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March 2012

Cool & New

March 2012

March's roundup of Cool & New Books includes STARTERS, Lissa Price's dystopian novel set in a future where teens rent their bodies to seniors who want to be young again; OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF TIME, the fifth installment in Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls series, which finds Cammie Morgan returning to Gallagher Academy, but facing more questions than answers; and CURVEBALL: The Year I Lost My Grip by Jordan Sonnenblick, which proves that sometimes the greatest comebacks take place far away from the ball field.

Among the paperbacks releasing this month are NIGHT STAR by Alyson Noël, an Immortals novel that follows Ever and Damon as they face down bitter rivals, jealous friends, and their own worst nightmares --- all in the hope of being together forever; THE DARK AND HOLLOW PLACES, the final installment in Carrie Ryan's The Forest of Hands and Teeth trilogy, in which a devastated Annah meets a mysterious guy who's linked to her horrific past and her even more terrifying future; and MILES FROM ORDINARY by Carol Lynch Williams, the gripping tale of a 13-year-old girl whose day that started out so full of hope now spins horribly out of control.

Boy21 by Matthew Quick - Fiction
Chomp by Carl Hiaasen - Mystery

 

In three previous mysteries --- HOOT, FLUSH and SCAT --- Carl Hiaasen has offered young readers entertaining comic mysteries that combine environmental concerns and social issues with plenty of wacky laughs. Now, in CHOMP, he extends his winning streak with a funny novel that dives into the world of reality television.

Closer by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams - Fantasy/Action & Adventure
Dark Eyes by William Richter - Thriller
Embrace by Jessica Shirvington - Paranormal Romance/Fantasy
Girl, Stolen by April Henry - Thriller

 

When Cheyenne is unwittingly taken along in a car-theft turned kidnapping, she doesn’t have a lot going for her. Already blind and sick with pneumonia, she must find a way to escape before her captors get the ransom money and have no more use for her.

Morpheus Road: The Blood by D. J. MacHale - Fantasy/Action & Adventure
Ripper by Stefan Petrucha - Historical Mystery

 

Carver Young has always had big dreams of being a detective. Despite his humble upbringing in an orphanage, he gets his chance when he is adopted by Detective Hawking. But when he is thrown into the case of a vicious serial killer who has terrorized New York City, things quickly get real, and soon Carver finds his newfound stability thrown into disarray once again.

Slide by Jill Hathaway - Mystery
Starters by Lissa Price - Dystopian Thriller

 

In the future, teens rent their bodies to seniors who want to be young again. One girl discovers that her renter plans to do more than party --- her body will commit murder, if her mind can't stop it.

Stay by Deb Caletti - Fiction
Steel by Carrie Vaughn - Fantasy
Three Black Swans by Caroline B. Cooney - Fiction

 

Missy and her cousin Claire are best friends who finish each other’s sentences and practically read each other’s minds. It’s an eerie connection --- so eerie, in fact, that they decide to use a school project to uncover the truth.