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Night Sky by Jolene Perry

Girl I’ve loved, girl I’m falling for. Now that they’re both in view, the problem is clear.

After losing Sarah, the friend he’s loved, to some other guy, Jameson meets Sky. Her Native American roots, fluid movements, and need for brutal honesty become addictive fast. This is good. Jameson needs distraction – his dad leaves for another woman, his mom’s walking around like a zombie, and Sarah’s new boyfriend can’t keep his hands off of her.

As he spends time with Sky and learns about her village, her totems, and her friends with drums – she’s way more than distraction. Jameson’s falling for her fast.

But Sky’s need for honesty somehow doesn’t extend to her life story – and Jameson just may need more than his new girl to keep him distracted from the disaster of his senior year.

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Title: Night Sky

Author: Jolene Perry

Publisher: Tribute Books

Release Date: March 1, 2012

ISBN: 978-0983741862

Size: 247 pages, eBook

Genre: Young Adult Contemporary

Vodnik by Bryce Moore

Teacups: great for tea. Really sucky as places-to-live-out-the-rest-of-your-eternal-existence. Very little elbow room, and the internet connection is notoriously slow. Plus, they’re a real pain in the butt to get out of, especially when you’ve gone non-corporeal.

When Tomas was six, someone–something–tried to drown him. And burn him to a crisp. Tomas survived, but whatever was trying to kill him freaked out his parents enough to convince them to move from Slovakia to the United States.

Now sixteen-year-old Tomas and his family are back in Slovakia, and that something still lurks somewhere. Nearby. Ready to drown him again and imprison his soul in a teacup.

Then there’s the fire víla, the water ghost, the pitchfork-happy city folk, and Death herself who are all after him.

All this sounds a bit comical, unless the one haunted by water ghosts and fire vílas or doing time in a cramped, internet-deprived teacup is you.

If Tomas wants to survive, he’ll have to embrace the meaning behind the Slovak proverb, So smrťou ešte nik zmluvu neurobil. With Death, nobody makes a pact.

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Title: Vodnik

Author: Bryce Moore

Publisher: Tu Books

Release Date: March 1, 2012

ISBN: 978-1600608520

Size: 368 pages, 6×9, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

The Stones by A.D. Duling

Anna Kippling has collected the final fourth Token and now must quickly learn how to use them all. With the Red stone and the book “Dominion” now in his possession; the Chancellor only needs the “Sister” Blue stone to raise the undefeatable Serpentine Army.

Time is ticking and preperations are being made. More allies are joining their forces…but Anna and her friends must get to the Stones and destroy them or find themselves headed towards a horrific battle.

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Title: The Stones (Anna Kippling Book 3)

Author: A.D. Duling

Publisher: Self

Release Date: February 26, 2012

ASIN: B007EDMN2Y

Size: 169 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

Anna Kippling Series: The Key (bk 1), The Tokens (bk 2)

Partials by Dan Wells

The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island while the Partials have mysteriously retreated. The threat of the Partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. Our time is running out.

Kira, a sixteen-year-old medic-in-training, is on the front lines of this battle, seeing RM ravage the community while mandatory pregnancy laws have pushed what’s left of humanity to the brink of civil war, and she’s not content to stand by and watch. But as she makes a desperate decision to save the last of her race, she will find that the survival of humans and Partials alike rests in her attempts to uncover the connections between them—connections that humanity has forgotten, or perhaps never even knew were there.

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Title: Partials

Author: Dan Wells

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Release Date: February 28, 2012

ISBN: 978-0062071040

Size: 480 pages, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult Dystopian

Hindsight by Sherry D. Ficklin

Grace Archer has come into her full powers as an immortal and has taken up the mantle offered by her father, Prometheus.

Leaving behind everything and everyone she loves, Grace becomes a pawn in a dangerous game that threatens to undo an ancient truce between Gods of Olympus and the Fae.

Can Grace find a way to prevent war or will she become the Harbinger predicted by the Gods of Fate?

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Title: Hindsight (vol. 3)

Author: Sherry D. Ficklin

Publisher: Dragonfly Publishing

Release Date: February 6, 2012

ISBN: 978-1936381388

Size: 162 pages, 5.5×8.5, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

The Gods of Fate Series: Foresight (vol 1), Second Sight (vol 2)

Kicking Ashe by Pauline Baird Jones

With hearts and lives on the line, a kiss may be all they have time for…

Time has dumped Ashe on a dying planet and she needs to figure out why before she ceases to exist.

Or gets vivisected by some Keltinarian scientists.

Or worse.

Vidor Shan might help—since someone somewhere is trying to hose him, too—if she can convince him to trust her. Probably shouldn’t have told him that only someone he trusts can betray him. Also wouldn’t mind if he kissed her on the mouth.

Vid would love to kiss the girl, but his brother is lost, he’s got hostile aliens on his tail, and the stench of betrayal all around him. Can he trust the woman who told him to trust no one?

Then a time quake hurls them to a nasty somewhere and some when…

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Title: Kicking Ashe (Project Universe bk 6)

Author: Pauline Baird Jones

Publisher: L & L Dreamspell

Release Date: February 20, 2012

ISBN: 978-1603184489

Size: 214 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Science Fiction

Project Universe Series: The Key (bk 1), Girl Gone Nova (bk 2), Tangled in Time (bk 3), Steamrolled (bk 4)

The Keeper’s Calling by Kelly Nelson

They come from two different worlds. One fateful discovery will bring them together. Neither of their lives will ever be the same.

Chase Harper’s to-do list for senior year never included fall in love and fight for your life, but things rarely go as planned. Tarnished gold and resembling a pocket watch, the counter he finds in a cave during the summer of 2011 will forever change the course of his life, leading him to the beautiful Ellie Williams and unlocking a power beyond his wildest imagination.

In 1863, Ellie Williams completes school in Boston and returns to the Utah Territory only to discover that her grandfather and his counter, a treasured family heirloom, are missing. When Ellie is abducted and told she must produce the counter or die, an unexpected rescuer comes to her aid.

Title: The Keeper’s Calling

Author: Kelly Nelson

Publisher: Walnut Springs Press

Release Date: February 20, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599928449

Size: 312 pages, softcover

Genre: YA Speculative Romance/Time Travel

The Vanishing Game by Kate Kae Myers

Jocelyn’s twin brother Jack was the only family she had growing up in a world of foster homes—and now he’s dead, and she has nothing. Then she gets a cryptic letter from “Jason December”—the code name her brother used to use when they were children at Seale House, a terrifying foster home that they believed had dark powers. Only one other person knows about Jason December: Noah, Jocelyn’s childhood crush and their only real friend among the troubled children at Seale House.

But when Jocelyn returns to Seale House and the city where she last saw Noah, she gets more than she bargained for. Turns out the house’s powers weren’t just a figment of a childish imagination. And someone is following Jocelyn. Is Jack still alive? And if he is, what kind of trouble is he in?

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Title: The Vanishing Game

Author: Kate Kae Myers

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

Release Date: February 14, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599906942

Size: 368 pages, 5×8, hardcover

Genre: YA Suspense

Death Cheater by Danielle Thorne

From the shadow of a tangled thorn bush, and soft, padding footsteps shuffled in the late afternoon gloom. My breathing went ragged with fear. Maybe it was a raccoon or an angry squirrel.

Athena.

Whipping around, I stared hard into the murk. A voice. It sounded gentle, but at the same time it sent chills down my arms. I glanced up through the hooded canopy of tree branches and tried to see heaven.

God?

There was a growl, and the terror I’d been holding at bay zipped up my spine into my skull. I was sure my long hair stood on end, like when kids touched the electrostatic generator at the science museum.

Something was coming for me, and it wasn’t something from the woods. It’d been following me all day. Maybe even my entire life.

Athena Gray lives vicariously through her sister because people in general avoid her. Whether it’s strange things like dead butterflies fluttering to life, or the time she saved her dying grandpapa just by willing him to live, Athena knows that she is different. The only person who doesn’t seem to think so is Dan, the most popular boy on Omega High School’s baseball team. But even Dan can’t understand the reason she acts haunted, until a spirit roaming the local historic burial mounds takes an interest in people Athena cares about.

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Title: Death Cheater

Author: Danielle Thorne

Publisher: Desert Breeze Publishing

Release Date: February 13, 2012

ISBN: NA

Size: 178 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Paranormal

Forever by Cheri Schmidt

Danielle and Ethan may have solved their problem with vampires, but other magical beings have taken interest in the ones who discovered the cure.

On the run trying to escape a gaggle of evil pixies, a clan of creepy werewolves, a coven or two of wicked witches, and a school of lovely but malicious mermaids, they fight to have a normal life. But that isn’t so easy when the only aid they have is from slightly dishonest fairies and flirtatious vampire bodyguards.

This is Danielle and Ethan’s happily forever after….

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Title: Forever

Author: Cheri Schmidt

Publisher: Self

Release Date: February 4, 2012

ISBN: 978-1469969367

Size: 300 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

Fateful Series: Fateful (bk 1), Fractured (bk 2)

Fractured Light by Rachel McClellan

I’m dying, I thought. This was unexpected and not at all how I envisioned my death. I was supposed to die gardening in a flowerbed as a hundred-year-old woman, not as a seventeen-year-old trapped in a lake beneath inches of ice.

Llona Reese is used to living on the run. After a Vyken killed her parents, she knew they would eventually come for her too. She can’t take any chances. But when she starts to make friends for the first time in her life, she gets careless and lets her guard down. Big mistake.

As an Aura, Llona can manipulate light and harness its energy. But if she wants to survive, Llona will have to defy the Auran Council and learn to use her power as a weapon against the Vyken whose sole desire is to take her light. Now she’s caught in something bigger than she can understand, with a power she can’t wield, and no one she can trust, except, just maybe, a mysterious stranger.

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Title: Fractured Light

Author: Rachel McClellan

Publisher: Sweetwater/Cedar Fort

Release Date: February 7, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599559421

Size: 312 pages, 5.5×8, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal

Northanger Alibi by Jenni James

Sometimes a guy is even better than you imagined…

The Russo family and Seattle, Washington, are no match for Claire Hart and her savvy knowledge of all things vampire-related. Thanks to her obsession with the Twilight series, if there is anyone who would know a vampire when she saw one, it’s Claire. And she’s positive totally hot Tony Russo is a vampire – she just has to prove it!

In this modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, follow Claire’s hilarious journey on her first summer adventure away from home, where she learns everything isn’t what is seems, and that in some instances, reality is way better than anything she’d ever find in a book.

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Title: Northanger Alibi (Jane Austen Diaries)

Author: Jenni James

Publisher: Walnut Springs

Release Date: February 3, 2012

ISBN: 978-0983829317

Size: 243 pages, 5.5×8.5, paperback

Genre: Young Adult Romance

Jane Austen Diaries also include:
Pride & Popularity

The Dark Eagles: First Flight by David R. Smith

Kief loves exploring the rugged mountains on his horse, Natch, with his best friend Tarc. But when he receives a mysterious map on his birthday, left behind for him by his dead grandfather, Kief is thrown into an adventure beyond even his imagination.

Leaving home to pursue his childhood dream of attending the merchant academy on the coast, extraordinary events unfold propelling Kief, along with his friends and his map, toward the same perilous destiny.

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Title: The Dark Eagles: First Flight

Author: David R. Smith

Publisher: Fundautum Publishing

Release Date: January 2012

ISBN: 978-0615571324

Size: 286 pages, 6×9, hardcover

Genre: YA Action Adventure

Crimson by Cheree Alsop

Crimson, the third book of the Silver Series, is about a teenage boy who dies in a car accident and awakens a werewolf. Burdened with heavy guilt over his sister’s death in the same accident, Kaynan escapes with a blind girl named Grace who gives him purpose and direction. They seek shelter with a pack of werewolves who brave dangerous odds to help them. Kaynan is given the ultimate chance to make up for his poor decisions, but dying again might be the only way to redeem himself.

Crimson is a story of love and redemption amid danger and violence, a story where acceptance of change may be the only way to survive.

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Title: Crimson (The Silver Series, book 3)

Author: Cheree Alsop

Publisher: Self

Release Date: January 30, 2012

ISBN: NA

Size: 178 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Paranormal

Series: Silver (bk 1), Black (bk 2)

Everneath by Brodi Ashton

Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned—to her old life, her family, her boyfriend—before she’s banished back to the underworld . . . this time forever. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can’t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists.

Nikki longs to spend these precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance—and the one person she loves more than anything. But there’s just one problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. And he’ll do whatever it takes to bring her back, this time as his queen.

As Nikki’s time on the Surface draws to a close and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she is forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole’s queen.

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Title: Everneath

Author: Brodi Ashton

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Release Date: January 24, 2012

ISBN: 978-0062071132

Size: 384 pages, 6×9, hardcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

In the Twilight by Fiauna Lund

What if your entire town had a secret and it was your job to keep that secret safe?

Fourteen-year-old Avril Holly lives in a world full of secrets: not only is she half faery, sprouting wings at twilight, but suddenly she also has the ability to read minds. When she is attacked while walking home alone in her otherwise peaceful community, she learns that she must use her mind-reading powers to protect her people from the curious and sometimes dangerous human beings around them.

When she discovers that Vestyn, her best friend’s suddenly crush-worthy brother, helped save her from the attacker, what started out as childhood friendship takes on new depth, growing into a budding romance. Though she worries their telepathic connection will ruin their blossoming relationship, Avril must learn to work with Vestyn to keep their community safe and their faery heritage a secret.

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Title: In the Twilight (The Sprightling Diaries, Book 1)

Author: Fiauna Lund

Publisher: Shady Hill Press

Release Date: January 1, 2012

ISBN: 978-1890718770

Size: 196 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Middle Grade/YA Fantasy

Invaluable by Holly J Wood

Title: Invaluable

Author: Holly J. Wood

Publisher: Deseret Book

Release Date: December 26, 2011

ISBN: 978-1609088354

Size: 350 pages, 5.5×8, paperback

Genre: Young Adult

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help wanted

Sixteen-year-old girl seeks advice on how to reach out to a sister who has become distant; how to make up with my best friend, who spends every moment with her new boyfriend; how to avoidlosing my job over working on Sundays; and how to figure out who has been putting love notes in my locker.

Applicants are also required to provide advice on how to handle being head-over-heels for my prom date’s best friend—who happens to be the hottest guy in school.

Math tutoring a plus.

Interested persons may contact Eliza Moore.

Sound like a tall order? Well, that is what Eliza Moore is up against during her sophomore year of high school. But when her great-grandmother beginsvisiting Eliza in her dreams, everything starts to change. These dreamstake Eliza back in time to see extraordinary women who help teach her about eight important values. As Eliza learns more about these women andthe values they lived by, she discovers the courage and confidence she needs to face her challenges—and her secret admirer.

Shadows by Cheree Alsop

Duskies are born in a dangerous world as servants of the lords of light and shadow, but when creatures known as the Sathen threaten all the races, a Duskie named Nexa finds herself caught in the middle of a perilous journey to save her people and unite the races as one.

Facing dangerous odds, prejudice, and violence, Nexa finds strength in those around her and, ultimately, love.

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Title: Shadows

Author: Cheree Alsop

Publisher: Self

Release Date: December 17, 2011

ISBN: NA

Size: 217 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

Black by Cheree Alsop

Black, the second book in The Silver Series, is about a werewolf raised through the atrocities of a werewolf fighting ring. He is rescued and given the chance at a new life, but haunting reminders of his past follow him as he tries to make a fresh start. He has to confront his dark history in order to protect the girl he loves, or let himself be swept away into the pain and humiliation of the arena once more.

The second book of a fresh new werewolf series, Black is fast paced, dark, and shows that love is something worth fighting for.

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Title: Black (The Silver Series, Book 2)

Author: Cheree Alsop

Publisher: Self

Release Date: December 16, 2011

ISBN: NA

Size: 196 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Paranormal

Series: Silver (bk 1)

Silver by Cheree Alsop

Silver, book one of The Silver Series, is a coming of age story about a teenage werewolf whose father is murdered. He has to come to terms with his new life, new school, and new friends while trying to stop a killer. Attempting to make peace with the territory’s pack and falling in love make his new situation even more perilous.

A fresh new werewolf series, Silver is fast paced and exciting, and shows that with love, there truly are no limits.

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Title: Silver (The Silver Series, Book 1)

Author: Cheree Alsop

Publisher: Self

Release Date: December 16, 2011

ISBN: NA

Size: 179 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Paranormal

The Breakup Artist by Shannen Crane Camp

Title: The Breakup Artist

Author: Shannen Crane Camp

Publisher: Bonneville (CFI)

Release Date: December 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599559155

Size: 216 pages, 5.5×8, paperback

Genre: Young Adult

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Most teenage girls can agree that the worst part of starting a relationship in high school, is the inevitable breakup. All the careful planning in the world doesn’t ever seem to be enough to prevent that horribly awkward moment of telling your soon-to-be ex-boyfriend “It’s not you, It’s me”.

But what if you had someone to do that for you? Imagine being able to hire a breakup artist the same way you’d hire someone to do your nails.

That’s where Amelia Marie Bedford comes in. Blessed with good looks and absolutely no friends, Amelia finds her true calling in the subtle art of the breakup. But when a gorgeous green-eyed client named David seems to actually be interested in her for more than just her looks, Amelia starts to falter on her “no dating your paycheck” rule. As the pre-Prom deadline closes in on her Amelia has to decide if David’s intentions are true, or if something more sinister lurks behind that perfect face.

Hannah of Silver Falls by Rebecca Woods

Title: Hannah of Silver Falls

Author: Rebecca Woods

Publisher: Sweetwater (CFI)

Release Date: December 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599559940

Size: 256 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Young Adult

When Hannah moves to Silver Falls, she falls for the handsome Caleb. But when her best friend, Caleb s brother Nathan, expresses his love for her, she must decide what really lies within their hearts.

Geek Girl by Cindy C. Bennett

Title: Geek Girl

Author: Cindy C. Bennett

Publisher: Sweetwater Press (CFI)

Release Date: December 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599559254

Size: 280 pages, 5.5×8, paperback

Genre: Young Adult

*This book was originally self-published in 2010, but has been edited and republished. Not sure if it’s eligible for a Whitney or not.

“Think I could turn that boy bad?”

My two best friends–my only two friends, really–follow my gaze and laugh.

“Trevor Hoffman?” Beth scoffs. “No way, Jen.”

“I bet I could,” I say, shrugging.

“Why him?” Beth asks. “Why not any of the other nerds sitting there with him?”

“Because,” I say slowly, “he isn’t your typical run-of-the-mill geek. Trevor Hoffman is different. He would be a little more difficult to take down–more of a challenge, you know?”

Jen’s teenage life of rebelling and sneaking out is growing stale. In an effort to combat her boredom, Jen makes a bet to turn Trevor, a nice geek, into a “bad boy.” Unexpectedly, she is pulled into Trevor’s world of sci-fi movies, charity work, and even–ugh!–bowling. Jen discovers that hanging out with Trevor isn’t so bad after all.

But when Trevor finds out about the wager, all bets are off.

Immortal Mine by Cindy C. Bennett

Niahm (pronounced Neeve) Parker is thoroughly content with her life in the small town of Goshen. Her parents, who travel frequently for their work, have raised a headstrong, independent teen. While her peers can hardly wait for the opportunity to leave, Niahm plans to stay forever.

When Shane Coleman and his nephew Sam move into town, it’s the biggest event to happen in as long as anyone can remember. It’s quite remarkable for anyone to move into Goshen rather than out, but when it’s discovered that Sam is 17, it requires some serious burning of the phone lines. All the teen girls are thrilled to have a new hottie in town—all except Niahm. Sam Coleman represents a threat to her perfect way of life.

Sam is drawn to Niahm against his will. He’d prefer to not be bound to this angry, stubborn, unlikeable girl. Unfortunately, he has no choice. However, Sam didn’t plan on falling for Niahm. For Immortals, love is not only forbidden, but dangerous for her. He finds himself in a fight not only for Niahm’s heart, but to protect her from being harmed by those who seek to destroy Sam and those like him.

Niahm is attracted to the tall, copper-headed boy, who becomes her friend and then her support when tragedy strikes. Soon, she begins to realize that there may be more to Sam than she ever suspected… much more. But what he truly is, she can’t begin to imagine.

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Title: Immortal Mine

Author: Cindy C. Bennett

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: December 4, 2011

ISBN: 978-1468031706

Size: 326 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal