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Devon Davenport
is a straight-A
student and
prominent player
on her school's
soccer team, but
when she is
linked to an
abandoned baby
found in the trash
she is accused of
attempted
murder.
Eager to learn
everything she can
about her new abilities
as an Immortal, Ever
turns to her beloved
Damen to show her
the way, but just as her
powers are increasing,
his are in decline, and
as she searches for a
way to save him, she
finds herself with a
wrenching choice to
make.
High school
sophomore Liam
jeopardizes his new
position on the
varsity basketball
team when he
decides to take a
stand against his
coach who is
leading prayers
before games and
enforcing teamwide
participation.
High school
sophomore Liam
jeopardizes his
new position on the
varsity basketball
team when he
decides to take a
stand against his
coach who is
leading prayers
before games and
enforcing teamwide
participation.
Mena, ostracized at
church, home, and
school for writing a
letter of apology to a
gay teen--who was
harassed into trying to
kill himself by her
fundamentalist
friends--struggles to
find her way when
new friends and
school experiences
force her to
reconsider her beliefs.
In a kingdom called
the Dells, Fire is the
last human-shaped
monster, with
unimaginable
beauty and the
ability to control the
minds of those
around her, but
even with these
gifts she cannot
escape the strife
that overcomes her
world.
Remy, a talented,
seventeen-year-old
auto mechanic,
questions his
decision to join his
girlfriend when she
starts college in
Pennsylvania, after a
visiting artist helps
him realize what his
family home in a
dying West Virginia
mountain town
means to him.
Charlotte Usher has
always struggled to fit in
at her high school, and
when Charlotte finds
herself living in a
parallel spiritual world
after choking to death
on a gummy bear, she
tries to reconnect with
the physical world while
making new friends at
her new school for the
dead.
Cameron Smith, a
disaffected sixteenyear-old diagnosed
with mad cow
disease, sets off on
a road trip with a
death-obsessed,
video-gaming dwarf
he meets in the
hospital in an
attempt to find a
cure.
Juliet Ashton, a thirtyyear-old author, writes
to her publisher
expressing her desire
to stop covering the
aftermath of WWII, but
Guernsey farmer
Dawsey Adams invites
neighbors to write to
Juliet with their stories,
which puts her off at
first but eventually
helps her find
inspiration for her next
book, and her life.
Sixteen-year-old
Valerie, whose
boyfriend Nick
committed a school
shooting at the end
of their junior year,
struggles to cope
with integrating
herself back into
high school life,
unsure herself
whether she was a
hero or a villain.
Author Mitch Albom,
having been asked to
write a eulogy for an
elderly rabbi, begins a
relationship with the
man in order to get to
know him better, and,
in the process, also
becomes involved
with the plight of a
local pastor whose
church is falling down
around him, leading
Mitch to better
understand the
importance of faith.
When thirteenyear-old Koly
enters into an illfated arranged
marriage, she
must either suffer
a destiny dictated
by India's tradition
or find the courage
to oppose it.
House of Night series,
by P.C. Cast
Students who sign up for this
group will only have to read one
book in this series.
This engaging series follows 16year-old Zoey Redbird, who gets
"marked" by a vampyre tracker
and begins to undergo the
"change" into an actual vampyre.
She has to leave her family and
move into the House of Night, a
boarding school for other
fledglings like her. It's within the
school's walls that the heart of the
action takes place as Zoey meets
new friends, finds love, come to
terms with how her life will be
different now and begins to realize
her awesome new powers.
Living in a
neighborhood of
drug dealers and
gangs in New
Mexico, high
school junior Eddie
Corazon, a
juvenile
delinquent-intraining, falls in
love with a girl who
inspires him to
rethink his life and
his choices.
Harvard graduate student
Connie Goodwin, having
agreed to handle the sale of
her grandmother's
abandoned home near
Salem, Massachusetts,
comes across an ancient key
while going through the
house which holds a piece of
parchment with the name
Deliverance Dane written on
it, and in her efforts to
discover more about the
mysterious Deliverance,
Connie soon finds herself
having visions of the Salem
witch trials and wondering
about the extent of her
family's connection to history.
Lonely after a
midsummer move
to a new town,
sixteen-year-old
high-school
quarterback Marcus
Jordan becomes
friends with a
retired professional
linebacker who is
great at training
him, but whose
childish behavior
keeps Marcus in
hot water.
An adaptation of
"Pride and
Prejudice," in which
Meryton is overrun
with zombies and
Elizabeth Bennet
does what must be
done to rid the world
of the flesh-eating
fiends, but she is
distracted by the
arrival of Mr. Darcy, a
rich man who
harbors an air of
arrogance.
Over the past thirty years,
as Wesley J. Smith details
in his latest book, the
concept of animal rights has
been seeping into the very
bone marrow of Western
culture. One reason for this
development is that the
term “animal rights” is so
often used very loosely, to
mean simply being nicer to
animals. But although
animal rights groups do
sometimes focus their
activism on promoting
animal welfare, the larger
movement they represent is
actually advancing a radical
belief system.
American
journalist Julia
Jarmond
researches the
brutal 1942 Nazi
roundup in Paris
and stumbles
upon a connection
between her
family and one of
the victims, which
compels Julia to
learn more about
the girl's life.
In all the years
she has watched
the wolves in the
woods behind her
house, Grace has
been particularly
drawn to an
unusual yelloweyed wolf who, in
his turn, has been
watching her with
increasing
intensity.
Sixteen-year-old
"Slam" Harris is
counting on his
noteworthy
basketball talents
to get him out of
the inner city and
give him a chance
to succeed in life,
but his coach
sees things
differently.