Here Come the New Books for May 2016! (part 4)

The Haters by Jesse Andrews

Contemporary Fiction 

For Wes and his best friend, Corey, jazz camp turns out to be lame. It's pretty much all dudes talking in Jazz Voice. But then they jam with Ash, a charismatic girl with an unusual sound, and the three just click. It's three and a half hours of pure musical magic, and Ash makes a decision: They need to hit the road. Because the road, not summer camp, is where bands get good. Before Wes and Corey know it, they're in Ash's SUV heading south, and The Haters Summer of Hate Tour has begun. 

The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan (The Trials of Apollo book 1)

Paranormal 

After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. He must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor.

In Real Life by Jessica Love

Contemporary Fiction 

How can your life change when you break the rules every now and then? Hannah Cho is about to find out when she impulsively decides to road trip to Las Vegas, her older sister and BFF in tow, to surprise Nick Cooper and finally declare her more-than-friend feelings for him.

Into the Dim by Janet B. Taylor

Paranormal 

Sixteen-year-old Hope Walton travels back in time to help rescue her mother, a member of the secret society of time travelers, who is trapped in twelfth-century England in the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Kiss of the Rose Princess vol 5 by Aya Shouoto

Manga (Japanese Graphic Novel) 

High school student Anise Yamamoto is the "Rose Princess" of four handsome Rose Knights.  She encountered more Rose Knights when two boys known as the Orange Rose and Lime Rose revealed themselves to be "Fake Knights" created by her father.  But while searching for an Arcana Card at an amusement park, Anise comes face-to-face with another fake-and this time it's a Rose Princess!

 Klickitat by Peter Rock
Mystery
Vivian feels left behind when her older sister, Audra, runs away from home. She believes that Audra will return and pays careful attention to the clues around her. Then, inexplicably, writing begins to appear in a blank notebook. When Audra does come back for Vivian, she's in the company of a strange man. The three of them run away together and practice wilderness survival. While Audra plans for the future, Vivian continues to gather evidence: Who is this mysterious man, and does he have any connection to the words appearing in her notebook?

In with books...check out like a lion! March New Books (Part 1)

Endangered by Eliot Schrefer

Reluctantly accompanying her advocate mother to a bonobo sanctuary, a teen girl participates in a desperate effort to rescue the bonobos and survive in the jungle when a revolution breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked.

 Birth Control edited by Roman Espejo

Topics include knowledge of birth control, sex education, parental consent, condom use, and the morning after pill.

The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson

Sequel to The Name of the Star

After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Devereaux is back in London to help solve a new string of inexplicable deaths plaguing the city.

Dead Reckoning by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill

In 1867 Texas, Jett, a girl passing as a boy while seeking her long-lost twin brother, joins forces with Honoraria Gibbons, an inventor, and White Fox, a young Army scout, to investigate a zombie army that is terrorizing the West.

 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.