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Wed, May 23, 2012

Waiting on Wednesday – Foretold and More

“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine to shine a spotlight on upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction
By Richelle Mead, Simone Elkeles, Meg Cabot, Heather Brewer, Saundra Mitchell, Diana Peterfreund, Laini Taylor, Margaret Stohl, Matt de la Pena, Kami Garcia, Malinda Lo, Lisa McMann and Michael Grant (edited by Carrie Ryan)
304 pages
Random House Children’s Books, to be released Aug. 28, 2012

Have you ever been tempted to look into the future? To challenge predictions? To question fate?

It’s human nature to wonder about life’s twists and turns. But is the future already written—or do you have the power to alter it?

From fantastical prophecies to predictions of how the future will transpire, Foretold is a collection of stories about our universal fascination with life’s unknowns and of what is yet to come as interpreted by 14 of young adult fiction’s brightest stars.

— Goodreads.com description

Um, whoa. I’m pretty sure the author list speaks for itself.

The Almost Truth
By Eileen Cook
272 pages
Simon Pulse, to be released Dec. 4, 2012

When a teenaged con artist realizes that she looks like an age-enhanced photo of a missing child, she decides to pull the ultimate con–until she begins to suspect she may actually be the missing child.

— Goodreads.com description

This sounds like the very definitely of “An Anna Book.” I need this book!

What’s Left of Me
By Kat Zhang
336 pages
Harper, to be released Sept. 18, 2012

NEVER LET ME GO meets HIS DARK MATERIALS in a beautiful, haunting YA debut, the first book in The Hybrid Chronicles.

Eva and Addie live in a world where everyone is born with two souls, but where only the dominant one is allowed to survive childhood. Fifteen years old, and closer even than twins, the girls are keeping Eva, the ‘second soul’, a secret. They know that it’s forbidden to be hybrid, but how could they ever be apart?

When a dramatic event reveals what really happens to hybrids if they are discovered, Eva and Addie face a dangerous fight for survival, neither wanting to be the one left behind…

— Goodreads.com description

I’m dying to read this one. I think it’s gonna be HUGE.