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OTHER by Karen Kincy

December 6th, 2008 by Karen Kincy · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Summer 2010
  • Publisher: Flux
  • Release Date: July 1, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Seventeen-year-old Gwen hides a dangerous secret: she's Other. Half-pooka, to be exact, thanks to the father she never met. Most Americans don't exactly roll out the welcome mat for Others, especially not the small-town folks of Klikamuks, Washington. As if this isn't bad enough, Gwen's on the brink of revealing her true identity to her long-time boyfriend, Zack, but she's scared he'll lump her with the likes of bloodthirsty vampires and feral werewolves. When a pack of werewolves chooses the national forest behind Gwen's home as their new… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Spring · Fantasy · Flux · Kincy, Karen · Local · Mystery · National · Paranormal · Prejudice · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Washington · Young Adult

STUPID CUPID by Rhonda Stapleton

November 27th, 2008 by Rhonda Stapleton · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Fall 2009
  • Publisher: Simon Pulse
  • Release Date: December, 22, 2009
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-1-4169-7464-2
Felicity's no ordinary matchmaker...she's a cupid! Felicity Walker believes in true love. That's why she applies for a gig at the matchmaking company Cupid's Hollow. But when Felicity gets the job, she learns that she isn't just a matchmaker...she's a cupid! (There's more than one of them, you know.) Armed with a hot pink, tricked-out PDA infused with the latest in cupid magic (love arrows shot through email), Felicity works to meet her quota of successful matches. But when she bends the rules of cupidity by matching her best friend Maya… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Fall · 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Contests · Events · Family · Friendship · Local · Love · National · Ohio · Paranormal · Rated G · Rated PG · Romance · Simon Pulse · Stapleton, Rhonda · Young Adult

SOUL ENCHILADA by David Macinnis Gill

October 16th, 2008 by David Macinnis Gill · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins
  • Release Date: April 7, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 0061673013
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Bug Smoot was thirteen years old when her grandfather put her soul up as collateral on his dream car --a classic 1958 Cadillac Biarritz.  Now, five years later, Papa C is dead and buried, and Bug is trying to make it on her own by delivering pizzas and staying one step ahead of her landlord.  And then the repo man arrives.  Only Mr. Beals--stinking to high heaven of rotten eggs and sporting leathery wings--is not just any repo man...just as Pesto, Bug's longtime unrequited crush, is… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Events · Gill, David Macinnis · Greenwillow Books · Local · National · North Carolina · Paranormal · Young Adult

EVERLASTING by Angie Frazier

October 10th, 2008 by Angie Frazier · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Summer 2010
  • Publisher: Scholastic Press
  • Release Date: TBD
  • ISBN: TBD

As a young lady in 1855 San Francisco, Camille’s future is set: marry a man she isn’t sure she loves, or condemn herself to poverty; forever lust after a sailor a few social classes below her; never again sail with her beloved father, Captain William Rowen; and do it all with charm and grace—even if it is a sham.

But on her last sea voyage, Camille’s future opens wide. When her father and his Sydney-bound ship are lost in a gale, Camille’s new ambition is to cross the southern highlands of… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Summer · Action/Adventure · Frazier, Angie · Historical Fiction · Local · Middle Grade · National · New Hampshire · Picture Book · Rated G · Romance · Young Adult