Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.

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A great and terrible beauty

By Bray, Libba

Publishing Date: 2004

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

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Rebel angels

By Bray, Libba

Publishing Date: 2005

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released.

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The sweet far thing

By Bray, Libba

Publishing Date: c2007

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

At Spence Academy, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle continues preparing for her London debut while struggling to determine how best to use magic to resolve a power struggle in the enchanted world of the realms, and to protect her own world and loved ones.

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The Elite

By Cass, Kiera

Publishing Date: c2013

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is one of only six girls still competing in the Selection--but before she can fight to win Prince Maxon and the Illean crown, she must decide where her own heart truly lies"--

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The Selection

By Cass, Kiera

Publishing Date: c2012

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Ill©♭a, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Ill©♭a's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her"--

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City of lost souls

By Clare, Cassandra

Publishing Date: 2012

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world's destruction.

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It's not summer without you: a summer novel

By Han, Jenny

Publishing Date: c2010

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.

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The summer I turned pretty

By Han, Jenny

Publishing Date: 2009

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.

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We'll always have summer: a summer novel

By Han, Jenny

Publishing Date: c2011

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.

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The dangerous days of Daniel X

By Patterson, James

Publishing Date: 2008

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence Earth and another planet are at stake.

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The Dangerous days of Daniel X

By Patterson, James

Publishing Date: 2008

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake.

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Melting stones

By Pierce, Tamora

Publishing Date: 2008

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Residents of the island of Starns send for help from Winding Circle temple, and when prickly green mage Rosethorn and young stone mage trainee Evvy respond, Evvy finds that the problem is with a long-dormant volcano and tries to use her talents to avert the looming destruction.

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The awakening and the struggle

By Smith, L. J.

Publishing Date: 2007

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Presents the first two volumes in the Vampire Diaries series, in which popular and beautiful high school senior Elena finds herself torn between two vampire brothers, the dark and brooding Stefan who wants to protect her from the horrors of his past and the dangerously attractive Damon, who is determined to use her to get revenge on his brother.

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Assassin's apprentice

By Vaught, Susan

Publishing Date: 2009

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Follows the intertwining adventures of Leyr Mab, high prince and heir to the throne, Aron Brailing, a farm boy with a destiny greater than he can imagine, and Dari Ross, a mysterious halfling with ties to a powerful race of shapeshifters long believed to be extinct.

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