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Cool & New

Looking for a great new read? Every month, our Cool & New Books feature spotlights new titles that we think you'll want to explore. In addition to hardcovers, we include books that are newly released in paperback --- as either reprints of hardcovers or original paperbacks.

May 2013

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April 2013

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March 2013

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February 2013

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January 2013

January's roundup of Cool & New Books includes A.G.

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December 2012

December’s roundup of Cool & New Books includes LOVE AND OTHER PERISHABLE ITEMS by Laura Buzo, where Amelia falls for her coworker at the supermarket but there is one problem: she's 15, and he's 21; PRINCESS OF THE SILVER WOODS by Jessica Day George, which gives the stories of Red Riding Hood and Robin Hood a twist as Petunia and her many sisters take on bandits, grannies, and the new Kin

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November 2012

November’s roundup of Cool & New Books includes a DAYS OF BLOOD & STARLIGHT, the sequel to Laini Taylor's DAUGHTER OF SMOKE & BONE, where Karou must decide how far she'll go to avenge her people; Mary Hooper's VELVET, follows a young laundress who is grateful to be hired by a famed medium, but perhaps the Madame isn't who she appears to be; and in MEANT TO BE by Lauren Morrill high school senior Julia is the queen of following rules, but on a school trip to London, she might just realize that she can't predict everything.

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October 2012

October’s roundup of Cool & New Books includes a ENDANGERED by Eliot Schrefer, a recent National Book Award Finalist, which is a compelling tale of a girl who must save a group of bonobos --- and herself --- from a violent coup in the Congo; SON, Lois Lowry’s finale of The Giver quartet about Gabriel's mother, Claire, and her struggle to give up her son and find him again; and Rachel Cohn's BETA, which follows Alysia, an experimental model of a teenage clone, as she discovers she isn't the unfeeling clone she's supposed to be --- she has feelings, and if anyone finds out, she will suffer a fate too terrible to imagine.

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September 2012

September’s roundup of Cool & New Books includes THE RAVEN BOYS, the start of a new series by Maggie Stiefvater, who introduces readers to Blue, the daughter of a psychic who has been warned that she will cause her true love to die if she kisses him; DODGER, Terry Pratchett’s latest novel about a young street urchin whose life on the streets gets seriously complicated when he unknowingly puts a stop to a murderous barber; and CONFESSIONS OF A MURDER SUSPECT, a thrilling teen detective series from James Patterson and Maxine Paetro about the mysterious and magnificently wealthy Angel family --- and the dark secrets they're keeping from one another.

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August 2012

August's roundup of Cool & New Books includes NEVERMORE, the final Maximum Ride novel that finds Max, Fang and Dylan involved in one last explosive adventure with an ending no one could have seen coming; EVERY DAY by David Levithan, a supernatural love story that poses the question: Can you love someone who is destined to change every day?; and RISE OF THE ELGEN, the second book in Richard Paul Evan’s Michael Vey series, in which Michael learns the extent of the Elgen’s rise in power and the truth of their plan to “restructure” the world.

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