Back in the Fall!

The New Books Blog will be coming back in September! Look for our new Teen Picks of the Week and Fiction Picks of the Week then!

Fiction Pick of the Week: The Tides of Memory

Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory by Tilly Bagshawe

The conservative party's newest superstar, Alexia De Vere has worked hard to realize her political ambitions. The brilliant and ruthless wife of wealthy aristocrat Teddy De Vere, Alexia relishes her power and the control it gives her to shape and destroy lives. Yet success has also demanded sacrifice. Her daughter, Roxie, a bitter young woman confined to a wheelchair after a failed suicide attempt blames Alexia for ruining her life. Alexia's dashing son, Michael, is risking the family's good name to jump-start his entrepreneurial dreams. Thankfully, Alexia has Teddy, her devoted husband who will stop at nothing to protect her. But beneath Alexia De Vere's gilded life and formidable facade lie secrets that are ugly, dirty, and deadly.

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Teen Pick of the Week: Panic

Panic by Sharon Draper


Diamond knows not to talk to strangers. But just once couldn't hurt. Right?


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Science Fiction Pick of the Week: Wolfhound Century

Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins

Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist--and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs, and doomed artists. Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head.

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Teen Pick of the Week: Happy Families

Happy Families by Tanita Davis

Teenage twins Ysabel and Justin Nicholas are lucky. Ysabel's jewerly designs have already caught the eyes of the art world, and Justin's intelligence and drive are sure to gain him entrance into an excellent college. They even like their parents. They're the ultimate happy family, or so they believe, until they learn that their father has been keeping a secret from them, a secret that will change everything.

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Fiction Pick of the Week: The Gods of Heavenly Punishment

The Gods of Heavenly Punishment by Jennifer Cody Epstein

A lush, exquisitely rendered meditation on war, The Gods of Heavenly Punishment tells the story of several families, American and Japanese, their loves and infidelities, their dreams and losses, and how they are all connected by one of the most devastating acts of war in human history.

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Teen Pick of the Week: The Unnaturalists

The Unnaturalists by Tiffany Trent

Vespa Nyx wants nothing more than to spend her life cataloging Unnaturals in her father's Museum of Unnatural History. There is nothing she enjoys more than studying a stuffed Sphinx, or mounting a delicate sylphid. But as she nears seventeen, the dreaded need to become respectable, find a husband, and settle down looms heavily. Just as she is resigning herself to a mundane life, a series of mysterious accidents reveal a terrifying truth: Vespa may be New London's only surviving witch. And in New London, witchcraft is the greatest imaginable heresy, punishable by death. Tiffany Trent writes a thrilling story with a dash of romance, a dollop of adventure, and a world you will never forget.

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