Showing posts with label Robin Benway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robin Benway. Show all posts

Thursday, October 1, 2015

New books for October ~ Part 3

Dragonball 3-in-1 vol 19, 20, 21 by Akira Toriyama
Manga (Japanese graphic novel) 
Back cover: Goku vs. Vegeta!  Goku and Vegeta face off at last, and both are determined to emerge victorious in this epic fight.  And if battling the ruthless Vegeta weren't enough, Son Goku and friends must obtain the wish-granting Dragon Balls in order to resurrect their fallen allies!  Their search will take them all the way to the plant Namek, where evil Freeza and his minions are slaughtering the Namekians to fulfill Freeza's wish for immortality.

Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway
Contemporary Fiction 
Sheltered seventeen-year-old Emmy's childhood best friend Oliver reappears after disappearing with his father ten years ago.

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Contemporary Fiction 
The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more.

The Fate of Ten by Pittacus Lore
Science Fiction 
In order to thwart the Mogadorian invasion, a group of the Garde head to a pyramid in Mexico in order to awaken a power that can save the world.

Friends for Life by Andrew Norriss
Paranormal 
Francis Meredith is a boy who is interested in fashion and costuming, which has made him a target at school, but when he meets Jessica and Andi his life begins to change--Andi is an athletic girl with a reputation for fighting and family in the fashion business, and Jessica is a ghost who has no idea how she died.


Friday, August 30, 2013

New School Year...New Books for September! (part 1)

The Program by Suzanne Young
When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to seventeen-year-old Sloane who knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend.

Also Known As by Robin Benway
As the active-duty daughter of international spies, sixteen-year-old safecracker Maggie Silver never attended high school so when she and her parents are sent to New York for her first solo assignment, Maggie is introduced to cliques, school lunches, and maybe even a boyfriend.

Cross My Heart, Hope to Die by Sara Shepard
Watching from beyond the grave while her long-lost identical twin, Emma, assumes her identity, Sutton Mercer witnesses the discovery of a dark family secret and realizes that someone from Emma's past may be her own killer.

 Absent by Katie Williams
Seventeen-year-old Paige Wheeler died in a fall off the high school roof and now her spirit seems bound to the school grounds, along with Brooke and Evan, two other teen ghosts who died there--but maybe if she can solve the mystery of her apparent suicide they will all be able to move on.

The Boyfriend App by Katie Sise
Seeking to win a scholarship offered by global computing corporation Public, programming genius Audrey McCarthy writes a matchmaking app but discovers her results may be skewed by a program Public is secretly using to influence teens.