After falling in with a bad crowd, Neily’s girlfriend, Carly, is dead. Therefore, the last person Neily wants to help him investigate her death is Audrey, one of the “friends” his girlfriend was hanging around with just before she died. Still, Neily feels so guilty for not answering that last desperate call from Carly that he has to find out what really happened to her. So if joining forces with Audrey is the only way to uncover the truth, that’s what Neily will do. Audrey regrets ever introducing Carly to the fast crowd. And Audrey really regrets the fact that she believes that the wrong person is in jail, and the killer is still out there. Discovering what really happened to Carly may give Neily and Audrey a sense of peace, but will it also put their lives at risk, too? This fascinatingly complex mystery keeps readers guessing until the very end.

After a series of personal setbacks, Charlie’s mom has decided that the two of them need a fresh start, in a new community. However, Charlie was pretty happy with their old house, in the town where they used to live. After her mom lost the baby, and then broke up with her boyfriend, Charlie wants to be supportive, but she isn’t enthused about moving to this ramshackle cottage, which seems so far away from everything. Her mom is very excited with beginning a new business, while Charlie is more wary about her new job, and making new friends. When Charlie discovers that she has a talent for art, however, and she meets not one, but two guys with whom she may want to be more than friends, will Charlie finally start seeing the benefits of this fresh start? This novel, like Charlie herself, has a deceptively simple charm.

Sukie Jamieson is obsessed with constantly checking her appearance, so when her mother gives her a beautiful full-length mirror that once belonged to Sukie’s grandmother, the teen is thrilled. Sukie is so thrilled with the mirror, in fact, that she doesn’t even hear what her mother says next: “this mirror will be your best friend and worst enemy.” Soon, however, Sukie is discovering for herself that this is no ordinary mirror, as it reveals some surprising truths, about her, and her family. Will being forced to deal with the real image cause Sukie to see true beauty in a whole different light? This is an engaging coming of age story, complete with a magical twist.

There are lots of vampires, werewolves and zombies at her school, but eighteen-year-old human Algonquin “Alley” Rhodes is not looking to date any of them, or anyone. Alley’s more interested in planning for college, and in the meantime, working as a music critic. Then, however, she meets a new singer, Doug. There is something different about Doug, he seems sort of old school Goth, and Alley is surprised to find herself falling for him. Someone points out to the oblivious Alley, though, that Doug is not actually so much a Goth, as he is a zombie. Feeling stupid that she was too love struck to see this herself, Alley breaks up with Doug. But will her wounded heart overrule her wounded pride, compelling Alley to give zombie love one more chance? This is a love story for the ages, or at least this age, maybe.

The power, passion and complexity of the Civil Rights movement is such that fifty years on, there are still fresh, compelling true stories about how it started. A perfect example is this non-fiction work about a secret spy network, set up by Mississippi state officials in 1956, with the objective of denying voting rights to African Americans. This well-researched account, based on writings, oral histories and interviews with surviving activists, chronicles the extraordinary lengths that some citizens went to, trying to derail the movement. With neighbors spying on neighbors, teachers spying on students, and even pastors spying on their congregations, this book movingly portrays a fraught time in American history that would ultimately change the course of our nation’s future.