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Catspell by Danyelle Leafty

Title: Catspell (The Fairy Godmother Dilemma, Book 1)

Author: Danyelle Leafty

Publisher: Danyelle Leafty

Release Date: October 22, 2011

Size: eBook

Genre: YA Fantasy

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Sixteen-year-old Breena never thought anything could be worse than being forced to leave the faerie realm. Then she got stuck with a fairy godmother. But if she has to choose between the two, she’d leave the Faerie Realm over getting bossed about by a faerie with a pointed stick any day. Unfortunately, her attempt to evade her fairy godmother gives her growing pains in the form of fur, whiskers, and a tail.

Turning into a cat is the least of her worries, though. The potion wasn’t meant to bring out her inner feline, it was meant to put her to sleep. Forever. If Breena wants to make it to her Happily Ever After, she’ll have to accept that sometimes a fairy godmother really does come in handy, after all.

Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George

Title: Tuesdays at the Castle

Author: Jessica Day George

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

Release Date: October 25, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599906447

Size: 240 pages, hardcover

Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy

Tuesdays at Castle Glower are Princess Celie’s favorite days. That’s because on Tuesdays the castle adds a new room, a turret, or sometimes even an entire wing. No one ever knows what the castle will do next, and no one-other than Celie, that is-takes the time to map out the new additions. But when King and Queen Glower are ambushed and their fate is unknown, it’s up to Celie, with her secret knowledge of the castle’s never-ending twists and turns, to protect their home and save their kingdom.

Super Cowboy Rides by Daris Howard

Title: Super Cowboy Rides

Author: Daris Howard

Publisher: WiDo Publishing

Release Date: October 21, 2011

ISBN: 978-1937178109

Size: 184 pages, 5.5×8.5, paperback

Genre: Children, Middle Grade

Meet six-year-old Tommy Johnson, Super Cowboy and Super Story-teller. In SUPER COWBOY RIDES, Daris Howard captures boyhood in rural America, as seen through the eyes of his precocious, adventurous narrator.

Want to build a box to capture wild cats that roam the farm? How about tips on catching a greased pig at the fair, or teaching a stubborn lamb to avoid being trampled by angry milk cows? From the first paragraph, when Tommy explains why a boy needs a dog for a pet instead of a cat, he wins us over with his down-to-earth and humorous view of the world.

But once Tommy starts school, things get complicated. He cannot learn to read. He gets put in the lowest reading group and told to stay in the back of the classroom coloring. He gets picked on by teachers and mocked by classmates.

And then tragedy strikes, and Tommy has a burden to carry beyond what any first-grader should have to face. In the process of dealing with his grief, Tommy learns the meaning of true friendship.

NYC: Murder Brooklyn Style by Loraine Scott

Title: NYC: Murder Brooklyn Style (A Summer Winter Mystery)

Author: Loraine Scott

Publisher: American Fork Arts Council Press

Release Date: October 13, 2011

ISBN: 978-1605740034

Size: 308 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Series: NYC: A Mission To Die For (book 1)

Summer is back and it’s hotter than ever!

Sister Winter wants to leave a small token of her regard to the recently deceased Raul French, but when she returns to the viewing room she is started to find that his arm has been moved. Then she notices that the gold wedding band she and Elder Winter had forced onto Raul’s corpulent pinkie is missing. Where could it be? Had the bratwurst arm they had so tenderly folded across Raul’s chest moved on its own?

Unthinkable.

Mustering her courage, Sister Winter hefts up the sleeve of the borrowed suit. Not willing to trust what she sees, Sister Winter looks again. Yep, still there—another arm. In life, Raul French had only the customary two arms. Now, it seems, there are at least three!

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Rearview Mirror by Stephanie Black

Title: Rearview Mirror

Author: Stephanie Black

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: October 5, 2011

ISBN: 978-1608614639

Size: 316 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Mystery/Suspense

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On a rainy night eight years ago, Fiona Claridge lost control of her car and crashed, injuring herself and killing her roommate, Mia Hardy. Now, she strives to keep the painful past at bay by staying burrowed beneath the demands of her job as a college professor in a small New England town. But when someone starts leaving her gift-wrapped boxes containing malicious reminders of Mia’s death, Fiona’s guilt and grief come flooding back.

She assumes her stalker is Kimberly Bailey, a disgruntled student, and enlists the help of fellow professor James Hampton. But when Fiona encounters the angry wife of an old flame, it becomes clear her student isn’t the only one with an eye for revenge. Cruel messages escalate to danger, then murder. As past and present become horribly entangled, Fiona struggles to unravel the truth about a determined killer—before she becomes the next victim.

Jacob T. Marley by R. William Bennett

Title: Jacob T. Marley

Author: R. William Bennett

Publisher: Shadow Mountain

Release Date: October 12, 2011

ISBN: 978-1590383513

Size: 192 pages, 5×7, hardcover

Genre: General, Christmas

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Marley was dead to begin with . . . These chillingly familiar words begin the classic Christmas tale of remorse and redemption in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Now R. William Bennett rewinds the story and focuses the spotlight on Scrooge’s miserly business partner, Jacob T. Marley, who was allowed to return as a ghost to warn Scrooge away from his ill-fated path.

Why was Marley allowed to return? And why hadn’t he been given the same chance as Ebenezer Scrooge? Or had he?

Compass of God by David G. Woolley

Title: Compass of God (The Promised Land, vol. 5)

Author: David G. Woolley

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: October 2011

ISBN: 978-1598118773

Size: 528 pages, 6×9, hardcover

Genre: Historical

Series: Pillar of Fire (vol 1), Power of Deliverance (vol 2), Place of Refuge (vol 3), Day of Remembrance (vol.4)

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When Mulek, son of King Zedekiah, secretly surfaces in Jerusalem some years after his escape, he brings with him a mysterious and legendary object: the curious compass reputed to have guided Noah’s ark to safety. As Mulek seeks to conceal the coveted treasure, four other exiles approach the city: the sons of Lehi, who fled their homeland with the brass plates only to receive God’s decree to return and claim their intended wives, the four daughters of Ishmael.

Sariah joyfully begins planning a wedding in the desert, but the long-absent brothers are hardly received with open arms, and securing their brides-to-be becomes a challenge as formidable as eluding the officials enraged by Laban’s recent murder. As persecution rages under the hand of Laban’s cruel successor and Babylonian armies gather for war, a young woman must risk her life to protect the Liahona, the compass that will lead God’s chosen people to the land of promise.

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Virtuosity by Jessica Martinez

Now is not the time for Carmen to fall in love. And Jeremy is hands-down the wrong guy for her to fall for. He is infuriating, arrogant, and the only person who can stand in the way of Carmen getting the one thing she wants most: to win the prestigious Guarneri competition. Carmen’s whole life is violin, and until she met Jeremy, her whole focus was winning. But what if Jeremy isn’t just hot…what if Jeremy is better?

Carmen knows that kissing Jeremy can’t end well, but she just can’t stay away. Nobody else understands her—and riles her up—like he does. Still, she can’t trust him with her biggest secret: She is so desperate to win, she takes antianxiety drugs to perform, and what started as an easy fix has become a hungry addiction. Carmen is sick of not feeling anything on stage and even sicker of always doing what she’s told, doing what’s expected.

Sometimes being on top just means you have a long way to fall….

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Title: Virtuosity

Author: Jessica Martinez

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Release Date: October 18, 2011

ISBN: 978-1442420526

Size: 304 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Contemporary

The Hidden Kingdom by R.K. Hinrichsen

Title: The Hidden Kingdom

Author: R.K. Hinrichsen

Publisher: RKH Press

Release Date: October 7, 2011

Size: ebook

Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy

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The dark enemy never rests. But neither do the Heroes of the Highest Order. So when a magical playground whisks Dan and Page into the Hidden Kingdom, a skinny giant quickly registers them for hero training camp. There, they learn they must gain skills and earn powerful treasures by travelling back in time and walking in the footsteps of a real pioneer hero.

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Old Money by Heather Horrocks

Title: Old Money: A Wild West Romantic Comedy

Author: Heather Horrocks

Publisher: Word Garden Press

Release Date: October 16, 2011

Size: 345 pages, eBook

Genre: Romantic Comedy/Suspense

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Time travel doesn’t really happen. Does it?

Jennie’s beginning to wonder when she and her ex-fiancé seem to be pulled into an Old West painting–right in the middle of a guns-blazing bank robbery.

She doesn’t know how it happened to begin with, or how they’ll get back, neither Jesse James nor the marshal seem inclined to give them a chance to find out.

Worst of all, Jennie’s falling for the one man she swore she’d never trust again.

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Icefall by Matthew Kirby

Title: Icefall

Author: Matthew Kirby

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Release Date: October 1, 2011

ISBN: 978-0545274241

Size: 336 pages, 6×8, hardcover

Genre: Middle Grade fantasy

Trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen sea, Solveig, along with her brother the crown prince, their older sister, and an army of restless warriors, anxiously awaits news of her father’s victory at battle. But as winter stretches on, and the unending ice refuses to break, terrible acts of treachery soon make it clear that a traitor lurks in their midst. A malevolent air begins to seep through the fortress walls, and a smothering claustrophobia slowly turns these prisoners of winter against one another.

Those charged with protecting the king’s children are all suspect, and the siblings must choose their allies wisely. But who can be trusted so far from their father’s watchful eye? Can Solveig and her siblings survive the long winter months and expose the traitor before he succeeds in destroying a kingdom?

Whisper Hollow by Carol Warburton

Title: Whisper Hollow

Author: Carol Warburton

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: October 17, 2011

ISBN: 978-1608617609

Size: 288 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Historical

Talitha Evangeline Spencer enjoys a happy life with her parents in the tiny mountain hamlet of Whisper Hollow, but the onset of the Civil War brings the simplicity of her girlhood to a sudden end. When rebel soldiers wreak havoc on her family, unraveling her mother’s already fragile state of mind, Tally must take charge of the family farm alone. The burdens of providing for the household prompt her to consider a marriage proposal from Ollie, her childhood friend, but Tally determines to hold out for love.

Come spring, the sound of a lone violin on the breeze signals the arrival of Cole Blakely, a former Yankee soldier who draws the ire of the local Rebs even as he draws the eyes of Tally. And as tension mounts between Cole and the Rebels, Tally summons her grit to save Cole from the murderous hands of his enemies. But when the soldiers who nearly destroyed her happy home return, Tally finally meets a challenge she cannot face alone and must trust the love of the outsider who has won her heart.

Letters in the Jade Dragon Box by Gale Sears

Title: Letters in the Jade Dragon Box

Author: Gale Sears

Publisher: Deseret Book

Release Date: October 12, 2011

ISBN: 978-1606412480

Size: 296 pages, 5×8 hardcover

Genre: Historical

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Truth. In mainland China from 1949 to 1976, truth is all but eradicated, suppressed and supplanted by the iron will of Mao Tse-tung. Millions of people suffer untold anguish as their history, their culture, and their lives are brought under communist rule. Many flee to Taiwan and Hong Kong.

As a child, Chen Wen-shan was taken from her family home in mainland China and sent to live with her great-uncle—a former general in the Nationalist Chinese army who had become one of the first converts to the LDS Church in Hong Kong. For ten years, Wen-shan has carried the sorrow of abandonment in her heart, with few memories of her life before. But at the death of Chairman Mao, fifteen-year-old Wen-shan receives a mysterious wooden box that holds a series of beautiful paintings and secret letters that reveal the fate of the family she has not heard from in more than a decade.

As Wen-shan and her great-uncle read the letters in the jade dragon box, they discover an unbreakable bond between each other, their family—both past and present—and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Letters in the Jade Dragon Box is a beautifully written LDS historical novel inspired by the real-life experiences of one man who was offered truth that would heal his heart, his spirit, and his family. His story helps shed light on a time and a place where, despite all odds, truth refused to be broken.

Seers by Heather Frost

Title: Seers

Author: Heather Frost

Publisher: Sweetwater/CFI

Release Date: October 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599557922

Size: 352 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal

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When Kate Bennett survived the car accident that claimed her parents’ lives, she knew her world would be forever changed. But her life is more dramatically altered than she first realized. Not only is she able to see “mood auras” on the people around her, she’s even started seeing invisible people with no colors at all. And no matter how attractive the new addition to her American Lit class is, Kate sees what no one else can—the dangerous truths this mysterious man threatens to pour into her life.

Patrick O’Donnell was killed in the Irish Revolution in 1798. He’s here now to try and keep Kate alive, and stop her life from spinning out of control. The one thing he’s not going to do is fall in love with her. But plans change, especially when Demons are involved . . .

Kate is about to enter the world of Seers; where immortals are at war with each other, and unfortunate mortals like Kate are in over their heads.

Girls Don’t Fly by Kristen Chandler

Title: Girls Don’t Fly

Author: Kristen Chandler

Publisher: Viking Juvenile

Release Date: October 13, 2011

ISBN: 978-0670013319

Size: 300 pages, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult

Myra is used to keeping her feet firmly on the ground. She’s got four younger brothers, overworked parents, and a pregnant older sister, and if Myra wasn’t there to take care of everyone, they’d probably fall apart. But when her boyfriend unceremoniously dumps her, Myra feels like she’s lost her footing. Suddenly she’s doing things she never would’ve a few months earlier: quitting her job, applying for a scholarship to study birds in the Galapogos, and falling for a guy who’s encouraging her to leap from her old life . . . and fly.

Set on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, Girls Don’t Fly is a tale of evolution, the personal kind.

Lit Fuse by Mike McPheters

Title: Lit Fuse

Author: Mike McPheters

Publisher: Bonneville/CFI

Release Date: October 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599559780

Size: 272 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Suspense

Two children of Pakistani immigrants, Delisha and Lufti Ahmed, have been conditioned by Al Qaeda to despise America as an infidel nation. They, along with five other sibling pairs, have been raised as potential suicide bombers with targets to major US cities in hopes to be exalted into Allah’s presence in the hereafter. Everything changes when they encounter two young Mormon missionaries.

Tris & Izzie by Mette Ivie Harrison

Title: Tris & Izzie

Author: Mette Ivie Harrison

Publisher: EgmontUSA

Release Date: October 11, 2011

ISBN: 978-1606841730

Size: 272 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

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“I don’t want him to love me because of a potion,” she said.

Izzie loves Mark, and why shouldn’t she? As the captain of the basketball team, he is kind and loving and he’s everything she’s ever wanted in a boyfriend. Her BFF loves . . . somebody, but she won’t say who. So when a hot new guy, Tristan, shows up at school, who better for Izzie to fix up her friend[LL1] with? And what better way to do it than with a love philtre?

But even the best of magic has a way of going awry—and Izzie finds she’s accidentally fallen in love with Tristan herself. And that’s a problem. First of all, there’s Mark. Second, Tristan comes with baggage—like the supernatural creatures that keep attacking whenever he’s with Izzie, and the fact that he comes from the place where Izzie’s father was killed, years ago, by an enormous, evil serpent that’s still around—and it knows Izzie is out there.

Like Mettie Ivie Harrison’s The Princess and the Hound, praised by Orson Scott Card as “powerful, surprising, moving, and deep—a classic,” Tris and Izzie rings the changes on a timeless legend, this time in a contemporary high school setting.

The Death Cure by James Dashner

Title: The Death Cure (The Maze Runner, book 3)

Author: James Dashner

Publisher: Delacorte

Release Date: October 11, 2011

ISBN: 978-0385738774

Size: 336 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

Maze Runner Series: The Maze Runner (bk 1), The Scorch Trials (bk 2)

Thomas knows that Wicked can’t be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they’ve collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission. It’s up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test.

What Wicked doesn’t know is that something’s happened that no Trial or Variable could have foreseen. Thomas has remembered far more than they think. And he knows that he can’t believe a word of what Wicked says.

The time for lies is over. But the truth is more dangerous than Thomas could ever imagine.

Will anyone survive the Death Cure?

The Shaken Earth by Toni Sorenson

Title: The Shaken Earth

Author: Toni Sorenson

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: October 10, 2011

ISBN: 978-1608612796

Size: 368 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: General

Fragile, twelve-year-old Yolisha is afraid thinking about her first ride on a brightly painted tap-tap. The city is much farther than she has ever been from her small village of Makak, but Yolisha must go. Tomorrow she has an appointment in Port-au-Prince with the doctor who understands her special illness. But she is terrified that she might lose the grasp of her mother’s hand on the clattering, noisy bus crowded with people and livestock.

In truth, Yolisha is frightened of anything, or anyone, that might separate her from the only anchor in her life: her mother. The next day, Yolisha is slammed with the realization that her greatest danger was not in the bus ride at all. When the earth begins violently shaking, the walls of the clinic crumble, and her mother is torn from her, she fears that her innocent wishing game might have caused the devastating earthquake that has just thrown her into a terrifying world of survival.

But what if the same game can uncover hidden strength in Yolisha as she searches for her missing mother? Might the elderly man who plucks her from the rubble save her life . . . while the man’s colorful and determined friend saves her soul by introducing her to the gospel?

With penetrating insight, Toni Sorenson immerses you into a beautiful, beleaguered country and guides you on a poignant and compelling journey that explores questions of faith and fate, selflessness and self-preservation, the story of a girl who holds on to hope, even in an overwhelmingly hopeless situation.

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Huber Hill and the Dead Man’s Treasure by B.K. Bostick

Title: Huber Hill and the Dead Man’s Treasure

Author: B.K. Bostick

Publisher: Sweetwater (CFI)

Release Date: October 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599559117

Size: 288 pages, 5.5×8, hardcover

Genre: Middle Grade Mystery

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When his grandfather dies, Huber Hill is devastated—until he opens Grandpa Nick’s mysterious box. An old gold coin and directions to a hidden Spanish treasure send him and his friends off on an mind-blowing adventure, but he’s not the only one on the hunt. Filled with dangerous animals and cryptic puzzles, this book will have you on the edge of your seat until the last page.

All I Got for Christmas by Rebecca Shelley

Title: All I Got for Christmas (Smartboys #6)

Author: Rebecca Shelley

Illustrator: Abby Goldsmith

Publisher: Wonder Realms

Release Date: October 2, 2011

Size: ebook

Genre: Childrens (Grades 4–6)

Series: Bees In My Butt (bk 1), We Flushed It Down the Potty (bk 2), I Took a Burp (bk3), I Lost My Head (bk4), My Stomach Explodes (bk 5)

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Oh No! Principal Green says Santa can’t come to the school Christmas party.

Monkey needs a plan to get Santa to come. Too bad Monkey’s ideas get him on Santa’s Naughty List. It looks like all he’ll get for Christmas is a bucket of coal.

But when a blizzard knocks out the power lines and buries the roads, it’s up to Monkey and the Smartboys to save Christmas for everyone.

The Next Door Boys by Jolene B. Perry

Title: The Next Door Boys

Author: Jolene B. Perry

Publisher: Cedar Fort

Release Date: October 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599559100

Size: 272 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Young Adult Romance

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Leigh Tressman has been known as a lot of things – the girl who sings, the girl who sews, Jaron’s little sister, and last year, the girl with cancer. With her body still recovering from the cancer treatments, she’s determined to be independent and convinces her parents to let her follow her overprotective brother, Jaron, to BYU.

With an ever expanding line of young men ready to be in love with her–not to mention physical frustrations, and spiritual dilemmas–Leigh almost misses the opportunity to be with the man who has been quietly falling in love with her since they met. The Next Door Boys proves that even with (or maybe in spite of) independence, love can be found in comfortable, but delightful places.

Variant by Robison Wells

Title: Variant

Author: Robison Wells

Publisher: HarperTeen

Release Date: October 4, 2011

ISBN: 978-0062026088

Size: 384 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Speculative

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Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life.

He was wrong.

Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where there are no adults. Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive.

Where breaking the rules equals death.

But when Benson stumbles upon the school’s real secret, he realizes that playing by the rules could spell a fate worse than death, and that escape—his only real hope for survival—may be impossible.

Her Italian Soldier by Rebecca Winters

Title: Her Italian Soldier

Author: Rebecca Winters

Publisher: Harlequin

Release Date: October 4, 2011

ISBN: 978-0373177615

Size: 192 pages, 4×6, mass market paperback

Genre: Romance

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* This book may be a reprint and ineligible for a Whitney Award. ??

Plucked from obscurity to model in an exciting campaign on the Amalfi coast, Annabelle Marsh can’t wait for her month away! Surely, surrounded by so much natural beauty, her emotional bruises can’t help but recover.

However, she’d planned to heal her wounds in private— sharing accommodations with a darkly brooding, battle-scarred army pilot was not on the agenda! Ex-nurse Annabelle is compelled to help Lucca, even though he’s got “keep out” written all over him. But once the spark between them ignites, it’s impossible to put out….