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Magic Under Glass
Jaclyn Dolamore
Synopsis: Nimira is a foreign music-hall girl forced to dance for pennies. When wealthy sorcerer Hollin Parry hires her to sing with a piano-playing automaton, Nimira believes it is the start of a new and better life. In Parry's world, however, buried secrets are beginning to stir. Unsettling below-stairs rumors swirl about ghosts, a madwoman roaming the halls, and Parry's involvement with a league of sorcerers who torture fairies for sport. Then Nimira discovers the spirit of a fairy gentleman named Erris is trapped inside the clockwork automaton, waiting for someone to break his curse. The two fall into a love that seems hopeless, and breaking the curse becomes a race against time, as not just their love, but the fate of the entire magical world may be in peril.
Publication Date: 01/01/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Mainely Mysteries
Megan Elaine Davis, Susan Page Davis
Synopsis:

Emily Gray returns to the tiny lakeside town of Baxter, Maine, to prepare her mother’s island cottage for sale. She doesn’t expect to find a murder victim on Grand Cat Island—or to find love when she walks into the Baxter Marina. Is it Nate Holman or the fascinating mysteries that draw her back to the shores of Blue Heron Lake?

Publication Date: 01/01/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Mystery
Captivate
Carrie Jones
Synopsis:

Zara and her friends knew they hadn't solved the pixie problem for good. Far from it. The king's needs grow deeper every day he's stuck in captivity, while his control over his people gets weaker. It's made him vulnerable. And now there's a new king in town.

A turf war is imminent, since the new pixie king, Astley, is moving in quickly. Nick nearly killed him in the woods on day one, but Zara came to his rescue. Astley swears that he and Zara are destined to be together, that he's one of the good guys. Nick isn't buying it, though Zara isn't as sure -- despite herself, she wants to trust the new king. But it's a lot more than her relationship with Nick that is at stake. It's her life -- and his.

Publication Date: 01/01/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Mia the Magnificent
Eileen Boggess
Synopsis: A contemporary Washington mystery with a high tech, China twist… A brilliantly-conceived spy novel introducing seven engaging characters whose lives are transformed by crisis.It begins as a drinking club in an academic backwater on the Stanford University campus of the late 1970s. A post-Nixon/post-Mao generation of China scholars plots to make a better world. Suddenly, the U.S. recognizes the People’s Republic of China. Intense demand arises for the unique skills The Mandarin Club members possess.Now, yesterday’s dreamers are today’s policy-makers and pundits, patriots and spies. Their intimately intertwined past thrusts them together into an international crisis straight from tomorrow’s headlines, as America, China, and Taiwan stumble toward war.Told sequentially from the perspective of each of the Stanford originals, the fast-paced tale takes us behind the scenes of rogue intelligence operations and high tech smuggling, from Washington and Beijing to the wild coastal towns of California.
Publication Date: 01/01/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Series
Hearts At Stake
Alyxandra Harvey
Synopsis:

On Solange's sixteenth birthday, she is going to wake up dead. As if that's not bad enough, she also has to outwit her seven overprotective older brothers, avoid the politics involved with being the only daughter born to an ancient vampire dynasty, and elude Kieran Black-agent of an anti-vampire league who is searching for his father's killer and is intent on staking Solange and her entire family.

Luckily she has her own secret weapon-her human best friend Lucy-who is willing to defend Solange's right to a normal life, whether she's being smothered by her well-intentioned brothers or abducted by a power-hungry queen. Two unlikely alliances are formed in a race to save Solange's eternal life-Lucy and Solange's brother Nicholas, and Solange and Kieran Black-in a dual romance that is guaranteed to jump start any romance-lover's heart.

Even fans of the genre who've seen it all will find a fresh read with kick-butt characters and family dynamics that ring true for all brothers and sisters-vampire or otherwise.

Publication Date: 01/01/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Enjoying True Peace
Stephanie Perry Moore
Synopsis:

After what seems like so many years of struggling due to the death of their big brother and their missing in action father; the triplets, Yasmin, York and Yancy finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. Mom has a great job, everyone's grades are up, they're all making new friends and have even gotten involved in afterschool activities.

Now their father is back in the picture and it's smooth sailing from there, right? Wrong.  Yasmin's father wants to prove that he can bring everyone back together, so he decides to move the family.  As a result, the whole house is in an uproar. Though she’s grown in her faith and learned quite a bit about hope, joy and love, Yasmin is challenged to continue depending on God to help her remain calm through it all and find peace in the midst of this new storm.  Remembering that He’s still there to comfort her, Yasmin sets her heart on trusting God and enjoying true peace.

Publication Date: 01/01/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
The Secrets of Evelyn Taylor
Ms. Pauline C. Harris
Synopsis: Evelyn Taylor wakes up to find herself living with people whom she doesn't recognize and realizing she does not remember a thing about her past. The strangers tell her she lost her memory in a car crash and that she has lived with them all her life, but Evelyn can't help feeling that she has forgotten something important; something they're not telling her. She lives isolated, unable to leave the grounds or meet people outside her household. Evelyn accepts the strange way she is being raised until she starts remembering things; things that have nothing to do with the life she is leading; memories of a life her caretakers claimed she never had.
Publication Date: 01/01/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Science Fiction
The Musician's Daughter
Susanne Dunlap
Synopsis: Amid the glitter and glamour of musical and court life in 18th century Vienna, fifteen-year-old Theresa Maria Shurman is trying to solve a brutal mystery. Who killed her father, an acclaimed violinist, and stole his valuable Amati violin? When Haydn himself offers her a position as his assistant, it gives Theresa access to life in the palace-and to a world of deceit. Theresa uncovers blackmail and extortion even as she discovers courage and honor in unexpected places: from a Gypsy camp on the banks of the Danube, to the rarefied life of the imperial family. And she feels the stirrings of a first, tentative love for someone who is as deeply involved in the mystery as she is.
Publication Date: 01/01/10
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Gulliver’s Travels
Copyright Paperback Collection Jonathan Swift
Synopsis:
Publication Date: 05/06/25
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Conspiracy 365: August
Gabrielle Lord
Synopsis:
Publication Date: 05/06/25
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
The Magickers Chronicles: Volume Two
Synopsis: The final two novels of "The Magickers" series in a single volume The final battle between the Magickers, who believe in using magic for good, and the Dark Hand, who want to use magic only for their own ends, has begun. Now it's up to Jason Adrian and the other children with "talent" to defeat the forces of darkness.
Publication Date: 05/06/25
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
The Best Teen Writing of 2010
Jared Dummitt, Davy Rothbart, Rita Feinstein et al
Synopsis: 285 pages 2009 Portfolio Gold Scholastic Awards Recipient
Publication Date: 05/06/25
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Nonfiction
Conspiracy 365: June
Gabrielle Lord
Synopsis:
Publication Date: 05/06/25
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Mystery
Conspiracy 365: October
GABRIELLE LORD
Synopsis:
Publication Date: 05/06/25
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Mystery
Shadowglass
Erica Hayes
Synopsis:

Welcome to secret world hidden behind shadowy fairy glamour, where thieving spriggans rob you blind, beautiful banshees mesmerize you with their song, big green trolls kick heads at nightclubs and vampire Mafiosi rule the streets. Here a seductive magic mirror lies hidden deep in a demon's lair, with a simple warning: don't stare at the glass…
Ice is a light-fingered fairy who can't resist a look at the powerful mirror. She and her fairy friends run confidence games, pretending to be fortune tellers and bedazzling customers with their glamour. But Ice longs for more―she wants a real life, a respectable job and something to strive for. The mirror offers her a chance to achieve everything she's ever dreamed of. But when she pilfers it, she discovers that its power comes with a price: the mirror is a gateway to obsession and madness... and it will take every trick in her arsenal just to survive.

Publication Date: 05/06/25
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Sweet 15
Emily Adler
Synopsis:

Destiny Lozada is turning fifteen, and her parents want to throw her a traditional quinceañera, celebrating her transition into "womanhood" with a religious ceremony, a big expensive party, a silly dress and tiara—the works. Destiny’s older sister calls it an antiquated, misogynistic ritual that just gives their mother a chance to show off. As usual, Destiny is caught in the middle and afraid to say anything. She’s not a princesa like her mother imagines or an activist like her sister. So who is she? Destiny isn’t sure yet, but she knows she’d rather be watching TV, riding her skateboard, and confiding to her cat and her stuffed bear. She also wouldn’t mind finding the guy of her dreams to be her escort for the quince. . . .

When the plans, bills, and fights start piling up, Destiny has to stop being a spectator to "The Lozada Show" and take a stand once and for all in her family and her life. In their first novel written together, these talented co-authors bring a male and female perspective to the story.

Publication Date: 05/06/25
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction

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