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Title: A Wolf at the Table Author: Augusten Bur­roughs Pub­lisher: St. Martin’s Press Date (to be) Pub­lished: April 2008 Syn­op­sis: (from pub­lisher) “As a lit­tle boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we’d ever […]

Title: Nev­er­land Author: Dou­glas Clegg Pub­lisher: Van­guard Press Date (to be) Pub­lished: April 2010 Syn­op­sis: (from pub­lisher) For years, the Jack­son fam­ily has vaca­tioned at Rowena Wandi­gaux Lee’s old Vic­to­rian house on Gull Island, a place of super­sti­tion and leg­end off the south­ern coast of the U.S. One par­tic­u­lar sum­mer, young Beau fol­lows his cousin Sumter into a hidden […]

Title: Dark­born (Dark­born Tril­ogy) Author: Ali­son Sin­clair Pub­lisher: Roc (Pen­guin) Date (to be) Pub­lished: May 2010 Syn­op­sis: (from author’s web­site) In the city of Min­horne, Dark­born and Light­born live side by side, never meet­ing, divided by a pow­er­ful mages’ curse that makes day­light lethal to the Dark­born and dark­ness lethal to the Light­born. They are divided, […]

Title: The Pas­sage Author: Justin Cronin Pub­lisher: Bal­lan­tine Books Date (to be) Pub­lished: June 2010 Syn­op­sis: “It hap­pened fast. Thirty-​​​​two min­utes for one world to die, another to be born.” First, the unthink­able: a secu­rity breach at a secret U.S. gov­ern­ment facil­ity unleashes the mon­strous prod­uct of a chill­ing mil­i­tary exper­i­ment. Then, the unspeak­able: a night of chaos and car­nage gives way […]

Title: Man­i­fest Author: Artist Arthur Pub­lisher: Kimani Date (to be) Pub­lished: August 2010 Syn­op­sis: When fifteen-​​​​year-​​​​old Krys­tal Bent­ley moves to Lin­coln, Con­necti­cut, her mom’s home­town, she assumes her biggest drama will be adjust­ing to the burbs after liv­ing in New York City. But Lin­coln is noth­ing like Krys­tal imag­ined. The weird­ness begins when Ricky Wat­son starts […]