New YA Books

Graphic Novels:
Axe Cop vol. 1 by Malachai Nicolle, drawn by Ethan Nicholle - Bad guys, beware! Evil aliens, run for your lives! Axe Cop is here, and he's going to chop your head off! We live in a strange world, and our strange problems call for strange heroes. That's why Axe Cop -- along with his partner Flute Cop and their pet T. rex Wexter -- is holding tryouts to build the greatest team of heroes ever assembled.
Tantalize: Kieran's Story by Cynthia Leitich Smith - the flipside of the story told in the novel Tantalize from Quincie's point of view. This will not be released until Aug. 23, but you can put holds on it now.
Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans by Rick Geary (nonfiction) - During the years 1918 and 1919, six people in New Orleans were killed and six more injured, in their homes, in the dead of night, by an axe-wielding intruder who got away without a trace. After more than a year, the killings stopped as suddenly as they started. No trace of the murderer was ever found. Geary presents the facts and the speculations about these attacks in the third in his series on twentieth-century murder.
Salem Brownstone: All Along the Watchtowers by John Harris Dunning - Upon his father's death, Salem inherits a mansion as well as an unfinished battle with creatures from another world, which requires him to seek the help of his guardian familiar and the colorful performers of Dr. Kinoshita's Circus of Unearthly Delights.
Kill Shakespeare vol. 1 by Conor McCreery - This dark take on the Bard pits his greatest heroes (Hamlet, Juliet, Othello, Falstaff) against his most menacing villains (Richard III, Lady Macbeth, Iago) in an epic adventure to find and kill a reclusive wizard named William Shakespeare.
Legend : the Labors of Heracles by Ryan Foley Their first mistake was to assume he would give up... Heracles has it all: a beautiful home, a loving family, and a reputation as a great soldier who would stop at nothing to defend his homeland. Then his origin brings him into the center of a vicious plot, where he is hynotized into committing the worst crime of all. Devestated by his actions, he wanders aimlessly, immersed in depression. He finally find solace in the fact that he can atone for his sings by completing ten impossible tasks. Where other men would give up and consider themselves defeated, Heracles uses his courage, strength, and intellect to take up the tasks one by one.
Set to Sea by Drew Weing - After fantasizing about a life at sea, the oafish main character gets shanghaied aboard a clipper bound for Hong Kong and spends the rest of his life on the ship, fighting pirates, writing poetry, and ultimately finding meaning in his life.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Nancy Butler - the classic Austen novel in a very readable but true-to-the-original graphic retelling. Two very different sisters meet young men after their comfortable lives change drastically, and they leave their home.
S.H.E.I.L.D. Vol. 1 Architects of Forever by Jonathan Hickman - Leonardo Da Vinci was an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. So was Issac Newton. So were Imhotep and Zhang Heng and Galileo and many other geniuses throughout time. They were the first heroes to defeat Galactus and the Brood and turn Celestials back. They saved the world long before Captain America or Iron Man were ever born, but what does this mean to our heroes of today? What does this mean to Nick Fury?
Robert Jordan's the Wheel of time. New Spring [the graphic novel] - sets the stage for a graphic novelization of the epic fantasy series - a pair of gifted young women struggle to become the heroines their world needs as a prophecied darkness descends.

Fiction:
Bitter End by Jennifer Brown - When seventeen-year-old Alex starts dating Cole, a new boy at her high school, her two closest friends increasingly mistrust him as the relationship grows more serious.
Jersey Tomatoes Are the Best by Maria Padian - When fifteen-year-old best friends Henry and Eve leave New Jersey, one for tennis camp in Florida and one for ballet camp in New York, each faces challenges that put her long-cherished dreams of the future to the test.
Sidekicks by Jack D. Ferraiolo - Batman has Robin, Wonder Woman has Wonder Girl, and Phantom Justice has Bright Boy, a.k.a. Scott Hutchinson, an ordinary dude by day and a superfast, superstrong sidekick by night, fighting loyally next to his hero ... despite his doubts about the social benefits of wearing yellow tights. After an embarrassing incident involving said tights and the revelation that his lifelong nemesis, supervillain sidekick Monkeywrench, might be one of the most popular kids at his school, Scott begins to question his role.
Dark City by Catherine Fisher - Sixteen-year-old Raffi, Master Galen, and a mysterious traveler, Carys, enter the ruined city of Tasceron seeking a relic that may save the world, while evading the Watch, a brutal organization opposed to the Order to which Raffi and Galen belong.
Incredibly Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Maryland teenager Alice McKinley spends her last semester of high school performing in the school play, working on the student paper, worrying about being away from her boyfriend, who will be studying in Spain, and anticipating her future in college.
Falling Under by Gwen Hayes - Sheltered, small-town California girl Theia Alderson feels incredibly drawn to a devastatingly handsome new boy at school, Haden, who she has seen before, not in class or the hall, but in her dreams.
Goddess Test by Aimee Carter - Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken -- "live forever or die trying" -- is not revealed until it's too late to recant.
Magnolia League by Katie Crouch - After the death of her free-spirited mother, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Lee is forced to move from Northern California to Savannah, Georgia, to live with her wealthy grandmother, who expects Alex to join a long-standing debutante society, which, Alex learns, has made a pact with a legendary Hoodoo family.
Small Acts of Amazing Courage by Gloria Whelan - In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.