Stacking the Shelves #102 Bought Borrowed and Bagged #52

Posted 26 September, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Memes, Stacking the Shelves / 38 Comments

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STS #102 – Bought Borrowed and Bagged #52

Stacking The Shelves, hosted by Tynga’s Reviews is all about the latest additions to your library – virtual or actual, with books that are  bought, borrowed, won or ARCs  you will be reading soon. Bought Borrowed and Bagged is a homage to to Barron’s Books and Baubles from Karen Marie Moning’s amazing Fever series, and is hosted by Braine over at Talk Supe.

Netgalley ARCs:

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Wicked Edge (Realm Enforcers #2) by Rebecca Zanetti

Daire Dunne is more than ready to take a quick break from his duties as a Coven Nine Enforcer. When he spots a sexy blonde across a Titan’s of Fire party, it’s not long before she’s on the back of his Harley on the fast track to his apartment. Unfortunately, one overheated kiss in, the woman drugs Daire and steals valuable files that can’t fall into enemy hands. The second he comes to, the hunt is on…

Now that Cee Cee has the information to take down an enemy that destroyed her family, she can implement her perfect plan for revenge. Nothing will stop her, not even a shockingly sexy enforcer barging into her life. Not even the spectacular, fire-branding sex engulfing them. But if Daire ever figures out who her family really is, all bets are off…

 

Paperback for class:

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

“My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be… Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure… but as my own being.”Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, who died a year after its publication, at the age of thirty. A brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that is stronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of metaphysical passion, in which heaven and hell, nature and society, are powerfully juxtaposed. Unique, mystical, with a timeless appeal, it has become a classic of English literature.

I already have a beautiful hardcover (which I read a long time ago) of Wuthering Heights, but I didn’t want to take notes in it, so I bought the paperback for my Air as a Literary Element class.

Kindle Purchases:

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Tourmaline by Randolph Stow

 

There is no stretch of land on earth more ancient than this. And so it is blunt and red and barren, littered with the fragments of broken mountains, flat, waterless.

Tourmaline, in outback Western Australia, is dying: its mines lie abandoned and drought has taken hold. When the enigmatic diviner Michael Random emerges from the desert, desperate townspeople see him as a messiah. Random begins to spread the word of God—and to promise them water, that most precious resource. Both a complex spiritual parable and an enduring apocalyptic vision, Tourmaline is Randolph Stow’s most controversial novel.

 

Tourmaline is also for my Air as a Literary Element class, it was very, very hard to find this one, finally, I was able to find the kindle edition – hopefully, my professor won’t have a problem with the format…

Kindle Freebies:

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Fever (Songbird #1) by Melissa Pearl

Singing in the shower takes on a whole new meaning in Melissa Pearl’s first New Adult Contemporary Romance.
Ella Simmons does not want to move across the country. But she is, because her boyfriend has persuaded her to join him at UChicago to finish out her college education. Never able to tell him no, she hops on a plane and makes the trek from LA expecting to adjust to life like she’s often forced to, but things are not that simple when she hears a luscious voice singing over her shower wall. His deep, sexy tenor makes her weak in the knees, spreading fire through her limbs and making her question everything about her life and relationship.
Can one voice really have that much of an impact?
Cole Reynolds is on his way out. In his final year at UChicago, the only thing he wants to do is finish school and get on with his life. But the sweet voice that interrupts his morning shower turns his world upside down. Compelled to find his shower songbird, he begins a search across campus. The only thing to distract him from this goal is his roommate’s gorgeous girlfriend who’s just arrived from LA – Ella Simmons.
Relationships are put to the ultimate test as future dreams are questioned and friendships are thrown on the line for love.

Silvia @ Darkest Sins reviewed Fever last week, and my one-click finger itched so much for this freebie I couldn’t resist!

Giveaway Wins:

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Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin – won from Braine @ Talk Supe

I am the star of screaming headlines and campfire ghost stories.
I am one of the four Black-Eyed Susans.
The lucky one.
As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving “Black-Eyed Susan,” the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. Tessa’s testimony about those tragic hours put a man on death row.
Now, almost two decades later, Tessa is an artist and single mother. In the desolate cold of February, she is shocked to discover a freshly planted patch of black-eyed susans—a summertime bloom—just outside her bedroom window. Terrified at the implications—that she sent the wrong man to prison and the real killer remains at large—Tessa turns to the lawyers working to exonerate the man awaiting execution. But the flowers alone are not proof enough, and the forensic investigation of the still-unidentified bones is progressing too slowly. An innocent life hangs in the balance. The legal team appeals to Tessa to undergo hypnosis to retrieve lost memories—and to share the drawings she produced as part of an experimental therapy shortly after her rescue.
What they don’t know is that Tessa and the scared, fragile girl she was have built a  fortress of secrets. As the clock ticks toward the execution, Tessa fears for her sanity, but even more for the safety of her teenaged daughter. Is a serial killer still roaming free, taunting Tessa with a trail of clues? She has no choice but to confront old ghosts and lingering nightmares to finally discover what really happened that night.
Shocking, intense, and utterly original, Black-Eyed Susans is a dazzling psychological thriller, seamlessly weaving past and present in a searing tale of a young woman whose harrowing memories remain in a field of flowers—as a killer makes a chilling return to his garden.

Rule cover

I won a copy of Rule (Marked Men #1) by Jay Crownover from the lovely Debbie and Ali @ Black Heart Reviews – thank you ladies!

Opposites in every way . . . except the one that matters
Shaw Landon loved Rule Archer from the moment she laid eyes on him. Rule is everything a straight-A pre-med student like Shaw shouldn’t want—and the only person she’s never tried to please. She isn’t afraid of his scary piercings and tattoos or his wild attitude. Though she knows that Rule is wrong for her, her heart just won’t listen.
To a rebel like Rule Archer, Shaw Landon is a stuck-up, perfect princess—and his dead twin brother’s girl. She lives by other people’s rules; he makes his own. He doesn’t have time for a good girl like Shaw—even if she’s the only one who can see the person he truly is.
But a short skirt, too many birthday cocktails, and spilled secrets lead to a night neither can forget. Now, Shaw and Rule have to figure out how a girl like her and a guy like him are supposed to be together without destroying their love . . . or each other.

Did you get some exciting-looking books this week? Remember to leave me your link so I can check out your Stacking the Shelves and or Bought, Borrowed and Bagged post, too 🙂 Thanks for stopping by! Have a spectacular Saturday.

Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms

About Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms

Linda is an English as foreign language teacher and has a Master's degree in English Language and Literature. She's an avid reader, blogger, compulsive one-clicker and a genre omnivore. Ever since she learnt how to read she has been seen with a book or two in her hands everywhere she goes.

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38 responses to “Stacking the Shelves #102 Bought Borrowed and Bagged #52

  1. I just one-clicked Fever too – thanks for that suggestion, it sounds good 🙂 I got a couple of great one-click freebies the past couple of weeks (I’ve listed them on my STS post on my blog).

    Also, Black-Eyed Susans sounds really good! I’ve added that to my wishlist.

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  2. I also picked up Fever a while ago. Looks too good to pass up. I’ve been trying to stay away from starting another series, but Rebecca Zanetti’s book looks really good. I’ve read Wuthering Heights ages ago and loved it. I’m afraid to re-read it and not like it. lol

    Great haul! Happy Reading!!

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  3. I wish I could read Classics, but unfortunately, they’re so hard for me to get into! Oooooo, look at that cover for Fever, and it sounds really good too! My mom is an avid reader as well, and she absolutely loved Black-Eyed Susans. She’s such a fan of psychological thrillers, and she said it was well done, so hopefully you’ll enjoy it 🙂

  4. Can you guess which books I’d like to add to my shelves?? 😉 I’m glad you picked up Fever. I really enjoyed it. And maybe we should add Crownover to our buddy-read list??? I’d love to read the series. I hope you enjoy all your reads, Lexxie. I’d be interested to know what you think of Tourmaline…I’ve never heard of it.
    *BIG HUGS*

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