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Source: A Great Book Is The Cheapest Vacation
Title: Marked by the Moon (Night Creature #9)
Author: Lori Handeland
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Artist:  N/A
Author Comments: N/A
My Thoughts:
Very pretty.  I love the color scheme and the aurora borealis background.

Book Description:

Julian Barlow was once a Viking. Then he watched his brother fall in battle, shouted his fury to the heavens and changed. He became the berserker of legend, a warrior who, in the heat of combat, transforms into a wolf.

Centuries later, he's settled into his own Alaskan village full of werewolves; he has a wife he adores. Until Alexandra Trevalyn, werewolf hunter, kills her. Dying is too easy for the woman who murdered his wife, so Julian devises a better way for Alex to suffer.
He'll make her just like him.

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Title: Tempestuous (Wondrous Strange #3)
Author: Lesley Livingston
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Artist:  N/A
Author Comments:
“After months of having to sit tight on this, I can finally, officially announce the (real) name -- and, more importantly, show off the GLORIOUS cover art -- of that which has hitherto been referred to only as Book the Third! To say I am over the moon for this cover would be woefully, shamefully, massively inadequate. Please excuse me while I gaze, slackjawed. Feel free to do the same! :-)”
My Thoughts:
I love that they’ve used the same model for all three books.  Beautiful.

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Source: The Road to Publication
Title: Desires of The Dead (The Body Finder #2)
Author: Kimberly Derting
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Artist:  N/A
Author Comments:
“It’s pretty and it’s pink, and I LOVE IT! I was wondering if (and hoping!) they were going to keep the flower theme, and they totally did. I want to kiss my cover designer on the lips...full on!”
My Thoughts:
I appreciate that it isn’t a really girly flower.  It’s understated and will look beautiful on my shelf next to THE BODY FINDER :)

Book Description:

Copy from the ARC:
When Violet Ambrose's morbid ability to sense the echoes of those who've been murdered leads her to the body of a young boy, she draws the attention of the FBI. She is reluctantly pulled into an investigation that will endanger more than just her secret...but her relationship and possibly her life as well.

Teaser:
Violet slipped inside without notice. She was too preoccupied to care if anyone spotted her. The gentle sound of the harps grew stronger, until the vibrations were nearly painful and Violet found herself gritting her teeth. It was compelling, this echo . . . this death. And Violet was so close.

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Source: Ellz Readz
Title: Teeth
Author: Anthology (Genevieve Valentine • Steve Berman • Christopher Barzak • Neil Gaiman • Delia Sherman • Garth Nix • Suzy McKee Charnas • Kaaron Warren • Cecil Castellucci • Jeffrey Ford • Nathan Ballingrud • KatheKoja • Catherynne M. Valente • Melissa Marr • Ellen Kushner • Cassandra Clare • Holly Black • Lucius Shepard • Emma Bull • Tanith Lee)
Release Date: April 2011
Artist:  N/A
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My Thoughts:
I would have expected some actual dental shots on the cover of a book called TEETH, but the author list alone has me wanting this one.

Book Description:

A feast for vampire-loving readers—nineteen tantalizing tales from some of today’s favorite authors, including Neil Gaiman, Melissa Marr, Cassandra Clare, and Holly Black!

Sink your teeth into these bite-sized tales exploring the intersections among the living, dead, and undead. The vampires in these stories range from romantic to chilling to gleeful—and touch on nearly every emotion in between. The one thing they have in common? Their desire for blood..

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Source: Ellz Readz
Title: Bad Taste In Boys
Author: Carrie Harris
Release Date: 2011
Artist:  N/A
Author Comments: 
“This is so awesome that not even Richard Simmons could make it awesomer. I LOVE MY COVER DESIGNER SO MUCH THAT I WOULD KISS HER IF IT WASN'T BOTH WEIRD AND PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. (It's physically impossible because she is in New York, and I am in Michigan, and my lips are not that big.)…Isn't it spookysexyawesome? I WANT TO LICK THIS COVER.”
My Thoughts:
I like the one bold image.  It kind of reminds me of a Melissa Marr cover.

Book Description:

Someone’s been a very bad zombie.

Super-smartie Kate Grable gets to play doctor, helping out her high school football team. Not only will the experience look good on her college apps, she gets to be thisclose to her quarterback crush, Aaron. Then something disturbing happens. Kate finds out that the coach has given the team steroids. Except . . . the vials she finds don’t exactly contain steroids. Whatever’s in them is turning hot gridiron hunks into mindless, flesh-eating . . . zombies.

Unless she finds an antidote, no one is safe. Not Aaron, not Kate’s brother, not her best friend . . . not even Kate . . .

It’s scary. It’s twisted. It’s sick. It’s high school.

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Source: Manda's Movements
Title: The Gathering (Darkness Rising #1)
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Artist:  N/A
Author Comments: N/A
My Thoughts:
Love the blue tint.  Doesn’t she kind of look like Mercy Thompson?

Book Description:

Maya lives in a small medical-research town on Vancouver Island. How small? You can’t find it on the map. It has less than two-hundred people, and her school has only sixty-eight students—for every grade from kindergarten to twelve.

Now, strange things are happening in this claustrophobic town, and Maya's determined to get to the bottom of them. First, the captain of the swim team drowns mysteriously in the middle of a calm lake. A year later, mountain lions start appearing around Maya's home, and they won’t go away. Her best friend, Daniel, starts getting negative vibes from certain people and things. It doesn't help that the new bad boy in town, Rafe, has a dangerous secret—and he's interested in one special part of Maya's anatomy: Her paw-print birthmark.

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Source: Manda's Movements
Title: Plague (Gone #4)
Author: Michael Grant
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Artist:  N/A
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My Thoughts:
I’m not a fan of any of these covers.  They don’t really stand out at all.

 

Book Description:

After eight months after everyone over the age of fourteen disaapeared from the town of Perdidio Beach, California, the stakes are still rising. The kids in Perdido Beach are still starving. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach.

But enemies in the FAYZ don’t just fade away, and in the quiet, deadly things are stirring, mutating, and finding their way free. The Darkness has found its way into the mind of its Nemesis at last and is controlling it through a haze of delirium and confusion. A highly contagious, fatal illness spreads at an alarming rate as sinister, predatory insects terrorize Perdido Beach. And Sam, Astrid, Diana, and Caine are plagued by a growing doubt that they’ll escape—or even survive—life in the FAYZ. With so much turmoil surrounding them, what desperate choices will they make when it comes to saving themselves and those they love?

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Source: Tez Says
Title: Mercy Blade (Jane Yellowrock #3)
Author: Faith Hunter
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Artist:  N/A
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My Thoughts:
The first two covers in this series are very similar.  I like that this one stands out.

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Source: Tynga's reviews
Title: Darkest Mercy (Wicked Lovely #5)
Author: Melissa Marr
Release Date: February 22, 2010
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My Thoughts:
I was so not a fan of the previous cover, but this one is stunning. Maybe even my favorite yet.

Book Description:

The Summer King is missing; the Dark Court is bleeding; and a stranger walks the streets of Huntsdale, his presence signifying the deaths of powerful fey.

Aislinn tends the Summer Court, searching for her absent king and yearning for Seth. Torn between his new queen and his old love, Keenan works from afar to strengthen his court against the coming war. Donia longs for fiery passion even as she coolly readies the Winter Court for battle. And Seth, sworn brother of the Dark King and heir to the High Queen, is about to make a mistake that could cost his life.

Love, despair, and betrayal ignite the faery courts, and in the final conflict, some will win…and some will lose everything.
The exhilarating conclusion to Melissa Marr’s New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series will leave readers breathless.

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Source: Dark Faerie Tales
Title: Afterlife (Evernight #4)
Author: Claudia Gray
Release Date: March 1, 2011
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My Thoughts:
These covers are all about the font for me, but her eyes have a cool doll quality to them.

Book Description:

The fourth book in this electrifying vampire series has all the romance, suspense, and page-turning drama that have made Claudia Gray’s Evernight books runaway successes.

Having become what they feared most, Bianca and Lucas face a terrifying new reality. They must return to Evernight Academy, Lucas as a vampire and Bianca as a wraith. But Lucas is haunted by demons, both personal and supernatural. Bianca must help him fight the evil inside him, combat the forces determined to drive them apart—and find the power to claim her destiny at last.

Readers have fallen in love with Bianca and Lucas, and they will be thrilled to read this exciting conclusion to their romantic adventure.

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