FICTION
When A learns he is not the only person waking up in a different
person's body every day, he gains new understanding of the extremes
where love and loneliness can lead. Told from multiple perspectives.
Moonbeam, seventeen, survives a devastating confrontation between
government forces and the cult she grew up in, but will need a lot of
help to heal mentally, emotionally, and physically.
This
is a story about an epic love triangle--one that will literally set the
city ablaze and change the lives of three childhood friends forever.
Who are the Sawkill Girls? Marion, the newbie; Zoey, the pariah; and Val, the queen bee
. Their stories
come together on the island of Sawkill Rock, where kids whisper the legend of an insidious monster at parties and
around campfires. Where girls have been disappearing for decades, stolen
away by a ravenous evil no one has dared to fight…until now.
Sixteen-year-old Ilse and her older brother Wolf must hone their magical
skills to sabotage Hitler's attempt to build an atom bomb and uncover a
spy using dark magic to thwart them.
After having saved the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back in Florida
with his peculiar friends, where they set out on a journey across
America to discover the truth about Jacob's grandfather.
When their mistress is murdered, Anouk and her fellow beasties have only
three days until their enchantment ends and they are transformed back
into animals, but in seeking to remain human, they threaten the
hierarchy imposed by the society of magic handlers in Paris called the
Haute.
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions,
turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced
to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
Waking up in the arms of Prince Emory, Ama has no memory of him rescuing
her from a dragon's lair, but she soon discovers there is more to the
legend of dragons and damsels than anyone knows and she is still in
great danger.
As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall,
a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the
Mesarthim are resurrected.
A psychological thriller that is an unforgettable, mesmerizing tale of exquisite
obsession, spoiled innocence, and impossible friendships.
A coming-of-age story set in 1994 Wisconsin, chronicling the
on-again-off-again relationship of Amy and Craig, who come to understand
each other better through multiple disastrous breakups. Told non-sequentially, this tantalizing story of Amy and Craig is a
brutally funny, bittersweet taste of the unique yet utterly universal
experience of first love.
Four female mercenaries known as Boneless Mercies, weary of roaming
Vorseland, ignored and forgotten until they are needed for mercy
killings, decide to seek glory by going after a legendary monster in
this reimagining of Beowulf.
Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her
dreams of becoming a doctor, even if she has to scheme her way across
Europe to do it.
Told in two voices, when Arthur, a summer intern from Georgia, and
Ben, a native New Yorker, meet it seems like fate, but after three
attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them
together or apart.
Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised
themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets,
including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for
complex reasons, including his own redemption.
The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they're also rivals.
They know that, because of a generations-old spell, their family is
bound to a bevy of swans deep in the woods. They know that, one day, the
swans will pull them into a dangerous game that will leave one of them a
girl, and trap the other in the body of a swan. But when two
local boys become drawn into the game, the swans' spell intertwines
with the strange and unpredictable magic lacing the woods, and all four
of their fates depend on facing truths that could either save or destroy
them.
High school juniors and best friends Courtney and Jupe, and new
sophomore Rae, explore their sexuality and their budding attractions for
one another.
A powerful, heartrending contemporary novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice.
Gone series, Book 8
In a world where monsters do battle with superpowered humans, Dekka,
Shade, Cruz, Malik, Armo, and a new mutant with unmatched powers must
stop a failed stand-up comic who can now control anyone with the power
of his voice.
With Aelin locked in an iron coffin by Queen of the Fae Maeve, Aedion
and Lysandra struggle to defend Terrasen, Chaol, Manon, and Dorian face
their own fates, and Rowan seeks his captured wife and queen.
Sisters Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell were swept away to a strange kingdom
called the Woodlands, living there for six years before returning to
post-WWII England. Ev desperately wants to return to the Woodlands, and
Philippa just wants to move on. When Ev goes missing, Philippa must
confront the depth of her sister's despair and the painful truths
they've been running from.
Sequel to This Mortal Coil
Cat thought the Hydra epidemic was over, but when new cases arise, she
must team up with an enemy to fix the vaccine before the virus spirals
out of control.
When seventeen-year-old Evie is caught up in a raid at a notorious club
known as one of the few places where humans and aliens can mingle
freely, she meets Luc, an unnaturally beautiful guy she initially
assumes is a Luxen...but he is in fact something much more powerful
A mother hanged for murder. A daughter left to pick up the pieces of
their crumbling estate. Can she clear her family's name if it means
facing her own dark past?
Danny Cheng, a Chinese-American teen, grapples with a dangerous
revelation about his parents' past, his plans for the future, and his
feelings for his best friend, Harry Wong.
When a cyberbully sends the entire high school a picture of basketball
hero Bijan Majidi, photo-shopped to look like a terrorist, the school
administration promises to find and punish the culprit, but Bijan just
wants to pretend the incident never happened and move on.
Raised by a workaholic father who is a restaurateur, Yvonne, eighteen,
faces difficult choices about love, her training as a violinist,
college, and career as high school graduation draws near.
In her senior year of high school, Mackenzie wants to spend as much time
as possible with her best friend, Nolan, since they will be attending
different colleges, but she worries that sharing her real feelings will
destroy their friendship.
GRAPHIC NOVELS
In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his
family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more
complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in
and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't
know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his
grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people
who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along.
Every ninety years, twelve gods are reincarnated as young people. They
are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are all dead. It's
happening now. It's happening again. In the past: awful stuff. In the present: awful stuff. But, increasingly, answers.
NON-FICTION
A journalistic look at the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland and the fight for gun control--as told by the student
reporters for the school's newspaper and TV station.
Julissa Arce explores her days in Mexico separated from her parents and her daily fears while growing up undocumented in Texas.
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