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Last Light: The Night Owl Trilogy
Synopsis:

Tensions rise, secrets grow bigger, and passions run deeper―and hotter―in Last Light, the second novel of the Night Owl Trilogy from bestselling author M. Pierce.

Matt Sky is missing. After a solo ascent of Longs Peak that left only a large blood stain, tatters of climbing clothing, and the tracks of an animal in the snow, he is presumed dead.

Hannah Catalano is guarding a secret: she knows Matt is alive. After Matt's memorial service, she lingers on the East Coast with his family, but it soon becomes clear that his brothers' motives are less than gracious. Nate Sky is bent on tracking down the author of Night Owl, a book that charts the last days of Matt's life with uncanny and scandalous accuracy, and which appeared only after his death. Seth Sky is bent on getting Hannah into his bed.

Hidden away in the woods, Matt and Hannah strive desperately to maintain their ruse and their relationship―but their web of lies only tightens as Matt struggles with the consequences of his decision, and Hannah tries to escape Nate's libel suit and fend off Seth's advances...until Hannah is put in danger, and Matt must make a life or death choice.

Publication Date: 10/28/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction
Leya: Sphere of Vision Book One
Synopsis: In a world where eye color may determine your future, Leya is born with one green and one blue eye. Will this diminish her potential or provide the exceptional opportunity to become a Double Vision Mistress? Even if she fulfills her gifts, Leya must learn to control her impulsiveness and quick temper or she will be stripped of her powers in a painful and crippling ritual. Unfortunately, Zendra, a devious Novice knows exactly how to raise Leya's anger. But the Mistresses, struggling with significant problems of their own, seem blind to Leya's dilemma. How much should she risk in pursuit of power, prestige, and wealth? This book was formerly titled Desiccate and has gone through another editing. For ten reviews of the earlier version, go here. http://amzn.to/1JiqmDY
Publication Date: 10/24/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy
The ABCs of Dinkology: Time In-Between (Vol. 2)
Ernest Nathan Acosta III, AE Stueve
Synopsis: It's been a few weeks since Max Dinkman learned about his now ex-girlfriend's preferences and his dad's condition. He's not taking it well. Luckily, his dad's dog, Moses, is here to help. Join Max and Moses as they deal with a life turned upside down in the continuing story that mixes comic book art with prose, poetry, footnotes, trading cards, and an unofficial soundtrack!
Publication Date: 10/21/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Manga/Graphic Novel
Stone Cold Touch
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Synopsis: Every touch has its price 

Layla Shaw is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life—no easy task for a seventeen-year-old who's pretty sure things can't get worse. Her impossibly gorgeous best friend, Zayne, is forever off-limits thanks to the mysterious powers of her soul-stealing kiss. The Warden clan that has always protected her is suddenly keeping dangerous secrets. And she can barely think about Roth, the wickedly hot demon prince who understood her in ways no one else could. 

But sometimes rock bottom is only the beginning. Because suddenly Layla's powers begin to evolve, and she's offered a tantalizing taste of what has always been forbidden. Then, when she least expects it, Roth returns, bringing news that could change her world forever. She's finally getting what she always wanted, but with hell literally breaking loose and the body count adding up, the price may be higher than Layla is willing to pay….
Publication Date: 10/21/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal
Anything He Wants and Castaway
Synopsis:

A powerful billionaire who always gets what he wants.
An innocent protégée who will explore the darkest reaches of her own desire.
Experience their intoxicating tale-now available for the first time as a complete saga...

Anything He Wants
Lucy Delacourt's temp position isn't quite her dream job but it pays the bills. The highlight of her day is riding the elevator in the mornings with a handsome stranger. But everything changes when the stranger seduces her. Completely out of character, she yields without a fight, but she has no idea her wanton acts with a man whose name she doesn't know will change her life forever. Because the sexy stranger is none other than Jeremiah Hamilton, billionaire CEO of Hamilton Industries, and one taste isn't nearly enough to satisfy his need.

Castaway
As the billionaire pulls Lucy deeper into his world of high stakes business deals and ruthless takeovers, he demands nothing less than her complete surrender. But Jeremiah has no place in his life for love, and as Lucy falls deeper for him, she risks having her heart shattered. Making matters worse, Jeremiah's fiercest rival is determined to steal Lucy's affection...and to do it, he'll show her the sinister side of Jeremiah's opulent world. With nowhere to turn and no one to trust, there's only one thing Lucy knows for sure: she'll never be free from Jeremiah's sweet possession.

"Smoking HOT! Full of secrets, lust, domination, romance, danger and action. There is so much to like!" -Crazy Four Books

Publication Date: 10/21/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Series
The ABCs of Dinkology: Life (Vol. 1)
Chris Smith, AE Stueve
Synopsis: In 1999 Max Dinkman is cruising through life without a care in the world. He is 17. He is going to graduate soon. He doesn't know what he's going to do after that and he doesn't care. As long as he has his comic books, his weed, his fantasies driven by a combination of the two, and his girlfriend, he's content. Then his girlfriend gives him some disturbing news. Then his dad follows it up with some more. Then Max isn't so sure about anything. Follow his adventures in the first volume of a five volume series that mixes comic book art with prose, poetry, footnotes, trading cards, and an unofficial soundtrack!
Publication Date: 10/21/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Manga/Graphic Novel
Close
Erika Raskin
Synopsis: Single-mom Kik Marcheson is doing the best she can. But effort doesn't seem to count for much in the parenting department.

Her oldest daughter, Doone, is swimming in the deep end of adolescence. Casey, the middle-child slash good-girl is fraying along the edges and Tess, a quirky kindergartner, has installed an imaginary playmate in the family abode.

When Doone falls in with the wrong crowd, a TV therapist offers to help. And things do start to look up. But only for a while.
Publication Date: 10/16/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction
Black Ice
Becca Fitzpatrick
Synopsis: Danger is hard to resist in this sexy thriller from Becca Fitzpatrick, the New York Times bestselling author of the Hush, Hush saga.

Britt Pheiffer has trained to backpack the Teton Range, but she isn’t prepared when her ex-boyfriend, who still haunts her every thought, wants to join her. Before Britt can explore her feelings for Calvin, an unexpected blizzard forces her to seek shelter in a remote cabin, accepting the hospitality of its two very handsome occupants—but these men are fugitives, and they take her hostage.

Britt is forced to guide the men off the mountain, and knows she must stay alive long enough for Calvin to find her. The task is made even more complicated when Britt finds chilling evidence of a series of murders that have taken place there…and in uncovering this, she may become the killer’s next target.

But nothing is as it seems, and everyone is keeping secrets, including Mason, one of her kidnappers. His kindness is confusing Britt. Is he an enemy? Or an ally?

Black Ice is New York Times bestselling author Becca Fitzpatrick’s riveting romantic thriller set against the treacherous backdrop of the mountains of Wyoming. Falling in love should never be this dangerous…
Publication Date: 10/07/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal
Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
Synopsis: In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation - it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fiance Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden from ever speaking again. 

Freda adjusted to this fate with an ease that stunned a heartbroken Alice. Her desperation grew with each unanswered letter - and her father’s razor soon went missing. On January 25, Alice publicly slashed her ex-fiance’s throat. Her same-sex love was deemed insane by her father that very night, and medical experts agreed: This was a dangerous and incurable perversion.

As the courtroom was expanded to accommodate national interest, Alice spent months in jail - including the night that three of her fellow prisoners were lynched (an event which captured the attention of journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells).

After a jury of "the finest men in Memphis" declared Alice insane, she was remanded to an asylum, where she died under mysterious circumstances just a few years later. Alice + Freda Forever recounts this tragic, real-life love story with over 100 illustrated love letters, maps, artifacts, historical documents, newspaper articles, courtroom proceedings, and intimate, domestic scenes - painting a vivid picture of a sadly familiar world.
Publication Date: 10/07/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Historical Nonfiction
Jesus Jackson
James Ryan Daley
Synopsis:

Jonathan Stiles is a 14-year-old atheist who is coping with his first day of ninth grade at the fervently religious St. Soren's Academy when his idolized older brother Ryan is found dead. As his world crumbles, Jonathan meets an eccentric stranger who bears an uncanny resemblance to Jesus Christ (except for his white linen leisure suit and sparkling gold chains). Jesus Jackson, as he calls himself, offers to provide faith to Jonathan. He also suggests that Ryan's death may not have been an accident after all.

With the help of his new friend, Henry, and Ryan's grieving girlfriend, Tristan, Johnathan sets out to discover the truth about Ryan's death - and about God, high school, and the meaning of life, while he's at it. But he's distracted by Cassie - number one suspect Alistair's younger sister - who holds the keys to the answers Jonathan is searching for, but who also makes him wonder if he should be searching for them at all.

Publication Date: 10/01/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Mystery
Jesus Jackson
James Ryan Daley
Synopsis:

Jonathan Stiles is a 14-year-old atheist who is coping with his first day of ninth grade at the fervently religious St. Soren's Academy when his idolized older brother Ryan is found dead. As his world crumbles, Jonathan meets an eccentric stranger who bears an uncanny resemblance to Jesus Christ (except for his white linen leisure suit and sparkling gold chains). Jesus Jackson, as he calls himself, offers to provide faith to Jonathan. He also suggests that Ryan's death may not have been an accident after all.

With the help of his new friend, Henry, and Ryan's grieving girlfriend, Tristan, Johnathan sets out to discover the truth about Ryan's death - and about God, high school, and the meaning of life, while he's at it. But he's distracted by Cassie - number one suspect Alistair's younger sister - who holds the keys to the answers Jonathan is searching for, but who also makes him wonder if he should be searching for them at all.

Publication Date: 10/01/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Mystery
Perfectly Good White Boy
Carrie Mesrobian
Synopsis: "You never know where we'll end up. There's so much possibility in life, you know?" Hallie said. Sean Norwhalt can read between the lines. He knows Hallie's just dumped him. He was a perfectly good summer boyfriend, but now she's off to college, and he's still got another year to go. Her pep talk about futures and "possibilities" isn't exactly comforting. Sean's pretty sure he's seen his future and its "possibilities," and they all look DISPOSABLE. Like the rental his family moved into when his dad left. Like all the unwanted filthy old clothes he stuffs into the rag baler at his thrift-store job. Like everything good he's ever known. The only hopeful possibilities in Sean's life are the Marine Corps, where no one expected he'd go, and Neecie Albertson, whom he never expected to care about. Carrie Mesrobian follows her critically acclaimed debut, Sex & Violence, with another powerful and wrenching portrait of a teenage boy on the precipice of the new American future.
Publication Date: 10/01/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction
Gentlemen Prefer Curves
Sugar Jamison
Synopsis:

SOMETIMES SIZE DOES MATTER
Belinda Gordon thought she had it all-a great job, wonderful friends, a home of her own. She's even come to love her voluptuous body. But she still can't shake the feeling that something is missing. And then Carter Lancaster, aka Her Biggest Mistake, shows up in town, as irresistible as ever, and shakes up her entire world.

WHEN IT COMES TO LOVE
Carter never expected to find Belinda in town, looking as delicious as the day he married her five years ago-before she walked out on him after six weeks and a painful misunderstanding that included his baby daughter, Ruby. A quick divorce is the sensible option-but Carter can't let Belinda go now, not when he can see the family they could be. Love may be a curveball, but this time he's going to prove to Belinda that he can hit it out of the park... Gentlemen Prefer Curves is the third book in the Perfect Fit series

Praise for Sugar Jamison's Dangerous Curves Ahead
"Dangerous Curves Ahead is laugh out loud funny and super sexy, with unique characters you can't help but love!"-New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster

Publication Date: 09/30/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction
BUAN: The Perfect Mortals
Synopsis: During a ceasefire of a war that has taken more lives than could be considered just, there are shadows of betrayal and deceit lurking in the rays of the morning sun. Something is lingering on the horizon, and it's hell-bent on destruction, despair and death. Whatever it may be, it's driven the Goddess to some very desperate measures. Life for the Harmon siblings has been hard enough, but now they face responsibilities that they never asked for. They never asked for power. They never asked for a world of monsters. They never asked to come face-to-face with demons, the corrupted of their own people, or their own mortality. But that is just what they will have to do. They are the chosen heroes of Cornelia, the final hope for order and sanity, the last line of defence against the darkness. They are the Buan.
Publication Date: 09/28/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind Environmental Headlines
Synopsis: Paul Fleischman offers teens an environmental wake-up call and a tool kit for decoding the barrage of conflicting information confronting them.

We're living in an Ah-Ha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The result: a population and lifestyle never before seen. The downsides weren't visible for centuries, but now they are. Suddenly everything needs rethinking – suburbs, cars, fast food, cheap prices. It's a changed world.

This book explains it. Not with isolated facts, but the principles driving attitudes and events, from vested interests to denial to big-country syndrome. Because money is as important as molecules in the environment, science is joined with politics, history, and psychology to provide the briefing needed to comprehend the 21st century.

Extensive back matter, including a glossary, bibliography, and index, as well as numerous references to websites, provides further resources.
Publication Date: 09/23/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Environment
And The Children Shall Lead (The Lance Chronicles - 4)
Synopsis: The campaign to save California's children was only the beginning. Now Lance and Ricky target America's most sacred document - The Constitution. 

Native American teens Kai and Dakota--harboring secrets of their own--join the crusade and swear undying loyalty to Lance. They carry the hope of their people that the movement will better the lives of Indian children, who are inexcusably neglected by government. This new campaign will take the young people to The White House, the halls of Congress, and beyond in their quest to change the prevailing opinion that children are property, rather than human beings in their own right. 

But an unseen nemesis stalks Lance and ratchets up the attacks on New Camelot, promising to destroy all that Arthur has put in place. 

"You were right, little boy, death is coming for you, but slowly, and only after it takes out the people you love." These chilling words haunt Lance, but also strengthen his resolve to protect the people he loves. Or die trying. 

The Lance Chronicles continue... 

The Lance Chronicles: 
Children of the Knight (The Lance Chronicles Book 1) 
Running Through A Dark Place (The Lance Chronicles Book 2) 
There Is No Fear (The Lance Chronicles Book 3) 
And The Children Shall Lead (The Lance Chronicles Book 4) 
Once Upon A Time In America (The Lance Chronicles Book 5) 
Warrior Kids (standalone set within The Lance Chronicles universe)
Publication Date: 09/22/14
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction

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