NEW BOOKS SEPTEMBER 2015
Afraid that she is crazy, thirteen-year-old Mia, who sees a
special color with every letter, number, and sound, keeps this a
secret until she becomes overwhelmed by school, changing
relationships, and the death of her beloved cat, Mango.
Twelve-year-old Elias is sent to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to
fight a case of consumption--and ends up fighting for the lives
of a secret community of escaped slaves traveling along the
Underground Railroad.
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her
Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly
opinionated partner; to fellow private-school
mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to
design mavens, she's a revolutionary
architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a
best friend and, simply, Mom. Then
Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee
aced her report card and claimed her
promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica.
But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to
Seattle--and people in general--has made
her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in
India now runs her most basic errands. A trip
to the end of the earth is problematic. To
find her mother, Bee compiles email
messages, official documents, secret
correspondence--creating a compulsively
readable and touching novel about misplaced
genius and a mother and daughter's role in
an absurd world.
Written as a college admission essay, eighteen-year-old Harry
Jones recounts a childhood defined by the hideous scars he hid
behind, and how forming a band brought self-confidence,
friendship, and his first kiss.
Looks at Edward Snowden who leaked classified information
from the United States National Security Agency in 2013.
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally
and discover that they share the same name, their lives
become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best
friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with
them both.
Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns
and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors,
Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the
wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves
with a target on his back.
A colorful picture book that features a young, science-minded
boy who goes to the beach to collect and examine anything
floating that has been washed ashore and discovers an
underwater camera that contains a collection of unusual
pictures.
A young girl, having escaped from her loneliness through a
door she drew on her bedroom wall, is captured by an evil
emperor and must find a way to escape.
Fourteen-year-old Doug Swieteck faces many challenges,
including an abusive father, a brother traumatized by Vietnam,
suspicious teachers and police officers, and isolation, but when
he meets a girl known as Lil Spicer, he develops a close
relationship with her and finds a safe place at the local library.
"Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue
her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who
may be one of them."
"A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in
occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World
War II."
Denton Little’s Deathdate takes place in a world exactly like our
own except that everyone knows the day on which they will die.
For Denton, that’s in just two days—the day of his senior prom
Feeling not as big, tough, or athletic as his father, a
professional wrestler, high-schooler Jesse becomes friends with
a brash young wrestler who offers to help Jesse bulk up.
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan,
during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and
sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the
renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Marjane Satrapi recounts her childhood and coming of age in
Tehran during the Islamic Revolution, as well as her selfimposed exile from her native country, through comic strips
that reflect how her own history is tied to the history of Iran.
Spider-Man teams up with his new girlfriend - the X-Men's Kitty
Pryde, who gets a new super-hero identity for when she's not
hanging with her mutant mates! Plus: Meet the dangerous
Ultimate Deadpool - and the Ultimate Reavers! It's mutant action,
with Spidey caught in the middle!
Convinced he should have died in the accident that killed his
parents and sister, sixteen-year-old Drew lives in a hospital,
hiding from employees and his past, until Rusty, set on fire for
being gay, turns his life around. Includes excerpts from the
superhero comic Drew creates.
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the
Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the
mysteries of a locked garden.
In the mid-1950s, twenty-six-year-old Jean Louis Finch,
"Scout," returns to Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her father,
Atticus, but her homecoming turns bittersweet and her values
and assumptions are thrown into doubt as she uncovers truths
about her family, friends, and town which are exposed by civil
rights tensions and political turmoil.
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Nadine goes
to live with her father in Miami while her cousin Magdalie, raised
as her sister, remains behind in a refugee camp, dreaming of
joining Nadine but wondering if she must accept that her life
and future are in Port-au-Prince.
"In a barren land, teenage Lucy is taken away from the
community she has grown up in and searches the vast
countryside for a new home"
A collection of spooky stories in English and Spanish, including
tales about a witch that turns into a snake, a young girl who
gets revenge on her lover in the form of Donkey Lady, and a
story about Maya and Vincent, who cheer for their uncle, Kid
Cyclone, at a lucha libre wrestling match, where the opponent
may be the actual devil.
Astronaut Mark Watney is stranded and completely alone on
Mars, with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive, but Mark
isn't ready to give up and drawing on his engineering skills and
determination, he faces each obstacle with resourcefulness, but
will it be enough for him to survive?
Seventh-grader Jesse Baron not only misses his father, a
popular professional wrestler who is often on the road, he faces
simple family outings that turn into fan-frenzy events, teachers
who contrive excuses for parent-teacher conferences, and
friendships that are all suspect.
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy
truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose
mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity
amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to
accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four
days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only
the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also
to survive his parents' divorce.
Mark and Trina struggle to survive as modern civilization is
destoryed by sun flares and mutating diseases.
Explores how human beings have altered life on Earth, discussing a
dozen species facing extinction or already extinct.
Bill Nye examines evolution and related topics and issues, such
as race, genetically modified foods, and new species.
In this enthralling companion to his New York
Times bestseller Every Day, David Levithan tells Rhiannon’s side
of the story as she seeks to discover the truth about love and how
it can change you.
Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has accepted her life,
convinced herself that she deserves her distant, temperamental
boyfriend, Justin, even established guidelines by which to live:
Don’t be too needy. Avoid upsetting him. Never get your hopes up.
Euphoria is Lily King’s nationally bestselling breakout novel of
three young, gifted anthropologists of the ‘30’s caught in a
passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers,
and, ultimately, their lives. Inspired by events in the life of
revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria is "dazzling
... suspenseful ... brilliant...an exhilarating novel.”
“Caitlin Moran is the profane, witty and wonky best friend I wish I
had. She’s the feminist rock star we need right now.”
—Ayelet Waldman, author of Bad Mother
“Caitlin Moran is so fabulous, so funny, so freshly feminist. I don’t
want to be like her—I want to be her.”
—Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter
Caitlin Moran puts a new face on feminism, cutting to the heart of
women’s issues today with her irreverent, transcendent, and
hilarious How to Be a Woman. “Half memoir, half polemic, and
entirely necessary,” (Elle UK),
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing
through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s
arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is
that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he
doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave,
Georgia. Not a chance in hell.
Darrow, a Red, which is the lowest caste in the color-coded
society of the future, joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to
infiltrate an elite military academy after witnessing the
execution of his wife.
Geology of Washington State, including tours of various state
locations identified by the local geology.
"In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history
of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life
(refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from
their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to
their unintended historical consequences. Filled with stories of
accidental genius and brilliant mistakes--from the French
publisher who invented the phonograph before Edison but
forgot to include playback, to the Hollywood movie star who
helped invent the technology behind Wi-Fi and Bluetooth--'How
We Got to Now' investigates the secret history behind the
everyday objects of contemporary life."
Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of
a vampire city, until she too becomes an immortal vampire.
Forced to flee into the unknown, outside her city walls, she joins
a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legend--a possible
cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and
created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten
humans and vampires alike.
A lovely, understated book that celebrates the
possibility of a kind and humane friendship between an
eighth-grade girl and boy...this novel is also an ode to
the significance of reading in the lives of young people
and to a teacher who knows the power literature can
wield. Unique and original, believable and poignant,
this is a book with power of its own.
Things that go bump in the night are just the beginning when
a summer film project becomes a real-life ghost story!
“A stunningly sad and heroically hopeful tale. . . . This is a
beautiful novel about relationships of the most makeshift
kind.
“De la Peña has created a rare thing: a plot-driven YA with
characters worthy of a John Green novel
A fantastic climax to a truly outstanding series! As they say last but
certainly not least! I very highly recommend this entire to fiction and
fantasy lovers, or anyone who wants a great read!
Best friends Dave and Julia were determined to never be cliché
high school kids—the ones who sit at the same lunch table every
day, dissecting the drama from homeroom and plotting their
campaigns for prom king and queen. They even wrote their own
Never List of everything they vowed they'd never, ever do in high
school.
Some of the rules have been easy to follow, like #5, never die your
hair a color of the rainbow, or #7, never hook up with a teacher.
But Dave has a secret: he's broken rule #8, never pine silently
after someone for the entirety of high school. It's either that or
break rule #10, never date your best friend. Dave has loved Julia
for as long as he can remember.
The Rest of Us Just Live Here is a bold and irreverent novel that
powerfully reminds us that there are many different types of
remarkable.
What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to
fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck
this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death?
What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to
prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out
before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again.
Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's
end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the
extraordinary in your ordinary life.
Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother's
mysterious death, he's lived alone on the streets of Boston,
surviving by his wits, keeping one step ahead of the police and the
truant officers.
One day, he's tracked down by an uncle he barely knows-a man
his mother claimed was dangerous. Uncle Randolph tells him an
impossible secret: Magnus is the son of a Norse god.
The Viking myths are true. The gods of Asgard are preparing for
war. Trolls, giants and worse monsters are stirring for doomsday.
To prevent Ragnarok, Magnus must search the Nine Worlds for a
weapon that has been lost for thousands of years.
When an attack by fire giants forces him to choose between his
own safety and the lives of hundreds of innocents, Magnus makes
a fatal decision.
A masterpiece of horror manga, now available in a deluxe
hardcover edition!
Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is
cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of
teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or
being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret
shape of the world. It manifests itself in everything from seashells
and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies, the
insane obsessions of Shuichi's father and the voice from the
cochlea in our inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants
of Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper into a whirlpool from which
there is no return!
Paolo Bacigalupi, New York Times best-selling author of The
Windup Girl and National Book Award finalist, delivers a nearfuture thriller that casts new light on how we live today—and what
may be in store for us tomorrow.
Full of the comedic skill that makes us all love Amy, Yes Please is
a rich and varied collection of stories, lists, poetry (Plastic Surgery
Haiku, to be specific), photographs, mantras and advice. With
chapters like "Treat Your Career Like a Bad Boyfriend," "Plain Girl
Versus the Demon" and "The Robots Will Kill Us All" Yes
Please will make you think as much as it will make you laugh.
Honest, personal, real, and righteous, Yes Please is full of words
to live by.