Teaser Tuesday: 1-5-2010

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If you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, with the wrong person, you might find yourself in the uncomfortable position of being asked to or actually doing something you absolutely don't want to do. You may not know what to say. You may not know how to stop. (p59, What Your Mother Never Told You by Richard Dudum)







What Your Mother Never Told You: A Survival Guide for Teenage Girls
Publisher/Publication Date: BookSurge Publishing, November 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4196-7869-1
264 pages

Teaser Tuesday: 12-29-2009

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Within months, he had multiple millions in a Swiss bank account and a sprawling, seaside villa in Barbados. He was lying on a lounge chair on the patio of his island fantasy, shaded by a palm tree, eagerly feeding his slide into soddeness, when it all swiftly fell apart. (The Sacred Cipher by Terry Brennan, p53)










The Sacred Cipher
Publisher/Publication Date: Kregel Publications, July 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8254-2426-7
352 pages

Teaser Tuesday 12-15-2009

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He stood beside me and looked at the solid carpet of clover that covered the lawn -- every one I could see bearing four leaves. For a long moment, we stood in silence. . . an occasional raindrop penetrating to the scalp or slipping into a collar. ( p73, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception by Maggie Stiefvater)







Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
Publisher/Publication Date: Flux, Oct 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7387-1370-0
336 pages

Teaser Tuesday: 12-8-2009

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If you ask any successful man about his idea of a perfect woman and partner, he usually answers something like: Educated, intelligent, self-confident, funny, self-sufficient, independent. Still, when men are to decide between a woman with these qualities and the one without them, very often they end up choosing the later. (p30, Tales for Delicious Girls by Barbora Knobova)







Tales for Delicious Girls
Publisher/Publication Date: BK Publishing, Sept 2009
ISBN: 978-0-578-03339-6
180 pages

Teaser Tuesday: The Cost of Dreams 12-01-2009

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He ripped off his seatbelt to discover a widening mess of her blood on his jeans legs. He shoved Flora aside as bullet number three whistled through the gapping hole just over her seat and lodged itself in the rear metal van door. (p42, The Cost of Dreams by Gary Stelzer)








The Cost of Dreams
Publisher/Publication Date: Decent Hearts Press, Oct 2009
ISBN: 978-1-936073-00-9
296 pages

Teaser Tuesday 11-24-2009

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Scott blinked in disbelief as the yellow light began to transform. "See the blue light in the center. Now where'd that come from?" (p43 Hoodoo Sea by Rolf Hitzer)








Hoodoo Sea
Publisher/Publication Date: Bluewater Press LLC, June 2009
ISBN: 978-1604520262
260 pages

Teaser Tuesday: Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life

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"The truck bringing the bodies was late and we were standing in the cold around this huge empty trench, waiting," she said. "A perfect Opportunity for reflection." (p127, Beg, Borrow, Steal by Michael Greenberg)










Beg, Borrow, Steal
Publisher/Publication Date: Other Press, Sept 2009
ISBN: 978-1-59051-341-5
232 pages

Teaser Tuesday: 11-2-2009

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He was a classic barroom-brawler type, a huge man with a fleshy nose that lay flat against his face, supposedly because he'd had the cartilage removed so he could take more punches. The beating Tex had taken in his fight with Holmes had been so severe, Howard Cosell had retired from calling boxing matches in protest that the fight wasn't stopped sooner. (p95, The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi)

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Teaser Tuesday 10-27-2009

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Of course I knew this desire of Dan's to remain invisible or untraceable on public records was a multi-layered problem that I'd eventually have to address directly. But I was also feeling protective. (Family Plots by Mary Patrick Kavanaugh, p116)










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Teaser Tuesday 10-20-2009

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The leader spat on the ground and squinted one eye as he looked at Gray, then back down the trench line before he spoke.
"He said they shoot at them every time they come down for the bodies. They have a sniper near here in a very secret position." (p103, The Evolution of Shadows)

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author of The Evolution of Shadows!

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Teaser Tuesday 10-13-2009

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He read it two more times, trying to hear what she wasn't saying. That was what his Urgrossdaddi Jonah used to say to him before he died - "If you hear what's not being said, you'll hear the heart of the matter." (The Sound of Sleigh Bells by Cindy Woodsmall, p65)

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Teaser Tuesday 10-6-2009

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She narrowed her eyes at him, willing him to remember. She could hardly think of anything else. He had to have felt the same giddy excitement. (p155, A Highlander's Temptation (ARC) by Sue-Ellen Welfonder)

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Teaser Tuesday: 9-29-2009

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His pores, though large, were somehow intriguing, especially up close like this. It made me laugh. That was my test to see if I had a bad case of lust--when even a guy's pores look sexy. (Uncorrected proof, According to Jane, p51)

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According to Jane
Publisher/Publication date: Kensington Books, Oct 2009
ISBN: 978-0-7582-3461-2
288 pages

Teaser Tuesday: 9-22-2009

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Soon there is nothing here at all but a pile of rubble and a startling, wide-open space where just moments ago a house still stood. It happened so fast that we are all momentarily stunned into silence. I try to picture what might come next, but instead what I see is the stark, inevitable truth of time; what I hear is the silence of all the moments that have ended. (p79, The Gift of an Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison - ARC)

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The Gift of an Ordinary Day
Publisher/Publication Date: Springboard Press, Sept 2009
ISBN: 978-0-446-40948-3
320 pages

Teaser Tuesday 9-15-2009

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She opened the window and tried to get a closer look. The animal's ears twitched and his eyes focused on her. He didn't seem vicious, but he was still feral. (p155, To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear)


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To Tempt the Wolf
Publisher/Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca, Sept 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4022-1904-7
416 pages

Teaser Tuesday 9-8-2009

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Any monkey-nut jokes, Millie decided, and she'd be forced to run over his foot. Plus, he'd better not mention bananas. (p137, Millie's Fling by Jill Mansell - uncorrected copy)



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Millie's Fling
Publisher/Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Sept 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4022-1834-7
512 pages

Teaser Tuesday 9-1-2009

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Gravity sucked the jet to the earth. Black, angry-looking smoke curled up from the horizon. (p19, The Pravda Messenger, uncorrected proof)



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The Pravda Messenger
Publisher/Publication Date: Howard Books, Sept 1, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4165-4984-0
272 pages

Teaser Tuesday 8-25-2009

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He moves along with an almost sprightly air, wagging his cane in greeting to some of the people he knows, stopping to embrace others who once worked with him at the Coco Grove Hotel--the people who made up what Beryl always contended was his real family, the people who saw him only in the roles of genial host or generous employer and still held him in high, uncomplicated regard.
Stevie lags behind with the leashed puppy, who insists on meeting other dogs--a shih tzu entranced by Pip's butt, a Pomeranian intent on mounting him, a neutered pug clearly threatened by that lone crypt-orchid ball of his. (A Better View of Paradise, uncorrected proof, p85)

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A Better View of Paradise
Publisher/Publication Date: Ballantine Books, July 2009
ISBN: 978-0345490360
368 pages

Teaser Tuesday: 8-4-2009

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Eve sat in the back of a police cruiser, staring at the handcuffs on her wrists, trying to stay calm and not think about the woman hanging from a rope inside the house. (p89, I Can See You by Karen Rose)





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I Can See You
Publisher/Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, Aug 5, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-446-53834-3
480 pages

Teaser Tuesday 7-28-2009

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"But that's how the Lacuna Cabal was born. That reading, from a novel that hasn't been published yet, elevated us, even in our inception, from the echelons of the everyday, Oprah-style book club, and established us as a cabal. A secret society." (The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal, p112)








The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal
Publisher/Publication Date: Other Press, April 2009
ISBN: 978-1-59051-312-5
304 pages