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TITLE: The Selection
AUTHOR: Kiera Cass WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cas - ROMANCE SUMMARY: America Singer is chosen to compete in the Selection-a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince-but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her. |
TITLE: All the Birds in the Sky
AUTHOR: Charlie Jane Anders WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F And - FANTASY SUMMARY: Reunited as adults in the hipster mecca San Francisco as the planet falls apart around them, childhood friends Patricia Delfine, who is magically gifted, and Laurence Armstead, an engineering genius, discover that something bigger than either of them has brought them together to either save the world, or plunge it into a new dark ages. |
TITLE: The Closest I've Come
AUTHOR: Fred Aceves WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ace - NOVELS SUMMARY: Enduring abuse at the hands of his mother's racist boyfriend and his gritty peers, gentle-hearted Marcus dreams of escaping his disadvantaged neighborhood and is placed in an after-school program for promising at-risk teens, where new friendships inspire him to think about his future in different ways. |
TITLE: Dare Me
AUTHOR: Megan Abbott WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Abb - THRILLER SUMMARY: After a suspicious suicide, the members of a high school cheerleading squad, along with their new, perfectly cool coach, Colette French, are drawn into the investigation. |
TITLE: Americanah
AUTHOR: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Adi - NOVELS SUMMARY: Separated by differing ambitions after falling in love in occupied Nigeria, beautiful Ifemelu experiences triumph and defeat in America, while Obinze endures an undocumented status in London until the pair is reunited in their homeland fifteen years later. |
TITLE: The Wrath & the Dawn
AUTHOR: Renée Ahdieh WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ahd - FANTASY SUMMARY: Coming of age in a land where the Caliph of Khorasan takes a new bride each night and executes her at sunrise, 16-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry him in order to break the cycle and exact revenge for the murder of her best friend. Inspired by A Thousand and One Nights. |
TITLE: The Power
AUTHOR: Naomi Alderman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ald - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In a novel of speculative fiction, an award-winning author contemplates a world where teenage girls now have immense physical power-they can cause agonizing pain and even death, drastically resetting the balance of the world. |
TITLE: The Impossible Knife of Memory
AUTHOR: Laurie Halse Anderson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F And - NOVELS SUMMARY: Enduring a transient existence before starting school in her Iraq War veteran father's hometown, a troubled Hayley Kincaid longs for a normal life and pursues a relationship with a secretive boy before her father's PTSD leads to a disturbing drug problem. |
TITLE: Lexicon
AUTHOR: Max Barry WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bar - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Recruited into an exclusive government school where students are taught the science of coercion to support a secretive organization, orphaned street hustler Emily Ruff becomes the school's most talented prodigy before catastrophically falling in love. |
TITLE: Wonders of the Invisible World
AUTHOR: Christopher Barzak WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bar - NOVELS SUMMARY: Reuniting with longtime friend Jarrod, who has returned to their sleepy Ohio farming community, 17-year-old Aidan begins communicating with the spirit world before realizing that he has inherited a family curse and that he is falling for Jarrod, a friend he hasn't seen in five years. |
TITLE: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
AUTHOR: Aimee Bender WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ben - NOVELS SUMMARY: Discovering in childhood a supernatural ability to taste the emotions of others in their cooking, Rose Edelstein grows up to regard food as a curse when it reveals everyone's secret realities. |
TITLE: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
AUTHOR: Holly Black WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bla - HORROR SUMMARY: When seventeen-year-old Tana wakes up following a party in the aftermath of a violent vampire attack, she travels to Coldtown, a quarantined Massachusetts city full of vampires, with her ex-boyfriend and a mysterious vampire boy in tow. |
TITLE: What I Saw and How I Lied
AUTHOR: Judy Blundell WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Blu - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever. |
TITLE: The Darkest Minds
AUTHOR: Alexandra Bracken WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bra - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Ruby breaks out of a government-run 'rehabilitation camp' for teens who acquired dangerous powers after surviving a virus that wiped out most American children. |
TITLE: Anya's Ghost
AUTHOR: Vera Brosgol WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bro - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-conscious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well and making friends with the ghost there just may be worse. |
TITLE: Tell the Wolves I'm Home
AUTHOR: Carol Rifka Brunt WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bru - NOVELS SUMMARY: There's only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that's her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. June's world is turned upside down when Finn Weiss died. At Finn's funeral, June notices a strange man lingering just beyond the crowd. A few days later, she receives a package in the mail. Inside is a beautiful teapot she recognizes from Finn's apartment, and a note from Toby, the stranger, asking for an opportunity to meet. As the two begin to spend time together, June realizes she's not the only one who misses Finn, and if she can bring herself to trust this unexpected friend, he just might be the one she needs the most. |
TITLE: Kindred
AUTHOR: Octavia E. Butler WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F But - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Dana, a black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor. |
TITLE: Through the Woods
AUTHOR: Emily Carroll WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Car - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Presents a collection of five spine-tingling short stories told in graphic novel format. |
TITLE: Fat Angie
AUTHOR: e.E. Charlton-Trujillo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cha - NOVELS SUMMARY: Angie overeats to cope with the taunts of the ultra-mean girls, her attempted suicide in front of a packed gym, and the status of her captured war-hero sister, until KC Romance comes to town and sees Angie for who she really is. |
TITLE: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
AUTHOR: Susanna Clarke WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cla - FANTASY SUMMARY: Magician, Mr. Norrell of Hurtfew Abbey, uses his powers against Napoleon and the French in 1806 and is soon challenged by Jonathan Strange, a novice magician, who becomes obsessed with the Raven King, the twelfth-century founder of English magic and bizarre forms of magic. |
TITLE: Zone One
AUTHOR: Colson Whitehead WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Whi - HORROR SUMMARY: In a post-apocalyptic world decimated by zombies, survivor efforts to rebuild are focused on Manhattan, where civilian team member Mark Spitz works to eliminate remaining infected stragglers and remembers his horrifying experiences at the height of the zombie plague. |
TITLE: The Passage
AUTHOR: Justin Cronin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cro - HORROR SUMMARY: FBI agent Brad Wolgast vows to protect six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte after a government military experiment she was involved in goes bad, unleashing a toxic virus that turns humans into bloodthirsty monsters. |
TITLE: Dark Matter
AUTHOR: Blake Crouch WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cro - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Kidnapped and drugged at gunpoint for inexplicable reasons, physics professor Jason Dessen awakens in a lab and is informed that his entire life has been an illusion and that he is being hunted by a deadly adversary. |
TITLE: Love Letters to the Dead
AUTHOR: Ava Dellaira WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Del - NOVELS SUMMARY: When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love. |
TITLE: You and Me and Him
AUTHOR: Kris Dinnison WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Din - ROMANCE SUMMARY: An overweight misfit and her longtime gay best friend embark on a junior year marked by a bond-testing attraction to the same newcomer. |