Out Of The Easy Author: Ruta Sepetys Narrator: Lauren Fortgang Performance: Excellent Available Now It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than […]
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Open Road Summer By Emery Lord
Open Road Summer Author: Emery Lord Category: Young Adult Publisher: Bloomsbury Release Date: 4-15-14 After breaking up with her bad-news boyfriend, Reagan O’Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind. . . and her best friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her own. Fortunately, Lilah’s 24-city tour is about […]
Love Letters To The Dead By Ava Dellaira
Love Letters To The Dead Author: Ava Dellaira Category: Young Adult Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Release Date: 4-1-14 It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has […]
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender By Leslye Walton
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Author: Leslye Walton Category: Young Adult Publisher: Chronicle Books Release Date: 3-25-14 Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava—in all other ways a normal girl—is born with the wings of a bird. In a […]
What I Thought Was True By Huntley Fitzpatrick
What I Thought Was True Author: Huntley Fitzpatrick Category: Young Adult Publisher: Dial Release Date: 4-15-14 Gwen Castle’s Biggest Mistake Ever, Cassidy Somers, is slumming it as a yard boy on her Nantucket-esque island this summer. He’s a rich kid from across the bridge in Stony Bay, and she hails from a family of fishermen […]
Noggin By John Corey Whaley
Noggin Author: John Corey Whaley Category: Young Adult Publisher: Atheneum Books Release Date: 4-8-14 Listen — Travis Coates was alive once and then he wasn’t. Now he’s alive again. Simple as that. The in between part is still a little fuzzy, but he can tell you that, at some point or another, his head got […]
Ex Libris Audio: The Sky Is Everywhere
The Sky Is Everywhere Author: Jandy Nelson Narrator: Julia Whelan Performance: Excellent Available Now Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, bookworm and band geek, plays second clarinet and spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister, Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is catapulted to center stage of her own […]
Side Effects May Vary By Julie Murphy
“Maybe I should have let it be a good thing and maybe I should have left all the horrible parts of me there in that hallway to be forgotten in that graveyard of memories, but I didn’t know how to do that. I didn’t know how to separate out the wrong parts of […]
Half Bad By Sally Green
Half Bad Author: Sally Green Category: Young Adult Publisher: Viking Release Date: 3-4-14 In modern-day England, witches live alongside humans: White witches, who are good; Black witches, who are evil; and fifteen-year-old Nathan, who is both. Nathan’s father is the world’s most powerful and cruel Black witch, and his mother is dead. He is hunted […]
The Winner’s Curse By Marie Rutkoski
The Winner’s Curse Author: Marie Rutkoski Category: Young Adult Publisher: FSG Release Date: 3-4-14 As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions. One day, she is startled to […]