Asylum by Madeleine Roux
”For
sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, a summer program for gifted students is the
chance of a lifetime. No one else at his high school gets his weird fascination
with history and science, but at the New Hampshire College Prep program, such
quirks are all but required. Dan arrives to find that the usual summer housing
has been closed, forcing students to stay in the crumbling Brookline dorm –
formerly a psychiatric hospital. As Dan and his new friends Abby and Jordan
start exploring Brookline’s twisty halls and hidden basement, they uncover
disturbing secrets about what really went on here…secrets that link Dan and his
friends to the asylum’s dark past. Because it turns out Brookline was no
ordinary psych ward. And there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried.”
–Jacket.
Champion by Marie Lu
Legend;
Book Three
“June
and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic--and each
other--and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. Jane is back
in the good graces of the Republic, working with the government’s elite circles
as Princeps-Elect, while Day has been assigned a high-level military position.
But neither could have predicted the circumstances that would reunite them: just
when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the
Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities. This new strain of
plague is deadlier than ever, and June is the only one who knows the key to her
country’s defense. But saving the lives of thousands will mean asking the one
she loves t give up everything.” –Jacket.
Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes
Falling
Kingdoms; Book One
In a land where magic has been
forgotten three kingdoms grapple for power, brutally transforming their
subjects' lives in the process. Amidst betrayals, bargains, and battles, four
young people find their fates forever intertwined... and the only outcome
that's certain is that kingdoms will fall. Who will emerge triumphant when all
they know has collapsed? –Summary.
How To Love by Katie Cotugno
A tumultuous love affair between
Reena and Sawyer ends when Sawyer abruptly abandons their Florida town, causing
Reena to bear their child alone and struggle with mistrust when Sawyer returns
three years later. –Summary.
Longbourn by Jo Baker
A novel whose principal characters
are the servants in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice. Sarah, the orphaned
housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and
emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much
romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs.
When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants' hall
threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended. –Summary.
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
When young American pilot Rose
Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds
hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her
fellow prisoners. –Summary.
The First Phone call From Heaven by Mitch
Albom
The
story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its
citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest
miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father,
is determined to find out. –Summary.
”For
eighteen years Wren Gray has been the model daughter, which in her family means
all As, zero boyfriends, and early acceptance into a pre-med program. But as
high school graduation nears, so does an uncomfortable realization. Pleasing
her parents once overlapped with pleasing herself, but now . . . not so much.
Wren needs to honor her own desires, but how can she if she doesn’t even know
what they are? Charlie Parker, on the other hand, knows exactly what he wants.
A gentle boy with a troubled past, Charlie has loved Wren since the day he
first saw her. But a girl like Wren would never fall for a guy like Charlie—at
least not the sort of guy Charlie believes himself to be. And yet certain
things are written in the stars. And in the summer after high school, Wren and
Charlie’s souls will collide. But souls are complicated, as are the bodies that
house them….” –Jacket.
The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil
Gaiman
It
began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car
and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed.
Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take
everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here,
and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered
to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the
lane. The youngest of them claims that her duck pond is ocean. The oldest can
remember the Big Bang. –Summary.