New Fiction – November 2008
ADIGA The white tiger : a novel. 2008
When
he relocates to
by the city's materialism and technology-spawned violence, a circumstance that
forces him to question his loyalties, ambitions, and past.
After
being sold to a cruel couple in
for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
BARRY The secret scripture : a novel. 2008.
Recording the events of her life from a mental hospital as her hundredth birthday
approaches, Roseanne McNulty considers returning to society when she learns
that
the hospital is about to close.
BRUCHAC Code Talker :
a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two.
2005.
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless
language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to
become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in
their native tongue.
CHEN Sword : a novel. 2008.
When Miu Miu turns fifteen, she learns the truth about her father's violent death
and discovers that she must avenge his murder before she can marry the man to
whom she is betrothed.
CLEMENTS Things that are. 2008.
Alicia, who is still adjusting to being blind, must outwit an invisible man who is
putting her family and her boyfriend, who was once invisible himself, in danger.
COELHO Brida : a novel.
2008.
Follows the journey of Brida, a beautiful young Irish girl, on a quest for
knowledge and understanding as she encounters a wise man who teaches her how
to overcome her fears and a woman who introduces her to the hidden music of the
world.
COHN You know where to find me. 2008.
In the wake of her cousin's suicide, overweight and introverted Miles experiences
significant changes in her relationships with her mother and father, her best friend
and his family, and her cousin's father.
COLLINS The Hunger Games. 2008.
In a future
televised survival competition pitting young people against one another, sixteen-
year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger
sister's place.
COONEY Enter three witches : a story of Macbeth. 2007.
When her father betrays the Scottish king and is hung as a traitor, Lady Mary's
future is bleak after she loses her only true protector and ends up locked away in
the tower by the powerful and deadly Lord and Lady Macbeth.
CRAIG Afrika. 2007.
Thirteen-year-old Kim learns the truth about her father and her mother's homeland
after visiting
and witnesses the Truth and Reconciliation Hearings.
DESSEN Someone like you. 1998.
Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's
boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious
relationship.
DEUKER Gym candy. 2007.
Football is the only thing that has ever really mattered to Mick Johnson, who
works hard for a spot on the varsity team his freshman year, then tries to hold
onto his edge by using steroids, despite the consequences to his health and social
life.
GARIGLIANO Dogface :
a novel. 2008.
Obsessed with all things military, fourteen-year-old Loren finds himself
incarcerated at
shape, after an attempt to vandalize a local golf course.
GOLDMAN Two
parties, one tux, and a very short film about the Grapes of wrath.
2008.
Mitch, a shy and awkward high school junior, negotiates the difficult social
situations he encounters, both with girls and with his best friend David, after
David
reveals to him that he is gay.
HOFFMAN The third angel : a novel. 2008.
Follows the lives of three women in love with the wrong men--Madeleine Heller,
attracted to her sister's fiancé; Frieda Lewis, the muse to an ill-fated rock star; and
Bryn
Evans, engaged to be married but secretly obsessed
with her ex-husband.
HORNBY Slam. 2007.
At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of
skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes
drastically.
JAMES Zombie blondes. 2008.
Each time fifteen-year-old Hannah and her out-of-work father move she has some
fears about making friends, but a classmate warns her that
in
JINKS Genius squad. 2008.
After the Axis Institute is blown up, fifteen-year-old Cadell Piggot is unhappily
stuck in foster care with constant police surveillance to protect him from the evil
Prosper English, until he gets an offer to join a mysterious group called Genius
Squad.
LANAGAN Tender morsels. 2008.
A young woman who has endured unspeakable cruelties is magically granted a
safe haven apart from the real world and allowed to raise her two daughters there,
until the barrier between the two worlds begins to break down.
MCKINLEY Chalice. 2008.
Beekeeper Mirasol's life changes completely when she is named the new Chalice,
the most important advisor to the new Master, a former priest of fire.
MCNISH Angel. 2008.
An unlikely friendship develops between fourteen-year-olds Stephanie, an angel-
obsessed social outcast, and Freya, a popular student whose visions of angels sent
her to a mental institution and who is now seeing a dark angel at every turn.
MITCHELL Gone with the wind. 1936.
The story of the tempestuous romance between Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara
is set amid the drama of the Civil War.
PARKER The boxer and the spy. 2008.
Fifteen-year-old Terry, an aspiring boxer, uncovers the mystery behind the
unexpected death of a classmate.
PETTERSON Out stealing horses. 2007.
After a meeting with his only neighbor, sixty-seven-year-old Trond is forced to
reflect upon a long-ago incident that marks the beginning of a series of losses for
Trond and his
childhood friend, Jon.
PHILLIPS Burn. 2008.
Bullied constantly during his freshman year in high school, Cameron's anger and
isolation grows, leading to deadly consequences.
REEVE Here lies Arthur. 2008.
When her village is attacked and burned, Gwyna seeks protection from the bard
Myrddin, who uses Gwyna in his plan to transform young Arthur into the heroic
King
Arthur.
RORBY Hurt go happy. 2006.
Struggling to make her way through the world in spite of her mother's refusal to
let her learn sign language, hearing-impaired teen Joey Willis secretly learns to
sign while helping a primate scientist and his baby
chimpanzee, Sukari.
ROTH Indignation. 2008.
In 1951,
Marcus Messner, a studious young man from
escapes his butcher father's fears about the potential dangers facing his beloved
son, by attending college at
SUPPLEE Artichoke's heart. 2008.
As overweight Rosemary takes charge of her life and slowly loses weight, she
also copes with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and
discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as
they appear.
VANDRAANEN Confessions of a serial kisser. 2008.
After reading her mother's secret collection of romance novels during her parent's
difficult separation, seventeen-year-old Evangeline Logan begins a quest for the
perfect kiss.
VOLPONI Hurricane song. 2008.
Twelve-year-old Miles Shaw goes to live with his father, a jazz musician, in New
Superdome, learning about each other and growing closer through their painful
experiences.
WOODSON If you come softly. 1998.
After meeting at their private school in
who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose
mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's
reactions.
WROBLEWSKI The story of Edgar Sawtelle : a novel. 2008.
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans
and dogs follows speech-disabled
yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his
father's death.
ZARR Sweethearts : a novel. 2008.
After losing her soul mate, Cameron, eight years previously, Jennifer transformed
herself from the unpopular fat girl into the beautiful and popular Jenna, but
Cameron's unexpected return dredges up memories that cause turmoil.