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Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick

Title: Silence

Author: Becca Fitzpatrick

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

Release Date: October 4, 2011

ISBN: 978-1442426641

Size: 448 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Speculative

Series: Hush, Hush (bk 1), Crescendo (bk 2)

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The noise between Patch and Nora is gone. They’ve overcome the secrets riddled in Patch’s dark past…bridged two irreconcilable worlds…faced heart-wrenching tests of betrayal, loyalty, and trust…and all for a love that will transcend the boundary between heaven and earth. Armed with nothing but their absolute faith in each other, Patch and Nora enter a desperate fight to stop a villain who holds the power to shatter everything they’ve worked for—and their love—forever.

Circle of Secrets by Kimberley Griffiths Little

Title: Circle of Secrets

Author: Kimberley Griffiths Little

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Release Date: October 1, 2011

ISBN: 978-0545165617

Size: 336 pages, hardcover

Genre: Middle Grade Suspense

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After her mother walked out on Shelby Jayne and her dad, Shelby thought she’d never speak to her mamma again. But with her dad leaving the country for work, it turns out she doesn’t have a choice: Shelby has to move back into her mamma’s house, deep in the heart of the Louisiana bayou.

Her new classmates tease and torment her, so Shelby’s relieved to finally find a friend in Gwen, a mysterious girl who lives alone on the bayou. But Shelby can’t help wondering if Gwen has something to do with the puzzling messages she finds hidden in the blue bottle tree behind her house. The only person who might be able to explain is her mamma — but Shelby’s not ready to ask. Not yet. It may take a brush with something from the beyond to help Shelby see that the power to put her own ghosts to rest is within her reach.

A haunting story of friendship and family and the power of faith, once again set against the lush backdrop of the Louisiana bayou.

Escape from Zarahemla by Chris Heimerdinger

Title: Escape from Zarahemla

Author: Chris Heimerdinger

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: September 29, 2011

ISBN: 978-1608615391

Size: 263 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: YA Speculative

Series: Passage to Zarahemla

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It’s been six months since the inexplicable passage to Zarahemla disintegrated and disappeared. Kerra and Brock McConnell have been reunited with their long-lost father, but an emptiness is left in Kerra’s heart as she watches her courageous Nephite warrior, Kiddoni, fade away in a vortex of time—possibly forever.

As a violent flash flood washes through the forested hollow near Leeds, Utah, it reawakens the Whistlers and reignites the mystical rift that leads to ancient America. Kerra and Brock quickly learn of multiple secrets their father did not reveal about his twelve-year sojourn in the first century AD. Soon they realize that such puzzles could have mind-bending ramifications for their lives and draw them into a world rife with dangers as lethal as obsidian blades, enemies more ruthless than the darkest savages, and evils so pervasive they could destroy their family once and for all.

In the tumult of their adventure, Kerra and Brock soon find themselves in league with familiar friends from other Chris Heimerdinger novels, fighting alongside these valiant heroes and binding together Escape from Zarahemla with the imaginative Tennis Shoes Adventure Series!

Dive into the fray as two wildly popular adventure series merge into one!

Indelible by Lani Woodland

Title: Indelible (Yara Silva, book 2)

Author: Lani Woodland

Publisher: Pendrell Publishing

Release Date: September 27, 2011

ISBN: 978-0982729724

Size: 416 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

Series: Intrinsical (bk 1)

Yara is beginning to understand just how much her life will change now that her Waker abilities have emerged. She has come to terms with the fact that seeing ghosts is part of her life, but she isn t ready to let being a Waker dictate her choices. All she wants is a ghost-free senior year with her boyfriend, Brent, and her best friend, Cherie. But Yara soon discovers that there are more dark secrets in her school s history than just the curse she broke. While an angry ghost makes Yara question everything she thought she knew about spirits, she and Brent learn that there are long reaching consequences to last year s adventures. As new enemies emerge and old ghosts resurface, Yara finds herself in the center of another deadly mystery, and this time she has to contend with the living as well as the dead.

Shifting by Bethany Wiggins

Title: Shifting

Author: Bethany Wiggins

Publisher: Walker Childrens

Release Date: September 27, 2011

ISBN: 978-0802722805

Size: 368 pages, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult Speculative

After bouncing from foster home to foster home, Magdalene Mae is transferred to what should be her last foster home in the tiny town of Silver City, New Mexico. Now that she’s eighteen and has only a year left in high school, she’s determined to stay out of trouble and just be normal. Agreeing to go to the prom with Bridger O’Connell is a good first step. Fitting in has never been her strong suit, but it’s not for the reasons most people would expect-it all has to do with the deep secret that she is a shape shifter. But even in her new home danger lurks, waiting in the shadows to pounce. They are the Skinwalkers of Navajo legend, who have traded their souls to become the animal whose skin they wear-and Maggie is their next target.

Full of romance, mysticism, and intrigue, this dark take on Navajo legend will haunt readers to the final page.

Slayers by C.J. Hill

Title: Slayers

Author: C.J. Hill (Janette Rallison)

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Release Date: September 27, 2011

ISBN: 978-0312614140

Size: 384 pages, 5.7×8.4, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

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Dragons exist. They’re ferocious. And they’re smart: Before they were killed off by slayer-knights, they rendered a select group of eggs dormant, so their offspring would survive. Only a handful of people know about this, let alone believe it – these “Slayers” are descended from the original knights, and are now a diverse group of teens that includes Tori, a smart but spoiled senator’s daughter who didn’t sign up to save the world.

The dragon eggs have fallen into the wrong hands. The Slayers must work together to stop the eggs from hatching. They will fight; they will fall in love. But will they survive?

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My Boyfriend is a Mormon Vampire by Lexi Bjornholt

Title: My Boyfriend is a Mormon Vampire

Author: Lexi Bjornholt

Publisher: Greenjacket Books

Release Date: September 27, 2011

ISBN: 978-0984275434

Size: 154 pages, 5×8, paperback

Genre: YA Speculative

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When seventeen-year-old Felicia moves from Alaska to windy central Oregon, she is enamored by a godlike creature that belongs to a secret coven of immortal beings with supernatural powers. Hilarious skewering of the teen vampire series with the wrinkle that Mormons are a coven of undead believers.

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The Ember Gods by Andrea Pearson

Title: The Ember Gods (Kilenya Series, book 2)

Author: Andrea Pearson

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: September 27, 2011

ISBN: 978-1466381612

Size: 280 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

Kilenya Series: The Key of Kilenya (bk 1)

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Jacob Clark has just returned from the world of Eklaron, where he frustrated the evil plans of the Lorkon and returned the magical Key of Kilenya to its rightful owners. His quest is far from over, though—Aloren is trapped in Maivoryl City by the Ember Gods, and Jacob can’t return to save her until he receives the potion that will protect his team from the corrosive influence of the Lorkon.

Balancing between this new world and his own proves tricky. Not only has he started his first year of high school, but his magical abilities are bringing him too much attention. He feels pulled by both sides, hoping he’ll figure out his special powers to save Aloren in time.

One of Them by A.D. Duling

Werewolves and Vampires…

She’s feared them, hated them and loved them, all from the safety of her couch as she read from her fictional books.

But what if vampires and werewolves were real?

Evie Patterson has found out that they are. And now not only does she have to deal with what comes with knowing that, she must also decide what side she is on before she becomes…one of them.

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Title: One of Them

Author: A.D. Duling

Publisher: Self

Release Date: September 21, 2011

ASIN: B005P8BWJU

Size: 141 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Paranormal

Banshee’s Cry by CC James

Title: Banshee’s Cry (Demon Trackers 2)

Author: C.C. James

Publisher: Red Rover Books

Release Date: September 8, 2011

Size: eBook

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal

Series: The Anointed (bk 1)

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Jake and Cal are on the trail of a demon where a rash of suspicious deaths has broken out. When one brother is affected, can the other take out the source before it’s too late?

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The Armor of Light by Karen E. Hoover

Title: The Armor of Light (Book 2 of The Wolfchild Saga)

Author: Karen E. Hoover

Publisher: Tin Bird Publications

Release Date: September 6, 2011

ISBN: 978-1463663100

Size: 416 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: YA Fantasy

Series: The Wolfchild Saga: The Sapphire Flute (book 1)

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Ember has been accepted into the mage academy, but not without cost. She has gained a new enemy, ancient and dark, whose entire purpose is to destroy all white magic and her along with it. After nearly losing her life in a brutal attack, DeMunth is assigned her guardian, and the keystone he wears, The Armor of Light, begins the transition that will make it a true power.

Kayla has lost most everything of importance to her—the people, the prestige, and all she fought for the past ten years. With nothing left to lose, she continues her search for the birthplace of The Sapphire Flute and the Wolfchild she believes to be its player. Her journey will take her to strange, foreign, and often dangerous places, and everything she had thought to be true will be proven wrong.

In a showdown full of betrayal and heroic loss, Ember and Kayla finally meet on the battlefield, fighting a war on two fronts—against C’Tan and her people, and the mysterious enemy bent on destroying all magic—the shadow weavers.

The story is full of power, betrayal, hope, and love. The elements of the universe are coming together, and none can know who will stand in the end.

Witch Song by Amber Argyle

Title: Witch Song

Author: Amber Argyle

Publisher: Rhemalda Publishing

Release Date: September 1, 2011

ISBN: 978-1936850167

Size: 325 pages, 5.5×8.5, paperback

Genre: YA Fantasy

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The world is changing.

For thousands of years, witch song has controlled everything from the winds to the shifting of the seasons. But not anymore. All the Witches are gone, taken captive by the dark Witch, Espen.

As the last echoes of witch song fade, Espen grows stronger as winter and summer come within the space of a day. Now she’s coming for the one she missed—a shy, untrained girl of fifteen named Brusenna.

Somehow, Brusenna has to succeed where every other Witch has failed. Find Espen. Fight her. Defeat her.

Or there won’t be anything left to save.

Sea Born by Clover Autrey

Title: Sea Born

Author: Clover Autrey

Publisher: Red Rover Books

Release Date: August 23, 2011

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Genre: Young Adult Speculative

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One of the Ocean’s Children, Daire Tiernan was raised far from the sea, hidden from his cursed destiny and those who would use him.

Paedra Breen has always loved Daire, in spite of his strange underwater abilities. When strangers come to their village, claiming Daire is the long lost Champion of the Sea—cursed to unleash the angered god of Ruin upon the world, Paedra is determined to make sure Daire gets to the ocean in one piece.

The Tokens by A.D. Duling

The charming,handsome young man Anna just danced with turns out to be the Chancellor she had thought was defeated.

Now Anna must hurry and find a book called Dominion and the legendary Red Stone to remove a curse placed upon her dear Hayden by him.

She has also began to collect her “Tokens”. Symbols magically burned onto the flesh of her wrist by each guardian of the four elements- Fire, Wind, Water and Earth. The beholder of these tokens controls the elements….

As Anna learns to use them, she, Hayden and their friend Valencia (Val) must travel far to aquire the Chancellor’s requested items.they must tackle dangerous sink holes in the Dunes of Tundra, out wit a thief leader named Fallon and face wolf men in the Forests of Venier.
As they collect his required items, Anna is reminded how nothing is ever simple for her here in Tatania and the Chancellor’s fight is far from over, but it will take more than that to deter the determined Anna Kippling!

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Title: The Tokens (Anna Kippling Book 2)

Author: A.D. Duling

Publisher: Self

Release Date: August 22, 2011

ASIN: B005IJ744S

Size: 160 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

Anna Kippling Series: The Key (bk 1)

Fractured by Cheri Schmidt

The Fateful Trilogy continues with Fractured.

No, it’s not called Fractured because Ethan and Danielle break up, because they don’t…in case you were wondering. They had thought they’d escaped most of the danger surrounding them, when in truth they’ve made it worse by unintentionally sparking a civil war amongst vampires.

Many vampires want to protect them for discovering the cure to the curse binding their kind. However many more want to destroy them for that same discovery. Ethan’s and Danielle’s struggle for survival intensifies while they sink deeper into the midst of this danger.

The romantic fairytale bliss they once had will soon fracture under the pressure of the curse….

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Title: Fractured

Author: Cheri Schmidt

Publisher: Self

Release Date: August 20, 2011

ISBN: 978-1466251502

Size: 318 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal

Fateful Series: Fateful (bk 1)

The Defender of God by Kurt Kammeyer

Title: The Defender of God (Clan of Stone, book 2)

Author: Kurt Kammeyer

Publisher: Smashwords

Release Date: Aug 15, 2011

ISBN: 978-1-4658-3126-2

Size: approx 117, ebook

Genre: YA Speculative

Series: The Clan of the Stone (book 1)

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Book Two of The Clan of the Stone: At the dawn of the Fifth Eon, the Seer Abdiel adopts a young hunter-gatherer named Brynmor, who is the Chieftain of the White Eagle Clan. He educates Brynmor in the duties of a Seer. Brynmor leads his people across the Olami Mountains to Ganedom, where they face a dual threat from the invading Nordsmen and the space-faring Mangalans.

Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans

Title: Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25

Author: Richard Paul Evans

Publisher: Mercury Ink

Release Date: August 9, 2011

ISBN: 978-1451656503

Size: 336 pages, 6×9, hardcover

Genre: YA Speculative

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My name is Michael Vey, and the story I’m about to tell you is strange. Very strange. It’s my story.

To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey is an ordinary fourteen-year-old. In fact, the only thing that seems to set him apart is the fact that he has Tourette’s syndrome. But Michael is anything but ordinary. Michael has special powers. Electric powers.

Michael thinks he’s unique until he discovers that a cheerleader named Taylor also has special powers. With the help of Michael’s friend, Ostin, the three of them set out to discover how Michael and Taylor ended up this way, but their investigation brings them to the attention of a powerful group who wants to control the electric children – and through them the world. Michael will have to rely on his wits, powers, and friends if he’s to survive.

Skipping Stones at the Center of the Earth by Andy Hueller

Title: Skipping Stones at the Center of the Earth

Author: Andy Hueller

Publisher: Bonneville Books (CFI)

Release Date: August 1, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599554884

Size: 248 pages, 5.5×8, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

Twelve years ago, three men disappeared; one of these men is gone for good. Two years later, another man dropped from the face of the Earth. In four years, a young girl would vanish. A piece of hardware connects them all.

This book does not belong to any of these missing persons.

But their stories matter, patient reader.

They will matter to you (I hope). And they matter to a red-headed twelve-year-old boy—the boy to whom this book does belong.

Confused?

No matter. All will be set straight in good time.

Twelve-year-old Calvin Comet Cobble lives at Hidden Shores Orphanage, which sits at the very center of planet Earth. At Hidden Shores, Cal chokes on strange food; tries to avoid the school bully, his acrid pits, and his uncompromising fists; sits through incompetent and cruel classroom instruction; fears the volcanic-tempered and megaphone-voiced Principal Warden; and does his best to never, ever, ever think about the dangerous prison and the murderous criminals with whom the orphanage shares the island-city of Robert (the very Pit of the Planet). And then Cal meets Mr. E, the mysterious man who mows Hidden Shores’ front lawn and who can skip a stone clear across Lake Arctic, and everything changes.

Skipping Stones at the Center of the Earth is a novel for older elementary and early middle-school readers in the dark, redemptive tradition of Roald Dahl, told in the piece-it-together style of Louis Sachar’s Holes. It’s a novel about a scared and lonely (not to mention wildly red-haired) orphan who finds friendship and courage in the unlikeliest of places. And as readers get to know and root for Cal—who, over the course of the novel, begins to speak his mind, skips his first stone, and finds out who he is—they also learn how Robert, America’s youngest significant city, came to be. Three story lines come crashing together as Cal and his friends venture toward the scariest place inside the Earth.

Insight by Terron James

Title: Insight (Beholders, Book 1)

Author: Terron James

Publisher: Nypa Distributing, LLC

Release Date: July 30, 2011

ISBN: 978-0578088587

Size: 341 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

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Rumors are surging through Appernysia that a Beholder has been born, the first wielder of True Sight in over a millennium.

Seventeen-year-old Lon Marcs discovers he has been blessed—or cursed—with this gift. He cannot control the power of True Sight and feels it killing him with each passing day. After months of desperate attempts to survive, Lon’s situation becomes more hopeless. He realizes that the only people who might possess the knowledge to save his life are the sworn enemies of his king. To obtain their help, Lon would have to leave behind his family and beloved Kaylen.

Although this is the hardest decision Lon has ever made, it is only the first of many that will test his strength and challenge his interpretation of right and wrong.

The Key of Kilenya by Andrea Pearson

Title: The Key of Kilenya

Author: Andrea Pearson

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: July 28, 2011

ISBN: 978-1463671839

Size: 306 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

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When two vicious wolves chase fourteen-year-old Jacob Clark down a path from our world into another, his life is forever changed. He has no idea they have been sent by the Lorkon—evil, immortal beings who are jealous of powers he doesn’t know he possesses—powers they desire to control.

The inhabitants of the new world desperately need Jacob’s help in recovering a magical key that was stolen by the Lorkon and is somehow linked to him. If he helps them, his life will be at risk. But if he chooses not to help them, both our world and theirs will be in danger. The Lorkon will stop at nothing to unleash the power of the key—and Jacob’s special abilities.

Supernaturally by Kiersten White

Title: Supernaturally

Author: Kiersten White

Publisher: Harper Teen

Release Date: July 26, 2011

ISBN: 978-0061985867

Size: 352 pages, 6×8, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

Series: Paranormalcy (bk 1)

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Life’s never fair when fairies are involved.

Evie finally has the normal life she’s always longed for. But she’s shocked to discover that being ordinary can be . . . kind of boring. Just when Evie starts to long for her days at the International Paranormal Containment Agency, she’s given a chance to work for them again. Desperate for a break from all the normalcy, she agrees.

But as one disastrous mission leads to another, Evie starts to wonder if she made the right choice. And when Evie’s faerie ex-boyfriend Reth appears with devastating revelations about her past, she discovers that there’s a battle brewing between the faerie courts that could throw the whole supernatural world into chaos. The prize in question? Evie herself.

So much for normal.

The Key by A.D. Duling

Anna Kippling has found a skeleton key that ironically only opens one door and from the wrong side. On the other side of it awaits a world called Tatania. There Anna finds herself in battle with an evil Chancellor and also finds love in a grey eyed, blonde hunk named Hayden.

Anna also finds herself fighting large birds, magically hiding in tree trunks, eating magical beads as she tries to save an Empress. She does all this with just a necklace of invisibility, a time turning bracelet and a dagger. Even with her newly acquired Book of Answers, nothing is ever simple here for Anna Kippling. But Anna is slowly learning nothing is impossible, not even for her.
How far would you go to reach your potential? How much would you sacrifice for love? And is it possible to outwit death?

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Title: The Key (Anna Kippling Book 1)

Author: A.D. Duling

Publisher: Self

Release Date: July 21, 2011

ASIN: B005DURBW2

Size: 151 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

The Last Archangel by Michael D. Young

Title: The Last Archangel

Author: Michael D. Young

Publisher: Bonneville Books

Release Date: July 14, 2011

ISBN: 978-1599558943

Size: 288 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Urban Fantasy

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Xandir has been exiled to earth until the end of time. But when his cherub trainee disappears, Xandir makes a deal with rogue angels and giants that could restore life to the mortal woman he loves and end his assignment as a destroying angel in exchange for helping them bring about the end of the world and all of mankind.

Pride and Popularity by Jenni James

Title: Pride and Popularity

Author: Jenni James

Publisher: Walnut Springs

Release Date: July 13, 2011

ISBN: 978-0983829300

Size: 240 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Young Adult

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Chloe Elizabeth Hart despises the conceited antics of the popular crowd, or more importantly, one very annoying self-possessed guy, Taylor Anderson, who seems determined to make her the president of his fan club!

As if!

Every girl in the whole city of Farmington, New Mexico, is in love with him, but he seems to be only interested in Chloe.

This modern high school adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is a battle of wits as Chloe desperately tries to remain the only girl who can avoid the inevitable falling for Taylor.