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by Jennifer McMahon - Crime, Fiction, Horror

On a soft summer night in Vermont, 12-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother, Sam, about a door that led to a magical place where she would meet the King of the Fairies and become his queen. 15 years later, Phoebe is in love with Sam, a practical, sensible man who doesn’t fear the dark and doesn’t have bad dreams --- who, in fact, helps Phoebe ignore her own, but suddenly the couple is faced with a series of eerie, unexplained occurances.

by Julie Anne Peters - Fiction, Young Adult 14+

Daelyn Rice is broken beyond repair, and after several suicide attempts, she's determined to get her death right. So she starts visiting a website for "completers." There, Daelyn blogs about her life, uncovering a history of bullying that goes back to kindergarten. When she's not on the Web, Daelyn is at her private school, where she's known as the freak who doesn't talk.

by Catherine Fisher - Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult 12+

Catherine Fisher’s new series is being released in four consecutive months this summer. The first installment, THE DARK CITY, is set in a world crumbling into disorder and darkness. The Order once guarded ancient relics with mysterious powers, but these relics --- and the Order itself --- are now outlawed by the Watch. A Relic Master and his apprentice set out on a journey to uncover a relic powerful enough to save their world.

by Ian O'Connor - Biography, Nonfiction

Ian O'Connor draws on extensive reporting and unique access to Derek Jeter that has spanned some 15 years to reveal how a biracial kid from Michigan became New York's most beloved sports figure and the enduring symbol of the steroid-free athlete.

by Steve Earle - Fiction, Historical Fiction

From celebrated musician Steve Earle comes a novel imagining the life, addiction and redemption of Doc Ebersole as he is haunted by his former patient, Hank Williams.

by Lawrence Block - Fiction, Mystery

Forced out of the NYPD, Matthew Scudder has given up the drink. Then he runs into "High-Low" Jack Ellery, a childhood friend. Scudder once solved crimes as a detective. Ellery committed them. Then Ellery is killed, presumably while attempting to atone for past sins. Is it what he saw or what he said that got him killed? 

by Jo Nesbø - Fiction, Mystery

It is Oslo in November, and the first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Antihero police investigator Harry Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter and the disappearance of Jonas’s mother --- and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall.

by Eric Van Lustbader - Fiction, Thriller

Just as former First Daughter Alli Carson is trying to put her life back together, she finds herself the prime suspect in her boyfriend’s murder, while Jack McClure is using his unique talents to hunt down an infamous terrorist. Together with several old and some new friends, they work to clear Alli’s name and rid the world of one of its worst criminals.