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Winter Song
Anthea Bell, Jean-Claude Mourlevat
Synopsis: Rare book
Publication Date: 11/03/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Love and Peaches
Jodi Lynn Anderson
Synopsis:

Together for another juicy summer, carefree Murphy, perfect Leeda, and big-hearted Birdie return to the place that allowed them to bloom. Brimming with all the charm, humor, and heart of Peaches and The Secrets of Peaches, this satisfying conclusion to Jodi Lynn Anderson's popular series reunites three unlikely best friends for a final sweet farewell.

When Murphy chose New York City, she left her first love behind. Now, a summer in Bridgewater means trading subway trains for pickup trucks and facing the boy she turned her back on.

Leeda expects her trip home to be over faster than her new Manhattan boyfriend can hail a cab—until a surprising inheritance saddles her with a huge responsibility.

Birdie's heart led her all the way to Mexico, and heartbreak brings her back to the orchard. But when the Darlington family decides to leave peach trees for palm trees, Birdie gets a crash course in letting go—and learning when to hold on.

Publication Date: 10/28/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Jars of Glass
Heather Hepler, Brad Barkley
Synopsis: After their mother is institutionalized for schizophrenia, sisters Choe and Shana deal with the disruption to their family in very different ways, but after their mother comes for a visit, it becomes clear to responsible Chloe why Shana the dreamer doesn't want her mother around anymore.
Publication Date: 10/16/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Time to Smell the Roses
Michael Hoeye
Synopsis: While immersed in wedding plans, Hermux is hired to find the son of the patriarch of the DeRosenquill rose dynasty and in the process discovers a homeless teenager, fields of dying flowers, and killer bees. Reprint.
Publication Date: 10/16/08
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Fiction
Paper Towns
John Green
Synopsis:
Winner of the Edgar Award
The #1 New York Times Bestseller
Publishers Weekly and USA Today Bestseller

Millions of Copies Sold

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificent Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life—summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. When their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Margo has disappeared. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they’re for him. Embarking on an exhilarating adventure to find her, the closer Q gets, the less he sees the girl he thought he knew.

#1 Bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars John Green crafts a brilliantly funny and moving coming-of-age journey about true friendship and true love.

 

Publication Date: 10/16/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Ratha's Courage
Clare Bell
Synopsis: Ratha and her clan, the Named, are sentient prehistoric big cats. In Ratha s Courage, the fifth book in the Named series, Ratha extends the use of the Red Tongue fire to a hunter tribe. One of the hunters ignites a blaze that sets off a devastating conflict between the two clans. Now Ratha must find the courage within herself to set it right.

Ratha's Courage is the newest book in the series since 1994.
Publication Date: 10/15/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Papillon
Miwa Ueda
Synopsis: BUTTERFLY

It’s no fun being a high school outcast. It’s even harder when your twin sister is the most popular girl in school! The ultra-glam Hana is the ultimate teen queen, but her sister, Ageha, is just a shy tomboy. Hana loves being the center of attention so much that she’ll do anything to keep her sister in her shadow. But Ageha has a plan that will change her life. Because no one, not even Hana, can hold Ageha back forever. . . .
Publication Date: 10/14/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls
Jonathan Bean, Lynne Jonell
Synopsis: Emmy Addison is an ordinary girl—almost. If you don’t count the fact that her parents are rich (very), her best friend is a boy (and a soccer star), and she can talk to rodents (and they talk back), she’s very ordinary indeed. But she hasn’t been that way for long . . . It was only a few weeks ago that Emmy and her friends Ratty and Joe got rid of the evil Miss Barmy, the nanny who had nearly ruined Emmy’s life—and the lives of five other girls who went missing. Miss Barmy is now a rat. How much harm can she do?Book Details:Format: HardcoverPublication Date: 10/14/2008Pages: 368Reading Level: Age 9 and Up
Publication Date: 10/14/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Blame it on Barbara
C.B. Lilley
Synopsis: Unbeknownst to the residents of the sleepy town of Clarence, IN, their fate, and perhaps the fate of the free world, lies in the hands of two unlikely heroes. Barbara Birnbaum is a regular 12-year-old, shy and unassuming, living a quiet life with her ordinary family... until the fall of her seventh grade year. Barbara's seemingly normal life becomes quite extraordinary after meeting Jesse, the mysterious new boy with a reputation for trouble, and the two of them become embroiled in the greatest and most dangerous adventure of their lives. In this riveting cloak-and-dagger spy caper, Barbara and Jesse are charged with guarding the nation's most valuable secrets from a group of rogue SVR agents, and they must protect them at all costs...possibly with their lives!
Publication Date: 10/09/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Oliver Twist
Arthur Pober Ed.D, Scott McKowen, Charles Dickens
Synopsis: Thanks to its colorful cast of characters and gritty portrayal of street life in Victorian London, Dickens’ Oliver Twist has captured readers’ hearts for more than 150 years. Today’s children will love it too. Oliver, a poor orphan, escapes the miserable workhouse where he was born only to fall into the clutches of a band of pickpockets led by the odious Fagin. Yet no amount of cruelty can destroy his purity…and through his goodness, he finds salvation.
Publication Date: 10/07/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Another Mother's Life
Rowan Coleman
Synopsis:

Can you ever mend a shattered friendship?

From Rowan Coleman, author of the acclaimed bestseller The Accidental Mother, comes a deeply moving novel for every woman who was ever a teenager in love, a mother, or made a heartbreaking decision.

For wealthy Alison James, moving with her family to her hometown of Farmington presents more than a case of relocation jitters. Fifteen years ago, she fled town, eloping with her best friend's boyfriend. Now, blessed with three children, but uneasy in her marriage, she wonders if that decision led her away from the life she was meant to lead.

Catherine Ashley, broke, the mother of two and almost divorced, can't help but wonder the same thing. Although she's content with her children, she finds herself returning again and again to those few weeks fifteen years ago when she fell deeply in love, only to be betrayed by her most trusted friend.

Now, once more living in the same town, Alison and Catherine are about to find out just how different their lives could still be. But this time around they are adults, and while their own happiness is at stake, so is their children's.

Wise and warmhearted, Another Mother's Life will make you laugh and cry -- and think about what you would do when confronted by some of life's most difficult choices.

Publication Date: 10/07/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
City of Jade
Dennis L. McKiernan
Synopsis: The myth of a lost city carved of precious jade has proven irresistible to many in Mithgar. Now Aravan, captain of the Elven ship Eroean, has undertaken a quest to find it. With his true love Aylis, the Magekind Seeress, beside him and a crew of men and dwarves, he sets sail to follow the lure of legend. The journey will be long and perilous--and the voyagers will find more than treasure awaiting them in the City of Jade. They will find dark sorcery and great danger, and some among them will find death.
Publication Date: 10/07/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Foundation
Mercedes Lackey
Synopsis: The long-awaited brand new novel in the bestselling Valdemar series.

In this chronicle of the early history of Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey's bestselling world, a thirteen year- old orphan named Magpie escapes a life of slavery in the gem mines when he is chosen by one of the magical Companion horses of Valdemar to be trained as a Herald. Thrust into the center of a legend in the making, Magpie discovers talents he never knew he had and witnesses the founding of the great Heralds' Collegium.
 
Publication Date: 10/07/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Crusade
Taylor Anderson
Synopsis: The ?gripping and riveting?( S.M. Stirling, author of The Scourge of God) Destroyermen saga continues.

Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the USS Walker, have chosen sides in a war not of their making. Swept from the World War II Pacific into an alternate world, they have allied with the Lemurians?a mammalian race threatened by the warlike reptilian Grik.

The Lemurians are vastly outnumbered and ignorant of warfare, and even the guns and technology of Walker cannot turn the tide of battle. Luckily they are not alone?Reddy finally finds Mahan, the other destroyer that passed through the rift. Together, the two American ships will teach the Lemurians to make a stand. Or so they think.

For the massive Japanese battleship Amagi, the very ship that Walker was fleeing from when the rift took them, has followed them through. And now the Amagi is in the hands of the Grik.

Publication Date: 10/07/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Witch High
Denise Little
Synopsis: High school is different for everyone. For some, it’s a time to shine, and for others, a time to survive. Then there are the students who attend those special schools for the gifted. But what if there was a school that catered to those rarest of students—those who can do magic?

These fourteen tales explore the challenges that students of the magical arts may face in a high school of their very own. If you think chemistry is tough, try alchemy. If you ever fell victim to a school bully, how would you deal with a bully gifted with powerful magic?

And if you needed more time to study, what spell could give you all the time you desired? These are just a few of the magical adventures that will await you when you enter Salem Township Public High School #4— otherwise known as Witch High...
Publication Date: 10/07/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
When Duty Calls
William C. Dietz
Synopsis: As the war with the Ramanthian continues, Captain Antonio Santana and his force of biobods and cyborgs find themselves surrounded by enemy forces, faced with annihilation at every turn. On the home front, diplomat Christine Vanderveen finds herself torn between her love for Santana and her new loyalty towards the charismatic, recently elected president of the Clone Republic. As Christine fights her own divided heart, light years away, Santana is in a battle for his life. And this battle may be his last.
Publication Date: 10/07/08
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction

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