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. […]
Winter
School Library Journal 11/01/2015 Gr 8 Up—In the final installment of the "Lunar Chronicles" series (Feiwel & Friends), readers are introduced to Princess Winter, the beautiful stepdaughter of the villainous Queen Levana. Forced to scar her own face as a child and driven mad by her refusal to use her Lunar gift to control people, […]
Crimson Shore
Library Journal ★ 11/01/2015 Agent Pendergast is back! Taking on a case involving a stolen wine collection would seem to underutilize his superior detective wizardry, but the pay is a bottle of priceless wine. How can he resist? He and his ward Constance head to the tiny town of Exmouth on the rocky Massachusetts coast. […]
Home By Nightfall
Publishers Weekly 09/28/2015 Set in the autumn of 1876, Finch’s capable ninth Victorian mystery (after 2014’s The Laws of Murder) takes gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox from London to Sussex, to try to console his brother, whose wife has died after a sudden illness, but he’s soon distracted by a bizarre puzzle. Before a local insurance […]
Unforgiven
Kirkus Reviews 2015-10-06 The long-standing Fallen series continues with bad boy fallen angel Cam trying to win back his lost love from ancient Israel, entering into a deal with the devil to do it. In 1,000 B.C.E. Cam and Lilith fell in love, but Cam broke Lilith's heart. Now he learns something he has been […]
Tricky Twenty-two
Library Journal 06/01/2015 Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her friends, family, and lovers return for a 22nd adventure after Top Secret Twenty-One, which hit the top spot on the New York Times hardcover, ebook, and combined best sellers lists. Plot? Does it even matter?
The Mistletoe Inn
Library Journal 10/15/2015 In the second holiday love story of Evans's "Mistletoe Collection" (The Mistletoe Promise), Kim Rossi is recently divorced and working as a finance officer at a car dealership. When Kim hears about a romance-writing retreat at the Mistletoe Inn, she decides it may be time to pursue her dream of becoming an […]