Saturday, September 01, 2012

New in September

The Sweetest Spell
By Suzanne Selfors
Scorned in her Flatlands village because of a deformed foot, Emmeline Thistle's life changes when she is taken in by Wanderlands dairy farmers and discovers her magical ability to make chocolate, which is more precious and rare than gold or jewels in the kingdom of Anglund.
The Boy Recession
By Flynn Meaney
When all the boys start transferring out of Julius P. Heil High, a lovable slacker becomes a hot commodity much to his best friend's bewilderment.

The Vindico
By Wesley King
When supervillains of the Vindico realize they are getting too old to fight the League of Heroes, they kidnap and begin training five teens, but James, Lana, Hayden, Emily, and Sam will not become the next generation of evil without a fight.
Invincible Microbe
By Jim Murphy and Alison Blank
This “biography” of tuberculosis traces the disease’s history from the unsuccessful treatments used in ancient Greece and Egypt, explores TB’s impact on European and American history, and explores the cure for the disease, as well as considering the social perceptions of the disease.
Secret Letters
By Leah Scheier
Sixteen-year-old Dora travels to London to meet Sherlock Holmes, who might be her biological father, and ask his help for her cousin who is being blackmailed over some stolen letters, but although Holmes dies before she arrives, a handsome young detective comes to Dora's aid.
Burn Mark 
By Laura Powell
In an alternate London, England, the lives of a fifteen-year-old girl eagerly awaiting the development of her "fae," or witch abilities, and the son of a man who sentences witches to death by burning, intersect when the son makes a startling discovery.
Beauty
By Lisa Daily
After Molly is sketched by an artist, to whom she divulges a wish for good looks, she wakes up to discover that she has become beautiful, a situation that improves her popularity until she realizes it comes with a price.
Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn: The Illustrated Movie Companion 
By Mark Cotta Vaz
With full-color photos, behind-the-scenes details, and interviews with the cast, this guide gives readers an inside look at the making of Breaking Dawn.
Someday Dancer
By Sarah Rubin
In South Carolina in 1959 Casey Quinn dreams of being a ballerina, and though she has never had the money for lessons, she follows her dream to New York City and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.
Miracle
By Elizabeth Scott
Rising senior and star soccer player Megan Hathaway, unable to remember the plane crash of which she was the sole survivor, feels like an empty shell and loses all interest in her life and her friends, but unlikely friends help her face life as a "miracle".
Erebos: It's a Game: It Watches You
By Ursula Poznanski
Nick Dunmore is receives a mysterious computer game as a gift. You can't buy it or download it from anywhere and it has strict codes for its players. When Nick is given a deadly mission by the game, his real life and the online world begin to blur.
The Escape from Alcatraz 
By Stephanie Watson
Looks at the famous 1962 escape attempt of three prisoners from the island prison of Alcatraz and their subsequent disappearance.
Glitch 
By Heather Anastasiu
In the Community, where implanted computer chips have erased human emotions and thoughts are replaced by a feed from the Link network, Zoe starts to malfunction, or glitch, and begins having her own thoughts, feelings, identity--and telekinetic powers.
Dust Girl 
By Sarah Zettel
On the day in 1935 when her mother vanishes during the worst dust storm ever recorded in Kansas, Callie learns that she is not actually a human being.
Second Chance Summer 
By Morgan Matson
"Taylor Edwards' family might not be the closest-knit--everyone is a little too busy and overscheduled--but for the most part, they get along just fine. Then Taylor's dad gets devastating news, and her parents decide that the family will spend one last summer all together at their old lake house in the Pocono Mountains. Crammed into a place much smaller and more rustic than they are used to, they begin to get to know each other again. And Taylor discovers that the people she thought she had left behind haven't actually gone anywhere. Her former best friend is still around, as is her first boyfriend...and he's much cuter at seventeen than he was at twelve. As the summer progresses and the Edwards become more of a family, they're more aware than ever that they're battling a ticking clock. Sometimes, though, there is just enough time to get a second chance--with family, with friends, and with love"--.