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October 2012

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Showdown at Shepherd's Bush: The 1908 Olympic Marathon and the Three Runners Who Launched a Sporting Craze
David Davis
Oct 19, 2012 - Oct 21, 2012

The epic clash of an Irish-American, Italian, and Onondaga-Canadian that jump-started the first marathon mania and heralded the modern age in sports.

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Chi Marathon: The Breakthrough Natural Running Program for a Pain-Free Half-Marathon and Marathon
Danny Dreyer; Katherine Dreyer
Oct 19, 2012 - Oct 21, 2012

Dreyer presents a technique-based plan for pain- and injury-free, high-performance half and full marathons. "Chi Marathon "also shows how to improve your performance by developing your own race-specific training plan tailored to your event, and will help you cross the finish line feeling strong no matter your age, body type, or running ability

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The Fox Inheritance
Mary E. Pearson
Oct 19, 2012 - Oct 22, 2012

After a terrible accident, the minds of three friends were kept alive, spinning in a digital netherworld. Two-hundred-and-sixty years later, they have been released at last. Given new, perfect bodies, Locke and Kara awaken to a world they know nothing about, where everyone they once knew and loved is long dead.

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Cold Kiss
Amy Garvey
Oct 19, 2012 - Oct 21, 2012

When her boyfriend is killed in a car accident, high school student Wren Darby uses her hidden powers to bring him back from the dead, never imagining the consequences that will result from her decision. "A beautifully haunting romance. Every page tore me apart--and I loved it." (Lauren Kate)

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Please Ignore Vera Dietz
A. S. King
Oct 19, 2012 - Oct 21, 2012

Vera's spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she's kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything.  So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone--the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to?

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Black Heart
Holly Black
Oct 15, 2012 - Oct 18, 2012

Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, is torn between his decision to work for the federal government and his love for Lila, who has joined her father's criminal organization. "Fast-paced action, multifaceted characters, and an interesting paranormal world will keep readers hooked." (VOYA)

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Underworld
Meg Cabot
Oct 15, 2012 - Oct 18, 2012

Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn't dead. Not this time. But she is being held against her will in the dim, twilit world between heaven and hell, where the spirits of the deceased wait before embarking upon their final journey.

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Specials
Scott Westerfeld
Oct 15, 2012 - Oct 18, 2012

When she is turned into a super-modelesque super-fighting machine, Tally, a former ugly, is ordered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid in a carefully engineered world of perfection where she refuses to play by the rules.

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Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Laini Taylor
Oct 15, 2012 - Oct 18, 2012

Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.

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The Drowned Cities
Paolo Bacigalupi
Oct 15, 2012 - Oct 18, 2012

In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her

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Die for Me
Amy Plum
Oct 15, 2012 - Oct 18, 2012

After their parents are killed in a car accident, 16-year-old Kate Mercier and her older sister Georgia, each grieving in her own way, move to Paris to live with their grandparents. Kate finds herself powerfully drawn to the handsome but elusive Vincent, who seems to harbor a mysterious and dangerous secret.

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I Am (Not) the Walrus
Ed Briant
Oct 14, 2012 - Oct 16, 2012

As the singer and bass player for a Beatles cover band,16 year old Toby embarks on a quest to increase his sex appeal, a plan that derails when he finds a mysterious note inside his old bass guitar. "Briant has an ear for smart-aleck teen talk and keeps the first-person narration crisp. A light and entertaining rock-'n'-roll romp." (Kirkus Reviews)

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Feed
M. T. Anderson
Oct 14, 2012 - Oct 16, 2012

In an Orwellian future, Titus and his friends have brain implants that connect them 24/7 with a constant barrage of information from the internet. There's no need to read or write. Anderson's novel is both a gripping read and a cautionary tale, as Titus explores the possibility of living off the grid.

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The Face on the Milk Carton
Caroline B. Cooney
Oct 14, 2012 - Oct 16, 2012

No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glances at the face of the ordinary little girl--a three-year-old who had been kidnapped 12 years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey--she feels overcome with shock. She recognizes that little girl--it is her.

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Cinder
Marissa Meyer
Oct 13, 2012 - Oct 17, 2012

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, and a cyborg.

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