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It’s been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend, Sarah, was killed in a bathroom stall during the mass shooting. Everyone knows Sarah’s story—that she died proclaiming her faith. But it’s not true. I know because I was with her when...

London 1888, and Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the people of the city. Evelyn, a young woman disfigured by her dangerous work in a matchstick factory with nowhere to go, does not know what to make of her new position as a maid to the Elephant Man in London Hospital. Evelyn wanted to be locked away from the world, like he is, shut away from the filth and dangers of the streets. But in Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, she finds a gentle kindred, who does not recoil from her, and who understands her pain.

After a scheduling mishap occurs one student tracks how her high school's homecoming game, the academic battle, and class election all ended up on the same day with hilarious results!

Complete your Divergent library with the Four stories! Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be delighted by ""Four: The Initiate,"" the second of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-five pages long, set in the world of Divergent and...

The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent series of books reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that captivated millions of readers and film fans in Divergent and Insurgent. One choice will define you. What if your whole world was a lie? What if a...

Third Sister in the Tao family, Ailin has watched her two older sisters go through the painful process of having their feet bound. In China in 1911, all the women of good families follow this ancient tradition. Ailin rebels and refuses to follow this torturous tradition. But as she enters adolescence, Ailin finds that her family is no longer willing to support her. With a bold conviction and an indomitable spirit, Ailin is determined to forge her own destiny. Her story is a tribute to all those women whose courage created new options for the generations who came after them.

In a small hospital town, a trio of teens rebel against their fatal diagnosis of XP (an allergy to sunlight) with late night Parkour, an extreme sport of daredevil risks. On a random summer night, while scaling a building like any other, the three happen to peer into an empty apartment and glimpse an older man with what looks like a dead girl. A game of cat-and-mouse ensues that escalates through the underground world of hospital confinement, off-the-grid sports, and forbidden love. Allie, who can never see the light of day, discovers she's the lone key to stopping a human monster.

When 16-year-old Macie O'Sullivan and her masterfully manipulative mother, Aubra, arrive at the gates of Witchtown - the most famous and mysterious witch-only haven in the world - they have one goal in mind: to rob it for all it's worth. But that plan derails when Macie and Aubra start to dig into Witchtown's history and uncover that there is more to the quirky haven than meets the eye. In fact, while exploring the haven by herself, Macie finds that secrets may be worth more than money in Witchtown.

When Cora Holman’s mother dies, she assumes the inevitable: that her mother overdosed on the painkillers she’d been taking for years. So she’s shocked to learn that her mother and a neighbor both died of a brain aneurysm the same night. When Cora and other neighborhood teens become ill with a mysterious flu, and government-type strangers arrive in her small town, they all fear the unthinkable - a terrorist attack. Meanwhile, a world away in Pakistan, a 16-year-old computer genius named Shahzad is working as a virtual spy....

When Sam met Grace, he was a wolf and she was a girl. Eventually he found a way to become a boy, and their love transformed from curious distance to the intense closeness of shared lives now. That should have been the end of their story. But Grace was not meant to stay human. Now she is the wolf. And the wolves of Mercy Falls are about to be hunted in one final, spectacular kill forever.

Running back Mick Johnson has dreams: dreams of cutting back, finding the hole, breaking in to the open, and running free with nothing but green grass ahead. He has dreams of winning and of being the best. But football is a cruel sport. It requires power, grace, speed, quickness, and knowledge of the game. It takes luck, too. One crazy bounce can turn a likely victory into sudden defeat. What elite athlete wouldn’t look for an edge? A way to make him bigger, stronger, faster?

An Alien Spring by Anne Schraff is a 1978 young adult novel about a small town gripped by fear and hysteria when a virus strikes, leading to rumors that a new, strange boy at school is an alien spreading the disease. The book, part of the "Passages" series for reluctant readers, explores themes...

Growing up without a mother is hard. Worse is having a stepmother who controls Dad. Brittany Myerson is so ready for high school to end. She knows that life is going to get a whole lot better when she gets her driver's license, the car she's always wanted and a ticket to college away from home. But her new stepmother has decided what's good enough for Brittany: a beat-up, mustard-colored piece of junk and enrollment in the local community college. Brittany thinks it can't get much worse until she learns that her father has changed his will leaving everything to Lynn.

Troy jest kapitanem Błyskawic – licealnej drużyny koszykówki i najpopularniejszym chłopakiem w szkole. Mia ma ścisły umysł, kocha matematykę i pracuje w szkolnej stołówce, by zarobić na studia. Gdy drużyna Troya przegrywa ważny mecz, a jego dziewczyna Eva zrywa z nim bez słowa wyjaśnienia, chłopak czuje, jakby życie zadało mu brutalny cios. By wszystko naprawić, potrzebuje tylko partnerki na bal.

Norah nie widziała swojego najlepszego przyjaciela z dzieciństwa, Skylera, od lat. Na początku rozłąki często rozmawiali, ale ostatnio ich relacje ograniczały się do niezbyt częstych interakcji w mediach społecznościowych. Podróż prowadzi jednak Norah i Skylera nowymi drogami i przynosi nowe odkrycia. Wkrótce zobaczą siebie nawzajem w zupełnie innym świetle i dotrą do miejsc, których dotąd nie znali.

Sie will Rache – und eine zweite Chance. Mit dem Legacy-Stipendium werden jedes Jahr junge Talente geehrt. Clara Suarez war eines davon und hatte eine glanzvolle Zukunft vor sich. Bis ein kompromittierendes Video von ihr auftauchte, das all ihre Träume platzen ließ – und ihre Beziehung zu Reid beendete, bevor diese richtig beginnen konnte. Als wenige Monate später die ehemaligen Stipendiaten – und damit auch Reid – für das Legacy-Wochenende in Claras Heimatstadt zurückkehren, hofft sie auf eine zweite Chance. Sie will herausfinden, wer hinter dem Video von damals steckt.

Zwei Freundinnen. Ein Problem. Kein Geld. Manchmal beschließt man mit fünfzehn, woran man nicht mehr glauben will. Issa hat der romantischen Liebe längst abgeschworen, zu laut sind die Geldsorgen ihrer Familie, zu deutlich die gescheiterten Träume der Eltern. Issa besucht ein Gymnasium...

A deliciously twisted, fast-paced YA horror, where debutante dreams become bloody nightmares—perfect for fans of House of Hollow and Their Vicious Games. It’s 1921, and Mrs. Caroline Reginald Kane, the last surviving descendant of a family of oil barons, has invited four young debutantes to...

A touch of magic meets a romantic mystery in this delightful YA rom-com, where a love-cynical teen with the ability to manipulate emotions gets in over her head when she accidentally curses the school bad boy into falling in love with her. Of all her sisters, only Riya inherited the full powers...

Two best friends set out to find a missing socialite in the hopes of claiming a hefty reward--but what happens when their investigation forces them to question both their morals and their friendship in this twisty mystery? It girl Estella Aubergine is everything Pippa and Bidi are not: wealthy...