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The Last Apprentice: Rise of the Huntress
Patrick Arrasmith, Joseph Delaney
Synopsis:

Things can never be the same again.

After a long journey and a hard battle, the Spook and his apprentice, Tom Ward, have returned home. But the county has been overrun by enemy soldiers. The Spook’s house is in ruins, the boggart protecting it has fled, and the malicious witches imprisoned in the gardens have escaped. Tom, Alice, and the Spook must flee, too, across the ocean to the island of Mona. And it’s on Mona that this small band fighting against the dark will face an old enemy grown terrifyingly powerful. Will they be able to vanquish an evil that crawls beneath the ground itself? And at what cost?

Publication Date: 08/23/11
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
A Conspiracy of Kings
Megan Whalen Turner
Synopsis:

Discover the world of the Queen’s Thief

New York Times-bestselling author Megan Whalen Turner’s entrancing and award-winning Queen’s Thief novels bring to life the world of the epics and feature one of the most charismatic and incorrigible characters of fiction, Eugenides the thief. Megan Whalen Turner’s Queen’s Thief novels are rich with political machinations and intrigue, battles lost and won, dangerous journeys, divine intervention, power, passion, revenge, and deception. The New York Times bestseller A Conspiracy of Kings won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and is perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu, Patrick Rothfuss, and George R. R. Martin.

After an attempted assassination and kidnapping, Sophos, heir to the throne of Sounis, disappears. Those who care for him—including the thief Eugenides and the Queen of Eddis—are left to wonder if he is alive and if they will ever see him again. The Queen’s Thief novels have been praised by writers, critics, reviewers, and fans and have been honored with glowing reviews, “best of” citations, and numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Newbery Honor, the Andre Norton Award shortlist, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Discover and rediscover the stand-alone companions, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, and Thick as Thieves, all epic novels set in the world of the Queen’s Thief.  

Winner of the LA Times Book Award

A New York Times Bestseller

A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book

A School Library Journal Best Book

“The Queen’s Thief books awe and inspire me. They have the feel of a secret, discovered history of real but forgotten lands. The plot-craft is peerless, the revelations stunning, and the characters flawed, cunning, heartbreaking, exceptional. Megan Whalen Turner’s books have a permanent spot on my favorites shelf, with space waiting for more books to come.”—Laini Taylor, New York Times-bestselling author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone novels and Strange the Dreamer

"Unforgettable characters, plot twists that will make your head spin, a world rendered in elegant detail—you will fall in love with every page of these stories. Megan Whalen Turner writes vivid, immersive, heartbreaking fantasy that will leave you desperate to return to Attolia again and again."—Leigh Bardugo, New York Times-bestselling author of The Grisha Trilogy and Six of Crows

“Megan Whalen Turner is one of my all-time favorite writers . . . impossible to put down.”—Holly Black, award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of the Modern Faerie Tale series and The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Romance, intrigue, mystery, surprises, and sheer beautiful writing.”—Cassandra Clare, award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of The Mortal Instruments and Lady Midnight

“The world Turner creates is so tangible that not only do I believe in its characters, I almost believe in its gods.”—Kristin Cashore, award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of the Graceling Realm series

“A Conspiracy of Kings brings the sweetest, sharpest kind of reading pleasure. Megan Whalen Turner’s books are pure joy.”—Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medalist and New York Times-bestselling author of When You Reach Me and Goodbye Stranger

Publication Date: 08/23/11
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Cranwood
J Bryer
Synopsis: INTENDED FOR TEEN READERS

Abby Grace Hill just wants to feel like a "normal" teenager, but her unusual gift makes it difficult.
After meeting David, a new guy who moves into Cranwood, she will start to feel "normal".
The gift Abby always thought was a burden can now be used for the unfortunate ones that may not live without her help.
Following an unexplained murder in the quiet town of Cranwood, sixteen year old Abby is driven into a dark and dangerous territory. She may not make it out alive.Make sure to watch the book trailer for CRANWOOD on the Author page.
Publication Date: 08/12/11
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Hemingway Man
Jim Maher
Synopsis: Hemingway Man is the story of Will Charles, a young man who's just lost his father. Will feels the intense pressure to become the man of the house, but has no idea how to get there. Ernest Hemingway wrote a list of four tasks a boy must do to become a man. 1. Plant a tree. 2. Write a book. 3. Fight a bull. 4. Have a son. Good luck, Will.
Publication Date: 08/11/11
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
The Man Who Would Be King
Jan Montefiore, Jan Montefiore, Rudyard Kipling
Synopsis: Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings, following the development of his work over fifty years. They take us from the harsh, cruel, vividly realized world of the "Indian" stories that made his name, through the experimental modernism of his middle period to the highly-wrought subtleties of his later pieces. Including the tale of insanity and empire, "The Man Who Would Be King," the high-spirited "The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat," the fable of childhood cruelty and revenge "Baa Baa, Black Sheep," the menacing psychological study "Mary Postgate" and the ambiguous portrayal of grief and mourning in "The Gardener," here are stories of criminals, ghosts, femmes fatales, madness and murder.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Publication Date: 07/26/11
Age Level: Any Age
Genre: Adventure
Cracked Up To Be
Courtney Summers, Khristine Hvam
Synopsis: Perfect Parker Fadley isn’t so perfect anymore. She’s quit the cheerleading squad, she’s dumped her perfect boyfriend, and she’s failing school. Her parents are on a constant suicide watch and her counselors think she’s playing games…but what they don’t know, the real reason for this whole mess, isn’t something she can say out loud. It isn’t even something she can say to herself. A horrible thing has happened and it just might be her fault. If she can just remove herself from everybody - be totally alone - then everything will be okay...The problem is, nobody will let her.
Publication Date: 07/20/11
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Adventure
Oracle - Sunken Earth (volume 1)
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Publication Date: 06/22/11
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Unto The Breach
Sidney Gale
Synopsis: Eric, Rob and Anthony's sailing adventure goes horribly wrong when a life-threatening injury occurs. Emergency surgery is required, but can the boys rise to the challenge?
Publication Date: 06/08/11
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Silesia: The Outworlder
S. K. Valenzuela
Synopsis: An assassin haunted by her past. A desert world with no hope of a future. An evil collective bent on their total annihilation. 

Imagine a retelling of the legend of St. George and the Dragon that blurs the boundaries between science fiction, fantasy, and myth in the vein of C.S. Lewis's classic Perelandra Trilogy and delves into the nature of evil and redemption like The Chronicles of Riddick. 

That's THE OUTWORLDER, the first volume of the Silesia Trilogy.

For virtuoso assassin Sahara Acwellan, this flight was supposed to be her last. Convicted of slaying the Dragon-Lord Chieftain on her homeworld and sentenced to the labor camps on the desert world of Silesia, Sahara's brilliant career as a freedom fighter has been cut short. But when fate intervenes and her prison transport crashes in the sands, she might have a second chance to finish what she started.

All that stands in her way is Jared Alareth, the warrior turned apprentice healer with a past as shattered as her own. He rescues her from the desert and brings her to his home city of Albadir, but Sahara's plans have nothing to do with moving on and everything to do with vengeance. 

As Sahara sweeps Jared and his people into a conflict they have tried so desperately to avoid, they discover that the treachery of the Dragon-Lords goes deeper than they could ever have imagined. And when Sahara's fate becomes twined with that of everything Jared loves, will he find the courage to save her and his people before it's too late?

THE OUTWORLDER is an explosive, poignant science-fiction adventure that questions whether true love really can conquer all, and whether you can ever really find freedom when the strongest chains that bind you are the ones within your own soul.
Publication Date: 06/08/11
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
A Traveller in Time
Phyllis Bray, Alison Uttley
Synopsis:

Penelope Taberner Cameron is a solitary and a sickly child, a reader and a dreamer. Her mother, indeed, is of the opinion that the girl has grown all too attached to the products of her imagination and decides to send her away from London for a restorative dose of fresh country air. But staying at Thackers, in remote Derbyshire, Penelope is soon caught up in a new mystery, as she finds herself transported at unforeseeable intervals back and forth from modern to Elizabethan times. There she becomes part of a remarkable family that is, Penelope realizes, in terrible danger as they plot to free Mary, Queen of Scot, from the prison in which Queen Elizabeth has confined her.
 Penelope knows the tragic end that awaits the Scottish queen but she can neither change the course of events nor persuade her new family of the hopelessness of their cause, which love, loyalty, and justice all compel them to embrace. Caught between present and past, Penelope is ever more torn by questions of freedom and fate. To travel in time, Penelope discovers, is to to be very much alone. And yet the slow recurrent rhythms of the natural world, beautifully captured by Alison Uttley, also speak of a greater ongoing life that transcends the passage of years. 

Publication Date: 05/31/11
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Adventure
Lucy Dakota: Rocky Mountain Beginnings-Book 1
Synopsis: Lucy Dakota isn't different from other teens - she is just like them. Lucy has many strengths, she just doesn't realize them. She is smart and kind, organized and tenacious, trusting and a bit naive. At school, she tries desperately to fit in somewhere, anywhere. That leads her to make poor decisions, particularly around boys and friends. She joins various sports teams, she goes out with boys that have no respect for her and she is friends with a girl who bullies her. Then one day our heroine, Lucy Dakota, is invited to explore in the Colorado wilderness. She faces danger around every corner, and discovers her adventurous side. She starts believing in herself and her abilities and learns there is a lot she can do. Join Lucy as she comes to grips with who she is as a young woman and starts loving life and being alive.
Publication Date: 05/25/11
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Adventure
Surfing Summers
James Connor
Synopsis:
Publication Date: 05/12/11
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Adventure
Curse of the Shamra
Barry Hoffman
Synopsis: Curse of the Shamra is a rousing adventure tale about the isolated and peaceful land of the Shamra people who are enslaved by invaders called the Trocs. An unconventional young Shamra girl named Dara escapes and ventures into unknown realms to find allies and leads a resistance to repel the invaders. The novel is an allegory about the quest for freedom on many levels.
Publication Date: 05/10/11
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Shamra Divided
Barry Hoffman
Synopsis: ONE GIRL MUST EMBRACE HER DESTINY AND FIGHT TO SAVE HER PEOPLE FROM A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH.

Dara has managed to save her people from one enemy but the cost has been high. While Dara struggles to come to terms with the loss of beloved friends, she finds herself thrust into the leadership role of an improbable army and learns that it is her destiny to unite her people as one.

To fulfill her destiny, Dara must embark on a treacherous journey to find her ancestors and unite her people in the face of the biggest challenge they have ever faced:Chaos.  Dormant for almost two hundred years, Chaos has returned, intent on destroying Dara.
Publication Date: 05/10/11
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
The Warriors of Estavia: Book 3 The Shining City
Synopsis: "Expert world builder"* Fiona Patton concludes The Warriors of Estavia saga. *Midwest Book Review

With the three children of prophecy-the seers Spar and Graize, and the warrior Brax-now grown, and the young God Hisar ready to stake his claim to a place in the pantheon of Anavatan, a time of chaos and change is fast approaching. For only if sworn enemies Spar and Graize can come together as Hisar's priests will the God stand any chance of surviving the coming battles with both the hungry spirits seeking to devour him, and the war with the mortal invasion fleet, which is even now sailing for Anavatan.
Publication Date: 04/05/11
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
The Card: A Van Stone Novel
Synopsis: Van Stone has it all, the perfect family, great friends and the best job in the world. Then, his life falls apart. Thrust into a deadly plot masterminded by unknown enemies, Van is in a race against time to save those closest to him. When Van wins an essay contest to become the new batboy for a Major League baseball team, he finds himself in a foreign world of million dollar athletes and fame. Forced into the spotlight, Van is uncomfortable in his new role. His instant fame at South Seattle High School has turned all eyes toward him, including unknown adversaries that want something he has.

Jack Stone works for Biotrust, a large and secretive biotechnology company. Van's father is on the verge of making one of the most stunning discoveries in over a century, a technology that could change the world forever. While finishing the project, Biotrust forces Van's father into a leave of absence. In an effort to protect his secrets, Jack may have endangered his family.

As The Card barrels forward, Van slams headfirst into a plot that threatens the people near to him. Working through adversity, Van finds an inner strength. He draws on his deductive powers and an unstoppable attitude, to battle the corrupt forces. Not knowing who to trust, Van sets out with his two best friends to solve the secrets behind an innocent gift, a Moe Berg baseball card.

Set in Seattle, Washington, this faced paced mystery takes you behind the scenes in professional baseball and into a world of cutting edge science and technology. Full of unexpected twists and high stakes drama, this first in a series adventure will keep you guessing until the final scene. As fresh as today's headlines, Jim Devitt, in his debut novel, weaves a suspenseful ride that blows the lid off scientific advancement, in a story of breathtaking action and suspense.
Publication Date: 04/01/11
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure

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