In My Mailbox
(on Tuesday! Ahh It just keeps getting worse!)
Okay, so the In My Mailbox Meme was started by The Story Siren, and inspired by Alea at Pop Culture Junkie :]
This week was a good week for me, which is surprising, because I had gotten into the no package thing and catching up on everything and then Boom. I get books. I'm not going to complain, but I was a but taken a back haha.
Alright so this week I got...
Donut Days
by: Lara Zielin

Emma has a lot going on. Her best friend’s not speaking to her, a boy she’s known all her life is suddenly smokin’ hot and in love with her, and oh yes, her evangelical minister parents may lose their church, especially if her mother keeps giving sermons saying Adam was a hermaphrodite.
But this weekend Emma’s only focused on Crispy Dream, a hot new donut franchise opening in town, where Harley bikers and Frodo wannabes camp out waiting to be the first ones served. Writing the best feature story on the camp for the local paper might just win Emma a scholarship to attend a non- Christian college. But soon enough Emma finds the donut camp isn’t quite the perfect escape from all her troubles at Living Word Redeemer.
In a fresh, funny voice, newcomer Lara Zielin offers up a mesmerizing, fast-paced narrative full of wit and insight.
*This one I'm very excited about, because not only does it deal with teenage life, but it also delves into a church thing which is pretty much where I am 50% of the time. But it seems like this may go into the problems with the church as a whole...which I can relate to for sure
The Bought:
The Summer I Turned Pretty
By: Jenny Han

Some summers are just destined to be pretty
Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer -- they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.
*Ahhh! I love this cover, and this book. I am 10 pages from being done and OMG. haha It's one of the greatest. Expect a review really soon.
The Boys Next Door
by: Jennifer Echols

Cute, available, and one cabin over
Lori lives for summertime on the lake. She spends all season wakeboarding, swimming, and hanging with her friends -- including the two hotties in the house next door. With the Vader brothers, Lori's always been one of the guys.
But while Lori and the "baby" brother, Adam, are inseparable friends, she can't deny a secret crush on Sean, the older Vader boy. This year Sean's been paying Lori a lot of attention, and not in a brotherly way.
But just as Lori decides to prove to Sean she's girlfriend material, she realizes that her role as girl friend to Adam may be even more important. And by trying so hard for the perfect summer romance, she could be going way overboard....
*It took me FOREVER to find this one. I was looking everywhere because I love Jennifer Echols and I really wanted to read this, and so I looked...and I looked...and I looked and then I'm talking to my friend on the phone complaining about how I can't find this, and I look up, and it's right in front of my face. :] haha shows how much I pay attention.
From contests! :D
Always Watching
by: Brandilyn Collins and Amberly Collins

This daughter of a rock star has it all—until murder crashes her world.The exciting and suspenseful Rayne Tour series features sixteen-year-old Shaley O’Connor, on tour with her mother’s popular band. Shaley lives in a whirlwind of backstage secrets, hotels, and limos. With beauty and fame of her own, Shaley wants for nothing … except the one thing she can’t have. During a concert, sixteen-year-old Shaley O’Connor stumbles upon the body of a friend backstage. Is Tom Hutchens’ death connected to her?Frightening messages arrive. Paparazzi stalk Shaley. Her private nightmare is displayed for all to see. Where is God at a time like this? As the clock runs out, Shaley must find Tom’s killer—before he strikes again.
Rooftops of Tehran
by: Mahbod Seraji

In this poignant, eye-opening and emotionally vivid novel, Mahbod Seraji lays bare the beauty and brutality of the centuries-old Persian culture, while reaffirming the human experiences we all share.In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran’s sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari’s stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah’s secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice…
*Okay. So guys I'm sorry I've been missing in action all week, I was at my mom's and the internet as always, wasnt that great. I'm sorry! I'm going to hopefully have it all week this week, but it may be kind of sporadic until school is finished. :]