Thursday, March 01, 2012

New in March

Bewitching
By Alex Flinn
Tells the story of Kendra, a witch, and the first three-hundred years of her life, including takes on a classic fairy tale, the 1666 plague in Britain, the Titanic disaster, and the story of a modern-day, plain stepsister.

Illuminated
By Erica Orloff
Discovering a hidden diary inside an antique book, Callie reads about the romance of star-crossed lovers Heloise and Abelard, a historical love that leads Callie to the mysterious August, with whom she shares a passion that she fears will not endure the test of time.

The Eleventh Plague
By Jeff Hirsch
Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the Collapse, fifteen-year-old Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging, but when his grandfather dies and his father decides to risk everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen's life is turned upside down.

Babe in Boyland
By Jody Gehrman
Natalie, a seventeen-year-old former drama club member who now writes a relationship column for her school newspaper, decides to go undercover as a student at an all-boys boarding school so that she can figure out what guys are really like.
How to Fight, Lie, and Cry Your Way to Popularity (and a Prom Date): Lousy Life Lessons From 50 Teen Movies
By Nikki Roddy
Summarizes 50 classic teen movies and examins the advice and messages given by each one.

BZRK
By Michael Grant
In the near future, the conjoined Armstrong twins, under the guise of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, plot to create their own version of utopia using nanobots, while a guerilla group known as BZRK develops a DNA-based biot that can stop bots, but at risk of the host's brain.

Everneath
By Brodi Ashton
Regretting her decision to forfeit her life on Earth to become an immortal on Everneath, a world between Earth and Hell, teenaged Nikki is given the chance to return to the Surface for six months, in this story loosely based on the "Hades and Persephone" myth.

Fracture
By Megan Miranda
After falling through the ice of a frozen lake and being resuscitated by her best friend Decker, seventeen-year-old Delaney begins experiencing a strange affinity for the dead and wonders whether she is predicting death or causing it.
His Name was Raoul Wallenberg
By Louise Borden
In Hungary during WWII, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish humanitarian, worked to save the lives of thousands of Jews, issuing passports and providing housing for Jews as they tried to escape Nazi advances.

Planesrunner
By Ian McDonald
When fourteen-year-old Everett Singh's scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves a mysterious app on Everett's computer giving him access to the Infundibulum--a map of parallel earths--which is being sought by technologically advanced dark powers that Everett must somehow elude while he tries to rescue his father.

Tempest
By Julie Cross
After his girlfriend Holly is fatally shot during a violent struggle, nineteen-year-old Jackson uses his supernatural abilities and travels back in time two years, where he falls in love with Holly all over again, learns that his father is a spy, and discovers powerful enemies of time who will stop at nothing to recruit him for their own purposes.

Scarlet
By A.C. Gaughen
Will Scarlet shadows Robin Hood, with an unerring eye for finding treasures to steal and throwing daggers with deadly accuracy, but when Gisbourne, a ruthless bounty hunter, is hired by the sheriff to capture Robin and his band of thieves, Robin must become Will's protector risking his own life in the process.
Lowdown on Denim
By Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Takes a look at the history of denim, from the invention of blue jeans in the 1870s to the bell-bottoms of the 1960s to the low-riders of the 1990s.

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