Genre and Age Group: Young Adult
Author: Courtney Cole
Release date: July 2012
Event dates: Sept.
10-29, 2012
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Book Description:
I have spent every summer since I was
ten years old with my father in London.
Every summer, since I was ten years old, has been uneventful and
boring. Until this year. And this year, after a freak volcanic
eruption strands me far from home, I have learned these things:
1.
I can make do with one outfit for three days before I buy new
clothes.
2.
If I hear the phrase, “You’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto,” even one
more time, I might become a homicidal maniac.
3.
I am horribly and embarrassingly allergic to jellyfish.
4. I am in love with Dante Giliberti,
who just happens to be the beautiful, sophisticated son of the Prime Minister
of a Mediterranean paradise.
5.
See number four above. Because it
brings with it a whole slew of problems
and I’ve learned something from every one of them.
Let’s start with the fact that Dante’s
world is five light-years away from mine.
He goes to black-tie functions and knows the Prime Minister of England
on a first name basis. I was born and
raised on a farm in Kansas and wear cut-off jeans paired with cowboy
boots. See the difference?
But hearts don’t care about differences. Hearts want what they want. And mine just wants to be Dante’s girl.
My heart just might be crazy.
Short Excerpt:
There
are rose bushes everywhere. And peonies, which are my favorites. And lots of white marble statues of Greek
gods. And one of Napoleon. Why in the world is this country so obsessed
with Napoleon?
I
am just wondering if the small statue is life-sized when Dante interrupts any
coherent thought process that I might have by striding across the lawns with a
racquet in hand and wearing short-short tennis shorts.
Sweet.
Baby.
Monkeys.
It’s
like a slow-motion scene from a movie.
Dante shakes his blond bangs out of his eyes and the sun catches every
glint of gold in his hair. His legs are
long, lean, tanned and muscled and HolyCowThereIsAGod. If I were a man, I would totally be
wolf-whistling right now. But then
again, if I were a man, I guess I wouldn’t be wolf-whistling at Dante.
I’m
such a weirdo.
Enter to Win:
Winner’s choice of a gifted e-copy (Kindle or Nook) of
Open International.
If winner lives within US/Canada,
they will also receive a signed 4x6
glossy of Dante’s Girl.
Definitely on my TBR list!
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