10 To Check Out : New Releases

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Here are ten new YA releases to check out! Do any appeal to you? Covers? Descriptions?
Let us know! Release Dates July 10th & July 24th

              









           







1. Drain You by M. Beth Bloom

Every night I’d lie there in bed and look out at the hills behind our house, listening. I knew there’d be consequences.
Actions meant reactions. Sunrises meant sunsets. My fear was too permanent, lasting longer than eyeliner, something I wore every day and didn’t wash off.
Quinlan Lacey’s life is a red carpet of weird fashions, hip bands, random parties, and chilling by the pool with her on-and-off BFF Libby. There’s also her boring job (minimum wage), a crushed-out coworker (way too interested), her summer plans (nada), and her parents (totally clueless). Then one night she meets gorgeous James, and Quinn’s whole world turns crazy, Technicolor, 3-D, fireworks, whatever.
But with good comes bad and unfortunately, Quinn’s new romance brings with it some majorly evil baggage. Now, to make things right, she has to do a lot of things wrong (breaking and entering, kidnapping, lying, you name it).
There’s normal, and then there’s paranormal, and neither are Quinlan’s cup of Diet Coke. Staying sane, cool, in love, and alive isn’t so easy breezy.

2.Guitar Notes by Mary Amato

A heartwarming story about an unlikely friendship forged between a straight-A, classical musician and a bad-boy guitar player told through notes, lyrics, texts, and narration.

3. Lucky Fools by Coert Voorhees

David Ellison dreams of acting at Juilliard, but he’s expected to attend nearby Stanford University, just like all of his classmates at hard-driving Oak Fields Prep. As if wasting his private school education weren’t enough, David is also on track to destroy his relationship with his girlfriend, Ellen, when he finds himself falling for his new co-star, Vanessa.
With David’s Juilliard audition approaching, and his relationship teetering on the brink of disaster, Oak Fields is thrown into chaos as a mysterious prankster begins attacking the school’s highest achievers, determined to sabotage their college aspirations. Anyone who excels is a potential target, and David, the star of every play, could be next.
From the author of the highly praised The Brothers Torres comes a dangerously insightful book about enduring the pressures of high school, surviving the ins and outs of love, and fighting for your dreams, no matter what.

4.The Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse

As an obedient orphan of the U.N.A. (the super-country that was once Mexico, the U.S., and Canada), Alenna learned at an early age to blend in and be quiet—having your parents taken by the police will do that to a girl. But Alenna can’t help but stand out when she fails a test that all sixteen-year-olds have to take: The test says she has a high capacity for brutal violence, and so she is sent to The Wheel, an island where all would-be criminals end up.
The life expectancy of prisoners on The Wheel is just two years, but with dirty, violent, and chaotic conditions, the time seems a lot longer as Alenna is forced to deal with civil wars for land ownership and machines that snatch kids out of their makeshift homes. Desperate, she and the other prisoners concoct a potentially fatal plan to flee the island. Survival may seem impossible, but Alenna is determined to achieve it anyway.

5.Such a Rush by Jennifer Echols

A sexy and poignant romantic tale of a young daredevil pilot caught between two brothers.
High school senior Leah Jones loves nothing more than flying. While she’s in the air, it’s easy to forget life with her absentee mother at the low-rent end of a South Carolina beach town. When her flight instructor, Mr. Hall, hires her to fly for his banner advertising business, she sees it as her ticket out of the trailer park. And when he dies suddenly, she’s afraid her flying career is gone forever.
But Mr. Hall’s teenage sons, golden boy Alec and adrenaline junkie Grayson, are determined to keep the banner planes flying. Though Leah has crushed on Grayson for years, she’s leery of getting involved in what now seems like a doomed business — until Grayson betrays her by digging up her most damning secret. Holding it over her head, he forces her to fly for secret reasons of his own, reasons involving Alec. Now Leah finds herself drawn into a battle between brothers — and the consequences could be deadly.

6.The Thing About the Truth by Lauren Barnholdt

In this humorous love story from the author of Two-Way Street, an unlikely romance is the best sort of surprise—but the wrong secret can ruin everything. Kelsey’s not going to let one mistake ruin her life. Sure, she got kicked out of prep school and all her old friends are shutting her out. But Kelsey’s focused on her future, and she’s determined to get back on track at Concordia High.
Isaac’s been kicked out of more schools than he can count. Since his father’s a state senator, Isaac’s life is under constant scrutiny—but Concordia High’s his last stop before boarding school, so Isaac’s hoping to fly under the radar and try to stay put for a change.
When Kelsey and Isaac meet, it’s anything but love at first sight. She thinks he’s an entitled brat, and he thinks she’s a stuck-up snob. So it surprises them both when they start to fall for each other. Kelsey’s happy for the first time in months, and Isaac’s never felt this way about anyone before…But nothing’s ever completely perfect. Everyone has secrets, and Isaac and Kelsey are no exceptions. These two may have fallen hard, but there’s one thing that can ruin it all: the truth.

7. Don't You Wish by Roxanne St. Claire

         When plain and unpopular Annie Nutter gets zapped by one of her dad's whacked-out inventions,

         she lands in a parallel universe where her life becomes picture-perfect. Now she's Ayla Monroe,     

         daughter of the same mother but a different father--and she's the gorgeous, rich queen bee of her                high school.  

         In this universe, Ayla lives in glitzy Miami instead of dreary Pittsburgh and has beaucoup bucks,     

         courtesy of her billionaire--if usually absent--father. Her friends hit the clubs, party backstage at

         concerts, and take risks that are exhilarating . . . and illegal. 

         But on the inside, Ayla is still Annie. 

         So when she's offered the chance to leave the dream life and head home to Pittsburgh, will she take it?           The choice isn't as simple as you think.

8.So Close To You by Rachel Carter

   

        Lydia Bentley has heard stories about the Montauk Project all her life: stories about the strange things 

        that took place at the abandoned military base near her home and the people who've disappeared over 

        the years. Stories about people like her own great-grandfather.

        When Lydia stumbles into a portal that transports her to a dangerous and strange new reality, she  
        discovers that all the stories she's ever heard about the Montauk Project are true, and that she's in the
        middle of one of the most dangerous experiments in history.
        Alongside a darkly mysterious boy she is wary to trust, Lydia begins to unravel the secrets surrounding
        the Project. But the truths behind these secrets force her to question all her choices—and if Lydia
        chooses wrong, she might not save her family but destroy them . . . and herself.

9. Dark Water: A Siren Novel by Tricia Rayburn

        The sea is calling, but the reluctant siren will do anything not to answer. . . . 
         A year after the events that killed her sister and turned her into a siren, Vanessa is desperately trying
         to put her family back together and reclaim a “normal” life. But no matter how many times she swims,
         or how much salt water she drinks, she can feel herself getting weaker and weaker. She has no idea
         how to survive as a siren and she doesn’t want to know the truth about her newly discovered identity.
         It’s just too horrifying.
         Then her biological mother shows up at her summer house in Maine—she is one of the Nenuphars, 
         the most powerful of all sirens. She promises that she wants to help the daughter from whom she’s
         been separated for far too long. But is she to be trusted? Now Vanessa must face the harshest reality
         of all—to survive she must endanger and injure others—but is that any sort of life?
         Chilling and romantic, Dark Water explores questions of identity as old as the sea, and brings the
         Siren trilogy to a startling conclusion.

10. Deadly Pink by Vivian Vande Velde

         Grace Pizzelli is the average one, nothing like her brilliant older sister, Emily, who
         works for Rasmussem, creators of the world’s best virtual reality games. The games
         aren’t real, though—or at least they weren’t. Now Emily has hidden herself inside a
         pink and sparkly game meant for little girls. No one knows why, or how to convince
         her to come back out, and the technology can’t keep her safe for much longer.
         Grace may consider herself average, but she’s the only one who can save Emily. So
         Grace enters the game, hoping to talk her sister out of virtual suicide before time runs
         out. Otherwise Emily will die—for real.