The Girls She Left Behind
Publishers Weekly 11/16/2015 Graves’s dark second Lizzie Snow mystery (after 2015’s Winter at the Door) examines the ugly, soul-destroying things that mark the aftermath of a child abduction. At age 15, Jane Crimmins is kidnapped from a party in a New Haven, Conn., park, along with her 15-year-old cousin, Cam Petry. Jane escapes soon afterward, […]
The First Step : How One Girl Put Segregation On Trial
School Library Journal ¡ï 01/01/2016 Gr 2¨C4¡ªMore than a century before Brown v. Board of Education, there was Roberts v. City of Boston; this beautifully illustrated picture book sheds light on this lesser-known case. Benjamin and Adeline Roberts enrolled their four-year-old in the closest neighborhood school. Sarah attended, until officials noticed and sent a police […]
The Guest Room
Library Journal 08/01/2015 In another fresh and different novel from the New York Times best-selling Bohjalian, Richard Chapman was prepared for a mess when he opens his home to his younger brother's bachelor party. But he wasn't expecting an intimate moment with one of the women hired as entertainment before she and her coworker (both […]
Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics
From School Library Journal Gr 4–6—After receiving a million requests from fellow book lovers, billionaire game maker Luigi Lemoncello launches a Library Olympics open to kids all over the country to challenge the reigning literature-loving champions of Alexandria, OH. The sequel to Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Random, 2013) pits teams of four middle schoolers […]
The Terrible Two Get Worse
"When pranking perfection meets the seemingly unprankable foe, who gets the last laugh?… John and Barnett's sophomore effort is as much fun as series opener The Terrible Two (2015)… This revenger's comedy, dotted with references to classic plays and philosophical concepts, will be a joy for pranksters and seekers of a good-hearted laugh." (Kirkus)
Brooklyn On Fire
Publishers Weekly 11/02/2015 Set in 1890, Levy’s engaging second Mary Handley mystery (after 2015’s Second Street Station) finds the neophyte detective working as a salesclerk at a Brooklyn bookstore, where an elegant Southern woman, Emily Worsham, seeks her out. Emily wants Mary to try to prove that John Worsham, her late uncle who died in […]
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Publishers Weekly š 09/14/2015 Renowned author Kingfs impressive latest collection (after 2010fs Full Dark, No Stars) wraps 20 stories and poems in fascinating commentary. Each workfs preface explains what inspired it and gives readers insight into Kingfs writing methods, with occasional tidbits of his daily life. The stories themselves are meditations on mortality, destiny, and […]
The Song of Hartgrove Hall
“Devotees of television’s Downton Abbey will be drawn in by this novel’s historical detail and emotional story line.” – Library Journal
The Bone Labyrinth
Library Journal 07/01/2015 What ties together the explosion of a manned Chinese rocket, the murder of three American astronauts, and the discovery of caves in Croatia that depict a battle among Neanderthals (with a little help from Homo sapiens), which is painted in blood? This new book by Rollins pits Sigma Force against one of […]
Ashley Bell
Kirkus Reviews 2015-10-08 Koontz (The City, 2014, etc.) searches the shadow lands of Elsewhere, a mystical terrain where Bibi Blair confronts a rare brain cancer. Bibi resides in Newport Beach, California, but her life's love, SEAL team leader Paxton Thorpe, is half a world away. Bibi is an accomplished author, with one novel published, when […]