NBS recommends fun, novelty reads

MOVERS AND FAKERS: AN ALPHAS NOVEL

By Lisi Harrison

P395

Eccentric billionaire Shira Brazille founded the super-exclusive Alpha Academy to nurture the next-generation of exceptional dancers, writers, musicians, and inventors. It’s a dream come true for one hundred lucky girls, but those not measuring up will be sent home at any time, for any reason. The one left standing will win worldwide fame. Who will it be?

GHOST HUNTRESS BOOK 3: THE REASON

By Marley Gibson

P379

It’s not every day that you have a premonition of your own demise. But two months after Kendall Moorehead had that dream or vision or whatever it was that showed her death, all is well in her world. Maybe some cosmic wires got crossed. Then Kendall gets a request from the mayor of Radisson, Georgia, to investigate the mayor’s manor. Emily and Loreen warn her against it: This spirit is dangerous. But not even they can see just how dangerous.

RADIANT SHADOWS: A WICKED LOVELY BOOK

By Melissa Marr

P359

Half-human and half-fairy, Ani is driven by her hungers: hunger for nourishment, hunger for touch, hunger to belong. Those same appetites also attract powerful enemies and uncertain allies, including Devlin. He was created as an assassin and is brother to the faeries’ High Queen and to her chaotic twin, the embodiment of War. Devlin wants to keep Ani safe from his sisters, knowing that if he fails, he will be the instrument of Ani’s death.

Ani isn’t one to be guarded while others fight battles for her, though. She has the courage to protect herself and the ability to alter Devlin’s plans - and his life. The two are drawn together, each with reason to fear the other and to fear for one another. But as they grow closer, a larger threat imperils the whole of Faerie. Will saving the faery realm mean losing each other?

TANTALIZE: PREDATOR OR PREY?

By Cynthia Leitich Smith 

P349

Trouble brews when Quincie Morris and her uncle decide to remodel the family restaurant with a vampire theme. One month before the grand reopening the chef is mauled to death in the kitchen and the murder suspect is…a werewolf!

Quincie has to transform Henry, the new chef into Sanguini’s vampire extraordinaire—and fast. But strange things are happening to her boyfriend, Kieren, and a deadly love triangle forms.

WINGS

By Aprilynne Pike

P325

Laurel’s life is the very definition of normal…until the morning when she wakes up to discover a flower blooming from her back. As it turns out, nothing in Laurel’s life is what it seems. Now, with the help of an alluring faerie sentry who holds the key to her true past, Laurel must race to save her human family from the centuries-old faerie enemies who walk among them.

THE 39 CLUES BOOK 8: THE EMPEROR’S CODE

By Gordon Korman

P495

One belief sustained 14-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, on their hunt for the 39 Clues: They are the good guys. But then a shocking discovery about their parents shatters everything Amy and Dan think they know, dividing the two siblings for the first time ever. When Dan disappears in a country of more than a billion people, Amy has to make a terrible choice—find the next clue…or find her younger brother.