Julia Alvarez

Liliana Valenzuela

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Anita de la Torre es una niña de 12 años que vive en la República Dominicana en los años sesenta. La policía secreta ha comenzado a atemorizar a su familia porque se sospecha que están en contra del dictador, General Trujillo.

Antes de Ser Libres

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J. M. Ken Niimura

Joe Kelly

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Fifth Anniversary Edition

Imaginative fifth grader Barbara Thorson becomes so immersed in her fantasy world that she believes she kills giants with her magical warhammer Coveleski.

I Kill Giants

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SparkNotes

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

A Midsummer Night's Dream (No Fear Shakespeare)

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Caroline B. Cooney

No one ever paid attention to the faces of missing children on milk cartons. But as Janie  Johnson glanced at the face of the little girl who had been taken twelve years ago, she recognized that little girl--it was herself.



The mystery of the kidnapping is unraveled, but the nightmare is not over. The Spring family wants justice, but who is to blame? It's difficult to figure out what's best for everyone.



Janie Johnson or Janie Spring? There's enough love for everyone, but how can the two separate families live happily ever after?

Whatever Happened to Janie?

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Jack Gantos

From the Newbery Award-winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, this is a memoir about becoming a writer the hard way. A Printz Honor and Sibert Honor book.

In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents caught up with them. For his part in the conspiracy, Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison.

In Hole in My Life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth. On the surface, the narrative tumbles from one crazed moment to the next as Gantos pieces together the story of his restless final year of high school, his short-lived career as a criminal, and his time in prison.

But running just beneath the action is the story of how Gantos--once he was locked up in a small, yellow-walled cell--moved from wanting to be a writer to writing, and how dedicating himself more fully to the thing he most wanted to do helped him endure and ultimately overcome the worst experience of his life.

This title has Common Core connections.

Jack Gantos is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of books for readers of all ages, including Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, a National Book Award Finalist, and Joey Pigza Loses Control, a Newbery Honor book. His book The Trouble in Me is an autobiographical novel about a fourteen-year-old Jack Gantos, and his book Dead End in Novelt won the Newbery Medal, the Scott O'Dell Award for historical fiction.

Praise for Hole in My Life:

"A memoir, by turns harrowing and hilarious, about a huge mistake." --Miami Herald

"His account is remarkably free of both self-pity and self-censorship. . . . This is a tale of courage and redemption, proving that a bad start in life does not have to lead to a bad life story." --The New York Times Book Review

"Gantos really is Everyman, but an Everyman who has landed himself into a deeper pit than most. What separates Gantos is the determination that took him out of his dreams and into a successful life as a writer. Those writerly skills are in full evidence here, in this thoughtful and provocative memoir as valuable to those who have never heard of Gantos as to those who have read all of his books." --Hyde Park Review of Books

"The ultimate cautionary tale." --Smithsonian

"This true tale of the worst year in the author's life will be a big surprise for his many fans. . . .This is a story of mistakes, dues, redemption, and finally success at what he always wanted to do: write books." --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

Awards for Hole in My Life:
School Library Best Books of the Year
Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Michael L. Printz Award - Honor
ALA Best Books for Young Adults
NYPL Books for the Teen Age
ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Award
Massachusetts Children's Book Award
American Library Association Notable Children's Books
Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List
American Library Association Popular Paperbacks for Young Readers
Parents' Choice Award Winner
Robert F. Sibert Award - Honor
School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
ALA Notable Children's Books
Booklist Editors' Choice

Hole in My Life

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Ruth Ware

"What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her "nest" of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora (Lee?) to a weekend away in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Forty-eight hours later, she wakes up in a hospital bed injured but alive, with the knowledge that someone is dead. Wondering not "what happened?" but "what have I done?," Nora (Lee?) tries to piece together the events of the past weekend. Working to uncover secrets, reveal motives, and find answers, Nora (Lee?) must revisit parts of herself that she would much rather leave buried where they belong: in the past. In the tradition of Paula Hawkins's instant New York Times bestseller The Girl On the Train and S. J. Watson's riveting national sensation Before I Go To Sleep, this gripping literary debut from UK novelist Ruth Ware will leave you on the edge of your seat through the very last page"--

In a Dark, Dark Wood

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A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.

The Face on the Milk Carton

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Anonymous

A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale.

January 24th
After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs...

It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth--and ultimately her life.

Read her diary.
Enter her world.
You will never forget her.

For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl's harrowing decent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. As powerful--and as timely--today as ever, Go Ask Alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction.

Go Ask Alice

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Gillian McCain

Legs McNeil

The True Diary of Mary Rose

The words and drawings of Mary Rose present a gritty, powerful, no-holds-barred true experience of a teen girl so desperate to be loved, so eager to fit in that she'll go to extremes that could cost her her life. This compelling, emotional account ensures her voice will not be forgotten.

Dear Nobody

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Muriel Barbery

Alison Anderson

There’s a note on the inside cover. Otherwise, in like new condition. 

The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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Jacob Grimm

Wilhelm K. Grimm

Elizabeth Dalton

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Linguists, philologists, and restorers of ancient texts, the Brothers Grimm practically invented the science of folklore with the publication of Kinder-und Hausmarchen (1812-1815), which became popularly known as Grimm's Fairy Tales. Comprising 120 of their best-loved tales, this new Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales includes criticism, reception, discussion questions, and legacies, to appeal to readers of all ages.

Grimm's Fairy Tales

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The start of another series by beloved American author Nora Roberts. A dark post-apocalyptic romance. #paperback #fiction #fantasy #yearone #bestseller #apocalyptic #noraroberts #romance #roberts #series 

Chronicles of the One, Book 1

Where there had been order, there was now chaos. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. As the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a saviour, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remainches Print run 1,000,000.

Year One

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The Magician's Lie is a unique historical novel, one that ties a woman's determination to be free, independent. There’s some darkness and a ton of enthralling juicy details that complicate the plot. #paperback #fiction #magic #imaginative #historical #historicalfiction #circus #magician #stage 

A Novel

"Smart, intricately plotted...a richly imagined thriller."- PEOPLE magazine "This is a book in which storylines twist, spiral and come together again in an ending as explosive as a poof of smoke from your chimney...or a top hat." - Oprah.com "It's a captivating yarn.... Macallister, like the Amazing Arden, mesmerizes her audience. No sleight of hand is necessary. An ambitious heroine and a captivating tale are all the magic she needs." - Washington Post Water for Elephants meets The Night Circus in The Magician's Lie, a debut novel in which the country's most notorious female illusionist stands accused of her husband's murder - and she has only one night to convince a small-town policeman of her innocence. The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half on stage. One night in Waterloo, Iowa, with young policeman Virgil Holt watching from the audience, she swaps her trademark saw for a fire ax. Is it a new version of the illusion, or an all-too-real murder? When Arden's husband is found lifeless beneath the stage later that night, the answer seems clear. But when Virgil happens upon the fleeing magician and takes her into custody, she has a very different story to tell. Even handcuffed and alone, Arden is far from powerless-and what she reveals is as unbelievable as it is spellbinding. Over the course of one eerie night, Virgil must decide whether to turn Arden in or set her free... and it will take all he has to see through the smoke and mirrors. "This debut novel is historical fiction that blends magic, mystery, and romance." - Boston Globe, Pick of the Week

The Magician's Lie

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A fun and easily readable graphic biography if Steve Jobs. This is perfect for a school project or if you want some entertaining nonfiction or biographical reads. #paperback #nonfiction #biography #graphicnovel #comic #graphicbiography #stevejobs #apple #ya #juvenilenonfiction 

Whether they've seen Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs movie, read Walter Isaacson's biography, or just own an iPhone, this graphic novel retelling of the Apple innovator's life will capture the imaginations of the legions of readers who live and breathe the technocentric world Jobs created.
 
Told through a combination of black-and-white illustrations and handwritten text, this fast-paced and entertaining biography in graphic format presents the story of the ultimate American entrepreneur, the man who brought us Apple Computer, Pixar, Macs, iPods, iPhones, and more.
 
Jobs's remarkable life reads like a history of the personal technology industry. He started Apple Computer in his parents' garage and eventually became the tastemaker of a generation, creating products we can't live without. Through it all, he was an overbearing and demanding perfectionist, both impossible and inspiring. Capturing his unparalleled brilliance, as well as his many demons, Jessie Hartland's engaging biography illuminates the meteoric successes, devastating setbacks, and myriad contradictions that make up the extraordinary life and legacy of the insanely great Steve Jobs.

Here's the perfect book for any teen interested in STEM topics, especially tech.
 
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

"If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this comic tale can hang with the sprawling biographies." --Macworld.com
 
"An accessible take . . . undoubtedly valuable for kids who are growing up using Apple's products but knowing little about the man who created them." --GeekDad.com

Steve Jobs: Insanely Great

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Another installment to Harris’ Teagarden series. (No you don’t have to read them all or read them in order) This cozy mystery is perfect for a one-sitting read. #charlaineharris #fiction #mystery #cozy #cozymystery #mystery #mysteryseries #series #teagarden #teagardenseries 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

Robin and Aurora's newborn Sophie is proving to be quite a handful. They hire a partially trained nurse, Virginia Mitchell, to come and help the new parents for a few weeks when Robin has to leave town for work and Roe is struck with a bad case of the flu. One particularly stormy night, Roe wakes to hear her daughter crying and Virginia nowhere to be found. Searching for her reveals a body outside . . . but it isn't Virginia's. Now, not only does Roe have a baby to care for but a new puzzle to contend with - who is this mystery woman dead in their backyard, and what happened to Virginia?

Sleep Like a Baby

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A clever and utterly compelling thriller about a woman running from the mistakes and misfortunes of her past. Love Gillian Flynn? Give Lisa Lutz a try! #paperback #thriller #suspense #mystery #mysterythriller #lisalutz #crime #dangerouswomen 

The Passenger 

Byrne’s debut novel. A 21st century myth starring a queer woman as the hero of the human race. If you love an entertaining book that’ll still make you think, give this one a try! #paperback #dystopian #debut #scifi #india #queer #feminist #adventure #apocalyptic

A debut that Neil Gaiman calls "Glorious. . . . So sharp, so focused and so human." The Girl in the Road describes a future that is culturally lush and emotionally wrenching.

Monica Byrne bursts on to the literary scene with an extraordinary vision of the future.  In a world where global power has shifted east and revolution is brewing, two women embark on vastly different journeys--each harrowing and urgent and wholly unexpected.

When Meena finds snakebites on her chest, her worst fears are realized: someone is after her and she must flee India.  As she plots her exit, she learns of the Trail, an energy-harvesting bridge spanning the Arabian Sea that has become a refuge for itinerant vagabonds and loners on the run.  This is her salvation.  Slipping out in the cover of night, with a knapsack full of supplies including a pozit GPS, a scroll reader, and a sealable waterproof pod, she sets off for Ethiopia, the place of her birth.

Meanwhile, Mariama, a young girl in Africa, is forced to flee her home.  She joins up with a caravan of misfits heading across the Sahara. She is taken in by Yemaya, a beautiful and enigmatic woman who becomes her protector and confidante. They are trying to reach Addis Abba, Ethiopia, a metropolis swirling with radical politics and rich culture.  But Mariama will find a city far different than she ever expected--romantic, turbulent, and dangerous.

As one heads east and the other west, Meena and Mariama's fates are linked in ways that are mysterious and shocking to the core.

Written with stunning clarity, deep emotion, and a futuristic flair, The Girl in the Road is an artistic feat of the first order: vividly imagined, artfully told, and profoundly moving.


The Girl in the Road

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There are some library stickers on the cover that are easily removable with a hairdryer. This horror graphic novel has matte comic-like pages that are ultra-saturated for a classic feel for mature readers. #paperback #graphicnovel #horror #horrorcomic #comic #sandmanmysterytheatre #vertigo #vertigocomics #vertigographicnovels #adultcontent

Sandman Mystery Theatre

Written by John Ney Reiber Art by Eric Nguyen Cover by Tim Bradstreet The Vertigo classic is back - with a vengeance. Wartime photojournalist Kieran Marshall must take on the mantle of Wesley Dodds' alter ego, The Sandman, to save his own life. But will donning the mask cost him his soul?

Sleep of Reason

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A gory graphic novel with some adult content. If you’re into horror comics, give this one a try! #paperback #graphicnovel #graphicnovels #horror #gore #adultcontent #horrorgraphicnovel #doubletake #fire1

Checked Out (Fire 1) 

Thanks to some hungry customers, the closing shift at George's Market has turned into a graveyard shift. Cleanup in aisle... well, all of them. It's a late night snack attack in George's market. Help wanted: minimum wage, maximum carnage.

Dedication

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Absolutely stunning illustrations. This has some of the best panels ever—like poster-worthy panels! Gory and adult content. #paperback #slab #doubletake #fire1 #graphicnovel #graphicnovels #horror #horrorcomics #horrorgraphicnovels #fire

The Doctor Is In (Fire 1)

Even a Brain a-day can't keep this doctor away. Things get weird in the lab when Dr. Grimes feeds a zombie sandwiches, all in the name of science. Bring out your undead... Bring out your undead... I'm not undead yet!

Slab

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From the author of Wicked, check out this wildly inventive Snow White reimagining. #paperback #fiction #fantasy #magical #fairytales #wicked #gregorymaguire #snowwhite #retelling #fairytale 

The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm -- and the world comes to Montefiore. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia -- decadent children of a wicked pope -- no one can claim innocence for very long. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a years-long quest, he leaves Bianca under the care -- so to speak -- of Lucrezia. She plots a dire fate for the young girl in the woods below the farm, but in the dark forest salvation can be found as well ... A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror gives fresh life to the classic story of Snow White -- and has a truth and beauty all its own.

Mirror Mirror

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From the same author as Wicked, checkout this hybrid fairy tale / historical novel. It’s the adult reimagining you’ve been waiting for. #paperback #fiction #fairytales #fantasy #confessionsofanuglystepsister #gregorymaguire #fairytale #reimagined #reimagining #retelling

Is this new land a place where magics really happen? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.... We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty . . . and what curses accompanied Cinderella's exquisite looks? Extreme beauty is an affliction Set against the rich backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iris's path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister. Clara was the prettiest child, but was her life the prettiest tale? While Clara retreats to the cinders of the family hearth, burning all memories of her past, Iris seeks out the shadowy secrets of her new household--and the treacherous truth of her former life. God and Satan snarling at each other like dogs.... Imps and fairy godmotbers trying to undo each other's work. How we try to pin the world between opposite extremes! Far more than a mere fairy-tale, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel of beauty and betrayal, illusion and understanding, reminding us that deception can be unearthed--and love unveiled--in the most unexpected of places.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

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Multi-POV high-fantasy YA paranormal story full of magic (and some angsty romance)! #paperback #fiction #youngadult #fantasy #fantasyfiction #series #adventurestories #yafantasyromance #fantasyromance #fantasyadventure 

A Falling Kingdoms Novel

"A fantasy about three kingdoms on the brink of war and the destiny of one princess"--Provided by publisher.

Falling Kingdoms

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Wickedly funny adult contemporary fiction pick! #hardcover #fiction #allgrownup #jamiattenberg #contemporary #literaryfiction #newyork #hilarious #funny #adultcomingofage

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection. Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she's a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it's what she leaves unsaid--she's alone, a drinker, a former artist, a shrieker in bed, captain of the sinking ship that is her flesh--that feels the most true. Everyone around her seems to have an entirely different idea of what it means to be an adult: her best friend, Indigo, is getting married; her brother--who miraculously seems unscathed by their shared tumultuous childhood--and sister-in-law are having a hoped-for baby; and her friend Matthew continues to wholly devote himself to making dark paintings at the cost of being flat broke. But when Andrea's niece finally arrives, born with a heartbreaking ailment, the Bern family is forced to reexamine what really matters. Will this drive them together or tear them apart? Told in gut-wrenchingly honest, mordantly comic vignettes, All Grown Up is a breathtaking display of Jami Attenberg's power as a storyteller, a whip-smart examination of one woman's life, lived entirely on her own terms.

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Julia Alvarez; Liliana Valenzuela

Antes de Ser Libres

J. M. Ken Niimura; Joe Kelly

I Kill Giants

SparkNotes

A Midsummer Night's Dream (No Fear Shakespeare)

Caroline B. Cooney

Whatever Happened to Janie?

Jack Gantos

Hole in My Life

Ruth Ware

In a Dark, Dark Wood

Caroline B. Cooney

The Face on the Milk Carton

Anonymous

Go Ask Alice

Gillian McCain; Legs McNeil

Dear Nobody

Muriel Barbery; Alison Anderson

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm K. Grimm; Elizabeth Dalton

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Nora Roberts

Year One

Greer Macallister

The Magician's Lie

Jessie Hartland (Illustrator)

Steve Jobs: Insanely Great

Charlaine Harris

Sleep Like a Baby

Lisa Lutz

The Passenger

Monica Byrne

The Girl in the Road

John Ney Rieber; Eric Nguyen (Artist); Tim Bradstreet (Cover Design by)

Sleep of Reason

Matthew Summo (Created by); Michael Coast; Bill Jemas; Mike Soviero; Young Heller (Artist); J. J. Dzialowski (Illustrator); Leonardo Paciarotti (Illustrator); Ruiz Burgos (Illustrator, Cover Design by); Caroline Flanagan (Editor)

Dedication

Brian Finkelstein; Bill Jemas; Michael Coast; Julian Rowe (Illustrator); Joseph Cooper (Illustrator); Apple Qingyang Zhang (Illustrator, Cover Design by)

Slab

Gregory Maguire

Mirror Mirror

Gregory Maguire

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Morgan Rhodes

Falling Kingdoms

Jami Attenberg

All Grown Up

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