It's Monday! What Are You Reading #178, November 3rd

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #177
Teaser Tuesday #185
WWW Wednesday #185
WOW #182
Will the Time Come #178
Third Sentence Thursday #168
Random Reads #153
First Lines Friday #173
The Reward Challenge Update #163
Follow Friday #156
How Well I Stuck to It #7
Wrote that Review Update #12

Week 44 Reviews:
At Any Moment
Ice Hunt
Poison Dance
Midnight Thief
Justice Buried
Lexan's Pledge
Locke
Claiming the Highlander
Born in Sin

Tours:
Balance Broken: Review
Resisting Ruby Rose: Review

Random:
Courtney Allison Moulton Author Page
We Have the Cover of A Court of Thorns and Roses #1!!!!
Cristin Terrill Author Page
Cynthia Hand Author Page
Cynthia Leitich Smith Author Page
Dan Brown Author Page
Dan Krokos Author Page
Dan Wells Author Page

We Have the Cover of The Order of Sanguines #3!!!!
We Have the Title of Sigma Force #11!!!
We Have the Title of Tucker Wayne #2!!!!

OK, so I got 30 posts in 7 days, which is a nice number, and I've made an impossible schedule to keep, and yeah, I'm insane! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Drums of Autumn, Luminosity, The Taking, After the End, Red Queen, Beware the Wild, Salvage, In A Handful of Dust, Snow Like Ashes, Spell Check, The Fall, Take Back the Skies, The Emblazoned Red, Fuse, Death Sworn, Death Marked, The Fault in Our Stars, Glow, For a Few Demons More, The Outlaw Demon Wails, Holidays Are Hell Anthology, The Scent of Shadows, Forbidden, Originally Human, Mortal Danger, Polaris, The Brokenhearted, The Invisible, Precious Blood, Passionaries, Air Bound, Stray, Wither, Anything to Have You, Exquisite Captive, Gabriel's Redemption, Viviane Divine Is Dead, My Last Kiss, Brutal Youth, Dead Time, The Paris Mysteries, After Anthology, Love is a Choice, Defy the Dark Anthology, Across the Universe, Angels & Demons, Blindsighted, Haunted, The Face of Deception, The Rules for Breaking, Second Star, Divided, Nantucket Blue, Nantucket Red, Darker Still, Afterworlds, The Things You Kiss Goodbye, 17 First Kisses, Maddie's Tattoo, Awaken, The Legacy of Eden, The Shack, Burn Out, Ask Again Later, Rites of Passage, A Questionable Client, Magic Bites, Lord of Legends, The Fear Trials, The Murder Complex, Angel Fire, Angel Fever, Sunrise, White Space, Dead Over Heels, Blood Red Road, The Final Cut, and Wild.

The magnificent saga continues....

It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past—or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend—a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in frontier America. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century. Their daughter, Brianna....

Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the stone circle and a terrifying leap into the unknown. In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she is risking her own future to try to change history...and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past...or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong...

A skeleton is rattling its way out of the closet marked “FAMILY SECRET! KEEP OUT!”

Allyson Peterson believes that being hanged by the Salem High Witches is the absolute worst thing that can happen. But when her powers, wrested from the trolls of ancient Sweden, manifest themselves, she realizes that a prank hanging by vindictive cheerleaders is the least of her worries.
Ally accidentally sends her parents to the jungle to fight anacondas, turns her brother into a mute, and curses the entire cheerleading team with an illness that has no cure, proving that her spells need a little checking. Her Swedish grandmother shows up to help her through the worst part of all—surviving the Troll Trials and saving the guy of her dreams from a vengeance that has festered through-out generations.

The power is in her, if she can just get the magic right

Madeline Usher is doomed.

She has spent her life fighting fate, and she thought she was succeeding. Until she woke up in a coffin.

Ushers die young. Ushers are cursed. Ushers can never leave their house, a house that haunts and is haunted, a house that almost seems to have a mind of its own. Madeline’s life—revealed through short bursts of memory—has hinged around her desperate plan to escape, to save herself and her brother. Her only chance lies in destroying the house.

In the end, can Madeline keep her own sanity and bring the house down? The Fall is a literary psychological thriller, reimagining Edgar Allan Poe’s classic The Fall of the House of Usher.

In the unforgiving Mesopotamian desert where Jayden’s tribe lives, betrothal celebrations abound, and tonight it is Jayden’s turn to be honored. But while this union with Horeb, the son of her tribe’s leader, will bring a life of riches and restore her family’s position within the tribe, it will come at the price of Jayden’s heart.

Then a shadowy boy from the Southern Lands appears. Handsome and mysterious, Kadesh fills Jayden’s heart with a passion she never knew possible. But with Horeb’s increasingly violent threats haunting Jayden’s every move, she knows she must find a way to escape—or die trying.

With a forbidden romance blossoming in her heart and her family’s survival on the line, Jayden must embark on a deadly journey to save the ones she loves—and find a true love for herself.

Set against the brilliant backdrop of the sprawling desert, the story of Jayden and Kadesh will leave readers absolutely breathless as they defy the odds and risk it all to be together.

The City of Lights sets the stage for romance, drama and intrigue in the latest Confessions novel from the world's bestselling mystery writer!

After investigating multiple homicides and her family's decades-old skeletons in the closet, Tandy Angel is finally reunited with her lost love in Paris. But as he grows increasingly distant, Tandy is confronted with disturbing questions about him, as well as what really happened to her long-dead sister. With no way to tell anymore who in her life she can trust, how will Tandy ever get to the bottom of the countless secrets her parents kept from her? James Patterson leads this brilliant teenage detective through Paris on a trail of lies years in the making, with shocking revelations around every corner.

If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe’s wake—whether set in the days after the change, or decades far in the future. 

New York Times bestselling authors Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Carrie Ryan, Beth Revis, and Jane Yolen are among the many popular and award-winning storytellers lending their talents to this original and spellbinding anthology. 

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Segment by Genevieve Valentine

After the Cure by Carrie Ryan

Valedictorian by N.K. Jemisin

Visiting Nelson by Katherine Langrish

All I Know of Freedom by Carol Emshwiller

The Other Elder by Beth Revis

The Great Game at the End of the World by Matthew Kressel

Reunion by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Faint Heart by Sarah Rees Brennan

Blood Drive by Jeffrey Ford

Reality Girl by Richard Bowes

Hw th’Irth Wint Wrong by Hapless Joey @ homeskool.guv by Gregory Maguire

Rust With Wings by Steven Gould

The Easthound by Nalo Hopkinson

Gray by Jane Yolen

Before by Carolyn Dunn

Fake Plastic Trees by Caitlin R. Kiernan

You Won’t Feel a Thing by Garth Nix

The Marker by Cecil Castellucci

The world is gone, destroyed by human, ecological, or supernatural causes. Survivors dodge chemical warfare and cruel gods; they travel the reaches of space and inhabit underground caverns. Their enemies are disease, corrupt corporations, and one another; their resources are few, and their courage is tested.

Powerful original dystopian tales from nine bestselling authors offer bleak insight, prophetic visions, and precious glimmers of light among the shards and ashes of a ruined world.

Defy the Dark, an all-new anthology edited by Saundra Mitchell. Coming Summer 2013 from HarperTeen!

It features 16 stories by critically-acclaimed and bestselling YA authors as they explore things that can only happen in the dark. Authors include Sarah Rees Brennan, Rachel Hawkins, Carrie Ryan, Aprilynne Pike, Malinda Lo, Courtney Summers, Beth Revis, Sarah Ockler, and more.

Contemporary, genre, these stories will explore every corner of our world- and so many others. What will be the final story that defies the dark? Who will the author be?

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization--- the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on the earth... the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.

A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear.

Sara's ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation -- a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another local woman is found crucified a few days later. But he's got more than a sadistic serial killer on his hands, for the county's sole female detective, Lena Adams -- the first victim's sister -- want to serve her own justice.

But it is Sara who holds the key to finding the killer. A secret from her past could unmask the brilliantly malevolent psychopath... or mean her death.

Love is everywhere. . .

When does a gift become a curse?

Matt Stone doesn't believe in ghosts. But there are those who are convinced his home, a historic Virginia estate that dates back to the Revolutionary War, is haunted. Pressured to get at the truth about some strange happenings at Melody House, he agrees to let Harrison Investigations explore the house. But he isn't ready for beautiful, intriguing Darcy Tremayne.

As a paranormal investigator, Darcy has learned to believe in the unbelievable. And she's given Matt fair warning: sometimes people don't like the skeletons she finds. She never dreamed that the warning would apply to herself. For she's about to discover that Melody House holds much more than a simple mystery form the distant past. What it holds is a very real and lethal danger, one that will cast her into a struggle against the worlds of both the living and the dead.

An unidentified skull...

A trail of terrifying secrets...

And a woman whose talented hands could reveal the shocking truth...

As a forensic sculptor, Eve Duncan helps identify the dead from their skulls. Her own daughter murdered and her body never found, the job is Eve's way of coming to terms with her personal nightmare. But more terror lies ahead when she accepts work from billionaire John Logan. Beneath her gifted hands a face emerges from the skull he has given her to reconstruct-- a face no one was ever meant to see. Now Eve is trapped in a frightening web of murder and deceit. Powerful enemies are determined to cover up the truth, and they will make certain that truth goes to the grave...even if Eve gets buried with it.