Thursday, December 01, 2011

New in December

Ashes
By Ilsa J. Bick

Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.





iBoy
By Kevin Brooks

Sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was an ordinary Londoner until an attack that caused fragments of an iPhone to be embedded in his brain, giving him incredible knowledge and power, but using that power against the gang that attacked him and a friend could have deadly consequences.






Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World of Food: Brains, Bugs, and Blood Sausage
By Andrew Zimmern

Shares the author's adventures and experiences gained while traveling the world in search of highly unusual meals.







Little Women and Me
By Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Modern-day teen Emily March turns to Louisa May Alcott's famous book for a school assignment and finds herself mysteriously transported to the world of "Little Women," where she undergoes surprising changes.







Dark Inside
By Jeyn Roberts

After tremendous earthquakes destroy the Earth's major cities, an ancient evil emerges, turning ordinary people into hunters, killers, and insane monsters, but a small group of teens comes together in a fight for survival and safety.






You Are My Only
By Beth Kephart

Tells, in their separate voices and at a space of fourteen years, of Emmy, whose baby has been stolen, and Sophie, a teenager who defies her nomadic, controlling mother by making friends with a neighbor boy and his elderly aunts.






The Hunger Games Companion
By Lois H. Gresh

Go behind the scenes of the popular trilogy, examining characters, themes, and more.








Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
Edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant

A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in the age of steam engines and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.







The Beginning of After
By Jennifer Castle

In the aftermath of a car accident that killed her family, sixteen-year-old Laurel must face a new world of guilt, painful memories, and the possibility of new relationships.







Saga of the Sioux
Adapted by Dwight Jon Zimmerman

Chronicles the tragic saga of the Sioux nation from 1860 to the 1890 massacre through the experiences of its chiefs and warriors, allowing their voices to be heard about what befell their people.







Misfit
By Jon Skovron

Seattle sixteen-year-old Jael must negotiate normal life in Catholic school while learning to control the abilities she inherited from her mother, a demon, and protect those she loves from Belial, the Duke of Hell.







Past Perfect
By Leila Sales

Sixteen-year-old Chelsea knows what to expect when she returns for a summer of historical reenactment at Colonial Essex Village until she learns that her ex-boyfriend is working there, too, and then meets the very attractive Dan who works at a rival historical village.






Unforgettable
By Loretta Ellsworth

When Baxter Green was three years old he developed a condition that causes him to remember absolutely everything, and now that he is fifteen, he and his mother have moved to Minnesota to escape her criminal boyfriend and, Baxter hopes, to reconnect with a girl he has been thinking about since kindergarten.