Posts Tagged ‘death’

Grave Mercy, by Robin LaFevers

April 16, 2012

Summary: In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts–and a violent destiny.

Houghton Mifflin

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Fracture, by Megan Miranda

April 7, 2012

Summary:  After falling through the ice of a frozen lake and being resuscitated by her best friend Decker, seventeen-year-old Delaney begins experiencing a strange affinity for the dead and wonders whether she is predicting death or causing it.

Walker & Co

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Displacement, by Thalia Chaltas

November 19, 2011

Summary:  After tragedy strikes her family, Vera runs away to a small desert town where she tries unsuccessfully to forget her grief and sorrow.

Viking

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Paper Covers Rock, by Jenny Hubbard

June 18, 2011

Summary:  In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.

Delacourte


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