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Alligator bayou
Donna Jo Napoli.
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280 p. ; 22 cm.
Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.
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The art of hand reading
Lori Reid.
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120 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
The Art of Hand Reading uses color photographs of hands and handprints to teach you how to analyze all the significant lines, mounts, and markings on your hands. Find out how the different areas of your palm reveal the balance between your instinctive desires and your powers of intellect and reason. Discover how, by decoding your hand, you can build a perfect picture of your personality, your gifts and talents, your love, work, and true direction in life.
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Bloodline
Katy Moran.
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297, [13] p. ; 15 cm.
While traveling through early seventh-century Britain trying to stop an impending war, Essa, who bears the blood of native British tribes and of the invading Anglish, makes discoveries that divide his loyalties.
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Cairo : a graphic novel
written by G. Willow Wilson ; art by M.K. Perker ; lettered by Travis Lanham.
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1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
In bustling modern-day Cairo, the lives of a drug runner, a down-on-his-luck journalist, an American expatriate, a young activist, an Israeli soldier, and a genie are interwoven as they navigate the city's streets and spiritual underworld to find a stolen hooka sought by a wrathful gangster-magician.
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Carter finally gets it
by Brent Crawford.
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300 p. : 22 cm.
Awkward freshman Will Carter endures many painful moments during his first year of high school before realizing that nothing good comes easily, focus is everything, and the payoff is usually incredible.
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Chasing the bear : a young Spenser novel
Robert B. Parker.
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169 p. ; 24 cm.
Spenser reflects back to when he was fourteen-years-old and how he helped his best friend Jeannie when she was abducted by her abusive father.
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Crashes and collapses
Thomas L. Bohan.
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xxi, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Essentials of Forensic Science is a seven-volume set that explores a number of significant aspects of the field, from its inception to its application in the modern laboratory and courtroom. From its roots in the Middle Ages and farther back to ancient Greece, forensic science, past, present, and future, is provided an intriguing overview in this informative set.
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Creature of the night
Kate Thompson.
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250 p. ; 22 cm.
Bobby lives a reckless life smoking, drinking, and stealing cars in Dublin. So his mother moves the family to the country. But Bobby suspects their cottage might not be as quaint as it seems. And spooky details of the history of their little cottage gradually turn Bobby into a detective of night creatures real and imagined.
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Crogan's vengeance
by Chris Schweizer ; book design by Keith Wood ; edited by James Lucas Jones with Jill Beaton.
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185 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
The debut volume in an ongoing series of historical adventures focusing on the various branches of the fictional Crogan Family Tree. In Crogan's Vengeance, "Catfoot" Crogan is an able-bodied mariner plying his trade for a dastardly "legitimate" captain with a grudge against Crogan for a slight committed well before he was born. But when his ship is taken by pirates, will Crogan stay loyal to his law-abiding, if despicable, captain or will he find a new life on the high seas living by the "Pirate's Code"?
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Demon apocalypse
by Darren Shan.
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200 p. ; 21 cm.
Grubbs Grady tries to resist his werewolf urges and evade the eight-armed grasp of the demonic Lord Loss.
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Distant waves : a novel of the Titanic
Suzanne Weyn.
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330 p. ; 22 cm.
In the early twentieth century, five sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.
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Evermore
Alyson Noël.
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306 p. ; 21 cm.
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.
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