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How to find fiction at the UTSA Libraries with selected titles from a variety of genres.
Selected Titles
- Far from the Tree by Robin BenwayCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor, Juvenile Literature PZ7.B4477 Far 2017ISBN: 9780062330628Grace is curious about her biological family after she gives her own baby up for adoption. When she finds her siblings she discovers more about family then she thought was possible.
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor PZ7.1.A24 Ch 2018ISBN: 9781250170972Zélie bands together with her older brother and Princess Amari to restore magic to the land, but they must evade the Crown Prince as he tries to foil them.
- Reign the Earth by A. C. GaughenCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor, Juvenile Literature PZ7.G23176 Rei 2018ISBN: 9781681191119Shalia is a proud daughter of the desert, but after years of war, her people are desperate for an end to the violence. Willing to trade her freedom to ensure the safety of her family, Shalia becomes Queen of the Bone Lands, but before she is crowned, Shalia discovers that she can bend the earth to her will.
- This Heart of Mine by C. C. HunterCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor, Juvenile Literature PZ7.H916565 Thi 2018ISBN: 9781250131652Leah MacKenzie is literally heartless, and when a heart becomes available, she's given a second chance at life. Leah discovers the donor was a boy at her school who was rumored to have killed himself. Plagued with unsettling dreams since the transplant, Leah realizes she may hold the clues to what really happened to him.
- The Place Between Breaths by An NaCall Number: JPL 3rd Floor, Juvenile Literature PZ7.A51822 Pl 2018ISBN: 9781481422253Grace's mother struggled with schizophrenia for years until she simply disappeared. Grace's father has worked as a recruiter at one of the leading labs dedicated to studying the disease. Grace interns at the lab in the gene sequencing department daring to believe that one day they might make a breakthrough...and one day they do, but something inside of Grace has started to unravel.
- Steeplejack by A. J. HartleyCall Number: PZ7.H2639 St 2016 Juvenile LiteratureAnglet Sutonga lives and works as a steeplejack in Bar-Selehm, a city known for its great towers, spires, and smokestacks - and even greater social disparities. Ang's world is turned upside-down when her new apprentice Berrit is murdered the same night that the city's landmark jewel is stolen. As troubles mount in Bar-Selehm, Ang must discover the truth behind both murder and theft soon - or else watch the city descend into chaos.
- The Heart Does Not Grow Back by Fred VenturiniCall Number: PS3622.E63 H43 2014 JPL Juvenile LiteratureDale Sampson is used to being a nonperson at his small-town Midwestern high school, but when an unthinkable catastrophe tears away the one girl he ever had a chance with, his life takes a bizarre turn as he discovers an inexplicable power: He can regenerate his organs and limbs. When a chance encounter brings him face to face with a girl from his past, he decides that he must use his gift to save her from a violent husband and dismal future.
- Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans WelchCall Number: PZ7.1.W435 Lo 2016 JPL Popular CollectionLina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn't in the mood for Italy's famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She's only there because it was her mother's dying wish that she get to know her father. But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy and suddenly Lina's uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries.
- Whisper to Me by Nick LakeCall Number: PZ7.L15857 Wh 2016 JPL Juvenile LiteratureCassie is writing a letter to the boy whose heart she broke to explain why she did. Desperate for his forgiveness, she's telling the whole story of the summer she nearly lost herself.
- An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa TahirCall Number: PZ7.1.T33 Em 2015 JPL Juvenile LiteratureLaia is a slave and Elias is a soldier, but neither of them is free. Laia's family ekes out an existence in the Empire's impoverished backstreets, but they do not challenge the Empire because they've seen what happens to those who do. When Laia's brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision when she meets Elias, the school's finest soldier--and secretly, its most unwilling.
- Free to Fall by Lauren MillerCall Number: PZ7.M6227 Fre 2014 JPL Juvenile LiteratureLux is an app that flawlessly optimizes decision-making for the best personal results. Just like everyone else, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn knows the key to a happy, healthy life is to follow what Lux recommends, until she meets North, a handsome townie who doesn't use Lux, and begins to fall for him and his outsider way of life. Soon, Rory is going against Lux's recommendations, listening instead to the inner voice that everyone has been taught to ignore.
- Drag Teen by Jeffery SelfCall Number: PZ7.1.S4 Dr 2016 JPL Juvenile LiteratureDebut author Jeffery Self takes us on a road trip with an insecure high school senior who was one goal: to be the first in his family to leave Clearwater, Florida, and go to college. The problem is, he has zero means of paying for school - until his friends convince him to compete in a drag teen competition for a college scholarship.
- The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire SáenzCall Number: PZ7.S1273 In 2017Sal used to know his place with his adoptive gay father, their loving Mexican American family, and his best friend, Samantha. But it's senior year, and suddenly Sal is throwing punches, questioning everything, and realizing he no longer knows himself. If Sal's not who he thought he was, who is he?
- Carry On by Rainbow RowellCall Number: PZ7.R79613 Car 2015 JPL Juvenile Literature, Popular CollectionSimon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. It's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up.
- Girl Mans Up by M-E GirardCall Number: PZ7.1.G583 Gi 2016 JPL Juvenile LiteratureAll Pen wants is to be the kind of girl she's always been. Everyone thinks the way she looks and acts means she's trying to be a boy--that she should quit trying to be something she's not. If she dresses like a girl, and does what her folks want, it will show respect. If she takes orders and does what her friend Colby wants, it will show her loyalty. But respect and loyalty, Pen discovers, are empty words.
- A Study in Charlotte by Brittany CavallaroCall Number: PZ7.1.C464 St 2016 JPL Juvenile LiteratureISBN: 9780062398901Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes; after all, their great-great-great-grandfathers are one of the most infamous pairs in history. Charlotte's inherited Sherlock's volatility and some of his vices--and when Jamie and Charlotte end up at the same Connecticut boarding school, Charlotte makes it clear she's not looking for friends. But when a student they both have a history with dies under suspicious circumstances, ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Jamie can no longer afford to keep his distance.
- Undead Girl Gang by Lily AndersonCall Number: JPL 2nd Floor, Popular Reading Collection PZ7.1.A526 Und 2018ISBN: 9780451478238Mila Flores does not care what anyone thinks, especially with BFF Riley by her side. When the mean girls June and Dayton die under suspicious circumstances, Mila refuses to believe everyone's explanation that her BFF was involved in a suicide pact. Mila does the unthinkable to uncover the truth: she brings the girls back to life. Unfortunately they have no recollection of their murders. Now, with only seven days until the spell wears off and the girls return to their graves, she needs to find out what happened before the killer strikes again.