Teaser Tuesday (Jan 28, 2014)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

The moment we stepped inside, we were in yet another world. The sound of pinging slot machines, the smells of air-conditioning and sweat, the flashing lights above the pits: it was total sensory overload. (p92, First Love by James Patterson) 

Teaser Tuesdays (Jan 21, 2014)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Now the man's leathery face almost made her smile. Bodies on the outside wore experiences like souvenirs. (p 32, Through the Ever Night by Veronica Rossi)

Teaser Tuesday (Nov 1, 2011)

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• Grab your current read
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• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
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Something jingled -- probably jewelry -- and her long, curly gray hair hung in a loose ponytail, tied midway with a loopy piece of purple cloth.  Her feet shuffled along the wood floor, not bare today -- but wearing sandals in mid-November?  (The Christmas Shoppe, p81 by Melody Carlson)

Title: The Christmas Shoppe
Author: Melody Carlson
Publisher/Publication Date: Revell, Sept 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8007-1926-5
168 pages

Teaser Tuesday: Forbidden (Oct 4, 2011)

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Whatever this virus had done to humanity, the alchemists had found a way to undo it in him.  The chaos of emotions had come roiling back into veins and neurons too tepid to house their fire, and Saric wasn't sure if he wanted to kill the alchemists or thank them for it.  (p23, Forbidden by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee)

Forbidden (The Books of Mortals)
Publisher/Publication Date: Center Street, Sept 2011
ISBN: 978-1599953540
384 pages

Teaser Tuesday (Sept 20, 2011)

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She started to tell her mother that everything was fine, that she was worried for nothing, that Kevin was just a difficult man to understand but that he was good to them and all was well.  Except the words wouldn't come. (Darkness, My Old Friend, p123)

This is such a good book!  Not even half way through and I highly recommend it!

Darkness, My Old Friend: A Novel
Publisher/Publication Date: Crown, Aug 2011
ISBN: 978-0-307-46499-6
360 pages

Teaser Tuesday (August 23, 2011)

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• Grab your current read
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Despite all their creativity, teachers and staff were so busy taking care of moment-to-moment tasks like supervision and student discipline that they couldn't take care of chronic issues like fixing the curriculum skills class, coming up with a system to track detention time, or figuring out which teachers were floundering worse than others.  Professional development sessions were planned and pulled together in a rush at the last minute. (Stray Dogs, Saints and Saviors: Fighting for the Soul of America's Toughest High School p100)

Teaser Tuesday: Pie Town (Aug 16, 2011)

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"I think age is just a way we use to judge people.  You hear how old somebody is, and based on their answer, you decide that they must be a certain way.  If we never knew the ages of each other, maybe we wouldn't be so, I don't know, critical."  (Pie Town by Lynne Hinton, p 61)

Teaser Tuesday (May 10, 2011)

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• Grab your current read
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• Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
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Something wasn't right.  Ray was too serious, too dark.  The vibe in the car was poison, and the air felt hot and foul like something bad was oozing out of Ray's skin. (p 74, Dead of Wynter by Spencer Seidel)

Teaser Tuesday (May 3, 2011)

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• Grab your current read
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• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
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The moment he said that I felt my smile disappear. There was something I needed to tell him. I'd planned to wait until tomorrow so that tonight we could both relax and unwind.  Suddenly, though, I knew I wasn't going to be able to keep my mouth shut. (p69, The Midwife's Confession by Diane Chamberlain)

Teaser Tuesday! (April 26, 2011)

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• Grab your current read
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The girls were filthy and still in their nightgowns, but they were strong enough.  We left the small room and went quickly back along the corridor.  (p69, Katrina, The Beginning)

Teaser Tuesdays (Jan 18, 2011)

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• Grab your current read
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• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
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"That's what the nameplate on my office door says.  They make me wear the black robe and everything.  Every day I'm in court is like Halloween." (p133, Yours for the Taking by Robin Kaye - uncorrected copy)

Teaser Tuesday: 4-6-2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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But then I see Alex and Julie together, talking quietly, playing chess, and I know that if people had seen Matt with Jon or me, pre-Syl Matt, that is, they would have fallen in love with us the way Dad has with Alex and Julie.  If it had been Matt and Jon and me and we didn't have any parents, any family except each other, and people had reached out, included us in their families, it would have meant everything to us. (This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer, p117)

This World We Live In
Publisher/Publication Date: Apr 1, 2010, Harcourt Children's Books
ISBN: 978-0547248042
256 pages

Teaser Tuesday 3-23-10

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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"Before she knew it, his arms were encircling her. Donald kissed her so tenderly she could not help responding, telling herself that he meant what he said, that he loved her still, that he --" (Here Burns My Candle, by Liz Curtis Higgs, p213)










Here Burns My Candle
Publisher/Publication Date: WaterBrook Press, Mar 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7001-5
480 pages


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Teaser Tuesday: 3-16-2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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From the brown paper gift bag from Ofie, Chloe pulled out a set of black Converse sneakers Ofie had decorated using a bleach pen. One shoe had a neat series of dots and dashes, but the other was smeared beyond recognition. (p160, Waking Up in the Land of Glitter by Kathy Cano-Murillo)

Teaser Tuesday: 3-2-2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.
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Her late husband had passed away several years earlier from prostate cancer, but the joke around town -- probably started by Dot herself -- was that he died of exhaustion from trying to keep up with her all those years. She kept a photo of him on the wall of the diner, where he continued to stare down at her with sad, hound-dog eyes. (The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron, p27)






The Poacher's Son
Publisher/Publication Date: Minotaur Books, May 2010
ISBN: 978-0-312-55846-8
336 pages

Teaser Tuesday: 2-16-2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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Acting as if nothing was unusual, she turned and carried the large, hot pink package of pads to the registers, getting into the line with only one woman in it. As it turned out, the pads she'd chosen were some kind of supersized, mega-absorbent, recommended-for-elephant-use sort of product. (p52, Anything but Normal by Melody Carlson)







Anything but Normal
Publisher/Publication Date: Revell Books, Jan 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8007-3258-5
254 pages

Teaser Tuesday: 2-2-2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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Without anyone noticing I reach my hand back and rest it on the sill, enjoying the freezing air and the sensation of a hundred pinpricks of rain. I close my eyes and promise myself I'll never forget this moment: the sound of my friends' laughter and the heat from so many bodies and the smell of rain. (Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver, p67 - Advanced Reader's Edition)








Before I Fall
Publisher/Publication Date: HarperCollins, March 2010
ISBN: 978-0-06-172680-4
480 pages

Teaser Tuesday: 1-26-2010

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A cutlass was suddenly a required accessory, and one could not stroll the Retail Embankment nor row down Marleybone High Causeway without hearing the squawk of parrots chattering on the shoulders of kerchiefed beaux. Games of chance and aquatic amusements such as the sea-lion rodeo were less and less in favour, replaced by sword fights, in which the men of the Station tested their mettle--though to come into combat with actual pirates would be the furthest thing from anyone's imagining. (Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters, p217)


Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Publisher/Publication Date: Quirk Books, Sept 2009
ISBN: 978-1-59474-442-6
344 pages

Teaser Tuesday: 1-19-2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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Palm Desert is two hours away from L.A., I calculated. Kiki's right, because Frank's got no clue I could be this far east. He won't be able to track me at all! (The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Kidnapped by Yxta Maya Murray, p79)









The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Kidnapped
Publisher/Publication Date: Razorbill, Jan 7, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-59514-272-6
272 pages

Teaser Tuesday: 1-12-2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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Determined to prevent my best friend from making a rash mistake - a la Armando style - I made a quick decision to head down to Parma John's. So off I went to the land of low-fat, thin-crust pizza lover's delight -- a land where blue-ribbon barbecue chefs and nearly engaged redheads pondered the what-ifs of ill-fated romance. (p125, Fools Rush In by Janice Thompson)








Fools Rush In
Publisher/Publication Date: Revell, Sept 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8007-3342-1
336 pages