This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
Title: This is Your Life, Harriet Chance! Author: Jonathan Evison Publisher: Algonquin Books Release Date: September 8, 2015 Format: Hardcover Pages: 304 With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that her late husband had planned. But what she hoped would be a voyage leading to a new lease on life becomes a surprising and revelatory journey into Harriet’s past. There, amid the overwhelming buffets and […]
The Revolution of Ivy
Title: The Revolution of Ivy Series: The Book of Ivy, Book 2 Author: Amy Engel Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: Entangled: Teen Release Date: November 3, 2015 Pages: 400 Ivy Westfall is beyond the fence and she is alone. Abandoned by her family and separated from Bishop Lattimer, Ivy must find a way to survive on her own in a land filled with countless dangers, both human and natural. She has traded a more civilized type of cruelty-forced marriages and murder […]
Did I Mention I Love You (DIMILY Book 1)
Title: Did I Mention I Love You? Series: DMILY, Book 1 Author: Estelle Maskame Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Release Date: December 1, 2015 Pages: 416 Love is everything but expected. Eden Monro came to California for a summer of sun, sand and celebrities Â- what better way to forget about the drama back home? Until she meets her new family of strangers: a dad she hasn’t seen in three years, a stepmonster and three stepbrothers. Eden gets her […]
For the Love of Mary
Title: For the Love of Mary Author: Christopher Meades Genre: Fiction Release Date: May 1, 2016 Pages: 280 Fifteen-year-old Jacob feels almost on the inside: almost smart, almost funny, almost good-looking, almost worthy of falling in love. His sister is too busy dating guys in Whitesnake jackets to notice, and his best friend is occupied with his own painful pubescent crisis. Jacob’s mother has just started a curious (and rather un-Christian) holy war with the church across the street, while […]
Ask Him Why
Title: Ask Him Why Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Genre: Fiction Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Release Date: December 15, 2015 From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes the stunning and emotional story of a young soldier’s unthinkable act…and the bonds of a sister and brother’s love. Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when their older brother ships off to Iraq. When Joseph returns, uninjured, only three and a half months later, Ruth is happy he is […]
Shelter Dogs In A Photo Booth
Title: Shelter Dogs in a Photo Booth Author: Guinnevere Shuster Genre: Pets Release Date: April 19, 2016 Pages: 128 Man’s best friend! What better way to showcase adoptable dogs than by letting their true personalities shine in a photo booth! Often seen as sad, rejected, and behind cold metal bars, it’s no wonder people would avoid images of shelter dogs awaiting forever homes. From talented photographer (and now public figure and adoption champion) Guinnivere Shuster comes Shelter Dogs in a […]
Maybe A Fox
Title: Maybe A Fox Author: Kathi Appelt, Alison McGhee Genre: Children's Publisher: Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing Release Date: March 8, 2016 Format: Hardcover Pages: 272 Worlds collide in a spectacular way when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking, and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub, and what happens when one of the sisters disappears forever. Sylvie […]
Of Better Blood
Title: Of Better Blood Author: Susan Moger Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: AW Teen Release Date: February 1, 2016 Pages: 272 Teenage polio survivor Rowan Collier is caught in the crossfire of a secret war against “the unfit.” It’s 1922, and eugenics–the movement dedicated to racial purity and good breeding–has taken hold in America. State laws allow institutions to sterilize minorities, the “feeble-minded,” and the poor, while local eugenics councils set up exhibits at county fairs with “fitter family” contests and […]
The Girlfriend Request
Title: The Girlfriend Request Author: Jodie Andrefski Publisher: Entangled Publishing Release Date: January 11, 2016 Format: Paperback Pages: 244 Emma has been best friends with Eli since she moved to his neighborhood ten years ago. Tired of being cast in the role of the girl next door, Emma creates a fake Facebook profile in the hopes of starting an online friendship with Eli, which would hopefully lead to more. Like…way more. From friend request to In a Relationship–it all seemed […]
The Truth
Title: The Truth Author: Jeffry W. Johnston Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Release Date: February 2, 2016 Pages: 256 When Chris wakes up tied to a chair in a dark basement, he knows that he’s trapped-and why. He shot and killed Derek’s little brother. He had his reasons, but no matter how far Derek goes to uncover the truth about that night, Chris’s story won’t change. It can’t. There is far too much at stake…Derek is desperate to prove his brother didn’t […]
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