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Mia the MelodramaticMia the Melodramatic
By Eileen Boggess

Summer has finally arrived, but Mia Fullerton doesn’t have much to celebrate. Her best friend, Lisa, is spending the summer at a Mensa camp, and her boyfriend, Tim, will be at his grandparents’ house in Maine. So, stuck with a choice of spending the next two months hanging out with her younger brother, Chris—who has declared a prank war on her—or taking a job on the stage crew at a local children’s theater group, Mia chooses the lesser of two evils and begins working at Little Tyke’s. 

            The moment she meets the other student members of the stage crew, Mia realizes she’s not at St. Hilary’s anymore. Read More

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Back CreekBack Creek
By Leslie Goetsch

It’s the summer of 1975. Eighteen-year-old Grace Barnett knows she should be preparing to leave for college in September. But a strange Memorial Day boating accident on the creek near her Virginia home—she’s the only witness to the apparent suicide—kicks off a series of events that will define her family’s future as well as her emerging view of life.
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The Case Against My BrotherThe Case Against My Brother
By Libby Sternberg

It is the fall of 1922. World War I is over, the Jazz Age is beginning, and Americans everywhere fear the spread of Bolshevism.
 
Orphaned and penniless in Baltimore, Maryland,15-year-old Carl and 17-year-old Adam Matuski are forced to move across the continent to live with their Uncle Pete in Portland, Oregon.
 
Almost from the beginning, homesick Carl desperately wants to return east with his brother, but his plans come acropper when Adam is sought by police for the theft of expensive jewels from his girlfriend's wealthy home. Read More

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A Northern ThunderA Northern Thunder
By Andy Harp

North Korea, a Communist nation in desperate financial straits, concentrates its military resources on a scientist bent on swiftly creating missile technology that can: a) take out other countries’ satellites in space; b) disseminate nuclear payloads to all parts of the earth, thus giving it the power to extort trillions from the rest of the world; and c) be sold to terrorists and rogue nations at exceedingly high prices.

To protect its investment, North Korea takes no chances. A super-skilled North Korean assassin with the latest lethal methods is dispatched to secretly kill the scientist’s worldwide competitors.
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Kitt CaboodleThe Whole Kitt & Caboodle:
A Painless Journey to Investment Enlightenment
by Susan Laubach

Written for readers who are novice investors, The Whole Kitt & Caboodle combines Laubach's own experience as a broker and educator in the setting of a novel. Readers follow the adventures of investment rookie Missy Kitt as she seeks employment from a down-and-out brokerage house and its floundering CEO, Mr. Caboodle

Considered the best, least intimidating introduction to stock market investment by Better Investing Magazine, the National Council on Economic Education, and best-selling investment author Ric Edelman, this novel is a favorite of investment club members and young, novice investors from ages 13-up. Read More

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Mia the Meek

Mia the MeekThrown a Curve
By Sara Griffiths

She’s never known her mother. Her father seems to hate her. She has only one true friend, who’s a boy. A mediocre student and a social misfit, she’s downright miserable.

This is the life of Taylor Dresden, a freshman in a gritty New Jersey high school. The only pleasure she’s ever had was playing baseball. But at the age of eight, she stopped playing when she overheard her dad say how embarrassed he was by her talent—that it far exceeded his sons’.
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ButterfliesHume's Fork
By Ron Cooper

Barely adequate philosophy professor Legare Hume has a mind-body problem. No matter how far he goes, no matter how hard he thinks, he can’t escape the world he lives in. On the run from his wife Tally, Legare joins brilliant but exceptionally awkward colleague Saul Grossman to attend the American Philosophical Association’s Charleston, SC conference, where worlds and walks of life collide in a strange and satirical amalgamation that can only be described as reality.
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Like We CareThe Mandarin Club
By Gerald Felix Warburg

It begins as a drinking club in an academic backwater on the Stanford University campus of the late 1970s. A post-Nixon/post-Mao generation of China scholars plots to make a better world even as personal ambitions are factored in. Suddenly, the U.S. recognizes the People's Republic of China. Intense demand arises for the unique skills that only The Mandarin Club possesses.
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jakeAs Dog is My Witness:
Another Aaron Tucker Mystery
By jeffrey cohen

In this, the third Aaron Tucker mystery, Aaron, fresh from a trip to Hollywood to "take meetings" on his screenplay, finds himself dragged kicking and screaming once again into investigating a murder, this time of a man in a nearby town shot while walking his dog at night. The young man accused of the crime has Asperger’s Syndrome, the same autism-related disorder that Aaron's son Ethan has had since birth.
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Like We Care
seventeen
By shan serafin

The ultimatum: Show me a reason to live or I’ll kill myself in seven days. When seventeen-year-old Sophia dares life to prove to her she should stay alive, her suffering is at its climax, her predicament at its worst, and her adolescence at its most difficult.
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Like We Care
Like We Care
By Tom Matthews

What if they just stopped?

What if in a grand, scruffy stab at corporate disobedience, teenagers en masse simply stopped spending their money on the cynical crap that’s relentlessly mainlined to them: the addictive and deadly cigarettes, the hateful music, the crude and desensitizing videos and movies?

What if they stopped buying that $#!%—just to cause trouble? >>Read More

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JAKE
By Arch Montgomery

Jake takes place during one of the single most powerfully shaping times in a person’s life—secondary education. Through the metaphor of the utopian and fictitious St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, author Arch Montgomery shows us how our humanity can only be fully realized through other humans. The book depicts three deaths and one near-fatal disease while simultaneously tracking the rebirth of Jake, the titular and main character.
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deadly trade
The Deadly Trade
By Ken Morris

Tim Mack is a financial analyst running from a past full of death and drink. But when he leaves the Wall Street rat race hoping to slow down his life in San Diego, he finds that a calm and peaceful existence is just not in the cards. While researching a local biotechnology firm that has just exploded into flames, Tim begins to untangle a lethal web of deceit. A frightening, secret triumvirate of mass murder intricately combines a high-finance broker, a Middle-Eastern terrorist organization, and a dying biotechnology firm willing to do anything to keep afloat. >>Read More

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farewell to legs
A Farewell to Legs
By Jeffrey cohen

In A Farewell to Legs, the second installment of the Aaron Tucker Mystery Series, Aaron is back on the trail again, this time trying to ferret out the murderer of a former high school classmate, a D.C. lobbyist whose enemies finally stick it to him, literally—with a six-inch steak knife. The deceased leaves behind a bombshell of a widow, a secret bankroll of $13 million, and a cloud of political controversy, all of which lead Aaron to a barrel of red herrings.
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Paul and Juliana
By Richard Hawley

In precisely the same spirit as Abelard and Heloise and Romeo and Juliet, Paul and Juliana are a fresh young couple who embody the near-impossible notion of perfect love. In this elegant, timeless, and lyrical love story, they walk the fine line between forbidden romance and tragic disaster that is the stuff of ageless myths. >>Read More

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chain thinkingChain Thinking
By Elliott Light

Syndey Vail, once a beautiful soap opera star, now has a passion for championing the rights of animals but she keeps the controversial methods of her cause as shrouded as she keeps her partially disfigured face. Sydney enters lawyer-cum-detective Shep Harrington's life in a cloud of dust and vanishes just as quickly, leaving behind two very different but strangely connected things: a chimpanzee and a murder. >> Read More

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Uncovering Sadie's Secrets
By Libby Sternberg

Allow us to introduce Bianca Balducci, a normal fifteen-year-old girl attending a co-ed parochial school in Baltimore, Maryland. She worries about her hair, her clothes, her would-be boyfriend Doug…And solving real-life mysteries?

That's right! Watch out Nancy Drew, Bianca is on the case and this case revolves around Sadie Sinclair, the new girl Bianca has gone out of her way to befriend, only to discover that she's more than a little odd, and hiding something really BIG!

Did someone actually see Sadie, who's only fifteen, driving a car? Why did she freak out at the idea of playing the lead in the school play? And why is Sadie being stalked by a nefarious duo of grown-ups? >>Read More

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"Hank"
By Arch Montgomery

Meet Hank Collins, an astute, gutsy, and funny 13-year-old who's just finished the seventh grade at a public school in Baltimore's affluent suburbs. But all is not trouble-free for Hank. He must contend with a troubled family, an alien school, and a world otherwise booby-trapped with alluring but perilous possibilities.

Hank is the page-turning, contemporary, coming-of-age story he tells of growing up amidst this wreckage during a dangerous and suspenseful summer. From him, we hear the events of his life. We stand by him on the baseball field and at the dinner tables of his remarried parents. We walk with him into an epic, appalling, yet believable teenage party. We share with him an astounding encounter with adult weekend warriors. We see not just his confusions and dismays, but his grit, his honesty, and his vulnerability. We like him, and root for him, and care about him. >>Read More

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MAN IN THE MIDDLE
By Ken Morris

You are invited to enter the world of high stakes and low morals insider trading, where winning no matter how it's done is measured by how much money you have at day's end. Join Peter Neil as he is sucked into a situation that soon spins out of control. Come experience what happens when a young man with a good heart is tempted with unimaginable wealth; when a love affair gets tangled with long-buried family secrets; when a persistent SEC agent matches wits with ruthless businesspeople who think nothing of murder of individuals and of entire countries' economies! >>Read More

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For Whom the Minivan Rolls:
An Aaron Tucker Mystery
By Jeffrey Cohen

Aaron Tucker isn't a detective.
So he's baffled when the richest guy in his New Jersey town insists that Aaron, and Aaron alone, investigate the disappearance of his wife, who has inexplicably vanished from their home in the middle of the night. A freelance writer, former investigative reporter, stay-at-home dad, aspiring screenwriter, and expert on consumer electronics, Aaron reluctantly says yes, and continuously wishes he hadn't. >>Read More

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Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Murder and Television
by Bill O'Reilly

A TV journalist-turned-serial-killer is on the loose, stopping at nothing to exact revenge on those who've sabotaged his career-on those who've "trespassed against him." In cold but creative fashion, he carries out "righteous slaughter" on a "big-footing" network news reporter, an axe-happy corporate manager, an amoral TV consultant, and a news director hell-bent on producing soft news and spiking ratings. >>Read More.

As Emmy Award-winning TV anchor Bill O'Reilly's fan base grows by the hundreds of thousands each year, his first novel continues to sell both in hardcover and massmarket.

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A Cry Unheard Finn: a Novel
by Matthew Olshan
$19.95 (hardcover), $14.95 (paperback),
and unabridged audio cassette ($29.95)

Finn: a Novel is a modern retelling of Twain's classic, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but with two female teens as the protagonists. Based on all the reaction - from Booklist (starred review), to Book of the Month Club (featured selection), to C-Span (two taped and aired author appearances), to featured front page attention on Ingram Library's newsletter to all YA librarians - we think this YA novel does something quite rare:combine high intellectual content with high entertainment value! >>Read More

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The Re-Appearance of Sam Webber

The Re-Appearance of Sam Webber
 by Jonathon Scott Fuqua

When young Sam Webber's father disappears without a trace, he begins to learn about friendships and family in this heartwarming novel about growing up in the city. This coming-of-age story has won virtually every award in its class, including the ALEX Award for best adult books for teens, and is quickly becoming required reading in English classrooms throughout the United States and abroad, in great Britain, New Zealand, and Australia.>>Read More

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Lonesome Song
by Elliott Light

Lonesome Song is a most unusual but entertaining novel, the first in a planned series of Shep Harrington SmallTown™ Mysteries. Shep Harrington, the book's main character and its likeable narrator, comes easily to his new role of amateur sleuth. Because of his own recent experience, he's deeply distrustful of authority, having just spent three years in prison for a white-collar crime he didn't commit. >>Read More

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Malicious Intent

Malicious Intent
by Mike Walker of The National Enquirer

Walker, a gossip columnist with the National Enquirer, presents Hollywood at its most vicious in this novel of ambition, greed, and revenge.

Charmain Burns rises from Florida white trash to Hollywood stardom at an early age. Along the way, she leaves a trail of kinky sex and violence: castrations, murders, rapes. After Charmain sets in motion the accidental death of a reporter who has written an unflattering story about her, she is the object of constant surveillance by the reporter's editor and a maniac stalker. These actions come at the worst possible time, for Charmain is seeking the lead in Medusa, a film about an ambitious actress willing to kill for a prized move role. >>Read More

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