What Grows In Heavy Rain By: Lisa Martens

What Grows In Heavy Rain
Author: Lisa Martens
Publisher: Tablo Publishing
Published: May 2015
Format: E-Book
Pages: 177
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
Two Americans, two Costa Ricans and two Nicaraguans struggle though the rainy season in a small gated community in La Garita, Costa Rica. Through the rain and budding fruit, they battle through terminal illness, poverty, boredom, ex-husbands, theft, and sexual assault. The Costa Rican air has a way of turning even the most logical mind wild with passion.

Author Interview With Courtney Psak

Courtney Psak

Author of Thirty Days to Thirty

Thirty Days to Thirty By: Courtney Psak

Thirty Days to Thirty
Author: Courtney Psak
Publisher: CAMP Publishing
Published: September 2015
Format: E-Book
Pages: 255
Rating: 5/5
Summary:
What if you were on the cusp of marrying the guy of your dreams and reaching that career goal you set for yourself, only for all of it to be taken away in one fell swoop?

what if this all happened a month before you turned 30? This is the story of Jill Stevens, who after moving back home, finds a list she made in high school of thirty things she wanted to accomplish before her thirtieth birthday.

With a month left and hardly anything crossed off her list, she teams up with old friends to accomplish as much as she can before her big 3-0. Along the way, she discovers her true self and realizes it's not about the material successes in life but the journey.

How To Be Bad By: E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Myracle

How to Be Bad
Author: E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Myracle
Publisher: Harper Teen
Published: April 2015 (first published May 2008)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Rating: 3.5/5
Summary:
Jesse, Vicks, and Mel each has her own reason for wanting to get away from their nowheresville Florida town. Add in a hot (and harmless) hitchhiker, and impending hurricane, and a close encounter of he gator kind, and the result is one sizzling road trip where the journey is far more important than the destination. Now in a fresh new package, How to Be Bad will take even more readers along for the ride.

Dumplin' By: Julie Murphy

Dumplin'
Author: Julie Murphy
Publisher: Balzer & Bray
Published: September 2015
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Rating: 5/5
Summary:
Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed "Dumplin'" by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked...until Will takes a job at Harpy's, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn't surprised to find herself attracted to Bo. But she is surprised when he seems to like her back.

Instead of finding new heights of self-assurance in her relationship with Bo, Will starts to doubt herself. So she sets out to take back her confidence by doing the most horrifying thing she can imagine: entering the Miss Clover City beauty pageant-along with several other unlikely candidates-to show the world that she deserves to be up there as much as any twiggy girl does. Along the way, she'll shock the hell out of Clover City-and maybe herself most of all.

With starry Texas nights, red candy suckers, Dolly Parton songs, and a wildly unforgettable heroine--Dumplin' is guaranteed to steal your heart.

Book Haul!!

Pretty sure I said that I would be only buying a few books for the month of September, since I'm back at school...Oh Well! I do have some purchases of books that I had to buy for school (more for one class that I'm taking--English Lit) so if you want me to do a Book haul for those, let me know in the comments below! So other than my normal bore of nonsense, we're just going to get right into the haul I have for you today!

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