New Books

Nonfiction:
Vampire History and Lore by Stuart Kallen -- Explores vampire beliefs from the blood sucking beasts of ancient times to the immortal teen heartthrobs of the twenty first century.
Vampires: Do They Exist by Gail Stewart -- While many people assume that vampires are merely the topic of popular movies and novels, it is also true that many believe they exist in real life, too. This book examines the legends about the various forms vampires take, how they feed on the living, and the dangers of encountering them.
How Serious a Threat is Climate Change? by Hal Marcovitz -- Experts predict global warming could cause devastating storms and floods, reduce production of food, wipe out forests and species of animals and force millions of people to flee their homelands.
Can Renewable Energy Replace Fossil Fuels? by Hal Marcovitz -- Many experts believe renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power hold the answers to stemming climate change as well as reducing America's reliance on foreign governments to provide oil.
Personality Disorders by Lydia Bjorlund -- Individuals with a personality disorder interpret and respond to people and situations unlike most other people; they may exhibit odd, erratic, dramatic, anxious, and, often, socially unacceptable behavior.
Vaccine Research by Toney Allman -- Presents information on the research into vaccines that scientists do, including the methods that they employ and the results that they achieve.
Unraveling Freedom by Ann Bausum -- Looks at America during the WWI period, when fear and intolerance led to the persecution of German Americans, socialists, and peace activists.
Gene Therapy Research by Hal Marcovitz -- Gene therapy has the potential to wipe out many horrific and debilitating diseases, including Parkinson's disease, diabetes and some forms of cancer. As doctors pursue breakthroughs in gene therapy, they must overcome many ethical questions that surround the research as well as the unknown consequences of replacing faulty genes.

Fiction:
Cloaked by Alex Flinn -- Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.
Cryer's Cross by McMann -- Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two teenagers go missing within months of each other, with no explanation.
Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy -- Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilirating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
Secondhand Charm by Julie Berry -- On her journey to the royal university to become a doctor, fifteen-year-old Evie, wearing potent gypsy charms, learns of her monstrous inheritance.
Water Wars by Cameron Stracher -- In a world where water has become a precious resource, Vera and her brother befriend a boy who seems to have unlimited access to water and who suspiciously disappears, prompting a dangerous search challenged by pirates, a paramilitary group, and corporations.
Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus -- Enrolling in a New England boarding school after her sister's mysterious death, sixteen-year-old Phe Archer uncovers a secret that could answer all her questions, but could also cost her her life.
Firelight by Sophie Jordan -- When sixteen-year-old Jacinda, who can change into a dragon, is forced to move away from her community of shapeshifters and start a more normal life, she falls in love with a boy who proves to be her most dangerous enemy.
Kindred by Tammer Stein -- Spiritual warfare breaks out when the Archangel Raphael and the Devil deliver assignments to eighteen-year-old fraternal twins Miriam and Moses.
Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler -- Seventeen-year-old Lisabeth has anorexia, and even turning into Famine -- one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- cannot keep her from feeling fat and worthless.
Threads and Flames by Esther Friesner -- After recovering from typhus, thirteen-year-old Raisa leaves her Polish shtetl for America to join her older sister, and goes to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory.
Pick-up Game edited by Marc Aronsen -- A series of short stories by such authors as Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Joseph Bruchac, interspersed with poems and photographs, provides different perspectives on a game of streetball played one steamy July day at the West 4th Street court in New York City known as The Cage.
Will Work for Prom Dress by Aimee Ferris -- Seventeen-year-old Quigley and her best friend Anne have big plans to prepare for prom, including working to earn money for dresses, but both girls seem to have chosen their prospective dates badly as Anne's family crisis affects them all.
Vesper : a Deviant's Novel by Jeff Sampson -- By the time sixteen-year-old Emily discovers that she and several of her high school classmates in their small Washington town are products of genetic engineering, they display all very dangerous powers by night and are stalked by a murderer.
I Will Save You by Matt de la Pena -- Seventeen-year-old Kidd Ellison runs away to work for the summer at a beach campsite in California where his hard work and good looks lead to friendship and love, but painful past memories surface in menacing ways.
Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John -- Eighteen-year-old Piper becomes the manager for her classmates' popular rock band, called Dumb, giving her the chance to prove her capabilities to her parents and others, if only she can get the band members to get along.
Girl Next Door by Selene Castrovilla -- As seventeen-year-old Sam desperately tries to help her best friend and neighbor Jesse through aggressive treatments for a rare and usually fatal form of cancer, they find themselves falling deeply in love.
Invasion : a C.H.A.O.S. novel by J. S. Lewis -- After his parents are killed in an automobile accident, sixteen-year-old Colt McAllister moves to Arizona where he is recruited by a secret organization to join the battle against malevolent, supernatural creatures from another world.
House of the Star by Caitlin Brennan -- Elen, a princess of Ymbria, longs to learn to ride the magical horses known as worldrunners, the only safe way to travel the roads of Faerie, but she must first find a way to forge a peace with her people's worst enemy and end the centuries-old war between them, a task she doubts her ability to accomplish.
Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon -- After her parents die under mysterious circumstances, sixteen-year-old Renee Winters is sent from California to an old-fashioned boarding school in Maine, where she meets a fellow student to whom she seems strangely connected.
Gool by Maurice Gee -- Sixteen years after Hari and Pearl defeated the tyrant Ottmar, their children Xantee and Lo face an even more dangerous foe, which they must find and destroy if they are to save their father and the world they know.
Fledgling Handbook 101 by P.C. Cast -- A handbook for fledglings new to the House of Night that provides information to ease the transition from human to fledgling, and describes the history of vampyres.
Upgrade U by Ni Ni Simone -- Life is poppin', and seventeen-year-old Seven McKnight is rockin' Stiles University's hottest baller, Josiah Whitaker, on her arm when it all falls apart. With groupies threatening her basketball wife status and Josiah's dreams of the NBA blowing up his ego, Seven finds herself in a tailspin. Should she stay or leave?
Painted Boy by Charles de Lint -- High-schooler Jay Li finds himself in the Arizona desert performing dangerous feats as part of his journey to prove himself a worthy member of the part human, part dragon Yellow Dragon Clan.
Kiss Me Deadly : 13 Tales of Paranormal Love edited by Tricia Talep -- A collection of short stories combining dark seduction and modern romance presents a variety of tales featuring the romantic lives of humans and werewolves, ghosts, fallen angels, zombies, and shape-shifters.
Tyger Tyger by K.R. Hamilton -- Soon after the mysterious and alluring Finn arrives at her family's home, sixteen-year-old Teagan Wylltson and her disabled brother are drawn into the battle Finn's family has fought since the thirteenth century, when Fionn MacCumhaill angered the goblin king.
Starcrossed by Elizabeth Bunce -- In a kingdom dominated by religious intolerance, sixteen-year-old Digger, a street thief, has always avoided attention. But when she learns that her friends are plotting against the throne, she must decide whether to join them or turn them in.
Babe in Boyland by Jody Gehrman -- Natalie, a seventeen-year-old former drama club member who now writes a relationship column for her school newspaper, decides to go undercover as a student at an all-boys boarding school so that she can figure out what guys are really like.
Unnatural by Michael Griffo -- Michael Howard and Ronan Glynn-Rowley meet at Archangel Academy, an all-boys school in Eden, a rural town in north western England. Both are outcasts and decried as unnatural, Michael because he's gay, and Ronan because he's a hybrid vampire.