{Teaser Tuesday} #20

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Mizb at Should Be Reading. To participate, you need to:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR list if they like your teaser

Kate's Teaser:

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry," Matthias muttered. He didn't think she could hear him, but her eyelids fluttered - once, twice ... Then, amazingly, they opened all the way.


... and ...


You couldn't stand by when the Population Police were killing children.

Among the Enemy

The Shadow Children Series: Book 6

Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Release Date: August 22, 2006

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Charlene's Teaser:

"There should be a button on the side of our heads like they have on hair-dryer plugs."

"A reset button?"

"Yeah, and if you were doing it (something stupid) but you couldn't, like, reach or something,  your friend could push the button for you and save you from your own stupidity."

Deep Down True, Page 218

Author: Juliette Fay

Release Date: January 25, 2011

Publisher: Penguin Books

Kathy's Teaser, #1:

No squall could frighten Dany, though. Daenerys Stormborn, she was called, for she had come howling into the world on distant Dragonstone as the greatest storm in the memory of Westeros howled outside, a storm so fierce that it ripped gargoyles from the castle walls and smashed her father's fleet to kindling.

A Storm of Swords, Page 106

Author: George R. R. Martin

Release Date: March 4, 2003

Publisher: Bantam

Kathy's Teaser, #2:

Irena was furious to be handled so roughly, but then she saw that the gendarme was a young boy, frightened, probably from the countryside, lucky to have a job at all. Most likely, he had no use for the Jews before the war; he was paid to mistreat them.

Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project, Page 119

Author: Jack Mayer

Release Date: March 28, 2011

Publisher: Long Trail Press

Kathy's Teaser, #3:

They had removed the body of the thief from the study using a folding cot from Kristoll's basement as a stretcher. They used it again to carry the body from the trunk of Kristoll's Ford up the hill and to the clearing.

Bad Things Happen, Page 25

Author: Harry Dolan

Release Date: June 16, 2010

Publisher: Berkley Trade

Mandy's Teaser, #1:

She could bring terror to the neighborhood by pulling that mask over her head. Merchants would scream, "Lollipop, lollipop," and rush to the deepest corner of their shops.

Marilyn the Wild, Page 234 of The Isaac Quartet

Author: Jerome Charyn

Release Date: June 7, 2002 (Original Release Date: 1976)

Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows

Mandy's Teaser, #2:

"Me?" I asked. "Why me?" I turned to my mother. "Is Daddy trying to pimp me out?" I expected her to laugh. Instead she said, "He means well."

"'He means well'? What kind of answer is that?"

She just shrugged and went back to her glass of pinot grigio and reading the latest issue of Vanity Fair.

Anne of Hollywood, Page 93

Author: Carol Wolper

Release Date: July 17, 2012

Publisher: Gallery Books