Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Everything you are is a LIE!

Quicksilver
by
R. J. Anderson
Call #: YA Anderson, R. J. NEW
 
Back home Tori was the girl who had everything a sixteen-year-old could want--popularity, money, beauty. Everything. Including a secret. That secret made her very valuable.

Now she's left everything from her old life behind, including her real name and Alison, the only person who truly understood her. She can't lose the secret. But if she wants to have anything resembling a normal life, she has to blend in and hide her unique…talents.

Plans change when the enigmatic Sebastian Faraday reappears in Tori's life and delivers bad news: she hasn't escaped. In fac
t, she's attracted new interest in the form of an obsessed ex-detective now in the employ of a genetics lab.

She has only one shot at ditching her past for good and living like the normal human she wishes she could be. Tori must use every ounce of her considerable hacking and engineering skills--and even then, she might need to sacrifice more than she could possibly imagine if she wants to be free.

The riveting companion to R.J. Anderson's acclaimed Ultraviolet.

Monday, June 17, 2013

Book 1 in the Bea Catcher Chronicles


Bea's life has been a mess ever since she got kicked out of private school and sent to rehab. Now clean, Bea is starting over at Packard High School, in a city shaken from two assaults on young women. 

The latest victim, Willa Pressman-the one who survived-doesn't remember a thing. But Bea has a disturbing new "skill": she can see and then draw images from other people's minds. When she looks at Willa, Bea is shocked by what she sketches. Bea might be the only one who knows Willa's secrets and who can take down the killer before he strikes again.

Call #: YA Samms, Olivia NEW

Friday, June 14, 2013

Coming soon...

The Moon and More
by
Sarah Dessen

Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome, kind, fun. He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby, the beach town where they both grew up. But now, in the summer before college, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough.

Enter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker assisting on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist. Theo's sophisticated, exciting, and, best of all, he thinks Emaline is much too smart for Colby.

Emaline's mostly-absentee father, too, thinks Emaline should have a bigger life, and he's convinced that an Ivy League education is the only route to realizing her potential. Emaline is attracted to the bright future that Theo and her father promise. But she also clings to the deep roots of her loving mother, stepfather, and sisters. Can she ignore the pull of the happily familiar world of Colby?
 

Emaline wants the moon and more, but how can she balance where she comes from with where she's going?

Monday, June 10, 2013

Secrets can be deadly...

Everyone knows that Mallory killed her boyfriend, Brian. They even know it was self-defense.
But no one know what really happened, including Mallory. 

Hoping to give her a fresh start, Mallory's parents ship her off to Monroe, a fancy prep school where secrets are the currency fueling social interactions.

It's not long before Mallory's secret is uncovered and used against her. Someone knows exactly what happened between Mallory and Brian and that person wants her dead.

Call #: YA Miranda, Megan NEW

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Book 2 in the Code of Silence Series!

A detour through the park leads Cooper, Gordy, Hiro, and Lunk straight into a trap, and Gordy is abducted! For the kidnapper, it's all a game, a way to settle an old score, with no one getting hurt. However, evil has a way of escalating and once his identity is discovered, the rules change.
Despite the best of police efforts, the hours tick by without a clue or a ransom call, leaving everyone to their own fears. Gordy is gone.
Cooper descends deeper into a living nightmare, imagining the worst for his best friend and cousin. Hours stretch into days, and talks of a memorial service begin to surface. But Cooper still feels his cousin is alive and develops a reckless plan, changing all the rules. Now the one who set out to rescue his friend needs to be rescued himself. Sometimes rescuing a friend from darkness means going in after them.
Call #: YA Shoemaker, Tim NEW

Friday, June 7, 2013

If fate sent you an e-mail, would you answer?


When teenage movie star Graham Larkin accidentally sends small town girl Ellie O'Neill an email about his pet pig, the two seventeen-year-olds strike up a witty and unforgettable correspondence, discussing everything under the sun, except for their names or backgrounds.

Then Graham finds out that Ellie's Maine hometown is the perfect location for his latest film, and he decides to take their relationship from online to in-person. But can a star as famous as Graham really start a relationship with an ordinary girl like Ellie? 
Call #: Smith, Jennifer E. NEW

Thursday, June 6, 2013

With power comes enemies...lots of them!


Spirit: The Elemental Series
by
Brigid Kemmerer

Hunter Garrity wants to be left alone. He's learned the hard way that his unusual abilities come at a price and he can't seem to afford any allies!
 

Monday, June 3, 2013

Make a List!

Have you ever made a list of stuff to do to keep from being bored?  
Read Hercules' list!

12 Things to Do Before You Crash and Burn
by James Proimos


Sixteen-year-old James "Hercules" Martino has been given a list of 12 tasks to complete while spending two weeks in Baltimore with his Uncle Anthony, and gains insights into himself, his uncle, and his recently deceased father, a self-help author and daytime talk show host who was beloved by the public but a terrible father.

 Call# YA PROIMOS, JAMES



Friday, May 31, 2013

Time for Some Light Summer Reading!

We're all a little like Danielle, really, in
 OCD, the Dude, and Me


With frizzy orange hair, a plus-sized body, sarcastic demeanor, Danielle Levine doesn't fit in even at her alternative high school. While navigating her doomed social life, she writes scathing, self-aware, and sometimes downright raunchy essays for English class.

Written as a series of  essays, private journal entries, letters, and e-mails, Danielle, a loner, finds it easiest to communicate through writing. She has OCD, often rearranging her collection of snow globes for comfort, but dreams of Friday night parties with the popular kids, including the object of her unrequited love, Jacob!

As a result of her unfiltered writing style, she is forced to see the school psychologist and enroll in a "social skills" class. But when she meets Daniel, another social misfit who is obsessed with the cult classic film The Big Lebowski, Danielle's resolve to keep everyone at arm's length starts to crumble.

Call #     YA VAUGHN, LAUREN ROEDY NEW 



Wednesday, May 29, 2013

The clock is TICKING...

Inspired by a True Story...




This heart-pounding adventure follows 2 teens, an American boy and his friend, a Chinese girl from his
 Washington, DC-area high school. 

Using forged documents and a borrowed credit card, Ethan and Ti-Anna travel across the world, their search taking them to Hong Kong, and later to Vietnam as they search for the girl's father who has been kidnapped!

They only have 9 days. 

Although the characters in the novel are fictionalized, they are based on a real Chinese family who were part of the Chinese Democracy Movement and inspired this story.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Fat Angie book trailer

A big thank you to author, e. E. Charlton-Trujillo
for sending us a link to her book trailer! You rock!

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Moving and Funny



Things I know about Reece Malcolm:

1. She graduated from New York University.
2. She lives in or near Los Angeles.
3. Since her first novel was released, she’s been on the New York Times bestseller list every week.
4. She likes strong coffee and bourbon.
5. She’s my mother.


Devan knows very little about Reece Malcolm, until the day her father dies and she’s shipped off to live with the mother she’s never met. All she has is a list of notebook entries that doesn't add up to much.


Call #  YA SPALDING, AMY  NEW

Monday, May 20, 2013

A quick, intense page-turner!

The Loop
by
Shandy Lawson
 Ben and Maggie have met, fallen in love, and died together countless times. Over the course of two pivotal day--both the best and worst of their lives--they struggle again and again to resist the pull of fate and the force of time itself. With each failure, they return to the beginning of their end, a wild road trip that brings them to the scene of their own murders and into the hands of the man who is destined to kill them.
As time circles back on itself, events become more deeply ingrained, more inescapable for the two kids trapped inside the loop. The closer they come to breaking out, the tighter fate's clutches seem to grip them. They devise a desperate plan to break free and survive the days ahead, but what if Ben and Maggie's only shot at not dying is surviving apart?
 
Call #: YA Lawson, Shandy NEW
 
 

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Some Truths Hurt...Badly

Period 8.  An hour a day. You can hang.  You can eat lunch.    You can talk, listen both or neither. 
Nothing is off-limits.
The only rule is that you tell the truth.


BUT SOMEONE IN PERIOD 8 IS LYING.



Period 8 has always been a safe haven and high school senior Paulie "The Bomb" Baum a constant attendee, but as Paulie, Hannah, their friends, and a sympathetic teacher try to unravel the mystery of a missing classmate, the ultimate bully takes aim at the school.

Call #  YA Crutcher, Chris NEW

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Friend or Back Stabber?



Book 4 in THE IVY series
Callie Andrews returns from spring break to find herself facing expulsion. 

Someone has framed her as the author of a series of anonymous articles vilifying an elite social club and now, unless she can prove her innocence, she can kiss her college education good-bye. 

So who is the Ivy Insider?

Call # YA KUNZE, LAUREN NEW


Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Darkly Delicious!


Yellowcake 
Stories
by
Margo Lanagan

Ten Stories.
Ten slices of life.
Ten steps beyond the perimeters of normal.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Action-packed adventure!

Durango has always relied on Mimi—once his tough-as-nails squad leader, she is now the bitingly sarcastic artificial intelligence flash-cloned to his brain. Mimi is the only reason he is alive.

Durango has always looked out for his devastatingly beautiful and brave second-in-command, 
 Vienne—now wounded, crushed, missing. Vienne is the only reason he wants to live.

Durango hasn't always despised his father. But he does now. Lyme wants Durango to be the Prince of Mars, and he'll stop at nothing to realize that dream. He'll sacrifice anything and anyone in the name of domination. Even Mimi. Especially Vienne.

Lyme forgot one thing. You don't want to mess with Durango.