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 Art of Crash Landing
Publishers Weekly 07/06/2015 Decarlo’s excellent debut chronicles what happens when 30-year-old Mattie Wallace finds herself unearthing family secrets in her mother’s hometown. Mattie remembers her deceased mother, Genie, as a broken alcoholic who dated a string of losers—save for Mattie’s erstwhile stepfather, Queeg, with whom she still has a relationship. After being identified as the […]
Miss Ruffles Inherits Everything
Publishers Weekly 09/14/2015 Set in Mule Stop, Tex., this lighthearted series launch from Martin (A Little Night Murder) delivers bold, brash Texas attitude and small-town color. Outsider Sunny McKillip, the new personal assistant to rich eccentric matriarch Honeybelle Hensley, becomes the object of both envy and suspicion when the will read after Honeybelle’s sudden death […]
Carry On
Publishers Weekly ¡ï 10/19/2015 Rowell's many fans know that the characters in this novel derive from her 2013 book, Fangirl, where they appeared in two forms: the "official" version of a Harry Potterlike series and the funnier, funkier, and gayer fanfic written by Cath, Fangirl's heroine. Now Simon Snow, the greatest magician the world has […]
The Infinite Sea
Publishers Weekly ¡ï 09/22/2014 From an explosive start that reveals the boundless malevolence of Yancey's conquering alien Others, this gut-wrenching sequel to The 5th Wave careens on a violent course of nonstop action. Heroine Cassie, renegade soldier Ringer, and fellow survivor Ben have led a band of military camp escapees to a decaying hotel somewhere […]
Looking For Alaska
School Library Journal Gr 9 Up From the very first page, tension fills John Green's Michael L. Printz Award-winning novel (Dutton, 2005). Miles Halter, 16, is afraid that nobody will show up at his party because he doesn't have many friends. He loves to read biographies and discover the last words attributed to famous people. […]
The Marvels
Publishers Weekly ¡ï 07/06/2015 Selznick imagines an alternate backstory for a real English tourist attraction, the Dennis Severs¡¯ House: 10 meticulously curated rooms that suggest what life might have been like for a family of Huguenot silk weavers in 18th-century London. The first 500 pages are double-page pencil drawings that (almost) wordlessly tell the story […]