NEW PAPERBACK FICTION

AUGUST 2006

THE GARDEN F AID (PB) by Elsie V. Aidinoff

Retells the tale of the Garden of Eden from Eve's point of view, as Serpent teaches her everything from her own name to why she should eat the forbidden fruit, and then leaves her with Adam and the knowledge that her choice has made mankind free.

THE HIDDEN QUEEN F ALE (PB) by Alma Alexander

The child Anghara Kir Hama was forced to flee the kingdom she rightfully ruled, escaping the murderous wrath of her brother, the usurper, who would see her dead to secure the throne.

GIRL IN THE SHADOWS F AND (PB) by V.C. Andrews

A teenager who is struggling to come to terms with the recent events in her life moves in with her uncle, a traveling magician in northern California, who dies shortly thereafter from alcoholism.

WHAT A SONG CAN DO F ARM (PB) by Jennifer Armstrong, ed.

Twelve stories describe the power of music in young people's lives, from forming a community of individuals in a high school band to helping a young man connect to his Indian heritage through ancient songs.

ALL THE FLOWERS ARE DYING F BLO (PB) by Lawrence Block

As private investigator Matthew Scudder contemplates retirement, he takes on a case for a friend who wants a background check on his daughter's suitor and finds himself menaced by a killer from the past.

FINDING GRACE F BRU (PB) by Alyssa Brugman

Undecided about her future after graduating from high school, an Australian girl takes a job caring for a brain-damaged woman.

PALADIN OF SOULS F BUJ (PB) by Lois M. Bujold

Describes a land threatened by treacherous war and beset by demons -- as a royal dowager, released from the curse of madness and manipulated by an untrustworthy god, is plunged into a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm.

JAEL’S STORY F BUR (PB) by Ann Burton

Like most brides, Jael hopes for a loving marriage. But when Heber takes her home to his other women, her dreams crumble. Then, in this darkest moment, sparks flame when the young warrior Live presents her with a life-changing decision.

THE LOST GET-BACK BOOGIE F BUR (PB) by James Lee Burke

Recently released from a Louisiana prison, Iry Paret heads west to make a fresh start on the Montana ranch belonging to the family of his prison pal where he encounters a situation that's more than he can bear.

THE PACK F CAR (PB) by Elisa Carbone

Akhil Vyas, a new boy in school, reluctantly decides that in order to prevent a violent crime, he must tell Omar and Becky his secret.

KISSING VANESSA F CHE (PB) by Simon Cheshire

Fifteen-year-old Kevin has plans to do better in school, but when the next term begins he is smitten by his new classmate, Vanessa, and he focuses all of his energy on getting close to her.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME F CLA (PB) by Mary Higgins Clark

At the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged step-father, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed with Cartwright, and the tabloids compared her to the infamous murderess Lizzie Borden.

KING OF THE MIDDLE MARCH F CRO (PB) by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Arthur de Caldicot, on his way to becoming a man, witnesses the horrors of the Fourth Crusade in Venice and Zara, as well as the downfall of King Arthur's court, in his seeing stone.

ELLA MENTAL AND THE GOOD SENSE GUIDE F DEC (PB) by Amber Deckers

Ella Watson is sensible to a fault. Thanks to the little nuggets of wisdom she collects in her Good Sense Guide, she's the perfect go-to girl for any friend in need. But when Ella has an argument with her best friend, Toby, her faithful guide falls short.

GOLDEN F DOK (PB) by Cameron Dokey

Rapunzel has only two nights and one day in which to free a girl from a curse.

NOTHING TO LOSE F FLI (PB) by Alex Flinn

A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather.

FAT BOY SWIM F FOR (PB) by Catherine Forde

Teased and abused for being grossly overweight, Jimmy, a fourteen-year-old Scottish teenager who dreams mysterious dreams and secretly aspires to become a chef, decides to turn his self-loathing life around by learning how to swim.

HEAD GAMES F FRE (PB) by Mariah Fredericks

Two teenagers connect online in a role-playing game which leads them into their own face-to-face, half-acknowledged courtship.

INVENTING ELLIOT F GAR (PB) by Graham Gardner

Elliot, a victim of bullying, invents a calmer, cooler self when he changes schools in the middle of freshman year, but soon attracts the wrong kind of attention from the Guardians who "maintain order" at the new school.

MISCHIEF F GOL (PB) by Christopher Golden

Still facing the fallout of a curse, Aimee and Shane Lancaster and a group of teens confront new demons and creatures at every turn.

THE HOUSE ON THE GULF F HAD (PB) by Margaret Haddix

A sixteen-year-old boy arranges a house-sitting job for the summer, but he starts acting strangely after his family moves in, and his sister begins to suspect they are not supposed to be there.

MICAH F HAM (PB) by Laurell K. Hamilton

Anita flies to St. Louis where she is facing the most difficult zombie raising of her life, but it's not the flying that scares Anita, it's her first night alone with Micah.

SAVAGE GARDEN F HAM (PB) by Denise Hamilton

Eve investigates the murder of the lead actress after she fails to show up at the opening night of her new play and her body is discovered miles away.

RED PALMS F HAY (PB) by Cara Haycak

When fourteen-year-old Benita's wealthy family goes bankrupt as a result of the Depression, they go from their luxurious life in Guayaquil, Ecuador to a primitive island, with the wild scheme of starting a coconut plantation.

ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR F HEA (PB) by Lian Hearn

When a local warlord destroys his quiet village, Takeo is rescued by a rival warlord, Lord Shigeru, and learns of his true heritage as one a clan of assassins with supernatural powers. When his adopted father becomes the victim of treachery, Takeo faces a choice between loyalty to his past and to his new and perilous future in a tale set in an imaginary, ancient Japan.

A STIR OF BONES F HOF (PB) by Nina Hoffman

After discovering the secrets that lie in an abandoned house, fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom, with the help of some new friends, has the ability to make a safe, new life for herself.

THE KEY TO THE GOLDEN FIREBIRD F JOH (PB) by Maureen Johnson

As three teenaged sisters struggle to cope with their father's sudden death, they find they must reexamine friendships, lifelong dreams, and their relationships with each other and their father.

MISS SMITHERS F JUB (PB) by Susan Juby

Sixteen-year-old Alice MacLeod's life as an outcast begins to change when she experiments with being friends with different sorts of people, tries drinking alcohol and eating meat, and competes in the Miss Smithers beauty pageant.

DAWN’S EARLY LIGHT F KRU (PB) by Nancy Krulik

With just 24 hours left before her boyfriend TJ goes to war, Sarah receives news that her brother, serving in Iraq, has gone missing. Now Sarah must put her feelings aside as she sends her own soldier off to an unknown fate.

B IS FOR BUSTER F LAW (PB) by Iain Lawrence

In the spring of 1943, sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to escape his abusive parents, lies about his age to enlist in the Canadian Air Force.

SWOLLEN F LIO (PB) by Melissa Lion

A teenaged girl copes with the death of a star track and field athlete by running.

RX F LYN (PB) by Tracy Lynn

Raising awareness and fostering discussion this is a fascinating look at a high school class superstar who is dealing with the stress by dealing drugs.

GUITAR GIRL F MAN (PB) by Sarra Manning

Seventeen-year-old Molly Montgomery started a band with her best mates, Jane and Tara. But when the group is joined by charismatic bad-boy Dean, Their band, The Hormones, is front-page news, and their debut album is rocketing up the charts.

RED SLIPPERS F MCK (PB) by Dennis McKiernan

In a tavern in Port Arbalin, a group of worldly travelers gathers together, drinking and telling tales of fantastical adventure set in the realm of Mithgar.

BEAUTY F MCK (PB) by Robin McKinley

Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.

PRETTY WOMAN F MIC (PB) by Fern Michaels

When Rosie's estranged husband Kent suspects that Rosie has purchased a winning lottery ticket worth $302 million he does everything within his power to win her back.

THE BREAKDOWN LANE F MIT (PB) by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Julieanne Ambrose Gillis is shocked when her husband of twenty years asks for a sabbatical from their marriage, and it becomes apparent that he wants to make it permanent. Then Julie is diagnosed with a serious illness. Her three children undertake a dangerous journey to find their father before it's too late.

JUDE F MOR (PB) by Kate Morgenroth

Still reeling from his drug-dealing father's murder, moving in with the wealthy mother he never knew, and transferring to a private school, fifteen-year-old Jude is tricked into pleading guilty to a crime he did not commit.

ROCK STAR, SUPERSTAR F NEL (PB) by Blake Nelson

When Pete, a talented bass player, moves from playing in the high school jazz band to playing in a popular rock group, he finds the experience exhilarating even as his new fame jeopardizes his relationship with girlfriend Margaret.

AIRBORN F OPP (PB) by Kenneth Oppel

Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.

THE RULING CLASS F PAS (PB) by Francine Pascal

Sick of being bullied and harassed, a new girl at a wealthy suburban Dallas high school plots revenge on the girls in the ruling clique.

THE RIVER BETWEEN US F PEC (PB) by Richard Peck

During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.

BRO F PEC (PB) by Robert Newton Peck

Young Tug Dockery witnesses a brutal act by his grandfather that leaves him unable to speak, so when his parents die, Tug's beloved older brother feels compelled to escape from a hellish labor camp to rescue him from their grandfather's Florida cattle ranch.

MONSOON SUMMER F PER (PB) by Mitali Perkins

Secretly in love with her best friend and business partner Steve, fifteen-year-old Jazz must spend the summer away from him when her family goes to India during that country's rainy season to help set up a clinic.

THE EDUCATION OF ROBERT NIFKIN F PIN(PB) by Daniel Pinkwater

Set in the 1950s in Chicago, Robert Nifkin tells his highly unorthodox high school experiences in the form of a college application essay.

AWAY LAUGHING ON A FAST CAMEL F REN (PB) by Louise Rennison

The saga of teenager Georgia Nicolson continues in diary entries about her life after her boyfriend goes off to Kiwi-agogoland, leaving her to make do without him.

NEVER MIND THE GOLDBURGS F ROT by Matthue Roth

A seventeen-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl leaves her home in New York for the summer to film a television show in California.

GOD WENT TO BEAUTY SCHOOL F RYL (PB) by Cynthia Rylant

A novel in poems that reveal God's discovery of the wonders and pains in the world he has created.

DEVIL’S CORNER F SCO (PB) by Lisa Scottoline

In a crack-addicted, crime-ridden West Philadelphia ghetto, the members of a vicious gang conduct their murderous business. But now Assistant U.S. Attorney Vicki Alegretti is launching a case that might just take them all down.

THE BOY FROM THE BASEMENT F SHA (PB) by Susan Shaw

Charlie finally escapes the closet his father had locked him in as punishment and discovers the alien surroundings of a world that he's never before seen.

QUIVER F SPI (PB) by Stephanie Spinner

When her father commands that she produce an heir, the huntress Atalanta gives her suitors a seemingly impossible task in order to uphold her pledge of chastity, as the gods of ancient Greece look on.

SAINT VIDICON TO THE RESCUE F STA (PB) by Christopher Stasheff

Tech troubleshooter Tony Ricci has been recruited by Saint Vidicon, the patron saint of computer geeks, to combat the forces of evil that wreak havoc within all things technological.

SHADOWMANCER F TAY (PB) by G.P. Taylor

When Obadiah Demurral, the power-hungry Vicar of Thorpe, attempts to become a god by dabbling in magic, Raphah (who has come from Africa to get back the artifact stolen from his Temple and sold to Demurral) joins forces with Kate and Thomas to stop him.

BACKSTAGE PASS F TRI (PB) by Gaby Triana

After moving to Miami, Florida, sixteen-year-old Desert McGraw, whose life as the daughter of a rock star has been anything but normal, determines to make a permanent home for herself and her family--even if it means breaking up the band.

DOUBLE HELIX F WER (PB) by Nancy Werlin

Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.

TOUCHING DARKNESS F WES (PB) by Scott Westerfeld

As they continue to battle evil creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight, Jessica and her new friends learn about Bixby, Oklahoma's shadowy past and uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches beyond the secret hour.

HEART ON MY SLEEVE F WIT (PB) by Ellen Wittlinger

From the end of high school to the beginning of college, Chloe and Julian deal with major changes in their families and friendships and explore their feelings for each other through emails, letters, and a visit.