturday, February 20, 2010
The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell
The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.
January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.
Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrén family in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andrén ancestor—a gang master on the American transcontinental railway—that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the Hesjövallen murders, but Birgitta is determined to uncover what she now suspects is a more complicated truth.
The investigation leads to the highest echelons of power in present-day Beijing, and to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the narrative also takes us back 150 years into the depths of the slave trade between China and the United States—a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjövallen murders.
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/di...
(From the YouTube description)
Love Under Cover by Jessica Brody
The much-anticipated follow-up to @JessicaBrody's national bestselling novel, THE FIDELITY FILES, is available in stores November 10, 2009.
Can a former fidelity inspector give up her true calling for the perfect guy? Or will the temptation to conduct love under cover be too strong to resist?
(From the YouTube description)
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
A "negative campaign ad"/book trailer for the noir fantasy novel by @JeffVanderMeer. Finch is set in the imaginary city of Ambergris and has received rave reviews from the likes of the Washington Post and LA Times. http://www.jeffvandermeer.com and http://www.finchthenovel.com/readers.
(From the YouTube description)
The City & The City by China Mieville
In THE CITY & THE CITY, bestselling author China Mieville concocts a seamless blend of dark mystery and fantasy in his daring story of murder, where dreamlike borders cross two cities with terrifying secrets of the dead. Available everywhere books are sold May 26, 2009. From Del Rey Books.
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.
Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszels equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead womans secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives.
What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.
Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/di...
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, February 18, 2010
King of RPGs by Jason Thompson
#BookTrailer @khyungbird (Author @Twitter)
The story of one boy's quest to become.. THE GREATEST GAME MASTER IN THE WORLD. See more at www.kingofrpgs.com!
Art by Jason Thompson and Victor Hao. Graphic novel published by Del Rey Manga. Soundtrack from "The Street Fighter" starring Sonny Chiba (1974). Available now from amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders, Indiebound, or your local comics shop!
(From the YouTube description)
A Lion's Mane by Navjot Kaur
Watch the trailer for A Lion's Mane, a new picture book available in August 2009 from Saffron Press! Journey to cultures around the world to explore a young boy's celebration of his Sikh identity. An empowering book for all children wondering "Who Am I?"
Written by Navjot Kaur, illustrated by Jaspreet Sandhu
ISBN: 978-0-9812412-0-3
Ages 7-11 and beyond
Video produced by Saffron Press
(From the YouTube description)
Never Look Away by Linwood Barclay
A short for Linwood Barclay's new novel, Never Look Away.
Credits:
Producer - Linwood Barclay, Spencer Barclay
Director - Spencer Barclay
DOP - Alex Kingsmill
Music - Nick Storring
FX Makeup - Cait Mizzi
Editor - Spencer Barclay
Production Consultants - Eva Kolcze, Jeff Winch
Cop Car - Canadian Picture Cars
Production Equipment - William F. Whites
(From the YouTube description)
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Wild Child: and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle
Wild Child from jamieson on Vimeo.
"In wilderness is the preservation of the world." - Thoreau
A short film for T.C. Boyle's short story collection.
tcboyle.com < book info here
jamiesonfry.com < full credits here
myspace.com/turzi < music "Bogota" by Turzi
(From the Vimeo description)
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Waking Up in the Land of Glitter: A Crafty Chica Novel by Kathy Cano-Murillo
The debut novel By (@CraftyChica) Kathy Cano-Murillo. On Sale March 1st, 2010! Grand Central Publishing (Hachette Book Group).
With glue guns, glitter, twigs, or yarn, the ordinary can become extraordinary . . . especially at La Pachanga. Owned by Estrella "Star" Esteban's family, the restaurant has a rep for two things: good food and great art. La Pachanga brings people together-even when it looks like they couldn't be further apart.
One ill-fated evening, Star jeopardizes her family's business, her relationship with her boyfriend, and her future career. To redeem herself, she agrees to participate in a national craft competition, teaming up with her best friend, Ofelia-a secretly troubled mother whose love for crafting borders on obsession-and local celebrity Chloe Chavez-a determined television personality with more than one skeleton in her professional closet. If these unlikely allies can set aside their differences, they'll find strength they never knew they had, and learn that friendship, like crafting, is truly an art form.
(From the YouTube description)
The Mark by Jen Nadol
The Mark is a young adult novel by Jen Nadol (@jennadol), released by Bloomsbury USA on January 19, 2010.
To celebrate, I'm holding an online launch party on my blog jennadolbooks.com/blog 1/19-2/4/10. This video is a virtual reading from the book since, at a *real* launch party, we'd do that sort of thing. I don't usually read in the dark in surrounded by a a bunch of candles.
(From the YouTube description)
(via @reverieBR)
Who Says I Can't? by Jothy Rosenberg
#BookTrailer (@Jothmeister)
For anyone who has faced a disability. For anyone who has or needs to bounce back from cancer. For anyone facing a difficult life crisis. This video is about how one man faced these challenges and used sports to win one little victory after another until his confidence and his life were built back up.
SmartSymbols for an incredible story of Jothy Rosenberg - "Who Says I Can't".
(From the YouTube description)
via @StasAntons
The Killing Hands by P. D. Martin
Book trailer for PD Martin's (@pdmartin1) The Killing Hands, book 4 in the Sophie Anderson series. In The Killing Hands, a victim has literally had his throat ripped out and the trail leads back to LA's underworld and a brilliant killer who's carved a trail of death in organized crime across the U.S.
(From the YouTube description)
via @chrismingryan
Publisher: Mira; Original edition (November 1, 2009)
Monday, February 15, 2010
Here Comes the Garbage Barge! by Jonah Winter
Amazing sculptural and 3-D art built out of junk, toys, and found objects by Red Nose Studio bring a book about a little town with a LOT of garbage to life. Based on incredible true events, Jonah Winter brings us the flavorful story - with humor and a message of environmental awareness - that starts in a little town on Long Island that has a big problem: 3,168 tons of garbage and nowhere to put it! Enter the garbage barge, who hauls the junk down the coast of North America looking for a place to dump it. . . . Here is the fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the creation of these incredible illustrations.
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catal...
(From the YouTube description)
The Glass Table by Leigh K. Cunningham
#BookTrailer / Autor @Twitter: @leighcunningham /
Promoting the conservation of our waterways, this eco-fantasy thriller pits twelve young kids against a formidable captor, a witch who has an axe to grind and a surprising lesson to teach.
(From the YouTube description)
My Heart Is Like a Zoo by Michael Hall
Watch a trailer for MY HEART IS LIKE A ZOO, the new picture book from author Michael Hall.
Welcome to the zoo! Twenty animals are waiting for you—some are familiar, some may be brand-new. What are they doing? How are they feeling? Are they friends of yours? Come on in and say hello!
Michael Hall's menagerie invites you and your children to talk about feelings and emotions, explore color and shapes, count the hearts, and meet the animals.
(From the YouTube description)
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Monsters Don't Eat Broccoli by Barbara Jean Hicks
Two monsters from the show "At the Bookstore," review a new picture book "Monsters Don't Eat Broccoli."
(From the YouTube description)
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (August 11, 2009)
Ratfink by Marcia Thornton Jones
A laugh-out-loud middle grade novel from bestselling author, Marcia Thornton Jones about trying to fit in at school, dealing with your not-so-normal family and avoiding the school bully-even if her name is Emily.
(From the YouTube description)
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile (February 18, 2010)
Badass by Ben Thompson
Book Trailer (@BadassoftheWeek) Watch the relentless onslaught of the toughest warlords, vikings, samurai, pirates, gunfighters, and military commanders ever to live! From Ben Thompson's BADASS, available in bookstores everywhere October 27, 2009 (Harper Paperbacks.)
(From the YouTube description)
Emily the Strange: Stranger and Stranger by Rob Reger
Everything is getting Stranger in the original animated book trailer for 'Emily the Strange: Stranger And Stranger'! The second novel in a series of four books. 272 pages of story and illustrations, hardbound and published by HarperCollins Publishers. www.emilystrange.com
(From the YouTube description)
Publisher: HarperCollins (March 30, 2010)
“Candor” by Pam Bachorz
A book trailer by @PamBachorz for her debut novel CANDOR (Egmont USA Sept. 22, 2009). CANDOR is about a teenage boy who lives in a Florida community where everyone is brainwashed--except him, secretly. Find out more about the book, including a sneak peek at the first chapter, at http://www.pambachorz.com.
(From the YouTube description)
Publisher: EgmontUSA (September 22, 2009)
Daisy Chain (Defiance Texas Trilogy, Book 1) by Mary E. DeMuth
Book Trailer / @MaryDeMuth @Twitter
The abrupt disappearance of young Daisy Chance from a small Texas town in 1977 spins three lives out of control-Jed, whose guilt over not protecting his friend Daisy strangles him; Emory Chance, who blames her own choices for her daughter's demise; and Ouisie Pepper, who is plagued by headaches while pierced by the shattered pieces of a family in crisis.
In this first book in the Defiance, Texas Trilogy, fourteen-year-old Jed Pepper has a sickening secret: He's convinced it's his fault his best friend Daisy went missing. Jed's pain sends him on a quest for answers to mysteries woven through the fabric of his own life and the lives of the families of Defiance, Texas. When he finally confronts the terrible truths he's been denying all his life, Jed must choose between rebellion and love, anger and freedom.
Daisy Chain is an achingly beautiful southern coming-of-age story crafted by a bright new literary talent. It offers a haunting yet hopeful backdrop for human depravity and beauty, for terrible secrets and God's surprising redemption.
http://www.marydemuth.com
http://www.drivehomeproductions.com
(From the YouTube description)
Publisher: Zondervan (March 1, 2009)
Bad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender
Book Trailer / @KatieAlender (Author @Twitter)
http://katiealender.com ~ A young adult thriller now available from author Katie Alender and Disney-Hyperion. Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence. Dysfunctional like her parents' marriage; her doll-crazy thirteen-year-old sister, Kasey; and even her own anti-social, anti-cheerleader attitude. When a family fight results in some tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes that her life is creeping from dysfunction into danger. Kasey is acting stranger than ever: her blue eyes go green sometimes; she uses old-fashioned language; and she even loses track of chunks of time, claiming to know nothing about her strange behavior. Their old house is changing, too. Doors open and close by themselves; water boils on the unlit stove; and an unplugged air conditioner turns the house cold enough to see their breath in. Alexis wants to think that it's all in her head, but soon, what she liked to think of as silly parlor tricks are becoming life-threatening--to her, her family, and to her budding relationship with the student council vice president. Alexis knows she's the only person who can stop Kasey -- but what if that green-eyed girl isn't even Kasey anymore?
(From the YouTube description)
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH (April 21, 2009)
Friday, February 12, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther by Ginger Garrett
The first in the Lost Loves of the Bible series, Chosen is the story of Esther, the story of a girl unsparingly plunged into heartache and chaos, who would save a nation of Esther, who would be queen. Chosen Ginger Garrett Book Trailer Find out more about this book at http://tinyurl.com/ydhezyp Find out more about this author here http://gingergarrett.com/ Christian fiction, historical
(From the YouTube description)
The Dark Divine by Bree Despain
Fantastic new book coming out from debut author (@breedespain) Bree Despain. Here is a description from her website:
A prodigal son
A dangerous love
A deadly secret . . .
Grace Divine, daughter of the local pastor, always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared—the night she found her brother Jude collapsed on the porch, covered in blood. But she has no idea what a truly monstrous secret that night really held. And when Daniel returns three years later, Grace can no longer deny her attraction to him, despite promising Jude shell stay away.
As Grace gets closer to Daniel, her actions stir the ancient evil Daniel unleashed that horrific night. Grace must discover the truth behind Jude and Daniel's dark secret . . . and the cure that can save the ones she loves. But she may have to lay down the ultimate sacrifice to do it—her soul.
"Oh my goodness, talk about a book that had everything I wanted: a bad boy with a dark, tortured past, a complicated romance, and a mystery that made my heart beat in double-time right up to the last page. Darkly comic and surprising, this paranormal rises to the top."
-Becca Fitzpatrick, New York Times best-selling author of Hush Hush
"Reading THE DARK DIVINE feels almost like following a trail of moonlight into the heart of a forest at midnight--at once spooky and compelling. Bree Despain takes familiar myths and legends and wraps them elegantly around a haunting story of love, loss, family and forgiveness. Beautiful."
-Lesley Livingston, author of Wondrous Strange
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Thin Places: A Memoir by Mary E. DeMuth
This is a hint of what's to come in @MaryDeMuth's upcoming memoir, Thin Places, releasing in January 2010 by Zondervan.
Find out more here:
http://www.zondervan.com/Cultures/en-...
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Publisher: Zondervan (February 1, 2010)
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