October New Books

The Yellow Birds

In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city.

Origin

Inside the electric fence surrounding the secret compound known as Little Cam, scientists have labored for years to create one immortal person. Pia, now 16, has lightning-fast reflexes, inexhaustible stamina, and a body impervious to sickness or injury. She is the perfect creation of the current lead scientist. When a storm causes a break in the fence, Pia ventures into the jungle and discovers more about her dystopian world.

Zero by Tom Leveen

Amanda (Zero) was accepted to art school but didn’t receive a scholarship in order to attend. To avoid her arguing parents and the duldrums of summer, Amanda finds herself in the local punk scence and a potential new male drummer friend.

Pure Vegan: 70 Recipes for Beautiful Meals and Clean Living by Joseph Shuldner

Vegan recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks with over 70 atractive photos even a meat-eater will be able to enjoy.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack by Rebecca Skloot

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years.

Dark Companion by Marta Acosta (Author is HNHS graduate)

When foster teen Jane Williams is invited to attend elite Birch Grove Academy for Girls and escape her violent urban neighborhood, she thinks the offer is too good to be true. She's even offered her own living quarters, the groundskeeper's cottage in the center of the birch grove.

Code Name Verity by (historical fiction)

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

A Song of Ice and Fire (A Game of Thrones)

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall.

**summaries courtesy of publisher