New Fiction Books (Arranged by Genre, and Then Alphabetically by Author’S Last Name)
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Zimmerman Library Jan-June 2017 New Fiction Books (arranged by genre, and then alphabetically by author’s last name) revenge against the powerful Wells family and ACTION now, at age eighteen, is ready to destroy them, including her first love, Grey. ACTION RYA Smith, Dan, 1970-. Boy X. 1st ed., March 2017. Key, Watt. Hideout. 1st ed., 2017. New York: New York: Chicken House/Scholastic Inc., Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017. "The son of a 2017.When twelve-year-old Ash McCarthy wakes Mississippi policeman finds a boy living in up after his father's funeral, he finds that he has hiding in the wilderness and tries to help him been kidnapped to an island off the coast of without giving away his secret"--Provided by Costa Rica, caught in the middle of a secret and publisher. ACTION KEY deadly project named Kronos in which his mother is somehow involved, and he must find a Matson, Lynne. Nil. 1st Square Fish ed.: 2015. way to save them both--and the only person he is New York: Square Fish, Henry Holt and Co., sure he can trust is a Spanish girl his own age 2015.Transported through a "gate" to the named Isabel. ACTION SMI mysterious island of Nil, seventeen-year-old Charley has 365 days to escape--or she will die. ACTION MAT CLASSIC Reichs, Brendan. Nemesis. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2017].As the Anvil, an enormous asteroid, threatens to end all life on Ellison, Ralph. Flying home and other Earth, sixteen-year-old Min begins to uncover a stories. 1st Vintage International ed. New York: lifetime of lies, a sinister conspiracy involving all Vintage, 1998.A party down at the square -- Boy students in her sophomore class in Fire Lake, on a train -- Mister Toussan -- Afternoon -- That Idaho. ACTION REI I had the wings -- A coupla scalped indians -- Hymie's bull -- I did not learn their names -- A Ryan, Carrie. Daughter of deep silence. New hard time keeping up -- The black ball -- King of York, N.Y.: Speak, 2016.At fourteen, Frances the bingo game -- In a strange country -- Flying survived a slaughter that claimed the lives of her home. Includes thirteen short fiction stories parents and best friend, Libby, but she took on written by Ellison between 1937 and 1954. Libby's identity and wealth while plotting CLASSIC ELL 1 Lively, Penelope, 1933-. The purple swamp hen Blackwood, Sage. Miss Ellicott's school for the and other stories. New York: Viking, 2017. "A magically minded. 1st ed. New York, NY: glimmering collection of new short fiction from Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]. "Repeatedly author of How It All Began In such acclaimed landing in trouble at her finishing school novels as The Photograph, Family Album, and because of her preference for practicing magic How It All Began, Penelope Lively has captivated instead of manners, Chantel enlists her friends readers with her singular blend of wisdom, to protect the kingdom when her teacher goes elegance, and humor. Now, in her first story missing along with the city's protective magic. "- collection in decades, Lively takes up themes of -OCLC. FANTASY BLA history, family, and relationships across varied and vividly rendered settings. In the title story, a Blake, Elly. Frostblood. 1st ed.: January 2017. Mediterranean purple swamp hen chronicles the New York: Little, Brown and Co. , 2017. secrets and scandals of Quintus Pompeius's villa, "Seventeen-year-old Ruby is a Fireblood who culminating with his narrow escape from the must use her powers of heat and flame to help lava and ash of Vesuvius. "Abroad" captures the two Frostblood rebels overthrow a maniacal low point of an artist couple's tumultuous Frostblood king"--. FANTASY BLA European road trip, trapped in a remote Spanish farmhouse and forced to paint a family mural Bobet, Leah. An inheritance of ashes. Boston: and pitch in with chores to pay for repairs to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. Now that the their broken-down car. Other stories reveal strange war is over, sixteen-year-old Hallie and friends and lovers in fateful moments of her sister struggle to maintain their family farm, indiscretion, discovery, and even retribution--as waiting to see who will return from the distant in "The Third Wife," when a woman learns her battlefield, soon hiring a veteran to help them husband to be a serial con artist and turns a but, as ugly truths about their family emerge, house hunting trip into an elaborately staged Hallie is taking dangerous risks and keeping revenge trap"--. CLASSIC LIV desperate secrets while monsters and armies converge on the small farm. FANTASY BOB McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. The heart is a lonely hunter. 1st Mariner Bks. ed. Boston: Bouwman, H. M. A crack in the sea. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 2000.A deaf mute who has NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2017]. "Pip, a young lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane boy who can speak to fish, and his sister Kinchen becomes the recipient of the confidences of set off on a great adventure, joined by twins with several other town residents. CLASSIC MCC magical powers, refugees fleeing post-war Vietnam, and some helpful sea monsters"-- Orwell, George, 1903-1950. 1984: a novel. New Provided by publisher. FANTASY BOU York: Signet Classic, 1977.Depicts life in a totalitarian regime of the future. CLASSIC ORW Carroll, Emma, 1970-. In darkling wood. 1st American ed. New York: Delacorte Press, [2017]. When Alice goes to stay with her grandmother she discovers the magical Darkling Wood, where FANTASY she meets a strange friend and discovers letters written between a brother and sister during WWI. FANTASY CAR Appelt, Kathi, 1954-. Maybe a fox. 1st Ed. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Cast, P. C. Redeemed. 1st St. Martin's Griffin [2016]. An otherworldly fox is born to help trade pbk. ed.: September 2015. New York: St. eleven-year-old Jules, who is grieving over the Martin's Griffin, 2015. "Zoey and her friends face death of her sister. FANTASY APP the ultimate battle with evil, which will determine the fate of the world, both human and Baldacci, David. The finisher. 1st ed. New York: 1ampyre"--Provided by publisher. FANTASY Scholastic Press, 2014. Vega investigates why CAS Quentin Herms was chased into the dangerous Quag and discovers dangerous secrets about her home village of Wormwood. FANTASY BAL 2 Chokshi, Roshani. A crown of wishes. 1st U. S. Fine, Sarah. The cursed queen. 1st ed. New York: ed.: March 2017. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2017]. "Ansa has 2017. "Gauri, princess of Bharata, has been always been a fighter. As a child, she fought the captured by her kingdom's enemies and faces a invaders who murdered her parents and future of exile and scorn, she has nothing left to snatched her as a raid prize. She fought for her lose. But Vikram, the notoriously cunning prince status as a warrior in her tribe, but the day the of a neighboring land, promises her freedom in Krigere cross the great lake and threaten the exhange for her partnership on his team to win witch queen of the Kupari, everything changes"-- the Tournament of Wishes. It seems like a fool- Provided by publisher. FANTASY FIN proof plan until Gauri and Vikram arrive at the trounament and find that danger takes on new Gaiman, Neil. American gods: a novel. 1st shapes, and new trials test their devotion, Perennial ed. New York: Perennial, 2003. It is strength, and wits at every turn. And they soon the story of Shadow—released from prison just discover that there is nothing more dangerous days after his wife and best friend are killed in than what they most desire. "--Adapted from an accident—who gets recruited to be dust jacket. FANTASY CHO bodyguard, driver, and errand boy for the enigmatic trickster, Mr. Wednesday. So begins Chokshi, Roshani. The star-touched queen. 1st Shadow’s dark and strange road trip, one that ed. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. introduces him to a host of eccentric characters Sixteen-year-old Maya's arranged marriage whose fates are mysteriously intertwined with turns out much better than she expected, but her his own. For, beneath the placid surface of husband's magic--and her curiosity--may everyday life, a storm is brewing—an epic war threaten more than her life. FANTASY CHO for the very soul of America—and Shadow is standing squarely in its path. FANTASY GAI Cluess, Jessica. A shadow bright and burning. 1st ed. New York: Random House, [2016]. Garber, Stephanie. Caraval. 1st U. S. ed.: "When her unusual powers mark her as the one January 2017. New York: Flatiron Books, 2017. destined to lead the war against the seven Two sisters, Scarlett and Tella, leave their cruel Ancients, Henrietta trains to become the first father to attend Caraval--a faraway once-a-year female sorcerer in centuries--though the true performance where the audience participates in nature of her ability threatens to be revealed"-- the show--and, along the way, Tella is kidnapped Provided by publisher. FANTASY CLU and Scarlett is aided by a mysterious sailor and finds herself enmeshed in a game of love, Egan, Catherine, 1976-. Julia vanishes. 1st ed. heartbreak, and magic. FANTASY GAR New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [2016]. "Possessing an ability to hide on the edge of perception, Julia Heilig, Heidi. The girl from everywhere. 1st ed. conceals her talents in a city where magic is New York, NY: Greenwillow Books, an imprint banned and poses as a grand lady's housemaid of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016].