December Arrivals
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NEW Y FICTION BRENNAN, SARAH REES 2020
Fence: striking distance : an original novel
Summary:"The boys of Kings Row are assigned a course of team building exercises to deepen their bonds. It takes a shoplifting scandal, a couple of moonlit forest strolls, and a whole lot of introspection for the team to realize they are stronger together than they could ever be apart"–
ISBN:0316456675, 9780316456678, 9780316456685, 9780316456661 -
NEW Y FICTION DIMALINE, CHERIE 2021
Hunting by stars
Summary:French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him–and French has to decide just how much, and whom, he is willing to sacrifice to survive and be reunited with Rose and the others.
ISBN:1419753479, 9781419753473 -
NEW Y FICTION FOODY, AMANDA 2021
All of us villains
Summary:Every generation, seven families select a champion to compete in a tournament to the death for control of high magick–the most powerful resource in the world–but this year, a salacious tell-all book draws reporters, tourists, and government agents to Ilvernath to watch the bloody curse unfold and some of the champions are determined to thwart their destinies and rewrite their stories.
ISBN:1250789257, 9781250789259, 9781250789266 -
NEW Y FICTION GONG, CHLOE 2021
Our violent ends
Summary:The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on a mission. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less. Roma is still reeling from Marshall’s death, and his cousin Benedikt will barely speak to him. Roma knows it’s his fault for letting the ruthless Juliette back into his life, and he’s determined to set things right—even if that means killing the girl he hates and loves with equal measure. Then a new monstrous danger emerges in the city, and though secrets keep them apart, Juliette must secure Roma’s cooperation if they are to end this threat once and for all. Shanghai is already at a boiling point: The Nationalists are marching in, whispers of civil war brew louder every day, and gangster rule faces complete annihilation. Roma and Juliette must put aside their differences to combat monsters and politics, but they aren’t prepared for the biggest threat of all: protecting their hearts from each other.
ISBN:1534457720, 9781534457720 -
NEW Y FICTION HEANEY, KATIE 2021
The year I stopped trying
Summary:In this novel of overachieving, existential crises, growing up, and coming out, Mary, who always thought she’d find the meaning of life in a perfect SAT score, decides to stop trying so hard to see what happens.
ISBN:“0593118286 : HRD”, “9780593118283 : HRD” -
NEW Y FICTION HEATH, CARLY 2021
The reckless kind
Summary:It is 1904 and the partially deaf Asta Hedstrom is engaged to Nils, but she does not want to marry him: she would rather spend her time with her best friend Gunnar Fuglestad and his secret boyfriend, Erlend, who belongs to the wealthiest family on their Norwegian island; so when Nils gravely injures Gunnar, she shuns her marriage and moves in with Gunnar and Erlend in a secluded cabin above town–and the three misfits set out to win the annual Christmas sleigh race, and prove to that they belong together, in spite of the villages prejudices.
ISBN:1641292814, 9781641292818 -
NEW Y FICTION KAUFMAN, AMIE 2021
Aurora’s end
Summary:"When we last saw Squad 312, they working together seamlessly (aka, freaking out) as an intergalactic battle raged and an ancient superweapon threatened to obliterate Earth. Everything went horribly wrong, naturally. But as it turns out, not all endings are endings, and the team has one last chance to rewrite theirs. Maybe two. It’s complicated. Cue Zila, Fin, and Scarlett (and MAGELLAN!): making friends, making enemies, and making history? Sure, no problem. Cue Tyler, Kal, and Auri: uniting with two of the galaxy’s most hated villains? Um, okay. That, too. Actually saving the galaxy, though? Now that will take a miracle."–Amazon.
ISBN:1524720895, 9781524720896, 1524720887, 9781524720889 -
NEW Y FICTION LACKEY, MERCEDES 2021
Briarheart
Summary:"When Miriam’s younger sister, Princess Aurora, is born, she must learn to harness her new magical powers to protect her sister and the kingdom"–
ISBN:0759557454, 9780759557451, 9780759557468, 9780759557864 -
NEW Y FICTION LEE, MACKENZI 2021
The nobleman’s guide to scandal and shipwrecks
Summary:Desperate to escape his father’s high expectations and his own grief in the aftermath of his mother’s passing, sole heir Adrian Montague embarks on a search for his disowned siblings after discovering that he is not an only child.
ISBN:“0062916017 (hbk.) :”, “9780062916013 (hbk.) :” -
NEW Y FICTION LEE, VICTORIA 2021
A lesson in vengeance
Summary:Felicity Morrow returns to the Dalloway School after her girlfriend’s tragic death, only to meet Ellis Haley–a new student and a teenage literary prodigy–who enlists Felicity’s help in researching the school’s bloody, occult history for her new book.
ISBN:0593305825, 9780593305829 -
NEW Y FICTION LITTLE BADGER, DARCIE 2021
A snake falls to earth
Summary:Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She’s always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he’s been cast from home. He’s found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli’s best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven’t been in centuries. And there are some who will kill to keep them apart.
ISBN:“1646140923 (hbk.)”, “9781646140923 (hbk.)” -
NEW Y FICTION LUCIER, MAKIIA 2021
Year of the reaper
Summary:Lord Cassia is taken prisoner, while a plague sweeps over the land. Three years later, he wants only to return to his home. Meanwhile, his home has changed, and an assassin has targeted the queen.
ISBN:0358272092, 9780358272090 -
NEW Y FICTION MASOOD, SYED 2021
Sway with me
Summary:"Arsalan Nizami has learned all he knows from his 100-year-old great-grandfather, but when Beenish Siraj asks him to be her partner in a dance she’s been forbidden to perform at her sister’s wedding, Arsalan’s world opens up in more ways than he could have imagined"–
ISBN:0316492418, 9780316492416 -
NEW Y FICTION MCMANUS, KAREN M. 2021
You’ll be the death of me
Summary:Estranged friends Ivy, Mateo, and Cal witness a murder while skipping school, and the only way they can solve it is by revealing what they have been hiding from one another–and themselves.
ISBN:0593175891, 9780593175897, 0593175883, 9780593175880, 0593175867, 9780593175866 -
NEW Y FICTION MEYER, MARISSA 2021
Gilded
Summary:When one of Serilda’s outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move. The king orders Serilda to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold, or be killed for telling falsehoods. In her desperation, Serilda unwittingly summons a mysterious boy to her aid. He agrees to help her for a price. Love isn’t meant to be part of the bargain. Soon Serilda realizes that there is more than one secret hidden in the castle walls, including an ancient curse that must be broken if she hopes to end the tyranny of the king and his wild hunt forever.
ISBN:1250618843, 9781250618849 -
NEW Y FICTION MOBLEY, JEANNIE 2021
The diamond keeper
Summary:After the Army of the Republic destroys her town, Claudie and her sister agree to a mission to deliver a valuable stolen jewel to the resistance’s leader and Claudia finds herself irresistibly drawn to the man and his cause.
ISBN:“1984837443 : HRD”, “9781984837448 : HRD” -
NEW Y FICTION MORENO, NINA 2021
Our way back to always
Summary:Told in two voices, Lou Patterson reconnects with her neighbor and ex-best friend Sam Alvarez, now seniors in high school, after they rediscover their childhood bucket list.
ISBN:0759557470, 9780759557475, 9780759557611 -
NEW Y FICTION NGAN, NATASHA 2021
Girls of fate and fury
Summary:Told from their alternating viewpoints, as battle lines are drawn between the powerful Hanno clan and the Demon King of Ikhara, the warrior Wren fights to find Lei, who is trying to assist the rebellion even though she is the King’s prisoner.
ISBN:0316528781, 9780316528788 -
NEW Y FICTION OWEN, MARGARET 2021
Little thieves
Summary:"Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother’s love–and she’s on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele’s dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja’s otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back… by stealing Gisele’s life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief, charming nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewels, stone by stone, for her greed. Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. And with a feral guardian half-god, Gisele’s sinister fiancé, and an overeager junior detective on Vanja’s tail, she’ll have to pull the biggest grift yet to save her own life"–
ISBN:1250191904, 9781250191908 -
NEW Y FICTION PETERFREUND, DIANA 2021
In the ballroom with the candlestick
Summary:"The dramatic and deadly conclusion to the thrilling YA mystery series inspired by the classic board game CLUE! After a tragic accident that forever changed the lives of the Murder Crew-killing one of their own-the students at Blackbrook Academy are justtrying to get by. As relationships evolve, strain, and break, Orchid, Green, Scarlett, Mustard, Plum, and Peacock find themselves lost. When the dark secret at the heart of Blackbrook forces its way into their lives, and another suspicious death drives the school into chaos, differences will have to be put aside if anyone expects to survive until the most dramatic prom of all time"–
ISBN:9781683357186, “1419739786 : HRD”, “9781419739781 : HRD” -
NEW Y FICTION SANDERSON, BRANDON 2021
Cytonic
Summary:Fighter pilot Spensa Nightshade has been embroiled in an alien empire’s war and now, to figure out what she really is, she must leave her world behind to enter the Nowhere, a mysterious realm from which those who enter rarely ever return.
ISBN:0399555862, 9780399555862, 0399555854, 9780399555855 -
NEW Y FICTION SCHMIDT, TIFFANY 2021
I’m dreaming of a Wyatt Christmas
Summary:To help save for her elite ballet academy tryouts, Noelle accompanies her favorite babysitting clients on their Christmas holiday, and when their son Wyatt unexpectedly arrives Noelle keeps accidentally stepping on his toes despite him being the pas de deux partner of her dreams
ISBN:9781647004279, “1419754017 : HRD”, “9781419754012 : HRD” -
NEW Y FICTION WELLS, REBECCA KIM 2021
Briar Girls
Summary:"Lena has a secret: the touch of her skin can kill…But after a devastating mistake, she and her father are forced to flee to a village near the Silence, a mysterious forest with a reputation for luring people into the trees, never to be seen again…Until the night an enigmatic girl stumbles out of the Silence…Miranda…is on a quest to wake a sleeping princess believed to hold the key to liberating the Gather from its tyrannical ruler and she offers Lena a bargain. If Lena assists her on her journey, Miranda will help her break the curse".
ISBN:1534488421, 9781534488427