Recently Acquired Books For Teens

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Paolo Bacigalupi

Ship Breaker

In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.

Richard Yancey

The Monstrumologist

In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New Escientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
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Jackson Pearce

Sisters Red

After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenage girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son.
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Robert K. Wittman

Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures

Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI's Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career, offering a real-life international thriller. The son of an antique dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career going undercover, usually unarmed, to catch art thieves, scammers, and black market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio and Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid.
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James Tabor

Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth

This is the story of the men and women who risked everything to find the deepest cave on Earth, earning their place in history beside the likes of Peary, Amundsen, Hillary, and Armstrong.
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J. McIver Weatherford

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

A history of the ruling women of the Mongol Empire, this work reveals their struggle to preserve a nation that shaped the world.
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