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Zithescape
J Alex Souppa
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Mary of Shadows
Jeffrey Aaron Miller
Synopsis: “You will lose friends and family, you will lose everyone you’ve ever cared about.” In the thrilling sequel to Mary of the Aether, Mary Lanham finds herself under relentless assault by her enemies, the Lookers. Her powers will be tested to the breaking point, as the Lookers wage a campaign of terror in the tiny town of Chesset, Arkansas. Mary may have found a new ally in the mysterious old woman, Vera, but who is Vera and what does she really want? On top of everything, the worst person in the world is moving to town to spend the summer at Kristen’s house.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Series
Kavishar: Reflections In A Wolf's Eyes
Synopsis: A wolf as a boy’s beloved pet? Suburbia will never be the same again.

Kavishar behaves like a dog in many respects – gentle, friendly, devoted to his master. In his mind, he is a dog, just like his best friend, a Siberian Husky. But Kavishar is actually a large young wolf, and his teenage master is the son of a fur trapper.

When Kavishar’s master moves from the Yukon to an Alberta town, Kavishar struggles to adapt to life there. Alarmed by bustling town life, shunned by town dogs, Kavishar must fight for his life and freedom, and struggle to find a place where he belongs.

“Kavishar” is a tale of love and heartbreak, hope and despair, friendship and ill-advised revenge. Above all, “Kavishar” explores what it means to be an outcast, and the struggle to rise above that stigma and be true to oneself and one’s beliefs.

Publisher’s Advisory: This book is intended for readers aged 12 and above.

Length: 466 pages (estimated).

Praise from www.flayrah.com:

“Kyle leads the novel to a breakneck, suspenseful, terrible conclusion.”

“‘Kavishar’ is very well-written and well-plotted. The dangers, and the actions of the Good Guys to get out of them, are clever and believable.”
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
SEVERED - A Tale of Sleepy Hollow
Synopsis: Katrina is still haunted by her encounter with the Headless Horseman - the night he beckoned to her. Now he has risen again, slashing heads and terrorizing the quiet countryside.

Her only joy during this dismal darkness comes when Ichabod Crane, a gorgeous young man from Connecticut, moves to Sleepy Hollow and their attraction turns to romance.

When the Horseman marks Ichabod as his next victim, Katrina, despite dangerous efforts to save him, sees no other choice than for them to flee.

But the Horseman awaits. Now it’s up to her to sever the horror and alter the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Paranormal
The Grave Winner
Lindsey R Loucks
Synopsis: ONLY $4.99 FOR A LIMITED TIME!


Leigh Baxton is terrified her mom will come back from the dead -- just like the prom queen did.

While the town goes beehive over the news, Leigh bikes to the local cemetery and buries some of her mom's things in her grave to keep her there. When the hot and mysterious caretaker warns her not to give gifts to the dead, Leigh cranks up her punk music and keeps digging.

She should have listened.

Two dead sorceresses evicted the prom queen from her grave to bury someone who offered certain gifts. Bury them alive, that is, then resurrect them to create a trio of undead powerful enough to free the darkest sorceress ever from her prison inside the earth.

With help from the caretaker and the dead prom queen, Leigh must find out what's so special about the gifts she gave, and why the sorceresses are stalking her and her little sister. If she doesn't, she'll either lose another loved one or have to give the ultimate gift to the dead - herself.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Sword of Damocles
Brian Bern
Synopsis: Cade Knight was born into a family of spies. Espionage is in his blood.

Cade helped his father design the J-Phone, the most significant invention in the history of spy craft-complete with Eavesdropper, Impersonator, and Hacker apps. Together, they customized a J-Phone for the president of the United States, enabling him to launch nuclear weapons from the Nuclear Football app.

Too bad the J-Phone falls into the wrong hands, and enemy agents hunt for those who know how to use it. When family members begin to fall off the grid, Cade and his twin sister call on years of training to identify and infiltrate the opposition. They must rescue their mother, retrieve the J-Phone, and reunite the family.

Failure could cost one life or a hundred million.

Sword of Damocles is a young adult spy novel set in Washington, D.C.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Radium Baby
St John Karp
Synopsis: The Pepperpots are dead — the world's most famous scientists have been poisoned by a radioactive duck. But even though Sam Ticky is little more than a tumbleweed from Oklahoma, he is convinced he is the Pepperpots' long-lost son.

The Sun Star Radio Corporation starts a nationwide search for the missing "Radium Baby," but Sam runs into trouble when two other teenagers also claim the title. The Radio Corporation drags the three teens into a race around the world, in which Sam must fend off hornets the size of cats, a cannibal bishop obsessed with playing hide and seek, and an insane Texan robot manufacturer.

But who is the real Radium Baby? And how many people will Sam hurt to find out?

RADIUM BABY is a strange and exciting adventure about ambition, failure, and radioactive bath-water.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Humor
The Irish Princess and the Pearls of Eetanam
Synopsis: All seems quaint and serene in the beautiful Emerald Isle, but alas, the Kingdom of Shaughnessy is confronted by a battle with the Vikings, an uprising of evil and an endless journey for one young woman to find her purpose.

Princess Cassidy Clarke is looking forward to her special thirteenth birthday celebration, but Queen Septani discloses a new quest for the princess that becomes the most challenging and influential time of her entire life.

Powerful pearls were secretly given away ten years ago and now the queen needs Princess Cassidy to locate them and make certain they are secure or the kingdom could be destroyed. The princess disguises herself as a peasant and lives among the villagers searching for the pearls, but unbeknown to her, just past Everlost Forest, is an evil that grows stronger and closer as it too is on the hunt for the pearls.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Jawbreaker: Unlock the (U)niverse
Synopsis: You have created yourself every second since the day you were born. Bit by bit, layer by layer. You are a million moments. You are your gift to the world. You are a jawbreaker.

This exciting new non-fiction book for young adults is a guide to exploring who you are, and deciding who you want to be. Get ready to:
- Find and fuel your fizzing center spark.
- Tune in to personal guidance techniques.
- Unleash your absolute uniqueness.
- Develop a cutting edge brand from scratch.
- And so much more!

Packed with tools and jewels to navigate the new world, Jawbreaker: Unlock the (U)niverse (17,000 words) will let you build on your strengths, and show you your story in a whole new way.

It’s time to uncover the world’s best kept secret: You.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Nonfiction
Guiamo (Chronicles of Guiamo Durmius Stolo) Book 1
Synopsis: In 60 B.C., ten-year-old Guiamo Durmius Stolo, an exceptionally gifted Roman orphan, is abandoned in Gaul . Left to fend for himself, Guiamo is set onto a path of legend. Recognized by the gods as having world-changing talents, he is given a weapon that changes his destiny and the world’s forever.

Combining legitimate legends with actual historical events, Marshall Best weaves an epic story that portrays the ancient world as it might have been, a world which the ancient historians recorded as fact; a time when gods ruled the earth and strange creatures dominated the land. It is the era of civilized conquerors exploring distant and primitive new lands. Scant recordings left to us today only touch on the fringe of the fantastic and brutal reality that existed in those distant lands of the west. Into this age, young Guiamo enters the world stage as the great game-changer, and by his hand the gods and beasts become destined to disappear into myth and legend.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Series
Cumoro(Chronicles of Guiamo Durmius Stolo)Book2
Synopsis: Guiamo Durmius Stolo sails in 55 B.C. with Rome’s 7th Legion as Julius Caesar invades Britain. But Caesar has not before encountered the Fomori, a dominion of wicked creatures which wage war against the human inhabitants and dominate much of Britain. Armed with his god-made spear, Guiamo joins with the tribal kings against their Fomori foe when Caesar departs.

Combining legitimate legends with actual historical events, Marshall Best weaves an epic story that portrays the ancient world as it might have been, a world which the ancient historians recorded as fact; a time when gods ruled the earth and strange creatures dominated the land. It is the era of civilized conquerors exploring distant and primitive new lands. Scant recordings left to us today only touch on the fringe of the fantastic and brutal reality that existed in those distant lands of the west. Into this age, young Guiamo enters the world stage as the great game-changer, and by his hand the gods and beasts become destined to disappear into myth and legend.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Morlanos(Chronicles of Guiamo Durmius Stolo)Book3
Synopsis: Having destroyed the Fomori in Britain , Guiamo Durmius Stolo decides in 51 B.C. to bring the Cruthin people, once slaves to the Fomori, to Ireland , but encounters the Fomori who reside there as well. Guiamo discovers that the gods venerated by the Druids are unworthy. The gods are displeased with him and begin to work against him.

Combining legitimate legends with actual historical events, Marshall Best weaves an epic story that portrays the ancient world as it might have been, a world which the ancient historians recorded as fact; a time when gods ruled the earth and strange creatures dominated the land. It is the era of civilized conquerors exploring distant and primitive new lands. Scant recordings left to us today only touch on the fringe of the fantastic and brutal reality that existed in those distant lands of the west. Into this age, young Guiamo enters the world stage as the great game-changer, and by his hand the gods and beasts become destined to disappear into myth and legend.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Historical Fiction
Four Rubbings (The Stone Witch Series)
Synopsis: Halloween.

The night the barrier between the dead and the living is as thin as muslin. Fourteen-year old Josie, haunted by the death of her mother, leads her best friends to an ancient cemetery to rub graves.

Convinced she will come away with proof of her mother’s spirit at last, the evening takes an unexpected turn as the teens gravitate four ways into the haunted grounds.
Set against the backdrop of the rainy Pacific Northwest, four graves will be rubbed, touching off a series of events that will rattle their once mundane lives. From the lonely World War II hero to an accused witch, the people buried beneath the stones have stories that need an ending.

The journey to unravel the mysteries leaves the friends wondering if the graves would’ve been better off left alone.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Inis Emain Ablach(Chronicles Guiamo Durmius Stolo)Book4
Synopsis: In 50 B.C. Guiamo Durmius Stolo finds himself victor over the detested Fomori whose leader, Cichol, is slain and those few who survived are scattered. Guiamo explores the secret places where Cichol kept his most important secrets and discovers there the treasures of Cichol’s master, the goddess Domnu.

Combining legitimate legends with actual historical events, Marshall Best weaves an epic story that portrays the ancient world as it might have been, a world which the ancient historians recorded as fact; a time when gods ruled the earth and strange creatures dominated the land. It is the era of civilized conquerors exploring distant and primitive new lands. Scant recordings left to us today only touch on the fringe of the fantastic and brutal reality that existed in those distant lands of the west. Into this age, young Guiamo enters the world stage as the great game-changer, and by his hand the gods and beasts become destined to disappear into myth and legend.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
No One Told No One
Daniel Meehan
Synopsis: In the middle of London, a dilapidated former car factory sits seemingly empty and abandoned. But it hides a secret: a community of children called the Island, all orphans or runaways, living off the grid and almost unknown to the outside world. The Island has managed to stay hidden for over twenty years through luck, ingenuity and one unbreakable rule: No One Tells No One.

But now the rule has been broken. One of the Islanders has taken a risk and invited a newcomer who would not normally even be considered. Katy is an ordinary middle-class girl from an ordinary middle-class family, with very ordinary middle-class problems.

To Katy, the Island is a revelation: a heady drug of freedom from the restrictions of the adult world. And despite the warnings of the Islanders that freedom and responsibility come hand-in-hand, she runs away from home to join them. But she soon comes to realise that her actions have the potential to destroy the mask that keeps the Island hidden.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Ghost Hawk
Susan Cooper
Synopsis: A friendship between a young Native American and a colonial New England settler endangers them both in this “simply unforgettable” (Booklist, starred review) adventure story from Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper.

On the winter day Little Hawk is sent into the woods alone, he can take only a bow and arrows, his handcrafted tomahawk, and the amazing metal knife his father traded for with the new white settlers. If Little Hawk survives three moons by himself, he will be a man.

John Wakely is only ten when his father dies, but he has already experienced the warmth and friendship of the nearby tribes. Yet his fellow colonists aren’t as accepting of the native people. When he is apprenticed to a barrel-maker, John sees how quickly the relationships between settlers and natives are deteriorating. His friendship with Little Hawk will put both boys in grave danger.

The intertwining stories of Little Hawk and John Wakely are a fascinating tale of friendship and an eye-opening look at the history of our nation. Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper also includes a timeline and an author’s note that discusses the historical context of this important and moving novel.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Mystery

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