TITLE: The Inheritance Games
AUTHOR: Jennifer Lynn Barnes WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Bar - MYSTERY SUMMARY: When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance. |
TITLE: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
AUTHOR: Stuart Turton WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Tur - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others. |
TITLE: Heartstopper (Vols. 1 - 4)
AUTHOR: Alice Oseman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Ose - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A heartwarming celebration of friendship, first love and coming out follows the unlikely relationship between a shy teen and a popular rugby player who become more than friends while navigating the ups and downs of high school. |
TITLE: All the Light We Cannot See
AUTHOR: Anthony Doerr WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Doe - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. |
TITLE: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
AUTHOR: Bessel van der Kolk WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 616.85 Van SUMMARY: An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure. |
TITLE: Legend
AUTHOR: Marie Lu WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Lu - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy. |
TITLE: Then She Was Gone
AUTHOR: Lisa Jewell WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Jew - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Struggling to put her life back together a decade after her beloved teen daughter's disappearance, a divorced woman bonds with a charming single father whose young child eerily resembles the woman's own lost daughter and who compels a wrenching search for answers. |
TITLE: The Secret History
AUTHOR: Donna Tartt WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Tar - NOVELS SUMMARY: Richard Papen becomes embroiled in a society of brutal and deadly secrets from which he is unable to escape when an elite group of students from the prestigious Hampden College accept him into their group. |
TITLE: Legendborn
AUTHOR: Tracy Deonn WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Deo - FANTASY SUMMARY: Wanting to escape her previous life after the accidental death of her mother, 16-year-old Bree enrolls in a program for high school students at the local university before her witness to a magical attack reveals her undiscovered powers as well as sinister truths about her mother’s death. |
TITLE: One of Us Is Lying
AUTHOR: Karen M. McManus WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC McM - MYSTERY SUMMARY: When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case. |
TITLE: The Vanishing Half
AUTHOR: Brit Bennett WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Ben - NOVELS SUMMARY: Twin sisters, inseparable as children, ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. |
TITLE: Six of Crows
AUTHOR: Leigh Bardugo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Bar - FANTASY SUMMARY: Six dangerous outcasts must learn to work together after they are offered an impossible heist that can save the world from destruction. |
TITLE: Ninth House
AUTHOR: Leigh Bardugo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Bar - FANTASY SUMMARY: Surviving a horrific multiple homicide, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks is unexpectedly offered a full scholarship to Yale, where her mysterious benefactors task her with monitoring the university's secret societies. |
TITLE: Shadow and Bone
AUTHOR: Leigh Bardugo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Bar - FANTASY SUMMARY: Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold. |
TITLE: A Court of Thorns and Roses
AUTHOR: Sarah J. Maas WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Maa - FANTASY SUMMARY: Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever. |
TITLE: Ace of Spades
AUTHOR: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Àbí - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, two students at Niveus Private Academy, are selected to be part of the elite school's senior class prefects and struggle against an anonymous bully who reveals all of their secrets. |
TITLE: She Drives Me Crazy
AUTHOR: Kelly Quindlen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Qui - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Getting into a fender-bender with a beautiful rival after an embarrassing loss to her ex, a talented basketball athlete reluctantly agrees to a carpool arrangement before an opportunity for revenge leads to an unlikely relationship. |
TITLE: The House in the Cerulean Sea
AUTHOR: TJ Klune WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Kle - FANTASY SUMMARY: Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light. |
TITLE: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
AUTHOR: Benjamin Alire Sáenz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sáe - NOVELS SUMMARY: Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before. |
TITLE: Far from the Tree
AUTHOR: Robin Benway CALL NUMBER: FIC Ben - NOVELS SUMMARY: Being the middle child has its ups and downs. But for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. After putting her own baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family, including Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister, who has a lot to say about their newfound family ties. |
TITLE: Dune
AUTHOR: Frank Herbert CALL NUMBER: FIC Her - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Forced by the Emperor of the known universe to live in exile on a barren planet, Duke Leto Atreides and his son lead the struggle against the Empire. |
TITLE: Circe
AUTHOR: Madeline Miller CALL NUMBER: FIC Mil - FANTASY SUMMARY: Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals. |
TITLE: The Song of Achilles
AUTHOR: Madeline Miller CALL NUMBER: FIC Mil - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. |
TITLE: We Were Liars
AUTHOR: E. Lockhart CALL NUMBER: FIC Loc - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer. |
TITLE: Bloom
AUTHOR: Kevin Panetta CALL NUMBER: FIC Pan - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Dreaming of leaving his family's bakery to become a musician in the city, Ari unexpectedly falls for the easy-going young baker, Hector, who has been hired to replace him and begins to reevaluate his dreams and the consequences of his choices. |
TITLE: Cemetery Boys
AUTHOR: Aiden Thomas CALL NUMBER: FIC Tho - FANTASY SUMMARY: Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family. |
TITLE: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
AUTHOR: V. E. Schwab WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sch - FANTASY SUMMARY: Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name. |
TITLE: The Gilded Wolves
AUTHOR: Roshani Chokshi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Cho - FANTASY SUMMARY: When the Order of Babel seek out treasure-hunter and hotelier Sâeverin Montagnet-Alarie to find an ancient artifact, Sâeverin calls on an unlikely band of experts to help him. |
TITLE: Turtles All the Way Down
AUTHOR: John Green WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Gre - NOVELS SUMMARY: It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. |
TITLE: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
AUTHOR: Cathy Park Hong WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Hon SUMMARY: Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong confronts the Asian American condition, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. |
TITLE: Such a Fun Age
AUTHOR: Kiley Reid WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Rei - NOVELS SUMMARY: Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong confronts the Asian American condition, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. |
TITLE: The Silent Patient
AUTHOR: Alex Michaelides WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Mic - MYSTERY SUMMARY: A therapist becomes dangerously obsessed with uncovering the truth about what prompted his client, an artist who refuses to speak, to murder her husband in a way that triggers mass public speculation. |
TITLE: They Both Die at the End
AUTHOR: Adam Silvera WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sil - NOVELS SUMMARY: In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day. |
TITLE: Red Queen
AUTHOR: Victoria Aveyard WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Ave - FANTASY SUMMARY: In a world divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities--seventeen-year-old Mare, a Red, discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. But Mare risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard--a growing Red rebellion--even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction. |
TITLE: Caraval
AUTHOR: Stephanie Garber WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Gar - FANTASY SUMMARY: Two sisters, Scarlett and Tella, leave their cruel father to attend Caraval--a faraway once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show--and, along the way, Tella is kidnapped and Scarlett is aided by a mysterious sailor and finds herself enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic. |
TITLE: The Grace Year
AUTHOR: Kim Liggett WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Lig - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry. |
TITLE: Shatter Me
AUTHOR: Tahereh Mafi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Maf - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future. |
TITLE: The Midnight Library
AUTHOR: Matt Haig WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Hai - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. |
TITLE: All the Bright Places
AUTHOR: Jennifer Niven WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Niv - NOVELS SUMMARY: Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, both teetering on the edge, it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another. |
TITLE: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
AUTHOR: Holly Jackson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Jac - MYSTERY SUMMARY: As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past. |
TITLE: The Cruel Prince
AUTHOR: Holly Black WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Bla - FANTASY SUMMARY: Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade. |
TITLE: The Book Thief
AUTHOR: Markus Zusak WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Zus - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. |
TITLE: Scythe
AUTHOR: Neal Shusterman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Shu - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Forced to become trained killers in a disease-free world where people can only die if eliminated by professional assassins, teens Citra and Rowan reluctantly train under a master reaper who informs them that the one who successfully kills the other will become his apprentice. |