Hello, my lovely Muses!
There are quite a few hot releases this week, starting with the highly anticipated
Forever Too Far, book 3 in the
Too Far series by Abbi Glines! A new genre bending novel that has caught my attention is
Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh. Can't wait to get my hands on that one!
In movies
Oz: The Great and Powerful finally arrives on all formats, including 3D. The Rock aka Dwayne Johnson's drama
SNITCH also is out this week, which is based on a true story. And let's not forget that it is tv series release season, so make sure to check out below for all the shows coming out before new seasons start back up!
Enjoy!
BOOKS (11 JUNE 2013)
ADULT
Defiance (Defiance, #1)
by: Stephanie Tyler
Rebelling against her
legacy as the MC's princess, Tru Tennyson escaped the ruthless,
male-dominated culture of the Defiance motorcycle club. Three years
later, her newfound freedom is ripped away, thanks to a massive hybrid
storm that killed millions. Now, in the post-Chaos world of
semi-darkness and near-total anarchy where gangs rule, she discovers the
dangerous world of Defiance may be the one thing that can keep her
safe.
Tru is at the MC's mercy when she's dragged back to her
former home … and to the only man she's ever pictured a future with.
Caspar is the bastard son of the club's leader, her safe haven when life
got rough — and her onetime lover the night she left. When Tru refuses
to trade sex for power and be claimed by a rival club leader, she also
dares to announce she wants Caspar instead, throwing the MC into
turmoil.
Tru's brazen revolt could start a gang war and destroy
the club from within. Now both Tru and the MC must wait for Caspar's
response … and the inevitable fallout.
Release Date: 10 June 2013
Ecko Rising (Ecko Rising, #1)
by: Danie Ware
In a futuristic London where technological body modification is the
norm, Ecko stands alone as a testament to the extreme capabilities of
his society. Driven half mad by the systems running his body, Ecko is a
criminal for hire. No job is too dangerous or insane.
When a
mission goes wrong and Ecko finds himself catapulted across dimensions
into a peaceful and unadvanced society living in fear of 'magic', he
must confront his own percepions of reality and his place within it.
A
thrilling debut, Ecko Rising explores the massive range of the sci-fi
and fantasy genres, and the possible implications of pitting them
against one another. Author Danie Ware creates an immersive and richly
imagined world that readers will be eager to explore in the first book
in this exciting new trilogy.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Forever Too Far (Too Far, #3)
by: Abbi Glines
Rush promised her forever... but promises can be broken.
Torn
between his love for his family and his love for Blaire, Rush has to
find a way to save one without losing the other. In the end one has to
be more important. Letting go isn’t easy.
Blaire believed in her fairytale... but no one can live in a fantasy.
Her
love for Rush and desire to have a family keep her believing that they
can find a way for this to work. Until she has to make the right
decision for her and the baby. Even if it breaks her heart.
Can they find the forever that they both want or has it all just gone... too far?
Release Date: 10 June 2013
Love Minus Eighty
by: Will McIntosh
Years in the future,
dead women in cryogenic dating farms await rich, lonely suitors to
resurrect them and take them home. LOVE MINUS EIGHTY follows
interconnected lives touched by these dating farms. There's Rob, who
accidentally kills a jogger, then sells everything to visit her, seeking
her forgiveness but instead falling in love. Veronika, a
socially-awkward dating coach, finds herself responsible for the
happiness of a man whose life she saved against his will. And Mira, a
gay woman accidentally placed in the heterosexual dating center near its
inception, desperately seeks a way to reunite with her frozen partner
as the centuries pass. In this daring and big-hearted novel based on the
Hugo-winning short story, the lovelorn navigate a world in which
technology has reached the outer limits of morality and romance.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
YOUNG ADULT
A Matter of Days
by: Amber Kizer
On Day 56 of the
pandemic called BluStar, sixteen-year-old Nadia's mother dies, leaving
her responsible for her younger brother Rabbit. They secretly received
antivirus vaccines from their uncle, but most people weren't as lucky.
Their deceased father taught them to adapt and survive whatever comes
their way. That's their plan as they trek from Seattle to their
grandfather's survivalist compound in West Virginia. Using practical
survival techniques, they make their way through a world of death and
destruction until they encounter an injured dog; Zack, a street kid from
Los Angeles; and other survivors who are seldom what they seem.
Illness, infections, fatigue, and meager supplies have become a way of
life. Still, it will be worth it once they arrive at the designated
place on the map they have memorized. But what if no one is there to
meet them?
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Another Little Piece
by: Kate Karyus Quinn
The spine-tingling
horror of Stephen King meets an eerie mystery worthy of Sara Shepard's
Pretty Little Liars series in Kate Karyus Quinn's haunting debut.
On
a cool autumn night, Annaliese Rose Gordon stumbled out of the woods
and into a high school party. She was screaming. Drenched in blood. Then
she vanished.
A year later, Annaliese is found wandering down a
road hundreds of miles away. She doesn't know who she is. She doesn't
know how she got there. She only knows one thing: She is not the real
Annaliese Rose Gordon.
Now Annaliese is haunted by strange
visions and broken memories. Memories of a reckless, desperate wish . . .
a bloody razor . . . and the faces of other girls who disappeared.
Piece by piece, Annaliese's fractured memories come together to reveal a
violent, endless cycle that she will never escape—unless she can unlock
the twisted secrets of her past.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Born of Illusion (The Ghost Club, #1)
by: Teri Brown
Anna Van Housen is
thirteen the first time she breaks her mother out of jail. By sixteen
she’s street smart and savvy, assisting her mother, the renowned medium
Marguerite Van Housen, in her stage show and séances, and easily
navigating the underground world of magicians, mediums and mentalists in
1920’s New York City. Handcuffs and sleight of hand illusions have
never been much of a challenge for Anna. The real trick is keeping her
true gifts secret from her opportunistic mother, who will stop at
nothing to gain her ambition of becoming the most famous medium who ever
lived. But when a strange, serious young man moves into the flat
downstairs, introducing her to a secret society that studies people with
gifts like hers, he threatens to reveal the secrets Anna has fought so
hard to keep, forcing her to face the truth about her past. Could the
stories her mother has told her really be true? Could she really be the
illegitimate daughter of the greatest magician of all?
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Boy Nobody
by: Allen Zadoff
Boy Nobody is the
perennial new kid in school, the one few notice and nobody thinks much
about. He shows up in a new high school, in a new town, under a new
name, makes few friends and doesn't stay long. Just long enough for
someone in his new friend's family to die -- of "natural causes."
Mission accomplished, Boy Nobody disappears, and moves on to the next
target.
When his own parents died of not-so-natural causes at
the age of eleven, Boy Nobody found himself under the control of The
Program, a shadowy government organization that uses brainwashed kids as
counter-espionage operatives. But somewhere, deep inside Boy Nobody,
is somebody: the boy he once was, the boy who wants normal things (like a
real home, his parents back), a boy who wants out. And he just might
want those things badly enough to sabotage The Program's next mission.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Charm and Strange
by: Stephanie Kuehn
When you’ve been
kept caged in the dark, it’s impossible to see the forest for the trees.
It’s impossible to see anything, really. Not without bars . . .
Andrew Winston Winters is at war with himself.
He’s
part Win, the lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding
school in the wake of a family tragedy. The guy who shuts all his
classmates out, no matter the cost.
He’s part Drew, the angry
young boy with violent impulses that control him. The boy who spent a
fateful, long-ago summer with his brother and teenage cousins, only to
endure a secret so monstrous it led three children to do the
unthinkable.
Over the course of one night, while stuck at a
party deep in the New England woods, Andrew battles both the pain of his
past and the isolation of his present.
Before the sun rises,
he’ll either surrender his sanity to the wild darkness inside his mind
or make peace with the most elemental of truths—that choosing to live
can mean so much more than not dying.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Girl Who Was Supposed To Die, The
by: April Henry
“Take her out back and finish her off.”
She
doesn’t know who she is. She doesn’t know where she is, or why. All she
knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men
arguing over whether or not to kill her.
And that she must run.
In
her riveting style, April Henry crafts a nail-biting thriller involving
murder, identity theft, and biological warfare. Follow Cady and Ty (her
accidental savior turned companion), as they race against the clock
to stay alive.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Linked (Linked, #1)
by: Imogen Howson
Elissa used to have it
all: looks, popularity, and a bright future. But for the last three
years, she’s been struggling with terrifying visions, phantom pains, and
mysterious bruises that appear out of nowhere.
Finally, she’s
promised a cure: minor surgery to burn out the overactive area of her
brain. But on the eve of the procedure, she discovers the shocking truth
behind her hallucinations: she’s been seeing the world through another
girl’s eyes.
Elissa follows her visions, and finds a battered,
broken girl on the run. A girl—Lin—who looks exactly like Elissa, down
to the matching bruises. The twin sister she never knew existed.
Now,
Elissa and Lin are on the run from a government who will stop at
nothing to reclaim Lin and protect the dangerous secrets she could
expose—secrets that would shake the very foundation of their world.
Riveting, thought-provoking and utterly compelling, Linked will make you question what it really means to be human.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
One
by: Leigh Ann Kopans
When having two powers
makes you a Super and having none makes you a Normal, having only one
makes you a sad half-superpowered freak.
It makes you a One.
Sixteen-year-old Merrin Grey would love to be able to fly – too bad all she can do is hover.
If
she could just land an internship at the Biotech Hub, she might finally
figure out how to fix herself. She busts her butt in AP Chem and
salivates over the Hub’s research on the manifestation of superpowers,
all in hopes of boosting her chances.
Then she meets Elias
VanDyne, another One, and all her carefully crafted plans fly out the
window. Literally. When the two of them touch, their Ones combine to
make them fly, and when they’re not soaring over the Nebraska
cornfields, they’re busy falling for each other.
Merrin's mad
chemistry skills land her a spot on the Hub's internship short list, but
as she gets closer to the life she always wanted, she discovers that
the Hub’s purpose is more sinister than it has always seemed. Now it’s
up to her to decide if it's more important to fly solo, or to save
everything - and everyone - she loves.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Registry, The
by: Shannon Stoker
The Registry saved the
country from collapse. But stability has come at a price. In this
patriotic new America, girls are raised to be brides, sold at auction to
the highest bidder. Boys are raised to be soldiers, trained by the
state to fight to their death.
Nearly eighteen, beautiful Mia
Morrissey excitedly awaits the beginning of her auction year. But a
warning from her married older sister raises dangerous thoughts. Now,
instead of going up on the block, Mia is going to escape to Mexico—and
the promise of freedom.
All Mia wants is to control her own
destiny—a brave and daring choice that will transform her into an enemy
of the state, pursued by powerful government agents, ruthless bounty
hunters, and a cunning man determined to own her . . . a man who will
stop at nothing to get her back.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Rush (The Game, #1)
by: Eve Silver
So what’s the game now? This, or the life I used to know?
When
Miki Jones is pulled from her life, pulled through time and space into
some kind of game—her carefully controlled life spirals into chaos. In
the game, she and a team of other teens are sent on missions to
eliminate the Drau, terrifying and beautiful alien creatures. There are
no practice runs, no training, and no way out. Miki has only the
guidance of secretive but maddeningly attractive team leader Jackson
Tate, who says the game isn’t really a game, that what Miki and her new
teammates do now determines their survival, and the survival of every
other person on this planet. She laughs. He doesn’t. And then the game
takes a deadly and terrifying turn.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
MOVIES & TV SERIES (11 JUNE 2013)
MOVIES
11 Flowers
Directed by: Wang Xiaoshuai
Starring: Liu Wenquing
One of China's foremost Sixth Generation directors, Wang Xiaoshuai
(Beijing Bicycle, Shanghai Dreams) tells a striking, autobiographical
coming-of-age tale set in the final days of China's Cultural Revolution.
Eleven-year-old Wang Han lives with his family in a remote village in
Guizhou province. When Wang is selected to lead his school through their
daily gymnastic regiment, his teacher recommends that he wear a clean,
new shirt in honor of this important position - a request that forces
his
family to make a great sacrifice.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Directed by: Tommy Wirkola
Starring: Jeremy Renner,Gemme Arterton
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and
Gretel (Gemma Arterton) have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell bent
on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become
the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches...their past.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Killing Lincoln
Directed by: Adrian Moat
Starring: Billy Campbell, Tom Hanks (narrates)
Based on The New York Times best-selling novel, Killing Lincoln is the
suspenseful, eye-opening story of the events surrounding the
assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. While some aspects of
the plot to slay Lincoln and cripple the newly forming union are widely
known, much more of the history unfolds in this insightful thriller. As
actor John Wilkes Booth becomes increasingly obsessed with removing
Lincoln from office, a secret cabal forms, and ultimately empowers Booth
to carry out an event that will change America forever. Narrated by
Oscarr Winner Tom Hanks* and produced by Tony Scott and Ridley Scott,
this historical masterpiece stars Billy Campbell (TV's The Killing) in a
spectacular turn as President Lincoln.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Men to Kiss
Directed by: Robert Hasfogel
Starring: Frank Christian Mark, Udo Lutz
Earnest is a banker who finds his work and personal life thrown upside
down after he meets and quickly falls in love with Tobi, a flighty, high
energy performance artist who lives for the city's wild nightlife. The
two are complete opposites but they want to make it work and need all
the help they can get from Tobi's coterie of alternative friends. But
when Earnest's friend Uta arrives on the scene she thinks Earnest can do
much better and schemes to break them apart-setting off a frenzied
battle of the 'fashionista' divas. Funny, fresh and unpredictable this
light-hearted romp through queer Berlin and a few of its colorful
characters makes Men to Kiss an absolute delight!
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Oz: The Great and Powerful
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Starring: James Franco, Rachel Weisz
Disney’s fantastical adventure Oz The Great And Powerful, from the
director of the Spider-Man trilogy,follows Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a
small-time circus magician with dubious ethics. When Diggs is hurled
away to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot — until
he meets three witches (Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams),
who aren’t convinced he’s the great wizard everyone’s expecting.
Reluctantly drawn into epic problems facing Oz and its inhabitants,
Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it’s too late.
Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity — and even
some wizardry — Oscar transforms himself into the great wizard and a
better man as well.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Snitch
Directed by: Ric Roman Waugh
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Benjamin Pratt
Johnson stars as a father who goes undercover to take down the drug cartel that framed his son for a drug set-up. Based on a true story.
Dwayne
Johnson explodes into action as a man determined to bring a Mexican
cartel to its knees. Johnson stars as a successful businessman who
learns his son faces 10 tough years in a Federal hole for drug
possession. Convinced it was a set-up, he volunteers to become an
undercover informant and infiltrate a ruthless cartel. Now, with his
back against the wall and his life totally on the line, he must expose
the true criminals before they discover his identity.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Wrong
Directed by: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Jack Plotnick
From electronic
musician-turned-director/writer/editor/cinematographer/composer Quentin
Dupieux (Rubber, Steak) WRONG is a willfully surreal comedy, which made
its world premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, about a man's
frantic search for his kidnapped dog and the strange characters he
encounters along the way. Dolph Springer wakes up one morning to realize
he has lost the love of his life, his dog, Paul. During his quest to
get Paul (and his life) back, Dolph radically changes the lives of
others. In his journey to find Paul, Dolph may lose something even more
vital - his mind.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
TV SERIES
Burn Notice: Season 6
Starring: Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar
There's trouble in paradise for former CIA operative Michael Westen and
his cohorts, and the streets of Miami are hotter - and deadlier - than
ever before in the action-packed, adrenaline-charged sixth season of
Burn Notice! In hot pursuit of his old nemesis, Michael must take down
Anson Fullerton and find a way to free Fiona from prison, where she is
being targeted by a murderous foe. Michael goes full force to save Fiona
as he takes on cold-blooded assassins, diabolical drug cartels, uneasy
alliances, and explosive danger at every turn, until an unthinkable
tragedy leaves him reeling and rocks his team to the very core.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Fairly Legal: Season 2
Starring: Sarah Shahi, Virginia Williams
Kate Reed (Sarah Shahi, The L Word) never faced a fight she didn't
want.to win. A former lawyer, she's now a mediator who loves to resolve
others' conflicts. But it's often her own conflicts that could use
some attention. In season two, Kate returns to the firm and discovers
that Reed & Reed is on the verge of financial collapse. To save the
firm, up-and-coming trial attorney Ben Grogan (Ryan Johnson, CSI: NY)
is brought on as a partner. However, Kate finds herself both clashing
with Ben's aggressive, ambulance-chasing ways and yet, romantically
drawn to him. Further complicating matters are Kate's relationships
with managing partner/stepmother Lauren Reed (Virginia Williams, How I
Met Your Mother) and soon-to-be-ex-husband A.D.A. Justin Patrick
(Michael Trucco, Revenge). Watch all 13 original, witty, and absolutely
unpredictable episodes of the series critics call "funny and sexy"
(Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times).
Release Date: 11 June 2013
House of Cards: Season 1
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright
Set in present day Washington D.C.,
House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), a Democrat from South Carolina's 5th congressional district and the House Majority Whip who after getting passed over for appointment to Secretary of State, decides to exact his revenge on those who betrayed him. The series also stars Robin Wright, Kate Mara, and Corey Stoll in lead roles.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Major Crimes: Season 1
Starring: Mary McDonnell
The detectives in the Los Angeles Police Department's Major Crimes
division are still reeling from the departure of Brenda Leigh Johnson
and the realization that Captain Raydor is now in charge. Unlike their
previous chief, Raydor is determined to lead the department with a more
team-oriented approach, sharing the credit with the people with whom she
works. Raydor's hardest job, however, will be gaining the full trust
and confidence of her detectives, who aren't quick to forget her long
history of internal investigations targeting them and their previous
boss. Especially troublesome is Provenza, who has a difficult time
taking orders from someone he doesn't think knows as much as he does.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Necessary Roughness: Season 2
Starring: Callie Thorne
Golden Glober nominee Callie Thorne (Rescue Me) returns in Season Two of
the critically acclaimed series Necessary Roughness. It's a new
football season, and as the Hawks get ready to take the field again, Dr.
Dani Santino (Thorne) has a new set of issues to tackle both personally
and professionally. Between juggling a new relationship with Matt
(Mark Blucas), handling her own unpredictable teenagers, and dealing
with emotional athletes on and off the field - including the wild antics
of star player TK King (Mehcad Brooks, True Blood) - the pressure is
definitely on Dani to hold it all together. Watch all 16 episodes back
to back and uninterrupted of the series critics are calling 'a true
winner' (John Griffiths, US Weekly).
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Newsroom, The: Season 1
Starring: Jeff Daniels
HBO presents the new one-hour drama series from the fertile mind of
Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) and executive produced by Sorkin,
Scott Rudin and Alan Poul. Smart, topical, humorous and highly
entertaining, The Newsroom takes a behind-the-scenes look at a
high-rated cable-news program at the fictional ACN Network, focusing on
the on- and off-camera lives of its acerbic anchor (Jeff Daniels), new
executive producer (Emily Mortimer), their newsroom staff (John
Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel and
others) and their news-division boss (Sam Waterston). Overcoming a
tumultuous first day together – climaxing in a newsflash that a BP oil
rig has just exploded in the Gulf of Mexico – the team sets out on a
patriotic if quixotic mission to “do the news well” in the face of
corporate and commercial obstacles, and their own personal
entanglements.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Rizzoli + Isles: Season 3
Starring: Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander
Cop shoots medical examiner's mob boss father! When an explosive misstep
drives a painful wedge between Boston's finest crime-solving colleagues
Jane and Maura must set aside their personal difficulties in order to
keep on top of the city's most heinous murder cases. Yet analyzing
corpses and tracking killers is child's play compared to the
complications that arise from both friends' respective parental units:
Angela falls for Jane's new boss Maura meets her biological mother and
Jane's infant nephew is the son of either her brother.or her father!
Using intellect and instinct the best friends do what it takes to regain
each other's trust while they bust criminals in all 15 witty gritty
Season Three episodes.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
Wedding Band: Complete SerieS
Starring: Brian Austin Green, Harold Perrineau
You're cordially invited to party it up with the WEDDING BAND, the
hilarious and light-hearted new comedy starring Brian Austin Green and
Harold Perrineau. Follow the outrageously funny ups and downs of four
friends who are members of a fun-loving Seattle rock band called Mother
of the Bride. They haven't figured out their personal lives, but they do
know one thing for sure - weddings are the best place to meet women,
drink up and rock out. Featuring A-list guest stars like Megan Fox and
Molly Sims, this Wedding Crashers-meets- The Wedding Singer comedy
mash-up marries the two key elements to any great party... terrific
music and lots of laughter.
Release Date: 11 June 2013
