Tuesday, November 15, 2011

New Books

Nonfiction:
Dear Bully: seventy authors tell their stories, edited by Carrie Jones and Megan Hall -- Presents top authors for teens as they share their stories about bullying -- as silent observers on the sidelines of high school, as victims, and as perpetrators.
Trapped: how the world rescued 33 miners from 2,000 feet below the Chilean desert by Marc Aronson 

Fiction:
Wildwood by Colin Meloy -- When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness -- a dangerous and magical forest at the edge of Portland, Oregon -- and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.
Thirst Vol. 4. The Shadow of Death by Christopher Pike -- Five-thousand-year-old vampire Alisa Perne battles a new race of immortals: the Telar. The Telar are a challenging threat. But, Alisa is hungry for blood -- and thirsty for revenge.
Thirst vol. 1. The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice -- Alisa must get close to Ray to ensure her immortality and she falls in love.
Paradise by Jill S. Alexander -- Alisa must get close to Ray to ensure her immortality and she falls in love.
Steampunk! edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant --A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in the age of steam engines and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.
Life: an Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet -- In 1960's Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage, but his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations.
Blood: Book One of the Mercian Trilogy by K. J. Wignall -- A centuries-old vampire wakes up in the modern day to find he is being hunted by an unknown enemy, and begins to uncover the secrets of his origin and the path of his destiny.
Death Cure: Maze Runner #3 by James Dashner -- As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia -- Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand and control the impact of Lena's claiming, which is even causing her family members' abilities to dangerously misfire.
The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf -- Recreates the 1912 sinking of the Titanic as observed by millionaire John Jacob Astor, a beautiful young Lebanese refugee finding first love, "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, Captain Smith, and others including the iceberg itself.
Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson -- Almost seventeen-year-old Alison, who has synesthesia, finds herself in a psychiatric facility accused of killing a classmate whose body cannot be found.
Unforgettable by Loretta Ellsworth -- When Baxter Green was three years old, he developed a condition that causes him to remember absolutely everything, and now that he is fifteen, he and his mother have moved to Minnesota to escape her criminal boyfriend and, Baxter hopes, to reconnect with a girl he has been thinking about since kindergarten.
Iron Knight by Julie Kagawa -- Faery prince Ash -- the last remaining son of Mab, Queen of the Unseelie Court -- finally gets to tell his story: how he escaped the Winter Court with his life intact and the promise he made to the Iron Queen.
Outcasts by John Flanagan -- Skandian outcasts Hal, Stig, and others do battle at sea against the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race across icy waters where not everyone thinks of the competition as play.
Pearl Wars by Nick James -- Skyship Academy #1 -- In 2095 when a fifteen-year-old slacker discovers that he has the power to control Pearls, fragments of space debris that are a dying Earth's most important energy source, government forces work to capture him.
The Craving by L.J. Smith (vampire diaries) -- Stefan flees to Manhattan hoping to escape his brother Damon, but when his brother finds him, they both become involved with a high society family, while an old enemy, Klaus, continues to hunt them down.
Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan -- Sixteen-year-old Rosalinda Fitzroy, heir to the multiplanetary corporation UniCorp, is awakened after sixty years in stasis to find that everyone she knew has died and, as she tries to make a new life for herself, learns she is the target of a robot assassin.
Near Witch by Victoria Schwab -- Sixteen-year-old Lexi, who lives on an enchanted moor at the edge of the village of Near, must solve the mystery when, the day after a mysterious boy appears in town, children start disappearing.
Ashfall by Mike Mullin -- After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished.
The Space Between by Brenna Yovanoff -- Daphne is the half-demon, half-fallen angel daughter of Lucifer and Lilith. Life for her is an endless expanse of time, until her brother Obie is kidnapped -- and Daphne realizes she may be partially responsible. Determined to find him, Daphne travels from her home in Pandemonium to the vast streets of Earth, where everything is colder and more terrifying.
Liar's Moon by Elizabeth Bunce -- Sequel to Starcrossed -- In a quest to prove her friend, Lord Durrel Decath, innocent of the murder of his wife, pickpocket Digger stumbles into a conspiracy with far-reaching consequences for the civil war raging in Lllyvraneth, while also finding herself falling in love.
Break-up Diaries vol. 2 by Nikki Carter -- The holidays are coming, and this year there's more in the air than gifts and bling 'cause these relationships are hitting bumps. So get ready for two stories that dish on what it means to forgive, forget, and move on...
iBoy by Kevin Brooks -- Sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was an ordinary Londoner until an attack that caused fragments of an iPhone to be embedded in his brain, giving him incredible knowledge and power, but using that power against the gang that attacked him and a friend could have deadly consequences.
Snow in Summer by Jane Yolen -- Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.

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