Cambridge High School Library 2024

By: Julie Eshbaugh Location: FIC ESH Genre: Fantasy with an historical twist A prehistoric fantasy—with allusions to Pride and Prejudice- gender swapped and with mammoths!!!.   'Exquisitely written, ferocious and haunting- don't miss this one! Sarah J Mass  Two Clans. Only One Will Survive . Hunting, gathering, and keeping his family safe—that’s the life seventeen-year-old Kol knows. Then bold, enigmatic Mya arrives from the south with her family, and Kol is captivated. He wants her to like and trust him, but any hopes of impressing her are ruined when he makes a careless—and nearly grave—mistake. However, there’s something more to Mya’s cool disdain…a history wrought with loss that comes to light when another clan arrives. With them is Lo, an enemy from Mya’s past who Mya swears has ulterior motives. As Kol gets to know Lo, tensions between Mya and Lo escalate until violence erupts. Faced with shattering losses, Kol is forced to question every person...

By: Yoon Ha Lee Location: FIC LEE Genre: Sci Fi - Space Opera Series: The Machineries of Empire #1 "Starship Troopers meets Apocalypse Now and they've put Kurtz in charge. An unmissable debut" Stephen Baxter Short listed for the Nebula Stunning cover again!!! "In a sense, all calendrical war is a game between competing sets of rules, fueled by the coherence of our beliefs. To win a calendrical war, you have to understand how game systems work." Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris's career isn't the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next. Cheris's best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jeda...

By: Renee Ahdieh Location: FIC AHD Genre: Fantasy Series: Flame in the Mist #1 This book is written by the author of the Wrath and the Dawn - so is is going to be excellent! And that cover- oh my!!!! Murder Betrayal Courage Samurai's-  Marie Lu calls this book an "intoxicating gem of a story"! The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known her place—she may be an accomplished alchemist, whose cunning rivals that of her brother Kenshin, but because she is not a boy, her future has always been out of her hands. At just seventeen years old, Mariko is promised to Minamoto Raiden, the son of the emperor's favorite consort—a political marriage that will elevate her family's standing. But en route to the imperial city of Inako, Mariko narrowly escapes a bloody ambush by a dangerous gang of bandits known as the Black Clan, who she learns has been hired to kill her before she reaches the palace. Dressed as a peasant boy, Mariko sets ou...

By: Daniel H Wilson location: FIC WIL Genre: Steampunk- Sci/Fi Think The Terminator meets Indiana Jones with a crash course in history thrown in. If you like sci-fi, robots, steampunk, clockwork automatons, Peter the Great and the Russian Empire, and Georgian era England, you will love this fast-paced, adventure filled new novel from the author of Robopocalypse .    Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll, she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own. With her career and her life at stake, June Stefanov will ally with a remarkable traveler who exposes her to a reality she never imagined, as they embark on an around-the-world adventure and discover breathtaking secrets of the past... Russia, 1725: In the depths of the Kremlin, the tsar's loyal mechanician brings to life two astonishingly humanl...

By: Joelle Charbonneau   Location: FIC CHA Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Series: Dividng Eden #1 ` Cool cover award! From the author of the New York Times bestselling Testing trilogy comes a sweeping new fantasy series, perfect for fans of Victoria Aveyard and Sarah J. Maas. “The council will create a series of trials for our prince and princess to participate in that will decide the true successor to the Throne of Light.” Twins Carys and Andreus were never destined to rule Eden. With their older brother next in line to inherit the throne, the future of the kingdom was secure. But appearances—and rivals—can be deceiving. When Eden’s king and crown prince are killed by assassins, Eden desperately needs a monarch, but the line of succession is no longer clear. With a ruling council scheming to gain power, Carys and Andreus are faced with only one option—to take part in a Trial of Succession that will determine which one of them is worthy of ruling the kingdom. A...

By: Michael Robotham Location: FIC ROB Genre: Mystery Thriller “What if I become a lawyer?’ ‘Please don’t do that,’ says Ruiz. ‘Why not?’ ‘They’re like monkeys who get dressed up and fling poo at each other.” Marnie Logan often feels like she's being watched. Nothing she can quite put her finger on -- a whisper of breath on the back of her neck, or a shadow in the corner of her eye -- and now her life is frozen. Her husband Daniel has been missing for more than a year. Depressed and increasingly desperate, she seeks the help of clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin. Joe is concerned by Marnie's reluctance to talk about the past, but then she discovers a book packed with pictures, interviews with friends, former teachers, old flames and workmates Daniel was preparing for Marnie's birthday. It was supposed to be a celebration of her life. But it's not the story anyone was expecting .. "Another masterful piece of storytelling by Mr Robotham!! ...

This movie is going to be amazing:) I will go, I will take tissues and I will take a bunch of students with me so we can be all challenged together!

By: Laura Ruby Location: FIC RUB Genre: Steampunk Series: York #1 By the author of Bone Gap - so it has to be good!!!! THE TRUE STORY OF ANY CITY IS NEVER A SINGLE TALE A smart, atmospheric puzzle and tour of New York City history with vivid and engaging characters, fascinatingly steam-punkish technology and some powerful emotional moments. Loved it; looking forward to the next book.- Kerrie It was 1798 when the Morningstarr twins arrived in New York with a vision for a magnificent city: towering skyscrapers, dazzling machines, and winding train lines, all running on technology no one had ever seen before. Fifty-seven years later, the enigmatic architects disappeared, leaving behind for the people of New York the Old York Cipher—a puzzle laid into the shining city they constructed, at the end of which was promised a treasure beyond all imagining. By the present day, however, the puzzle has never been solved, and the greatest mystery of the modern world is ...

By: Andy McNabb Location: FIC  MCN Genre:Action Thriller- Gang Life Series: Street Soldier #1 An author who has down all of the below will know how to write a rip roaring yarn of badness and catchness! Andy McNab joined the infantry in 1976 as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was badged as a member of 22 SAS Regiment. He served in B Squadron 22 SAS for ten years and worked on both covert and overt special operations worldwide, including anti-terrorist and anti-drug operations in the Middle and Far East, South and Central America and Northern Ireland. Trained as a specialist in counter terrorism, prime target elimination, demolitions, weapons and tactics, covert surveillance and information gathering in hostile environments, and VIP protection, McNab worked on cooperative operations with police forces, prison services, anti-drug forces and western backed guerrilla movements as well as on conventional special operations. In Northern Ireland he spent two years working as an...

By: Jeff Vandermeer Location: FIC VAN Genre: Sci Fi- Eco-Fiction "Gloriously bizarre. The world building is incredible. Within the first night I started reading this, I had nightmares."Nnedi “We were always finding each other and losing each other and finding each other again, and that was just the way of us.”    "We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means." Some books I just get for Mannins- this is one of them- at least he makes our library collection broad and interesting!! Thanks Mannins! "Am I a person?" Borne asked me. "Yes, you are a person," I told him. "But like a person, you can be a weapon, too." In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. The city is dangerous, littered with discarded experiments from the Company—a biotech firm now derelict—and punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. ...

By: Tiffany Schmidt Location: FIC SCH Genre: Fantasy- Frog Prince Retell Series: Once Upon a Crime #2 " Deeply emotional.... Works well for readers who like their sweet romance mixed with spicy suspense" - BCCB "A satisfying sequel that continues black market organ drama with liberal doses of romance, angst, and suspense" School library Journal No one is unbreakable. All Magnolia Vickers has ever wanted was to follow father’s path as head of the Family Business. But new legislation is poised to destroy the Family’s operations in the black-market organ trade and Maggie’s recent behavior has wrecked the business-savvy reputation she’s worked her whole life to build. She’s given an ultimatum: shape up or step aside. Then Maggie messes up: she downloads a virus onto her father’s computer, and must sneak it off-estate for repair. When Alex, a tech whiz, uncovers the type of information on the machine, he offers Maggie a choice: her Family can give ...

By: Glenda Millard Location: FIC MIL Genre: Contemporary - roman ce for some twelve is a nice number but i am alice fifteen times over A powerful, captivating story about Alice, who is reaching out to express herself through her beautiful-broken words, and Manny who is running to escape his past. When they meet they find the tender beginnings of love and healing. Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone, but something inside her is broken. She has acquired brain injury, the result of an assault, and her words come out slow and slurred. But when she writes, heartwords fly from her pen. She writes poems to express the words she can't say and leaves them in unexpected places around the town. Manny was once a child soldier. He is sixteen and has lost all his family. He appears to be adapting to his new life in this country, where there is comfort and safety, but at night he runs, barefoot, to escape the memory of his past. When he first see...

By: Amor Towles Location: FIC TOW Genre: Historical I sense a movie coming - surely this will be made into a movie!!! "A Gentleman in Moscow evokes an era of the tsar when the city rivals Paris and London as a destination for elite classes throughout Europe. A member of the landed aristocracy prior the Bolshevik Revolution, Count Rostov is well versed in literature, history, and appears to be a true renaissance man. Through his relationship with Nina and Sofia, Towles shows the Count to have a genuine soft spot in his heart as well, turning him into a truly memorable character. A delight of an enchanting story to read, A Gentleman in Moscow was worth the hype of the review " Brina 'A Gentleman in Moscow' tells the story of Count Alexander Rostov, who is sentenced to live out the rest of his life on "house arrest" in the Metropol hotel, following his "conviction" by a Bolshevik tribunal. He was convicted of being an unrepenta...

By: Nicci Cloke Location: FIXC CLO Genre: Contemporary- sad stuff "Close Your Eyes by Nicci Cloke was a thought-provoking, and emotional rollercoaster of a YA read". Paula Close Your Eyes is the story of a school shooting which, through interviews, messages and questionable actions, asks: Who is truly responsible?   This brutal & quite original story  deals with the repercussions of any sort of bullying. The story focuses on the events that lead to the horrific incident using transcripts, interviews, online conversations etc which adds to the drama & thriller aspect. Starting with the emergency call captures your attention from the very beginning. At the center of the story is a group of 6 teens with one of them being the quiet "weird" one, Elijah, who you don't know at the beginning if he is shooter or victim. Their POVs tell us the story until that devastating curve ba...

By: Stephen King Location:FIC KIN Genre: Fantasy Fiction Horror- King!!! Series: The Dark Tower #1  First published in 1982- this is a republished version and the first in the Dark Tower series of seven titles. This is the beginning of Stephen King's famous magnum opus, the Dark Tower. This is where the master of horror writes his great work of fantasy based on a combination of The Lord of the Rings and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. “Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.” ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed...  This is the ico...

By: Kasie West Location: FIC WEs Genre:Fantasy Paranormal Series: Pivot Point #2 Kasie West delivers nail-biting suspense and heart-pounding romance in the thrilling sequel to Pivot Point . “He sighed. "Does it get tiring?" "What?" "Always thinking you're right." I smiled. "No, not really. It's other people not realizing I'm right that gets tiring.” ― Kasie West, Split Second  "Split Second is just another reason why Kasie West is one of my favourite authors. Along with her snarky writing, lovable characters and swoon inducing romance as well as an ass-kicking plot line, who can be disappointed?"- Melanie Addie has always been able to see the future when faced with a choice, but that doesn't make her present any easier. Her boyfriend used her. Her best friend betrayed her. So when Addie's dad invites her to spend her winter break with him in the Norm world, she jumps at the chance. ...

By: Gabrielle Williams Location: FIC WIL Genre: Young Adult 'My Life as a Hashtag' is an entertaining, witty, cleverly written story about a teenage girl whose actions on social media lead to disastrous results. The main character is sympathetic, and it brings to light the importance of being mindful of how we are treating others over the internet." - Cass A movement. A phenomenon A complete and Utter disaster . I'd been warned - in French, no less. By a tram-riding, mermaid-swaying, wolf-eaten, peace-sign flipping friend. I knew she wouldn't be happy if I stayed out here by the pool, with Jed's nail tracing the length of my neck. But I didn't want to go inside. I didn't want another drink. I wanted to stay out here and see what would happen. What’s a girl to do when her parents have split up; her mum’s trawling Tinder; and one of her best friends has decided not to invite her to the biggest party of the year, which she then has to...

By: Angus Watson Location: FIC WAT Genre: Fantasy- Epic!! Series: West of West#1 You Die When You Die - a mismatched group of refugees battle animals and monsters, determined assassins, depraved tribes, an unforgiving land and each other as they cross a continent to fulfil a prophecy. YOU DIE WHEN YOU DIE . . . You can't change your fate - so throw yourself into battle, because you'll either win or wake up drinking mead in the halls of your ancestors. That's what Finn's tribe believe. But when their settlement is massacred by a hostile tribe and Finn and several friends, companions and rivals make their escape across a brutal, unfamiliar landscape, Finn will fight harder than he's ever fought in his life. He wants to live - even if he only lives long enough to tell Thyri Treelegs how he feels about her. "From the batshit crazy fight scenes (which were gruesome, I tell you) to the hilarious, this book was something wild"- Nat Prophecie...

By: Susin Nielsen Location: FIC NIE Genre: Young Adult, Romance- Mental health ... ... remaking Wuthering Heights with cats. Petula has avoided friendship and happiness ever since tragedy struck her family and took her beloved younger sister Maxine. Worse, Petula blames herself. If only she'd kept an eye on her sister, if only she'd sewn the button Maxine choked on better, if only... Now her anxiety is getting out of control, she is forced to attend the world’s most hopeless art therapy class. But one day, in walks the Bionic Man: a charming, amazingly tall newcomer called Jacob, who is also an amputee. Petula's ready to freeze him out, just like she did with her former best friend, but when she’s paired with Jacob for a class project, there’s no denying they have brilliant ideas together – ideas like remaking Wuthering Heights with cats. But Petula and Jacob each have desperately painful secrets in their pasts – and when the truth comes out, there’s n...

By: Demet Divaroren Location: FIC DIV Genre: Social issues- community- tough stuff Hope Street- I wonder how many people in our nation live on a street where they even know their neighbors names. How can we ever know their stories... if we don't even know their names and how can we build meaningful community where we actually look out for each other- when we are so wrapped up in our own little precious worlds. It might be tough to go and engage with your neighbor, it might cost you something- but it is the right thing to do and if we want strong communities in our nation and if we truly want to fight bigotry and racism we have no choice. It is in relationships that we win that war and fight it we must!!! We all love someone. We all fear something. Sometimes they live right next door - or even closer. Kane will do everything he can to save his mother and his little brother Sam from the violence of his father, even if it means becoming a monster himself. Mrs Aslan will prot...

By: Brigid Kemmerer Location: FIC KEM Genre: Romance This emotional, compulsively-readable romance will sweep everyone off their feet.    "This book was so much more than just passing cute notes back and forth, it was about sorrow and grief and friendship and family and giving yourself a second chance." Maybelle “You want to know what I believe? I believe in fate, but I also believe in free will. Meaning, there's a path, but we're free to veer away from it. The only problem is that there's no way to know whose path we're following on any given moment. Our own? Our fate's? Other people are on their on paths, too. What happens when we intersect? What happens when someone else wipes our path clean, and we're left with no road to follow? Is that fate? Is that when free will kicks in? Is the path there, but invisible? Who the hell knows?” ― Brigid Kemmerer, Letters to the Lost Juliet Young has always written letter...

By: Dean Koontz Location: FIC KOO Genre: Thriller Mystery A spine tingling world of brain implants and mind control, evil geniuses, bent on control, drunk on power and wealth, armed with technological advances that will both blow your mind and keep you up at night.... “I very much need to be dead.” These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for—but took his own life. In the aftermath, his widow, Jane Hawk, does what all her grief, fear, and fury demand: find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people admired and happy and sound of mind, have been committing suicide in surprising numbers. When Jane seeks to learn why, she becomes the most-wanted fugitive in America. Her powerful enemies are protecting a secret so important—so terrifying—that they will exterminate anyone in their way. But all their power and viciousness may not be enough to stop a woman as clever as they are cold-blooded, as relentless as...

By: Mackenzi Lee Location: FIC LEE Genre; SciFi/Steampunk In an alternative fantasy world where some men are made from clockwork parts and carriages are steam powered, Alasdair Finch, a young mechanic, does the unthinkable after his brother dies: he uses clockwork pieces to bring Oliver back from the dead. But the resurrection does not go as planned, and Oliver returns more monster than man. Even worse, the novel  Frankenstein  is published and the townsfolk are determined to find the real-life doctor and his monster. With few places to turn for help, the dangers may ultimately bring the brothers together—or ruin them forever. "This book seamlessly blends history, gothic mystery, and steampunk into a thoughtful reimagining of the creation of Frankenstein , and it's one of the best YA retellings I've read. The author has clearly done her homework on the time period, as well as the story's literary roots--and beyond that, she makes this story of clockwor...

By; Marci Lyn Curtis Location: FIC CUR Genre: Contemporary- Youth Fiction, Sight Impaired Maggie called it genius. The Judge called it illegal! "A soaring tale of life and love, of sacrifice and renewal, and learning to see people as they really are. I often wonder what I would do if I just all of a sudden became blind.  What would be the biggest hurdle for me, no more hockey, no more walks in nature that I could stash away in my brain photo album. No more seeing faces of those that I love and the expressions they give, never being able to see my grandchildren. No more travel in places like India and Africa-. Does blindness rob you of all life, or is there something worth fighting for to enable you to make good decisions for the future ... Maggie Sanders might be blind, but she won't invite anyone to her pity party. Ever since losing her sight six months ago, Maggie’s rebellious streak has taken on a life of its own, culminating with an elaborate school prank....

By: Maurice Gee Location: FIC GEE Genre: Fantasy This gripping, page-turning fantasy adventure follows a dangerous quest through a divided world. From the high reaches of a tree, Fliss watches the soldiers attempting yet again to break through the invisible wall. Amid the explosions, a drummer boy tries to escape. As he is about to be shot, Fliss reaches through the wall and pulls him to safety. But Fliss is dismayed to find she has saved an overfed rich boy. She is even more dismayed to learn that she must accompany him back through the wall on a special mission to rescue the Nightingale. The world they have to travel through is a perilous one, full of predatory thieves, slave masters, beggars, dippers, mudlarks, drain-sliders, spies and wall-men. It is a world where the ruling families are caught up in a lethal power struggle. Will Fliss and the despised drummer boy learn to trust each other? Who is the Nightingale? And will they all make it back alive? "..wha...

By: Ally Condie Location: FIC CON Genre: Coming of age- family grief By the author of the "Matched" series “My dad used to say that life was like turning the pages in a book. 'Oh, look,' he'd say, pretending to flip the pages in the air after we'd had something bad happen to us. 'Bad luck here on page ninety-seven. And on ninety-eight. But something good here on ninety-nine! All you had to do was keep reading!” This follows an incredibly moving coming-of-age story about 12-year-old Cedar Lee, who has moved to Iron Creek, Utah, for the summer with her mother and younger brother, Miles. And it follows their journey trying to regroup after an accident that claimed the lives of Cedar’s father and younger brother, Ben. Outside her new house, Cedar quickly meets enthusiastic and enterprising Leo Bishop, who gets her a job at Summerlost, the town’s yearly Shakespeare festival. As they team up to give secretive walking tours about the life of...

B y: Tamara Ireland Stone Location: FIC STO Genre:Young Adult- Mental Healt h " Clueless meets Dead Poets Society with a whopping final twist." - Kirkus Reviews "Brilliant, brave, and beautiful." -Kathleen Caldwell   "If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling." “My friends can’t know about my OCD or the debilitating, uncontrollable thoughts, because my friends are normal. And perfect. They pride themselves on normalcy and perfection, and they can’t ever find out how far I am from those two things .”   Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help...

By: Bob Proehl Location: FIC PRO Genre: Contemporary Fiction- road trip! "Equal parts great American road-trip narrative and coming-of-age novel, this brilliant story from a debut novelist is a treat for the diehard nerds and fans among us." -Refinery29  “Look at all this. It's fantastic. A hundred thousand worlds. What I love most, because I'm a hideous narcissist, is knowing many of these worlds are mine. You know what all of this is, don't you? This is the immune system of the human soul. Superheroes, space rangers, time cowboys, they are the T cells of the spirit. They were always here to save us. We made them to save us.”   Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex, and fled Los Angeles six years ago--leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar husband after a tragedy blew their small family apart. Now Val must reunite nine-year-old Alex with his estranged father, so they set out on a road trip from New York, Val making appeara...

By: Garry Hunter Location: NF 751.7 HUN Genre: 3D Sidewalk Art Street art- tells stories, street art makes you think. Street art convicts, street art sells a message. Street art is our generations cartoons that impact and declare- watch, learn and be challenged! Urban Art is a fantastic, eye-catching, and fully illustrated book showcasing the work of the best pavement chalk artists worldwide. This colorful book focuses on the major world practitioners of 3D sidewalk art, including Edgar Mueller, Julian Beever, and Kurt Wenner. People are captivated by the illusions that pavement art creates, and this book showcases the very best of them !

By: Sara Barnard Location: FIC BAR Genre: Romance, mental health and being a team! From the bestselling author of Beautiful Broken Things comes a love story about the times when a whisper is as good as a shout. Steffi doesn't talk, but she has so much to say. Rhys can't hear, but he can listen. Their love isn't a lightning strike, it's the rumbling roll of thunder. Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's assigned to look after him. To Rhys, it doesn't matter that Steffi doesn't talk, and as they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice, and that she's falling in love with the one per son who makes her feel brave enough to use it.    A brilliant depiction of social anxiety, a swoony subtle love story that creeps ...

By: John Scalzi Location: FIC SCA Genre: Sci/Fi- Space Opera Series: The Interdependency #1 The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe. "The Collapsing Empire is a smart, entertaining, easily digestible page turner. In other words, it’s a John Scalzi novel. It’s also a nice bit of old fashioned sci-fi fun – heroes do heroic things and villains do villainous things, the story has nice momentum and the world-building is fun."- Gary Does the biggest threat lie within? In the far future, humanity has left Earth to create a glorious empire. Now this interstellar network of worlds faces disaster - but can three individuals save their people? The empire''s outposts are utterly dependent on each other for resources, a safeguard against war, and a way its rulers can exert control. This relies on extra-dimensional pathways between the stars, connecting worlds. But 'The Flow' is changing course, which could plu...

By: Paula Stokes Location: FIC STO Genre: Contemporary Romance ❝There's a thing that sometimes happens in your brain when you're the only survivor of a horrific accident. Part of you is happy because you're alive, but the rest of you is devastated. Then the sad part beats up the happy part until nothing is left, until all you feel is a terrible sorrow for the people who didn't make it. And guilt. Guilt because you wonder if the Universe made a mistake. Guilt because you know you're not any better than those who died.❞ “The world is full of holes and uneven seams, wrinkled places that you can’t make smooth, no matter how hard you try.” From the author of  The Art of Lainey  and  Liars, Inc.  comes a fresh, contemporary story about a girl coping with PTSD and the boy who wants to help her move on from the past. Sixteen-year-old Maguire knows the universe is against her. No matter how many charms she buys off the internet or good luck ritual...

By: Jack Campbell Location: FIC CAM Genre: Sci-Fi/ Space Opera Series: Genesis Fleet#1 Lost Fleet - large fleet battles, small marine actions; Phoenix Stars - small fleet battles, large army battles; Genesis Fleet - tiny fleet battles, small army battles. "Jack Campbell is one of my favorite military Sci-fi authors. I am a big fan of his “Lost Fleet Series” and its various spine-off series. This new series, “Genesis Fleet” is set in the time before the “Lost Fleet”, in other words, it is a prequel to the “Lost Fleet Series”. War weary Earth refuses to be the policeman of the universe any more. Without a universal policeman to keep order, the pirates and two-bit plundering dictators are in full force. The four main characters to emerge are a failed politician, Lochan Nakamura, looking for a new start; an Earth bureaucrat, Carmen Ochoa, who grew up on anarchic Mars; a former Marine, Mele Darcy, looking for something to fight for and a former Naval Officer with...

By: Willow creek Location: On a table somewhere in the library Genre: Extremely cute This book is so cute, and the uses of a pug are amazing. so useful and versatile- they can be car washers, dishwashers, foot-warmers, and a clothes accessory.... This book will get lost for sure- but in the mean time- enjoy it and smile!!

By: Chuck Wendig Location: FIC WEN Genre:  Sci-Fi/Thriller Michael Crichton meets Elon Musk in this gripping sci-fi tech thriller, set in the eye-opening, paranoid world of the electrifying Zeroes . “Earth is home to more than twelve thousand species of ants. If you weighed all the ants and all the humans, the ants would weigh more.” Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBI—a futurist who helps the Agency with cases that feature demonstrations of bleeding-edge technology. It’s her job to help them identify unforeseen threats: hackers, AIs, genetic modification, anything that in the wrong hands could harm the homeland. Hannah is in an airport, waiting to board a flight home to see her family, when she receives a call from Agent Hollis Copper. “I’ve got a cabin full of over a thousand dead bodies,” he tells her. Whether those bodies are all human, he doesn’t say. What Hannah finds is a horrifying murder that points to the impossible—someone weaponizing the nat...

By: Susin Nielsen Location: FIC NIE Genre:  Funny Realistic Fiction- with a peanut allergy "I don't remember much about Betty except that she was prehistoric -- like, she looked ninety-seven, but maybe she was only sixty. "  Ambrose Bukowski is a twelve-year-old with a talent for mismatching his clothes, for saying the wrong thing at the worst possible time, and for words. In short, he’s a self-described nerd. Making friends is especially hard because he and his overprotective mother, Irene, have had to move so often. And when bullies at his latest school almost kill him by deliberately slipping a peanut into his sandwich to set off his allergy, it's his mother who has the extreme reaction. From now on, Ambrose has to be home-schooled. Then Ambrose strikes up an unlikely friendship with the landlord's son, Cosmo, an ex-con who's been in prison. They have nothing in common except for Scrabble. But a small deception grows out of control when A...

By: Simon Holland Location: NF 937 HOL Genre: Old stuff in a cool book My son and his wife have been in Rome. They did the things people in Rome do, the fountain, the art, the Vatican, the Colesseum, the steps, and the dealing with the broken into car and having all your stuff nicked. Back in the days, those robbers if they got caught would off have to go to the Colesseum for a wee date with the lions. If anyone is in Rome and sees anyone dodgy wearing a  rugby Chiefs shirt- let me know!!! So what was ancient Rome like, and how can you find out super quick without reading Asterix? Well this is your book. Smart, quick, easy to follow and full of delicious graphics and art. Best book ever for a quiz night and when you go to toga parties you might even be able to recite a few helpful facts about all things Ancient Rome.