Friday, September 10, 2010

New Books!

Eternal Ones by Kiersten Miller (WWL) - Seventeen-year-old Haven Moore leaves East Tennessee to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she meets playboy Iain Morrow, whose fate may be tied to hers through a series of past lives.
Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins (WWL) - Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other.
I Am Number Four by Lore (WWL) - In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
Dear George Clooney Please Marry My Mom by Susin Nielson (WWL) - Violet's TV-director dad has traded a job in Vancouver for one in Los Angeles, their run-down house for a sleek ranch-style home complete with a pool, and, worst of all, Violet's mother for a trophy wife, a blonde actress named Jennica. Violet's younger sister reacts by bed-wetting, and her mother ping-pongs from one loser to another, searching for love. As for Violet, she gets angry in ways that are by turns infuriating, shocking, and hilarious.
Conspiracy 365. Book nine, September by Gabrielle Lord - Convinced Oriana was behind kidnapping his little sister, Cal teams up with Boges to plant a bug in Oriana's house. But, will spying on his would-be killer revel the location of the precious Jewel and Riddle, or will it put Cal in the line of fire?
The Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price (WWL, SWL) - As an eyewitness to two murders, a Montana teenager relates the shocking story behind the crimes in a police interrogation interspersed with flashbacks.

Note: titles that are designated as WWL are owned by the West Waco Library, and may not be available until the new Library opens (scheduled for Saturday, Oct 2nd).

Graphic Novels:

Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 23
Shonen Jump Vol.8, issue 9 2010

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