FFBC: Welcome to the club, Unforgivable (Invincible #2) by Amy Reed

Unforgivable (Invincible #2)
by Amy Reed
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Release Date: May 3rd 2016

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary

Synopsis:

In this raw, gut-wrenching, and beautifully written sequel to Invincible, Marcus continues Evie’s story of their intense romance, a la Gayle Forman’s Where She Went, after saving her life only to find his life—and their relationship—falling to pieces.

Marcus knows pain. The kind that swallows you like a black hole. His brother committed suicide, his mother left him, and his dad mostly ignores him. Relief only seems to come from drugs, alcohol, and secret acts of self-destruction.

Until he met Evie. Together, they lived in the moment. They fell in love—hard—creating their own beautiful world. But they each had their own secrets, their own pain, hovering like a thick fog, suffocating them in a world too small to share.

Unforgivable takes off where Invincible left us—with Evie drowning in San Francisco Bay. Marcus finds her just in time, but her survival is not the happy ending he was hoping for. Forbidden from seeing Evie by her parents and unable to reach her, Marcus learns of a pain that might break him completely. 

Marcus spirals into an even deeper darkness and is forced by new events to face the demons of his past. The pain of losing Evie becomes tangled with the loss of his mother and brother, and he must finally face the ghosts he has been trying so desperately to outrun or risk losing Evie forever.

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Amy Reed was born and raised in and around Seattle, where she attended a total of eight schools by the time she was eighteen. Constant moving taught her to be restless and being an only child made her imagination do funny things. After a brief stint at Reed College (no relation), she moved to San Francisco and spent the next several years serving coffee and getting into trouble. She eventually graduated from film school, promptly decided she wanted nothing to do with filmmaking, returned to her original and impractical love of writing, and earned her MFA from New College of California. Her short work has been published in journals such as Kitchen Sink, Contrary, and Fiction. Amy currently lives in Oakland with her husband and two cats, and has accepted that Northern California has replaced the Pacific Northwest as her home. She is no longer restless. Find out more at amyreedfiction.com.

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FFBC Tours: Welcome to the club, Dig Too Deep by Amy Allgeyer

Dig Too Deep
by Amy Allgeyer
Publisher: Albert Whitman
Release Date: April 1st 2016

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary

Synopsis:

With her mother facing prison time for a violent political protest, seventeen-year-old Liberty Briscoe has no choice but to leave her Washington, DC, apartment and take a bus to Ebbottsville, Kentucky, to live with her granny. There she can finish high school and put some distance between herself and her mother-- her 'former' mother, as she calls her. But Ebbottsville isn't the same as Liberty remembers, and it's not just because the top of Tanner's Peak has been blown away to mine for coal. Half the county is out of work, an awful lot of people in town seem to be sick, and the tap water is bright orange--the same water that officials claim is safe to drink. When Granny's lingering cold turns out to be something much worse, Liberty is convinced the mine is to blame, and starts an investigation that quickly plunges her into a world of secrets, lies, threats, and danger. Liberty isn't deterred by any of it, but as all her searches turn into dead ends, she comes to a difficult decision: turn to violence like her former mother or give up her quest for good.

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The youngest of seven kids, Amy has been writing stories since she first learned to make her letters face the right way. Her work has appeared in Family Fun, A Fly in Amber and Stories for Children. As an architect, she spends her days restoring hundred-year-old homes in Boise where she lives with her son, a feral house cat, and a fake owl named Alan. She hates chocolate, but loves vegetables. She also loves travelling to foreign lands and the smell of honeysuckle on humid Southern nights. 

Amy is represented by the lovely and amazing Danielle Chiotti of Upstart Crow Literary.

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FFBC: Welcome to the club, A Matter of Heart by Amy Fellner Dominy

A Matter of Heart
by Amy Fellner Dominy
Publisher: Delacorte
Release Date: May 2015
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Sports

Synopsis:

Readers will happily sink into this emotionally grounded, contemporary young adult novel about the sudden end of one girl's Olympic swimming dreams and the struggles she endures before realizing there are many things that define who we are.

Sixteen-year-old Abby Lipman is on track to win the state swim championships and qualify for the Olympic trials when a fainting incident at a swim meet leads to the diagnosis of a deadly heart condition. Now Abby is forced to discover who she is without the one thing that's defined her entire life.

It’s a toss up between Lord of the Rings, Pride & Prejudice, and Watership Down.

The Walking Dead

The Princess Bride 

This week it’s Take Your Time by Sam Hunt

Does red wine count? :) Salt and vinegar chips are high on the list along with fresh-baked rosemary bread with butter. Yum. 

1. The world of Westeros in Game of Thrones. Though I don’t like the cold, I’d head for The Wall. Jon Snow needs me. 

2. The world of Graceling because I want to be graced with a secret talent. 

3. Middle earth, because I’ve already spent so much time there in my imagination. 

Jamie Fraser from Outlander. 

“If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.” Thomas J. Watson 

Waving hello to all the Book Addicts. Glad to be here among others who love books as much as I do. Thanks for letting me share your day! :)

A MATTER OF HEART is the story of Abby Lipman, a sixteen-year-old swimmer who is three weeks away from competing in the Olympic trials when she discovers she has a heart condition. If she swims, she could die. 

Abby’s greatest strength is her determination. She’s willing to do whatever it takes to be the best swimmer in the world. 

That focus is also Abby’s greatest weakness. By only seeing one thing she risks losing everything else—including her life. 

This is such a tough question, but here goes: Breathless, Heartbreaking, Hopeful, Romantic, Compelling.

When my kids were teenagers, I got an email from their high school about a heart test for student athletes. I learned that a former football player from their high school, Anthony Bates, had died from a heart disease that often goes undiagnosed. My kids were both athletes so I brought them to the school to be tested. That was the day I met Sharon Bates, Anthony’s mom. I was so struck by her story and by the foundation she’d created to bring heart tests to schools, that I knew I had to write about it. That’s how Abby, and this story, came to life. And that’s why I’m donating a portion of sales to The Anthony Bates Foundation. 

Uh oh. I’m going to have to admit to one of my crazy writing quirks here: I have a fear of reading my books once they come out. I mean, what if I find an error? A typo? A passage I think I could have made better? A new idea, a missed detail…. you get the idea. All of which means I can’t give you a favorite quote. But maybe you can answer this one for me, and email me with any favorite quotes. Then I’ll know how to answer this question in the future! :)

There’s a scene in the book where Abby is running through the desert and Alec comes after her. There was something magical and romantic and revealing about that scene for me. I felt like I escaped into the night with them. 

The song that comes to mind is Firework by Katy Perry. And really, it’s the determination of the chorus that feels like Abby to me. The feeling of showing them what you’ve got, of making them watch, and acknowledge that you are something. That you’re a firework ready to shoot across the sky. That’s how Abby wants to go out, I think, live or die.

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Amy Fellner Dominy worked as a copywriter in the advertising business before leaving to earn her MFA in playwriting. Her plays for adults and children have been staged in various cities around the country. Amy's novels for teens include OyMG (Walker, 2011) and AUDITION & SUBTRACTION (Walker, 2012.) Amy's next book is a contemporary YA coming Spring, 2015 from Random House. It's called A MATTER OF HEART.

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