In the Belly of the Bloodhound (Jacky Faber Series #4)

by Louis A. Meyer

Jacky Faber, of Bloody Jack, Curse of the Blue Tattoo, and Under the Jolly Roger, returns to Boston and the safety of the Lawson Peabody School for Girls, with the label of pirate. This story begins with the Battle of Trafalgar and follows Jacky as she aims her small sailing boat, the Morning Star, for Boston and what she hopes will be a safe homecoming. She follows the shipping lanes until she finds the Enterprise, a merchantman heading for a destination close to where she wants to be. Jacky leaves the ship in Newport, once again on the Morning Star, and sets sail for Boston. Upon her arrival she discovers wanted posters declaring a bounty of 250 pounds sterling alive or 100 pounds dead for the "Quick Apprehension of the Notorious Pyrate Jacky Faber."

Peak

by Roland Smith

14-year-old Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling Manhattan's Woolworth Building. He's headed for a long stint in juvie when his estranged father swoops into the courtroom with a solution that will get the media's newest "Spider Boy" immediately and far out of sight. Before the trek to China, where Peak's father runs a commercial climbing operation on the Tibetan side of Mount Everest, Peak's English teacher, Vincent, gives him two notebooks to fill, which will complete his requirements for the school year. Peak will try to become the youngest person ever to scale Everest overcoming Chinese bureaucrats, resentment of his father, rivalry with a Nepalese teen who has the same goal, avalanches, icy crevasses, howling winds, searing cold and many, many frozen corpses to reach the 29,028-foot summit.

Thieves Till We Die

by Stephen Cole

Nathaniel Coldhardt, criminal mastermind and leader of an elite group of teen thieves, desperately wants to get his hands on the lost sword of Cortes which was used by the Spaniards to conquer and destroy the Aztec people. But not long after Coldhardt’s motley crew returns from this new challenge empty-handed, one of them, Tye, is kidnapped from under their very noses. Jonah, Motti, Con, and Patch are desperate to find her, and they soon discover clues about a shadowy organization called the Sixth Sun that could hold the key to both Tye’s whereabouts and the location of the sword.

Head Games

by Thomas B. Cavanagh

“I have a tumor in my head. I call it Bob . . .”

With two ex-wives, a fifteen-year-old daughter who hates him, and a soon-to-be-fatal brain tumor, retired police detective Mike Garrity doesn’t have a lot to live for. He’s resigned himself to spending his last months alone, until an old colleague offers him a chance to go out with a bang, leave his daughter with an inheritance, and maybe even earn her respect.
When Mike is hired to locate missing boy band idol, he discovers that there are other people looking for TJ as well. And once a headless corpse shows up, it’s clear that they’re not just after him for his autograph.
Fast-paced and acidly funny.

The White Darkness

by Geraldine McCaughrean

Sym is not your average teenage girl. She is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave, romantic figure of Captain Oates from Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole. In fact, Oates is the secret confidant to whom she spills all her hopes and fears. But Sym's uncle Victor is even more obsessed and when he takes her on a dream trip into the bleak Antarctic wilderness, it turns into a nightmarish struggle for survival that will challenge everything she knows and loves.

The Woods

by Harlan Coben

Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again. For Paul Copeland, the county prosecutor, mourning the loss of his sister has only recently begun to subside. Copeland is now dealing with raising his six-year-old daughter as a single father after his wife has died from cancer. Balancing family life and a rapidly ascending career as a prosecutor distracts him from his past traumas, but only for so long. When a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Copeland, the well-buried secrets of the prosecutor's family are threatened.

Nightrise (Gatekeepers Series #3)

by Anthony Horowitz

Only the Gatekeepers, five brave teenagers, can prevent the return of the evil Old Ones who seek to destroy humanity. Fourteen-year-old Native American twins Jamie and Scott are Gatekeepers, though at first they don't know it; all they know is that they have psychic powers and can read and even control minds. A sinister international corporation called Nightrise, controlled by the Old Ones, learns of the twins' telepathy act on a Reno, Nevada stage and tries to kidnap them, but Jamie manages to escape with the help of a woman who is seeking her own kidnapped son. In order to rescue his twin, Jamie must gain entry to the juvenile correctional facility in the desert where Scott is being held.

The Killing Sea

by Richard Lewis

Sixteen-year-old Sarah and her family are sailing through the Indonesian islands during Christmas vacation. One morning Sarah's father, the intrepid captain of the crew, anchors the sailboat and they clamber ashore in search of a mechanic to fix their engine. Ruslan, a local Indonesian teenager, curiously watches them as they draw near. He is magnetized by Sarah's blue eyes. Supposing he'll never see her again, he returns home that night and quietly sketches her portrait. Then he gazes out the window at the quiet moon shadows. Little does he know that his peaceful world is about to be torn into shreds by an angry wall of black water that charges into his village like a demented monster. With vivid descriptions, the author takes readers on a journey of horrific devastation in the aftermath of a tsunami.

Safe House

by James Heneghan

Liam Fogarty's father worked for peace in his community in Northern Ireland, but that doesn't prevent his being murdered in his bed, along with his wife, one cold July night in 1999. Liam wakes when the masked men break down their front door, charge up the stairs and start shooting. He peers out of his room just as one of the men removes his mask and so Liam begins running for his life. Set in Belfast, this story offers a young boy's perspective of the continuing violence.

Gravewriter

by Mark Arsenault

Billy Povich used to be a journalist. He lost his wife because of his gambling habit, and then she died in a car crash. Now he finds himself writing obituaries and living with his elderly father and seven-year-old son, Bo. Billy plans to kill the man who was at the wheel the night of his wife's death. But then a summons to jury duty for a murder trial delays Billy's agenda. As the trial heats up, Billy finds that his little boy spots danger faster than he does, and a frantic and deadly chase begins with Billy as the prey.

Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever

by James Patterson

In this stand-alone sequel to The Angel Experiment, bird-kid Max and her flock fly south to reunite with their parents. But their perilous mission runs into stiff winds when they are apprehended by an FBI agent who dispatches them to the worst nightmare destination: school! Max's homework assignment includes decoding documents that might help save the world and protect her from Max II, a clone who knows her every move. Action; suspense; plot surprises: all James Patterson specialties.

Treasure of Khan

by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler

Genghis Khan once ruled an empire that stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. His conquests are the stuff of legend, his tomb a forgotten mystery. Until now. When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia's Lake Baikal, it appears a simple act of nature. When the survey team is abducted and Pitt's research vessel nearly sunk, however, it's obvious there's something more sinister involved. All trails lead to Mongolia, and a mysterious mogul who is conducting covert deals for supplying oil to the Chinese while wreaking havoc on global oil markets utilizing a secret technology. From the frigid lakes of Siberia to the hot sands of the Gobi Desert, Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino find intrigue, adventure, and peril while collecting clues to the mysterious treasure of Xanadu.

Whiteout

by Ken Follet

Doses of the possible antidote to a deadly virus are stolen from a small pharmaceutical lab in Scotland, much to the dismay of the lab's security chief, Toni Gallo. Not only is the actual virus capable of decimating the British Isles, but the theft is certain to interfere with Toni's budding romance with the drug company's widowed founder, Stanley Oxenford. It is to Follett's credit that he is able to combine biological terrorism, romance, sadism, Alzheimer's disease and family dysfunction into an effective antidote to boredom.

The Afghan

by Frederick Forsyth

This espionage novel is ripped from the headlines. Drawing on real events connected with the July 2005 London subway bombing, The Afghan conjures up a pulse-raising tale of plots and counter-plots. When leaders of the United States and the United Kingdom uncover the outlines of a massive al Qaeda attack plan, they attempt a risky substitution: Colonel Mike Martin, a resourceful British operative, is sent into the Taliban hornet nest to ferret out the details of the terrorist assault.

Maximum Ride

by James Patterson

A group of genetically enhanced kids who can fly and have other unique talents are on the run from part-human, part-wolf predators called Erasers in this exciting thriller that is a compelling read. Max, 14, and her adopted family, Fang and Iggy, both 13, Nudge, 11, Gazzy, 8, and Angel, 6, were all created as experiments in a lab called the School. Jeb, a sympathetic scientist, helped them escape and since then they've been living on their own. The Erasers have orders to kill them so the world will never find out they exist. When an Eraser leader tracks them down, kidnaps Angel, and transports her back to the School, the youngsters are forced to use their special talents to rescue her as they attempt to learn about their pasts and their destinies.

Code Orange

by Caroline Cooney

Mitty, a junior at a Manhattan prep school, finds his comfortable world turned upside down when he starts to research smallpox for a biology report and is accidentally exposed to old smallpox scabs he finds stuck in an envelope in an old medical book. Suddenly, his research takes on a new urgency. Will he come down with smallpox and inadvertently unleash the dreadful virus on the world once again? When he sends out inquires about his plight on the Internet, the response isn't quite what he expects. Terrorists kidnap him, eager to use smallpox for their own nefarious purposes, and it takes all of Mitty's cleverness to defeat them.

Polar Shift

by Clive Cussler

Polar shifts are magnetic-field reversals. These natural events can be catastrophic, but they are also extremely infrequent, usually occurring from 5,000 to 50,000,000 years apart. In Clive Cussler's full-throttle thriller, an anti-globalization activist learns how to artificially trigger such a shift. He plans to use the event to jolt industrialized nations into corrective action. Unfortunately, unless NUMA Special Assignment Team can stop him, his "wake-up call" could annihilate the entire population of the world. A fast-paced technothriller.

The Treasure of Savage Island

by Lenore Hart

Pirates, a runaway slave, buried treasure, deceit and friendship are the ingredients of this gripping adventure that takes place on Virginia's eastern shore following the Revolutionary War. Rafe is an escaped slave, shipwrecked while stowing away to Boston. Molly is the strong-willed, penniless island girl who rescues him. Their wary friendship is tested when Savage Island is raided by picaroons still loyal to England after the Revolution. The two must work together to save Molly's wounded father, expose a traitor, find a legendary treasure to free Molly's family from debt, and spirit Rafe away to freedom.

Fixed

by Beth Goobie

In this sequel to Flux, twelve-year-old Nellie Joanne Kinnan is an Advanced Cadet in the Black Core Program at the Delta Training Center. She spends her days learning how to use weaponry, running mazes with the intent to kill, and undergoing intense physical and emotional training all the while asking herself to what end. Although she believes she is serving the Goddess, she knows little of her past or how she came to be a cadet. Further complicating her sense of identity are the regular brain-washing experiences she undergoes in the elimination of memories deemed unnecessary by her teachers. When Nellie's twin sister attempts to rescue her from the facility, Nellie is forced to call into question all that she has believed to be true.

Naughts and Crosses

by Malorie Blackman

Callum is a Naught, a second-class citizen in a society run by the ruling Crosses. Sephy is a Cross, and daughter of the man slated to become prime minister. In their world, white Naughts and black Crosses simply don't mix and they certainly don't fall in love, but that's exactly what they've done. Callum and Sephy meet in secret and make excuses. Excuses no longer cut it when Sephy and her mother are nearly caught in a terrorist bombing planned by the Liberation Militia with which Callum's family is linked. Callum's father is the prime suspect and Sephy's father will stop at nothing to see him hanged. In this shocking thriller, the world is turned inside out. What's white is black, what's black is white, and only one thing is clear: Assumptions can be deadly.

Scorpia

by Anthony Horowitz

Alex Rider, the spitting image of his father in so many ways, is about to find out just how closely he is his father's son. When Alex learns that his father was an assassin for Scorpia, the most powerful terrorist organization going, his world shatters. Now Scorpia wants Alex on their side and Alex wages a war of conscience he no longer has the will to win. Until, that is, he learns of Scorpia's latest plot: an operation known only as "Invisible Sword" that will result in the death of thousands of people, unless he can stop it first.