Public School Superhero, by James Patterson & Chris Tebbetts. Illustrated by Cory Thomas.
Kenny Wright is a kid with a secret identity. In his mind, he's
Stainlezz Steel, super-powered defender of the weak. In reality, he's a
chess club devotee known as a "Grandma's Boy," a label that makes him an
easy target for bullies. Kenny wants to bring a little more Steel to
the real world, but the question is: can he recognize his own true
strength before peer pressure forces him to make the worst choice of his
life?Featuring more than 150 pieces of line art and comic-style sequences, James Patterson's newest illustrated novel is a genuinely funny yet poignant look at middle school in a challenging urban setting, where a kid's life can depend on the everyday decisions he makes.
Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story, by David Levithan.
Watch out, ex-boyfriends, and get out of the way, homophobic coaches. Tiny Cooper has something to say - and he's going to say it in song.
Filled with honesty, humor, and "big, lively, belty" musical numbers, Hold Me Closer is the no-holds-barred (and many-bars-held) entirety of the beloved musical first introduced in Will Grayson, Will Grayson, the award-winning bestseller by John Green and David Levithan.
Cold Betrayal, by J.A. Jance.
Ali Reynolds’s longtime friend and Taser-carrying nun, Sister Anselm,
rushes to the bedside of a young pregnant woman hospitalized for severe
injuries after she was hit by a car on a deserted Arizona highway. The
girl had been running away from The Family, a polygamous cult with no
patience for those who try to leave its ranks. Something about her
strikes a chord in Sister Anselm, reminding her of a case she worked
years before when another young girl wasn’t so lucky.Meanwhile, married life agrees with Ali. But any hopes that she and her husband, B. Simpson, will finally slow down and relax now that they’ve tied the knot are dashed when Ali’s new daughter-in-law approaches her, desperate for help. The girl’s grandmother, Betsy, is in danger: she’s been receiving anonymous threats, and someone even broke into her home and turned on the gas burners in the middle of the night. But the local police think the elderly woman’s just not as sharp as she used to be.
While Ali struggles to find a way to protect Betsy before it’s too late, Sister Anselm needs her help as well, and the two race the clock to uncover the secrets that The Family has hidden for so long—before someone comes back to bury them forever.
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson.
On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner
as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York,
bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants.
The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had
declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German
U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania
was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds"--the fastest
liner then in service--and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed
tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a
century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small--hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more--all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history.
It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love.
Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history.
Last One Home, by Debbie Macomber. Narrated by Rebecca Lowman.Growing up, Cassie Carter and her sisters, Karen and Nichole, were incredibly close--until one fateful event drove them apart. After high school, Cassie ran away from home to marry the wrong man, throwing away a college scholarship and breaking her parents' hearts. To make matters worse, Cassie had always been their father's favorite--a sentiment that weighed heavily on her sisters and made Cassie's actions even harder to bear.
Now thirty-one, Cassie is back in Washington, living in Seattle with her daughter and hoping to leave her past behind. After ending a difficult marriage, Cassie is back on her own two feet, the pieces of her life slowly but surely coming together. Despite the strides Cassie's made, she hasn't been able to make peace with her sisters. Karen, the oldest, is a busy wife and mother, balancing her career with raising her two children. And Nichole, the youngest, is a stay-at-home mom whose husband indulges her every whim. Then one day, Cassie receives a letter from Karen, offering what Cassie thinks may be a chance to reconcile. And as Cassie opens herself up to new possibilities--making amends with her sisters, finding love once more--she realizes the power of compassion, and the promise of a fresh start.
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