A Must-Read Thriller!

When Tanya Barrett takes an internship at MapOut, she expects emotional landmines. Her father cofounded the digital mapping company, and he died for it—on a cartographic expedition he didn’t even need to take. Her father’s business partner and his son, Connor, welcome her to the job with open arms. And being with Connor, an old childhood friend, turns out to be the only thing that makes Tanya feel normal again. 

Soon she’s spending every moment she can with Connor. But when they sneak into her father’s old office late one night, they stumble across a deadly secret. The next day Connor disappears.


Tanya isn’t just bereft; she’s terrified. It’s clear that people at MapOut are willing to kill for what she and Connor discovered. Alone again—and on the run—Tanya must rely on her wits to find out what happened to him and stay a step ahead of MapOut. But in the world they envision, no one stays lost for long.

Call # YA BOMBACK, MARK

Mystery and Suspense!

Sequel to Jane Casey's How to Fall

Jess Tennant has now been living in a tiny town on the English seaside for 3 months, and is just beginning to relax and think of it as home after a traumatic summer.

 But on Halloween night,  Seb Dawson is left for dead by the side of the road with a serious head injury. 

Jess might not have liked Seb much, but surely he didn't deserve this. The police don't seem to be taking the attack very seriously, but Jess can't just let it go, and she takes matters into her own hands. 

As she investigates, Jess discovers that Seb was involved in some very dangerous games. A secret predator around girls, he would do whatever it took to abuse them...lying,blackmail, and even spiking drinks. 

Could a group of vengeful victims be behind his attack? Or is there someone else with a grudge against Seb, who will stop at nothing to silence him?

Call # YA CASEY, JANE

What Are You Reading?

Try Top Ten Clues You're Clueless 

by Liz Czukas

The day before Christmas, money goes missing from a donation box at GoodFoods Market and Chloe and her five of her teenage co-workers, held in the break room until the police arrive, try to identify the real thief.

It's Christmas Eve, and high schooler Chloe has to work all day at the local supermarket, along with a quirky assortment of cashiers, stockers, and baggers-especially handsome Tyson, who she has a big crush on.

 Then the store manager discovers that someone has stolen nearly $10,000 from the Christmas charity box, and decides to hold all of the employees in the break room until the police arrive or someone confesses. 

These unusual circumstances lend themselves to weird conversations, supermarket games, romantic encounters, a diabetes scare for Chloe, and speculation on who is behind the theft  (Publishers Weekly review)

Medical Mystery!

100 years ago, a mysterious disease called pellagra spread across the American South - 

"one of the most horrible, pitiful afflictions mankind has ever suffered."  

100 years ago, there were no rules about who could be tested or how the tests should be done.  Today, researchers must have informed consent from anyone who agrees to participate in a medical study.

No one knew what caused pellagra or how to treat it.  Millions of men, women, and children were left weak, disfigured, insane and, in some cases, dead.  

A fascinating non-fiction selection that tracks this devastating disease, including photo and actual cases.  Read about the "detectives" as they tackle this challenging and baffling medical mystery, and how human and animal experimentation using food helped make pellagra and other diseases "curable."

CALL #  YA 616.393 JAR

Senior Year"s Gonna Be A Killer!

When student reporter, Millie, finds the dead body of the football team's coach, she is determined to beat rival reporter Vivienne to the story, especially since Viv keeps writing articles implicating Millie's dad: the assistant coach, mayor, and now lead suspect. 

Coach Killdare wasn't popular, though, and Millie's suspects encompass everyone from the pushover principal to the furious former quarterback. One of these suspects, current QB and handsome enigma Chase Albright, also seems to be investigating, despite Millie's attempts to shake him off.

 With only a stack of old Nancy Drew books to guide her, Millie sets out to solve the murder and save her father and try not to implicate Chase, who, Millie discovers, has a curious and elusive past...

Call # YA FANTASKEY, BETH

"Criminal Minds" for the YA World!

The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But, it's not a skill that she's ever taken seriously. 

That is, until the FBI come knocking: they've begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie. 

What Cassie doesn't realize is that there's more at risk than a few unsolved homicides-especially when she's sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own.

 Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem.

Call # YA BARNES, JENNIFER LYNN

Who was I, just before I amost died?

LOUD. 

There was an accident. Ember knows at least that much. She was driving. The car was totaled. She suffered back injuries and brain trauma, but she is alive. That's the only thing left she can cling to.

AWAKE. 

Eight months later, Ember feels broken. The pieces of her former self no longer fit together. She can't even remember the six weeks of her life leading up to the accident. Where was she going? Who was she with and what happened during those six weeks that her friends and family won't talk about?

LOST. 

One by one, Ember discovers the answers to these questions and little by little, the person she used to be slips further and further away.

Call #: YA Griffin, Adele NEW

What would you do if your whole life was a lie?

Sequel to Dead End in Norvelt

Adventures from Norvelt continue in the Jack Gantos sequel:

 Whodunit this time?

 There's a murder of yet another old lady.  Is it old Mr. Spizz, who is on the lam after confessing to the murder of nine others? Could it be Mr. Huffer, the local undertaker?

Well,  Miss Volker enlists Jack to help her solve this mystery. Perhaps not the best decision-making by the duo, but then the Cuban Missile Crisis looms and, as Jack says, Bad choices don't matter anymore... Since were all going to be blown up anyway. 

 Jack ends up sailing their decrepit VW Beetle along the back roads of Tennessee and Virginia attempting to find an answer... Miss Volker ready with a sharpened harpoon on the roof rack. Join them on a wild and challenging road-trip, murder mystery, meditation on American history, and love story all in one.

Call # YA GANTOS, JACK

The Night that Changes Everything...

A missing girl.  A beautiful dress.  The night that changes everything.

Quiet misfit Rose doesn't expect to fall in love with the sleepy beach town of Leonora. Nor does she expect to become fast friends with beautiful Pearl Kelly. It's better not to get too attached when Rose and her father live on the road, driving from one place to the next whenever Dad gets itchy feet. But Rose can't resist the mysterious charms of the town or the popular girl, try as she might.

Pearl convinces Rose to visit Edie Baker, a renowned dressmaker, now a rumored witch. Together Rose and Edie hand-stitch an unforgettable dress of midnight blue for Rose 

to wear at the Harvest Festival--

a dress that will have long-lasting consequences on life in Leonora, a dress that will seal the fate of one of the girls.

Call # YA FOXLEE, KAREN

and 

YA AUDIOBOOK BO-CD FOXLEE, KAREN

Six Months...LOST!

When Chloe fell asleep in study hall, it was the middle of May. When she wakes up, snow is on the ground and she can't remember the last six months of her life.

Before, she'd been a mediocre student.

 Now, she's on track for valedictorian and being recruited by Ivy League schools. Before, she never had a chance with super jock Blake. 

Now he's her boyfriend. 

Before, she and Maggie were inseparable. 

Now her best friend won't speak to her.

What happened to her? Remembering the truth could be more dangerous than she knows...

Call #  YA RICHARDS, NATALIE D.

If you are young and have everything to lose...BEWARE!

Wealthy young women are being murdered and the police aren't looking for answers in the right places. Enter Tandy Angel. Her first case was the mystery of her parents' deaths. Now she's working to exonerate her brother of his girlfriend's homicide and danger just got closer.One of the recent victims was a student at Tandy's own elite school. She has a hunch it may be the work of a serial killer and Tandy perfectly fits the profile of the killer's targets. Can she untangle the mysteries in time or will she be the next victim? 

 (Book 2 in the Confession series.)

 

Call #: YA Patterson, James NEW

Darkly enagaging and full of suspense!

For a very long while, Abigail sat alone by the river. She read the letter once, twice- over and over. Each time she had a different reaction.

Her mother had loved her.

Her mother was a junkie, or a drunk.

Her mother made no sense.

Her mother was dead.

Her mother was crazy.

Her mother was a liar.

Her mother had obviously NEVER loved her. 

Th e-ticket her Mom left was American Airlines flight number 3846, leaving Glasgow airport at 10 p.m.

Tomorrow. 

Call #: YA Fitzgerald, Helen NEW

Love and Espionage Collide!

by Talia Vance

Berry Fields is not looking for a boyfriend. She's busy trailing cheaters and liars in her job as a private investigator, collecting evidence of the affairs she's sure all men commit. And thanks to a pepper spray incident during an eighth grade game of spin the bottle, the guys at her school are not exactly lining up to date her, either.

So when arrogant—and gorgeous—Tanner Halston rolls into town and calls her "nothing amazing," it's no loss for Berry. She'll forget him in no time. She's more concerned with the questions surfacing about her mother's death.

But why does Tanner seem to pop up everywhere in her investigation, always getting in her way? Is he trying to stop her from discovering the truth, or protecting her from an unknown threat? And why can't Berry remember to hate him when he looks into her eyes?


Call # YA VANCE, TALIA

Edge of your seat drama!

 

Theodore Boone is back, and he’s facing his most dangerous case yet. As Strattenburg sits divided over a hot political and environmental issue, Theo finds himself in the middle of the battle. When he uncovers corruption beneath the surface, Theo will confront bigger risks than ever to himself and those he loves. But even face-to-face with danger, Theodore Boone will do whatever it takes to stand up for what’s right.

 

Call #: YA Grisham, John NEW

Mystery Lovers Wanted!

This Is W.A.R.

Everyone at Hawthorne Lake Country Club saw Willa Ames-Rowan climb into a boat with James Gregory, the Club’s heir apparent. 

And everyone at Hawthorne Lake Country Club watched James return. Alone. 

No one believes that Willa’s drowning was an accident. After all, she held the Club record for the 1500 meter freestyle. And the Gregory family has a history of making troublesome girls disappear. They all know James Gregory killed her. But none of them will say a word.  

Enter the W.A.R. Four girls. Four very different motives to avenge Willa’s death, and only one rule: Destroy the Gregory family at any cost. Innocence is lost, battles are won, and the pursuit of the truth ultimately threatens to destroy them all!

Call # YA ROECKER, LISA NEW

Welcome to Your New School...

Welcome to your new school, Allie.

Welcome to your new life.

The gates locked into place with a shudder.

Allie Sheridan s world has fallen apart. Her family is in tatters, school after school has kicked her out for bad behavior, and shes just been arrested. Again.

Sent away to a strict boarding school, Allie expects a prison. Instead, she finds Cimmeria Academy is something very different. Its students are an odd mixture of the gifted and the rich, though Allie is sure she is neither. Its rules are stern but arcane, and among its students is an elite group in a mysterious organization.

They call it Night School.

Soon Allie finds that, especially at night, Cimmeria is alive with secrets. That everybody lies. And as the school begins to seem like a very dangerous place, she must decide who she can trust if shes going to find out whats really going on.

Call # YA DAUGHERTY, C.J.

Being yourself can be such a bad idea...

For sixteen-year-old Badi Hessamizadeh, life is a series of humiliations. After withdrawing from public school under mysterious circumstances, Badi enters Magnificat Academy. To make things “easier,” his dad has even given 

him a new name: Bud Hess. 

 

Grappling with his Iranian-American identity, clinical depression, bullying, and a barely bottled rage, Bud is an outcast who copes by resorting to small revenges and covert acts of defiance, but the pressures of his home life, plummeting grades, and the unrequited affection of his new friend, Nikki, prime him for a more dangerous revolution. 

 

Strange letters to the editor begin to appear in Magnificat’s newspaper, hinting that some tragedy will befall the school. Suspicion falls on Bud, and he and Nikki struggle to uncover the real culprit and clear Bud’s name.

Call #: YA Stella, Leslie NEW

Book 1 in the Bea Catcher Chronicles

Bea's life has been a mess ever since she got kicked out of private school and sent to rehab. Now clean, Bea is starting over at Packard High School, in a city shaken from two assaults on young women. 

The latest victim, Willa Pressman-the one who survived-doesn't remember a thing. But Bea has a disturbing new "skill": she can see and then draw images from other people's minds. When she looks at Willa, Bea is shocked by what she sketches. Bea might be the only one who knows Willa's secrets and who can take down the killer before he strikes again.

Call #: YA Samms, Olivia NEW

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