JKS Communications Holiday Buying Guide

My friends over at JKS Communications are always setting me up with fantastic books (no, I have not been paid to say that - they're fantastic people!), so I'm sharing some of their books and authors with you in anticipation of Cyber Monday and the holiday season. Whether you're buying a gift for a loved one or buying one for yourself to relax and unwind, I'm sure these books will be a hit.



Title: Waterfell (The Aquarathi #1)
Author: Amalie Howard
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Release Date: October 29, 2013
THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE QUEEN

Nerissa Marin hides among teens in her human form, waiting for the day she can claim her birthright—the undersea kingdom stolen from her the day her father was murdered. Blending in is her best weapon—until her father’s betrayer confronts Nerissa and challenges her to a battle to the death on Nerissa’s upcoming birthday—the day she comes of age.

Amid danger and the heartbreak of her missing mother, falling for a human boy is the last thing Nerissa should do. But Lo Seavon breaches her defenses and somehow becomes the only person she can count on to help her desperate search for her mother, a prisoner of Nerissa’s mortal enemy. Is Lo the linchpin that might win Nerissa back her crown? Or will this mortal boy become the weakness that destroys her?

Read my review HERE!

Buy Links
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And don't forget about The Almost Girl by Amalie Howard coming from Strange Chemistry in January 2014!




Title: Glide
Author: Bill Gourgey
Publisher: Jacked Arts
Release Date: February 1, 2011
It's the future. But nearly a century ago, the world seemed poised on the brink of disaster. Environmental blights competed with economic catastrophes and hostile regimes for the worst headlines of the day. A special senate convened the Academy to take control before it was too late.

It was called FAIR. But it wasn't.

Suffering in the Academy's iron grip for decades, the world drew what seemed sure to be its final, ragged breaths.

Then a miracle happened: a blow from the heavens struck the Academy straight through the heart in the capital of Aerome. Their steel behemoths fell from the skies. The Rust--a plague that raged through technology and biology with equal fury--was soon cured, and a new invention ushered in an era of restoration and hope. Slowly but surely, people forgot their old fears. They even forgot the woman who had brought them so near to ultimate destruction, the leader of the FAIR Academy: the Prophet of Doom.

That was then.

Michael and Madeleine have grown up in a world run by the silent, clean, affordable technology called glide. To them the tyranny of the Academy is nothing more than a history lesson. But when they stumble upon a ramshackle mansion on a deserted beach, they find that the perils of the past have followed them into the present. As they discover the truth about what happened at Aerome, they unleash a woman long held captive, a woman who--like a sleeping dragon--should never have been awakened.

Now the ashes of war are being rekindled. Michael and Maddy must prevent the Prophet from finishing the work she began so long ago. But they will not be alone. There is still one man in Seaville who remembers those times. Glide is his legacy. Memory is his responsibility. And the Prophet is his destiny.

Buy Links
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Title: Nu Logic: Rise of the Neos
Author: Bill Gourgey
Publisher: Jacked Arts
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In Nu Logic: Rise of the Neos, accomplished virologist, Dr. Janot (whose specialty is crossover pathogens), threatens the promising Glide era with his wildly popular augmented reality gaming world—Neology. Only the genius inventor, Captain Magigate, can stop him, but Magigate is lost in the past with his erstwhile lover and foe, the Prophet. Teenage artist Maddy’s cryptic paintings hold the key to reaching the Captain, but will she discover their secret in time to stop Dr. Janot, whose Connected Reality vision threatens to transform the human experience forever?

Nu Logic is the sequel to Glide and is Book 2 in the Glide trilogy, which is set alternately in a future world shaped by the miraculous inventions of Dr. Magigate, and the preceding dystopian era dominated by the Prophet and her Academy.

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Here are some other fantastic titles worth checking out:

Southern League: A True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights and the Deep South's Most Compelling Pennant Race by Larry Colton
Amazon
Goodreads

8-Bit Christmas by Kevin Jakubowski
Amazon
Goodreads

Heartfelt Letters from Santa to You by Veronica Steck
Amazon
Goodreads

Letters To Ann: The Korean War 1950-1951 by Anne Marie
Amazon
Goodreads

Kat Mcgee & The School of Christmas Spirit by Rebecca Munsterer
Amazon
Goodreads

Lola Goes to Work by Marcia Goldman
Amazon
Goodreads

How to Be Human by Florida Frenz
Amazon
Goodreads

Cozy Light, Cozy Night by Elisa Kleven
Amazon
Goodreads

Rotten Pumpkin by David M. Schwartz and Dwight Kuhn
Amazon
Goodreads