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My abandonment by Peter Rock ( Recording )
8 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 266 libraries worldwide
Thirteen-year old Caroline has been raised and home-schooled by her father in a wild nature preserves on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. They follow a rigid code that enables them to survive in the wilderness. Once a week, they go to the city to buy groceries, attend church and otherwise merge with the civilized world. Yet one small mistake allows the authorities to discover them and their forced relocation is only a brief respite in their flight from a world that doesn't understand them.

Big girl small by Rachel DeWoskin ( Recording )
5 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 110 libraries worldwide
Sixteen-year-old Judy Lohden is a talented singer with big dreams and a bright future. However, she is only three-foot-nine, and her stature has attracted the national media, forcing her to hide out in a motel on the edge of town.

The mystery of Grace by Charles De Lint ( Recording )
4 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 96 libraries worldwide
Altagracia--her friends call her Grace--has a tattoo of Nuestra Señora de Altagracia on her shoulder, she's got a Ford Motor Company tattoo running down her leg, and she has grease worked so deep into her hands that it'll never wash out. Grace works at Sanchez Motorworks, customizing hot rods. Finding the line in a classic car is her calling. Grace loves John, and John loves her, and that would be wonderful, except that John, like Grace, has unfinished business: he's haunted by the childhood death of his younger brother. He's never stopped feeling responsible. Like Grace in her way, John is an artist, and before their relationship can find its resolution, the two of them will have to teach each other about life and love, about hot rods and Elvis Presley, and about why it's necessary to let some things go.--from Publisher description.

The reapers are the angels [a novel by Alden Bell ( Recording )
7 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 86 libraries worldwide
"For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can't remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until the tragedy that set her off on her personal journey toward redemption. Moving back and forth between the insulted remnants of society and the brutal frontier beyond, Temple must decide where ultimately to make a home and find the salvation she seeks"--Container.

A good fall stories by Ha Jin ( Recording )
2 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 61 libraries worldwide
"A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs of his girlfriend's parakeet; a group of young children declare their wish to change their names so that they might sound more 'American, ' unaware of how deeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help of a reluctant former student. In each of these deeply moving, acutely insightful, and often strikingly humorous stories we are reminded again of the storytelling prowess of this superb writer"--Www.blackstoneaudio.com.

Frostbite a werewolf tale by David Wellington ( Recording )
3 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 57 libraries worldwide
"When a strange wolf's teeth slash Cheyenne's ankle to the bone, her old life ends, and she becomes the very monster that has haunted her nightmares for years. Worse, the only one who can understand what Chey has become is the man-- or wolf-- who's doomed her to this fate. He also wants to chop her head off with an axe. Yet as the line between human and beast blurs, so too does the distinction between hunter and hunted for Chey is more than just the victim she appears to be. But once she's within killing range, she may find that-even for a werewolf-it's not always easy to go for the jugular" Publisher's summary.

Fire will fall by Carol Plum-Ucci ( Recording )
7 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 40 libraries worldwide
Moved to a mansion in the South Jersey Pine Barrens, four teenagers, trying to recover from being poisoned by terrorists, struggle with health issues, personal demons, and supernatural events, as operatives try to track down the terror cell.

Twisted tree by Kent Meyers ( Recording )
2 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 40 libraries worldwide
Hayley Jo Zimmerman is gone and the people of the small town of Twisted Tree must come to terms with this terrible event--their loss, their place in it, and the secrets they all carry.

Overwinter by David Wellington ( Recording )
6 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 33 libraries worldwide
In this stand-alone continuation of the tale begun in Frostbite, horror star David Wellington delivers another gripping werewolf tale in which heroine Chey is once again forced to fight for her own humanity. Overwinter opens as protagonist Chey, bitten by a werewolf and cursed to live out eternity as a monster, prowls the Arctic Circle on the trail of an ancient secret, the one thing that could remove the lycanthropic curse and make her human again. As she hunts for an answer, she realizes that with every passing day the wolf inside her is becoming stronger and her humanity is slipping away. Meanwhile, another werewolf arrives, an evil centuries-old woman, bent on sabotaging Chey's quest and stealing away the one thing that's still important to her.

Streams of Babel by Carol Plum-Ucci ( Recording )
3 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 25 libraries worldwide
Six teens face a bioterrorist attack on American soil as four are infected with a mysterious disease affecting their small New Jersey neighborhood and two others, both brilliant computer hackers, assist the United States Intelligence Coalition in tracking the perpetrators.