Wednesday, September 19, 2012

New Books

Graphic Novels:

Ant-Man. Season One; A husband to a murdered wife. A son to a disapproving father. A scientist disgraced and undercut by his rivals. Before he began his life of super heroics as the original Avenger called Ant-Man, Hank Pym was a man lost in other indentities. Now, legendary writer Tom DeFalco (Amazing Spider-Man) and acclaimed artist Horacia Domingues (Fantastic Four: True Story) bring you the untold story of how the man the Marvel Universe has known as Ant-Man, Giant-Man, Goliath, and Yellowjacket grew from a tortured lost soul into one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson -- When a plague sweeps over the earth killing everyone except children under twelve, ten-year-old Lisa organizes a group to rebuild a new way of life.
Drama by Raina Telgemeier -- Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.

Fiction:
Huntress by Malinda Lo -- Seventeen-year-olds Kaede and Taisin are called to go on a dangerous and unprecedented journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen, in an effort to restore the balance of nature in the human world.
Goddess Interrupted by Aimee Carter -- About to be crowned Queen of the Underworld, the immortal Kate Winters must save Henry from the depths of Tartarus. But in order to navigate the endless caverns of the Underworld, Kate must enlist the help of the one person who is the greatest threat to her future: Henry's first wife, Persephone.
Goddess Legacy by Aimee Carter -- five tales telling the legend of Persephone and other gods and goddesses of Olympus.
Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George -- When her mother abandons her on Whidbey Island, Washington, a fourteen-year-old girl with psychic abilities meets a Ugandan orphan with a secret.
Circle of Silence by Carol Tanzman --     Valerie Gaines has a turn running the Campus News crew. A secret society has formed at her school and has been doing pranks. No one knows the society's members, agenda, or initiation secets. But when a student lands in the hospital under strange circumstances, Valerie wants to break the story. Will she and her crew be successful or will she be a victim of the next crime?
Caught by Margaret Haddix -- When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
Beautiful Lies by Jessica Warman -- Eighteen-year-old identical twins Alice and Rachel have always shared a very special bond, so when one is abducted, the other uses their connection to try to locate her.
Blood Keeper by Tessa Gratton -- Teenager Mab Prowd is perfectly content to practice blood magic on the secluded Kansas farm where she's lived all her life until one of her spells taps into a powerful, long-dormant curse and she finds her magic spinning out of control.
Starling by Lesley Livingston -- Mason Starling, a champion fencer at Gosforth Academy, finds her school overrun with terrifying creatures after a mysterious, ferocious storm falls on Manhattan and the mysterious stranger who saves her life becomes her only ally as they work together to discover his past and learn of Mason's family's dark allegiance to ancient Norse gods.
Hidden by Sophie Jordan -- Firelight #3 - Jacinda, a sixteen-year old who can shift into dragon form, surrenders herself to her greatest enemies in the hopes of destroying them and finally being free to choose a life with the human boy she loves.
Vessel by Sarah Beth 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.
One for the Murphys by Carley Hunt -- After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley is sent to live with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love.
This is Not  a Test by Courtney Summers -- Barricaded in Cortege High with five other teens while zombies try to get in, Sloane Price observes her fellow captives become more unpredictable and violent as time passes although they each have much more reason to live than she has.
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.
Survive by Alex Morel -- A troubled girl is stranded in an arctic winter terrain after a plane crash and must fight for survival with the only other boy left alive.
The Rising by Will Hill -- Department 19 #2 - Now that Jamie's an official member of Department 19 -- a classified government agency of vampire hunters -- he and his squad of elite operators are discovering that work is a non-stop emergency. And that's before the red alert: Dracula's remains have been stolen from the hiding place where they've been in lockdown for more than a century. The clock has been set. Jamie and the Department must stop the world's oldest evil from becoming the world's newest overlord.
Outlaw by Stephen Davies -- The children of Britain's ambassador to Burkina Faso, fifteen-year-old Jake, who loves technology and adventure, and thirteen-year-old Kas, a budding social activist, are abducted and spend time in the Sahara desert with Yakuuba Sor, who some call a terrorist but others consider a modern-day Robin Hood.
Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry -- Rendered a subject of gossip after a traumatic night that left her with terrible scars on her arms, Echo is dumped by her boyfriend and bonds with bad-boy Noah, whose tough attitude hides an understanding nature and difficult secrets.

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