New Books - 11/08/10

The cardturner : a novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker / Louis Sachar
The summer after junior year looks bleak for Alton Richards. His girlfriend dumped him for his best friend. He has no job. Then his parents insist that he drive his rich, blind uncle to his bridge club and act as his cardturner. His uncle can’t see the cards, and Alton doesn’t know the rules of the game. How are they supposed to be partners? (from the cover)

Revolution / Jennifer Donnelly
A story of intrigue, romance, pop music, and history. Andi Alpers, a teenage guitar prodigy, is grieving over her brother’s death and her parents’ failed marriage. While in Paris with her geneticist father, hired to match the DNA of a heart said to belong to the last dauphin of France, Andi discovers a diary hidden within a guitar case. Thus begins the story of Alexandrine Paradis, a companion of the dauphin.

Thrillers
Girl, stolen / April Henry
For Cheyenne Wilder, a blind teenager suffering from pneumonia, a quick trip to the pharmacy becomes a nightmare when her stepmother’s car is stolen, and Cheyenne is kidnapped.

Star Crossed / Elizabeth Bunce
Celyn Contrare is a glamorous lady-in-waiting by day and a thief and spy by night. Celyn knows many secrets, but Lord Daul knows hers and is blackmailing her. Will she survive or fall victim to the king’s Inquisition?

Fantasy
The Scorch Trials / James Dashner
Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end of the puzzles, the variables, the running. Now Thomas and the Gladers find themselves crossing the Scorch, a dangerous, unruly wasteland that lacks food, water, and shelter. Sequel to The Maze Runner.