New Library Books

Ancestor by Scott Sigler (science fiction)(horror) - Geneticist P.J. Colding and his team, working on a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, figure out how to reverse evolution and create a computer-engineered living creature from which organs can be harvested for transplant patients, but, to their surprise, the animals are not as docile as they thought they would be and P.J. and the others must fight in order to avoid becoming their prey.

Secret by Brigid Kemmerer (fantasy fiction)(book 4 of series) - Nick Merrick is stretched to breaking point. He's trying to keep his grades sky-high or he won't get in to college. He's trying to keep his brother's business afloat or the Merricks will be out on the street. He's trying to keep the secret of where he's going in the evenings from his twin brother Gabriel - or he fears he'll lose his family.

Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor (realistic fiction) - Zoe thought that being cut from her ballet program was the worst thing that could happen, but when her best friend Olivia is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, Zoe quickly learns that not being able to dance is the least of her problems.

Scan by Walter Jury and Sarah Fine (science fiction)(book 1 of series) - Tate Archer outruns armed government officials as he tries to keep his now dead father's strange invention out of the wrong hands, alien hands.

What We Hide by Marthe Jocelyn (historical fiction) - Told from multiple viewpoints, high school Junior Jenny of Philadelphia spends a semester at a Quaker boarding school in Sheffield, England, near where her brother is avoiding the Vietnam draft, and where everyone carries close-held secrets.

Minders by Michele Jaffe (mystery fiction) - Sadie, a wealthy, success-oriented sixteen-year-old joins the prestigious Mind Corps Fellowship program as an observer in the head of Ford, a troubled, possibly murderous boy, with whom Sadie falls in love.

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (multicultural fiction) - In 1952 Afghanistan, Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters.

Fat Boy vs. the Cheerleaders by Geoff Herbach (realistic fiction) - When the high school cheerleading team takes over a soda vending machine's funds, which were previously collected by the pep band, Gabe Johnson, an overweight "band geek" tired of being called names and looked down on, declares war.

Life by Committee by Corey Ann Haydu (realistic fiction) - A girl puts her heart, reputation, and friendships on the line when she spills her deepest secrets to a website that may not be as innocent--or as anonymous--as it seems.

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han (realistic fiction)(book 1 of series) - Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent.

Breathe, Annie, Breathe by Miranda Kenneally (realistic fiction)(book 5 of series) - To honor her dead boyfriend and cope with her grief and guilt, college student Annie trains for a marathon with athletic Jeremiah, who flirts with Annie on the trails and makes her feel alive and happy and guilty all at the same time.

The Sound of Letting Go by Stasia Ward Kehoe (realistic fiction) - At seventeen, Daisy feels imprisoned by her brother Steven's autism and its effects, and her only escape is through her trumpet into the world of jazz, but when her parents decide to send Steven to an institution she is not ready to let him go.

On the Right Track by Sam Kadence (realistic fiction)(book 1 of series) - When Ryunoski "Ru" Nakimura is expelled from a boy band for coming out as gay, he leaves California to lie low in Minnesota where he begins a relationship with Adam Corbin, a gay high school student and football player.

Out of Eden by Peter Johnson (mystery fiction) - In the time since his parents' divorce, Stony hasn't had much to say to his father. It's not just the embarrassing things his father does in public, like picking fights with strangers on the golf course, needling his ex-wife about the car she drives, and asking girls whether they're attracted to Stony. Stony is headed for a New Hampshire vacation with his father, his sister, and his father's girlfriend, Sally. But at their very first stop to get a burger along the turnpike, Stony's father gets into an argument with a creepy-looking skinny guy and his huge friend. Sally calms Stony's father down, and the four of them drive away from the rest area---but not, it turns out, from the skinny guy and his friend.

See Jane Run by Hannah Jayne (mystery fiction) - Riley Spencer never thought twice about keeping secrets from her parents, but when she finds a birth certificate with the name Jane O'Callahan hidden in her baby book, she must consider that her parents are lying to her.

Promise of Shadows by Justina Ireland (fantasy fiction) - As a human/god offspring, Zephyr Mourning is destined for a life of servitude but when she uses a forbidden dark power to kill the minor god who murdered her sister she is sent to Tartarus, where she discovers that she may be the Nyx, a dark goddess prophesied to change the balance of power.

Sweet Peril by Wendy Higgins (paranormal romance)(book 2 of series) - An unexpected lost message from the angels surfaces, and sweet Southern girl Anna, daughter of a guardian angel and a fallen one, finds herself traveling the globe in an attempt to gain support for her cause from fellow Nephilim. Meanwhile, her true love, Kaiden Rowe, the son of the Duke of Lust, is plaguing her heart and mind.

In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice--between bondage and freedom, family and love--as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.

A Tale of Two Centuries by Rachel Harris (romance fiction)(book 2 of series) - Sixteen-year-old Alessandra D'Angeli grows tired of her life in sixteenth-century Italy and uses a mystical spell to travel to twenty-first century Beverly Hills, California, to visit her cousin Cat Crawford, and there she meets Austin Michaels, a handsome and infuriating surfer.

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