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  • The Assassin and the Empire by Sarah J. Maas

    The Assassin and the Empire by Sarah J. Maas

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 106 ratings
    Celaena Sardothien is the assassin with everything: a place to call her own, the love of handsome Sam, and, best of all, freedom. Yet, she won’t be truly free until she is far away from her old master, Arobynn Hamel; Celaena must take one last daring assignment that will liberate her forever. But having it all, means you have a lot to lose . .
  • The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody

    The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    A Children's Book Council of Australia Honor Book In this powerful sequel to Obernewtyn , young Elspeth Gordie-possessed of extraordinary mental powers-has united with others Misfits for refuge on the remote mountain keep of Obernewtyn. Yet the threat from the totalitarian Council to their safety is ever present...
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  • The Sending by Isobelle Carmody

    The Sending by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    It came to me then, like a chilly draught from an unseen gap, that I had always known in my deepest heart that it would be like this, a slipping away from a life full of people I had come to love, in a place I had helped to shape, in a land I had helped to free...
  • Map of Fates by Maggie Hall

    Map of Fates by Maggie Hall

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Two weeks. 

That’s how long it took for Avery West’s ordinary life to change forever: In two weeks, she discovered she was heiress to a powerful secret society known as the Circle, learned her mother was taken hostage by the Circle’s enemies, and fell for a boy she’s not allowed to love, just as she found out another was her unwelcome destiny...
  • The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker

    The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Enchanting, mysterious, and deeply romantic, The Lighthouse follows a young woman's breathtaking journey far from home to discover where she truly belongs.Something strange is happening in Seabrook. The town's lighthouse–dormant for over thirty years and famously haunted–has inexplicably started shining, and its mysterious glow is sparking feverish gossip throughout the spooked community...
  • Griffin & Sabine by Nick Bantock

    Griffin & Sabine by Nick Bantock

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    Griffin: It's good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of your fish postcards? I think you were right—the wine glass has more impact than the cup. —SabineBut Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How did she know him? How did she know his artwork? Who is she? Thus begins the strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine...
  • The Tarot Cafe, #7 by Sang-Sun Park

    The Tarot Cafe, #7 by Sang-Sun Park

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The thrilling conclusion to the Tarot Cafe saga! In order to save a dying Belus, Pamela must travel to Belial dark castle and end their feud once and for all. Helping her reach the castle will require the help of some old friends, but waiting for her there will be something she never expected..
  • Losing Logan by Sherry D. Ficklin

    Losing Logan by Sherry D. Ficklin

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    What if the one thing you never meant to hold on to, is the one thing you can’t let go of? Normally finding a hot guy in her bedroom wouldn’t irritate Zoe so badly, but finding her childhood friend Logan there is a big problem. Mostly because he’s dead...
  • Unfed by Kirsty McKay

    Unfed by Kirsty McKay

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The good news: Bobby survived her Undead school trip. Bad news: her best mate, Smitty, is missing. Bobby knows she's got to find him even if it means risking it all and going out into the starving-zombie-infested wastelands again. Even if it means taking fellow survivors including a couple of old frenemies along for the ride...
  • The Silver Prince by Lyndsey Hall

    The Silver Prince by Lyndsey Hall

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *See all of the books in the Once Upon a Prince Series HERE.*A soldier who conjures shadows.A princess cursed to dance.A mystery none can solve.The people of the Silver Isle are brutes. Savages who live in darkness for half the year. They are not to be trusted, or so Princess Isadora has been raised to believe. As Crown Princess of the Golden Isle, she is the shining light of her kingdom...
  • The Lightning Tree by Lene Fogelberg

    The Lightning Tree by Lene Fogelberg

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nature finally rises against humanity. Flora Reed discovers a lifeless body in her front yard the morning after the last day of her junior year of high school. Matters get worse when more people from her small town are found dead under mysterious circumstances and police take an interest in the boy next door, Carl...
  • State of Sorrow by Melinda Salisbury

    State of Sorrow by Melinda Salisbury

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Sorrow - for that is all she brings us.A people laid low by grief and darkness.A cut-throat race for power and victory.A girl with everything and nothing to lose…By day, Sorrow governs the Court of Tears, covering for her grief-maddened father, who has turned their once celebrated land into a living monument for the brother who died before she was born...
  • Kisses and Lies by Lauren Henderson

    Kisses and Lies by Lauren Henderson

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After discovering that someone saw what looked like Dan’s emergency EpiPen in A-lister Plum’s designer handbag, Scarlett and her tough American sidekick, Taylor, sneak into a posh London nightclub, where Plum has a private table. Scarlett is stunned to discover a piece of evidence that might implicate another girl in Plum’s exclusive circle, Lucy Raleigh...
  • The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare by M.G. Buehrlen

    The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare by M.G. Buehrlen

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    For as long as 17-year-old Alex Wayfare can remember, she has had visions of the past. Visions that make her feel like she’s really on a ship bound for America, living in Jamestown during the Starving Time, or riding the original Ferris wheel at the World’s Fair...
  • Undone by Elizabeth Norris

    Undone by Elizabeth Norris

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Before the accident. Before their universes collided. Before they fell in love. Riveting and romantic, Undone: An Unraveling Novella contains three short stories set in the world of Unraveling, the first book in the gripping sci-fi duology by Elizabeth Norris...
  • Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins

    Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    They exist in two different centuries, but their love defies timeCassandra craves drama and adventure, so the last thing she wants is to spend her summer marooned with her mother and stepfather in a snooty Massachusetts shore town. But when a dreamy stranger shows up on their private beach claiming it's his own—and that the year is 1925—she is swept into a mystery a hundred years in the making...
  • Never Apart by Romily Bernard

    Never Apart by Romily Bernard

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    How many times would you die for love?What if you had to relive the same five days over and over?And what if at the end of it, your boyfriend is killed…And you have to watch. Every time.You don’t know why you’re stuck in this nightmare.But you do know that these are the rules you now live by:Wake Up.Run.Die.Repeat.Now, the only way to escape this loop is to attempt something crazy...
  • Death Wish by Megan Tayte

    Death Wish by Megan Tayte

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    IN SEARCH OF THE MEANING OF DEATH, SHE’LL FIND THE MEANING OF LIFE. The Ceruleans: mere mortals infused with power over life and death. Five books; one question: If the might of the heavens were in your hands, would you be sinner or saint? Seventeen-year-old Scarlett Blake is haunted by death. Her estranged sister has made the ultimate dramatic exit...
  • Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox

    Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The dreamhunting began as a beautiful thing, when Tziga Hame discovered that he could enter the Place and share the dreams he found there with other people. But Tziga Hame has disappeared and Laura, his daughter, knows that the art of projecting dreams has turned sour. On St...
  • Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody

    Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Book OneFor Elspeth Gordie freedom is-like so much else after the Great White-a memory. It was a time known as the Age of Chaos. In a final explosive flash everything was destroyed. The few who survived banded together and formed a Council for protection...
  • New Revelations by Heather Topham Wood

    New Revelations by Heather Topham Wood

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Life should’ve been perfect. Kate Edwards had won the heart of police detective Jared Corbett and was coming to terms with her psychic ability. Things were blissful—until the day she met Declan Brayden. Declan also has psychic visions and wants to work alongside Kate. Kate doesn’t trust the damaged and arrogant seer, but she knows combining their abilities would allow her to help more people...
  • The Vessel Games by E.J. Eden

    The Vessel Games by E.J. Eden

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to the Vessel Games—where men fight to the death to claim a Vessel wife.After the Great War devastated the lands, birth rates sharply declined, and the world descended into anarchy. The Monarchy seized control, creating a stranglehold over the land and the few women left who can bear children...
  • Asunder by Jodi Meadows

    Asunder by Jodi Meadows

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    DARKSOULS Ana has always been the only one. Asunder. Apart. But after Templedark, when many residents of Heart were lost forever, some hold Ana responsible for the darksouls–and the newsouls who may be born in their place. SHADOWS Many are afraid of Ana’s presence, a constant reminder of unstoppable changes and the unknown...
  • In Some Other Life by Jessica Brody

    In Some Other Life by Jessica Brody

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Kennedy Rhodes turns down an acceptance to an elite private school, instead choosing to stay at her high school and jump at the opportunity to date the boy of her dreams. Three years later, Kennedy walks in on that same boyfriend cheating with her best friend—and wishes she had made a different choice...
  • Where She Fell by Kaitlin Ward

    Where She Fell by Kaitlin Ward

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Watch your step.Eliza knows the legends about the swamp near her house—that people have fallen into sinkholes, never to be seen again, maybe even falling to the center of the earth. As an aspiring geologist, she knows the last part is impossible. But when her best friends drag her onto the uneven ground anyway, Eliza knows to be worried...
  • Fading by Cindy Cipriano

    Fading by Cindy Cipriano

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Living in a small town like Woodvine, North Carolina, means everyone knows everything about everybody. The same goes for seventeen-year-old Leath Elliott who can’t seem to escape her tragic past and the loss of her father. Her only break from reality is through recurring dreams where she’s spent a lifetime growing up with a boy she’s never met...
  • Apparition by Gail Gallant

    Apparition by Gail Gallant

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The last time seventeen-year-old Amelia Mackenzie saw her best friend Matthew alive, he broke her heart. When he is found the next day in an abandoned barn at the edge of town, an apparent suicide, Amelia's whole world comes crashing down. And then she sees him again. Because Amelia has a secret that even Matthew didn't know: sometimes, she sees ghosts...
  • Annie and Fia by Kiersten White

    Annie and Fia by Kiersten White

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This thrilling short story from bestselling author Kiersten White is a prequel to the psychological thriller Mind Games. Annie has been blind since she was four. Suddenly—for an instant—she can see. And what she sees will change her life forever. Fia will do anything for Annie. But she never realized how far she would have to go to protect her sister. And now she can never go back...
  • The Marvelous by Claire Kann

    The Marvelous by Claire Kann

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    From the author of Let's Talk About Love, t his YA novel follows a young woman as she host san epic night of games with a big cash prize for the winner.Everybody knows Jewel Van Hanen. When Jewel inherits a not-so-small fortune, she decides to throw a party to celebrate at her new estate...
  • Eternity by Elizabeth Miles

    Eternity by Elizabeth Miles

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Secrets and revenge make for desperate measures and fateful choices in this gripping conclusion to the Fury trilogy. The weather is mild in Ascension, but beneath the surface, everything is burning up. The nightmare Emily Winters has been living through for months shows no sign of ending, as the Furies stay on the peripheral, slowly driving her crazy. Em feels...different...
  • Snow by Caroline B. Cooney

    Snow by Caroline B. Cooney

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Outside, she could freeze.Inside, she could die. Everyone says Mr. and Mrs. Shevvington are lovely people. But Christina knows otherwise. She sees what they are doing: First, they chose Anya. Then, Christina - but Christina was too strong for them...so now it's Dolly, sweet, trusting Dolly. Poor Dolly. Everyone thinks she is outside somewhere, lost in the snow storm...
  • Everything I Thought I Knew by Shannon Takaoka

    Everything I Thought I Knew by Shannon Takaoka

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A teenage girl wonders if she’s inherited more than just a heart from her donor in this compulsively readable debut. Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross-country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste...
  • Fire by Caroline B. Cooney

    Fire by Caroline B. Cooney

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Christina knows the Shevvingtons have left a trail of hollowed-out, lost girls in mental hospitals across the country, and she has seen the secret files that prove it. But the Shevvingtons are determined to destroy the evidence ­ and Christina. This time, they'll use fire...
  • Infinity by Rachel Ward

    Infinity by Rachel Ward

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Adam, Sarah and little Mia are living together, struggling with the fame of seeing “numbers” – the dates when people will die. But something is about to tear them apart. During The Chaos , Mia swapped her number for another. Mia’s powerful new ability is highly desirable. Ruthless people are hunting her down. Everyone wants to live for ever ..
  • Eleven Minutes by Megan Miranda

    Eleven Minutes by Megan Miranda

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Fracture is told from Delaney's perspective, and if you've read the first two chapters, you know that she falls through the ice in chapter one, and she wakes up 6 days later. And what happens in between—well, that's Decker's story. This is the story of those eleven minutes, and the six days that follow, from his perspective...
  • Notes from Ghost Town by Kate Ellison

    Notes from Ghost Town by Kate Ellison

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    They say first love never dies... From critically acclaimed author Kate Ellison comes a heartbreaking mystery of mental illness, unspoken love, and murder. When sixteen-year-old artist Olivia Tithe is visited by the ghost of her first love, Lucas Stern, it’s only through scattered images and notes left behind that she can unravel the mystery of his death...
  • The War at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks, Hope Larson

    The War at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks, Hope Larson

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Juniper is the newest scholarship student at the prestigious Ellsmere Academy. She soon finds herself labeled a "special project," harried by stringent standards, and in the novel position of being someone's nemesis...
  • The Chaos by Rachel Ward

    The Chaos by Rachel Ward

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Adam sees “numbers” – when he looks in peoples’ eyes he can see their death-dates, just like his mum Jem used to. Adam has trouble dealing with his awful gift, and when he realises that everyone around him has the same series of numbers, he becomes deeply afraid of what might happen in 2025...
  • The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke

    The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    2018 Carolyn W. Field Award Honor Book2018 Sydney Taylor Honor Book for Teen ReadersWhen sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic...
  • Fog by Caroline B. Cooney

    Fog by Caroline B. Cooney

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The Shevvingtons are perfect. Mr. Shevvington is the charming, handsome principal of Christina's school. His wife is a dedicated English teacher. When the Autumn fog rolls over the coast, Christian and Anya begin boarding at the Shevvington's home, where Christina discovers that nothing is as it seems. Anya is slowly losing her mind, and Christina knows the Shevvingtons are behind it...
  • Tandem by Anna Jarzab

    Tandem by Anna Jarzab

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Everything repeats.You. Your best friend. Every person you know.Many worlds. Many lives--infinite possibilities.Welcome to the multiverse. Sixteen-year-old Sasha Lawson has only ever known one small, ordinary life. When she was young, she loved her grandfather's stories of parallel worlds inhabited by girls who looked like her but led totally different lives...
  • Nothing but Ghosts by Beth Kephart

    Nothing but Ghosts by Beth Kephart

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ever since her mother passed away, Katie's been alone in her too-big house with her genius dad, who restores old paintings for a living. Katie takes a summer job at a garden estate, where, with the help of two brothers and a glamorous librarian, she soon becomes embroiled in decoding a mystery...
  • Light Beneath Ferns by Anne Spollen

    Light Beneath Ferns by Anne Spollen

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I have this strange sense that my silence is preparing me for something I can't name . . . Elizah Rayne is nothing like other fourteen-year-old girls. More interested in bird bones than people, she wraps herself in silence. Trying to escape the shadow of her gambler father, Elizah and her mother move into an old house that borders a cemetery...
  • Grace Doll by Jennifer Laurens

    Grace Doll by Jennifer Laurens

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Grace Doll had everything a girl could want: Fame. Fortune. Beauty. Everything except her freedom. So when a powerful movie producer forces an experimental treatment on Grace--one that's purported to make beauty immortal--she stages her own death to escape him. With the help of trusted friends, Grace slips into hiding. She's forever flawless. Forever young, and forever pursued by her past...
  • The Midnight Dress by Karen Foxlee

    The Midnight Dress by Karen Foxlee

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Quiet misfit Rose doesn't expect to fall in love with the sleepy beach town of Leonora. Nor does she expect to become fast friends with beautiful, vivacious Pearl Kelly, organizer of the high school float at the annual Harvest Festival parade...
  • Wolf Queen by Tanith Lee

    Wolf Queen by Tanith Lee

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Claidi is eager to reunite with her fiancé Argul-but when she finally reaches his camp, she finds that someone has been spreading ugly lies about her, and Argul is nowhere to be found. Undaunted, Claidi sets out to search for him. Her quest brings her to the icy threshold of a tower, and within it she encounters another shadow from her past-a powerful woman Claidi believes is her mother...
  • Trespassers by Claire McFall

    Trespassers by Claire McFall

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Fate never meant for Dylan and Tristan to live. Can true love transcend destiny? The internationally best-selling trilogy that began with Ferryman continues with this riveting sequel.Tristan and Dylan have escaped the afterlife, defying fate: Dylan should have been killed in a horrific train crash, while Tristan should still be an immortal ferryman...
  • Remember Me Always by Renee Collins

    Remember Me Always by Renee Collins

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Shelby is nervous to start her senior year after spending the whole summer away from home. After all, it's hard to be carefree when you're trying to protect a secret.Shelby was in a devastating car accident, and everyone in town thinks that she was undergoing more physical therapy in Denver...
  • Devoted by Hilary Duff, Elise Allen

    Devoted by Hilary Duff, Elise Allen

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Since Sage was kidnapped, Clea has no way of knowing if he is alive or dead. And even though she has only just discovered they were soulmates, she feels like a part of her is lost forever. What's worse, she can't even turn to her best friend Ben because every time she looks at him, all she sees is his betrayal. But waiting for something to happen is not an option, so Clea is ready for action...
  • Break My Heart 1,000 Times by Daniel Waters

    Break My Heart 1,000 Times by Daniel Waters

    Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Living in the aftermath of the Event means that seeing the dead is now a part of life, but Veronica wishes that the ghosts would just move on. Instead, the ghosts aren't disappearing-they're gaining power. When Veronica and her friend, Kirk, decide to investigate why, they stumble upon a more sinister plot than they ever could have imagined...
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