New Books

Graphic Novels:
Arctic Marauder by Jacques Tardi -- In 1899, "L'Anjou," a ship navigating the Arctic Ocean from Murmansk, Russia, to Le Havre, France comes across a stunning sight: A ghostly, abandoned vessel perched high atop an iceberg. But, exploring this strange apparition is the last thing the sailors will ever do, as their own ship is soon dispatched to Davy Jones' locker via a mysterious explosion.Can adventurer Jerome Plumier discover what is really happening?
Lost and Found by Shaun Tan -- Three stories explore how we lose and find what matters most to us, as a girl finds a bright spot in a dark world, a boy leads a strange, lost being home, and a group of peaceful creatures loses its home to cruel invaders.
Return of the Dapper Men by Jim McCann -- A tale of a world in between time, where children have played so long it's almost become work, machines have worked so long they have begun to play, and all the clocks have stopped at the same time.
Excalibur: the Legend of King Arthur by Tony Lee -- a retelling of the King Arthur myth - with some significant reinterpetation of classic elements - and some fae elements as well. Beautiful art!
Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, Peter Gillis (adaptor) and Renae De Liz (artist) -- a truly classic fantasy tale rendered in full color panels. A beauty!
Star Wars. The Clone Wars. Hero of the Confederacy. Vols. 1-3
Star Wars. The Clone Wars. In Service of the Republic. Vols 1-3
Bleach Vols. 31-34
Slam Dunk Vol. 15
Dengeki Daisy Vol. 4
Power Play by Liam O'Donnell -- While at an international summit about water usage, Devin and Nadia join Marcus, Bounce, and Pema to find and stop the people trying to prevent Marcus's father, an environmentalist speaking at the event, from delivering his message.
Breaking Down by Kinney-Petrucha -- a satire of a certain "Very Popular" vampire novel series
Tron. The Ghost in the Machine -- Jet Bradley, son of original TRON programmer Alan Bradley, has recently escaped the computer world. But his experiences within cyberspace have left him emotionally scarred -- vivid nightmares plague him, and he's become paranoid and unstable. He shuns technology wherever possible, leaving him effectively crippled in the modern world. And now something within the computer world wants him back! Takes place over two decades after the events of the original film and the video game Tron 2.0 but, like Tron 2.0, is not part of the canon universe of Tron and Tron: Legacy.
Girl Genius Vol. 3: Agatha Heterodyne and the Monster Engine by Phil Foglio
Witch and Wizard. Vol. 2, Operation Zero by James Patterson
Shadoweyes by Ross Campbell -- Scout Montana wants to be a vigilante superhero, but when a strange transformation traps her in a monstrous form, she finds herself outside the very world she wanted to help.
Time Masters. Vanishing Point -- companion to Batman. The Return of Bruce Wayne
Superman vs. Muhammad Ali -- Together, the Man of Tomorrow and the Champ are two of the mightiest warriors the Earth has ever known. Now, they must face their greatest challenge yet: each other!
Avengers Academy. Vol. 1, Permanent Record -- Determined to keep the tradition alive, founding Avenger Hank Pym leads a core team of veteran heroes in creating a place where the next generation of Earth's Mightiest can be trained by the greatest of those who preceded them. The future is in their hands ... and in the hands of the six young superhumans chosen to make up the inaugural class. But, who are they? And what dark secret will turn their world upside down?
Amazing Spider-Man. By JMS ultimate collection. bks. 2-4
Trouble Maker : a Barnaby and Hooker Graphic Novels vols. 1-2 by Janet Evanovich
Moon Called. Vol. 1 by Patricia Briggs -- Mercy Thompson's next-door neighbor is a werewolf, her former boss is a gremlin, and she's fixing a VW bus for a vampire, but Mercy isn't exactly normal herself.
Merchant of Venice (adapted by Richard Appiganisi) -- with elves!
In sixteenth-century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.

Nonfiction:
Ask Elizabeth by Elizabeth Berkley -- questions teens ask about friends, teens, their bodies and lives - accurate, honest answers for girls.
Five Thousand Years of Slavery by Marjorie Gann -- uses historical and personal accounts to trace the roots of slavery from Sumerian times to the modern era.
Nevermore: a Photobiograpy of Edgar Allan Poe by Karen Lange -- examines the life and times of the poet who would have such an effect on future writers, poets, and others.

Fiction:
Banished by Sophie Littlefield -- Sixteen-year-old Hailey Tarbell, raised by a mean, secretive grandmother, does not know that she comes from a long line of healers until her Aunt Prairie arrives with answers about her past that could quickly threaten her future.
Sequins, Secrets, and Silver Linings by Sophia Bennett -- Three fourteen-year-old friends, with very different interests, befriend a twelve-year-old Ugandan refugee whose gift for design takes off in the high-fashion world of twenty-first-century London.
Salt by Maurice Gee -- Hari, one of the enslaved people from Blood Burrow, and Pearl, a member of the ruling families known as Company, forge an unusual alliance and become reluctant traveling companions, as they undertake a desperate pilgrimage to save the world from a terror beyond their greatest imaginings.
Fearscape by Simon Holt -- Pursued by the Vours, supernatural creatures who feast on fear and attack on the eve of the winter solstice, Reggie tries to hold onto her humanity as she finds herself gradually morphing into a Vour.
Queen of Water by Laura Resau -- Living in a village in Ecuador, a Quechua Indian girl is sent to work as an indentured servant for an upper class "mestizo" family.
Properties of Water by Hannah McKinnon -- When her older sister Marni is paralyzed jumping off the cliffs into the lake near their house, thirteen-year-old Lace feels responsible for the accident and struggles to find a way to help heal her family.
All You Get Is Me by Yvonne Prinz --
Almost sixteen-year-old city-transplant Aurora must adapt to life on an organic farm as she navigates an eventful summer when she falls in love, discovers that her mother has left for good, and watches her father take a bold stand in defense of the rights of undocumented Mexican farm workers.
Where She Went by Gayle Forman -- follows Mia's life in New York City through the eyes of Adam, who is now a rock star. Can they reconnect three years after the tragedy that smashed Mia's life?
Blood on My Hands by Todd Strasser -- At a high school party, a girl finds her best friend murdered, only to be discovered holding the weapon and accused of the crime.
Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander -- Sixth-graders Mac and Vince operate a business charging schoolmates for protection from bullies and for help to negotiate conflicts peacefully, with amazing challenges and results.
Illegal by Bettina Restrepo -- Nora, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl, faces the challenges of being an illegal immigrant in Texas when she and her mother cross the border in search of Nora's father.
Haunting of Charles Dickens by Lewis Buzbee -- Twelve-year-old Meg travels the rooftops and streets of 1862 London, England, in search of her missing brother, Orion, accompanied by a family friend, the famed author Charles Dickens, whose quest is to find his next novel.
Daughter of Winter by Pat Lowry Collins -- In the mid-nineteenth-century shipbuilding town of Essex, Massachusetts, twelve-year-old Addie learns a startling secret about her past when she escapes servitude by running away to live in the snowy woods and meets an elderly Wampanoag woman.
Visconti House by Elspeth Edgar -- Laura Horton has always been an outsider, more interested in writing, drawing, or spending time with her free-spirited family than in her fellow teens, but she is drawn to Leon, a new student, as together they explore the mysteries of her eccentric old house.
Deadly by Julie Chibbaro -- In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever. Includes a historical note by the author.
Entwined by Heather Dixon -- Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother's death, Princess Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who's trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.
Geek Fantasy Novel by E. Archer -- Ralph is asked to spend the summer with his strange British relatives at their old manor house in order to set up their Wi-Fi network. And thus begins his strange adventure.
I, Emma Freke by E.J. Atkinson -- Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place, but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.
Death Cloud by Andy Lane - Sherlock Holmes the Legend Begins bk. 1 -- In 1868, with his army officer father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously "unwell," fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire, where he uncovers his first murder and a diabolical villain.
Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kittredge -- In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted fifteen-year-old Aoife Grayson, whose family has a history of going mad at sixteen, must leave the totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic to solve the mystery of her brother's disappearance and the mysteries surrounding her father and the Land of Thorn.
Entice by Carrie Jones -- When evil pixies invade Bedford, capturing more teens every day, sixteen-year-old Zara's quest to bring Nick back from Valhalla becomes more urgent, but she fears he will not return with her since she has been pixie kissed and become Astley's queen.
Floating Islands by Rachel Neumeier -- The adventures of two teenaged cousins who live in a place called The Floating Islands, one of whom is studying to become a mage and the other one of the legendary island flyers.
Cry of the Giraffe by Judie Oron -- Wuditu and her Jewish family risk their lives to make a dangerous journey out of Ethiopia towards Yerusalem in a time of revolt, which leads them to a refugee camp in Sudan, where they are separated. Terrified, 15-year-old Wuditu makes her way back to Ethiopia alone.
Demon Trapper's Daughter by Jana Oliver -- In 2018 Atlanta, Georgia, after a demon threatens seventeen-year-old Riley Blackthorne's life and murders her father, a legendary demon trapper to whom she was apprenticed, her father's partner, Beck, steps in to care for her, knowing she hates him.
Birth of a Killer by Darren Shan -- When his cousin is murdered at the factory where they both work as child laborers, young Larten Crepsley commits a horrific act and must live on the run until he meets a vampire named Seba Nile, who offers him protection and training as a vampire's assistant.
Timescape by Robert Liparulo -- David, Xander, Dad, and Keal discover that Taksidian wants their house for himself in order to use the time portals to build an empire, and unless they can find his weakness in time, the future of the world itself may be in danger.
Time-traveling Fashionista by Bianca Turetsky -- Twelve-year-old Louise Lambert accepts an invitation to a private sale of vintage clothing, but upon donning an evening gown, she finds herself in 1912 aboard the Titanic as the gown's original owner, silent film star Alice Baxter.
Department 19 by Will Hill -- After watching his father's brutal murder, sixteen-year-old Jamie Carpenter joins Department 19, a secret government agency, where he learns of the existence of vampires and the history that ties him to the team destined to stop them.
Rogue Crew by Brian Jacques (Redwall #23) -- The murderous and evil Razzid Wearat and his crew of vermin are on a mission to seize Redwall Abbey for themselves, and Abbot Thibb and his Redwallers must defend their home with the help of the hares of the Longpatrol and the Rogue Crew of sea otters.
Abandon by Meg Cabot -- A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce's life upside-down, but when she needs him most, John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld.