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December 1, 2016
Get Started on the Thunderstone Sequel! Read Chapter One Now
As many of you know, Legacy in Legend Book Two has been delayed by circumstances beyond my control, but I sympathize with those of you who are dying to know what happens to Jeni and Ice next. Waiting for a sequel is agonizing!
Even though the manuscript is still at the publisher undergoing the editing process, I decided I could at least get the first chapter out there and give readers a taste of what’s to come.
So, without further ado, the chapter is now available on my Freebies page.
If you’re already on my email list, just type your email in the box at the bottom of the page. If you’re not on my list, use the “Register Now” box at the bottom of the page and you’ll get instant access to not only the chapter, but a bunch of other free stuff!
Enjoy! More to come soon…
November 21, 2016
Places No One Knows – New in the Library Teen Room
Waverly Camdenmar is perfect.
She is straight As, most likely to take over the world. She has the best cross-country times, the most popular friends. And she hasn’t slept in days.
She spends her nights running until she can’t even think. Then the sun comes up, life goes on, and Waverly goes back to her perfectly hateful best friend, her perfectly dull classes, and the tiny, nagging suspicion that there’s more to life than student council and GPAs.
Marshall Holt is a loser. He drinks on school nights and gets stoned in the park. He is at risk of not graduating, he is does not care, he is no one.
He is not even close to being in Waverly’s world.
Until one night she falls asleep and dreams herself into his bedroom – and when the sun comes up, nothing in her life can ever be the same.
In Waverly’s dreams, the rules have changed. But in her days, she’ll have to decide if it’s worth losing everything for a boy who barely exists, in a place no one knows.
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November 15, 2016
Keep Her – New in the Library Teen Room
When a water main bursts in rain-starved Los Angeles, seventeen-year-old adoptee Maddie and filmmaker Aiden’s worlds collide in a whirlpool of love, loss, and fate. Maddie is an artist who creates collages from photographs and castoff scraps she saves. But she’s also a numbers person, and destiny has never fit into her rational world, where scientific probability has always proven to be the only thing she can count on. Aiden is haunted by the death of his younger brother, and by the life-changing decision he must now make – whether or not to keep his baby daughter. Together, Maddie and Aiden find that art and numbers, a mission to save endangered whales, and a worn-out copy of Moby Dick all add up to the mystery of meant-to-be. Inspired by the true story of a Greenpeace mission to save whales in the Southern Ocean.
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November 7, 2016
The Wicked Will Rise – New in the Library Teen Room
MY NAME IS AMY GUMM – AND I’M THE OTHER GIRL FROM KANSAS.
After a tornado swept through my trailer park, I ended up in Oz.
But it wasn’t like the Oz I knew from books and movies. Dorothy had returned, and she was stealing magic from the land. The Wizard was back. Glinda could no longer be called the Good Witch.
And the Wicked Witches who were left?
They’d joined forces as the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked, and they wanted to recruit me.
MY MISSION? KILL DOROTHY.
And when a group of former – possibly still – Wicked Witches tells you to do something, it’s kind of hard to say no. Except my job as assassin didn’t work out as planned. Dorothy is still alive. The Order has vanished. And the home I couldn’t wait to leave behind might be in danger.
Somehow, across a twisted and divided land, I have to find Nox and the rest of the order, protect the true ruler of Oz, take Dorothy and her henchmen down – and try to figure out what I’m really doing here. But in a place where the line between good and evil shifts with a strong gust of wind, who am I supposed to trust?
AND WHO IS ACTUALLY WICKED?
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November 2, 2016
Exclusive Content!
I’ve added a special Halloween Treat to my Freebies page!
In Heart of Ice, for Saturday breakfast, Ice’s mom makes her special light and crispy waffles using whipped egg whites. Lucky for me, I have her recipe. I thought it would make a nice virtual treat.
Up Next:
My publisher has given me permission to release Chapter One from the upcoming Thunderstone Sequel (Legacy in Legend Book Two) to my email crew!
October 30, 2016
Julia Vanishes – New in the Library Teen Room
The first line of this story summary drew me in instantly…
Julia has the unusual ability to be UNSEEN. Not invisible, exactly. Just beyond most people’s senses. It’s a dangerous trait in a city that has banned all forms of magic and drowns witches in public Cleansings. But it’s a useful trait for a thief and a spy. And Julia has learned crime pays.
Her latest job is paying very well indeed. Julia is posing as a housemaid at the grand house of Mrs. Och, where an odd assortment of characters live and work: A disgraced professor who keeps forbidden books and sends her to fetch parcels containing bullets, spiders, and poison. An aristocratic houseguest who is locked in the basement each night. And a mysterious young woman with an infant son who is clearly hiding – though from what or whom?
Worse, Julia has a creeping suspicion that there’s a connection between these people and the killer leaving a trail of bodies across the frozen city.
The more she learns, the more she wants to be done with this unnatural job. To go back the safety of her friends and fellow thieves. But Julia is entangled in a struggle between forces more powerful than she’d ever imagined. Escape will come at a terrible price.
And even a girl who can vanish can’t walk away from her own worst deeds.
Sounds cool, doesn’t it? Definitely on my TBR list!
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October 24, 2016
One Was Lost – New in the Teen Room
SOMEONE WAS HERE. WE WERE SLEEPING, AND THEY WERE IN OUR TENT.
Oh God. My heart trips itself and then races.
“What the hell happened to us?” Lucas asks.
“They did it to you too,”Emily says. We all turn to her. “Your word is different.”
“What -” He never finishes. Because when he turns his left wrist up, we all see the letters like an ornate tattoo: DECEPTIVE.
Emily lifts her wrist: DAMAGED.
Lucas checks his and snorts. “Of course.” DANGEROUS.
My turn. I swallow against the lump in my throat and it goes down hard, bruises my insides. My word is DARLING.
While on a mandatory senior field trip, a flash flood cuts off Sera and three classmates from their group with no way to call for help. But they’re not as alone as they thought…
Someone is stalking them through the woods-drugging them, stealing their supplies, and writing on their skin. Is it a judgment? A warning? As their hunter grows bolder, these clues may be Sera’s only key to survival.
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October 18, 2016
Wake the Hollow – New in the library Teen Room this week
Tragedy has brought Micaela Burgos back to her hometown of Sleepy Hollow. It’s been six years since she chose to live with her father in Miami instead of her eccentric mother. And now her mother is dead.
Sleepy Hollow may be famous for its fabled headless horseman, but the town is real. So are its prejudices and hatred, targeting Mica’s family as outsiders. But eerie voices carry on the wind, whispering that her mother’s death was based on hate…not an accident at all. With the help of two very different guys – who pull at her heart in very different ways – Micaela must awaken the hidden secret of Sleepy Hollow…before she meets her mother’s fate.
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July 12, 2016
It’s Summer!
For those of you who aren’t part of my email crew, here are my summertime thoughts…
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For me, the smell of flowers and freshly mown grass wafting through open windows always triggers nostalgic feelings of being a kid looking forward to outdoor fun and freedom from school…
Among my fondest summertime memories from childhood are family picnics at Eagle Point Park. Located in Dubuque, Iowa, the park is built high on a bluff above the Mississippi River with magnificent views of Wisconsin and Illinois across the surging waters. At the base of the steep overlook is Lock and Dam #11, where, if you’re lucky, you can watch the spectacle of a boat or barge being raised or lowered to continue its journey on the river.
Photo courtesy of SD Dirk
As a kid though, the prime attraction at the park was definitely the spray pool – a wading pool with a fountain jetting upward in the center. My siblings, cousins, and I would run around in the shallow depths under the rain of cold water while we played tag or simply tried to find each other among the hoard of kids.
Once we were cooled off, our second favorite spot was “the cave.” Part of the beauty of the park is the way the stone and wood pavilions are built into the hilly landscape.
Near one building, a stone stairway leads down into an arched passage that to a kid’s eyes, is a cave. Because there were ledges inside the tunnel that we could crawl on, we liked to pretend we were lions protecting our den. I also recall staging superhero and cops and robbers scenarios there.
You’ll understand then, why I couldn’t resist having a scene in the Thunderstone sequel happen at Eagle Point Park. A family picnic at the end of the river cruise seemed like a fitting wrap-up to Jeni, Ice and Tyler’s latest adventure on the Mississippi River.
Next month I’m attending a family wedding that takes place in the park. My cousin is getting married in the same pavilion where her parents were married. The anticipation of being at Eagle Point Park with my extended family is stirring up some of that same summertime excitement that I had as a kid and I’m greatly looking forward to the trip.
I hope you, too, experience some childlike joy during your summer!
Happy Reading,
Barb
Watch for pictures of Eagle Point Park on my Facebook page and Instagram.
April 20, 2016
Get in on the Soulshifter Giveaway on Goodreads
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Soulshifter
by Barbara Pietron
Giveaway ends April 27, 2016.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
