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	Divergent by Veronica Roth In a future Chicago, 16 year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.

	Evermore by Alyson Noel Since a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, Ever can see auras, hear people's thoughts, and know a person's entire life story by touch. Going out of her way to avoid human contact and suppress her abilities has branded her as a freak at her new high school--but everything chances when she meets Damen. Damen Auguste is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy. he's the only one who can silence the noise and random energy in her head--wielding a magic so intense it's as though he can see straight into her soul. As Ever is drawn deeper into his enticing world of secrets and mystery, she's left with more questions than answers. She has no idea just who he really is--or what he is. The only thing she knows to be true is she's falling deeply and helplessly in love with him. (Summary from the author's website)

	Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes impossibly high and left little time to plan the complex operation. In Ghost Soldiers, Hampton Sides vividly re-creates this daring raid, offering a minute-by-minute narration that unfolds alongside intimate portraits of the prisoners and their lives in the camp. Sides shows how the POWs banded together to survive, defying the Japanese authorities even as they endured starvation, tropical diseases, and torture. Harrowing, poignant, and inspiring, Ghost Soldiers is the mesmerizing story of a remarkable mission. It is also a testament to the human spirit, an account of enormous bravery and self-sacrifice amid the most trying conditions. Interview with the author on BookNotes

	Hold Tight by Harlan Coben A sadistic killer is at play in suburban Glen Rock, N.J., outside NewYork City, but somehow he's less frightening than the more mundane problems that send ordinary lives into chaos. How do you weigh a child's privacy against a parent's right to know? How do you differentiate normal teenage rebellion from out-of-control behavior? When and how do you intervene if suicidal signs appear? Mike and Tia Baye try to deal with the increasing withdrawal of their 16-year-old son, Adam, after a friend's suicide. A pair of brutal, seemingly senseless killings, punctuate the unfolding domestic troubles that ratchet up the tension and engulf the Baye family, their friends and neighbors in a web of increasing tragedy. Link to the author's site

	Just Listen by Sarah Dessen Seventeen-year-old Annabel Greene is the youngest of three sisters who have each worked as models. While the oldest girl is talkative to a fault and the middle one is fiercely stoic, Annabel is reliably compliant and fair-minded. However, Annabel has lost a number of friends over the years, allowing herself to be talked into deserting an old one for a bossier new one, or retiring from the social scene entirely rather than reveal what really happened on the night she was accused of trying to steal her then best friend's boyfriend. Annabel falls in with an outsider at school, a boy who has learned to manage his anger and who tries to convince Annabel that she isn't helping herself as she tries to maintain the image of being perfect and under control. Link to author's site

	LeBron's Dream Team: How Five Friends Made History (also may be found as "Shooting Stars" in hardcover) by LeBron James and Bud Bissinger From the ultimate team—basketball superstar LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights — a poignant, thrilling tale of the power of teamwork to transform young lives, including James’s own. The Shooting Stars were a bunch of kids—LeBron James and his best friends—from Akron, Ohio, who first met on a youth basketball team of the same name when they were ten and eleven years old. United by their love of the game and their yearning for companionship, they quickly forged a bond that would carry them through thick and thin. They would endure jealousy, hostility, exploitation, resentment from the black community (because they went to a “white” high school), and the consequences of their own overconfidence. Not least, they would all have to wrestle with LeBron’s outsized success, which brought too much attention and even a whiff of scandal their way. But together these five boys became men, and together they claimed the prize they had fought for all those years—a national championship.

	Paper Towns by John Green Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open his bedroom window and climbs back into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge— he follows. After their madcap night of vengeful pranks ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has disappeared. But Q soon learns that there are clues— and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew. Link to author's site

	The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mix tapes, family drama and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. (Summary from publisher's website)

	Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess With her father imprisoned, 15-year-old Meredith thinks she could live out her high-school days safely, but when he is released early for good behavior, her security is shattered. A popular youth baseball coach, her father has abused Mer as well as other boys and girls. With strict orders that he not be left alone with his daughter, he is allowed to return to the condo complex where she and her mother live. In contrast to Mer's terror, her mother is pleased at his return, and together the reunited couple plans to conceive another child. Yet in the shadows and stillness, Mer's nightmare begins anew. Link to author's site

	The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Why did crime in New York drop so suddenly in the mid-nineties? How does an unknown novelist end up a best-selling author? What makes TV shows like Sesame Street so good at teaching kids how to read? Why did Paul Revere succeed with his famous warning? In this brilliant and groundbreaking audiobook, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the empty tables of a new restaurant.These are social epidemics, and the moment when they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the Tipping Point. Link to author's site

	World War Z by Max Brooks World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a recounting of these apocalyptic and horrifying years that will make sure we never forget how close we came to total annihilation. Told from the perspective of numerous survivors from all over the world from Denver to South Africa, Sydney to Yonkers, Malibu to India, World War Z captures the sacrifices and, toward the end, the ingenuity of our race to defend and save our cities, towns, and villages from a plague that seemed virtually impossible to stop. Brooks tells a moving story of courage and survival and gives us insight into the key military strategies that helped us take our world back. (Summary from publisher's website)