Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Never More

Never More
James Patterson
Fiction P277n

One last chance...

For Max, Fang, and Dylan...

Before it all ends.

Are you ready for the final chapter? Are you ready for the ultimate fight? Because THIS IS IT.

One last incredible, explosive adventure with an astonishing ending that no one could have seen coming.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Pirate Cinema

Pirate Cinema
Cory Doctorow
Fiction D659p

Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by sampling and reassembling footage he downloads from the net. In the near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever; if you’re caught three times, your entire household is cut off from the Internet for a year, with no appeal.

Trent is sure this won’t happen to him; he’s too clever. Except it does, and it nearly destroys his family—his father’s living, his mother’s health, and his kid sister’s studies all depend on Internet access. 

Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London where he learns how to stay alive on the streets. This drops him straight into the city’s always-rambunctious street scene, a demimonde of artists and activists who are fighting a new bill that will criminalize digital copying even more harmless than Trent’s, making millions of people felons at a stroke. 

Things look bad. The government is in the grip of a few wealthy media conglomerates. But the powers that be haven’t entirely reckoned with the power of a movie to change people’s minds. . . .

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The Diviners



The Diviners
Libba Bray
Fiction B738d

Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City–and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic .It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.

Evie worries he’ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.

As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened...

Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray opens a brand-new historical series with The Diviners, where the glittering surface of the Roaring Twenties hides a mystical horror creeping across the country.

The Shadow Speaker



The Shadow Speaker
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Fiction Ok5s
 
The year is 2070, and civilization has been completely transformed following a nuclear fallout in the early twenty-first century. Magic, mysticism, and mind-blowing technology now rule the world. 

In West Africa, fourteen-year-old Ejii struggles to master her own magical powers. When her world is completely upended after she witnesses her father's death, Ejii faces a unique opporuntity to explore her power and realize her destiny. But is she ready for the responisbility that comes along with that? Embarking on a journey across the sands of the Sahara,Ejii befriends new allies and battles new foes. It soon becomes clear that her people need to be protected from a terrible force seeking to annihiliate them. And Ejii may just be their last hope for survival.

Fast-paces and full of tender friendships and thrilling action, this futuristic adventure heralds a bright new talent in young adult fantasy.