Monday, October 01, 2012

New in October


The Alchemy of Forever
By Avery Williams
Forced to leave her alchemist boyfriend centuries earlier when she resolves to stop stealing the bodies of other people in order to extend her own life, Seraphina survives by inhabiting the bodies of dying girls and unexpectedly falls in love.
The Unnaturalists
By Tiffany Trent
"Vespa Nyx wants nothing more than to spend the rest of her life cataloging Unnatural creatures in her father's museum, but as she gets older, the requirement to become a lady and find a husband is looming large over her. Syrus Reed's Tinker family has always served and revered the Unnaturals from afar, but when his family is captured for refinery slaves, he finds that his fate may be bound up with Vespa's--and with the Unnaturals. As the danger grows, Vespa and Syrus find themselves in a tightening web of deception and intrigue. At stake may be the fate of New London--and the world"-- Provided by the Publisher
Never Enough
By Denise Jaden
Sixteen-year-old Loann admires and envies her older sister Claire's strength, popularity, and beauty, but as Loann begins to open up to new possibilities in herself, she discovers that Claire's all-consuming quest for perfection comes at a dangerous price.
The Secret World of Whales
By Charles Siebert
Presents an introduction to whales, describing legends about them, the history of whale hunting, the latest research on their brain and methods of communication, and the current efforts of conservationists to protect them from extinction.
Vessel
By Sarah Durst
When the goddess Bayla fails to take over Liyana's body, Liyana's people abandon her in the desert to find a more worthy vessel, but she soon meets Korbyn, who says the souls of seven deities have been stolen and he needs Liyana's help to find them.
Lia's Guide to Winning the Lottery 
By Keren David
When Lia wins eight million in the lottery, her life suddenly changes. But Lia wonders if her fortune creates more problems than it solves.

The Dark Unwinding
By Sharon Cameron
In 1852, when seventeen-year-old Katharine is sent to her family's estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families, but strange occurrences soon have her doubting her own sanity.
The Bermuda Triangle
By Christine Zuchora-Walske
Discusses the mysterious disappearance within and the cultural impact of the Bermuda Triangle.
The Treachery of Beautiful Things
By Ruth Frances Long
Seven years after the forest seemingly swallowed her brother whole, seventeen-year-old Jenny, whose story about Tom's disappearance has never been believed, sets out to finally say goodbye, but instead she is pulled into a mysterious world of faeries and other creatures where nothing is what it seems.
Shadowfell 
By Juliet Marillier
Fifteen-year-old Neryn is alone in the land of Alban, where the oppressive king has ordered anyone with magical strengths captured, but when she sets out for Shadowfell, a training ground for a rebel group, she meets a mysterious soldier and the Good Folk, who tell her that she, alone, can save Alban.

The Unquiet
By Jeannine Garsee
When sixteen-year-old Rinn, who has bipolar disorder, and her mother move back to her mother's hometown in Ohio and settle in a house where the previous owner hanged herself, Rinn discovers that both the town and her mother have some uncomfortable secrets in their past and that the ghost that supposedly haunts the school seems to be out for revenge.
The Bumper Book of London
By Becky Jones and Clare Lewis
With fun facts, stories, folklore, food and more, this book gives readers an inside look at England’s exciting capital city.
Auracle
By Gina Rosati
A teenaged girl who has the power to astrally project finds her body taken over by a dead classmate, and must find a way to reclaim it if she wants to save herself and her friend who is accused of murder.
Insignia
By S.J. Kincaid
Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.

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"--.

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

New in August

Deadly Pink
By Vivian Vande Velde
Fourteen-year-old Grace must find a way to get her older sister out of a princess-filled virtual reality RPG (role playing game)--before it is too late.
Dragonswood
By Janet Lee Carey
In 1192 A.D. on Wilde Island, Tess, the daughter of a cruel blacksmith, is accused of witchcraft and must flee, but when she meets a handsome and enigmatic warden of Dragonswood who offers her shelter, she does not realize that he too harbors a secret that may finally bring about peace among the races of dragon, human, and fairy.

The Girl is Trouble
By Kathryn Miller Haines
Late 1942 in New York City finds fifteen-year-old Iris helping more with her father's detective business, as long as she follows his rules and learns his techniques, but her investigation into her mother's supposed suicide gets Iris in big trouble--and not just with her father.
Junk Box Jewelry
By Sarah Drew
Shows crafters how to make jewelry from everyday objects and to look for opportunities to sell their creations.
For Darkness Shows the Stars
By Diana Peterfreund
"Elliot North fights to save her family's land and her own heart in this post-apocalyptic reimaging of Jane Austen's PERSUASION"-- Provided by publisher.

Tiger Lily 
By Jodi Lynn Anderson
Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily receives special protections from the spiritual forces of Neverland, but then she meets her tribe's most dangerous enemy--Peter Pan--and falls in love with him.
Soulbound 
By Heather Brewer
Seventeen-year-old Kaya, a Healer who wants to learn to fight, must attend Shadow Academy where fighting by Healers is outlawed, and so she asks two young men to train her in secret, leading to a choice that will change their lives forever.
Seventeen Ultimate Guide to Beauty 
By Ann Shoket
Provides hair and makeup advice for teen girls about how to enhance their features, based on their individual skin tone, hair texture, and more.
Keeping the Castle
By Patrice Kindl
In order to support her family and maintain their ancient castle in Lesser Hoo, seventeen-year-old Althea bears the burden of finding a wealthy suitor who can remedy their financial problems.
Seraphina
By Rachel Hartman
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook
By Emily Ansara Baines
With dishes like French bread from the Mellark Family Bakery to Gale’s Bone-Pickin’ Big Game soup to Capitol-Grade Dark Chocolate Cake, this collection of recipes, inspired by the Hunger Games series, lets readers create meals from Panem.
Magic Under Stone
By Jaclyn Dolamore
Star-crossed lovers Nimira and Erris seek the sorcerer Ordoria Valdana hoping he will be able to free Erris from his clockwork form, but Valdana has vanished and as Nimira studies his spell books she realizes the terrible danger that could come from returning Erris to real life.
A World Away
By Nancy Grossman
Sixteen-year-old Eliza, an Amish girl, goes to work for an "English" family as a nanny to two young children, and must then choose between two entirely different ways of life.
Starters
By Lissa Price
To support herself and her younger brother in a future Beverly Hills, sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it.

Sunday, July 01, 2012

New in July

In Honor
By Jessi Kirby
Three days after she learns that her brother Finn died serving in Iraq, Honor receives a letter from him asking her to drive his car from Texas to California for a concert, and when his estranged best friend shows up suddenly and offers to accompany her, they set off on a road trip that reveals much about all three of them.
Changeling
By Philippa Gregory
In 1453, seventeen-year-old Luca Vero, accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, is recruited to help investigate evil across Europe but frees his first subject, Isolde, from captivity in a nunnery, and together they seek the one who defends the boundaries of Christendom and holds the secrets of the Order of Darkness.
Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink
By Stephanie Kate Strohm
During a summer internship at a living history museum in Maine, fashion-conscious Libby runs afoul of her roommate, investigates a haunted ship, and seeks a romantic hero like those in the historical novels she loves.
Flying Machine Book: Build and Launch 35 Rockets, Gliders, Helicopters, Boomerangs, and More 
By Bobby Mercer
"Shows readers how to turn rubber bands, paper clips, straws, plastic bottles, and index cards into amazing, gravity-defying flyers. Each project contains a material list and detailed step-by-step instructions with photos. Mercer also includes explanations of the science behind each flyer, including concepts such as lift, thrust, and drag, the Bernoulli effect, and more"--.
Masque of the Read Death
By Bethany Griffin
In this twist on Edgar Allen Poe's gothic short story, a wealthy teenaged girl who can afford a special mask to protect her from the plague that decimated humanity in the mid-1800s, falls in love, becomes caught up in a conspiracy to overthrow an oppressive government, and faces the threat of a new plague.
Crater
By Homer Hickam
In the twenty-second century, sixteen-year-old Crater Trueblood, who mines the moon for Helium-3 to produce energy for a desperate, war-towrn Earth, undertakes a deadly mission that could mean the difference between life and death for every inhabitant on the moon.
My Family For the War
By Anne C. Voorhoeve
Before the start of World War II, ten-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while attempting to keep in touch with her parents, who are trying to survive in Holland.
City Critters: Wildlife in the Urban Jungle 
By Nicholas Read
From deer to snakes to alligators, many wild animals actually choose to live in cities, using special skills to help them survive in an urban environment.
Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls
By Julie Schumacher
When four very different small-town Delaware high school girls are forced to join a mother-daughter book club over summer vacation, they end up learning about more than just the books they read.
Surrender 
By Elana Johnson
In Freedom, where Thinkers rule and Rules should never be broken, Raine, daughter of the Director, is expected to spy on her roommate, Vi, and report back to him in case heavy brainwashing is not enough to prevent Vi from remembering the secrets he is anxious to keep hidden.
Shadows on the Moon 
By Zoe Marriott
Trained in the magical art of shadow-weaving, sixteen-year-old Suzume, who is able to re-create herself in any form, is destined to use her skills to steal the heart of a prince in a revenge plot.
Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens: The Secrets About Money - That You Don't Learn in School 
By Robert T. Kiyosaki
Money guru Kiyosaki helps teens understand ways to earn money and limit their spending, helps them recognize their own financial style, and uses games and quizzes to help teens gain the financial skills they need to be successful.
A Girl Named Digit 
By Annabel Monaghan
After identifying a terrorist plot, a brilliant seventeen-year-old girl from Santa Monica, California, gets involved with the young FBI agent who is trying to ensure her safety.
Railsea
By China Mieville
Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling the endless rails of the railsea--even if his captain can think only of the hunt for the ivory-colored mole she's been chasing since it took her arm all those years ago. When they come across a wrecked train, at first it's a welcome distraction. But what Sham finds in the derelict--a kind of treasure map indicating a mythical place untouched by iron rails--leads to considerably more than he'd bargained for.
37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order)
By Kekla Magoon
Fifteen-year-old Ellis recalls her favorite things as her mother's desire to turn off the machines that have kept Ellis's father alive for two years fill the last four days of her sophomore year with major changes in herself and her relationships.