Friday, June 11, 2010

New Books

Super Human by Michael Owen Carroll -- A ragtag group of young superheroes takes on a powerful warrior who is transported from 4,000 years in the past to enslave the modern world.
Jump by Elise Lynn Carbone -- Two teenaged runaways meet at a climbing gym and together embark on a dangerous and revealing journey.
Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready -- Sixteen-year-old Aura of Baltimore, Maryland, reluctantly works at her aunt's law firm helping ghosts with wrongful death cases file suits in hopes of moving on, but it becomes personal when her boyfriend, a promising musician, dies and persistently haunts her.
Picture the Dead by Adele Griffin -- After Jennie Lovell's fiancé, Will, is killed during the Civil War, she forms an alliance with a spirit photographer and uses her ability to talk to the dead to investigate the secrets Will was hiding and how he really died.
Starlighter by Bryan Davis -- Jason Masters does not believe that dragons take people to another realm as slaves until his own brother is taken, but once through the portal, he meets Koren, a slave struggling to destroy a black egg prophesied to doom all mankind.
Lucky, Gorgeous, and Brilliant (Avery Sisters, books 1, 2 and 3) by Rachel Vail -- As Phoebe and her clique of privileged girlfriends get ready to graduate from eighth grade, a financial scandal threatens her family's security -- as well as Phoebe's social status -- but ultimately it teaches her the real meaning of friendship.
The Gardener by S.A. Bodeen -- When high school sophomore Mason finds a beautiful but catatonic girl in the nursing home where his mother works, the discovery leads him to revelations about a series of disturbing human experiments that have a connection to his own life.
Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George -- In the midst of maneuverings to create political alliances through marriage, sixteen-year-old Poppy, one of the infamous twelve dancing princesses, becomes the target of a vengeful witch while Prince Christian tries to save her.
Good Enough by Paula Yoo -- A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.
Early to Death, Early to Rise by Kim Harrison -- When Madison Avery, seventeen, spunky, and technically dead, takes on the role of Dark Timekeeper, she struggles to figure out her place in the war between light and dark reapers.

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