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Lies My Girlfriend Told Me

Julie Anne Peters · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover

When Alix's charismatic girlfriend, Swanee, dies from sudden cardiac arrest, Alix is overcome with despair. As she searches Swanee's room for mementos of their relationship, she finds Swanee's cell phone, pinging with dozens of texts sent from a mysterious contact, L.T. The most recent...
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Being Audrey Hepburn: A Novel

Mitchell Kriegman · St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In Being Audrey Hepburn, Clarissa Explains It All-creator, Mitchell Kriegman, tells the story of a 19-year-old girl from Jersey who finds herself thrust into the world of socialites after being seen in Audrey Hepburns dress from the film Breakfast at Tiffanys.Lisbeth comes from a broken...
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The Salvation: Unmasked

L.J. Smith · 47North
Format: Paperback

Love is the most powerful force of all ... Elena Gilbert is dying. When Damon Salvatore avenged his brother Stefan's death, he broke the sacred deal he'd made with the Guardians - and put Elena's life at risk. She should be dead, but instead, the Guardians are offering Elena...
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Phoebe Will Destroy You

Blake Nelson · Simon Pulse
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Girl, Boy, and Paranoid Park comes a new novel about the obsessive vortex of falling in love in an impossible time and place.The summer I was seventeen I met this girl ... Nick has the best of moms and the worst of moms. On the upside, she's a distinguished professor...
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Culinary Math

Helen Thompson · Mason Crest
Format:  Book : Juvenile audience : English

Discusses the mathematics involved in cooking, including kitchen measurements, counting calories, and the BMI formula.
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Millennium Snow

Bisco Hatori · VIZ Media LLC; Tra edition
Format: Paperback

Seventeen-year-old Chiyuki Matsuoka was born with heart problems, and her doctors say she wont live to see the next snow. Toya is an 18-year-old vampire who hates blood and refuses to make the traditional partnership with a human, whose life-giving blood would keep them both alive for a thousand...
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You're Welcome, Universe

Whitney Gardner · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A vibrant, edgy, fresh new YA voice for fans of More Happy Than Not and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, packed with interior graffiti. When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit...
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In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives

Kenneth C Davis · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Did you know that many of America's Founding Fathers -- who fought for liberty and justice for all -- were slave owners? Through the powerful stories of five enslaved people who were "owned" by four of our greatest presidents, this book helps set the record straight about...
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The Things You Kiss Goodbye

Leslie Connor · Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Sarah Dessen will love this heartbreaking story about family, loss, and the joys and disappointments of first love.Bettina Vasilis can hardly believe it when star basketball player Brady Cullen convinces her strict father to let them date. That summer, Bettina falls in love with...
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Afghanistan

Sharifah Enayat Ali · Cavendish Square Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Library Binding

Book by Ali, Sharifah Enayat, Elias, Josie
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Incognita

Kristen Lippert-Martin · Carolrhoda Lab
Pages: 265
Format: Print book

In the wake of an experimental procedure that almost wiped out her memory forever, Angel has a chance for a fresh start. She's recovered most of her memories, rebuilt her physical strength, and reunited with her boyfriend, Thomas. But her Velocius abilities capacities for superhuman...
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Love by the Morning Star

Laura L Sullivan · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Upstairs, downstairs, and in which lady's chamber? On the brink of World War II, two girls are sent to the grand English country estate of Starkers. Hannah, the half-Jewish daughter of a disgraced distant relative, has been living an artistic bohemian life in a cabaret in pre-war Germany...
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That Inevitable Victorian Thing

E K JOHNSTON · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Speculative fiction from the acclaimed bestselling author of Exit, Pursued by a Bear and Star Wars: Ahsoka. Victoria-Margaret is the crown princess of the empire, a direct descendent of Victoria I, the queen who changed the course of history. The imperial tradition of genetically arranged...
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Servants of the Storm

Delilah S. Dawson · Simon Pulse
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover

Dovey learns that demons lurk in places other than the dark corners of her mind in this southern gothic fantasy from the author of the Blud series.A year ago, Hurricane Josephine swept through Savannah, Georgia, leaving behind nothing but death and destruction - and taking the life of Dovey's...
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Flashfall

Jenny Moyer · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Orion is a Subpar, expected to mine the tunnels of Outpost Five, near the deadly flash curtain. For generations, her people have chased cirium -- the only element that can shield humanity from the curtain's radioactive particles. She and her caving partner Dram work the most treacherous...
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