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Overview…………………………………………………………………………………. 3

Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror…………………………………………………….. 4 Thrillers……………………………………………………...…………………………...11

Young Adult………………………………………..…………………………………… 13

Graphic Novels………………………….……………………………………………… 22

General Fiction………………………..………………………………………………… 24

Non-Fiction………………………………………………….………………………….. 29

Middle-Grade and Juvenile…………………………………..…………………………. 41 Mysteries…………………………………………………………………………………53

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Overview Macmillan Entertainment is the film, television and multi-media division of Macmillan Publishing, with projects set up at Warner Brothers (with Bradley Cooper attached to star and produce), MGM (with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson attached to star and produce), CBS Television Network, FilmNation, Universal Television, Atlas Entertainment, Legendary Pictures, The History Channel, and The Weinstein Company, among many others. Macmillan Entertainment is run by Brendan Deneen, a former development/ production executive for Scott Rudin and Bob & Harvey Weinstein. Macmillan Publishing is the fifth largest trade book publisher in the United States, and is a global trade publishing company owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. Macmillan Publishing has imprints in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, and around the world. American publishers include Farrar Straus and Giroux, Henry Holt & Company, Palgrave Macmillan, Picador, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, First Second (graphic novels), St. Martin’s Press and Tor Books. In its long, rich history, Macmillan has generated a number of classics and bestsellers, including THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE BOURNE LEGACY, ENDER'S GAME, THE WALKING DEAD, HALO, SHREK, THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, THE WHEEL OF TIME, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES, THE HOURS, THE NANNY DIARIES, THE PRESTIGE, SIDEWAYS, A WRINKLE IN TIME, I AM LEGEND, KILLING LINCOLN, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES, PRESUMED INNOCENT, TUCK EVERLASTING, A CRICKET IN TIMES SQUARE, LITTLE CHILDREN, THE CORRECTIONS, RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, A STIR OF ECHOES, HOLES, and many others. For more information regarding any titles on this list, please visit us at www.MacmillanEntertainment.com and/or contact Brendan Deneen at [email protected]

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Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror PRESSURE by Brian Keene June 2016 The story of a world-class free diver who is called in to investigate a seismological event in the Indian Ocean, when events quickly take a deadly turn and her and her crew must fight the monster in the depths and those ashore. SHARDS OF HEAVEN by Michael Livingston November 2015 Two sons of the slain Caesar race to control the greatest artifacts of ancient mythology. First in a planned trilogy. THE GRAVEYARD APARTMENT by Mariko Koike October 2015 The suspenseful tale of a young family that believes it has found the perfect home, only to realize that the apartment’s idyllic setting harbors the specter of evil and that the longer they stay, the more trapped they become. THE RETURN by Joseph Helmreich Fall 2015 The story of a scientist who is abducted by an alien spacecraft on live television, only to mysteriously return years later, and the graduate student who ultimately tracks him down, discovering a much larger conspiracy that puts more than just one planet in danger. DAYFALL by Dave Swavely Fall 2015 In the near future, an apocalyptic event has occurred, causing days and nights to last a week each. After solving a serial killer case in the Midwest, a young cop is recruited by the mayor of New New York City to solve a serial killer case in the walled-off city. But it’s not nighttime that you have to worry about in New New York City… it’s dayfall. This is TRAINING DAY meets PITCH BLACK. DEAD SPACE Fall 2015 A group of thieves break into a storage facility during a storm, hoping to steal a priceless artifact in one of the units, but soon discover that the storage facility stands on top of an ancient cemetery…and the spirits are not happy with their presence.

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POLARIS Fall 2015 A man awakens on a submarine with no memory of who he is or how he got there. As he investigates the sub, he finds signs of a deadly struggle…and a dead body. Soon, he comes to realize that he survived a brutal mutiny. But he doesn’t know which side he was on…. This is an exciting paranoia-induced thriller with a sci-fi twist. LOVECRAFT & CARTER Fall 2015 A disgraced cop-turned-private detective becomes entangled with HP Lovecraft’s granddaughter, and soon discovers that the author’s fantastical stories were based on supernatural creatures that are all-too-real. 24 HOURS AT HELL HIGH Fall 2015 When a group of teachers are stranded in their school after a freak snowstorm, they begin dying one by one and must race to stop whoever is targeting them. THE LAST TRUE VAMPIRE by Amanda Bonilla June 2015 An adult vampire romance with a tortured vampire hero and a human heroine who has made her living as a thief…until her chance meeting with the last true vampire changes everything. THE BLONDES by Emily Shultz April 2015 A hilarious and whipsmart novel where an epidemic of a rabies-like disease is carried only by blonde women, who all must go to great lengths to conceal their blondness. Already praised by Stephen King and Margaret Atwood. UNBREAKABLE by by W. C. Bauers Winter 2015 Between two human interstellar empires, a young woman faces trial by fire as a mech-suited marine when she’s forced to lead the defense of her homeworld against an enemy fleet bent on conquest. THE SINS OF RACHEL ELLIS by Philip Caveney June 1978, Reissue Fall 2014 To give her parents time to patch up their marriage, Pandora is shipped off to Wales to visit her great-aunt Rachel. But what or who is locked in her attic? Pandora begins seeing ghosts, falls for a village boy, and soon discovers that she is scheduled to replace the secret in the attic… ALIAS: HOOK by Lisa Jensen July 2014 An action-packed tale of love and war, of time travel and magic, and of the man who would become known as Captain Hook.

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STAR ROAD by Matthew Costello & Rick Hautala January 2014 A rebel and an outlaw lead an unsuspecting group of adventurers on a secret mission across the vastness of space. CONQUERED EARTH by J. Barton Mitchell (series) 2012-2014 Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as the Assembly. The human adult population is gone, having succumbed to the Tone—a powerful, telepathic super-signal broadcast across the planet that reduces them to a state of complete subservience. But the Tone has one critical flaw. It only affects the population once they reach their early twenties. Which means that there is one group left to resist: children, including bounty hunter Holt Hawkins, treasure seeker Mira Toombs, and a young girl who remembers nothing except her name—Zoey. As the three make their way to the cavernous Midnight City, they encounter young freedom fighters, mutants, feuding alien armies, and the amazing powers that Zoey begins to exhibit, suggesting she may be the key to stopping the Assembly once and for all. DAY ONE by Nate Kenyon October 2013 Cloverfield meets The Terminator in this story of the twelve hours one man endures trying to escape from New York City and get home to his family in New Jersey on the day that technology becomes sentient. (BenderSpink attached to co-produce.) SILHOUETTE by Dave Swavely November 2012 A post-quake San Francisco is ruled by a private corporation called the Bay Area Security Service. Its founder, Saul Rabin, is revered by many as the savior of the city; but by others he is feared and loathed as a fascist tyrant. To his executive "peacer" Michael Ares, the old man is a mysterious benefactor whom he respects and admires. But when Michael's daughter and best friend are brutally murdered, he follows a trail of evidence that leads dangerously close to home. Closer than he could ever imagine… DEATH’S APPRENTICE by K. W. Jeter October 2012 The story of Death’s seventeen-year-old apprentice, Nathaniel. Joined by a half-dead wraith and a fearless, giant hit-man, Nathaniel must learn to stand on his own at last as he leads an uprising against the Devil. VACATION by Matthew Costello September 2011 After a global crisis causes crops to fail and species to disappear, something even more deadly happens. Masses around the world suddenly became predators, feeding off their own kind. These “Can Heads” grow to such a threat that fences, gated compounds, and SWAT-style police protection become absolutely necessary to live. After one attack leaves NYPD cop Jack Murphy wounded and his partner dead, Jack takes his wife and kids on a vacation. Far up north, to the Paterville Family Camp, a fortress-like compound in the mountains, where families can still 6

swim and take boats out on a lake. But Jack slowly comes to realize that there's something else going on at Paterville Family Camp...and when he makes a gruesome discovery, he will be forced to get his family out, no matter who—or what—stands in his way. THE WOLFMAN by Nicholas Pekearo May 2008 Dishonorably discharged after a tour in Vietnam, Marlowe Higgins has been in and out of prison, moving from town to town, going wherever the wind takes him. He's not really the kind of guy that can stay in one place too long. And every full moon he kills someone—because Marlowe Higgins is a werewolf. For years he struggled with his affliction, until he found a way to use his unfortunate curse for good—he only kills really bad people. After years of being on the road, Higgins has found a home in the small town of Evelyn, Tennessee. He works at a local kitchen; he even has a friend, Daniel Pearce, one of Evelyn's two detectives. But one night everything changes. It turns out he's not the only monster lurking in the area. A fiendish serial killer, known as the Rose Killer, is brutally murdering young girls all around the county. Higgins targets the killer as his next victim. But on the night of the full moon, things go drastically wrong… (Sean Davis/The Phoenix Organization attached to co-produce.) LOST EVERYTHING by Brian Francis Slattery April 2012 In the not-distant-enough future, a man takes a boat trip up the Susquehanna River with his most trusted friend, intent on reuniting with his son. But the man is pursued by an army, and his own harrowing past; and the familiar American landscape has been savaged by war and climate change until it is nearly unrecognizable. * 2013 Philip K. Dick Award Winner SEA CHANGE by S.M. Wheeler June 2013 The unhappy child of two powerful parents who despise each other, young Lilly turns to the ocean to find solace, which she finds in the form of the eloquent and intelligent sea monster Octavius, a kraken. In Octavius’s many arms, Lilly learns of friendship, loyalty, and family. But when Octavius, forbidden by Lilly to harm humans, is captured by seafaring traders and sold to a circus, Lilly becomes his only hope for salvation. Desperate to find him, she strikes a bargain with a witch that carries a shocking price. THE WINTER WITCH by Paula Brackston January 2013 In her small Welsh town, there is no one quite like Morgana. She has never spoken, and her silence as well as the magic she can't quite control makes her a mystery. Concerned for her safety, her mother quickly arranges a marriage with Cai Bevan, the widower from the far hills who knows nothing of the rumors that swirl around her. After their wedding, Morgana is heartbroken at leaving, but she soon falls in love with Cai’s farm and the rugged mountains that surround it, while slowly Cai himself begins to win her heart. It’s not long, however, before her strangeness begins to be remarked upon in her new village. A dark force is at work there—a person who will stop at nothing to turn the townspeople against Morgana, even at the expense of those closest to her. Forced to defend her home, her love, and herself from all comers, Morgana must learn to harness her power, or she will lose everything. 7

THE SIX-GUN TAROT January 2013 Buffy meets Deadwood in a dark, wildly imaginative historical fantasy. Beyond 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a small town that draws its inhabitants from the unnatural: a store owner who talks to the head of his deceased wife, who answers back; a sheriff with the scars of a noose around his neck; a boy with a magical jade eye; and a townswoman who is a member of a group of female assassins. Besides the peculiar townsfolk, there is an evil brewing, and unless the undead Sheriff can defeat it, Golgotha will be no more. GRIDLINKED by Neal Asher August 2003 Cormac is a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a future where “runcibles” (matter transmitters controlled by AIs) allow interstellar travel in an eye blink throughout the settled worlds of the Polity. Unfortunately Cormac is nearly burnt out, “gridlinked” to the AI net so long that his humanity has begun to drain away. He has to take the cold-turkey cure and shake his addiction to having his brain on the net, just as he’s sent to investigate the unique runcible disaster that’s wiped out the entire human colony on planet Samarkand in a thirty-megaton explosion. With the runcible out, Cormac must get there by ship, but he has incurred the wrath of a vicious psychopath called Arian Pelter, who now follows him across the galaxy with a terrifying psychotic killer android in tow. And deep beneath Samarkand’s surface there are buried mysteries, fiercely guarded. APOCALYPSE COW by Michael Logan May 2013 It began with a cow that just wouldn't die. It would become an epidemic that transformed Britain's livestock into four-legged zombies. And if that weren’t bad enough, the fate of the nation rests on the shoulders of three unlikely heroes: an abattoir worker, a teenage vegan, and an inept journalist. As the nation descends into chaos, can they pool their resources, unlock a cure, and save the world? THREE PARTS DEAD by Max Gladstone October 2012 A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without Him, the metropolis’s steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Tara’s job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in. Her only help: Abelard, a chain-smoking priest of the dead god, who’s having an understandable crisis of faith. But when Tara and Abelard discover that Kos was murdered, they have to make a case in Alt Coulumb’s courts—and their quest for the truth endangers their partnership, their lives, and Alt Coulumb’s slim hope of survival. THIS CASE IS GONNA KILL ME by Phillipa Bornikova September 2012 The Halls of Power—our world, but twisted. Law, finance, the military, and politics are under the sway of long-lived vampires, werewolves, and the elven Alfar. Humans make the best of rule by “the Spooks,” and contend among themselves to affiliate with the powers-that-be, in order to 8

avoid becoming their prey. Very loyal humans are rewarded with power over other women and men. Very lucky humans are selected to join the vampires, werewolves, and elves. Linnet Ellery is the offspring of an affluent Connecticut family dating back to Colonial times. Fresh out of law school, she’s beginning her career in a powerful New York “white fang” law firm. She has high hopes of eventually making partner. But strange things keep happening to her. In a workplace where some humans will eventually achieve immense power and centuries of extra lifespan, office politics can be vicious beyond belief. After some initial missteps, she finds herself sidelined and assigned to unpromising cases. Then, for no reason she can see, she becomes the target of repeated, apparently random violent attacks, escaping injury each time through increasingly improbable circumstances. However, there’s apparently more to Linnet Ellery than a little old-money human privilege. More than even she knows. And as she comes to understand this, she’s going to shake up the system like you wouldn’t believe… NIGHTSHIFTED by Cassie Alexander May 2012 Nursing school prepared Edie Spence for a lot of things. But as the newest nurse on Y4, the secret ward hidden in the bowels of County Hospital, Edie has her hands full with every patient you can imagine—from vamps and were-things to zombies and beyond. Edie’s just trying to learn the ropes so she can get through her latest shift unscathed. But when a vampire servant turns to dust under her watch, all hell breaks loose. Now she’s haunted by the man’s dying words, and before she knows it, she’s on a mission to rescue some poor girl from the undead. Which involves crashing a vampire den, falling for a zombie, and fighting for her soul. THE WITCH’S DAUGHTER by Paula Brackston January 2011 In the spring of 1628, the Witchfinder of Wessex finds himself a true Witch. As Bess Hawksmith watches her mother swing from the Hanging Tree she knows that only one man can save her from suffering the same fate. It is the Warlock, Gideon Masters, and his Book of Shadows that will keep her from the hands of the panicked mob. Secluded at his cottage in the woods, Gideon instructs Bess in the Craft, awakening formidable powers she didn't know she had, and bringing her to her immortal state. She could never have foreseen that even now, centuries later in present-day England, he would be hunting her across time, determined to claim payment for saving her life. Part historical romance and part modern-day fantasy, THE WITCH'S DAUGHTER is a fresh, compelling take on the magical, yet dangerous world of Witches. LAST PAGE by Anthony Huso August 2010 A debut fantasy set in a gritty industrialized city, where the king must resist an invasion by hostile soldiers and dark magic by his consort. 13 TO LIFE by Shannon Delaney June 2010 A series about a high school teenager who falls in love with a student—who turns out to be a werewolf—and she must help him escape from mafia types that have a grudge to settle with his family.

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KITTY GOES TO WAR by Carrie Vaughn June 2010 Kitty Norville, Alpha werewolf and host of The Midnight Hour, a radio call-in show, is contacted by a friend at the NIH's Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology. Three Army soldiers recently returned from the war in Afghanistan are being held at Ft. Carson in Colorado Springs. They're killer werewolves—and post-traumatic stress has left them unable to control their shape-shifting and unable to interact with people. Kitty agrees to see them, hoping to help by bringing them into her pack. CHINA MOUNTAIN ZHANG by Maureen F. McHugh April 1997 With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post-revolution America, moving from the hyper-urbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an agricultural commune on Mars. The overlapping lives of cyberkite fliers, lonely colonists, illicit neural-pressball players, and organic engineers blend into a powerful, taut story of a young man's journey of discovery. This is a macroscopic world of microscopic intensity, one of the most brilliant visions of modern SF. * James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award Winner * Lambda Literary Award Winner * Locus Award for Best First Novel * Hugo and Nebula Award Nominee

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Thrillers ARSENIC AND AUSTEN by Katherine Bolger Hyde June 2016 When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great aunt, she expects her life to change. But when she travels to the sleepy coastal village of Stony Beach, Oregon, to claim her inheritance—centered in a beautiful Victorian estate called Windy Corner—she hears hints that her aunt may have been murdered. Soon another murder confirms these suspicions. With the help of Sheriff Luke Richards, who broke her heart 35 years before, Emily uncovers a plot to get hold of her inheritance and use it to turn Stony Beach into a major resort—if necessary, over Emily’s dead body. IMPASSE by Royce Buckingham March 2015 The story of a man who is gifted with an "adventure vacation" in Alaska but is left to die, and his eventual journey home and revenge on those who betrayed him, pitched as CAST AWAY meets FIRST BLOOD. THE EVIDENCE ROOM by Cameron Harvey February 2015 A debut novel set in a small Florida town where a cop, banished to the police department's evidence division, crosses paths with the lone survivor of the county's most notorious crime and discovers a sinister secret buried in the past. THE UNQUIET DEAD by Ausma Zehanat Khan January 2015 Detective Esa Khattak is in the midst of his evening prayers when he receives a phone call asking that he and his partner, Detective Rachel Getty, look into the death of a local man who has fallen off a cliff. At first Christopher Drayton’s death—which looks like an accident— doesn’t seem to warrant a police investigation. But it soon comes to light that Drayton might have been living under an assumed name, and he may not have been the upstanding Canadian citizen he appeared to be. In fact, he may have been a Bosnian war criminal with ties to the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. And if that’s true, any number of people could have had reason to help him to his death. WINK OF AN EYE by Lynn Chandler Willis November 2014 On the run from a double-cross, Las Vegas private investigator, Gypsy Moran shows up unexpectedly at his sister Rhonda’s house in Wink, Texas. She introduces Gypsy to one of her former students, 12-year-old Tatum McCallen, who believes his father was murdered after he inquired about undocumented immigrants. Against his better judgment, Gypsy agrees to snoop around to see what he can find.

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THE TRIDENT DECEPTION by Rick Campbell March 2014 The USS Kentucky—a Trident ballistic missile submarine carrying a full complement of nuclear warheads—is about to go on a routine patrol. Not long after it reaches the open sea, the Kentucky receives a launch order. After receiving that order, it is cut off from all counter-orders and disappears into the Pacific while it makes the eight-day transit to the launch site. What the Kentucky’s crew doesn’t know is that those orders haven’t actually come from the U.S. government. Rogue elements within the Mossad have learned that Iran has developed its first nuclear weapon and, in ten days, will detonate it—and the target is Israel. The suspected weapon complex is too far underground for conventional weapons to harm it, and the only choice is a pre-emptive strike. With limited time, this rogue group initiates a long-planned operation called the Trident Deception. They’ll transmit false orders and use a U.S. nuclear submarine to launch the attack. With only 8 days before the Kentucky is in launch range and with the submarine cut off from any outside communication, one senior officer, the father of one of the officers aboard the submarine, must assemble and lead a team of attack submarines to find, intercept, and neutralize the Kentucky before it can unknowingly unleash a devastating nuclear attack. THE AMAZING HARVEY by Don Passman February 2014 On the brink of stardom, struggling magician Harvey Kendall is fingered in a vicious murder when his DNA is found on the victim, placing him at the scene of the crime. With one unexpected twist and turn after another, readers are left on the edge of their seats wondering just what is trick and what is truth in the life of this man with a cutting (and often hilarious) sarcastic wit and smart-alec style. FOLLOW ME by Cara Lockwood October 2013 Overnight, Calypso "Cal" Morgan's sensual Greek summer abroad turns into a thrilling, highstakes race to prove to the world (and herself) that her brand-new and very sexy boyfriend Daniel is not a murderer. On the run together, Cal and Daniel must outwit handsome Greek detective Nico Theseus and face their attraction to each other—amid the stress and growing suspicions unearthed by the investigation. THE NOSTRADAMUS PROPHECIES by Mario Reading November 2010 From Booklist: “Already a best-seller in the UK, this fast-paced novel should appeal to fans of thrillers involving ancient mysteries and modern-day conspiracies. The premise: Nostradamus, the sixteenth-century prophet, wrote 1,000 quatrains predicting various future events, but only 942 survived. Or so history said; now it appears that the lost quatrains have resurfaced. And two very different men are hot on their trail: Adam Sabir, writer of a popular book about Nostradamus, and Achor Bale, who belongs to an ancient society (guardians of the “Three Antichrists” prophesied by Nostradamus: Napoleon, Hitler, and their as-yet-unknown successor). This is an exciting thriller, with two well-drawn central characters and plenty of action. Reading, author of a few nonfiction books about Nostradamus, is a talented storyteller. The book is refreshingly free of the cluttered dialogue and lengthy expository passages that can bring any novel—but especially one about ancient mysteries—to a screeching halt. A definite winner.” 12

Young Adult TERROR AT BOTTLE CREEK by Watt Key January 2016 A thrilling survival story about a 12-year-old boy who finds himself and two young girls stranded in a wild-animal-infested swamp in the midst of an Alabama hurricane. A WEEK OF MONDAYS by Jessica Brody Fall 2015 Katie is having the worst day of her life. And of course it’s a Monday. And of course the day ends with her getting dumped by the love of her life. At least tomorrow will be better, right? Wrong. Because the next day is Monday again, an exact repeat of the day before. After getting over her shock of what’s happening, Katie realizes she has a chance to avoid getting dumped this time. But nope, despite the changes she makes, she gets dumped. So begins a week of Mondays, with Katie attempting to change things each day and stay together with her boyfriend. But by the time she figures out how to do so…she might just realize that being dumped is the best thing that ever happened to her. THE TESLA LEGACY Fall 2015 A young adult novel about a teenager who discovers that her grandfather was Nikolai Tesla, and when she discovers a hidden chamber in the Tesla Room in the New Yorker hotel (which is really a room!), her own secret powers are unlocked….as is a century-old conflict! THE WAR OF THE WEIRDS Fall 2015

A teen boy has created a whole Tolkien-esque world in his notebook. And when he discovers that his parents are secret government scientists, he confronts them in their lab, only to be blasted by their wormhole technology. His notebook takes the brunt of the blast and his “made up stories” are suddenly imprinted on a “blank” planet. This is a big, fun family adventure. GLYPHS Fall 2015 A young/new adult novel about a young woman who discovers that her dead parents (archeologists) aren’t dead after all, and her search for them around the world, pitched as a young adult, female-driven Indiana Jones SCAVENGER HUNT Fall 2015 A young adult novel about a group of teens participating in a fun scavenger hunt around New York City…until they realize that they are playing a much more deadly game than they realized.

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THE ALIEN HUNTER’S HANDBOOK Fall 2015 When a teen slacker stumbles upon a guidebook that will teach him how to hunt the most dangerous aliens in the universe, he thinks he just found a way to solve all of his life’s problems. But who hunts the hunter? An action-packed and hilarious coming-of-age science fiction story. SANCTUARY BAY by Laura Burns Fall 2015 A genre-bending thriller set at the most elite prep school in the country. At first the Sanctuary Bay Academy seems to be an idyllic temple of learning, but as we peel back layer after layer of hidden history, psychological manipulation, and increasing terror, we realize that this "school" is something much more sinister. IN REAL LIFE by Jessica Love Fall 2015 Hannah Cho and Nick Cooper are best friends. They talk for hours on the phone, shower each other with presents, and know everything there is to know about one another. There’s just one problem: Hannah and Nick have never actually met. And when Hannah surprises Nick with their first real-life meeting, she discovers, in the City of Sin, just how many secrets he has left unshared. VELVET by Temple West May 2015 The story of a vampire bodyguard and a new, recently-orphaned girl in town who falls for him. DUPLICITY by N.K. Traver March 2015 In private, 17-year-old Brandon hacks bank accounts for thousands of dollars just for the hell of it. In public, he looks like any other tattooed bad boy with a fast car and devil-may-care attitude. He should know: he’s worked hard to maintain that façade. With inattentive parents who move cities every two years, he’s learned not to get tangled up in friends and relationships. So he’ll just keep living like a machine, all gears and wires. Then two things shatter his carefully-built image: Emma, the kind, preppy girl who insists on looking beneath the surface – and the small matter of a mirror reflection that starts moving by itself. Not only does Brandon’s reflection have a mind of its own, but it seems to be grooming him for something – washing the dye from his hair, yanking out his piercings, swapping his black shirts for … pastels. Changes he can’t explain to his classmates, who think he’s having an identity crisis, and certainly not to nosy Emma, who thinks this is his backward apology for telling her to get lost. Then Brandon’s reflection tells him: it thinks it can live his life better, and it’s preparing to trade places. And when it pulls Brandon through the looking-glass, not only will he need all his ill-gotten hacking skills to escape, but he’ll have to face some hard truths about who he’s become. Otherwise he’ll be stuck in a digital hell until he’s old and gray, and Emma and his parents won't even know he's gone.

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SHUTTER by Courtney Alameda February 2015 Seventeen-year-old tetrachcromat Micheline Helsing sees ghosts in technicolor--able to capture the dead on film. When a routine hunt goes awry, Micheline is infected with a curse known as a soulchain. Now Micheline has seven days to exorcise the entity or be destroyed body and soul. THE BOY NEXT DOOR by Katie Van Ark February 2015 The story of paired figure skaters who are skating partners (since childhood) and next door neighbors who do what you are never supposed to do—fall in love. THE TERMINALS by Royce Buckingham October 2014 The riveting story of a covert team of young, terminally ill teens who spend their last year alive running dangerous missions as super-spies for an organization that may not be all it seems. BEING AUDREY HEPBURN by Mitchell Kriegman September 2014 Lisbeth comes from a broken home in the land of tube tops, heavy eyeliner, frosted lip-gloss, juiceheads, hoop earrings, and “the shore.” She has a circle of friends who have dedicated their teenage lives to relieve the world of all its alcohol one drink at a time. Obsessed with everything Audrey Hepburn, Lisbeth is transformed when she secretly tries on Audrey’s iconic Givenchy. She becomes who she wants to be by pretending to be somebody she’s not and living among the young and privileged Manhattan elite. Soon she’s faced with choices that she would never imagine making—between who she’s become and who she once was. BLONDE OPS by Charlotte Bennardo May 2014 The Devil Wears Prada meets Ally Carter in this young adult novel, set in Rome, which features a fashion magazine intern who uncovers a plot to kidnap the First Lady. EXPIRATION DAY by William Campbell Powell April 2014 It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Tania Deeley has always been told that she’s a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are teknoids, sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation. Driven by the need to understand what sets teknoids apart from their human counterparts, Tania begins to seek answers. But time is running out. For everyone knows that on their eighteenth “birthdays,” teknoids must be returned to Oxted—never to be heard from again. STELLA by Helen Eve March 2014 Stella Hamilton is the star blazing at the heart of Temperley High. Leader of the maliciously exclusive elite, she is envied and lusted after in equal measure. Meanwhile, Caitlin Clarke has lived a quietly conformist life in New York City—until, with the collapse of her parents’ marriage, she’s sent across the Atlantic for a strict English boarding school education. As soon as 15

she arrives at Temperley, she learns that the only important rules are the unwritten ones. And as Caitlin’s popularity grows, she discovers that not everyone is happy under Stella’s rule—that it might finally be time for a new order among the Stars and the civilians. DRAMA QUEENS by Julie Williams March 2014 Sixteen-year-old Jessie Jasper Lewis doesn’t remember a time in her life when she wasn’t surrounded by method actors, bright spotlights, and feather boas. Her parents started the Jumble Players Theater together, and theater is the glue that holds her crazy family together. But when she discovers that her father’s cheating on her mother with a man, Jessie feels like her world is toppling over. And on top of everything else, she has to deal with a delusional aunt who is predicting the end of the world. Where does Jessie belong in the chaos? PREP SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL (trilogy) by Kara Taylor 2013-2014 From Publishers Weekly: “Trouble seems to follow high school junior Anne Dowling wherever she goes. In this case, it's from a New York City prep school (she was kicked out for accidentally setting the auditorium on fire) to Wheatley Prep outside Boston. Anne is accustomed to getting away with dubious behavior, but what she's not is preppy, a snob, or old money, which makes her an instant outsider and source of intrigue for her fellow classmates. When her secretive roommate is murdered, every student at school is a suspect, starting with witchy Alexis Westbrook and Anne herself, the last one to see Isabella alive. Anne's honest and whip-smart voice demonstrates her strength of character and intuition as she observes the differences between the elite of New York City and Boston. In this first book in a planned series, first-time author Taylor blends thriller and contemporary fiction elements in a tightly developed plot. Anne's romance with two boys from vastly different social backgrounds offers insight into the heroine's conflicted, yet emerging sense of morality.” TEMPEST (trilogy) by Julie Cross 2012-2014 From Kirkus: Starred Review. Jackson Meyer is a 19-year-old Upper East Sider with a loving and loyal girlfriend, a brilliant and funny best friend and an unexpected and exciting new talent. Jackson can suddenly “jump” back and forth in time. Cross takes readers on a thrilling ride as Jackson struggles to harness his abilities in a desperate attempt to learn the truth about who he is and, even more importantly, who he can trust. The characters are…complex and distinct, they will work their way into readers’ hearts and stay with them long after the book is finished. Equal parts adventure, romance, science fiction…readers will turn the last page and find themselves wishing they could “jump” to the future and read the sequel. ENGINES OF THE BROKEN WORLD by Jason Vanhee November 2013 Merciful Truth and her brother, Gospel, have just pulled their dead mother into the kitchen and stowed her under the table. It was a long illness, and they wanted to bury her—they did—but it’s far too cold outside, and they know they won’t be able to dig into the frozen ground. The Minister who lives with them, who preaches through his animal form, doesn’t make them feel any better about what they’ve done. Merciful calms her guilty feelings but only until, from the 16

other room, she hears a voice she thought she’d never hear again. It’s her mother’s voice, and it’s singing a lullaby… SAFEKEEPING by Karen Hesse September 2012 Radley had been volunteering in Haiti, and is just trying to get home. But the America she left is not the same as the one she’s coming back to. The President has been assassinated, the government is cracking down, the banks are closed, and people are panicking. Worst of all, her parents are not waiting at the airport and they aren’t answering the phone. Out of money and options, Radley starts walking. It takes days of slogging through rain, foraging from dumpsters, and dodging over-interested people, but she finally makes it home to be faced with an empty house. Where are her parents? Why aren’t they here? And what should she do now? HIDDEN TALENTS by David Lubar June 1999 13-year-old Martin Anderson hits rock bottom when—after being expelled from yet another school—he is sent to The Edgeview Alternative School. There he falls in with a group of boys who are so messed up they make the other kids look like model students. But Martin discovers that each of his friends has a special talent. That explains their bizarre behavior. But what about Martin? He has a talent, too. But it will take a dramatic confrontation with the school bully—and within himself—to unlock its secret. TRUE TALENTS by David Lubar March 2007 It’s been over a year since fourteen-year-old Eddie “Trash” Thalmeyer and his friends from Edgeview Alternative School found out about their special hidden talents. Trash can move things with his mind, Torchie is a fire-starter, Cheater reads minds, Lucky finds lost objects, Flinch can predict the future, and Martin can see into people’s souls. Now back home with their families, all the boys want to do is get back to their normal lives, start attending high school, and keep in touch with their friends from Edgeview. But when Trash tests his power in a bank and accidentally steals a fistful of cash, he is kidnapped by the ruthless leader of a shadowy company whose purpose is to gather information about psychic phenomena—and who is willing to do anything to get it. Torchie, Cheater, Lucky, Flinch, and Martin join forces to rescue their friend using their hidden talents, and discover their true talents in the process. RUNAWAY PRINCESS by Kate Coombs August 2006 Princess Margaret is not your traditional princess. Meg firmly objects to her parents’ giving her away, and she certainly has no intention of remaining in the tower where she is sequestered. Instead, she enlists the help of her good friend, her loyal maid, an eager guardsman, a young wizard, and a tenacious witch. Does Meg find her distinct place in the kingdom, or is she doomed to fulfill her royal duties?

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FIRST BOY by Gary Schmidt October 2005 Fourteen-year-old Cooper Jewett, a New Hampshire dairy farm boy, doesn't understand why he's suddenly caught up in the life-threatening political turmoil of an election year—until he figures out that the incumbent president of the United States is his birth mother. THE VACATION by Polly Horvath October 2005 When his mother decides on a whim to be a missionary in Africa and drags his unwilling father with her, Henry is left in the care of his Aunts Magnolia and Pigg. Henry's sure they dislike him and he's trying to keep his distance, but that becomes more difficult when Mag decides they should take a destination-less road trip. Mag, convalescing from an illness that makes her look like death, is downright crabby. Pigg, tense from driving, is becoming more assertive and less willing to submit to Mag's whims. And while they poke each other—literally—Henry is finding it hard to keep his resolution. CANNING SEASON by Polly Horvath May 2003 One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark’s ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins who couldn’t look more different from each other. Staying at their secluded house, Ratchet is treated to a passel of strange family history and local lore, along with heaps of generosity and care that she has never experienced before. *Newberry Book Award Winner EVERYTHING ON A WAFFLE by Polly Horvath April 2001 Primrose's parents have been lost at sea, but she believes without an iota of doubt that they are still alive, somewhere. She moves in with her Uncle Jack, but feels generally friendless. Her only real refuge is a local restaurant called The Girl on the Red Swing, where the owner, Miss Bowzer, serves everything on waffles—except advice and good sense, which come free of charge and are always reliable. * 2001 Boston Globe – Horn Book Award Honor Book for Fiction and Poetry * 2002 Newbery Honor Book CELINE by Brock Cole October 1989 "Show a little maturity," he said, which I've doped out to mean: Pass all your courses, avoid detection in all crimes and misdemeanors, don't get pregnant. Celine's father has left her with these instructions. She's not too worried about the last two, but she'll fail English unless she rewrites her Catcher in the Rye essay. And she keeps being interrupted, especially by Jake, the neighbor's boy, who's been dumped on her for the weekend. * An ALA Best Book for Young Adults * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Best Book of the '80s * A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year 18

THE GOATS by Brock Cole July 1987 A boy and a girl are stripped and marooned on a small island for the night. They are the “goats.” The kids at camp think it’s a great joke, just a harmless old tradition. But the goats don’t see it that way. Instead of trying to get back to camp, they decide to call home. But no one can come and get them. So they’re on their own, wandering through a small town trying to find clothing, food, and shelter, all while avoiding suspicious adults—especially the police. The boy and the girl find they rather like life on their own. If their parents ever do show up to rescue them, the boy and the girl might be long gone… * 1987 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year BEFORE YOU GO by James Preller July 2012 The summer before his senior year, Jude (yes, he’s named after the Beatles song) gets his first job, falls in love for the first time, and starts to break away from his parents. Jude’s house is kept dark, and no one talks much—it’s been that way since his little sister drowned in a swimming pool seven years ago when Jude was supposed to be watching her. Now, Jude is finally, finally starting to live. Really live. And then, life spins out of control. Again. INTO THE WILD NERD YONDER by Julie Halpern September 2009 When high school sophomore Jessie's long-term best friend transforms herself into a punk and goes after Jessie's would-be boyfriend, Jessie decides to visit "the wild nerd yonder" and seek true friends among classmates who play Dungeons and Dragons. DEEP IN THE HEART OF HIGH SCHOOL by Veronica Goldbach April 2009 Vanna Reynolds was popular and happy back in Plano, Texas, but now she lives with her mother in a tiny apartment in San Antonio. How can she start her freshman year as a complete nobody? Fatima Garcia does well in school and helps out with her family’s construction business, but is worried about her weight. So she’s thrilled when a junior starts paying attention to her—but is he really interested in Fatima? Olivia Silverstein tries to make life easier for her mother. Ever since her father died two years ago, she’s been the perfect daughter. When will she get to have her own life? When Vanna, Fatima, and Olivia meet at band practice in August, they quickly become best friends. THE HEIGHTS by Brian James April 2009 Henry liked to imagine his life began that cold rainy day in San Francisco when Mr. Earnshaw found him shivering by the side of the road. That was the day Henry met Catherine. For Henry, Catherine is like a precious gift. She pushes away his angry thoughts and makes him feel safe and calm. And though Mr. Earnshaw, a widower, raises the orphan and Catherine as brother and sister, their love for each other goes much deeper. They vow to always be together. But everything changes when Mr. Earnshaw dies suddenly and Hindley, Mr. Earnshaw's own son, gains control of the family finances. Furiously jealous, Hindley never accepted Henry as a true member of the family. He works to sever Henry's relationship with Catherine and the violent 19

rage Henry has harbored since he was a child bubbles to the surface… Contemporizing the classic novel WUTHERING HEIGHTS, notable YA author Brian James delves into the dark nature of obsessive love, the social injustices of class, and the self-destructive power of revenge in this emotionally raw unforgettable offering. ZOMBIE BLONDES by Brian James June 2008 From the moment Hannah Sanders arrived in town, she felt there was something wrong. A lot of houses were for sale, and the town seemed infected by an unearthly quiet. And then, on Hannah’s first day of classes, she ran into a group of cheerleaders—the most popular girls in school. The odd thing was that they were nearly identical in appearance: blonde, beautiful, and deathly pale. But Hannah wants desperately to fit in—regardless of what her friend Lukas is telling her: if she doesn’t watch her back, she’s going to be blonde and popular and dead—just like all the other zombies in this town… DAEMON HALL by Andrew Nance June 2007 Famous thriller author Ian Tremers holds a story writing contest with a prize that seems to be the opportunity of a lifetime: four finalists get to spend the night in haunted Daemon Hall—but none of these teens could imagine what's in store for them. HANGING ON TO MAX by Margaret Bechard May 2002 Sam's girlfriend is pregnant—but Sam is keeping the baby. Sam should be planning for college and trying out for the football team with his best friend, Andy. Instead he's up to his ears in diapers and formula, caring for his baby son, Max. Will Sam now have to make a gut-wrenching decision about Max's future—and his own? A poignant and humorous look at an old problem…with a new twist. FLOOD by James Heneghan March 2002 Andy Flynn is one of those saved, but his mother and stepfather both died in the flood. Suddenly the only world Andy has ever known is gone and he is alone. Aunt Mona, whom he has never met, takes him to live with her in Halifax, on the opposite side of the country. During the trip, Aunt Mona reveals to him that his father is still alive—and living in Halifax. As soon as they reach their destination, Andy escapes to find his father. Although Vincent Flynn may not be the perfect father, Andy wants to stay with him rather than live with his harsh aunt. After all, Vincent is fun, and he has promised Andy he’ll find a real job so they can move to a nicer place than the seedy Mayo Rooms. But Andy’s father can’t seem to keep his word. GRAVE by James Heneghan October 2000 Abandoned in a shopping mall when he was a baby, thirteen-year-old Tom Mullen has no family. When he hears rumors that a mass grave has been unearthed on his school grounds, he feels himself inexplicably drawn to it, and then down into its terrible darkness and beyond. He discovers that he is no longer in Liverpool in 1974 but in Ireland in 1847, the height of the potato 20

famine. A family named Monaghan takes him in, and Tom experiences for the first time what it’s like to have parents and siblings who cleave to one another even amid terrible hardship. But why has Tom been transported across time and place? And why must the grave keep yanking him back, at intervals, to his dreary, lonely existence in Liverpool? Most of all, what does it mean that the Monaghan's son Tully is practically Tom’s double? Tom stands by the Monaghan's in their plight, and in so doing discovers that the past, and the Monaghans, hold the key to his destiny. TRIBUTE TO ANOTHER DEAD ROCK STAR by Randy Powell April 1999 No longer able to live with his grandmother, fifteen-year-old Grady Grennan has to find a new address. One option is to move in with his mentally disabled half-brother, Louie, in Seattle. But that poses a problem: Louie's adoptive mother, Vickie, and Grady are about as compatible as Mozart and heavy metal. Nevertheless, Grady's testing the waters. He's in Seattle for a concert tribute to his and Louie's mother, a grunge rock icon who died three years ago. Grady has been invited to speak at the tribute, but what is he supposed to say to thousands of adoring fans about a mother who abandoned her sons in favor of a musical career? Both humorous and deeply moving, TRIBUTE TO ANOTHER DEAD ROCK STAR poses challenging, provocative questions to all sorts of readers—cynics, liberals, slackers, and rock stars included. TROPICAL SECRETS by Margarita Engle March 2009 Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away his ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba. As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young refugee befriends a local girl with some painful secrets of her own. Yet even in Cuba, the Nazi darkness is never far away…

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Graphic Novels THE ZOO BOX by Ariel Cohn and Aron Nels Steinke September 2014 When Erika and Patrick's parents leave them home alone for the night, they head straight to the attic to explore. When they open a mysterious box, hundreds of animals come pouring out! Soon the town is awash in more and more zoo animals, until Erika and Patrick discover that the tables have been turned...and the animals now run a zoo full of humans! With simple text and bright, graphic art, Ariel Cohn and Aron Nels Steinke have created a gentle, fantastical adventure for the very youngest of readers. ANDRE THE GIANT by Eleanor Kuhns May 2014 An in-depth graphic biography of the legendary professional wrestler and actor. CUTE GIRL NETWORK by M.K. Reed, Greg Means, and Joe Flood November 2013 Jack and Jane just want to fall in love in peace, but Jane's busy-body lady-friends are determined to head the clumsy Jack off at the pass! A romantic comedy that is actually romantic…and actually funny. BATTLING BOY by Paul Pope October 2013 #1 New York Times Bestseller, an NPR best book of 2013, and the 2014 winner of the Eisner Award for best graphic novel. The adventure begins in the new graphic novel by comics legend Paul Pope. Monsters roam through Arcopolis, swallowing children into the horrors of their shadowy underworld. Only one man is a match for them - the genius vigilante Haggard West. Unfortunately, Haggard West is dead. Arcopolis is desperate, but when its salvation comes in the form of a twelve-year-old demigod, nobody is more surprised than Battling Boy himself. ASTRONAUT ACADEMY: ZERO GRAVITY by Dave Roman June 2011 Hakata Soy's past life as the leader of a futuristic super team won't stay in the past! The former space hero is doing his best to keep his head down at Astronaut Academy. Things aren't going so great, though. The most popular girl in school has it in for him. His best friend won't return his calls. And his new roommate is a complete jock who only cares about Fireball. Hakata just wants to make a fresh start. But how will he find time to study Anti-Gravity Gymnastics and Tactical Randomness when he's got a robot doppelganger on its way to kill him? LEVEL UP by Gene Luen Yang June 2011 Dennis weighs his parents’ medical school expectations against his own video game aspirations when four angels intervene in this powerful piece of magical realism.

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CAT BURGLAR BLACK by Richard Sala September 2009 When K. Westree arrives at Bellsong Academy, she thinks she's left her cat-burgling past behind her. But K. soon discovers the school has a mystery of its own, a hidden treasure left behind by its founder, and she's the only one who has a hope of finding it. As she resumes her cat-burgling in an attempt to discover the school's secrets, K. begins to question if a normal life is really what she wants. CREEPY CRAWLY CRIME by Aaron Reynolds April 2009 A graphic novel spoof of classic detective stories starring a fly and his scorpion assistant. BIG HAIRY DRAMA by Aaron Reynolds November 2010 A sequel to the graphic novel CREEPY CRAWLY CRIME in which Joey Fly and his assistant Sammy Stingtail have to find a missing actress before her play opens. LAIKA by Nick Abadzis September 2007 Nick Abadzis masterfully blends fiction and fact in the intertwined stories of three compelling lives. Along with Laika, the abandoned puppy destined to become Earth's first space traveler, there is Korolev, once a political prisoner, now a driven engineer at the top of the Soviet space program, and Yelena, the lab technician responsible for Laika's health and life. This intense triangle is rendered with the pitch-perfect emotionality of classics like Because of Winn Dixie, Shiloh, and Old Yeller. OLYMPIANS by George O’Connor October 2014 A modern and New York Times-bestselling take on both Greek and Norse mythology.

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General Fiction THE MARRIAGE PACT by MJ Pullen Fall 2015 The story of a young woman who, on her 30th birthday, is challenged to make good on a tenyear-old marriage pact she made with a college friend – just as she’s gotten herself mixed up in a steamy affair with her married boss. SINGLE-MINDED by Lisa Daily Fall 2015 A middle-aged woman who has been with the same boy/man since grammar school must navigate the dating world FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER after being dumped by her husband. MATERNITY LEAVE by Julie Halpern Fall 2015 The story of a professional woman who thinks she's ready for a baby but discovers that surviving maternity leave is whole other matter, pitched as a modern BABY BOOM CUTTING TEETH by Julia Fierro May 2014 One of the most anticipated debut novels of 2014, Cutting Teeth takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a shabby beach house on Long Island, their young children in tow. Nicole, the hostess, struggles to keep her OCD behaviors unnoticed. Stay-at-home dad Rip grapples with the reality that his careerist wife will likely deny him a second child, forcing him to disrupt the life he loves. Allie, one half of a two-mom family, can't stop imagining ditching her wife and kids in favor of her art. Tiffany, comfortable with her amazing body but not so comfortable in the upper-middle class world the other characters were born into, flirts dangerously, and spars with her best friend Leigh, a blue blood secretly facing financial ruin and dependent on the magical Tibetan nanny everyone else covets. Throughout the weekend, conflicts intensify and painful truths surface. Friendships and alliances crack, forcing the house party to confront a new order. Cutting Teeth is about the complex dilemmas of early midlife—the vicissitudes of friendship, of romantic and familial love, and of sex. It’s about class tension, status hunger, and the unease of being in possession of life's greatest bounty while still wondering, is this as good as it gets? And, perhaps most of all, Julia Fierro’s warm and unpretentious debut explores the all-consuming love we feel for those we need most, and the sacrifice and compromise that underpins that love. LICK by Kylie Scott May 2014 A New York Times Bestseller. Waking up in Vegas was never meant to be like this. Evelyn Thomas's plans for celebrating her twenty-first birthday in Las Vegas were big. Huge. But she sure never meant to wake up on the bathroom floor with a hangover to rival the black plague, a very attractive half-naked tattooed man in her room, and a diamond on her finger large enough to scare King Kong. Now if she could just remember how it all happened. In Kyle Scott's Lick, one thing is certain: being married to one of the hottest rock stars on the planet is sure to be a wild ride. 24

PLAY by Kylie Scott August 2014 A New York Times Bestseler. Kylie Scott returns with the highly anticipated follow-up to international bestseller LICK . Mal Ericson, drummer for the world famous rock band Stage Dive, needs to clean up his image fast—at least for a little while. Having a good girl on his arm should do the job just fine. Mal doesn’t plan on this temporary fix becoming permanent, but he didn’t count on finding the one right girl. Anne Rollins never thought she’d ever meet the rock god who plastered her teenage bedroom walls—especially not under these circumstances. Anne has money problems. Big ones. But being paid to play the pretend girlfriend to a wild life-of-theparty drummer couldn’t end well. No matter how hot he is. Or could it? REDEMPTION MOUNTAIN by Gerry FitzGerald June 2013 On the surface, Charlie Burden and Natty Oaks could not be more different: She, the daughter of many generations of rural farmers; he, an executive at a multi-national engineering firm. But, in each other, they find the new lease on life they both so desperately need. Natty dreams of a life beyond her small town. She is unhappily married to her high school crush (who now spends more time at the bar than at home) and passes the time nursing retired miners, coaching her son, soccer team and running the mountain trails she knows by heart, longing to get away from it all. Charlie has everything he ever thought he wanted, but after 25 years of climbing the corporate ladder, he no longer recognizes his own life: his job has become bureaucratic paper-pushing, his wife is obsessed with their country-club status, and his children have grown up and moved on. When he is sent to West Virginia to oversee a mining project, it is a chance to escape his stuffy life; to get involved, instead of watching from the sidelines. Arriving in Red Bone, though, he gets more than he bargained for: his new friends become the family he was missing and Natty, the woman who reminds him what happiness feels like. When his company’s plans threaten to destroy Natty’s family land, his loyalties are questioned and he is forced to choose between his old life and his new love in a fight for Redemption Mountain. THE WITCH OF BELLADONNA BAY by Suzanne Palmieri May 2014 Bronwyn "BitsyWyn" Whalen hasn’t set eyes on the red dirt of Magnolia Creek, Alabama, for fourteen years - not since her mama died. But with her brother, Patrick, imprisoned for the murder of her childhood best friend, and her eccentric father, Jackson, at his wits’ end while her eleven-year-old niece, Byrd, runs wild, Bronwyn finds herself once again surrounded by ancient magnolia trees and the troubled family she left behind. She becomes immersed in a whirlwind of mystery and magic as she tries to figure out what really happened that fateful night her friend died. And as her bond with Byrd deepens, Bronwyn must face the demons of her past in order to unravel her family’s uncertain future. MIMI MALLOY, AT LAST! by Julia MacDonnell April 2014 Forced into an early retirement at the age of sixty-something, Mimi Malloy enjoys the simple things in life. Born into an Irish Catholic brood of seven, with six beautiful daughters of her own, she knows that life isn’t just a bowl of cherries—that, sometimes, it’s the pits. And when an MRI reveals that Mimi’s brain is filled with black spots—areas of atrophy, her doctor says—the 25

prospect of living out her days in an “Old Timer’s facility” starts to look like more than just an idea at the top of her eldest daughter’s to-do list. Yet as Mimi prepares to take a stand, she stumbles upon an old pendant, and her memory starts to return—specifically, recollections of a shockingly painful childhood, her long-lost sister Fagan, and the wicked stepmother she swore to forget. THE PLOVER by Brian Doyle April 2014 Declan O’ Donnell has left Oregon aboard his boat, the Plover, to escape the life that’s so troubled him on land. He sets course west into the Pacific in search of solitude. Instead, he finds a crew, each in search of something themselves, and what at first seems a lonely sea voyage becomes a rapturous, heartfelt celebration of life’s surprising paths, planned and unplanned. A compelling, marvelously written novel by the acclaimed author of Mink River and editor of Portland Magazine, THE PLOVER will appeal to readers of writers as varied as Tom Robbins, Patrick deWitt, and Louise Erdrich. OBSESSED BY HIM by Red Garnier December 2013 Five billionaires. Five friends. Five stories about five men who are driven by dark desires and powerful love. They know what they want, including the incredible women who surrender to a passion so consuming they will never be the same. JACOB’S OATH by Martin Fletcher October 2013 As World War II winds to a close, Europe's roads are clogged with twenty million exhausted refugees walking home. Among them are Jacob and Sarah, lonely Holocaust survivors who meet in Heidelberg. But Jacob is consumed with hatred and cannot rest until he has killed his brother’s murderer, a concentration camp guard nicknamed "The Rat," also from Heidelberg. Jacob and Sarah fall in love for a time, the only Jews in the whole city. As Jacob waits for the concentration camp guard to come home from the war, he is beset by doubt. If he fulfills his oath and kills the guard, he will undoubtedly be caught, and Jacob and Sarah’s new life will die as well. Timeless dilemmas torture the young lovers and threaten to tear them apart. At the same time a secret hit team from the British army’s Jewish Brigade is assassinating former SS officers hiding out in Germany. What is more important, love or hate? The past or the future? Revenge or mercy? Ultimately it must be decided – who should be killed and who should live? Jacob’s Oath is both a love story and a riveting thriller set with a very tricky ending indeed. AMY FALLS DOWN by Jincy Willett July 2013 Endearingly bitter writer Amy Gallup has happily isolated herself from the world, spending the last two decades teaching and reviewing—she’s done a lot of thinking, but very little writing. On an unassuming morning, Amy trips in her backyard and goes head-over-heels into the side of a birdbath. The hospital clears her of head injury—so Amy returns home. When a local reporter shows up for a scheduled interview—Amy is not quite herself. A wickedly humorous roman-aclef by one of our most acclaimed literary humorists—about a bitterly uninspired writer who decides to change her life after a freak accident. 26

FLY AWAY by Kristin Hannah April 2013 How do you hold yourself together when your world has fallen apart? In this emotionallycomplex, heart-wrenching novel about love, family, motherhood, loss, and redemption, three women who have lost their way and need each other—plus a miracle—transform their lives. AND THEN I FOUND YOU by Patti Callahan Henry April 2013 Kate Vaughn is getting on with her life. Her boutique is thriving. Her relationships with family and friends are strong. But when she discovers her boyfriend is about to propose, Kate has to face the truth. Something is holding Kate back…and she knows what that something is. In an impulsive decision to visit her ex-love in Birmingham, Alabama, Kate starts a chain reaction of events that will change her life in unexpected ways. THE WITCH OF LITTLE ITALY by Suzanne Palmieri March 2013 When young Eleanor Amore finds herself pregnant, she returns home to her estranged family in the Bronx, called by “The Sight” they share now growing strong within her. She has only been back once before when she was ten years old during a wonder-filled summer of sun-drenched beaches, laughter and cartwheels. But everyone remembers that summer except her. Eleanor can’t remember anything from before she left the house on her last day there. With her past now coming back to her in flashes, she becomes obsessed with recapturing those memories. Aided by her childhood sweetheart, she learns the secrets still haunting her magical family, secrets buried so deep they no longer know how they began. And, in the process, unlocks a mystery over fifty years old—The Day the Amores Died—and reveals, once and for all, a truth that will either heal or shatter the Amore clan. THE LIST by Martin Fletcher October 2011 London, October 1945. Austrian refugees Georg and Edith await the birth of their first child. Yet how can they celebrate when almost every day brings news of another relative or friend murdered in the Holocaust? Their struggle to rebuild their lives is further threatened by growing anti-Semitism in London's streets; Englishmen want to take homes and jobs from Jewish refugees and give them to returning servicemen. Edith's father is believed to have survived, and finding him rests on Georg's shoulders. Then Georg learns of a plot by Palestinian Jews to assassinate Britain’s foreign minister. Georg must try to stop the murder, all the while navigating a city that wants to "eject the aliens." In The List, Fletcher investigates an ignored and painful chapter in London’s history. The novel is both a breathless thriller of postwar sabotage and a heartrending and historically accurate portrait of an almost forgotten era. In this sensitive, deeply touching, and impossible-to-forget story, Martin Fletcher explores the themes of hope, prejudice, loss and love that make up the lives of all refugees everywhere.

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WHISTLIN’ DIXIE IN A NOR-EASTER by Lisa Patton September 2009 Southern belle Leelee Satterfield leaves her beloved Memphis to follow her husband’s pipe dream: to manage a quaint Vermont inn. But when they arrive, young daughters and ancient Yorkie in tow, they discover pretty fast that there’s a truckload of things nobody tells you about Vermont until you live there. When Leelee is left swindled and snowbound, she’s forced to confront the true depth of her Southern grit in this foreign town. THE VIEW FROM GARDEN CITY by Carolyn Baugh August 2008 Author Carolyn Baugh gives us glimpses of the lives of six Egyptian women from within the swirl and tumult of Cairo. Living and flourishing amidst the fierce inflexibility of tradition, these women’s stories reveal a fascinating world of arranged marriages, secret romances, and the often turbulent bonds between Arab mothers and daughters. Meet the women of Garden City: Huda, who waited for the man she loved, until she could wait no longer. Karima, who found her future husband amidst the madness of war. Afkar, who paid a dreadful price for her freedom. Selwa, who suffered through the deaths of her children. Yusriyya, who left her native village for a new life in the city. Samira, who loved a man who was not hers. Rich with the sights and sounds of modern Egypt, THE VIEW FROM GARDEN CITY explores the stunning inner strength of women torn between their dreams for the future and the sometime harsh realities of the past and present. WRITING CLASS by Jincy Willett June 2008 Amy Gallup is a reclusive widow whose only bright spot is the writing class that she teaches at the university extension. This semester’s class is full of the usual suspects: the overlyenthusiastic student, the slacker, the prankster, and the undiscovered talent. But there’s something different about this class—and the clues begin with a scary phone call and obscene threats instead of peer evaluations. Amy realizes that one of her students is a very sick puppy, and when a student is murdered, everyone becomes a suspect. JENNY AND THE JAWS OF LIFE by Jincy Willett September 2002 In these wonderfully funny and poignant stories, Willett’s eccentric, complex characters think and do the unconventional. Soft, euphonic women gradually grow old; weak, unhappy men confront love and their own mortality; and abominable children desperately try to grow up with grace. With a unique voice and dry humor, Willett gives us a new insight into human existence, showing us those specific moments in relationships when life suddenly becomes visible. RAMAYANA by Ramesh Menon May 2003 India’s most beloved and enduring legend, the Ramayana, is widely acknowledged to be one of the world’s great literary masterpieces. Composed by the Sanskrit poet Valmikiaround 300 B.C., this epic of Prince Rama’s betrayal, exile, and struggle to rescue his faithful wife, Sita, from the clutches of a demon and to reclaim his throne has profoundly affected the literature, art, and culture of Asia. Ramesh Menon has rendered the tale in lyrical prose that conveys all the beauty of the original, while making this spiritual classic accessible to a new generation of readers. 28

Non-Fiction MY PART-TIME PARIS LIFE by Lisa Anselmo Spring/Summer 2016 Blogger of www.myparttimeparislife.com Lisa Anselmo's MY (PARTTIME) PARIS LIFE, chronicling how, after her mother's death, the author confronts her lifelong fear of change, buys an apartment in Paris, and discovers that this one decision opens doors to a new life she never would have imagined. IRREPRESSIBLE: THE JAZZ-AGE LIFE OF HENRIETTA BINGHAM by Emily Bingham June 2015 Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameful, seductive and brilliant, and often terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London she drove men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her lesbian love affairs made her the subject of derision and drove a doctor to try to cure her. After the speed and pleasure of her youth, the toxicity of judgment coupled with her own anxieties led to years of addiction and breakdowns. Henrietta rode the cultural cusp as a muse to the Bloomsbury group, the daughter of the ambassador to England during the rise of Nazism, the seductress of royalty and athletic champions, and a pre-Stonewall figure who never buckled to convention. Henrietta’s audacious physicality made her unforgettable in her own time and her ecstatic and at-times harrowing story brings to life an essential chapter in America’s twentieth century. LEVEL ZERO HEROES by Michael Golembesky September 2014 An elite Marine special operations team, a battle to save downed soldiers in Afghanistan, a fight for survival—an incredible true story of war and brotherhood that’s become an internet sensation. MOUNTAIN TO MOUNTAIN by Shannon Galpin September 2014 Being inspired to act can take many forms. For some it's taking a weekend to volunteer, but for Shannon Galpin, it meant leaving her career, selling her house, launching a nonprofit and committing her life to advancing education and opportunity for women and girls. Focusing on the war-torn country of Afghanistan, Galpin and her organization, Mountain2Mountain, have touched the lives of hundreds of men, women and children. As if launching a nonprofit wasn't enough, in 2009 Galpin became the first woman to ride a mountain bike in Afghanistan. Now she's using that initial bike ride to gain awareness around the country, encouraging people to use their bikes "as a vehicle for social change and justice to support a country where women don't have the right to ride a bike." In her lyric and honest memoir, Galpin describes her first forays into fundraising, her deep desire to help women and girls halfway across the world, her love for adventure and sports, and her own inspiration to be so much more than just another rape victim. During her numerous trips to Afghanistan, Shannon reaches out to politicians and journalists as well as everyday Afghans — teachers, prison inmates, mothers, daughters — to cross a cultural divide and find common ground. She narrates harrowing encounters, exhilarating bike rides, 29

humorous episodes, and the heartbreak inherent in a country that is still recovering from decades of war and occupation. CONFESSIONS OF AN IVY LEAGUE FRAT BOY by Andrew Lohse August 2014 An account of sordidness and redemption by the Dartmouth fraternity member whose Rolling Stone profile blew the whistle on the frat's inhumane hazing practices. THE ROOMMATES by Stephanie Wu August 2014 The second entry of Picador true tales! One of life’s trickiest rites of passage, getting and living with a roommate, collected into an unforgettable volume of true stories. COWBOYS AND INDIES by Gareth Murphy June 2014 A long-overdue, in-depth history of the record industry on both sides of the Atlantic, spanning over a century of great label founders and A&R men who shaped popular music. THE BRIDESMAIDS by Eimear Lynch April 2014 The first entry of Picador True Tales! What do a former fashion model, an ex-nun, and a frat boy have in common? Virtually nothing, except that each has been a bridesmaid. An incredible volume of true stories! AMERICAN SAINT by Joan Barthel March 2014 In this riveting biography of Elizabeth Seton critically acclaimed and bestselling author Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life featured wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774. Her father was the chief health officer for the Port of New York and she lived down the block from Alexander Hamilton. She danced at George Washington's sixty-fifth Birthday Ball wearing cream slippers, monogrammed. Catholicism was illegal in New York when she was born; Catholic priests seen in the city were arrested, sometimes hung. When Elizabeth and her wealthy husband Will sailed to Italy in a doomed attempt to cure his tuberculosis, she and her family were quarantined in a damp dungeon. And when Elizabeth later became a Catholic, she was so scorned that people talked of burning down her house. American Saint is the inspiring story of a brave woman who forged the way for the other women who followed and who made a name for herself in a world entirely ruled by men. Elizabeth resisted male clerical control of her religious order, as nuns are doing today, and the publication of her story could not be more timely. Maya Angelou has contributed the foreword. VAGOS, MONGOLS, AND OUTLAWS by Charles Falco February 2013 In exchange for a reduced sentence on his drug smuggling charges, Charles Falco infiltrated three of America’s most violent biker gangs: the Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws. In separate investigations that spanned years and coasts, Falco risked his life, suffering a fractured neck and a severely torn shoulder, working deep under cover to bring violent sociopaths to justice. His 30

dedication was profound; he even served time in San Bernardino’s Murder Unit and endured solitary confinement. He recorded confessions of gangland-style killings and nearly became a target himself before he sought refuge in the Witness Security Program. His efforts culminated in the seizure of hundreds of illegal firearms, drugs, stolen motorcycles, and sixty two arrests of members for assault, dismemberment, and murder. Executing this country’s most successful RICO prosecutions and effectively crippling the criminal enterprise, Falco's engrossing account of the dangers of the biker underworld and justice is perfect for fans of FX's Sons of Anarchy as well as Hunter S. Thompson's classic Hell's Angels. THE BROTHERS by Stephen Kinzer October 2013 During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In this book, Stephen Kinzer places their extraordinary lives against the background of American culture and history. He uses the framework of biography to ask, Why does the United States behave as it does in the world? CRAZY RICH by Jerry Oppenheimer August 2013 Heirs to a Band-Aid and baby powder fortune founded in 1886, the Johnsons have enjoyed unimaginable wealth—but their lives have been marred by drug abuse, sexual aberration, bitter feuds, violent divorces, tragic suicide, and more. GLORIA SWANSON: THE ULTIMATE STAR by Stephen Michael Shearer August 2013 The first in-depth biography of film legend Gloria Swanson, whose unforgettable role in Sunset Boulevard overshadowed her true life. HERE LIES HUGH GLASS by Jon T. Coleman April 2012 In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glass’s companions slew the bear, but his injuries mocked their first aid. Two men would stay behind to bury the corpse when it finally stopped gurgling; the rest would move on. Alone in Indian country, the caretakers quickly lost their nerve. They fled, taking Glass’s gun, knife, and ammunition with them. But Glass wouldn’t die. He began crawling toward Fort Kiowa, hundreds of miles to the east, and as his speed picked up, so did his ire. The bastards who took his gear and left him to rot were going to pay. JACKIE AS EDITOR by Greg Lawrence January 2011 An absorbing chronicle of a much overlooked chapter of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life—her nineteen-year editorial career.

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JAMES TIPTREE, JR. by Julie Phillips August 2006 From Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. “Journalist Phillips has achieved a wonder: an evenhanded, scrupulously documented, objective yet sympathetic portrait of a deliberately elusive personality: Alice Sheldon (1915–1987), who adopted the persona of science fiction writer James Tiptree Jr. Working from Sheldon's (and Tiptree's) few interviews; Sheldon's professional papers, many unpublished; and the papers of Sheldon's writer-explorer-socialite mother, Phillips has crafted an absorbing mélange of several disparate lives besides Sheldon's, each impacting hers like a deadly off-course asteroid. From Sheldon's sad poor-little-richgirlhood to her sadder suicide (by a prior pact first shooting her blind and bedridden husband), Sheldon, perpetually wishing she'd been born a boy, made what she called "endless makeshift" attempts to express her tormenting creativity as, among others, a debutante, a flamboyant bohemian, a WAC officer, a CIA photoanalyst, and a research scientist before producing Tiptree's "haunting, subversive, many-layered [science] fiction" at 51. Sheldon masked her authorship until 1976, and afterward produced little fiction, feeling that a woman writing as a man could not be convincing. Through all the ironic sorrows of a life Sheldon wished she hadn't had to live as a woman, Phillips steadfastly and elegantly allows one star, bright as the Sirius Sheldon loved, to gleam.” WYATT EARP by Andrew C. Isenberg June 2013 In popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and a beacon of rough justice in the tumultuous American West. The subject of dozens of films, he has been invoked in battles against organized crime (in the 1930s), communism (in the 1950s), and al-Qaeda (after 2001).Yet as the historian Andrew C. Isenberg reveals in WYATT EARP, the Hollywood Earp is largely a fiction—one created by none other than Earp himself. The lawman played on-screen by Henry Fonda and Burt Lancaster is stubbornly dutybound; in actuality, Earp led a life of impulsive law-breaking and shifting identities. When he wasn’t wearing a badge, he was variously a thief, a brothel bouncer, a gambler, and a confidence man. A searching account of the man and his enduring legend, and a book about our national fascination with extrajudicial violence, WYATT EARP is a resounding biography of a singular American figure. THE RACE UNDERGROUND by Doug Most February 2014 In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a halt, a solution had to be found. Two brothers—Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York City—each pursued the dream of his city being the first American metropolis to have a subway, and the great race was on. The competition between Boston and New York was played out in an era not unlike our own, one of economic upheaval, job losses, bitter political tensions, and the question of America's place in the world. THE RACE UNDERGROUND is a great American saga of two rival American cities, the powerful interests within, and an invention that changed the lives of millions.

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ZERO AT THE BONE by John Heidenry July 2009 In this disturbing account, John Heidenry crafts a haunting narrative of the 1953 kidnapping and murder of Bobby Greenlease by two drifters. Bobby, son of Robert Greenlease, a wealthy automobile dealer, turned up in a geranium patch after the $600,000 ransom—the highest U.S. ransom ever paid—was met. The kidnappers, Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Heady, came from wealthy backgrounds. Hall inherited $200,000 at the end of WWII, losing it all in six years, and was later arrested for holding up taxicabs, and spent more than a year in the Missouri State pen. After his release he met Heady, an alcoholic supporting herself as a prostitute and a divorced wife of a wealthy livestock breeder. Hall panicked after getting the ransom and left to hide in a Route 66 motel. He befriended cabdriver and ex-convict, John Hager, who discovered Hall was the kidnapper—and most wanted man in the U.S. Hager tipped off mobster Joe Costello, who arranged to steal half the ransom. It was never recovered. After discovery and conviction, Hall and Heady died in a gas chamber. FOUR LIVES IN PARIS by Hugh Ford February 1987 The lives of four Americans, living in Paris in the years between the wars, are explored in this entertaining account from the author of Published in Paris. Composer George Antheil, editor Margaret Anderson, critic Harold Stearns, and writer Kay Boyle comprise this appealing group of expatriates basking in the literary glow of Paris in the 20's and 30's. PLASTIC FANTASTIC by Eugenie Samuel Reich May 2009 This is the story of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schön, who faked the discovery of a new superconductor made from plastic. A star researcher at the world-renowned Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, he claimed to have stumbled across a powerful method for making carbon-based crystals into transistors, the switches found on computer chips. Had his experiments worked, they would have paved the way for huge advances in technology. But as other researchers tried to recreate Schön's experiments, the scientific community learned that it had been duped. RESTLESS GENIUS by Richard J. Tofel February 2009 This is the first biography of Barney Kilgore, who took a sleepy, near bankrupt NY financial paper in 1929, and turned it into a thriving national newspaper that eventually was worth $5 billion to Rupert Murdoch (who lionizes Kilgore). The book sheds revealing new light on the Depression and New Deal, through much previously uncollected writing of Kilgore, as well as detailing the invention of much of what we like best about modern newspapers by this littleknown genius. PERFECT BEAUTY by Keith Greenberg April 2008 Cynthia George was the stunning wife of one of Akron Ohio’s most successful restaurateurs, and mother of seven. She flaunted her money, her body…even her extra-marital affairs. Until she got in too deep with Jeff Zack, her younger, longtime lover who was also the father of one of her children—a secret that she kept for many years. In a crime that shocked the heartland, Zack was killed, execution style, in the parking lot of a BJ’s Wholesale Club in Akron. From the 33

beginning, investigators suspected Cynthia was involved. Little did they know that her other lover was the murderer. John Zaffino knew about Cynthia’s affair with Zack—and was jealous enough to do something about it…for good. HUGO CHÁVEZ by Nikolas Kozloff July 2006 The riveting and frightening story of ambitious, tempestuous, and avowed anti-American Hugo Chávez, who made waves through South America. Ex-paratrooper, outspoken socialist, and brash personality, Chávez was known for his stance against big business, fearless threats to the Bush administration, and social reforms that violently polarized his country. WITHOUT MERCY by David Beasley January 2014 On December 9, 1938, the state of Georgia executed six black men in 81 minutes in Tattnall prison’s electric chair. At the time the executions were a record. The new prison, built with funds from FDR's New Deal, as well as the fact that the men were tried and executed rather than lynched were thought to be a sign of progress. They were anything but. While those men were arrested, convicted, sentenced, and executed without appeal in as little as eight weeks, E. D. Rivers, the governor of the state, oversaw a pardon racket for white killers, the Ku Klux Klan’s infiltration of his administration, and the bankrupting of the state. Race and wealth were all that determined whether or not these men lived or died. There was no progress. There was no justice. David Beasley’s WITHOUT MERCY is the harrowing true story of The Great Depression, The New Deal, and the violent death throes of the Klan, but most of all it is the story of the stunning injustice of these executions and how they have seared distrust of the legal system into the consciousness of the Deep South, and it is a story that will forever be a testament to the death penalty’s appalling racial inequality that continues to plague our nation. BEAUTIFUL: THE LIFE OF HEDY LAMARR by Stephen Michael Shearer October 2013 Hedy Lamarr’s exotic beauty was heralded across Europe in the early 1930s.Yet she became infamous for her nude scenes in the scandalous movie Ecstasy. Trapped in a marriage to one of Austria’s munitions barons, Lamarr fled Europe for Hollywood, where she was transformed into one of film’s most glamorous celebrities, appearing opposite such actors as Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and James Stewart. An in-depth, comprehensive biography of “the most beautiful girl in the world.” MARATHON MAN by Bill Rodgers April 2013 The legendary long-distance runner details for the first time his historic victory in the 1975 Boston Marathon that launched the modern running boom. BATTLE READY by Mark L. Donald March 2013 The gripping memoir of Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart recipient SEAL Lieutenant Mark L. Donald, the most decorated living hero of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts,

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who served almost twenty-five years and survived some of the most dangerous combat actions imaginable. THE IMPROBABILITY PRINCIPLE by David J. Hand February 2014 In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they’re commonplace. Not only that, we should all expect to experience a miracle roughly once every month. But Hand is no believer in superstitions, prophecies, or the paranormal. His definition of “miracle” is thoroughly rational. No mystical or supernatural explanation is necessary to understand why someone is lucky enough to win the lottery twice, or is destined to be hit by lightning three times and still survive. All we need, Hand argues, is a firm grounding in a powerful set of laws: the laws of inevitability, of truly large numbers, of selection, of the probability lever, and of near enough. Together, these constitute Hand’s groundbreaking Improbability Principle. And together, they explain why we should not be so surprised to bump into a friend in a foreign country, or to come across the same unfamiliar word four times in one day. Hand wrestles with seemingly less explicable questions as well: what the Bible and Shakespeare have in common, why financial crashes are par for the course, and why lightning does strike the same place (and the same person) twice. Along the way, he teaches us how to use the Improbability Principle in our own lives—including how to cash in at a casino and how to recognize when a medicine is truly effective. An irresistible adventure into the laws behind “chance” moments and a trusty guide for understanding the world and universe we live in, The Improbability Principle will transform how you think about serendipity and luck, whether it’s in the world of business and finance or you’re merely sitting in your backyard, tossing a ball into the air and wondering where it will land. SONG OF THE VIKINGS by Nancy Marie Brown October 2012 Much like Greek and Roman mythology, Norse myths are still with us. Famous storytellers from JRR Tolkien to Neil Gaiman have drawn their inspiration from the long-haired, mead-drinking, marauding, and pillaging Vikings. Their creator is a thirteenth-century Icelandic chieftain by the name of Snorri Sturluson. Like Homer, Snorri was a bard, writing down and embellishing the folklore and pagan legends of medieval Scandinavia. Unlike Homer, Snorri was a man of the world—a wily political power player, one of the richest men in Iceland who came close to ruling it, and even closer to betraying it… In SONG OF THE VIKINGS, award-winning author Nancy Marie Brown brings Snorri Sturluson’s story to life in a richly textured narrative that draws on newly available sources. THE WISDOM OF PSYCHOPATHS by Kevin Dutton October 2012 In this page-turning journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that there is a scale of “madness” along which we all sit. Incorporating the latest advances in brain scanning and neuroscience, Dutton demonstrates that the brilliant neurosurgeon who lacks empathy has more in common with a Ted Bundy who kills for pleasure than we may wish to admit, and that a mugger in a dimly lit parking lot may well, in fact, have the same nerveless poise as a titan of industry. As Dutton develops his theory that we all possess psychopathic tendencies, he puts forward the argument 35

that society as a whole is more psychopathic than ever: after all, psychopaths tend to be fearless, confident, charming, ruthless, and focused—qualities that are tailor-made for success in the twenty-first century. Provocative at every turn, THE WISDOM OF PSYCHOPATHS is a riveting adventure that reveals that it’s our much-maligned dark side that often conceals the trump cards of success. BILL AND HILLARY by William H. Chafe September 2012 A renowned scholar explains the alchemy of politics and personality that produced the Clinton decade. HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT by Paul Buhle August 2003 HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT is Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner's last book in a trilogy that explores the Hollywood Blacklist and its aftermath. In this book, Buhle and Wagner take up the question of where the blacklistees went after they were hounded out of Hollywood. THE LAST RHINOS by Lawrence Anthony July 2012 Award-winning conservationist Lawrence Anthony tells stories both heart-warming and tragic about his experiences with the wild animals of Africa. LUCKY LUCIANO by Tim Newark August 2010 From Booklist: “Americans have a tendency to romanticize some of our worst criminals. Thankfully, Newark avoids that in his absorbing and well-researched biography of one of our most interesting gangsters. For the most part, he confirms that Luciano was a murderous thug. Still, as Newark illustrates, he was a cut above most of his fellow hoods in terms of intelligence and his understanding of the American political and economic landscape. Although he was born in Sicily, Luciano was Americanized in that he had contempt for most of the older, Sicilian-born Moustache Petes and their pretensions to codes of honor and disdain for working with Jewish mobsters. Perhaps it was his streak of independence that allowed Luciano to survive the viscious New York Mob wars of the 1920s and 1930s, but it also left him particularly vulnerable to Thomas Dewey’s crusade against the Mob. Newark’s recounting of his later career after his deportation is interesting and provocative. He clearly worked for the U.S. government, but his activities were so murky that it is unclear who was being manipulated.” THE END GAME by Anthony Barnosky Fall 2015 This shocking book by two leading authorities in the field outlines the most dangerous environmental crises we currently face and explains why it is the synergistic effect of two or more crises occuring simultaneously, not any single crisis, that we have to worry about and try to avoid. Such an overlap could trip a catastrophic planetary-scale disaster.

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NUTRITION DIVA’S SECRETS FOR A HEALTHY DIET by Monica Reinagel March 2011 Have you tried every diet fad but wound up hungrier and no healthier than before? Are you overwhelmed by the sheer number of choices confronting you at the grocery store? Popular podcast host and board-certified nutritionist Monica Reinagel sorts through the latest science to bust food myths and tell you exactly what you need to eat to look and feel fabulous. NUTRITION DIVA’S 5 SECRETS FOR AGING WELL by Monica Reinagel February 2011 Want to get older without looking old? Want to claim you’re 15 years younger and actually feel that way too? Unfortunately for all of us, birthdays come with the gift of aging, but that doesn’t mean your years have to show on your face and body. Popular podcast host and board-certified nutritionist, Monica Reinagel, has the five secrets everyone should know to feel and look fabulous—no matter what your driver’s license says. CRADLE OF GOLD by Christopher Heaney April 2010 The true story of the explorer who inspired the Indiana Jones legend and his quest to find the lost city of the Incas. STOP THE SCREAMING by Carl E. Pickhardt January 2009 A renowned parenting expert reveals the positive ways to handle conflict between parents and children—from crib to college. DON’T BITE YOUR TONGUE by Ruth Nemzoff August 2008 A family-empowering guide that helps foster positive relationships between parents and adult children. CHOSEN by Avi Becker April 2008 A fascinating historical and religious exploration of Jews as the Chosen People, and how the term "chosen" has ignited violence, debates, and change from past to present. INSIDE EGYPT by John R. Bradley April 2008 The government of Egypt banned INSIDE EGYPT in 2008—the first time a book on Egyptian politics had been banned in the country in decades—and quickly rescinded it after the media firestorm that followed. The book depicts the country before the collapse, and then explores recent events in Egypt and the realization of the predicted revolution. Through interviews with ordinary Egyptians and extensive travels in the country, Bradley reveals why Egypt was vulnerable to a popular uprising and how it could bring about an Iranian-style theocracy in a country once noted for its plurality and tolerance.

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FUTURE OF YOUR ONLY CHILD by Carl E. Pickhardt March 2008 Expert Carl Pickhardt’s new look at the only child seeks to clarify some common dynamics in only-child families that can shape the child’s functioning later on as an adult, and examines outcomes that parenting practices can influence while an only child is growing up at home. The book opens with a description of several salient factors in an only child family, and subsequent chapters describe a formative dynamic in the only child family, the adult outcome influenced by that dynamic (both the strength and liability), and the strategies for parenting to support the strength and lessen the liability. As only-child families are the fastest growing families in this country, parents raising an only child will welcome guidelines for the formative and future influence they may wish to provide. THE CONNECTED FATHER by Carl E. Pickhardt May 2007 From childhood and parenting expert Carl Pickhardt comes a new book designed to help fathers maintain an effective and salient presence during the adolescent passage. HOW COMPUTER GAMES HELP CHILDREN LEARN by David Shaffer December 2006 A revolutionary book that reveals how video and computer games can help teach our children to be more creative, independent thinkers, and prepare them for the most desirable professions in the future. SCANDAL by Lanny Davis September 2006 For more than forty decades, polarized politics in America have been driven by a vicious scandal machine comprised of partisan politicians, extremists on the left and right, and a sensationalist media energized by bringing public officials down. In this sorely needed book, Lanny Davis, who has been in the belly of the beast as Special Counsel to the Clinton White House, explains, starting with historical scandals like Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson's extramarital affairs and moving on to the unsurpassable Watergate and beyond, how we reached this sorry state. STEM CELL WARS by Eve Herold September 2006 According to stem cell research expert Eve Herold, Americans have become the victims of misinformation about this essential science. Over the last few years, the stem cell debate has been intensely political, religious, global, and confusing to many people. Now, Herold explains to a general audience what this science is all about, who is for and against it, and why it must go forward. In this startling book, Herold pulls together fascinating stories to highlight every aspect of this multifaceted field. She exposes the politics of stem cell research and demonstrates how these forces will intimately affect everyone. BARRIER by Isabel Kershner November 2005 A revealing exploration of the controversial wall being built between Israelis and Palestinians. 38

GLOBAL WARMING by Chris Spence July 2005 Global warming has been described as the biggest environmental threat facing humanity. From killer heat waves and increasingly violent weather to the spread of pests and vector-borne diseases, global warming has various effects on our lives, some positive but most negative. People fear potentially catastrophic consequences but there is a disturbing lack of understanding about global warming and what can be done about it. GLOBAL WARMING breaks through the jargon, offering readers both a clear description of the problem and a practical guide to the solutions. It offers hope that each of us can be doing something to solve the problem and that we should—not only for ourselves, but for our children and grandchildren SANDSTORM by Leon Hadar July 2005 This original and provocative analysis of American intervention in the Middle East challenges the prevailing wisdom of the Washington foreign policy establishment. Hadar provides a sweeping reexamination of the conceptual bases of American policy and calls for strategy of "constructive disengagement" from the region, a policy of benign neglect as a way of promoting the interests of the United States as well as those of the people of the Middle East. SAUDI ARABIA EXPOSED by John R. Bradley June 2005 Saudi Arabia: oil rich, economic troubles, social tensions, and increasingly at the center of American attention. As the only Western journalist to have extensively lived and worked in the Saudi Kingdom, John Bradley is uniquely able to expose the turmoil that is shaking the House of Saud at its foundations. Full of intimate detail—from the heart of the secretive Islamic kingdom's urban centers to its most remote mountainous terrain; from the homes of princes and princesses to the slums of its poorest inhabitants—this is a revealing look at the historic, regional, religious and tribal rivalries that have been brought to the fore by economic mismanagement, an ongoing Islamic insurgency, and the constant postponement by the ruling family of crucial economic, social, and political reforms. FRESH LIPSTICK by Linda M. Scott January 2005 In the groundbreaking and highly provocative FRESH LIPSTICK, Linda Scott shakes feminist fashion down to its Birkenstocks. Whereas American feminists have traditionally decried the beauty industry as one that objectifies women, here Scott challenges this stance by scrutinizing its history and revealing serious prejudices behind its assumptions. Scott, an expert in communications and the fashion industry, says that feminist writers have consistently argued that a woman's efforts to look sensational make her a dupe of fashion, the plaything of men, and a collaborator in her own oppression. She asks us all to rethink this notion, and to remember that the elite women of the media may be out of touch with the majority of women who, when they feel good about looking good, feel self-confident, emboldened and empowered.

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THE FUTURE OF POLITICAL ISLAM by Graham E. Fuller April 2003 A sweeping examination of political Islam’s sources, diverse forms, and implications for politics in the Muslim world and its relations with the West. EAT MY WORDS by Janet Theophano February 2002 A history of cookbook writing by women living in the UK and the US from the eighteenth century until today. HEART AND HEAD by Dwight Hopkins February 2002 Theologian Dwight N. Hopkins uses the black theology of liberation to challenge AfricanAmericans and all Americans that the way to heal America's racial divide is by using both compassion and the intellect—that is, heart and head.

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Middle-Grade and Juvenile TRACTOR MAC (series) by Billy Steers May 2015 A huge bestselling self-published kids book series that Macmillan recently picked up! http://www.tractormac.com/ PARADIGM SHIFTERS Fall 2015 The hilarious and action-packed story of the most average teen on the planet and what happens when he is selected by a group of aliens for a planet-wide scavenger hunt. Oh, and he’ll be teaming up with a vampire, a werewolf, a mermaid, and a sprite. AND AWAY WE GO by Migy October 2014 Mr. Fox is going to the moon! Away he goes in his hot air balloon… But wait! Can Elephant come too? Sure! Let's bring along some pizza. What about Giraffe? And Squirrel? Everyone is welcome in Mr. Fox’s balloon, but look out—will everyone fit? HUNTERS OF THE GREAT FOREST by Dennis Nolan October 2014 On a warm night, a band of hunters sets out on a journey. As they travel over hills, through thickets of trees, and around mountains, nothing will keep them from their ultimate goal. What that goal is may surprise you. TEN RULES OF BEING A SUPERHERO by Deb Pilutti October 2014 This tongue-in-cheek instruction manual for aspiring superheroes follows the adventures of Captain Magma, a superhero action figure. His sidekick/owner, Lava Boy, helps him outsmart a villainous dinosaur, escape from a scary bee, and save a worm from certain destruction. But in the end, it's the sidekick who saves the day! (Even superheroes need help sometimes.) THE SHERLOCK FILES by Tracy Barrett 2008-2011 (Four Book Series) What if you inherited Sherlock Holmes's book of unsolved cases? Xena and Xander Holmes have just discovered they’re related to Sherlock Holmes and inherited his unsolved casebook! The siblings set out to solve the cases their famous ancestor couldn’t. Can two smart twenty-first century kids succeed where Sherlock Holmes could not? Modern technology meets the classic detective story in this terrific new mystery series that will intrigue young sleuths everywhere! ARNIE, THE DOUGHNUT (series) by Laurie Keller 2013-present At first glance, Arnie looks like an average doughnut—round, cakey, with a hole in the middle, iced and sprinkled. He was made by one of the best bakeries in town, and admittedly his sprinkles are candy-colored. Still, a doughnut is just a doughnut, right? WRONG! Not if Arnie 41

has anything to say about it. And, for a doughnut, he sure seems to have an awful lot to say. Can Arnie change the fate of all doughnuts—or at least have a hand in his own future? BUILDING OUR HOUSE by Jonathan Bean January 2013 From Booklist: An author’s note reveals that this picture book is based on personal experience, as Bean’s parents built their own house when he was a young child. Here we follow a mother, father, two children (and, eventually, a new baby) over the course of a year and a half—through a harsh winter and plenty of lumber pickups—all the way to move-in day at their new abode. Told from the point of view of the oldest child, a girl, the challenges and rewards involved in constructing from scratch become clear. The kids are not exempt from the do-it-yourself action, and they happily help “fill the loud mixing machine.” Bean (At Night, 2007) makes use of every inch of the tall trim size here, filling his pages to the brim with heavily lined illustrations of bustling people and activity—often as a series of four vignettes across a spread. What’s heartwarming throughout is the depiction of a tight-knit family (“My family makes up a strong crew of four”). The author’s concluding personal photos add to the loving feel. LOSERS, INC. by Claudia Mills April 1997 Ethan Winfield has never been an academic or athletic star like his older brother, Peter. But does that make him a failure? Of course not. Still, Ethan and his best friend, Julius Zimmerman, decide that they qualify to found an exclusive club: Losers, Inc. BAD KITTY by Nick Bruel 2005 – present Fourteen book bestselling series (with more to come). Over a million copies sold! Bad Kitty is bad. Very bad. But she doesn't always mean to be. Whether she is trying to be a good little kitty and eat her vegetables or be a quiet little kitty and behave at a birthday party, it seems that trouble finds a way to her. Children will fall in love with Bad Kitty--and be roaring with laughter at all of her antics. BELLE PRATER’S BOY by Ruth Wilson March 1996 Everyone in Coal Station, Virginia, has a theory about what happened to Belle Prater, but twelve-year-old Gypsy wants the facts, and when her cousin Woodrow, Aunt Belle's son moves next door, she has her chance. * 1996 Boston Globe – Horn Book Awards Honor Book for Fiction * 1997 Newbery Honor Book THE MELENDY SERIES by Elizabeth Enright 1940s-1950s (still in print) From the Editor: “This is a charming series of four books about a family living in New York City during that time period. The kids are very resourceful and are always up to new adventures, with the parents much in the shadows. The books have been in print for over sixty years and have really stood the test of time. I think it's because the writing is so strong and the stories, while set in another time period, are still very relatable to kids today. It's a nice window into 42

family/sibling relationships. In many ways, the Penderwick books that have been so successful in the last five or six years, are very much inspired by the Melendy books.” I KILL THE MOCKINGBIRD by Paul Acampora May 2014 When Lucy, Elena, and Michael receive their summer reading list, they are excited to see TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD on there. Except not everyone in their class shares the same enthusiasm. So they hatch a plot to get the entire town talking about the well-known Harper Lee classic. They plan controversial ways to get people to read the book, including re-shelving copies of the book in bookstores so that people think they are missing and starting a website committed to “destroying the mockingbird.” Their efforts are successful when all of the hullabaloo starts to direct more people to the book. But soon, their exploits start to get out of control and they unwittingly start a mini-revolution in the name of books. RED SCARF by Greg Ruth Winter 2015 A picture book about a boy whose family goes to the beach. He finds a red scarf entwined in the fence (a New England tradition to leave scraps of fabric in fences) and it becomes a magical portal to beachy adventures with animals. THE MAGIC SHOP: VANISHING COIN by Kate Egan and Mike Lane April 2014 Fourth grade was supposed to be a fresh start for Mike, but he just can't sit still. His parents won't even let him play soccer anymore. Instead, he has to hang out with his neighbor Nora, who is good at everything! But then, Mike and Nora discover the White Rabbit—a store with a special secret inside. Its owner, Mr. Zerlin, is a magician, and, amazingly, he seems to think that Mike could be a magician, too! CATCHING KISSES by Amy Gibson December 2013 A sweet picture book about blowing kisses to loved ones no matter where they are, and the journey they take to get there. DWARF IN THE DRAWER by L. van King and Chuck Gonzales October 2013 In the tradition of GOODNIGHT IPAD and RUNAWAY MUMMY, this is a hilarious parody of Elf on the Shelf—and a story that will make us all take another look at the true meaning of Christmas. WELCOME TO ROBOT TOWN by Ryan Heshka August 2013 It’s another busy day for robots—make sure you’re not late for Robot School! On the way, say hello to TrafficBot, who helps robots cross busy streets, and Professor Nutzundbolts, the principal. Check out Director Steelburg, who is filming a new movie on Aluminum Avenue. After a day of steely adventures, it’s time for a quick oil bath before recharging overnight for another chrome-filled day in Robot Town. 43

BO AT BALLARD CREEK by Kirkpatrick Hill June 2013 It’s the 1920s, and Bo was headed for an Alaska orphanage when she won the hearts of two tough gold miners who set out to raise her, enthusiastically helped by all the kind people of the nearby Eskimo village. Bo learns Eskimo along with English, helps in the cookshack, learns to polka, and rides along with Big Annie and her dog team. There’s always some kind of excitement: Bo sees her first airplane, has a run-in with a bear, and meets a mysterious lost little boy. A PIRATE’S GUIDE TO RECESS by James Preller June 2013 Arr! It’s recess, and a young pirate and his crew are heading out to the roiling seas of…the schoolyard. They are soon met by another gang of pirates—all girls! Will they all play nice? (Eventually, yes!) As they did in A PIRATE’S GUIDE TO FIRST GRADE, James Preller and Greg Ruth deliver another story full of adventure, danger, and yo-ho-ho! RAINBOW STREET SHELTER series by Wendy Orr 2011-2013 A heartwarming six book series about pets from the Rainbow Street Animal Shelter and the kids who find them homes. DOG WHISPERER series by Ellen Emerson White (“Nicholas Edwards”) 2009-2012 (Three Book Series) An adopted girl, an abandoned dog – together they can save others. Emily has dreams of drowning. Night after night, she’s being sucked under—until the third night. She realizes it’s not just a dream. It’s really happening to someone—or something. On the rocky shore outside her house, Emily finds a large white dog. He’s barely alive, but she’s determined to save him. She can feel his pain—and his determination to live. The dog is brought to the vet and nursed back to life—with Emily’s help. Her presence is enough to improve his condition dramatically, to bring him back from the brink. The vet has never seen anything like it, but it’s the most natural thing in the world for Emily. And for the dog she’s named Zack. It’s as though he’s been her dog for years. But is the bond between the girl and her dog something more? She can see what he sees, feel what he feels. And Zack seems to be able to read her mind, too. Is it possible that together, Emily and Zack can do more than read each other’s minds? Can they turn their powers to helping other people? THE FORGIVENESS GARDEN by Lauren Thompson and Christy Hale October 2012 When a new argument between feuding villages erupts, a boy named Karune hurls a stone and injures a girl named Sama. Sama’s neighbors and family want revenge; Karune’s village believes he’s done nothing wrong. But Karune and Sama come to realize that while physical wounds heal, the emotional wounds inflicted by hatred still fester. And, as they nurture a special garden that both villages can enjoy, they learn that the only way to heal is through forgiveness. Inspired by the mission of Gardens of Forgiveness, a nonprofit organization founded in the aftermath of 9/11, this beautiful book will resonate with a wide audience.

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HOMESICK by Kate Klise September 2012 12-year-old Benny Summer lives in a quiet Missouri town where nothing ever happens…until Benny’s mother leaves home after a fight about a mysterious splinter (supposedly from the Holy Crucifix) and his father’s obsession with the “unredeemables” he hoards, from pizza boxes to motorcycle parts. But then a local teacher enters the town in America’s Most Charming Small Town Contest, and the pressure is on to clean up the town, especially Benny’s ramshackle of a house. Meantime, Benny is over his head in a well-meaning scheme among neighbors to trick his dad into cleaning up, and soon, the town will be drowning, literally, in the worst hurricane of the decade. SNOW ANGELS by Andrew Glass September 2012 Emily and Harold have moved from down south, and this Christmas Eve brings their first snow storm. School is canceled, and the children can’t wait to get outside. They fill the schoolyard with snow angels, which come to life and make a Christmas miracle. This playfully illustrated picture book is a perfect addition to any family Christmas library. MOONBIRD by Phillip Hoose July 2012 Meet rufa red knot B95. Every March, this robin-sized shorebird begins a journey from the bottom of the world to the top: from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to the Canadian Arctic, about 9,000 miles away. In August, he sets off on the return trip. B95 is over twenty years old, and in his lifetime he has flown the distance to the moon and nearly halfway back, earning him the nickname “moonbird.” But every year, his companions are fewer and fewer. The rufa red knot population has plummeted because of changes at important stopover sites along their migratory circuit—changes caused by human activity. Can these places be preserved and the rufa red knot be saved? EMMY series by Lynne Jonell 2007-2011 (Three Book Series) A middle-grade novel about a girl who discovers a world of powerful talking rodents and uses them to thwart the plans of her evil nanny. 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. THE PRINCESS AND THE PIG by Poly Bernatene September 2011 There’s been a terrible mix-up in the royal nursery. Priscilla the princess has accidentally switched places with Pigmella, the farmer’s new piglet. The kindly farmer and his wife believe it’s the work of a good witch, while the ill-tempered King and Queen blame the bad witch. Priscilla grows up on the farm, poor yet very happy, but things don’t work out quite as readily for a Pigmella. Kissing a frog has worked wonders before, but will it work for a pig?

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THELONIOUS MOUSE by Orel Protopopescu June 2011 Thelonious the mouse has got so much rhythm in him he can’t help letting it out. To his family’s horror, he won’t stop scatting and shimmying around the house, teasing deadly Fat Cat instead of collecting crumbs like the rest of them. But just as Thelonious's games become too dangerous, he find a most unexpected musical partner in this jaunty picture book with art and text that truly sing! ANGEL IN MY POCKET by Ilene Cooper March 2011 When a coin with an angel on it is passed among four 13-year-olds, their lives change for the better. Does the coin connect these two boys and two girls to their guardian angels, or are the kids figuring out how to solve the big problems in their lives? EGGS OVER EVIE by Alison Jackson November 2010 As a way of coping with her new family situation (separated parents, a stepmom, and new stepsiblings), twelve year-old Evie takes a cooking class and forms unexpected friendships; lots of recipes included. GROUNDED by Kate Klise November 2010 In the year after 11-year-old Daralynn loses her father and siblings, she helps her mother with her new job—styling hair at a funeral parlor—and solves a mystery involving a stranger in their small town. MISS LINA’S BALLERINAS by Grace Maccarone October 2010 Nine little ballerinas will dance straight into your heart in this adorable story about making new friends and the joy of ballet. SCRAWL by Mark Shulman September 2010 Tod Munn is a bully. He's tough, but times are even tougher. The wimps have stopped coughing up their lunch money. The administration is cracking down. Then to make things worse, Tod and his friends get busted doing something bad. Lucky Tod must spend his daily detention in a hot, empty room with Mrs. Woodrow, a no-nonsense guidance counselor. He doesn't know why he's there, but she does. Tod's punishment: to scrawl his story in a beat-up notebook. He can be painfully funny and he can be brutally honest. But can Mrs. Woodrow help Tod stop playing the bad guy before he actually turns into one…for real? POUT-POUT FISH series by Deborah Diesen March 2008 to Present Bestselling multi-book series! Swim along with the pout-pout fish as he discovers that being glum and spreading “dreary wearies” isn’t really his destiny. Bright ocean colors and playful

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rhyme come together in this fun fish story that’s sure to turn even the poutiest of frowns upside down. A PIRATE’S GUIDE TO FIRST GRADE by James Preller July 2010 Arr! It’s the first day of first grade, and it’s all hands on deck for a young pirate and his crew. How much trouble can they get into? What will they do at recess? And, most important, what treasure awaits them at school? WELCOME TO MONSTER TOWN by Ryan Heshka July 2010 As soon as the sun sets on Monstertown, creatures of all kinds go to work. So hop on the Ghoul Bus and see for yourself who inhabits this ghoulish town. Dr. Cyclops, Postmaster Skeleton, Frank N. Stein, Dr. Mummy, Captain Witch, and many other monster friends—including a junior monster-in-training—will welcome you with open arms. MELVIN BEEDERMAN series by Greg Trine 2006-2010 (Eight Book Series) Bad guys tremble at the sound of his name! Meet Melvin Beederman. He’s a pretty good superhero, even though it always takes him five or six tries to get launched and flying. His weakness (every superhero has one) is bologna, which makes it hard to go into a deli. Still, Melvin manages to keep the city of Los Angeles free of nasty villains—once he’s airborne. This series has it all: hilarious storylines, amazing classic-comic-inspired illustrations, and fearless new superheroes! SICK DAY FOR AMOS MCGEE by Erin Stead May 2010 Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In Amos McGee’s case, all sorts of species, too! Every day he spends a little bit of time with each of his friends at the zoo, running races with the tortoise, keeping the shy penguin company, and even reading bedtime stories to the owl. But when Amos is too sick to make it to the zoo, his animal friends decide it’s time they returned the favor. BYSTANDER by James Preller September 2009 A 7th grade boy must choose between being a witness to bullying, or possibly becoming a victim. JEREMY DRAWS A MONSTER by Peter McCarty September 2009 Alone in his room, Jeremy draws a monster. But then the monster wants lunch! As his creation takes over, Jeremy begins to wonder how he will ever get rid of the monstrous nuisance. He entertains his unwanted guest all day, but enough is enough. Jeremy finally draws him a bus ticket out of town! With a sure artistic touch and more than a dose of humor, Peter McCarty cleverly blurs the line between his own drawings and Jeremy’s, and in doing so subtly questions the line between reality and imagination. 47

TROUBLE GUM by Matthew Cordell September 2009 It’s raining. There’s nothing to do. Ruben is bored. But things start looking up when his grandmother gives him and his little brother some gum. Gum is fun. There’s just one problem with gum—it tends to make a mess! Uh-oh… HAMLET AND THE TALES OF SNIGGERY WOODS by Maggie Kneen May 2009 Young Hamlet loves to cook, but so far he’s only dabbled with dishes like Invisible Worm Tart with dandelion cream. As luck would have it, Hamlet inherits a café from his uncle Alf. Heralding the advice of King Heron—To Bake the Best Biscuit, A Young Pig Should Risk It— Hamlet takes the plunge and becomes the new owner of Hamlet’s Pantry. Together, his friends help him prepare the menu and get ready for opening day. Set in the enchanting world of Sniggery Woods, these three winning tales bring to life the adventures of an imaginative pig destined to follow his dream. BATTLE OF THE RED HOT PEPPER WEENIES by David Lubar March 2009 With more than 1.25 million "weenies" books sold, David Lubar’s fourth collection of warped and creepy tales is sure to be a hit. This time, the young protagonists encounter a witch who feasts on screams, a torrent of turkeys out for revenge on Thanksgiving, and two red hot pepper weenies trying to eat the hottest pepper. Don’t be a weenie. Read these stories…if you dare! CURSE OF THE CAMPFIRE WEENIES by David Lubar September 2007 Award-winning storyteller David Lubar’s third collection of warped and creepy tales, in which the young protagonists encounter monsters of every kind, from a thirsty vampire and wandering ghost to a dreaded math teacher and overly enthusiastic Girl Scout leader. MIGHTY CASEY by James Preller March 2009 After one too many losses, Casey Jenkins decides his team has had enough! Despite being down five-nothing in the first (and despite the fact that half the team is daydreaming and the outfielder needs to pee), Casey won’t give up. Can the worst player on the team lead the Delmar Dogs to their first win of the season? With Casey Jenkins at the bat, it’s anyone’s game! REDWOODS by Jason Chin March 2009 A picture book about a boy who finds a book about redwoods and finds himself in their midst as he turns the pages. BROOKLYN BRIDGE by Karen Hesse September 2008 It’s the summer of 1903 in Brooklyn and all fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom wants is to experience the thrill, the grandeur, and the electricity of the new amusement park at Coney Island. But that doesn’t seem likely. Ever since his parents—Russian immigrants—invented the 48

stuffed Teddy Bear five months ago, Joseph’s life has turned upside down. No longer do the Michtom’s gather family and friends around the kitchen table to talk. No longer is Joseph at leisure to play stickball with the guys. Now, Joseph works. And complains. And falls in love. And argues with Mama and Papa. And falls out of love. And hopes. Joseph hopes he’ll see Coney Island soon. He hopes that everything will turn right-side up again. He hopes his luck hasn’t run out—because you never know. LINCOLN SHOT by Barry Denenberg September 2008 Noted children’s book biographer Barry Denenberg, award-winning illustrator Christopher Bing, and book designer Rich Deas collaborate on an intimate portrait of Abraham Lincoln. This arresting combination of Bing’s award-winning illustrations, plus archival photography and period typefaces and design, is presented as a 19th-century newspaper memorial edition. MASTERPIECE by Elise Broach September 2008 Marvin lives with his family under the kitchen sink in the Pompadays’ apartment. He is very much a beetle. James Pompaday lives with his family in New York City. He is very much an eleven-year-old boy. After James gets a pen-and-ink set for his birthday, Marvin surprises him by creating an elaborate miniature drawing. James gets all the credit for the picture and before these unlikely friends know it they are caught up in a staged art heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that could help recover a famous drawing by Albrecht Dürer. But James can’t go through with the plan without Marvin’s help. * 2009 Bank Street – Best Children's Book of the Year STARLIGHT GOES TO TOWN by Harry Allard September 2008 The other hens in Farmer Brown’s Tennessee henhouse think that Starlight LaPoule—(hush! Her real name is Ethel Fae Klucksworth)—is short a few feathers. They may be right. For Starlight is a chicken with a ridiculous dream. She wants to become a high-fashion model in Paris or Milan. And with the surprise help of her very own chicken fairy godmother, anything is possible. Or is it? FOR GIRLS ONLY by Laura Dower June 2008 Everything great about being a girl is packed into this fun and informative book. HOW I LEARNED GEOGRAPHY by Uri Shulevitz April 2008 Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy’s father brings home a map instead of bread for supper, at first the boy is furious. But when the map is hung on the wall, it floods their cheerless room with color. As the boy studies its every detail, he is transported to exotic places without ever leaving the room, and he eventually comes to realize that the map feeds him in a way that bread never could. * 2009 Caldecott Honor Book * 2009 Bank Street – Best Children's Book of the Year 49

SURRENDER TREE by Margarita Engle April 2008 It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rounded up in concentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the camps. So she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her. Black, white, Cuban, Spanish—Rosa does her best for everyone. Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war? * 2009 Newbery Honor Book * 2009 Pura Belpre Medal for Narrative * 2009 Bank Street - Claudia Lewis Award * 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. SIX INNINGS by James Preller March 2008 A lively cast of characters—baseball-loving boys between the ages of eleven to thirteen—are playing the biggest game of their lives. With acrobatic catches, clutch hits, dramatic whiffs, and costly errors, this game is full of action. But as the book unfolds, pitch by pitch, a deeper story emerges, with far more at stake: Sam and Mike, best friends, are trying to come to terms with Sam’s newly diagnosed cancer. And this baseball diamond becomes the ultimate testing ground of Sam and Mike’s remarkable friendship as they strive to find a way to both come out winners. DARK WATER RISING by Marian Hale September 2006 A poignant coming-of-age novel set during the Galveston Storm of 1900. * Bank Street College of Education Best Book * IRA Teachers’ Choice * Junior Library Guild selection POET SLAVE OF CUBA by Margarita Engle April 2006 A lyrical account of the life of Juan Francisco Manzano, the poet slave of Cuba, in verse; includes bibliography. THE UGLY PRINCESS AND THE WISE FOOL by Margaret Gray October 2002 Princess Rose doesn’t get any prettier as she grows up, but the kingdom does get over its shock. Everyone adores the skinny, buck-toothed princess, and she doesn’t mind her appearance—until the handsomest prince in the world comes looking for a bride. Despite warnings from her seafaring fairy godmother and a wise fool named Jasper, reckless Rose wishes for beauty. She gets her wish, and the prince, but finds neither is as nice as she had expected. HOGULA by Jean Gralley October 1999 Hogula is a vampire pig on the loose. Every night he roams the city, snorting the necks of people who are up past their bedtimes and putting them into a deep piggie snooze. Life is high-on-thehog for this porcine fiend. And yet, something is missing: Hogula is lonely. One stormy night, 50

Hogula hears a knock on his door. A mysterious girl named Elvis Ann has tracked him down, and Hogula can't wait to snort her into a deep piggie snooze. But Elvis Ann is no ordinary mortal. Hogula soon discovers that he's met his match—and perhaps even found a new friend. TROLLS by Polly Horvath March 1999 Aunt Sally is beyond any of Melissa, Amanda, and Pee Wee's expectations. She has come all the way from Vancouver Island, Canada, to take care of the children while their parents are away, and right from the start Aunt Sally enchants them with tales of her childhood with their father. Odd characters figure largely in the stories, like Maud, a hunter rumored to have killed eighty cougars; Great-uncle Louis, a health nut who insists everyone should gnaw on sticks for extra fiber; and Fat Little Mean Girl, the star of a cautionary tale involving witchcraft and candy. All of Aunt Sally's reminiscences lead up to a crucial story about trolls, sinister creatures who supposedly lurked along the shore at night. The trolls had the power to change Aunt Sally's life forever, and their legacy may change the lives of the three present-day children as well. WISH ME LUCK by James Heneghan March 1997 Based on the historical account of a German U-boat sinking a passenger liner, which was carrying 100 children from war-torn England, the story will provide middle-graders with another perspective on World War II… Readers will find plenty of action, awe, and premonition to carry them to the exciting climax. WHEN THE CIRCUS CAME TO TOWN by Polly Horvath October 1996 It all started with the Halibuts. Then came Elmira Degoochy the snake lady. Then the Flying Gambinis—all seven of them and their mother. And Mrs. Harrison the fortune-teller, and Mr. Wydel the strongman… These are the new residents of Springfield, the formerly peaceful Midwestern town where up to now young Ivy's life had been pretty uneventful. Ivy becomes fast friends with Alfred Halibut, who is an aspiring writer like herself and the son of a circus publicity manager. She also befriends the other circus people who have moved into town. But many of her neighbors are not feeling kindly about this invasion of strange characters. Tensions somersault into a climactic tangle at the Springfield bake-off. In the midst of hurtling pies, one voice alone can bring peace and tolerance back to the community. WHEN THE CIRCUS CAME TO TOWN is Polly Horvath's funniest novel to date, packed with vivid exaggeration and slapstick scenarios. THIMBLE SUMMER by Elizabeth Enright January 1990 A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and the livestock, and money for Garnet's father. Garnet can't help feeling that the thimble is a magic talisman, for the summer proves to be interesting and exciting in so many different ways. There is the arrival of Eric, an orphan who becomes a member of the Linden family; the building of a new barn; and the county fair at which Garnet's carefully tended pig, Timmy, wins a blue ribbon. Every day brings adventure of some kind to Garnet and her best friend, Citronella. As far as 51

Garnet is concerned, the thimble is responsible for each good thing that happens during this magic summer—her thimble summer. DOCTOR DE SOTO by William Steig November 1982 From the author of SHREK! With the aid of his able assistant, Mrs. De Soto, Doctor De Soto copes with the toothaches of animals large and small. But since he's a mouse, Doctor De Soto refuses to treat "dangerous" animals—that is, animals who have a taste for mice. But one day a fox shows up and begs for relief from the tooth that's killing him. How can the kindhearted De Sotos turn him away? But how can they make sure that the fox doesn't give in to his baser instincts once his tooth is fixed? Those clever De Sotos will find a way. * 1982 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year * 1983 Boston Globe – Horn Book Awards Honor Book for Picture Books * 1983 Newbery Honor Book THE DEVIL’S STORYBOOK by Natalie Babbitt January 1974 From The Horn Book Review: Starred Review. "Ten comic stories about the machinations of the Devil to increase the population of his realm...The stories are delightful in their narrative fluency, full of surprises, and frequently spiced with dashes of Saki-like mischief. A suitably wicked but hilarious drawing accompanies each tale." * 1974 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year * 1975 National Book Award Finalist for Children's Books * ALA Notable Book * School Library Journal Best of the Best Books

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Mysteries DOING IT AT THE DIXIE DEW by Ruth Moose May 2014 Beth McKenzie’s attempt to turn an old Southern mansion into a Bed and Breakfast called The Dixie Dew is thwarted when her first guest is found dead in bed. Three days later a young priest is found strangled in his chapel. The whole town of Littleboro is abuzz, and Ossie Delbardo, the town cop, is not cut out to solve the murders. With her barely opened B&B in danger of failing, Beth sets out to discover the truth of the murders. * Winner of the Malice Domestic Competition for Best First Traditional Mystery Novel CUTS THROUGH BONE by Alaric Hunt May 2013 From Booklist: Rachel Vasquez, PI Clayton Guthrie’s rookie operative, is thrilled when the pair is hired to investigate a Columbia University student’s murder, mainly because it offers respite from the interminable training exercises Guthrie has been giving her. Camille Bowman was killed with her war-veteran boyfriend’s gun, and, because the crime matched the profile of an active serial killer, the NYPD suspects Greg Olsen of the entire spree. Guthrie and Vasquez, hired to establish Olsen’s innocence, agree their client seems an unlikely killer, but Guthrie knows it’s easy to be deceived. They follow the trail of the case from a subterranean vagrants’ hideout through Columbia’s Greek scene, checking out along the way Camille’s past trysts and Greg’s Afghan War tours. Publisher promotions highlight the author’s current incarceration, but this debut mystery, a PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition winner, doesn’t need a shocking authorial backstory. Hunt’s enticing investigators invite a series, and the red-herringriddled gumshoe story explodes into a climax rivaling those of Robert Crais and Ridley Pearson. * PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition Winner FOAL PLAY by Kathryn O’Sullivan May 2013 Colleen McCabe is enjoying an uneventful summer in North Carolina's Outer Banks supervising her firefighters, making rounds with her Border collie, Sparky, and keeping an eye on the wild horses escaped from the local sanctuary. But when a dead body washes up on shore, she knows trouble has arrived in Corolla. * Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition Winner THE DEAD MAN’S WIFE by Solomon Jones October 2012 Andrea Wilson—a woman who seemingly has everything—awakens to a living nightmare. Her husband Paul is dead, she’s covered in his blood, and the police are banging on her door. Andrea doesn’t remember what happened, but she knows how it looks. With just a split second to make a choice, Andrea decides to run. Enter Detective Mike Coletti. He and Andrea shared a relationship once. Now all they share is the chase. As Andrea races to prove her innocence and Coletti struggles to track her down, they each uncover clues about the mystery of Paul’s death. Along the way, Andrea uncovers the biggest mystery of all: Is her husband actually still alive?

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A SIMPLE MURDER by Eleanor Kuhns May 2012 The murder of a young Shaker woman in 1796 Maine draws traveling weaver and former soldier Will Rees into a suspicious community to investigate. DEATH ON TOUR by Janice Hamrick April 2011 When a member of an Egyptian tour group is found dead at the base of a pyramid, high school teacher Jocelyn Shore quickly learns that no one is exactly what they seem in this debut from MB/MWA’s 2010 First Crime Novel Competition winner. EVERY LAST SECRET by Linda Rodriguez April 2012 Half-Cherokee Marquitta “Skeet” Bannion thought she was leaving her troubles behind when she fled the Kansas City Police Department, a jealous ex-husband, and an alcoholic father. Moving to a small town to be chief of the campus police force, she builds a life outside of police work. All of this is threatened when the student editor of the college newspaper is found murdered on campus. Skeet must track down the killer, following trails that lead to some of the most powerful people in the university. * Winner of the Malice Domestic Competition for Best First Traditional Mystery Novel IN SEARCH OF MERCY by Michael Ayoob October 2010 Dexter Bolzjak is an ex–hockey goalie who was abducted and tortured by perverted sports fans eight years ago. Now he’s muddling along in a Pittsburgh warehouse when he meets an old, terminally ill drunk named Lou Kashon. Lou wants to see his lost love, the actress Mercy Carnahan, and offers Dexter a fortune to find her. Dexter embarks on the search, retracing Mercy’s past online and on foot. Soon, Mercy begins to haunt Dexter, appearing in his dreams while flashbacks to his own traumatic experience plague his waking hours. Dexter persists and follows Mercy’s trail to New York, where he finds a voyeuristic film of the actress recorded shortly before her disappearance. Once Dexter connects that film to its source, he finds himself trapped in the ultimate nightmare. * PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition Winner * Shamus Award for Best First Novel IN THE SHADOW OF GOTHAM by Stefanie Pintoff April 2009 Dobson, New York: 1905. Detective Simon Ziele lost his fiancée in the wreck of the General Slocum and shortly thereafter headed to Westchester County to escape the grittiness, the violence of the city. But just a few months into his tenure, he catches the worst homicide of his entire career: a young woman brutally murdered in her own bedroom in the middle of a winter afternoon. And a day's investigating leads him to Columbia University's noted criminologist, Alistair Sinclair, and one of his patients. But what would lead this Michael Fromley, with his history of violent behavior and his brutal fantasies, to target Sarah Wingate, a notable mathematics student at Columbia and a proper young lady? Is it really Michael behind the

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dramatic climax, a life is lost, a life is saved, and the treasure at the root of all the violence disappears forever. STREET LEVEL by Bob Truluck September 2000 Duncan Sloan is a shamus who works when he feels like it, IF he likes the job and IF he's really desperate for money. Like now: His new client will inherit a large fortune when his father dies, and as an only child, he feels he must have progeny. So he has deposited his sperm in an exclusive bank while he searches for a suitable mother for his child. However, some enterprising thugs get hold of the sperm and impregnate the young sister of one of them; they have made what is surely the first of their demands for money. The man hires Sloan to find the woman; he wants to be sure that she and the baby are properly cared for; whatever her background, he will honor his parenthood. The criminals (who have graduated from drug dealing to theft, kidnapping and blackmail and will not stop there if it threatens their cash flow) have stashed the girl away somewhere and make it clear that Sloan goes after her at his peril. * 1999 St. Martin's/Private Eye Writers of America Contest Winner THE DOCTOR DIGS A GRAVE by Robin Hathaway April 1998 When cardiologist Dr. Andrew Fenimore isn't mending weak hearts, he's solving crimes in Philadelphia's wealthy Society Hill. But murder is the last thing the good doctor expects when he befriends a teenage boy trying to bury his dead cat. As the two dig a grave for the cat's final resting place in a vacant lot—which happens to be an ancient burial ground—they discover a fresh corpse, buried feet flexed, facing east, according to Lenape Indian tradition. Fenimore and his young sidekick follow the trail of the deceased young woman straight to the son of a colleague, one of Philadelphia's most prominent surgeons. Surely the scion of a fine old Philadelphia family and his Indian fiancée ignited some powerful passions. But are they enough to risk trying for the perfect murder in a place where civility rules with an iron fist in a velvet glove? *1998 Agatha Award for Best First Novel THE HARRY CHRONICLES by Allan Pedrazas September 1995 From Library Journal: “First-timer Pedrazas takes to mystery like the proverbial duck to water. He places his charming, sympathetic protagonist in southern Florida?a fertile setting for several well-known authors?and sticks him with a murder case of infinite variety. Narrator Harry Rice, a thirtysomething bar owner and part-time private investigator, agrees to find a stolen gun collection for Eloise Loftus, not knowing that he will soon stand accused of her husband's murder. An elusive naked dancer; an aging mobster and his hard-bodied, knife-wielding moll; and Harry's bartending cohorts add pizzazz. Great dialog, colorful locale, and skillful construction strongly recommend this title.”

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THE END GAME by Gerrie Ferris Finger April 2010 Moriah Dru’s weekend off with her lover Lieutenant Richard Lake is interrupted when Atlanta juvenile court judge, Portia Devon, hires Moriah to find two sisters who’ve gone missing after their foster parents’ house burns down. * Winner of the Malice Domestic Competition for Best First Traditional Mystery Novel POSED FOR MURDER by Meredith Cole February 2009 Lydia McKenzie is an artist whose medium is the camera. She’s having her first one-woman show, a series that ties to actual murders committed in the city's past. Her method is to find a model—someone who can match in a general way the actual female victim—and pose her in the clothes and position in which the actual victim was found. The night of her showing, however, two plainclothes policemen shut down the event and take Lydia to their office for questioning. A young woman whom she knew well, and who was the subject of one of her photographs, has been murdered. Worried that the police aren't doing what they should, Lydia and another friend set out to find the killer. * Winner of the Malice Domestic Competition FIRST KILL by Michael Kronenwetter September 2005 Detective Harry Berlin, a private investigator in a small northeastern city, is in charge of his young son while his ex-wife is on a trip to Europe. He is visited by the woman he loved, but who married his best friend, and her teenage son. She prevails upon him to look into the supposed suicide of her husband, and in trying to prove that the man was murdered, he uncovers evidence of more killings that he knows arose from a conspiracy among some of the community's supposedly blameless citizens. * Winner of the Private Eye Novel Contest EIGHT OF SWORDS by David Skibbins April 2005 Twenty years ago, Warren Ritter was involved in a mysterious crime; since then, he has changed his identity and let the word go around that he is dead. Warren now has a booth in San Francisco where he reads fortunes by means of tarot cards. Although he thinks of his new profession as fake, he has perfected reading his clients appearance and behavior and giving them believable “fortunes.” Indeed, he has become so good at reading his clients that he is beginning to believe that he really can tell them what the cards say. So when a young woman disappears just a few days after Warren reads her fortune, her distraught father recruits Warren to try to find her. Warren’s difficulties increase as the mystery unfolds. * Winner of the Malice Domestic Competition THE STERLING INHERITANCE by Michael Siverling July 2004 Private Investigator Jason Wilder has the toughest boss in River City: his own mother. And given the choice, he’d rather just play guitar. But gigs are sometimes few and far between in a middlesized city, so Jason’s lucky that his parents not only taught him the tricks of the detective trade, 57

but have been willing to provide him with a day job (that often turns into a day-and-night job) between engagements. From a routine search for the man who pulled a knife on him to exploding offices, continual arrests, a mysterious woman who keeps bobbing up, a dilapidated theater, and a grisly murder, Jason’s life keeps getting more complicated. But at least he’s gotten a music job out of it. Or has he? * Winner of the Private Eye Novel Contest MURDER OFF MIKE by Joyce Krieg April 2003 Shauna J. Bogart is used to crazy. As host of the top-rated radio talk show in California’s capital city, she figures she’s heard it all. But nothing prepares her for the day a fellow shock talker turns up with a bullet in his head. The cops say it’s suicide, but Shauna J. doesn’t buy it. Her investigation, aided and abetted by her loyal callers, leads her to a shattering secret that could derail the campaign of the leading candidate for governor. Meanwhile, behind-the-scenes shenanigans threaten the very existence of the radio station Shauna J. calls home. * Winner of the Malice Domestic Competition CATCHING WATER IN A NET by J. L. Abramo October 2001 San Francisco PI Jake Diamond is a hero who plays both sides of the Private Eye street. He is a careless dresser with a sloppy lifestyle and he couldn’t keep his marriage from falling apart. But he also has the kinds of friends a man in his profession needs: jailbirds, mob bosses, and a cop who can surreptitiously run license plate numbers for him. Although Jake has been down on his luck lately, it looks like business might finally be picking up when a woman comes to his office begging him to find her missing husband, who has been accused of murder—and the murder victim was Diamond’s mentor, Jimmy Pigeon. Determined to discover the identity of the killer, Diamond scrambles between Los Angeles and San Francisco, following leads that range from weak to delusional. With the help of his trusty and sarcastic assistant, a compulsive gambler, and an Italian-American “businessman,” Jake slowly uncovers the motives behind Pigeon’s murder. * Winner of the Private Eye Novel Contest JACKPOT JUSTICE by Marilyn Wooley April 2000 Cassandra Ringwald, a clinical psychologist, finds it very difficult to pin down her thoughts about the young man for whose defense she has been retained to do her first forensic evaluation. Things don’t fit: he is three-quarters Indian and raised as a Native American, but he travels with bigoted skinheads and wears swastikas on his shoes, joining them, it seems, in the mayhem they perpetrate on selected citizens of a small northern California town. Prejudice against the Indians who live nearby runs strong, and blame for most crimes perpetrated in the area are automatically attributed to them. Yet what makes it even harder to deal with, Cassie finds, is that other motives may be responsible for the danger she is in: greed, self-interest, and private agendas twist the events to add to the suspense in this mystery with a different and delightful woman at its helm. * Winner of the Malice Domestic Competition

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MURDER WITH PEACOCKS by Donna Andrews December 1998 So far Meg Langslow's summer is not going swimmingly. Down in her small Virginia hometown, she’s maid of honor at the nuptials of three loved ones, each of whom has dumped the planning in her capable hands. Only help from the town's drop-dead gorgeous hunk, disappointingly rumored to be gay, keeps Meg afloat in a sea of dotty relatives and outrageous neighbors. In whirl of summer parties and picnics, Southern hospitality is strained to the limit by an offensive newcomer who hints at skeletons in the guests’ closets. But it seems this lady has offended one too many when she’s found dead in suspicious circumstances, followed by a string of accidents. Soon, level-headed Meg’s to-do list extends from flower arrangements and bridal registries to catching a killer—before the next catered event is her own funeral... * Winner of the 1997 Malice Domestic Contest SIMON SAID by Sarah R. Shaber May 1998 Eyebrows are raised as yellow crime-scene tape drapes across the once-distinguished Colonial Bloodworth House. For the mansion, nestled cozily amidst the tranquil academia of Kenan College, may have once been the scene of a brutal murder. A decayed body was found when archeologist David Morgan conducted a dig beneath the original three rooms of the 1785 house—he was only hoping to unearth some Colonial-era artifacts. Professor Simon Shaw, Kenan College’s youngest full-time professor, knows more about the house than anyone—he even wrote a book about the historic building—so naturally, Morgan enlists his professional friend for a little detective work. What Morgan has found, it seems, are the remains of the estate’s heiress—an unsolved missing persons case since 1926. As Simon digs deeper into this decades-old murder, he finds that someone still very much alive wants to put a permanent stop to his investigating... * Winner of the Malice Domestic Competition SOMETHING TO KILL FOR by Susan Holtzer September 1995 Ann Arbor, Michigan-home of a famous football team, a university full of experts and egomaniacs, and a lot of aging hippies, mellowing radicals, and art-school eccentrics. It is also the home of Anneke Haagen, a computer consultant who spends one spring morning on the garage-sale circuit—and stumbles on an antiques dealer who has been brutally attacked, and whose last words are as baffling as they are politically incorrect. When the suspicion of murder falls on her friend, Ellen Nakamura, Anneke must prove her innocence. That means not only working alongside a hunky, ex-professional football player turned detective who she’s starting to fall for, but searching for the one garage-sale find that wasn’t just a Big Score, it was to die for... * Winner of the Malice Domestic Competition THE HEAVEN STONE by David Daniel October 1994 When a leading member of the Cambodian community in Lowell, Massachusetts, is murdered, a social worker commissions investigator Alex Rasmussen to disprove the police’s suspicion of drug involvement. * Winner of the Private Eye Novel Contest 59

HOUR OF THE MANATEE by E. C. Ayres February 1994 After the murder of an elderly housekeeper who had been ready to reveal a deadly secret, a hippie dropout and a by-the-book cop are thrown into a whirlwind of FBI pursuit, silenced witnesses, family shame, and Supreme Court scandal. * Winner of the Private Eye Novel Contest A SUDDEN DEATH AT THE NORFOLK CAFÉ by Winona Sullivan January 1993 In Dorchester, Massachusetts, the nuns at the Convent of Our Lady of Good Counsel offer sanctuary to the terrified pregnant daughter of a Boston politician. In Cambridge, a small-time crook is murdered. Low priority trouble for a big city, but the hidden connection between the two events is deadly: blackmail, drugs, and big bucks for those who can stay alive long enough to collect. At the center of things is Sister Cecile, a private investigator heiress and Catholic nun, who does God’s work in strange and wonderful ways. She heads a crew that includes lawyer, a who loves her; a blueblood, who loves nobody; a Sister, who loves everybody; and a woman whose heart belongs equally to booze and her murdered son. It’s a crew that requires Sister Cecile to call upon heaven for more help than usual. Heaven, alas, is in no hurry to give it.... * Winner of the Private Eye Novel Contest THE LOUD ADIOS by Ken Kuhlken August 1991 Set on the home front during World War II, Tom Hickey is in the army, an M.P. working the Tijuana-San Diego border, when a farm boy draftee about to ship overseas begs for help rescuing his sister from a gang of German and Mexican Nazis. * Winner of the Private Eye Novel Contest KINDRED CRIMES by Janet Dawson June 1990 When P.I. Jeri Howard takes on a missing-persons case, she’s not the only person confused. The vanished woman’s husband doesn’t even know his wife’s real name. But as Jeri digs deeper, she reveals long-buried secrets, old public scandals, and the real possibility that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing... * Winner of the Private Eye Novel Contest KATWALK by Karen Kijewski July 1989 A murderer has struck home—and Kat Colorado is taking it personally. Her cousin Johnny has been found stabbed to death in the parking lot of the Homestead Cafe. And now Kat’s on the prowl, trailing a killer through a dangerous world of shady real estate shenanigans and teenage hookers. And she’s about to uncover a closetful of sordid family secrets almost certain to get an overly inquisitive Kat skinned. When Sam, the estranged, deadbeat husband of nationally known advice columnist Charity Collins, ran off to Vegas with $200,000 of their money, Charity turned to Kat Colorado for help. Now Sam’s twisted trail of glitz and grime is leading the inquisitive lady P.I. through dangerous territory—and into a rats’ nest of sleazy deals, heavy-hitting

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mobsters and contract killings. But Kat’s got a job to do and she’s not about to walk away—even though prowling the low life has put her at the top of a syndicate hit list. * Winner of the Private Eye Novel Contest FEAR OF THE DARK by Gar Haywood August 1988 Aaron Gunner made a lousy private detective. After a year’s carnage in Vietnam and a quick exit from the police academy, private work was the only avenue he saw to be a hero. But the seediness, tedium, and lack of real power crushed his hopes, and he quit the job after inadvertently setting a pregnant woman up for a violent death. But after a savage racial murder, it may be time to come out of retirement. The white man comes to the Acey Deuce, a bar in South Central Los Angeles, to blow the head off a young black militant. The dead radical’s sister pays Gunner a visit with a .22 revolver, and convinces him to find her brother’s killer. As Gunner draws closer to answers, prejudice and rage threaten to tear Los Angeles apart. To save the city—and himself—Aaron Gunner must finally find his calling. * Winner of the Private Eye Novel Contest AN INFINITE NUMBER OF MONKEYS by Les Roberts July 1987 Late night phone calls are never good news, and hearing his secretary’s scared voice on the line, Saxon figured he was in for a case with too many favors and no hard cash. But the L.A. actorturned-sleuth was only half right, because whoever took a shot at his secretary’s husband was really aiming for big bucks—that is, Buck Weldon, one of America’s wealthiest mystery writers, whose enemy list was longer than some of his stories. And keeping the bullets away from Buck permanently would have Saxon heading right into Southern California’s dark side of drugs and violence—with a blonde in his arms, a gun in his belt, and a killer in his sights. * Winner of the Private Eye Novel Contest LIE DOWN WITH DOGS by Jan Gleiter April 1996 When he comes to the aid of a small boy, Chicago ad exec Robert Cooper is thrown into partnership with Lisa Jacobi, an independent young woman. As they struggle to protect the child from unknown enemies, they uncover evidence of a murderous conspiracy—stir long-repressed emotions. * Winner of the 1995 Malice Domestic Contest DEATH IN STILL WATERS by Barbara Lee May 1995 In the middle of a divorce and a career change, Eve Elliott accepts an invitation to the Chesapeake Bay home of her widowed aunt and is shocked when a suspicious death reveals some devastating secrets about the local residents. * Winner of the 1994 Malice Domestic Contest

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THE MAN WHO UNDERSTOOD CATS by Michael Allen Dymmoch March 1993 Dr. Jack Caleb, a Chicago psychiatrist with two cats, and John Thinnes, a police detective, form an uneasy partnership as they join forces in an investigation into an accountant’s supposed suicide. * Winner of the 1992 Malice Domestic Contest THE WINTER WIDOW by Charlene Weir April 1992 When her husband, the chief of police in a one-horse town in Kansas, is murdered, cynical San Francisco native Susan Donovan decides to stay in Kansas and find her husband’s murderer. * Winner of the 1991 Malice Domestic Contest THE PIANO MAN by Noreen Gilpatrick March 1991 What should be an idyllic retreat turns into a treacherous environment for Paul, an ex-concert pianist anonymously hired by wealthy islander Ben Murdoch to repair and rebuild mysteriously damaged pianos. Almost immediately, Paul learns that something is amok on the island—all the strings from the battered pianos are missing, he has a near-fatal accident in the woods and the old-time islanders are keeping a close eye on him. Paul ties together clues when he learns more about Murdoch’s family tragedy: his wife, a talented pianist, left him, sending their son, Jason, into a tailspin of rage and, as many islanders suspect, murder. Only Paul is astute enough to find holes in the theory blaming grisly attacks with piano strings on Jason, a realization that brings him face to face with the devastating truth. * Winner of the 1990 Malice Domestic Contest

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