November+2009

Lauren Kate - Author
 * __ THE BETRAYAL OF NATALIE HARGROVE __**

A steamy Southern beauty makes one fatal mistake Natalie Hargrove would kill to be her high school’s Palmetto Princess. But her boyfriend Mike King doesn’t share her dream and risks losing the honor of Palmetto Prince to Natalie’s nemesis, Justin Balmer. So she convinces Mike to help play a prank on Justin. . . one that goes terribly wrong. They tie him to the front of the church after a party—when they arrive the next morning, Justin is dead.

From blackmail to buried desire, dark secrets to darker deeds, Natalie unravels. She never should’ve messed with fate. Fate is the one thing more twisted than Natalie Hargrove.

Cruel Intentions meets Macbeth in this seductive, riveting tale of conscience and consequence Norma Howe
 * __ ANGEL IN VEGAS: THE CHRONICLES OF NOAH SARK __**

Good heavens! A teen angel drops into Sin City in this wickedly funny YA novel from the author of the Blue Avenger trilogy.

Who is Noah Sark, really? And what is he doing in the men’s room at Angelo’s Donut Shop in Las Vegas, Nevada? No use asking him; he doesn’t know. But he’s gambling that an assignment from above will shed some light — after all, a life depends on it! Only master satirist Norma Howe could craft a provocative meditation on free will from blending one (or maybe two) budding teen romances, a psychic fair, a dead frog, a headful of blond curls, and Las Vegas in all its glitz and kitsch (hello, Elvis!) with the dramatic backstory of Princess Diana in Paris. The jackpot? A wild and witty portrait of an unlikely guardian angel on a desperate mission to save a certain unknown girl from a certain unknown disaster.

Thomas Randall
 * __The Waking: Dreams of the Dead__**

Kara Foster is an American outsider at her new private school in Japan, until she's befriended by Sakura, a fellow outsider struggling to make sense of her sister's unsolved murder. then Kara begins to have nightmares, and soon other students in the school turn up dead, viciously attacked by someone...or something. Is Sakura demanding payback from those she thinks are responsible for her sister's death? Or has her dead sister come back to take revenge for herself?

Evocative and deliciously spooky, Dreams of the Dead is the first in a trilogy about ancient myths, long-sleeping deamons, and being a stranger in a strange land.