Miranda Bloom #4 November 2010 On Sale: November 2, 2010 Featuring: Miranda; Nora Lee 256 pages ISBN: 0451231341 EAN: 9780451231345 Trade Size $9.99 Add to Wish List Young Adult Buy at Amazon.com What’s a nerd to do?? Revenge Of The Geek by Piper Banks Smart girls don’t get mad. They get even. Some people have to learn the hard way-don’t mess with a geek. Miranda Bloom, girl genius, is totally psyched to start her junior year at Geek High. Too bad her boyfriend, lacrosse player Dex McConnell, is off to boarding school in Maine. Miranda thought she could count on her best friends, Finn and Charlie, to cheer her up, but they’re caught up in their own issues… So Miranda decides to make friends with the shy new student Nora Lee. At first things with Nora are great, but soon it seems like Nora thinks that anything Miranda can do, she can do better. Surviving at Geek High is hard enough without a copycat on your tail, and Miranda’s not about to let some imitation artist take her place. Sometimes imitation has nothing to do with flattery. Previous Picks

June 2010 On Sale: June 1, 2010 336 pages ISBN: 1594487588 EAN: 9781594487583 Hardcover $25.95 Add to Wish List Fiction Buy at Amazon.com Can love stay the same over multiple lifetimes? My Name Is Memory by Ann Brashares Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) have been drawn together-and he remembers it all. Daniel has “the memory”, the ability to recall past lives and recognize souls of those he’s previously known. It is a gift and a curse. For all the times that he and Sophia have been drawn together throughout history, they have also been torn painfully, fatally, apart. A love always too short. Interwoven through Sophia and Daniel’s unfolding present day relationship are glimpses of their expansive history together. From 552 Asia Minor to 1918 England and 1972 Virginia, the two souls share a long and sometimes torturous path of seeking each other time and time again. But just when young Sophia (now “Lucy” in the present) finally begins to awaken to the secret of their shared past, to understand the true reason for the strength of their…

December 2010 On Sale: November 23, 2010 Featuring: Soledad Reyes; Jonathan Crandall 336 pages ISBN: 0312650043 EAN: 9780312650049 Paperback $9.99 Add to Wish List Young Adult Buy at Amazon.com “Carmen?” In high school? YES PLEASE! When The Stars Go Blue by Caridad Ferrer Soledad Reyes decides to dance Carmen as part of a drum and bugle corps competition, not knowing if it will help or harm her chance of becoming a professional ballet dancer but eager to pursue new options, including a romance with the boy who invited her to audition. A dancer driven to succeed. A musical prodigy attempting to escape his past. The summer they share. And the moment it all goes wrong. Dance is Soledad Reyes’s life. About to graduate from Miami’s Biscayne High School for the Performing Arts, she plans on spending her last summer at home teaching in a dance studio, saving money, and eventually auditioning for dance companies. That is, until fate intervenes in the form of fellow student Jonathan Crandall who has what sounds like an outrageous proposition: Forget teaching. Why not spend the summer performing in the intense environment of the competitive drum and bugle corps? The corps is going to be…

December 2010 On Sale: December 7, 2010 Featuring: Jane 231 pages ISBN: 159514353X EAN: 9781595143532 Hardcover $16.99 Add to Wish List Young Adult Buy at Amazon.com Nancy Drew was never this steamy! Rosebush by Michele Jaffe Instead of celebrating Memorial Day weekend on the Jersey Shore, Jane is in the hospital surrounded by teddy bears, trying to piece together what happened last night. One minute she was at a party, wearing fairy wings and cuddling with her boyfriend. The next, she was lying near-dead in a rosebush after a hit-and-run. Everyone believes it was an accident, despite the phone threats Jane swears were real. But the truth is a thorny thing. As Jane]s boyfriend, friends, and admirers come to visit, more memories surface–not just from the party, but from deeper in her past . . . including the night her best friend Bonnie died. With nearly everyone in her life a suspect now, Jane must unravel the mystery before her killer attacks again. Along the way, she’s forced to examine the consequences of her life choices in this compulsively readable thriller. Excerpt “Please, Jane,” Annie said, standing at the side of the bed, her voice so soft and small sounding….

July 2010 On Sale: July 20, 2010 Featuring: Zoey; Brandon; Doug 256 pages ISBN: 1439178232 EAN: 9781439178232 Paperback $11.00 Add to Wish List Young Adult Buy at Amazon.com What would you rather — forget or remember? Forget You by Jennifer Echols When swim team captain Zoey wakes up from a car accident with partial amnesia, she is torn between the boy she remembers…and the one she doesn’t. WHY CAN’T YOU CHOOSE WHAT YOU FORGET . . . AND WHAT YOU REMEMBER? There’s a lot Zoey would like to forget. Like how her father has knocked up his twenty-four-year old girlfriend. Like Zoey’s fear that the whole town will find out about her mom’s nervous breakdown. Like darkly handsome bad boy Doug taunting her at school. Feeling like her life is about to become a complete mess, Zoey fights back the only way she knows how, using her famous attention to detail to make sure she’s the perfect daughter, the perfect student, and the perfect girlfriend to ultra-popular football player Brandon. But then Zoey is in a car crash, and the next day there’s one thing she can’t remember at all—the entire night before. Did she go parking with Brandon, like…

October 2010 On Sale: October 19, 2010 Featuring: Patch; Nora 432 pages ISBN: 1416989439 EAN: 9781416989431 Hardcover $18.99 Add to Wish List Young Adult Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com A rocky path to love Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick The much anticipated follow up to the New York Times Bestseller Hush, Hush! Nora should have know her life was far from perfect. Despite starting a relationship with her guardian angel, Patch (who, title aside, can be described anything but angelic), and surviving an attempt on her life, things are not looking up. Patch is starting to pull away and Nora can’t figure out if it’s for her best interest or if his interest has shifted to her arch-enemy Marcie Millar. Not to mention that Nora is haunted by images of her father and she becomes obsessed with finding out what really happened to him that night he left for Portland and never came home. The farther Nora delves into the mystery of her father’s death, the more she comes to question if her Nephilim blood line has something to do with it as well as why she seems to be in danger more than the average girl. Since Patch isn’t answering her…

October 2010 On Sale: September 21, 2010 Featuring: Lend; Evie 320 pages ISBN: 0061985848 EAN: 9780061985843 Hardcover $16.99 Add to Wish List Young Adult Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Why is falling in love so hard? Paranormalcy by Kiersten White When a dark prophecy begins to come true, sixteen-year-old Evie of the International Paranormal Containment Agency must not only try to stop it, she must also uncover its connection to herself and the alluring shapeshifter, Lend. Evie’s always thought of herself as a normal teenager, even though she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she’s falling for a shape-shifter, and she’s the only person who can see through paranormals’ glamours. But Evie’s about to realize that she may very well be at the center of a dark faerie prophecy promising destruction to all paranormal creatures. So much for normal. Previous Picks

Looking Glass Trilogy #1 January 2011 On Sale: January 3, 2011 352 pages ISBN: 0399157026 EAN: 9780399157028 Hardcover $25.95 Add to Wish List Mystery Amateur Sleuth, Romance Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com California Suspense, at last Fallon’s story In Too Deep by Jayne Ann Krentz Jayne Ann Krentz follows up her highly successful Dreamlight Trilogy written in collaboration with her two alter egos, Amanda Quick and Jayne Castle with a brand-new story arc that begins in a secluded coastal town in northern California. Scargill Cove is the perfect place for Fallon Jones, confirmed recluse and investigator of the paranormal. It’s a hot spot, a convergence point for unusually strong currents of energy, which might explain why the town attracts misfits and drifters like moths to a flame. Now someone else has been drawn to the Cove Isabella Valdez, on the run from some very dangerous men. When she starts working as Fallon’s assistant, Isabella impresses him by organizing his pathologically chaotic office and doesn’t bat an eye at the psychic element of his job. She’s a kindred spirit, a sanctuary from a world that considers his talents a form of madness. But after a routine case unearths an antique clock infused…

Charlie Hood #3 January 2011 On Sale: January 4, 2011 Featuring: Mike Finnegan; Charlie Hood 388 pages ISBN: 0451232429 EAN: 9780451232427 Trade Size $14.00 Add to Wish List Thriller Crime Buy at Amazon.com Going out to the desert Iron River by T. Jefferson Parker Along the U.S./Mexico border, a man named Finnegan wakes up in the border-town of Buenavista after a hit and run- eerily aware of events he should know nothing about, $90,000 richer, and with Charlie Hood’s name and address in his wallet. Meanwhile when tracking the flow of illegal guns into Mexico, Hood’s team accidentally kills the son of Benjamin Armenta, head of the Gulf Cartel and one of the most violent men in the world. Now, Hood must work to grasp the enigmatic forces fighting for control of Buenavista- forces that circle back to Finnegan, and to Armenta’s unstoppable plan for brutal vengeance. Excerpt The car hurtled west towing a swirl of black exhaust into the first light of day. It was old and low, with Baja plates and a loose muffler that dangled and sparked on the dips. The woman drove. She was silver-haired and fl at-faced and though her eyes were open wide to…

January 2011 On Sale: January 4, 2011 Featuring: Ro 289 pages ISBN: 0525951768 EAN: 9780525951766 Hardcover $26.95 Add to Wish List Thriller Legal, Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Damage by John Lescroart A Novel From New York Times bestseller John Lescroart comes an explosive look at the seductive power of revenge and the terrible costs of justice. The Curtlees are the most powerful family in San Francisco, unscrupulous billionaires who ve lined every important pocket in the Bay Area in pursuit of their own ascent. So when the family’s heir, Ro Curtlee, was convicted of rape and murder a decade ago, the fallout for those who helped to bring him to justice was swift and uncompromising. The jury foreman was fired from his job and blacklisted in his industry. The lead prosecutor was pushed off the fast track, her dreams of becoming DA dashed. And head homicide detective Abe Glitsky was reassigned to the police department s payroll office. Eventually, all three were able to rebuild their fragile, damaged lives. And then Ro Curtlee’s lawyers won him a retrial, and he was released from jail. Within twenty-four hours, a fire destroys the home of the original trial’s star witness, her abused…