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The Amateurs Book 1 The Amateurs

Sara Shepard · Freeform Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

As soon as Seneca Frazier sees the post on the Case Not Closed website about Helena Kelly, she's hooked. Helena's high-profile disappearance five years earlier is the one that originally got Seneca addicted to true crime. It's the reason she's a member of the site in the first place. So when...
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Stealing Snow

Danielle Paige · Bloomsbury
Pages: 375
Format: Print book

From Danielle Paige, the New York Times bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die, comes a re-imagining of "The Snow Queen" fairy tale.

Seventeen-year-old Snow has spent the majority of her life within the walls of the Whittaker Institute, a high security mental...

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Afghanistan

Kim Whitehead · Mason Crest
Pages: 136
Format:  Print book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats

Since the 1970s, Afghanistan has been devastated by social unrest and civil war, as various groups have fought for control over this country in central Asia. The United States and other nations have tried to help create a democratic and progressive government, but many problems remain....
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Whisper

Lynette Noni Strudwick · Kids Can Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

For two and a half years, Subject 684 "Jane Doe" has been locked underground in a secret government facility, enduring tests and torture. In that time, she hasn't uttered a single word. Not even her real name.

Jane chooses to remain silent rather than risk losing control...
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An Eagle in the Snow

Michael Morpurgo · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

England, 1940. Barney's home has been destroyed by bombing, and he and his mother are traveling to the countryside when German planes attack. Their train is forced to take shelter in a tunnel and there, in the darkness, a stranger -- a fellow passenger -- begins to tell them a story...

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Extreme Longevity: Discovering Earth's Oldest Organisms

Karen Latchana Kenney · Twenty First Century Books
Pages: 104
Format: Library Binding

Meet the science experts who study specimens of extreme longevity in both the plant and animal kingdoms, such as the 80,000-year-old root system of Pando (a colony of male quaking aspens) , 11,000-year-old deep-sea sponges, and 400-year-old sharks. Learn about technologies used to determine...
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The astonishing color of after

Emily X R Pan · Findaway World
Format: Audiobook


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Heretics Anonymous

Katie Henry · Delacorte Press
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

From Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, and the internationally bestselling Mistborn series, comes the first book in an epic new series about a girl who dreams of becoming...
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War of the Encyclopaedists: A Novel

Christopher Robinson · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

In a superb, rare literary collaboration, two major new talents join their voices to tell the story of a generation at a crossroads, and a friendship that stretches over continents and crises - from the liberal arena of Boston academia to the military occupation of Iraq - in this ambitious...
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Even If I Fall

Abigail Johnson · Inkyard Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Brooke and Heath should never have become friends, let alone fallen in love

A year ago, Brooke Covington lost everything when her beloved older brother, Jason, confessed to the murder of his best friend, Calvin. Brooke and her family became social pariahs, broken and unable to console...
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As Old as Time: A Twisted Tale

Liz Braswell · Disney Press
Pages: 484
Format: Print book

What if Belle's mother cursed the Beast? As Old as Time is the third book in a new YA line that reimagines classic Disney stories in surprising new ways. When Belle touches the Beast's enchanted rose, memories flood through Belle's mind-memories of a mother she thought she would...
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Jolly Foul Play

Robin Stevens · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

After a student turns up murdered on Bonfire Night, Hazel and Daisy find themselves entrenched in another mystery in this delightfully charming fourth novel of the Wells & Wong Mystery series.Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have returned to Deepdean School for Girls for a new school term,...
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The Stand-In

Steven L Bloom · Carolrhoda Lab
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

When Brooks volunteered to be a stand-in for Burdette's cousin who got stood up for Homecoming, it was with the noblest of intentions helping a fellow human being, free of charge. But when he gets a tip of more than three hundred bucks, word spreads quickly and Brooks seizes the opportunity...
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Ink and Bone: The Great Library

Rachel Caine · New American Library
Pages: 370
Format: Print book

In an exhilarating new series, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time. ...

Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every...
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