God is in the Pancakes by Robin Epstein

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Summary:

With all the snappy dialogue and attitude of the movie Juno, this is an incredibly engaging, thought-provoking YA debut.

No one is more surprised than fifteen year old Grace Manning herself that she likes her job in the local nursing home.  But that has everything to do with her relationship with one of the residents, Mr. Sands, an ex-Marine with Lou Gehrig's disease.  He keeps up with Grace's witty banter, teachers her to play poker, allows her to give him a Mohawk, acts as a father figure... and one day, cheerfully asks her to help him die.

Grace tries to avoid the wrenching decision, first by praying for a miracle, and then by stuffing herself with pancakes.  Soon she's running away from all feelings, including the new ones she has for her best friend, Eric, who suddenly seems to have a lot of female admirers.  But Mr. Sands continues to get worse, and Grace knows this decision is too important to ignore...

Was out in May from Dial.

SIGN UPS CLOSED


God is in the Pancakes
1. Jacob (TX) Rec'd 7/10 SENT 7/17 No dc, WARNING
2. Jamie (LA) Rec'd 7/21 SENT 7/29 DC: #0310 0480 0003 1432 6533
3. Betty (TN) Rec'd 8/2 SENT 8/9. DC# 03092880000227913589
4. Meggin (KY) Rec'd 8/12 Mailed 8/23 (4 days late) DC 0309 3220 0002 1605 3501
5. Crystal (NC) Rec'd 8/25 Sent 9/4 (3 days late) DC# 9102 1480 0860 0131 1020 03
6. Kaetlyn (MD) Mailed 9/17 DC # 0310 2010 0002 5253 2293
7. Melanie (NY) Rec't 9/20

RETURNED TO DONATOR 9/27 DC# 9102128882300347067443

Grace by Elizabeth Scott

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Summary:

An unwilling terrorist.
A chilling near future.
One chance left.

Grace was raised to be an Angel, a herald of death by suicide bomb.  But she refuses to die for the cause, and now Grace is on the run, daring to dream of freedom.  In search of a border she may never reach, she travels among malevolent soldiers on a decrepit train crawling through the desert.  Accompanied by the mysterious Kerr, Grace struggles to be invisible, but the fear of discovery looms large as she recalls the history and events that delivered her uncertain fate.

Told in spare, powerful prose by acclaimed author Elizabeth Scott, this tale of a dystopian near future will haunt readers long after they've reached the final page.

Due out in September by Dutton.

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Grace
1. Carina (Canada) Rec'd 7/13 SENT 7/20 Canada, no DC
2. Meggin (KY) SENT 8/14 Very late. Strike 1. Review Passed.
3. Crystal (NC) Rec'd 8/16 Mail by 8/23
4. Betty (TN)
5. Jacob (TX) Mailed 9/21 DC# 0310 0480 0002 5541 6836
6. Jessica (CA) Mailed DC# 9102150134711377256492

RETURNED TO DONATOR. Retired tour

You Wish by Mandy Hubbard

REMEMBER: Starting today, you must purchase DC when you ship the books out! Then you must e-mail us the DC number!


Summary:
One wish.
Two girls who love the same boy.
Sixteen days to stop the madness!

Kayla McHenry is having the worst sweet sixteenth! Just before she blows out her candles, she thinks: I wish all my birthday wishes actually come true.

The next day, Kayla wakes up to a life sized, bright pink My Little Pony outside her window. Then, a year's supply of gumballs arrives. An oddly plastic looking boy named Ken shows up in a convertible and starts following her around! Each day, another childhood wish comes true. But they MUST STOP.

Because when she was fifteen? She wished Ben Mackenzie would kiss her. And Ben is now her best friend's boyfriend.

Out in August from Razorbill.

To Sign Up:

Leave a comment your name, e-mail address, and state. If you don't include all three things, you won't be added to the tour!

Tour:

TOUR CLOSEDSent 6/30. DC: 03100480000112792769

1. Alex (MI) Recieved (7/2). Mail by 7/9 SENT 7/7 DC# 0307 1790 0000 6884 9804
2. Kelly (WI) Rec'd 7/10 Mail by 7/17 SENT 7/13 (4 days early) DC# 0310 0480 0000 6684 2398
3. Amanda (MN) Rec'd 7/15 SENT 7/24 (2 days late, forgiven due to address confusion) DC# 0309 3220 0002 0085 7672
4. Jordan (MO) Rec'd 7/28 mail by 8/4
5. Betty (TN)
6. Crystal (NC)
7. Melanie (FL)
8. Valorie (CA)

Dust City by Robert Paul Weston

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Summary:
In a city as mean as this, even a big bad wolf should be afraid.

And Henry Whelp is that Big Bad Wolf. Or will be, someday. His dad is doing time for the double murder of Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother and everyone assumes crime is in Henry's blood. For years, he's kept a low profile in a Home for Wayward Wolves, just on the outskirts of Dust City - a gritty metropolis known for a black market, mind altering dust that's got its entire population of foxes, ravens, and hominids hooked. But it's not just any dust the creatures of the underground are slinging, it's fairydust.

Then a murder at the Home forces Henry to seek the truth, and he begins to suspect his dad may have been framed. With a daring shewolf named Fiona by his side, Henry escapes into the dark alleyways and cavernous tunnels of Dust City. There, he'll come face to snout with legendary mobster Skinner and his Water Nixie henchmen to discover what really happened to his father in the woods that infamous night... ad the trugh about fairydust.

In Dust City, Robert Paul Weston uses his hauntingly beautiful prose to create a dark tale that is a startling parallel to our own uncertain time.

Out in November by Razorbill.

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Dust City
1. Enna Isilee (UT) Rec'd 7/12 SENT 7/17 DC# 03101230000085771659
2. Alex (MI) Rec'd 7/20 SENT 7/29 (2 days late)
3. Jennifer (NC) REC'D 8/2, Mail by 8/10 (1 day late) DC# 0309 3220 0002 1396 9515
4. Laurie (NY) Rec'd 8/12 Mailed 8/23.

TOUR COMPLETED.

In all seriousness...

I REALLY need to know where the books are, guys. After I post this, I'm sending out a mass e-mail to everyone to make sure that everyone gets it.

These tours have been getting out of control. There's a one week limit, but people have been keeping books for months at a time. When Sara or I try to e-mail people, they just don't reply. It's just not working out very well anymore.

If you know you don't have time to read the books in a week, just e-mail us! We'll move you down on the list, or take you off the tour completely, but don't keep the book for weeks and weeks at a time when that's against the rules.

I'm starting to get frustrated, because I have authors e-mailing me because they don't know where the books are, or the reviews aren't up yet, and all these other things. When I try to communicate with the bloggers about this issue, I don't get responses! It's getting so frustrating!

So, please, if you have a book, either e-mail the tours, or post on this. I need to ESPECIALLY know where these books are: The Cinderella Society and The Witchy Worries of Abby Adams. Though if you have ANY of the tour books, I need to know.

Alsooo, in other news. I know come fall I won't be able to handle the tours. My classload is going to be extremely challenging, it's my senior year, and I'm going to be working up a storm. I don't want to go into senior year knowing all this, and still trying to take over the tours. If anyone wants to help Sarah, please e-mail us. I don't want to leave her all alone to run them! Thanks!

hope.

Book Locations

Hey guys!

I'm currently trying to figure out where all the books are. Instead of e-mailing everyone, I just decided to post. If you have a book, just received a book, or mailed a book out in the last two to three days for One ARC Tours, please post on this! Post your name and the book's title.

Thank you so much!

hope.

Farewell Harmony!

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to let everyone know that I (Harmony) have left the tours. I have to many things going on with school and PAYA and just life and general, that I can't devote the time needed to the tours anymore. Don't fear, though, Hope and Erica will be taking over and everything will be staying the same! :)

Harmony

New Rules! - MUST READ!

Hey everyone! Harmony and I were talking the other night, and we wanted to try and start a new idea with the 1 ARC Tours.

First of all, if you are still going to be apart of tours, please fill out the form at the end of this post. We have a list of members now, but we need to get it updated! If you don't plan on being on any more tours, please don't fill out the form. Even if you already sent us the e-mail with your information, please fill out the form! (Also, remember that the tours are for the US and Canada only.)

Next, we're going to test out a new idea.

-You have one week to read the book after it's sent to you. This will be tracked. I'm going to have all the addresses on file. You'll e-mail me at onearctours[at]yahoo[dot]com to get the address of the person after you on the tour list.
-When you send the book out to them, you'll also e-mail me to let me know.
-When that person receives the book, they'll e-mail me at onearctours[at]yahoo[dot]com to let me know, and I'll send them the next address on the tour, etc.
-Whether or not you are posting your reviews will also be tracked, so make sure you're still doing that!
-If you have any questions about this process, please leave them in the comments or e-mail us.
-This new process will start with the tour The Witchy Worries of Abby Adams and continue to all tours that have started after that.
-A note from Erica: When you guys are signing up for tours, PLEASE leave your email address. It takes time to make checklists, and even more when I have to go searching for emails. If you repetitively are not leaving an email address, you will stop being put on tours.

Here's the form! Please make sure you fill this out if you're a member or want to be a member. :)



hope.

Tensions of Opposite by Kristina McBride

It’s been two years since Noelle disappeared. Two years since her bike was discovered, sprawled on a sidewalk. Two years of silence, of worry, of fear.

For those two long years, her best friend Tessa has waited, living her own life in a state of suspended animation. Because how can she allow herself to enjoy a normal high school life if Noelle can’t? How dare she have other friends, go to dances, date boys, without knowing what happened to the girl she thought she would share everything with?

And then one day, someone calls Noelle’s house. She’s alive.

A haunting psychological thriller taken straight from the headlines, The Tension of Opposites is a striking debut that explores the emotional aftermath of a kidnapping on the victim, and on the people she left behind.
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Here's the list for this tour:
1. Jeff
2. MannB
3. Kath
4. Enna Isilee
5. Emily
6. Star Shadow
7. Steph Su
8. Lizzie
9. Tina
10. Lizzy
11. Erica
12. The1stdaughter
13. Mariah
14. Jessica
15. Lili
16. Sarah
17. Jamie
18. Jordan
19. Melanie
20. SarahChristine
21. Bri
22. Alyssa Kirk

The Reckoning - Kelley Armstrong

Our next tour is for The Reckoning by Kelly Armstrong.

My name is Chloe Saunders. I'm fifteen, and I would love to be normal.

But normal is one thing I'm not.

For one thing, I'm having these feelings for a certain antisocial werewolf and his sweet-tempered brother—who just happens to be a sorcerer—but, between you and me, I'm leaning toward the werewolf.

Not normal.

My friends and I are also on the run from an evil corporation that wants to get rid of us—permanently.

Definitely not normal.

And finally, I'm a genetically altered necro-mancer who can raise the dead, rotting corpses and all, without even trying.

As far away from normal as it gets.


Here's the list for this tour:

1. Sandy
2. Erica
3. Elizabeth
4. ReaganStar
5. Danielle
6. Beth
7. MustLoveBooks
8. Amanda
9. Sarah
10. Steph Su
11. Kathy
12. Deidre
13. Jlarkin
14. Andrea
15. Crystal
16. Emma
17. Melissa
18. Kate Received a copy already
19. Kath