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"That's how we manage to survive loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal." ~ from Gayle Forman's If I Stay
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New and Recently Released!
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| While We Run by Karen HealeyScience Fiction. After exposing a shady government program to turn third-world refugees into slave labor on a starship, activists Abdi and Tegan are now prisoners of that same government. Tortured by their sadistic captors and forced to promote the starship program, they manage to hang on until they're rescued -- but will their relationship survive their ordeal? And, more urgently, can they still take down their enemies before it's too late? Set in a chilling future version of Australia and blending "diverse, well-realized characters with thought-provoking dilemmas" (Kirkus Reviews), this sequel to When We Wake is passionate, brutal, and utterly gripping. |
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| Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCourFiction. During her last summer before starting college, aspiring movie production designer Emi scores a killer internship in Los Angeles. While scouting for props at a famous actor's estate sale, Emi and her friend Charlotte discover an unsent letter from the actor and decide to deliver it themselves. Their efforts lead them to Ava, a talented young actress with a murky past. As Emi's attraction to Ava grows, she starts to look beyond her glamorous surroundings and realize that there's more to true happiness than a Hollywood ending. With its L.A. atmosphere and swoon-worthy romance, Everything Leads to You is the perfect pick for fans of Francesca Lia Block.
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| Say What You Will by Cammie McGovernRealistic Fiction. Amy is brilliant, driven, and -- due to cerebral palsy -- she uses a computer to talk and a walker to get around. Her classmate Matthew struggles with school work as well as with severe anxiety in the form of obsessive compulsive disorder. When Matthew becomes one of Amy's peer aides during their senior year of high school, it's the beginning of a complex relationship that challenges them to push their own limits, take some big chances, and risk making big mistakes. Similar to Corey Ann Haydu's OCD Love Story but with even more turbulence, Say What You Will is a dramatic and refreshingly honest love story. |
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| We Are the Goldens by Dana ReinhardtFiction. Nell Golden expected that once she started going to the same high school as her adored older sister, Layla, they'd grow even closer together. Instead, Layla becomes suddenly distant. When Nell learns the troubling reason for Layla's suspicious behavior, she's faced with the choice to either keep Layla's secret or reveal it -- and she knows that both choices could be seen as betrayal. Written in the form of a confession from Nell to Layla, We Are the Goldens is a poignant coming-of-age story as well as an intimate look at the damaged but fiercely loving relationship between two sisters.
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| Sinner by Maggie StiefvaterParanormal Romance. In this follow-up to the bestselling Wolves of Mercy Falls series, readers find out what happens to werewolf Cole and human Isabel after they leave Mercy Falls and wind up in Los Angeles. Cole, who claims to have kicked his drug addiction, is in town to revive both his music career and his rocky relationship with Isabel. But bitter, conflicted Isabel knows that neither of them can escape the past so easily. Those who are interested in the history of this "spectacularly messy, emotionally oh-so-human romance" (Kirkus Reviews) should start with Shiver, the 1st book in the series. |
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Just Call My Name
by Holly Goldberg Sloan
A companion tale to I'll Be There finds the happy prospects of Emily Bell shattered by the arrival of a charismatic new girl and disturbing reports about Sam's criminally insane father, who is plotting a jailbreak and revenge. 25,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Deadly little sins : a Prep school confidential novel
by Kara Taylor
After a summer of virtual house arrest in New York City, Anne Dowling finds herself back at Wheatley, where her favorite teacher and only adult ally, Ms. Cross, has disappeared and someone is determined to stop Anne from learning the truth about that anda gruesome murder
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The girl from the well
by Rin Chupeco
Okiku has wandered the world for centuries, freeing the innocent ghosts of the murdered-dead and taking the lives of killers with the vengeance they are due, but when she meets Tark she knows the moody teen with the series of intricate tattoos is not a monster and needs to be freed from the demonic malevolence that clings to him
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The merciless
by Danielle Vega
In an effort to make friends at her new school, Sofia gets involved with a group of popular girls who dislike Brooklyn, a loner who they believe to be evil
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Fragile destiny
by Suzanne Lazear
Worried that the broken Staff of Eris, a potent Otherworld relic, will be exploited by a dark king who would reassemble it to install a new queen, Noli and her true love, V, plot the daring theft of a jewel the king needs to complete the staff. Original.
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Don't let go
by Michelle Gagnon
A conclusion to the trilogy that includes Don't Look Now finds Noa and Peter confronting the realities of having numerous enemies and Noa's failing health before encountering the evil person responsible for their troubles. 45,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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If You're Reading This
by Trent Reedy
Still in mourning eight years after losing his father under mysterious circumstances in Afghanistan, 15-year-old Mike struggles to be the man of the family for his overworked mom and disconnected sister before receiving a long-lost letter of encouragement. By the award-winning author of Words in the Dust. Simultaneous eBook.
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Mortal Danger
by Ann Aguirre
Agreeing to join the mysterious Kian's magical faction to exact revenge on a group of bullies who have tormented her, Edie transforms into a beautiful girl and begins to sabotage the bullies' inner circle only to discover dark truths about Kian's world. By the author of Enclave.
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Sanctum : An Asylum Novel
by Madeleine Roux
Plagued by memories of their shared summer at Brookline Asylum, Dan, Abby and Jordan receive sinister photographs from an anonymous sender who says they must uncover a dark society with ties to the asylum's late warden. 125,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Between the spark and the burn
by April Genevieve Tucholke
A sequel to Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea finds Violet and Neely searching for the nefarious River through a sequence of frenzied towns before Violet begins to question Neely's trustworthiness. Simultaneous eBook.
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Sisters' fate
by Jessica Spotswood
"In the final book in the Cahill Witch Chronicles, the Sisters' and the Brotherhood near all-out war as an epidemic breaks out in New London, and the prophecy that one sister will murder another comes ever closer to fruition"
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Fiendish
by Brenna Yovanoff
Imprisoned in a cellar by a magical force throughout her childhood, Clementine resolves to discover why this occurred but is hindered by town politics and her growing attraction to the boy who freed her. By the best-selling author of Paper Valentine. Simultaneous eBook.
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The unfinished life of Addison Stone
by Adele Griffin
Comprised of hundreds of snapshot interviews by more than a dozen characters, a fictional depiction of celebrity life follows the experiences of an ill-fated teen through reflections by her family, friends, critics, photos and emails. By the National Book Award Finalist author of Sons of Liberty. Simultaneous eBook.
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Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
by Lucy Frank
An evocative novel in verse traces the unfolding friendship between two very different teen girls who share a hospital room and an illness from which one gradually recovers while the other languishes. Simultaneous eBook.
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Wordless
by AdriAnne Strickland
Collecting trash near the glass pyramid where elite Godspeakers keep the living Words safe from the illiterate class, 17-year-old Tavin is entreated by the Word of Life to help prevent the Godspeakers from transforming her powers into invading automatons. Original.
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Blind
by Rachel DeWoskin
After a horrific accident leaves her blind, fifteen-year-old Emma, one of seven children, eagerly starts high school as a sophomore, and finds that nearly everything has changed--sometimes for the better
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The rule of thoughts
by James Dashner
A sequel to The Eye of Minds finds Path survivor Michael continuing VirtNet Security's efforts to stop cyber-terrorist Kaine from completing his Mortality Doctrine plot to conquer humanity with controlling tangent mind technology. Simultaneous eBook.
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The revenge of seven
by Pittacus Lore
A penultimate installment in the best-selling series finds the battle for Earth's survival faltering in the wake of a broken and divided Garde that receives unexpected help from a Mogadorian who has turned his back on his people. 400,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Amity
by Micol Ostow
"Two teens narrate the terrifying days and nights they spend living in a house of horrors"
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Yolo
by Lauren Myracle
Through "instant messages," chronicles the struggles best friends Maddie, Angela, and Zoe face during their freshman year in college, each of them in a different state, two wondering if their romantic relationships will last, and one determining that roller derby is the key to keeping the trio close
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If you're excited about the premiere of If I Stay, the movie based on Gayle Forman's novel about a teen girl in a coma, check out these other books about altered consciousness and the afterlife.
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| Waves by Sharon DogarFiction. Hal Ditton and his family have always spent blissful summers at their Brackinton beach house. This year's trip, however, will only intensify the pain the whole family has suffered since Hal's older sister Charley's late-night surfing accident last summer. She's been comatose ever since, but when the Dittons go to Brackinton without Charley, Hal is overwhelmed by thoughts that seem to belong to her. Is it possible that Charley is sending Hal her thoughts? This suspenseful book should especially appeal to readers who like Jodi Picoult's stories about families in crisis, or the supernatural narration of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. |
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The lovely bones : a novel
by Alice Sebold
The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.
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Pivot point
by Kasie West
A girl with the power to see alternate futures lives out six weeks of two different lives in alternating chapters and while both futures hold the potential for love and loss, ultimately she is forced to choose which reality she's willing to live through... and who she can't live without. 50,000 first printing.
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| The Everafter by Amy HuntleyFantasy/Mystery. From the very first line ("I'm dead"), The Everafter pulls you into the afterlife of 17-year-old Madison, who can't remember exactly who she is or how she died. All she knows is that her spirit lives on, floating in a boundless void, surrounded by objects that she lost when she was alive. Touching each object allows Madison to re-experience a moment of her life, bringing her memories back and presenting her with a unique opportunity: to investigate her own death. If you enjoy carefully constructed mysteries filled with friendship, romance, and heartbreak, don't miss this inventive supernatural debut.
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| More Than This by Patrick NessScience Fiction. When 16-year-old Seth walks into the churning waves of the ocean, he never expects to wake up -- especially not in a desolate, uninhabited version of his family's old neighborhood in England. Could he be in hell, or is something stranger going on? Grieving for the forbidden love he shared with his best friend and nursing his guilt over a tragic childhood mishap, Seth tries to puzzle out what's really happening…and if he's really alone. "Stark and uncompromising" (Booklist), More Than This will appeal to older fans of gritty dystopian survival stories as well as to thoughtful readers who like to chew on mind-bending ideas. |
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Before I fall
by Lauren Oliver
After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha Kingston relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself. 75,000 first printing.
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| Everlost by Neal ShustermanFantasy. Nick and Allie were both in a fatal car crash, but neither of them made it all the way to "the light." Instead, they've landed in Everlost, an in-between land where kids, buildings, and beloved objects go after they've ceased to exist in the living world. There are a lot of rules for surviving in Everlost (keep moving or you'll sink through the ground; avoid the beastly, talon-fingered McGill at all costs) and eventually Allie and Nick encounter the fellow lost soul who seems to be making those rules. Entranced by her, Nick might want to stay in Everlost, but Allie is determined to get home -- even if it means taking over the bodies of the living. Intrigued? Continue reading with Everwild and Everfound, the 2nd and 3rd books in the Skinjacker trilogy. |
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| Elsewhere by Gabrielle ZevinFiction. Liz Hall is nearly 16 when she is hit by a taxicab while riding her bike to the mall. The next thing she knows, she's on a boat headed to Elsewhere, the place where people go when they die. After learning that everyone in Elsewhere ages backward and, upon reaching infancy, returns to Earth, Liz is distraught and angry about everything she missed by dying so young. Using Elsewhere's special observation deck, Liz becomes preoccupied with watching the lives of her family and friends -- so preoccupied that she might just miss her own chance at finding peace, love, and fulfillment. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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