Arcadia Public Library

"Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school--but no one knows it. Most people--her teachers and doctors included--don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. If only she could speak...

"After the end of a brutal civil war, London is divided, with slums standing next to a walled city of elites. Monk-like masters are selected for special schooling and shut away for decades, learning to write beautiful compositions for the chimes, played citywide morning and night, to mute memory and keep the citizens trapped in ignorance. A young orphan named Simon arrives in London with nothing but the vague sense of a half-forgotten promise, to...

Aquí tienes la historia de un secreto, pero también encontrarás entre sus páginas una historia secreta. Los intrépidos investigadores, Casandra --una superviviente siempre en alerta-- y Max-Ernest --un chico incapaz de salirse de la lógica--, descubren por casualidad La Sinfonía de los Olores --una caja repleta de pequeños tubos de cristal llenos de ingredientes aromáticos. Es entonces cuando se ven envueltos, sin querer, en la misteriosa...

Amy lives on a colony in deep space, but when her father loses his job the family moves back to Earth, where she has to adapt to heavier gravity, a new school, and a strange boy with no flavor.

Jamison Deever discovered a love of photography through his mother, who taught him to understand the difference between a snapshot and a work of art. Two years after her death, Jamison, his dad, and his younger sister seem to be coping-- but in separate ways. He takes photos of random people who cross his path on the street, turns it into a school project-- and then into something more. --

"Former FBI profiler River Ryland suffers from PTSD after a serial killer case gone horribly wrong and has opened up a private investigation firm with Tony, her former colleague. Their first job is a cold case, but when the past comes back to haunt them, there's a killer on the loose with River in their sights, set on finishing the job they started"--