Age: Young Adult (ages 14-18)

Material appropriate for young adults

Paradise Red

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

Master storyteller K. M. Grant brings the dramatic saga of young love and religious conflict to a satisfying end in the final book of the Perfect Fire trilogy. As winter falls upon the Occitan, Raimon must find a way to recover the Blue Flame from the hands of the evil White Wolf. But his plan [...]

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The Clockwork Angel

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

Tessa Gray descends into Victorian London’s dark underworld to search for her missing brother, with the mysterious Shadowhunters as her only allies.

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Everlasting

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

Sailing aboard her father’s ship is all seventeen-year-old Camille Rowen has ever wanted. But as a lady in 1855 San Francisco, her future is set: marry a man she doesn’t love in order to preseve her social standing. On her last voyage before the wedding, Camille learns the mother she has always believed dead is [...]

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Cry of the Giraffe

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

One girl’s harrowing trek from exile and slavery to hope in a new land — all based on a true story.In the early 1980s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews fled the civil unrest, famine and religious persecution of their native land in the hopes of being reunited in Yerusalem, their spiritual homeland, with its promises of [...]

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Bamboo People

By Book Importer | Published: October 12, 2010

This coming-of-age novel takes place against the political and military backdrop of modern-day Burma. Narrated by two teenaged boys on opposing sides of the conflict between the Burmese government and the Karenni, one of the many ethnic minorities in Burma, Bamboo People explores the nature of violence, power, and prejudice as seen through the eyes [...]

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A Step From Heaven

By Book Importer | Published: October 12, 2010

A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America. See the review at WOW Review, Volume 3, Issue 1

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Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales Of The Otori, Book 1)

By Book Importer | Published: October 12, 2010

This is the first book in a new epic trilogy that has already become a bestselling sensation in England and Australia, earning comparisons to The Lord of the Rings. It begins with the legend of a nightingale floor in a black-walled fortress-a floor that sings in alarm at the step of an assassin. It will [...]

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Ashes

By Book Importer | Published: September 27, 2010

Thirteen-year-old Gabriella Schramms favorite pastime is reading. With Adolf Hitler slowly but unstoppably rising to power, Gaby turns to her books for comfort while the world around her changes dramatically: The streets become filled with soldiers, Gabys sisters boyfriend raises his arm in a heil Hitler salute, and the Schramms family friend Albert Einstein flees [...]

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The Red Umbrella

By Book Importer | Published: September 27, 2010

The Red Umbrellais the moving tale of a 14-year-old girl’s journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan-an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro’s revolution.   In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Luciacute;a Aacute;lvarez still leads a carefree life, [...]

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Saving the Baghdad Zoo

By Book Importer | Published: July 22, 2010

The baghdad zoo was once home to more than six hundred magnificent animals. But after the war in Iraq began in 2003, the city faced widespread destruction. When U. S. Army Captain William Sumner was asked to check out the state of the zoo, he found that it, too, was devastated. Hundreds of animals were [...]

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