New Books

Graphic Novels:

Blue Exorcist Vols 4-7 --While most of the students at True Cross Academy head home for the summer break, Rin and his classmates are sent to a training camp in the forest district, and the right to go on a real mission is riding on their performance! Locating and recovering their objectives in the woods is tough and will require teamwork, skill, and more than a little magic -- and Rin will have to learn to rely on his friends. But, is Mephisto masterminding something behind the scenes?!
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol. 5 -- Chibi-Usa gets sucked into the far reaches of space-time and vanishes! It's up to Tuxedo Mask to reach her and get her back safely while Sailor Moon and the others must escape Nemesis and the evil clutches of Wiseman and his cronies. But as Tuxedo Mask travels through the space-time storm, he encounters an ominous woman claiming to be his daughter! Who is this strange woman? Is she really Chibi-Usa?!
Death Note black edition. Vol. 1 --     Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects -- and he's bored out of his mind. But, all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now, Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. Will Light's noble goal succeed, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?
Hana-Kimi Vol. 1 -- Mizuki Ashiya is no slouch when it comes to a challenge. She's a star of track and field at her high school, after all. So when she falls for fellow athlete Izumi Sano, she figures out an ingenious plan to get close to him. Now, she's moved to Japan, enrolled in the all-male high school Sano goes to, and become his roommate! How? She's disguised herself as a boy! Whatever happens next, things are about to get seriously complicated!

Fiction:

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake -- For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.
Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix -- Battling aliens, space pirates, and competitors, Prince Khemri meets a young woman, named Raine, and learns more than he expected about the hidden workings of a vast, intergalactic Empire, and about himself.
City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare -- Mortal Instruments, book 5 --     When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world's destruction.

Graphic Novels:

Bleach Vols. 16-17, 25-28

Fiction:

Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore -- Sequel to Graceling, companion to Fire - the young Queen of Monsea tries to help her country heal from the wounds left by her father's curse, and learns that her advisors are only helping themselves.
Serpent's Shadow by Rick Riordan -- Kane Chronicles #3 - Carter and Sadie can't seem to beat Apophis. Can they find the spell that will turn his shadow into a weapon capable of destroying the evil god?
Destined by Aprilynne Pike -- Wings #3 - Laurel and her faithful friends race to save Avalon, knowing that not all of them can survive, and that perhaps Atlantis is not saveable.
Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi -- companion to Ship Breaker - orphans Mahlia and Mouse struggle to survive in their war-torn land. When disaster strikes, Mahlia, with her new companion, dog-man Tool, must find the courage to act to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
Insurgent by Veronica Roth -- sequel to Divergent - Tris battles to survive and protect those she loves as war surrounds her. She grapples with love, loyalty and loss in this complex dystopian adventure.
Selection by Kiera Cass -- volume 1 - America Singer is part of the "selection", a group of girls chosen to compete for wealth, position and the love of a prince, when all she wants is to win the right to marry her true love, Aspen, who is lower caste than she.
Immortal Rules by Julie Kawagawa -- Blood of Eden #1 - Allison never wanted to become a vampire, so when the worst happens, she flees, and joins a group struggling to find a cure for the disease that created the vampires in the beginning.
The Accused by John Grisham -- Theodore Boone #3 - while the town watches, Theodore Boone is accused of committing robbery, and his friends must fight to protect him, even if it means breaking a few rules.
Invaders by John Flanagan -- Brotherband Chronicles #2 - Hal and the other Herons face many perils as they track down the pirates who stole Skandia's most prized artifact, the Andomal.
Hourglass by Myra McEntire -- teenaged Emerson uses her ability to manipulate time to help Michael, a consultant, prevent a murder that occurred six months earlier; at the same time they explore their attraction to each other.

Graphic Novels:

Superman. Nightwing and Flamebird. Vol. 2 -- Superman is gone, and the only thing that stands between Earth and an invasion led by General Zod of Krypton are Nightwing & Flamebird, who are, of course, kryptonians themselves! And Lois Lane discovers that her father, long believed dead, has returned, bearing an ominous message for her...
Essential. Web of Spider-Man. Vol. 1 -- An all-new Spiderman series opens with all-new villains and challenges for the black-clad superspider!
Marvel Masterworks Presents. The Amazing Spider-Man. Vol. 6 -- Spiderman and Jonah Jameson are both targets of the Kingpin! Can Spidey overcome his dislike of Jonah long enough to defeat their mutual enemy? Plus other adventures.
Spider-Man. Deadly Foes of Spider-Man -- Spider-man's deadliest foes take the limelight, and struggle to succeed against other villains and heroes alike.
Amazing Spider-Man. The Complete Ben Reilly Epics. Vols. 2-3 -- follow the further adventures of the clone spider-man, and also find out what's happening to Peter Parker and MJ as Spidey faces the loss of his powers!
Spider-Man Through the Decades -- a sampling of epic and moving moments through the life of Spider-man, from the 1960's forwards.
Spider-Man. Chapter One -- Explore the reinvention of Spider-man for the 21st century as he faces off (for the very first time) some of his most traditional enemies.
Spider-Man. The Vengeance of Venom -- When Spider-man first donned his sleek black suit, he had no idea it would eventually become his greatest enemy, Venom! Watch as Eddy Brock tries to take down Spidey!
Ghost Projekt by Joe Harris --  With the end of the Cold War, many things are coming to the surface in Russia. U.S. Weapons inspector Will Haley and a beautiful Russian Agent risk their lives to find out what powers a mysterious weapon has, and to rescue it from the hands of brigands.
Resistance. Book 2, Defiance by Carla Jablonski -- Paul, Marie and Sophie attempt to keep their cool as Nazi soldiers occupy their village in France; the lives of French Resistance fighters and even hidden Jews depend on their courage and their silence, as conditions steadily worsen.
Amy Devlin Mysteries. Books 2, All Saints Day by Christina Weir -- Every ten years on All Saint's Day, a murder victim - a sinner with a saint's name -- has been found; in a month the anniversary will recur; can Amy Devlin solve the case before then? And what about the reporter camped on her doorstep?

Nonfiction:

How to Draw Zombies by Mike Butkus -- drawing lessons cover anatomy, setting the stage, features, horrific elements, zombie apocalypse, and more!
Miles to Go for Freedom by Linda Barrett Osborne -- primary sources including interviews, newspaper accounts and more reveal the early history of segregatiion and the civil rights movement in the Jim Crow era.
How to Feel Good: 20 things teens can do by Tricia Mangan -- twenty healthy skills for teens to build confidence and calm in the face of daily

Fiction:

Calling by Kelley Armstrong -- Darkness Rising #2 - Maya and her friends have been kidnapped, and after a terrifying helicopter crash, find themselves being pursued by evil-doers across the Vancouver Island wilderness with nothing but their supernatural powers to aid them.
Partials by Dan Wells -- After a weaponized virus has wiped out most of the human race, Kira makes a discovery about the Partials - an engineered (and feared) species, which could change the future for both of them - forever.
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers -- Ismae is only 14 when she escapes a brutal arranged marriage and then is whisked away to the Abbey of St. Mortain, where she is trained to become Death's Handmaiden.