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TITLE: Wicked Saints
AUTHOR: Emily A. Duncan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Dun - FANTASY SUMMARY: A girl who can speak to gods, a prince who must learn whom to trust, and a boy with a monstrous secret seek to assassinate the king and stop a centuries-long war. |
TITLE: Skyhunter
AUTHOR: Marie Lu WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lu - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for Mara, the only free nation in the world, but when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front to Mara's capital, Talin senses there is more to him than meets the eye. |
TITLE: King of Scars
AUTHOR: Leigh Bardugo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bar - FANTASY SUMMARY: When the dark magical force within him challenges his effort to forge new alliances and build a defense against a new threat, Nikolai Lantsov, the young king of Ravka, embarks on a journey to his country's most magical places to vanquish it. |
TITLE: The Inheritance Games
AUTHOR: Jennifer Barnes WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bar - MYSTERY SUMMARY: When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance. |
TITLE: The Enemy
AUTHOR: Charlie Higson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hig - HORROR SUMMARY: In the wake of a devastating disease, everyone sixteen and older is either dead or a decomposing, brainless creature with a ravenous appetite for flesh. Teens have barricaded themselves in buildings throughout London and venture outside only when they need to scavenge for food. |
TITLE: A Deadly Education
AUTHOR: Naomi Novik WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Nov - FANTASY SUMMARY: An unwilling dark sorceress destined to rewrite the rules of magic clashes with a popular combat sorcerer while resolving to spare the lives of innocents. |
TITLE: City of Ghosts
AUTHOR: Victoria Schwab WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sch - FANTASY SUMMARY: Surviving a near-fatal accident that gives her the ability to enter the spirit world, the daughter of television ghost-hunters visits with her ghost best friend and meets another girl who shares her abilities before realizing the dangers that come with her powers. |
TITLE: Caraval
AUTHOR: Stephanie Garber WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gar - FANTASY SUMMARY: Believing that she will never be allowed to participate in the annual Caraval performance when her ruthless father arranges her marriage, Scarlett receives the invitation she has always dreamed of before her sister, Tella, is kidnapped by the show's mastermind organizer. |
TITLE: Aurora Rising
AUTHOR: Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kau - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Relegated by a misguided act of heroism to a squad comprised of his school's hopeless misfits, a graduating cadet in a 24th-century space academy rescues a centuries-hibernating girl from interdimensional space only to be swept up in an interstellar war millions of years in the making. |
TITLE: Scott Pilgrim series
AUTHOR: Bryan Lee O'Malley WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F O'Ma - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Twenty-three-year-old Scott Pilgrim has the perfect life playing guitar in a rock band and dating a cute high school girl until he meets Ramona Flowers, an unforgettable rollerblading delivery girl whose seven evil ex-boyfriends Scott must defeat if he wants to win her love. |
TITLE: Heartstopper
AUTHOR: Alice Oseman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ose - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realized. |
TITLE: Alex Rider: The Graphic Novel
AUTHOR: Anthony Horowitz; Antony Johnston WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hor - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6, in this comic adaptation of Horowitz's novel. |
TITLE: Children of Blood and Bone
AUTHOR: Tomi Adeyemi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ade - FANTASY SUMMARY: Zâelie, her brother Tzain, and princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy. |
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: Avalon
AUTHOR: Mindee Arnett WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Arn - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Jeth Seagrave, the leader of a ragtag team of teenage mercenaries, skirts the line between honor and the law in an attempt to win freedom for his sister and himself in the form of their parents' old spaceship, Avalon. |
TITLE: Red Queen
AUTHOR: Victoria Aveyard WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ave - FANTASY SUMMARY: In a world divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities--seventeen-year-old Mare, a Red, discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. But Mare risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard--a growing Red rebellion--even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction. |
TITLE: Pure
AUTHOR: Julianna Baggott WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bag - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In a post-apocalyptic world, Pressia, a sixteen-year-old survivor with a doll's head fused onto her left hand meets Partridge, a "Pure" dome-dweller who is searching for his mother, sure that she has survived the cataclysm. |
TITLE: Shadow and Bone
AUTHOR: Leigh Bardugo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bar - FANTASY SUMMARY: Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold. |
TITLE: Six of Crows
AUTHOR: Leigh Bardugo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bar - FANTASY SUMMARY: Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price–and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone… A convict with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged past. A spy known as the Wraith. A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums. A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes. Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first. |
TITLE: Secondborn
AUTHOR: Amy A. Bartol WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bar - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: On Transition Day, the second child in every family is taken by the government and forced into servitude. Roselle St. Sismode's eighteenth birthday arrives with harsh realizations: she's to become a soldier for the Fate of Swords military arm of the Republic during the bloodiest rebellion in history, and her elite firstborn mother is happy to see her go. Televised since her early childhood, Roselle's privileged upbringing has earned her the resentment of her secondborn peers. Now her decision to spare an enemy on the battlefield marks her as a traitor to the state. But Roselle finds an ally--and more--in fellow secondborn conscript Hawthorne Trugrave. As the consequences of her actions ripple throughout the Fates Republic, can Roselle create a destiny of her own? Or will her Fate override everything she fights for--even love? |
TITLE: The Cruel Prince
AUTHOR: Holly Black WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bla - FANTASY SUMMARY: Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade. |
TITLE: The Darkest Minds
AUTHOR: Alexandra Bracken WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bra - FANTASY 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: The Selection
AUTHOR: Kiera Cass WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cas - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America 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: The Testing
AUTHOR: Joelle Charbonneau WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cha - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing. |
TITLE: The Hunger Games
AUTHOR: Suzanne Collins WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Col - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death. |
TITLE: Matched
AUTHOR: Ally Condie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Con - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility as she tries to decide which man she truly loves. |
TITLE: The Maze Runner
AUTHOR: James Dashner WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Das - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. |
TITLE: The Ruins of Gorlan
AUTHOR: John Flanagan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Fla - FANTASY SUMMARY: When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger. |
TITLE: The Cuckoo's Calling
AUTHOR: Robert Galbraith WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gal - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates the supposed suicide of supermodel Lula Landry, called The Cuckoo by her friends. |
TITLE: Gone
AUTHOR: Michael Grant WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gra - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not. |
TITLE: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
AUTHOR: Jenny Han WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Han - ROMANCE SUMMARY: 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. |
TITLE: The Nameless City
AUTHOR: Faith Erin Hicks WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hic - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Every time it is invaded the City gets a new name, but to the natives it is the Nameless City, and they survive by not letting themselves get involved--but now the fate of the City rests in the hands of Rat, a native, and Kaidu, one of the Dao, the latest occupiers, and the two must somehow work together if the City is to survive. |
TITLE: Into the Wild
AUTHOR: Erin Hunter WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hun - FANTASY SUMMARY: Rusty, a bored house kitten, is apprenticed by the ThunderClan and must struggle to fit in when the group of feral cats is threatened by the enemy ShadowClan. |
TITLE: The Fifth Season
AUTHOR: N. K. Jemisin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Jem - FANTASY SUMMARY: A first entry in a new trilogy by the award-winning author of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms finds the sole continent of the earth threatened by murder, betrayal, a super-volcano and overlords who use the planet's power as a weapon. |
TITLE: Truly Devious
AUTHOR: Maureen Johnson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Joh - MYSTERY SUMMARY: New at Ellingham Academy, Stevie Bell tries to both solve a murder at campus and the cold case of a double kidnapping. |
TITLE: Illuminae
AUTHOR: Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kau - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all. |
TITLE: The Stonekeeper
AUTHOR: Kazu Kibuishi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kib - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: After moving to their ancestral home, Emily and Navin's mother is kidnapped by a tentacled creature in the basement that leads the children on a deadly chase into the magical world below their home. |
TITLE: Ungifted
AUTHOR: Gordon Korman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kor - NOVELS SUMMARY: Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school. |
TITLE: Invisible Emmie
AUTHOR: Terri Libenson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lib - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Crushes. Humiliation. Drama. Middle school. This is the story of two totally different girls--quiet, shy, artistic Emmie and popular, outgoing, athletic Katie--and how their lives unexpectedly intersect one day, when an embarrassing note falls into the wrong hands. |
TITLE: Legend
AUTHOR: Marie Lu WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lu - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy. |
TITLE: Lumberjanes: Beware the Kitten Holy
AUTHOR: Noelle Stevenson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ste - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Best friends Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley spend a fun summer at Lumberjane scout camp where they encounter yetis, three-eyed wolves, and giant falcons while solving a mystery that holds the fate of the world in the balance. |
TITLE: A Court of Thorns and Roses
AUTHOR: Sarah J. Maas WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Maa - FANTASY SUMMARY: Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever. |
TITLE: Throne of Glass
AUTHOR: Sarah J. Maas WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Maa - FANTASY SUMMARY: After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. |
TITLE: Shatter Me
AUTHOR: Tahereh Mafi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Maf - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future. |
TITLE: The Novice
AUTHOR: Taran Matharu WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mat - FANTASY SUMMARY: When blacksmith apprentice Fletcher discovers that he has the ability to summon demons from another world, he travels to Adept Military Academy where must decide where his loyalties lie. The fate of an empire is in his hands. |
TITLE: Space Boy Vol. 1
AUTHOR: Stephen McCranie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McC - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Amy lives on a colony in deep space, but when her father loses his job the family moves back to Earth, where she has to adapt to heavier gravity, a new school, and a strange boy with no flavor. |
TITLE: Every Heart a Doorway
AUTHOR: Seanan McGuire WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McG - FANTASY SUMMARY: Sent away to a home for children who have tumbled into fantastical other worlds and are looking for ways to return, Nancy triggers dark changes among her fellow schoolmates and resolves to expose the truth when a child dies under suspicious magical circumstances. |
TITLE: Cinder
AUTHOR: Marissa Meyer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mey - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle. |
TITLE: Twilight
AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mey - FANTASY SUMMARY: When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. |
TITLE: Delirium
AUTHOR: Lauren Oliver WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Oli - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love. |
TITLE: Shadowshaper
AUTHOR: Daniel José Older WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Old - FANTASY SUMMARY: When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends. |
TITLE: Eragon
AUTHOR: Christopher Paolini WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Pao - FANTASY SUMMARY: In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. |
TITLE: Nemesis
AUTHOR: Brendan Reichs WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rei - FANTASY SUMMARY: As the Anvil, an enormous asteroid, threatens to end all life on Earth, sixteen-year-old Min begins to uncover a lifetime of lies, a sinister conspiracy involving all students in her sophomore class in Fire Lake, Idaho. |
TITLE: Nyxia
AUTHOR: Scott Reintgen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rei - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Emmett accepts an interstellar space contract but learns en route that to win the promised fortune he and nine other recruits face a brutal competition, putting their very humanity at risk. |
TITLE: Ghost
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rey - NOVELS SUMMARY: Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential. |
TITLE: The Lightning Thief
AUTHOR: Rick Riordan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rio - FANTASY SUMMARY: After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. |
TITLE: Secrets of Bearhaven
AUTHOR: K. E. Rocha WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Roc - FANTASY SUMMARY: When Spencer Plain's uncle pulls him out of school, and they find themselves being chased by a strange car, Spencer does not know what is going on--but soon he is rescued from the woods by a bear, and taken to Bearhaven, a secret refuge his parents created, filled with bears who can talk, where, desperate to find his parents, he and a bear cub named Kate decide to take matters into their own hands. |
TITLE: Divergent
AUTHOR: Veronica Roth WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rot - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. |
TITLE: Carve the Mark
AUTHOR: Veronica Roth WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rot - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Living on a violent planet where everyone manifests a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from opposing countries, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners. |
TITLE: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
AUTHOR: J. K. Rowling WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Row - FANTASY SUMMARY: Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. |
TITLE: A Darker Shade of Magic
AUTHOR: V. E. Schwab WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sch - FANTASY SUMMARY: Serving as an ambassador of his own world while carrying messages to parallel-universe Londons with respective magical abilities and conflicts, Kell hides his secret smuggling activities only to be set up with a forbidden object from a dark dimension. |
TITLE: Age of Myth
AUTHOR: Michael J. Sullivan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sul - FANTASY SUMMARY: Set in the same world as the author's popular Riyria Revelations series, the first novel in a new fantasy series follows the struggle between the Fhrey elves and the Rhune men for control of Elan. |
TITLE: An Ember in the Ashes
AUTHOR: Sabaa Tahir WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tah - FANTASY SUMMARY: Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution. |
TITLE: Icebreaker
AUTHOR: Lian Tanner WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tan - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Petrel is an outcast on the ancient ship, an icebreaker, that has been following the same course for 300 years. In that time, the ship's crew has forgotten its original purpose and broken into three warring tribes. Everyone has a tribe except Petrel. Nicknamed the Nothing Girl, Petrel has been ostracized ever since her parents were thrown overboard as punishment for a terrible crime. |
TITLE: Dead End Girl
AUTHOR: LT Vargus and Tim McBain WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Var - THRILLER SUMMARY: A serial killer stalks women in rural Ohio. He is deranged but brilliant, known only by the grotesque nickname the media has given him: The Doll Parts Killer. He dismembers his victims and leaves them in garbage bags in public places. The investigation is a disaster due to no physical evidence and unreliable witnesses and the FBI has lost contact with the star profiler working the case. Now rookie agent Violet Darger gets the most important assignment of her career. When Darger travels to Ohio, she brings along demons of her own. Now she faces a killer unlike anything she's ever seen. If she fails, more will die. Will this case restore her faith or push her over the edge? |
TITLE: The Black Prism
AUTHOR: Brent Weeks WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wee - FANTASY SUMMARY: Gavin Guile, the most powerful man in the world who holds the title of "Prism," has only five years to complete five impossible goals, but his life is complicated further when he learns that a woman in the kingdom he defeated before taking his place of power has given birth to his son, a secret that could ruin everything. |
TITLE: Code Name Verity
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Wein WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wei - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all that she can. |
TITLE: Robopocalypse
AUTHOR: Daniel H. Wilson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wil - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Archos, a powerful artificial intelligence, takes on the persona of a shy human boy and begins to take over the world's technology and turn it against humanity, launching a robot war that no one seems to be able to contain or stop. |
TITLE: Ms. Marvel: No Normal
AUTHOR: G. Willow Wilson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wil - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Kamala Khan, a Pakistani American girl from Jersey City who lives a conservative Muslim lifestyle with her family, suddenly acquires superhuman powers and, despite the pressures of school and home, tries to use her abilities to help her community. |