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Ouran High School Host Club. Vol. 13 / Bisco Hatori.
cover image"Mei, wanting Haruhi to face up to her feelings, leaves out a magazine that has a checklist for determining whether a girl is in love. As Haruhi reads through the checklist, she realizes that one host may have captured her heart without her even knowing" -- from publisher's web site.

Teen study Bible / features written by Larry and Sue Richards.
cover imageOffers a compact edition of the Bible in the New International Version translation to help today's teen learn more about God, the Bible, and how God's word relates to their lives.


The prince of tennis. Vol. 34. Synchro / story and art by Takeshi Konomi ; [translation, Joe Yamazaki ; touch-up art & lettering, Vanessa Satone].
cover image"Shuichiro and Eiji are down 3-6 at tie break in their quarterfinal match against Hyotei's Ohtori and Shishido. With their backs against the wall, the Golden Pair unveil their final technique: Synchro. And then it's down to the No. 1 Singles match, with all of Seishun's hopes resting on Ryoma's ...

Shaman King. Vol. 25, Cornerstone / story and art by Hiroyuki Takei ; [English adaptation, Lance Caselman ; translation, Lillian Olsen].
cover imageYoh and Lyserg continue their battle with Luchist, but wonder of they will ever be able to defeat Hao.



Here today, gone tomorrow / Marilyn Kaye.
cover imageBeing able to see the future is supposed to be a gift, but Emily's visions have caused nothing but problems. Now Gifted students are disappearing one by one, and Emily's gift is their only hope of having a future at all.

Fat Cat / Robin Brande.
cover imageOverweight teenage Catherine embarks on a high school science project in which she must emulate the ways of hominims, the earliest ancestors of human beings, by eating an all-natural diet and foregoing technology.

Astonishing ancient world scientists : eight great brains / Amy Graham.
cover image"Read about some of the most well-known ancient scientists and mathematicians: Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, Zhang Heng, and al-Khwarizmi"--Provided by publisher.


The Islands of the Blessed / Nancy Farmer.
cover imageTwo years after their adventures in The Land of the Silver Apples, the apprentice bard Jack and his Viking companion Thorgil confront the malevolent spirit of a vengeful mermaid and begin a quest that casts them among the fin folk of Notland.

Hush, hush / Becca Fitzpatrick.
cover imageHigh school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships, but when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her school, she is mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite warnings from her best friend, the school counselor, and her own instincts.

Rose / by Jeff Smith ; with illustrations by Charles Vess.
cover imagePrincess Rose musters up courage to face the dragon that threatens the small towns in the Northern Valley, only to discover the dragon is actually the Lord of the Locusts.


We were here / Matt de la Peña.
cover imageHaunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.

Meridian / Amber Kizer.
cover imageOn her sixteenth birthday, Meridian is whisked off to her great-aunt's home in Revelation, Colorado, where she learns that she is a Fenestra, the half-human, half-angel link between the living and the dead, and must learn to help human souls to the afterlife before the dark forces reach them.

The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks : a novel / by E. Lockhart.
cover imageSophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.

Wondrous strange : a novel / Lesley Livingston.
cover imageWhen seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow meets Sonny Flannery, she discovers he is a changeling who guards the gate between the faerie Otherworld and the mortal realm, and also that her mother had otherworldly powers that she has passed on to Kelley.

The red necklace : a story of the French Revolution / Sally Gardner.
cover imageAt the start of the French Revolution, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a young Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy in the villainous Count Kalliovski.

Paper towns / John Green.
cover imageOne month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

Ex-mas / by Kate Brian.
cover imageWith her parents gone on vacation, seventeen-year-old Lila Beckwith is ready to throw a killer Christmas party until her little brother Cooper and his best friend Tyler run away on a mission to save Santa from global warming. The only person who can help Lila find them before her parents ...

Models don't eat chocolate cookies / by Erin Dionne.
cover imageOverweight thirteen-year-old Celeste begins a campaign to lose weight in order to make sure she does not win the Miss HuskeyPeach modeling challenge, in which her mother and aunt have entered her--against her wishes.

Better late than never / Marilyn Kaye.
cover image"Tough rebel Jenna Kelley secretly dreams of a conventional life with normal parents. When her mother ends up in rehab, Jenna is shocked by the sudden reappearance of her long-lost dad. Jenna can usually read anyone's mind, but this stranger is a total mystery. Before long, streetwise Jenna finds herself ...

The fury ; and, Dark reunion / L.J. Smith.
cover imageCollects the final two volumes of "The Vampire Diaries," in which Elena sacrifices an immortal love to end the constant strife between two vampire brothers who love her, and then raises them from the dead to save her town from an unknown evil.

Envy : a Luxe novel / Anna Godbersen.
cover imageIn 1899 Manhattan, Elizabeth Holland refuses to resume her position in society, mutual scorn divides newlyweds Henry and Penelope Schoonmaker, and Carolina Broad's social position is far from secure.




Hana-Kimi : for you in full blossom. 3 / story and art by Hisaya Nakajo ; [translation, David Ury ; English adaptation, Gerard Jones ; touch-up art & lettering, Gabe Crate].
cover imageIzumi, Nakatsu and Misuzki are hired to work at a beach chalet run by Dr. Umeda's family. But when Kagurasaka shows up with his two sisters in tow, things get personal because Tamami has a crush on Izumi too and plagues Mizuki with questions about Izumi. Then someone figures out ...





Hana-kimi : for you in full blossom. 22 / story and art by Hisaya Nakajo ; [translation & English adaptation, David Ury].
cover imageWhen Mizuki is almost caught changing clothes, the school goes wild with rumors about a mysterious girl on campus. Can she keep her secret, or will she be outed and separated from Sano?





Hana-Kimi : for you in full blossom. 17 / story and art by Hisaya Nakajo ; [translation & English adaptation, David Ury ; touch-up art & lettering, Primary Graphix].
cover imageWith the giant track meet approaching, Mizuki faces her old high-jump rival Kagurazuka and Sano is up against his brother and his father. While Sano focuses on winning, Mizuki tries to figure out a way to mend the rift in Sano's family. Meanwhile, Nakatsu is focused only on Mizuki.


Hana-Kimi : for you in full blossom. 15 / story and art by Hisaya Nakajo ; [translation & English adaptation, David Ury ; touch-up art & lettering, Primary Graphix].
cover imageTo get close to her favorite athlete, Izumi Sano, Japanese-American Mizuki Ashiya moved to Japan and enrolled in an all-male high school! Now Mizuki and Sano are roommates, but can Mizuki keep up her pretense of being a boy? Unable to forget her near-kiss experience, Mizuki finds herself drawing ever ...

Hana-Kimi : for you in full blossom. 14 / story and art by Hisaya Nakajo ; [translation & English adaptation, David Ury ; touch-up art & lettering, Primary Graphix].
cover imagePlumbing problems force the residents of Dorm 1 to move into Dorms 2 and 3, leaving Mizuki with two male roommates, one of whom introduces her to a dorm custom she could never have imagined. Plus, Dr. Umeda thinks about his past after hearing from an old friend, and Mizuki ...






The Van Alen legacy : a Blue Bloods novel / Melissa de la Cruz.
cover imageOnce left to live the glamorous life in New York City, the Blue Bloods--an ancient group of vampires--now find themselves in an epic battle for survival following the stunning revelation of a young socialite's true identity and the growing threat of the sinister Silver Bloods.

Rapture of the deep : being an account of the further adventures of Jacky Faber, soldier, sailor, mermaid, spy / L.A. Meyer.
cover imageIn 1806, star-crossed lovers Jacky Faber and Jaimy Fletcher are kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission--this time to search for sunken Spanish gold off the Florida coast.


One piece. Vol. 22 , Hope!! / Eiichiro Oda.
cover imageWhen Crocodile's evildoing is exposed, the rebellion that will destroy Alabasta just might be averted...But the Baroque Works will do everything in their power to make sure that doesn't happen -- Even if they have to kill Princes Vivi! The Straw Hats are in for the fight of their lives ...

Menace revealed.
cover imageA thousand different threats, on a thousand different fronts distract the Jedi, as a galaxywide war looms. The Sith menace has been revealed, but its source and its machinations are still unseen.

Book of a thousand days / Shannon Hale ; illustrations by James Noel Smith.
cover imageFifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

Dark of the moon / Rachel Hawthorne.
cover imageSeventeen-year-old Brittany was born into a secret community of werewolves, but when she fails to transform at her apppointed time, she fears that she will never truly belong.

A so-called vacation / Genaro González.
cover imageWhen their father insists that they lack "life experiences," teenaged brothers Gabriel and Gustavo reluctantly agree to a family vacation in a California migrant camp, where the boys pick crops and learn about immigrant labor and prejudice within the Hispanic community.


Fire / Kristin Cashore.
cover imageIn a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.


Liar / Justine Larbalestier.
cover imageCompulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered.

The monstrumologist / William James Henry ; edited by Rick Yancey.
cover imageIn 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.

Shiver / Maggie Stiefvater.
cover imageIn all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.

Riot / Walter Dean Myers.
cover imageIn 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.

Going bovine / Libba Bray.
cover imageCameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.

Leviathan / by Scott Westerfeld ; illustrated by Keith Thompson.
cover imageIn an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.

Tenth grade bleeds / Heather Brewer.
cover imageAs the evil vampire D'Ablo seeks the ritual that would steal half-vampire Vlad's powers, Vlad struggles to resist feeding on the people around him, has a conflict with his best friend Henry, and gives up all hope of a normal year at Bathory High.

The morgue and me / John C. Ford.
cover imageEighteen-year-old Christopher, who plans to be a spy, learns of a murder cover-up through his summer job as a morgue assistant and teams up with Tina, a gorgeous newspaper reporter, to investigate, despite great danger.

Daniel X : watch the skies / James Patterson and Ned Rust.
cover imageWhen the small community of Holliswood is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a terrifying outlaw who deliberately instigates problems for the purpose of filming his crimes for television, modern superhero Daniel X assembles an all-star team to help protect fellow citizens.

Nightschool : the weirn books / Svetlana Chmakova ; toning artist, Dee DuPuy ; lettering, JuYoun Lee.
cover image"Schools may lock up for the night, but class is in session for an entirely different set of students. In the Nightschool, vampires, werewolves, and weirns (a particular breed of witches) learn the fundamentals of everything from calculus to spell casting. Alex is a young weirn whose education has always ...

Nightschool. Volume one : the weirn books / Svetlana Chmakova ; toning artist, Dee DuPuy ; lettering, JuYoun Lee.
cover image"Schools may lock up for the night, but class is in session for an entirely different set of students. In the Nightschool, vampires, werewolves, and weirns (a particular breed of witches) learn the fundamentals of everything from calculus to spell casting. Alex is a young weirn whose education has always ...



Secret invasion. Front line / writer, Brian Reed ; art by CG Studios, team coordinator, Giuliano Monni ; penciler, Marco Castiello ; colorist, Barbara Ciardo.
cover image"As Skrull warships fill the skies, and heroes battle for their very survival in the Savage Land, the citizens of New York struggle to survive the worst day of their lives."--p.[4] of cover.

Secret invasion. [1-8] / writer, Brian Michael Bendis ; penciler, Leinil Yu ; inker, Mark Morales.
cover imageSecret invasion is here! The shape-shifting alien race known as the Skrulls has secretly infiltrated every super-powered organization on Earth with one goal: full-scale invasion.

Hikaru no go. 17, A familiar face / story by Yumi Hotta ; art by Takeshi Obata ; supervised by Yukari Umezawa (5 dan) ; translation & English adaptation, Naoko Amemiya.
cover imageHikaru tries to handle the demands of being a professional Go player without his mentor's support while preparing to face the prodigy, Akira Toya.

High school debut. Vol. 12 / story & art by Kazune Kawahara ; [translation & adaptation, Gemma Collinge].
cover image"Friendship and love are put to the test when Asaoka reveals to Yoh that he likes Haruna. To settle things once and for all, Yoh and Asaoka strike a deal--whoever loses the school sports meet will give up his feelings for her! Who will win the meet and Haruna's heart?"






Cancer / by Elizabeth Silverthorne.
cover imageExplains what cancer is and its symptoms, describes how people live with it, and discusses possible ways to treat and prevent the disease.

Stem cells / by Peggy J. Parks.
cover imageScientists believe that stem cell research could eventually lead to cures and treatments for a host of human disorders and disease, but where those stem cells come from is the subject of major controversy.

Drug legalization / Current Issues by Peggy J. Parks.
cover imageDiscusses drug legalization in the United States, including if legalization would decrease crime or increase drug addiction, and questions if the current war on drugs is failing.

Zazoo [sound recording] / by Richard Mosher.
cover imageAmid old secrets revealed and rifts healed, a thirteen-year-old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre" learns about life, death, and love.

Seedfolks / by Paul Fleischman ; illustrations by Judy Pedersen.
cover imageOne by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.


InuYasha. Vol. 40 / story and art by Rumiko Takahashi ; [English adaptation by Gerard Jones ; translation Mari Morimoto].
cover image"InuYasha must defend himself against the corrupted human Toshu, who turns out to be responsible for the creation of the mysterious sword known as Dakki. Toshu is intent on taking Inuyasha's sword, the mighty Tetsusaiga, and Dakki's unique properties pose a serious threat to Tetsusaiga. If Inuyasha loses this battle, ...


Gothic art / Jessica Gunderson.
cover imageAn examination of the art movement known as Gothic Art from its beginnings in the 12th century to its decline in the early 1400s, including an introduction to great artists and works.





King George III : America's enemy / Philip Brooks.
cover imageHe was loved by British Revolutionary War loyalists and hated by American patriots. What made King George III so mad? Hoping to restore glory to the British crown, he instead plunged two countries into a seven-year bloodbath and died plagued by insanity and failure.


Operation desert storm / by Martin Gitlin.
cover imageExamines the Persian Gulf War of 1991 between the United States and Iraq.



Assisted suicide / by Lillian Forman.
cover imageA discussion of assisted suicide and the right to die.

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