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Featured Titles Beauty Queens by Libba Bray From bestselling, Printz Award- winning author Libba Bray comes the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island. Teen beauty queens. A Lost-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to email. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count. What’s a beauty queen to do? Continue to practice for the talent portion of the program… or wrestle snakes to the ground? Get a perfect tan…or learn to run wild? And what happens when those pirates show up? The result? A novel that will make you laugh, make you think, and make you never see beauty the same way again!
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi A gritty, high-stakes adventure set in a futuristic world where oil is scarce,
but loyalty is
scarcer. grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota-and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life....
In this powerful, National Book Award finalist novel, the author delivers a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set in a vivid and raw, uncertain future.
Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35JxCOo0sU
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Featured Series Drama High Series by L. Divine Book 1: The Fight Proudly hailing from Compton, USA, sixteen-year-old Jayd Jackson is no stranger to drive-by shootings or run-ins with the friendly neighborhood crackhead. Street- smart, book-smart, and life-smart, she's nobody's fool--least of all KJ's, the most popular and cutest basketball jock at South Bay High, aka Drama High. Yes, it's a fact, Jayd fell hard for his player ways for a time, but now that KJ's shown his true colors--dumping Jayd because she refused to give up the cookies--she's through with him and his game playing for good. Jayd just wants to start her Junior year of high school drama free. But wanting ain't getting, especially at a place like Drama High, a predominately white high school in a wealthy part of Los Angeles, where Jayd and 30 other Compton kids get bussed to daily. Saying race relations aren't what they should be would be putting it mildly, and that's just the beginning of the drama. Jayd's first day back to school, KJ's new girlfriend, Trecee, steps to her wanting to fight. Egged on by Misty, Jayd's former best friend-turned-nemesis, Trecee wants to make Jayd understand that KJ is off limits--even if she has to do it with her fists. With the fight set for Friday, and the sistah drama at an all-time high, Jayd is about to learn who's really got her back and more importantly, when she's got to watch it. But at least she can always count on Mama, and her mystical bag of tricks. Jayd and her bold, honest, and laugh-out-loud funny assessment of life, along with her quirky cast of friends, classmates, loves, her magical family and eccentric neighbors make for an irresistible, can't-put-it-down read. Be sure to check out the sequels to this novel: Second Chance and Jayd’s Legacy! Teaser Trailer for The Fight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lGAccwZHhA
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