Mature Young Adult

Coming 9/11/2012 from the Printz Honor-winning author of Tender Morsels.

With the aid of a witch, the men of Rollrock Island draw their wives from the sea, a practice that brings as much joy as heartbreak. A sophisticated, literary read, the story is told from multiple perspectives to great effect. A masterpiece! A literary work of art!  A Mariga pick.

A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare.  A Cindy and Joanne Pick

This book has been garnering rave reviews and deserves every one of them. A great book club selection! Watch the haunting trailer:

Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage and finds sanctuary with a group of nuns. But these aren't just any nuns. The Sisters at St. Mortain still serve the old gods. If she stays with them, Ismae must be trained to be an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death himself.

A lush and romantic historical fantasy set in fifteenth century Brittany.  

A Joanne pick

An uncompromising look at the horrors of the Killing Fields of Cambodia. McCormick has chosen to write in the voice of Arn Choi Pond, a young Cambodian who survives the atrocities by joining the band and vowing to never fall down, no matter how weak from hunger he might become. Based on a true story and countless hours of interviews with the real Arn Choi Pond, this is a harrowing but important book.

A Joanne pick

Only John Green could write a novel this powerful and sad and at the same time funny and engaging.

Sixteen-year-old Hazel knows she's terminal and she's trying to get her parents to accept it. Then Hazel meets the gorgeous Augustus Waters, a cancer survivor with one leg. They exchange favorite books and go on outings and before long they're heading for Amsterdam together on a last-wish trip.

Supremely intelligent writing.

A Joanne pick

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 Victor hates his life. He’s relentlessly bullied at school and his parents constantly ridicule him at home.

Bull is angry. He’s sick of his grandfather’s drunken beatings. And he likes to take out his rage on Victor.

Determined to end it all, Victor takes a bottle of his mother’s sleeping pills—only to be disappointed when he wakes up in the psych ward. And his roommate? None other than Bull, whose loaded-gun effort at self-defense has been labeled as a suicide attempt.

Things go from bad to worse—until the boys discover they might just have something in common: a reason to live.  A riveting debut from West Chester author K.M. Walton!

A Joanne pick.