Category Archives: New on the Shelves

New Large Print Titles–August & September 2012

The titles below are now on the large print shelves at the Irondequoit Public Library. Visit us to check them out! (titles in order of author’s last name) FICTION–SEPTEMBER TITLES The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom Given one last chance at redemption, Father Time, the inventor of the world’s first clock, must teach two earthly […]

New Teen Books – Week of Aug 27th

, Angela Johnson After a terrible accident, Scotty feels responsible for the death of someone she hardly knew and struggles with her own reality while her friends and family deal with their own troubles, but the prospect of a boy and a dance add positive possibility back into Scotty’s life. The Dragons of Winter (The […]

New Teen Books- Week of August 20th

, Rebecca Rupp After the death of his older brother, Daniel Anderson became engrossed in recording details about dead people, how they died, and whether their deaths mattered but he is eventually drawn back into interaction with the living. Carter’s Unfocused, One-Track Mind, Brent Crawford Fifteen-year-old Will Carter’s sophomore year at Merrian High presents new […]

New Adult Books for August 2012

Here are some of the new titles we’ve ordered: FICTION 12.21 Dustin Thomason A tale inspired by the 2012 apocalypse phenomenon finds a CDC expert and a Mayan scholar racing against time in the wake a confounding medical mystery and a priceless artifact from the scholar’s lost ancestral home. Battleborn Claire Vaye Watkins A debut […]

New Teen Books- Week of August 13th

, Kirsten Miller Haven Moore and Iain Morrow leave Rome and head back to New York after Haven’s friend Beau mysteriously disappears, andencounter the Horae, an underground group of women who agree to help Haven discover Beau’s whereabouts in one of her past lives if she will in exchange infiltrate the Ouroboros Society and lure […]

New Teen Books – Week of August 13th

Enclave, Ann Aguirre In a post-apocalyptic future, Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the ways of the elders may be wrong.   The Kill Order, James Dashner Mark and Trina struggle to survive […]

New Teen Books – Week of Aug 6th

, Flynn Meaney When all the boys start transferring out of Julius P. Heil High, a lovable slacker becomes a hot commodity much to his best friend’s bewilderment.   Liar and Spy, Rebecca Stead Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father’s efforts to start a new business, his mother’s […]

New Teen Books- Week of July 30th

, Marilyn Kaye Meadowbrook Middle School is an ordinary school with ordinary students: queen bees, jocks, nerds, brains, all the usual suspects. With nine exceptions. These students look like the others, but each of them has a special supernatural attribute that marks them out. This volume includes the stories of Amanda, Jenna, and Emily. The […]

New Teen Books, Week of July 23rd

, L. A. Weatherly In the wake of the Second Wave, the angel menace escalates driving Alex and Willow to Mexico City where they connect with a fledgling group of angel killers who, although they accept Alex as their leader, remain skeptical of Willow, who is keeping a big secret. The Best Night of Your […]

New Adult Books for July 2012

Here are some of the new titles we’ve ordered: FICTION Backfire Catherine Coutler When a San Francisco judge is shot at the same time as a once-relentless federal prosecutor turns cautious, FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich receive an ominous note from the culprit that blames them for the incident. Black List Brad Thor […]