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As the vain and self-absorbed poets continue their campaign of destruction via awful verse and catastrophic romantic advice in Dryden Abbey, tutor Garrick finds himself struggling in the classroom, with increasingly distracted and agitated pupils eroding all of his hard work and reducing him to using all things dead and decaying in order to keep Desmond and Lavinia's minds on their lessons. As if that isn't enough, his parents embark on a mad countryside ramble, their ultimate destination being ... more info>>
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New York Times bestselling author Rachel Vincent's compelling Soul Screamers series keeps getting better-here, for the first time, the original stories are compiled into one special volume...My Soul to LoseThe prequel: never before in print!Kaylee is just your average girl shopping at the mall with friends-until a terrified scream bursts from her that cannot be stopped. Taken to a hospital ward, will she be able to save her mind-and her life?My Soul to TakeShe's always felt different, but now Ka... more info>>
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Everyone's sorry. But no one can explain why.Harper Scott's older sister, June, took her own life a week before high school graduation, leaving Harper devastated. So when her divorcing parents decide to split up June's ashes, Harper steals the urn and takes off cross-country with her best friend, Laney, to the one place June always dreamed of going-California.Enter Jake Tolan, a boy with a bad attitude, a classic-rock obsession...and an unknown connection to June. When he insists on joining them... more info>>
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Ever feel like someone's watching you? Me, too. But lately it's been happening in my room.When I'm alone.A friend posted a video of me dancing online, and now I'm no longer Alicia Ruffino. I'm dancergirl. And suddenly it's like me against the world-everyone's got opinions.My admirers want more, the haters hate, my best friend Jacy-even he's acting weird. And some stalker isn't content to just watch anymore.Ali. Dancergirl. Whatever you know me as, however you've seen me online, I've trained my ... more info>>
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Dad's in Queensland-somewhere? Alone in the world, fifteen year old Michael Kelly sets out to find a father who doesn't know he exists. Along the way he discovers life is far from sanitized and it takes him into a world of drugs, prostitution and theft. He faces up to the fact he might never find his father but thanks to Sam, his father's wife, Michael learns that life is not as hard as he imagined. Can he live with the fact he now has a new family but can't bring himself to tell them the truth?... more info>>
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On their first day of summer vacation, three teenage friends get into a brawl with a local biker gang. One of the bikers is killed. The following day, the boys are pursued and cornered by the rest of the biker gang at a local swimming hole. A frightening creature rescues the boys, and in a savage instant of violence and horror, the bikers are no more. The boys are pulled, kicking and screaming, under the water and into a world that was written about by Homer millennia ago, but was only thought t... more info>>
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We've all heard them, the never-ending comparisons our parents make of us to our siblings and those around us. Why can't you be more ambitious, Sahar? Why can't you be more like your uncle, Sahar? Why can't you flip into animal form like everyone else, Sahar? The small town of True North, Colorado is a serene and tranquil place if you happen to be a shapeshifter, which as it turns out, Sahar North is not. Though she's the daughter of one of the most prominent families in town, she just doesn't s... more info>>
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Maya's summer is shaping up to be unforgettable-in both good and bad ways. First she's sent to stay with her grandmother for a month. Living in the city, Maya is too far from her friend Keysha and her boyfriend, Misalo-and too near her rebellious cousin Viviana. When Maya finally comes home, her parents drop a bombshell-Viviana is moving in with them.Her cousin has barely unpacked before she's creating chaos. Truth is, Maya kind of likes the way life is a whole lot less predictable with Viviana ... more info>>
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Natalie Locke learned her lessons about texting while driving the hard way when an eighteen-wheeler crossed her path and she nearly lost her life. Thanks to her accident, she met her new mentor, Lone Eagle, a Native American Shaman who is destined to teach her about the healing powers in the rocks and stones she sells in her shop. Can Lone Eagle teach her enough to mend her broken bones and dance at her high school prom?
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Though Maggie Redmond expects to get a wannabe jack o' lantern when she drives her twin brothers to The Pumpkin Patch, she actually winds up with more. Brendon Fletcher, handsome grandson of the owner, can't take his eyes off her. Naturally she's thrilled when he calls her later, asking if he can tag along while she takes the boys trick or treating. Can this be true love? Maybe...but only if they survive the plans a nefarious black cat has for them.
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A Dominion in Crisis Question: should humans of the Seventh Domain be elevated into the realms of magic? Or must they be subjugated, and possibly even annihilated for their sins of waste, greed and perfidy? A great conference is ordered for all members of the Magical Domains to decide Man's fate. Unbelievably, the vote ends in a tie. No one guesses it will take an eon to find the missing vote and end the council's self-imposed magical dormancy. A thousand years pass before Mirina, a young See... more info>>
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Cody Forester plans to become a doctor. Instead, he becomes a werewolf. The first time Cody shows fang and fur, his parents ship him off to podunkville to live with his black sheep uncle. His revised career choice is social hermit. As the new kid, he makes more enemies than friends. His high school teachers label him a troublemaker. The whole town hates him. Except Brittany. She's beautiful, with her eyes painted black and her lips dark purple. When Brittany discovers his secret, she tries to c... more info>>
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Kate's goal is to be the most popular girl in high school. Kate Merrick is already a member of the "in" crowd and one of four ninth-graders accepted into drama club. She's well on her way to achieving this dream. Only one obstacle stands in her way. Rose Coughlin. The girl no one wants around. The girl who shuffles; never looks anyone in the eye. The girl who wears stained, ill-fitting clothes. The girl who smells. When the unthinkable happens and Kate is paired up with Rose on a class project,... more info>>
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When two city boys join their rugged, outdoorsy father on a wilderness backpacking trip, misery and boredom are bound to come humping along behind. Rick Bates is something of a masochist. Born in other times he might have led Kamikaze attacks or fought beside Custer. When it comes to adventure, Rick's motto is "Everything to Excess, Moderation is for Monks." Tom Bates has spent the past several summers with his father. His younger brother, Chris is coming along for the first time. Chris is not ... more info>>
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A reluctant young Queen is called upon to bring her world back into balance. Jaree didn't choose her blood. But she is the sole survivor of a line of kings that have kept the peace for a thousand years. But the line is broken and a war breaks out. And now she must become the thing she dreads most -- a Queen. Her only allies are a group of barbarians, and the mysterious stones that enable her to commune with the spirit world. Can she control them? Or have the spirits already been corrupted ... more info>>
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N Cozz: A dragon who fears becoming an outcast lays a wrong color egg. It's not in her nature to destroy it. Is that alien machine outside her cave her answer? Earth: What happens when a young woman born to die and an impossible beast fall in love?
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Can strangers become sisters, a long-lost father become a dad, and can love really conquer all? The challenge is extreme--the stakes have never been higher. The fortune cookies tease her. You will lead a long and happy life. Those dumb things are never right. Chessie Madrid wants to fall in love, she wants to fly airplanes, and most of all she wants to live longer than 6752 days. With a fatal disease camped inside of her wreaking havoc since she turned sixteen, the doctor's predictions are far ... more info>>
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Rachel Shull's perfect life is torn apart by lies and deceit.
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Have you ever had shivers run down your spine for no apparent reason or felt like someone was watching you, even though you were alone? Whitney has. Weeks after her dad died in a drowning accident, sixteen year old Whitney Lane is afraid she might be going crazy, just like her mom. She saw shadows moving along walls, whisperings around corners and blurs of motion from the corner of her eye. But whenever she looked, there was never anything there. Until one day, there was.
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Discovering the laughter and tears of a blended family, young Emma-Lee Palmer encounters intrigue and adventure on Florida's untamed Merritt Island in 1905. Midnight ghosts, injustice, mysterious fires, and life-threatening sabotage stretch faith and taut family cords to the limit. Can love survive the ultimate test? Amid the rich backdrop of island beauty and unforgettable characters, Billowing Sails offers transcendent insight into forgiveness, restoration, and redemption in family relationshi... more info>>
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Following the light can't be that hard, right? So why don't the dead just do it and leave Stephanie Stewart alone? However nothing is ever as simple as it should be, as Stephanie learns when her hidden 'gift' becomes more than a nuisance, quickly turning unto a liability. If she can't learn to trust someone with her secret, the world as she knows it will go to hell. Literally. But if she doesn't choose wisely, she might just end up learning firsthand how hard it is to follow that light. Becau... more info>>
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A young Elf must enter a frightening world: 21st Century America. The Elves of North America use dimension-bending magic to conceal their woodland villages from humans, though it fails to protect them from the beautiful-but-deadly Eudemons. Edofine is less prejudiced than many, even befriending an Archaedemon, whose people are known for switching sides in the ancient conflict. But when young Edofine's clan is destroyed, he has only one person to turn to: his cousin Kryvek, who was adopted by h... more info>>
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What begins as Constable Dallin Brayden escorting the prisoner Wilfred Calder back to Putnam quickly turns into a flight for both their lives. Political betrayal and malicious magic lurk behind every bush and boulder in their flight across the countryside, resulting in Dallin becoming more protector than gaoler, and fostering a growing connection between him and his charge. Haunted by dreams not his own and pursued by just about everyone, Dallin begins to understand that he's not just protecting... more info>>
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Shane and Cody -- two high school seniors, one growing up lonely and abused on a struggling horse farm, the other a privileged sports star. Each carefully hides a secret truth about himself. Both are unaware of the undercurrents beneath the surface of their quiet Vermont town, currents from the society hidden in the woods, by the streams, in the mountains, and even in the air around them. Shane and Cody -- both chosen to become part of the culture hidden nearby, but chosen by opposite sides in ... more info>>
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What could be worse than babysitting a strange child in a creepy old house? Lisa is about to find out? Babysitting four-year-old Cassie Lord will be a piece of cake, as far as Lisa Kingsley is concerned. The little girl doesn't do much but stare out the window as though lost in another time and another place. The money is good--really good--and Lisa needs a dress for the harvest dance, as well as Christmas presents for friends and family. But things are creepy at the Lord's isolated house, overl... more info>>
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