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The Assassin and the Empire by Sarah J. Maas
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 . . -
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君の名は 2 [Kimi no Na wa 2] by Makoto Shinkai
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe story is set one month after a comet has fallen for the first time in a thousand years in Japan. Mitsuha, a high school girl living in the countryside, wants to live in the city because she is tired of life in the country. Then, there's Taki. He's a high school student living in Tokyo with his friends while working as a part-timer at an Italian restaurant... -
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![Gakuen Alice, Vol. 03 by Tachibana Higuchi]()
Gakuen Alice, Vol. 03 by Tachibana Higuchi
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsMikan joins her best friend, Hotaru, at the Alice Academy, a special school for people with an "Alice," or paranormal talent, and she must learn to know and use her own such talent if she hopes to stay. -
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No Time to Die & The Deep End of Fear by Elizabeth Chandler
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsSecrets taken to the grave don’t always stay buried. In No Time to Die, Jenny is devastated by the recent death of her sister, Liza. Looking for a sense of closure, she secretly signs up for the drama camp where Liza died. Jenny knows that someone here holds the key to what really happened to Liza that night, but if she doesn’t find out the truth soon, she may become the next victim... -
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The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsA 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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Blue is for Nightmares Collections by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWith over 500,000 in print, this best-selling series about a teen witch has cast a spell upon young adults across the world! In commemoration of this remarkable success, each volume—Blue is for Nightmares, White is for Magic, Silver is for Secrets, and Red is for Remembrance—has been updated with a new cover... -
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The Sending by Isobelle Carmody
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIt 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... -
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The Tarot Cafe, #7 by Sang-Sun Park
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe 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. .. -
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Dark Premonitions by Heather Topham Wood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPsychic Kate Edwards had her first premonition—a vision of her own murder by a faceless attacker. With very few clues to go on, she has to use her psychic gifts to uncover who wants her dead. Paranoia sets in and Kate wonders if there’s anybody she can trust. As Kate fears her impending death, she’s desperate to seek comfort with her ex-boyfriend Jared Corbett... -
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Griffin & Sabine by Nick Bantock
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 60 ratingsGriffin: 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. —Sabine. But 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...Categorized as:
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Uncertainty by Abigail Boyd
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook 1, GRAVITY, is still free to download! Last year, Ariel Donovan's life was shattered. She lost a friend, a love, and her sight into the afterlife. She's only beginning to move on, facing a summer without school as a distraction. Then she dreams of the mysterious Dexter Orphanage again, the place where all the trouble began... -
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The Reason by Marley Gibson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt's not everyday you have a premonition of your own demise. But two months after Kendall had a vision of her own death, all is well in her world. Maybe some cosmic wires got crossed. Then Kendall gets a request by the mayor of Radisson to investigate the mayoral manor. Emily and Loreen warn her against it: This spirit is dangerous. But not even they can see just how dangerous... -
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The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsEnchanting, 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... -
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Map of Fates by Maggie Hall
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsTwo 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... -
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Moment of Truth by Michael Pryor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAubrey has a difficult choice to make to save his friends when Albion erupts into war—and it could cost him his life. The war that has been looming for so long finally erupts, sending Albion and the continent into chaos. Aubrey, George, and Caroline are brought into a top-secret espionage unit and sent on a mission to investigate a mysterious magical facility on the Gallia–Holmland border... -
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Unfed by Kirsty McKay
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe 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... -
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The Guidance by Marley Gibson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsKendall and her ghost hunting team is the talk of Radisson, Georgia, but one person isn’t so pleased. Courtney Langdon doesn’t appreciate Kendall’s new popularity or her relationship with Jason, Courtney’s ex. So Courtney begins dabbling in the paranormal world. At first it’s all a game to draw attention away from Kendall. But Courtney doesn’t know what she’s getting intoor what wants in her... -
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Until the End by Christopher Pike
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIt’s the start of the school year, and the popular girls have decided to throw the best party, one their friends will never forget. But hooking up and hanging out are the farthest things from their minds when the unthinkable happens: Someone doesn't make it out of the party alive. The death is declared a suicide, but nothing quite adds up... -
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My Date From Hell by Tellulah Darling
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSophie Bloom’s junior year has been a bit of a train wreck. After the world’s greatest kiss re-awakened Sophie’s true identity as Persephone (Goddess of Spring and Savior of Humanity), she fought her dragon-lady guidance counselor to the death, navigated mean girl Bethany’s bitchy troublemaking, and dealt with the betrayal of her backstabbing ex, Kai (sexy Prince of Darkness)... -
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The MacKinnon Curse by J.A. Templeton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSixteen-year-old Riley Williams has been able to see ghosts since the car crash that took her mother's life and shattered her family. Guilt-ridden over the belief that she's somehow responsible for her mom's death, Riley is desperate to see her mother's elusive spirit to gain her forgiveness... -
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Desert Dark by Sonja Stone
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHogwarts meets The Bourne Identity in this action-packed thriller about teenage spies—for fans of Marie Lu's Legends series and James Dashner's Maze Runner trilogy. Sixteen-year-old Nadia Riley is delighted to earn a spot at an elite, government-funded boarding school... -
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The Deep by Helen Dunmore
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThe third spellbinding story about Sapphy and Conor's adventures in the powerful and dangerous underwater world of Ingo. A devastating flood has torn through the worlds of Air and Ingo, and now, deep in the ocean, a monster is stirring. Mer legend says that only those with dual blood -- half Mer, half human -- can overcome the Kraken... -
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The Silver Prince by Lyndsey Hall
*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... -
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The Lightning Tree by Lene Fogelberg
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNature 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... -
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Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThey exist in two different centuries, but their love defies time. Cassandra 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...Categorized as:
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State of Sorrow by Melinda Salisbury
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsSorrow - 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... -
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Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty, Vol. 2 by Megumi Morino
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThis funny and heartrending romantic manga set in modern Tokyo is not the fairy tale you remember! This time, Prince Charming is a teenage janitor, and this Sleeping Beauty’s curse is a supernatural, gender-bending dream that threatens to pull them both into a deeper and deeper slumber…. THE UNINVITED... -
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Kisses and Lies by Lauren Henderson
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAfter 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... -
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Undone by Elizabeth Norris
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsBefore 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... -
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Never Apart by Romily Bernard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsHow 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... -
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Inertia by Abigail Boyd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA beloved history teacher slowly losing his mind. A doctor who doesn't always practice the best medicine. A girl who just wants to escape, and finds herself changing into someone else. There are different sides to every story, and the denizens of Hell have more than their fair share to tell. Inertia is a novella, not a full-length work. 20,000 pages. There are different sides to every story... -
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Secrets of the Time Society by Alexandra Monir
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere exists a secret society where one's ability to travel through time is "gifted" to members only by blood. Those who try to enter the society quickly come to realize that time is a force not to be reckoned with... -
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Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe 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... -
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New Revelations by Heather Topham Wood
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsLife 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... -
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Neverwas by Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 13 ratings"I was sixteen the second time I had my first kiss. .. .". At the end of AMBER HOUSE, Sarah made a choice that transformed everything--and now she must choose it all again. Things are very different--better--for Sarah and her family: her Aunt Maggie grew up; her parents are happily married; her grandmother died after a long, productive and respected life... -
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The Vessel Games by E.J. Eden
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome 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... -
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Where She Fell by Kaitlin Ward
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsWatch 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... -
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Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsThe Obernewtyn Chronicles - Book One. For 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... -
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The Center of the Universe by Ria Voros
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGrace Carter's mother --- the celebrity news anchor GG Carter --- is everything Grace is not. GG is a star, with a flawless wardrobe and a following of thousands, while Grace --- an aspiring astrophysicist --- is into stars of another kind. She and her mother have always been in different orbits. Then one day GG is just . .. gone... -
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Annie and Fia by Kiersten White
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis 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...Categorized as:
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Seckry Sevenstars and the City of the Falling Sky by Joseph Evans
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsFrom Book 1: When Seckry Sevenstars is forced out of his village by the greedy Endrin Corporation and relocated to the daunting metropolis of Skyfall City, he harbours resentment for the company and vows to get them back one day for taking away his home, his school and his friends...Categorized as:
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Girl Unseen by Kate Ellison
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt was an open and shut case: Olivia Tithe’s best friend, Lucas Stern, was murdered by her mother. She went to jail, and everyone expects Olivia to move on. Especially Austin, a guy she’s drawn to even though she doesn’t trust him. But Olivia is stuck in the past, convinced that the wrong person has been convicted, that there are clues no one else sees... -
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Snow by Caroline B. Cooney
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsOutside, 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... -
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Eternity by Elizabeth Miles
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSecrets 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... -
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Tandem by Anna Jarzab
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsEverything 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... -
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Fire by Caroline B. Cooney
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsChristina 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... -
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Infinity by Rachel Ward
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAdam, 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 . .Categorized as:
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Asunder by Jodi Meadows
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsDARKSOULS. 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... -
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Shattered by Kailin Gow
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKama has made her choice, but now the revolution has begun. Book 2 of the international bestselling DESIRE series about a dystopian society touched by magic. DESIRE - Available Now in Kindle and Paperback. Summer Wishes (DESIRE #1. 5) - Available Now. Shattered (DESIRE #2) - Available Now. Passion (DESIRE #3) - 2012. -
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Wicked Luck by Shannon Maynard
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow can Ava Starr’s worst nightmare be Dax Miller’s dream come true? For the past three years, Dax has been stranded on Lamarai Island with his stepsister and two tribes of cannibals. But now a beautiful girl named Ava has washed up on shore. After secretly reading her journal, he believes she is a perfect match to the girl of his dreams...
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