Monday, March 30, 2015

April Books bring May...more books! (April new books part 3)

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
Fantasy
In the town of Fairfold, where humans and fae exist side by side, a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives awakes after generations of sleep in a glass coffin in the woods, causing Hazel to be swept up in new love, shift her loyalties, feel the fresh sting of betrayal, and to make a secret sacrifice to the faerie king.

The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi
Action/Adventure
When a radical band of teen activists claim that Alix's powerful father covers up wrongdoing by corporations that knowingly allow innocent victims to die in order to make enormous profits from unsafe products, she must decide if she will blow the whistle on his misdeeds.

Dragonball 3-in-1 vol 5 by Akira Toriyama
Graphic Novel
King Piccolo is all set for world domination, but first he needs to gather the seven Dragon Balls together to restore his youth. Goku and his friends are fighting to stop Piccolo, but things are looking grim for the good guys as Piccolo picks them off one by one. Their only hope is a martial arts move known as the “Mafū-Ba,” a technique so powerful that it killed the last person who used it. But that won’t stop Kame-Sen’nin and Tenshinhan from trying it, even if it means forfeiting their own lives in the process!

 
Fairy Tail volumes 15 & 16 by Hiro Mashima
Graphic Novel
Volume 15: Laxus' protectors have all been defeated, but he still remains one of the most powerful wizards in Fairy Tail, and his Thunderous Palace is threatening to rain down death and destruction on the innocent people of Magnolia!  Can the two dragon slayers, Natsu and Gajeel, manage to keep from fighting each other enough to stop him?
Volume 16: The dark guilds have allied, and the only thing that Fairy Tail can do to stop them is to ally with three other guilds and try to take on the most powerful wizards in the underworld.  But the dark guild wizards won't wait for our heroes to make the first move!  This volume begins the epic Nirvana storyline!

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
Contemporary Fiction
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.




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