• Reindeer Boy - When school resumes after the winter break, Quincy's class discovers they have an unusual new transfer student named Cupid. Ridiculously cute and friendly, the new boy has everyone both enamored and confused. Those antlers can't be real...can they??  

• Ms. Marvel - Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City — until she's suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find out as she takes the Marvel Universe by storm! 

• Teen Titans: Damian Knows Best - The Teen Titans are further apart than ever before...until Damian Wayne recruits Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy and the new Kid Flash to join him in a fight against his own grandfather, Ra's al Ghul! But true leadership is more than just calling the shots--is Robin really up to the task? Or will the Teen Titans dismiss this diminutive dictator? 

• I Kill Giants - Barbara Thorson, a girl battling monsters both real and imagined, kicks butt, takes names, and faces her greatest fear in this bittersweet, coming-of-age story!  

• The Mortal Instruments - Clary Fray is able to see things other people can't. When her mother disappears and a monster attacks her, Clary has to embrace a world that she never even knew existed--a world full of vampires, werewolves, demons, and those who fight for the humans, Shadowhunters... 

• Wires and Nerve - When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers' leader.  She works with a handsome royal guard who forces her to question everything she knows about love, loyalty, and her own humanity. 

• Monstress: Awakening - Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers. 

• Tomboy - Growing up, Liz Prince wasn't a girly girl. But she wasn't one of the guys, either. She was somewhere in between. But with the forces of middle school, high school, parents, friendship, and romance pulling her this way and that, "the middle" wasn't exactly an easy place to be. 

• The Plain Janes - When transfer student Jane is forced to move from Metro City to Suburbia, in the lunch room at the reject table she finds her tribe: three other girls named Jane. Main Jane encourages them to form a secret art gang and paint the town P.L.A.I.N. - People Loving Art In Neighborhoods. But can art attacks really save the hell that is high school? 

• Gaijin: American Prisoner of War - San Francisco, 1941: America has just declared war on Japan. With a white mother and a Japanese father, Koji Miyamoto receives a letter from the government notifying him that he must go to a relocation center for Japanese Americans. Once there, Koji soon discovers that being half white in the internment camp is just as difficult as being half Japanese in San Francisco. 

• Drama - Callie loves theater. For her middle school's production of Moon Over Mississippi, she is the set designer. This year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the crew members are having trouble working together? Not to mention the onstage AND offstage drama.

• Harley Quinn - Fresh from BATMAN: DEATH OF THE FAMILY and SUICIDE SQUAD, Harley Quinn returns to her first solo series in the New 52! Harley encounters various heroes and villains ... and leaves no one unscathed in her wake! 

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• Beautiful Disaster - Abby Abernathy has put her past behind her. But when she starts college, her new quiet life is challenged. Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the campus playboy. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his charm, Travis proposes a bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has met his match.

• I want it that way - Between maintaining her college scholarship and working at the local day care to support herself, Nadia Conrad has no time to date. Then she moves into a new apartment and meets the taciturn yet irresistible guy in 1B…. Daniel Tyler has grown up too fast. Becoming a single dad at 20 turned his life upside down. Raising his 4-year-old son while balancing a full-time construction management job and night classes, a social life is out of the question. But Nadia and Ty's can't stay away from each other. 

• Paper Princess - Ella Harper has spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother. After her mother’s death, Ella is truly alone. Until Callum Royal appears, plucking Ella out of poverty and tossing her into his posh mansion among his five sons who all hate her. Each Royal boy is more magnetic than the last, but none as captivating as Reed Royal, the boy who is determined to send her back to the slums she came from.

• Fallen too far - Blaire Wynn left her small Alabama town after her mother passed away to move in with her father and his new wife in their beach house along the Florida gulf coast. She isn’t prepared for the lifestyle change. She knows she’ll never fit in. Then there's her sexy stepbrother who her father leaves her with for the summer while he runs off to Paris with his wife. The son of a rock star, Rush is as spoiled as he is gorgeous . Blaire knows he's bad for her... but can't stay away.

• Hopeless - When seventeen-year-old Sky meets Dean Holder, he invokes feelings she's never had before. Something about him sparks buried memories. Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he has a reputation worse than her own. But Holder insists on learning everything about her. Sky finds that Holder isn’t at all who he’s been claiming to be. When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, Sky’s life will change forever. 

• The Vincent Boys - Ashton is tired of being good. When her perfect boyfriend Sawyer Vincent leaves town for the summer, it’s his bad-boy cousin Beau who catches Ashton’s eye. Beau loves his cousin like a brother. He refuses to make a move on Sawyer’s girl. He does his best to keep his distance, even though he’s been in love with her forever. When Ashton wants to rekindle their childhood friendship in Sawyer’s absence, Beau knows he should say no. But the more they try to stay away from each other, the more they can't.

• When it's Real - Oakley Ford is a pop star with millions of fangirls, a child of famous movie stars, and... his music is running dry. While the tabloids have a field day over his outrageous exploits, Oakley's team decides it's time for an image overhaul. He gets a fake girlfriend to show the world he's settled down. Enter seventeen-year-old Vaughn Bennett - devoted sister and part-time waitress. She'd never have taken this gig, but her family is strapped for cash. For the money Oakley's team is paying her, she figures she can put up with a shallow, self-centered jerk. It's not like they're going to fall for each other in real life…right? 

• My Favorite Mistake - Taylor Caldwell can't decide if she wants to kiss her new college roommate or punch him. Hunter Zaccadelli is a handsome, tattooed, guitar-playing bad boy. Taylor doesn't want to get burned, so she needs him gone. Determined not to be kicked out of her life without a fight, Hunter proposes a bet: if she can convince him she either truly loves or hates him, he'll leave the apartment. But when the man behind Taylor's reservations resurfaces, she has to decide: trust Hunter with her greatest secret, or do everything in her power to win the bet and drive him away forever. 

• Bully - Tate was once best friends with Jared. Then he turned on her. His pranks and rumors got more sadistic as time wore on. She even went to France for a year, just to avoid him. But she's done hiding from him now. She won't allow him to ruin her senior year. It's time to fight back. She's not going to let him bully her anymore. He won't have power over her emotions.

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The Christoper Killer 

by Alane Ferguson

This is a Murder Mystery that focuses more on the forensic side of finding a killer. Main Character Cameryn Mahoney is from a small town where her dad is the coroner. She works with her dad to pack up dead bodies into the back of their station wagon and gets to participate in autopsies when a killer surfaces in their town.

I am not a Serial Killer

by Dan Wells

Teenage John Wayne Cleaver is obsessed with serial killers. Her also lives in a small town and works with his mom and aunt to their funeral home. But John, despite being convinced he is a sociopath, doesn't want to be a serial killer and has made a list of rules for himself to follow and keep out of trouble. However, a string of unusual murder in his small town forced him to start bending his rules as he starts investigating.

Serial Killers: the method and madness of monsters

by Peter Vronsky

This is a nonfiction entry that looks at the history of serial homicide. Author documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, going through history from ancient Rome to the present. Also suggests hoe one might survive an encounter with a serial killer.

Kill Switch

by Chris Lynch

This YA thriller features Daniel who is spending his last summer before college with his grandpa. But grandpa has dementia and starts to let slip all these details about this old job he use to have... assassinating people. Danial doesn't know what to think, especially when some of grandpa's old friends start to show up.

Killer Instinct

by S.E. Green

Lane is a typical teenager... except for her secret obsession of studying serial killers, feeling like she understands them. In 'Dexter fashion' she becomes a vigilante, hunting criminals, except she stops short of killing them. But even while thinking she was anonymous in her crime fighting, a serial killer comes to her town and contacts her directly.

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• Grave Mercy - 17-year-old Ismae escapes an arranged marriage to the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death.

• The Assassin's Blade - Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan's most feared assassin. As part of the Assassin's Guild, Celaena embarks on five daring missions in this collection of short, connected stories.

• Nevernight - In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer Mia Corvere joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family. Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge? 

• The Assassin's Curse - Ananna of the Tanarau abandons ship when her parents try to marry her off to another pirate clan. But that only prompts the scorned clan to send an assassin after her. When Ananna faces him down one night, armed with magic she doesn't really know how to use, she accidentally activates a curse binding them together.

• The Kiss of Deception - Princess Lia doesn't want to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance. She flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. Lia then meets two mysterious and handsome strangers — unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. 

• The Way of Shadows -  Azoth has grown up in the slums. In hope for a better life, he apprentices him self to assassin Durzo Blint. Azoth must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death. 

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• Rebel of the Sands - Amani Al’Hiza is a gifted gunslinger with perfect aim, but she can’t shoot her way out of Dustwalk, the back-country town where she’s destined to wind up wed or dead. Then she meets Jin, a rakish foreigner and sees him as the perfect escape route. Disguised as a boy, Amani and the foreign fugitive ride out of town, the army on their heels.

• Eon - 12-year-old Eon and  his master hope that he will be chosen as a Dragoneye--an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune. But Eon has a dangerous secret. He is actually Eona, a 16-year-old girl who has been masquerading as a boy for the chance to become a Dragoneye. Females are forbidden to use Dragon Magic; if anyone discovers she has been hiding in plain sight, her death is assured.

• Alana the first Adventure - Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn the art of magic. So one day they decide to switch places: Thom heads for the convent to learn magic; Alanna, pretending to be a boy, is on her way to the castle of King Roald to begin her training as a page. 

• A Clash of Kings - In this second installment of A Song of Ice and Fire, Arya, daughter to the murdered Lord Ned Stark, is forced to flee Kings Landing in the guise of a boy.

• Flame in the Mist - 17-year-old Mariko is sent to the imperial palace to meet her betrothed. But the journey is cut short when Mariko’s convoy is attacked by bandits who’ve been hired to kill Mariko before she reaches the palace. Mariko narrowly escapes to the woods, where she plots her revenge. Dressed as a peasant boy, she sets out to infiltrate the bandits and hunt down those responsible for the target on her back. 

• Vengeance Road - When her father is murdered for a journal revealing the location of a hidden gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers—and justice.  

• Princess of Thorns - Though she looks like a mere mortal, Princess Aurora is a fairy blessed with enhanced strength, bravery, and mercy yet cursed to destroy the free will of any male who kisses her. Disguised as a boy, she enlists the help of the handsome but also cursed Prince Niklaas to fight legions of evil and free her brother from the ogre queen who stole Aurora's throne ten years ago.

• Under a Painted Sky - Missouri, 1849: Samantha dreams of moving back to New York to be a professional musician—not an easy thing if you’re a girl, and harder still if you’re Chinese. But a tragic accident dashes any hopes of fulfilling her dream, and instead, leaves her fearing for her life. With the help of a runaway slave named Annamae, Samantha flees town for the unknown frontier. But life on the Oregon Trail is unsafe for two girls, so they disguise themselves as Sammy and Andy, two boys headed for the California gold rush. 

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