This document provides summaries of 15 books available at the Butler Area SHS Library for the Fall of 2015. The books cover a range of genres including fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and romance. They describe plots involving post-apocalyptic worlds, magical realms, family struggles, love stories, and personal journeys of self-discovery.

1. Fall, 2015
New Fall Reads!
Butler Area SHS Library

2. Laurel Daneau, having lost her mother, grandmother, and home in Hurricane Katrina, thinks things are
going well with her new life as a cheerleader and the girlfriend of basketball star T-Boom, but after T-
Boom introduces her to meth and she finds the drug helps her deal with her past, Laurel must rely on the
help of an artist named Moses and her friend Kaylee to overcome the addiction.
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WOO

3. Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials--engineered organic beings identical to humans--
has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a
fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. But
sixteen-year-old Kira is determined to find a solution. As she tries desperately to save what is left of her
race, she discovers that that the survival of both humans and Partials rests in her attempts to answer
questions about the war's origin that she never knew to ask.
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WEL

4. With the Help of Samm and Heron, Kira sets out on a desperate search for clues as to who she is, while
Marcus and the remaining human population gear up for war with the Paritals.
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WEL

5. Kira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war between Partials and humans in the gripping final
installment in the Partials Sequence. There is no avoiding it - the war to decide the fate of both humans
and Partials is at hand. Both sides hold in their possession a weapon that could destroy the other, and Kira
Walker has precious little time to prevent that from happening. She has one chance to save both species and
the world with them, but it will only come at great personal cost.
PB
WEL

6. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning ... past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the
signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like
she knows them ... Their life-as she sees it-is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees
something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed.
Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in
what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
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HAW

7. When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name,
their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing
his relationship with them both.
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GRE

8. Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor
hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
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PFE

9. This harrowing companion novel to Life As We Knew It examines the same events as they unfold in New
York City, revealed through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican Alex Morales. When Alex's
parents disappear in the aftermath of tidal waves, he must care for his two younger sisters, even as
Manhattan becomes a deadly wasteland, and food and aid dwindle.
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PFE

10. It's been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earth's climate. For Miranda
Evans, life as she knew it no longer exists. Her friends and neighbors are dead, the landscape is frozen, and food
is increasingly scarce. The struggle to survive intensifies when Miranda's father and stepmother arrive with a
baby and three strangers in tow. One of the newcomers is Alex Morales, and as Miranda's complicated feelings
for him turn to love, his plans for his future thwart their relationship. Then a devastating tornado hits the town
of Howell, and Miranda makes a decision that will change their lives forever.
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PFE

11. It's been more than two years since Jon Evans and his family left Pennsylvania, hoping to find a safe place
to live, yet Jon remains haunted by the deaths of those he loved. His prowess on a soccer field has
guaranteed him a home in a well-protected enclave. But Jon is painfully aware that a missed goal, a
careless word, even falling in love, can put his life and the lives of his mother, his sister Miranda, and her
husband, Alex, in jeopardy. Can Jon risk doing what is right in a world gone so terribly wrong?
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PFE

12. There was a party. There was a fight. The next morning, Sam's best friend, Hayden, was dead. And all he
left Sam was a playlist of songs and a suicide note: For Sam - listen and you'll understand. To figure out
what happened, Sam has to rely on the playlist and his own memory. But the more he listens, the more he
realizes that his memory isn't as reliable as he thought. And it might only be by taking out his earbuds and
opening his eyes to the people around him that he'll finally be able to piece together his best friend's
story. And maybe have a chance to change his own.
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FAL

13. When I first got to Progress, it freaked me out to be locked in a room and unable to get out. But after a while,
when you got to thinking about it, you knew nobody could get in, either. It seems as if the only progress that's
going on at Progress juvenile facility is moving from juvy jail to real jail. Reese wants out early, but is he supposed
to just sit back and let his friend Toon get jumped? Then Reese gets a second chance when he's picked for the
work program at a senior citizens' home. He doesn't mean to keep messing up, but it's not so easy, at Progress or
in life. One of the residents, Mr. Hooft, gives him a particularly hard time. If he can convince Mr. Hooft that he's a
decent person, not a criminal, maybe he'll be able to convince himself.
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MYE

14. Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic
boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class
transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.
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WOL

15. Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face
scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just
playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes
increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her sister, before it's
too late.
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OLI

16. Sparks fly when American good girl Allyson encounters laid-back Dutch actor Willem, so she follows him
on a whirlwind trip to Paris, upending her life in just one day and prompting a year of self-discovery and
the search for true love.
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FOR

17. After spending an amazing day and night with a nameless girl in Paris, Willem embarks on his own
transformative journey to find her once again.
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FOR

18. Amy Gumm, the other girl from Kansas, has been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked to
stop Dorothy who has found a way to come back to Oz, seizing a power that has gone to her head -- so
now no one is safe!
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PAI

19. Amy's job as assassin didn't work out as planned. Dorothy is still alive. The Order has vanished. And the
home she couldn't wait to leave behind might be in danger.
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PAI

20. There's a new Wicked Witch in Oz, and her name is Dorothy. Dorothy Gale is back . . . and she's not the
sweet little heroine of Oz anymore. She's power-hungry and vicious, and she leaves a trail of destruction
beneath her spike-heeled, magical shoes. But behind the scenes, there's someone else pulling the strings.
Someone who doesn't want fame or glory, just control. Glinda of the North brought Dorothy back to Oz for
a reason. And in The Witch Must Burn, a young maid is about to discover that a witch who says she's Good
might be the most dangerous kind of Wicked.
E Book

21. The Wizard left Oz in a hot air balloon, or did he? Dorothy Gale is back . . . and she's not the sweet little
heroine of Oz anymore. She's power-hungry and vicious, and she leaves a trail of destruction beneath her
spike-heeled, magical shoes. But she wasn't always in charge. There used to be a different ruler of Oz.
Someone who also came from the Other Place, and who stole power for himself. They called him the
Wizard.The story goes that when a young Dorothy revealed the Wizard as a fraud, the man behind the
curtain fled Oz in his hot air balloon. But in The Wizard Returns, he wakes in a field of poppies to find out
that not only had he never left, but that he has no memory of who or where he is.
E Book

22. Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a poor town of twelve thousand people in the middle of
nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do. Heather never thought she would
compete in panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors. She'd never thought of herself as
fearless, the kind of person who would fight to stand out. But when she finds something, and someone, to
fight for, she will discover that she is braver than she ever thought. Dodge has never been afraid of panic.
His secret will fuel him, and get him all the way through the game; he's sure of it.
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OLI

23. Presents the story of two couples whose parallel love stories intersect in profound and interesting ways.
PB
SPA

24. A fearful sixteen-year-old princess discovers her heroic destiny after being married off to the king of a
neighboring country in turmoil and pursued by enemies seething with dark magic.
PB
CAR

25. A seventeen-year-old princess turned war queen faces sorcery, adventure, untold power, and romance as
she fulfills her epic destiny. In The Girl of Fire and Thorns, Elisa won the war. She saved her kingdom. But
no one prepared her for how hard it is to recover from a battle, or to rule a people who still don't trust
her. She's still fighting--against assassination attempts and more--and her enemies lie both outside her
court and within it. So Elisa will cross the ocean in search of the perilous, uncharted, and mythical source
of the Godstone's power. With her go a one-eyed warrior, a loyal friend, an enemy defector, and the man
she is falling in love with. A breathtaking, romantic, and dangerous...
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CAR

26. Elisa, a fugitive in her own kingdom, faces great challenges to rescue the man she loves from her enemies,
prevent a civil war, and take back her throne, but as her magic grows, Elisa discovers the shocking truth
about her enemy's ultimate goal.
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CAR

27. The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup
kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and
mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.
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MYE