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Red Rising: Book I of The Red Rising Trilogy

Pierce Brown - Del Rey
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pierce Brown's relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. "Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow." - Scott SiglerNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR...
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We Were Liars

E Lockhart - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerOne of James Patterson's "Favorite Thrillers for the Beach" (New York Times) "Haunting, sophisticated . . . a novel so twisty and well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to adolescents." - Wall Street...
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Love and Other Foreign Words

Erin McCahan - Speak
Format: Print book

Equal parts comedy and coming of age, this is a whip-smart, big-hearted, laugh-out-loud love story about sisters, friends, and what it means to love at all. Can anyone be truly herself - or truly in love - in a language that's not her ownSixteen-year-old Josie lives her life in translation....
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Don't Look Back

Jennifer Armentrout - Hyperion
Format: Print book

Samantha is a stranger in her own life. Until the night she disappeared with her best friend, Cassie, everyone said Sam had it all-popularity, wealth, and a dream boyfriend. Sam has resurfaced, but she has no recollection of who she was or what happened to her that night. As she tries to piece...
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The Book of Ivy

Amy Engel - Entangled Teen
Format: Print book

What would you kill for?After a brutal nuclear war, the United States was left decimated. A small group of survivors eventually banded together, but only after more conflict over which family would govern the new nation. The Westfalls lost. Fifty years later, peace and control are maintained...
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The Winner's Curse

Marie Rutkoski - Square Fish
Format: Paperback

Winning what you want may cost you everything you loveThey were never meant to be together. As a general's daughter, seventeen-year-old Kestrel enjoys an extravagant and privileged life. Arin has nothing but the clothes on his back. Then Kestrel makes an impulsive decision that binds Arin...
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The Young Elites Paperback

Marie Lu
Format: Paperback

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION An explosive new series from New York Times bestselling author of the Legend trilogy, Marie Lu Darth Vader, Voldemort, Maleficent. Witness the rise of a new villain. Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through...
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Made for You

Melissa Marr - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback

Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital to discover she possesses a strange new skill - the ability to foresee people's deaths when they touch her. While she is recovering from her hit-and-run accident, Nate, an old flame, reappears, and the two must traverse their rocky past as they figure...
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Free to Fall

Lauren Miller - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

From the author of Parallel comes a high-stakes drama set in the near-future. Imaginative and thrilling, this "intricately plotted, intellectually rich thriller...will please a range of readers, from those searching for a page-turner to those wishing to thoroughly engage the mind."...
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The Kiss of Deception

Mary E. Pearson - Square Fish
Format: Paperback

The first book of the New York Times bestselling Remnant Chronicles."Fantastical." -- USA TodayShe flees on her wedding day.She steals ancient documents from the Chancellor's secret collection.She is pursued by bounty hunters sent by her own father.She is Princess...
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Nil

Lynne Matson - Faber And Faber
Format: Print book

On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have exactly 365 days to escape -- or you die.Seventeen-year-old Charley doesn't know the rules. She doesn't even know where she is. The last thing she remembers is blacking out, and when she wakes up, she's naked in an empty rock...
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Torn Away

Jennifer Brown - Little
Format: Print book

Jersey Cameron has always loved a good storm. Watching the clouds roll in and the wind pick up. Smelling the electricity in the air. Dancing barefoot in the rain. She lives in the Midwest, after all, where the weather is sure to keep you guessing. Jersey knows what to do when the tornado...
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Call Me By My Name

John Ed Bradley - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

From former football star and bestselling author John Ed Bradley comes a searing look at love, life, and football in the face of racial adversity. "Heartbreaking," says Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak.Growing up in Louisiana in the late 1960s, Tater Henry has experienced...
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Since You've Been Gone

Morgan Matson - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Emily is about to take some risks and have the most unexpected summer ever. Hellogiggles.com says, "Basically I couldn't be more in love with this book," from the bestselling author of Second Chance Summer and Amy and Roger's Epic Detour.Before Sloane, Emily didn't...
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Some Boys

Patty Blount - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Audiobook

Some girls say no. Some boys don't listen.When Grace meets Ian, she's afraid. Afraid he'll reject her like the rest of the school, like her own family. After she accuses Zac, the town golden boy, of rape, everyone turns against her. Ian wouldn't be the first to call her a slut and a liar.Except...
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