Monday, December 01, 2014

New in December

Beware the Wild
Natalie Parker

A teenaged girl and her boyfriend must find her older brother after he wanders into their town's swamp and a mysterious girl appears in his place.







Bleed Like Me
By C. Desir

Two emotionally scarred teenagers enter into a passionate, dangerous romance.







Dangerous Deceptions
By Sarah Zettel

An unwelcome engagement, a mysterious plot that hints at treason, and a possible murder add even more excitement to sixteen-year-old Peggy Fitzroy's life as she continues to serve as both a lady-in-waiting and confidential agent to King George of England.





Earth & Sky
By Megan Crewe

Seventeen-year-old Skylar has been haunted for as along as she can remember by fleeting yet powerful sensations that something is horribly wrong. But despite the panic attacks tormenting her, nothing ever happens, and Sky's beginning to think she's crazy. Then she meets a mysterious, otherworldly boy named Win and discovers the shocking truth her premonitions have tapped into.
Even in Paradise
by Chelsey Philpot

Seventeen-year-old Charlotte "Charlie" Ryder, a girl from a working class family whose talent for the arts has gained her entry into the exclusive St. Anne's school, is drawn into the circle of the larger-than-life Julia Buchanan, a former senator's daughter.





Forbidden
By Kimberly Griffiths Little

Devastated by her betrothal to a violent boy she does not love, Jayden is forced to accept her fate as her ancient Mesopotamian tribe moves to the Summer Lands, where she falls for a mysterious youth from the Southern Lands.

Get Happy
By Mary Amato

On her birthday, Minerva, a seventeen-year-old singer/songwriter, hears from the father she has never known and her placid life is turned upside down.







How It Went Down
By Kekla Magoon

When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.





Like Water on Stone
By Dana Walrath

Shahen, a youth who dreams of moving to New York, his twin Sosi, who never wants to leave her home, and their little sister, Miriam, flee the horrifying Armenian genocide of 1915 and struggle for survival in the aftermath of their parents' deaths.





Loop
By Karen Akins

Error-prone Bree Bennis, sixteen, will lose her scholarship if she cannot pass Quantum Paradox 101, but inadvertently brings a twenty-first century boy back with her, then enlists his help in discovering who is attacking time travelers in the twenty-third century.





The Princess Spy
By Melanie Dickerson

Margaretha hopes her newest suitor, Lord Claybrook, will be her one true love, but when an injured man is brought to Hagenheim Castle claiming to be an English lord who was attacked by Claybrook, Margaretha is drawn into a plot, not knowing who is telling the truth.





The Spiritglass Charade
By Colleen Gleason

In 1889 Evaline Stoker, Mina Holmes, and their time traveler friend, Dylan are asked by the Princess of Wales to find out what happened to Robby Ashton, who may have drowned -- but the reappearance of vampires in the heart of London threatens to become a more urgent problem.





The Unhappening of Genesis Lee
By Shallee McArthur

Seventeen-year-old Genesis Leee does not remember meeting Kalan even though she is a Mementi, a genetically enhanced human being who should be able to remember everything perfectly.






Ghost Walls: The Story of a 17th-century Colonial Homestead
By Sally M. Walker

The story of St. John's, a home built in the New World in the wilderness of Maryland, that for nearly eighty years was the center of an ambitious English plan to build a new kind of community on American soil.






El Deafo
By Cece Bell

In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful—and very awkward—hearing aid.






Remaking the John: The Invention and Reinvention of the Toilet
By Francesca Davis Dipiazza

You will learn about everything from ancient Roman sewers to the world's first flush toilets. You'll also find out about the twenty-first-century Reinvent the Toilet Challenge—an engineering contest designed to spur creation of an ecologically friendly, water-saving, inexpensive, and sanitary toilet.

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