Wednesday, May 28, 2008

More New Fiction

Angels on Sunset Boulevard by Melissa de la Cruz
When the people closest to them start to disappear, Taj and Nick hit the streets of Los Angeles looking for a way to reach the lost souls of their friends that have been "tapped" by The Angels Practice, a World Wide Web-based movement that connects young people and makes them feel good with no apparent consequences.

Awakening by Wendy Corsi Staub
When seventeen-year-old Calla's mother suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, a spiritualist community in western New York, where she discovers some disconcerting secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some psychic abilities.

Beautiful Stranger by Zoey Dean
Anna decides to take an end-of-summer getaway--to get away from her drama-filled LA life. So she packs her Louis Vuitton, grabs her close friend Sam, and heads to the Big Apple. The girls live the A-List life at home, but their trip isn't exactly a vaction. Sometimes you can't get away from drama.

Undercover by Beth Kephart
High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing while going unnoticed except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher's recognition of her talent, a "client's" desire for her friendship, a love of ice-skating, and her parents' marital problems draw her out of herself.

The Lost Queen by Frewin Jones
In book two of the Faerie Path, a sixteen-year-old British girl returns to the Mortal World, in search of her mother, Queen Titania, who disappeared 500 years ago.

The Alchemyst: THe Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.

Blood Captain by Justin Somper
While Connor faces trouble in the form of an obnoxious new crewmate, Grace, his twin sister, seeks out a vampire guru who might be able to heal their dear friend Lorcan's blindness.

Mississippi Jack (A Bloody jack Adventure) by L.A. Meyer
In 1806, the exploits of Jacky Faber continue as she heads west to avoid capture by the British and discovers adventure aboard a keelboat on the mighty Mississippi River.

In The Belly Of The Bloodhound by L. A. Meyer
Jacky Faber and her classmates at the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston are kidnapped while on a school outing and transported in the hold of a slave ship bound for the slave markets of North Africa.

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