Steph Nelson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

The Vein

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J. R. Ward

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Unaware of the attraction he holds for Xhex, vampire John Matthew is taken in by The Brotherhood who have no knowledge of his history or true identity, in this novel from the New York Times bestselling author.

Lover Mine

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Tatsuya Endo

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an assassin and a telepath! Master spy Twilight is the best at what he does when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions in the name of a better world. But when he receives the ultimate impossible assignment—get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head! Not one to depend on others, Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn’t know is that the wife he’s chosen is an assassin and the child he’s adopted is a telepath!

Spy X Family, Vol. 1

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Aki Shimizu

Patrick Coffman

Alan Swayze

Successor of Fate

Deep in the forest, Chris and Nash venture to the village of the Alma Kinan clan. Once there, Chris meets the spirit medium Yun, who is about to be sacrificed by the Alma Kinan in order to open a sacred seal. Will Chris be able to discover what lies ahead before her past is sealed for good?

Suikoden III

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The Candidate for Goddess  

Kanoko Sakurakouji

Black Bird, Vol. 1 & 2

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Shiro Ihara

As punishment for slacking on the job, the shinigami Lapan is ordered to go to the Human Realm in the body of a skeleton to retrieve a wandering soul. However, much to Lapan's lecherous delight, a slip-up lands his soul in the body of the young Alice, a buxom student at a local all-girls' school. With the skirt-chasing shinigami (as Alice) leaving a storm of sexual harassment allegations in his wake, whatever is poor, beskeletoned Alice to do?!

Alice on Deadlines, Vol. 1 & 2

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Akihisa Ikeda

Love Bites!

All-around average teenager Tsukune can't get accepted to any high school save one...but on his first day, he finds the rest of the student body doesn't appear average in the least. Best of all, the cutest girl on campus can't wait to fling her arms around his neck! Wait a sec'--are those her teeth around his neck too...? Tsukune's going to have one heck of a hickey when he gets home from Monster High! But does he have a chance in H-E-double-hockey-sticks of raising his grades at a school where the turf war isn't between the jocks and the nerds but the vampires and the werewolves?

LESSON ONE: VAMPIRES

QUIZ

WHAT'S THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION WHEN A PERT CLASSMATE ATTEMPTS TO SNACK ON YOUR JUGULAR?

a. Run for your life and the sanctity of your soul
b. Invite her out for a strawberry soda, heavy on the syrup
c. Scream like a boy and hide in the principal's office
d. Let her have a few sips while you check out her spectacular quadriceps

Rosario+Vampire, Vol. 1, 4, & 5

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Nobuaki Enoki

In order to curb the crime running rampant in the elementary school system, a new solution has been enacted in the form of the School Judgment System. Now the young students themselves will be responsible for solving the issues that befall them. But are they up for the task? At Tenbin Elementary, there is only one way to settle a dispute—in a court of law! All disputes bypass the teachers and are settled by some of the best lawyers in the country…who also happen to be elementary school students. The accused this time is a boy named Tento. His crime? Murder of the beloved class fish Suzuki! Luckily for him, the state has sent him a defense attorney, Abaku Inugami. But is this wild young lawyer skilled enough to argue his client off the hook?

School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei, Vol. 1 & 2

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Mizuki Hakase

A lonely, yet caring, 15-year-old Chiaki, a half-angel daughter of the Archangel Michael and a human woman, welcomes into her home a dejected devil Ororon who pledges to stay at her side forever. Both of them have been ostracized from their respective celestial realms - Chiaki because she is an impure angel and Ororon, because he is the youngest son of the Lord Devil, and therefore a threat to his older brothers for leadership of the underworld. As various demons come by to eat the angel Chiaki, she learns that having the incredibly powerful Ororon by her side is useful. However, the difference between angel and devil becomes clear when Chiaki has to implore Ororon not to kill those that come to kill her, much less the ones sent by his brothers to kill him. Meanwhile, Chiaki's household grows even more when she invites Lady Miss Lucy, the demon cats Shiro and Kuro and her friend Lika to come live with her.

The Demon Ororon

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Tsugumi Ohba

Takeshi Obata

By the creators of Death Note! The mystery behind manga-making revealed! R to L (Japanese Style). Is becoming a successful manga artist an achievable dream or just one big gamble? Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world? Moritaka is hesitant to seriously consider Akito's proposal because he knows how difficult reaching the professional level can be. Still, encouragement from persistent Akito and motivation from his crush push Moritaka to test his limits!

Bakuman. , Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

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Malala Yousafzai

Christina Lamb

#hardcover #nonfiction #religion #autobiography #biography 

The Girl Who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Describes the life of a young Pakistani student who advocated for women's rights and education in the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley who survived an assassination attempt and became the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. (This book was listed in a previous Forecast.)

I Am Malala

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#paperback #fiction #dystopian #teen #youngadult #bestselling 

Divergent 

Richard Ratay

#paperback #nonfiction #comedy #history #commentary 

An Informal History of the Family Road Trip

"A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane" (Kirkus Reviews), Don't Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips--before portable DVD players, smartphones, and Google Maps.

The birth of America's first interstate highways in the 1950s hit the gas pedal on the road trip phenomenon and families were soon streaming--sans seatbelts!--to a range of sometimes stirring, sometimes wacky locations. In the days before cheap air travel, families didn't so much take vacations as survive them. Between home and destination lay thousands of miles and dozens of annoyances, and with his family Richard Ratay experienced all of them--from being crowded into the backseat with noogie-happy older brothers, to picking out a souvenir only to find that a better one might have been had at the next attraction, to dealing with a dad who didn't believe in bathroom breaks.

Now, decades later, Ratay offers "an amiable guide...fun and informative" (New York Newsday) that "goes down like a cold lemonade on a hot summer's day" (The Wall Street Journal). In hundreds of amusing ways, he reminds us of what once made the Great American Family Road Trip so great, including twenty-foot "land yachts," oasis-like Holiday Inn "Holidomes," "Smokey"-spotting Fuzzbusters, twenty-eight glorious flavors of Howard Johnson's ice cream, and the thrill of finding a "good buddy" on the CB radio.

An "informative, often hilarious family narrative [that] perfectly captures the love-hate relationship many have with road trips" (Publishers Weekly), Don't Make Me Pull Over! reveals how the family road trip came to be, how its evolution mirrored the country's, and why those magical journeys that once brought families together--for better and worse--have largely disappeared.

Don't Make Me Pull Over!

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Allycia Rye

#paperback #feminism #shadowwork #nonfiction #darkfeminine #dark 

Lessons from the Dark Goddesses and Shadow Work to Harness Dark Feminine Energy

The Goddess in the Shadow

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AnnaLisa Grant

#paperback #arc #mystery #thriller #detective 

Victoria Asher receives a package in the mail from her brother, who's a student in Italy. She senses danger, goes to Europe to find him, and runs into Ian, the good-looking leader of Interpol's secret Rogue division.

Oxblood

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Nancy Thayer

#hardcover #complications #drama #fiction #holidays 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

When the Hot Flash friends gather at the spa to trim the Christmas tree, they share steaming mugs of hot chocolate, a few laughs, and a vow to make this holiday one to remember.

Hot Flash Holidays

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#hardcover #classic #fantasy #fiction #childrens

The Bold Dragoon & Other Ghostly Tales

Jo Knowles

#hardcover #fiction #arc #youngadult #contemporary #advancedreaderscopy

Does anyone ever see us for who we really are? Jo Knowles's revelatory novel of interlocking stories peers behind the scrim as it follows nine teens and one teacher through a seemingly ordinary day.

Thanks to a bully in gym class, unpopular Nate suffers a broken finger--the middle one, splinted to flip off the world. It won't be the last time a middle finger is raised on this day. Dreamer Claire envisions herself sitting in an artsy café, filling a journal, but fate has other plans. One cheerleader dates a closeted basketball star; another questions just how, as a "big girl," she fits in. A group of boys scam drivers for beer money without remorse--or so it seems. Over the course of a single day, these voices and others speak loud and clear about the complex dance that is life in a small town. They resonate in a gritty and unflinching portrayal of a day like any other, with ordinary traumas, heartbreak, and revenge. But on any given day, the line where presentation and perception meet is a tenuous one, so hard to discern. Unless, of course, one looks a little closer--and reads between the lines.

Read Between the Lines

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Jinty James

#paperback #mystery #ya #fiction #witches

A Coffee Witch Cozy Mystery

Drowned in a vat of bubbling mocha. Can Maddie prove it was murder with her new found witchy abilities?Please note: This book was formerly called Magic, Mocha and Murder. Recipe Included! Maddie is all set to compete in a big barista competition in Seattle, when tragedy strikes. The elegant female judge is found dead, drowned in a big vat of bubbling mocha! Requested by the police to stay in Seattle overnight, Maddie and her best friend Suzanne are determined to discover who the murderer is. But once they return home to Estherville, will it really be that simple? The full moon means another spell is revealed to Maddie, but is it one that will help her catch the killer? What will happen when she returns to Seattle the following weekend to finish competing? Is Maddie next on the killer's list? And what about Trixie, Maddie's Persian familiar? Will she be able to help Maddie from one hundred miles away - at home in Estherville? If you like reading clean paranormal murder mysteries featuring a good witch, mystical cats, and fun sidekicks, then this might be the perfect series for you!

Magic and Mocha

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Frederick Weisel

#paperback #fiction #policeprocedural #thriller #mystery 

After he was gone, the only things left behind were secrets
Annie has fallen out of the habit of listening to her husband. She and Paul have been married for a long time; it's easy to nod as he drones on, responding to his voice while completely ignoring every word he says. That becomes a problem, of course, when Paul disappears and the police have questions. Was Paul having issues at work? Is there any reason to think he might harm himself? Annie doesn't know.
But someone does.
An unsettling photo found amongst Paul's things turns the investigation toward his job as a middle school teacher and a troubled girl who is hiding secrets of her own. But what exactly happened to Paul on the day he left for work and never made it to the classroom? Is his disappearance related to a local heroin trafficking operation? As Eddie Mahler and the members of the Santa Rosa Violent Crime Investigations Team rush to find the teacher, they discover the members of his family have hidden lives of their own, and that Paul may not have been running away but toward something that could ruin his career and marriage--and even cost his life.

The Day He Left

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Logan Ryles

Book 6 in the Reed Montgomery Series

Death Cycle

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Janet Lee Carey

#hardcover #fiction #fantasy #youngadult 

Uma, a Healer raised by a tribe of people native to Wilde Island, must complete an impossible task for the English queen or be burned alive, and her only ally is the part dragon, part fairy Pendragon prince who is struggling with a secret of his own. Simultaneous eBook.

In the Time of Dragon Moon

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Paolo Bacigalupi

#hardcover #fiction #dystopia #youngadult 

In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil war, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her. A companion to the Printz Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ship Breaker.

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