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New Mystery & Suspense titles added to the collection include:

I AM LEGEND    by Richard Matheson              (also in graphic novel format)
    A lone human survivor in a world that is overrun by vampires, Robert Neville leads a desperate life in which he must barricade himself in his home every night and hunt down the starving undead by day. 1/08

SHARP TEETH    by Toby Barlow
    Sweet-natured dogcatcher Anthony doesn't know that his girlfriend is a werewolf no longer with her pack, whose ousted leader is doing time as a family pet while plotting his revenge. 1/08

MAXIMUM RIDE -- SCHOOL'S OUT - FOREVER    by James Patterson
   
Fifteen-year-old Will Bennon leaves his family and begins life as a cowboy, but his mentally retarded twin brother follows him and joins the journey. 11/07

BEATING HEART: A GHOST STORY     by A. M. Jenkins
   
Following his parents' divorce, seventeen-year-old Evan moves with his mother and sister into an old house where the spirit of a teenager who died there awakens and mistakes him for her long-departed lover.  11/07

THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION    by Michael Chabon
   
In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy. 11/07

DOUBLE CROSS        by James Patterson        (sequel to Cross)
   
Rejoining the police force in the wake of a series of elaborate murders in Washington, D.C., detective Alex Cross finds himself working to outmaneuver the killer's penchant for inducing hysteria with increasingly sensational killings. 11/07

THE ROAD OF THE DEAD    by Kevin Brooks
   
Two brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London and travel to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister. 04/07

THE ANGEL OF DEATH        by Alane Ferguson        (sequel to Christopher Killer)
    Seventeen-year-old high school senior Cameryn Mahoney uses skills learned as assistant to her coroner father to try to unravel the mystery of a local teacher's gruesome death, while also awaiting a possible reunion with her long-missing mother. 4/07

THE RULES OF SURVIVAL        by Nancy Werlin            (award winner)
    Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother.  4/07

CHASING THE JAGUAR        by Michele Doninguez Greene
    After having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, fifteen-year-old Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long line of curanderas--Mayan medicine women with special powers. Includes glossary of Spanish words.  4/07

PRETTY LITTLE DEVILS        by Nancy Holder
    Life seems rosy for the Pretty Little Devils, the most popular girls' clique in high school, until its members begin to experience threats and assaults. 4/07

SLEEPER CODE        by Tom Sniegoski                (part 1 of series)
    Just when he has met a beautiful girl and his outlook is improving, sixteen-year-old narcoleptic Tom Lovett begins to suspect that his dreams and hallucinations of killing people may be something more real and terrifying. 4/07

BAD KITTY        by Michele Jaffe
    While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Jasmine stumbles upon a murder mystery that she attempts to solve with the help of her friends, recently arrived from California. 4/07

TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE    by Zoran Drvenkar
    From the point of view of each person, tells how Alissa finds an odd plant that gives her strange powers, how Simon stalks Alissa because he can't get over their break-up, and how Evelyn tries to help Alissa with everything.  4/07

UNDER THE BRIDGE    by Rebecca Godfrey
    Traces the events surrounding the 1997 murder of fourteen-year-old Reena Virk by eight of her peers, in an account that offers insight into the social tensions that provoked the crime and the minds of teenage killers.  True story!!  4/07

 

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