There's always something new at the Young Adult desk. Stop by to check out some recent arrivals, and pick up a list of the Rhode Island Teen Book Award nominees. They make great choices for Summer Reading!

NEW FICTION

21 Proms edited by David Levithan and Daniel Ehrenhaft . Some of today's hottest writers tackle the theme of very different proms. The stellar line up includes Cecily ( Gossip Girl ) Von Ziegsar , Holly ( Tithe ) Black, Aimee ( French Kiss ) Friedman and Libba ( Great and Terrible Beauty ) Bray, plus a host of others.

Masquerade: A Blue Bloods Novel by Melissa De La Cruz

L8r, g8r by Lauren Myracle

Zoe , Angela and Maddie are back. They're still IMing each other about boy friends, the evil Jana, but now they're seniors and have to worry about (gasp) graduation and college!

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult . The super-hot author has produced her most powerful book yet. Nineteen minutes can change your life, that's how long it takes for a school shooting to occur. Picoult takes a violent incident and examines it from all sides, the victims, the shooter, and the parents. It's a powerful book with no easy answers.

Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

On to less depressing books. If you're tired of waiting for a certain boy wizard to finish up his adventures you might want to check out Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series. This is the third in the series and they just keep getting better. When she was nine Tiffany outwitted the queen of the fairies. When she was eleven she fought a monstrous evil that tried to possess her body and soul. Now she's thirteen and facing her most dangerous challenge: boys. Of course it's not just any guy who's interested in her, oh no, that would make her life too simple. The living spirit of Winter has a thing for her and is going to keep the world frozen forever until she gives in to him. To get out of this one she's going to need help from the Wee Free Men , the rowdiest, smelliest bunch of pictsies who ever stole a sheep.

Avalon High by Meg Cabot

Ellie transfers into a new school and notices a strange parallel between the students and the myths of King Arthur. Can modern teens write a new ending to the tale, or are they doomed to live out the whole Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot love triangle that ended so badly the first time around. It's soon to be a graphic novel, and hey, it's by Meg ( Princess Diaries) Cabot, so you can't go wrong.

True Talents by David Lubar

The long awaited sequel to Hidden Talents finds the kids from Edgewood Alternative School learning to cope with their powers while trying to lead normal lives. Unfortunately an evil organization is interested in finding out about psychic powers, and are willing to do anything to get it.

Maximum Ride: Saving the World and other Extreme Sports by James Patterson

The kids from True Talents aren't the only young people with special powers. In the Maximum Ride series we're introduced to kids who are part bird and can fly. As they race towards their destiny in this final book they'll have to fly higher and faster than ever before.

Look for The Pilgrims of Rayne the latest in the Pendragon series as well as The Perfect Boy , the latest from Hailey Abbott. There's also new entries in the Gossip Girl , It Girl , and Clique series soon to come. The very hot Private series by Kate Brian also continues.

NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS

The Eternals by Neil Gaiman

The Bestselling creator of Sandman takes on the classic Marvel characters in a brand new hardcover. A small group of people discover that they may really be powerful godlike beings who have been erased from history. Their enemies still live, and they must find a way to recover what they've lost before it's too late.

Godchild by Kaori Yuri

Creepy doesn't even begin to describe this weird gothic mystery from Japan . Meet Cain, the heir to a vast fortune and the world's greatest expert on poisons, his manservant Riff and his half sister Mary Weather. Pursued by a secret society of assassins and his own murderous father, he moves in an elegant world of deception, blackmail and murder. We've got volumes 1-4 in stock.

Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event by Mark Millar

It's the biggest thing to hit Marvel comics in years. A terrible tragedy drives the government to take control of the superhero community. Some heroes are eager to sign up, while others decide to resist. When the two groups of heroes come together, there's gonna be trouble. Pretty much every hero in the Marvel Universe guest stars in this, the book that changes everything for your favorite heroes. Also check out Road to Civil War to see how it all started. In case you don't recognize some of these characters, you can check out the Marvel Encyclopedia by DK Publishing, it's the perfect companion to the DC Comics Encyclopedia .

Keep your eyes peeled for a flood of new manga titles coming later this Summer . We'll have more copies of your favorites including Bleach and Naruto .

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