New Releases Aug. 1-5 & Reader's Choice Contest

Holy sagging bookshelves, Batman! I thought the publishing industry was in crisis. I thought no print books were being released anymore. I thought summer was a down time in publishing. Ha! Strap on your steel-toed boots and get ready to crash through a huge, honkin' pile of new releases this week. Forty-six, because I counted them. As always, a Reader's Choice giveaway. What do YOU want to read?

Across the Great Barrier, by Patricia C. Wrede(Aug. 1, Scholastic)Eff is an unlucky 13th...