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Tokyo Revengers, Vol. 1 by Ken Wakui
Watching the news, Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his girlfriend from way back in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, has died. The only girlfriend he ever had was just killed by a villainous group known as the Tokyo Manji Gang. He lives in a crappy apartment with thin walls, and his six-years-younger boss treats him like an idiot... -
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... -
InuYasha, Vol. 1: Turning Back Time by Rumiko Takahashi
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 69 ratingsTransported back to Japan's feudal era, high school student Kagome accidentally releases the feral half-demon dog boy Inu-Yasha from his imprisonment for stealing the Jewel of Four Souls... -
Remember Me Tomorrow by Farah Heron
A missing student. A singular investigation. A new romance. Every bit of it is a mystery in a delightful novel of cosmic twists by the author of How to Win a Breakup.East House is the oldest and least desirable dorm on campus, but it has a draw for lonely university freshman Aleeza Kassam: Jay Hoque, the hot and broody student who vanished from East House five months ago without a trace...Categorized as:
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Shinobi Life Vol. 1 by Shoko Conami
A fantastic ninja comedy!! Beni doesn't care whether she lives or dies until one day a hero appears before her very eyes. And this hero, who swears his undying loyalty to her turns out to be none other than.. -
Rise by Kimberly Stedronsky
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRoam, imprisoned in an ancient land and left to the mercy of Troy's cruel reign, longs for freedom, her child, and West. Surviving with only Logan's presence to save her from certain insanity, she turns to herself and finds that she alone possesses the strength and power to save her own life. Deep within her soul, Roam remembers her timeless love for West and their child... -
The Silence of Medair by Andrea K. Höst
Time stole victory. Medair an Rynstar returned too late to drive back the Ibisian invasion. Centuries too late. When friend and enemy have become the same thing, what use are the weapons Medair planned to use to protect her Empire? There is no magic, no artefact, no enchanted trinket which can undo the past...Categorized as:
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Pure Blood by Melissa Pearl
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt is only a matter of time before Gemma's parents find out she traveled through time to bring Harrison back into existence. The fear of being found out is a heavy weight on her shoulders, but she refuses to give up on everything she's fought for. Harrison is worth the risk. The couple draws closer together as they battle opposing forces from all sides...Categorized as:
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Roam by Kimberly Stedronsky
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWest Perry has spent his existence searching for- and finding- Roam Camden. In every lifetime that he has found her, he has set out to save her- and in turn, save our world. He has failed six times throughout history to protect her from an immortal evil... -
The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon K. Garrity
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA graphic novel about a teenager who is swept up in a strange new universe governed by the rules of Gothic romances and must save it from an all-consuming evil in order to return home.One dark and stormy night, Haley sees a stranger drowning in the river. Since her greatest passion is Gothic romance novels, she knows her moment has come... -
Juliet by Anne Fortier
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsTwenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved Aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie’s twin sister. The only thing Julie receives is a key—one carried by her mother on the day she herself died—to a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy... -
Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThey 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
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... -
In Some Other Life by Jessica Brody
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsKennedy 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...Categorized as:
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Shadow of Time by Jen Minkman
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAll Hannah needs is a nice and quiet vacation after her first year of teaching French at a high school. She joins her brother Ben for the summer in their mom’s log cabin in Arizona. There, she meets Josh again, Ben’s childhood friend from the Navajo reservation. The little boy from the rez has grown up fast, and Hannah can’t help but feeling more for him than just friendship... -
How to Save a Life by Liz Fenton, Lisa Steinke
The bestselling authors of The Good Widow deliver a modern, suspenseful twist on Groundhog Day that asks the How far are you willing to go to save the life of someone you love? Dom is having a very bad day—one he literally can’t escape. When Dom bumps into Mia, his ex-fiancée whom he hasn’t seen in almost a decade, he believes they’ve been given a second chance and asks her out...Categorized as:
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You, Me, and the Sea: A Novel by Meg Donohue
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the USA Today bestselling author of All the Summer Girls and Dog Crazy comes a spellbinding and suspenseful tale that illuminates the ways in which hope—and even magic—can blossom in the darkest of places.To find her way, she must abandon everything she loves…As a child, Merrow Shawe believes she is born of the sea: strong, joyous, and wild... -
The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 30 ratings2018 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... -
Forgotten Time by Lorraine Beaumont
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFORGOTTEN TIME IS the first book/part of Ravenhurst, a five-part International Best Selling Time Travel Romance Saga that spans the time from modern day to Victorian England and ends up in the age of Chivalry, with knights in shining armor... -
It Wasn't Always Like This by Joy Preble
Rated: 3.35 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1916, Emma O’Neill is frozen in time. After sampling an experimental polio vaccine brewed on a remote island off St. Augustine, Florida, she and her family stop aging—as do the Ryans, her family’s business partners. In a way, this suits Emma fine because she’s in love with Charlie Ryan. Being seventeen forever with him is a dream... -
There's No Place Like Here by Cecelia Ahern
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsSometimes it takes losing everything to truly find yourself... Since Sandy Shortt's childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her single-minded goal--from the lone sock that vanishes in the washing machine to the car keys she misplaced... -
The Door That Led to Where by Sally Gardner
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsAJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his GCSEs, and his future is looking far from rosy. So when he is offered a junior position at a London law firm he hopes his life is about to change - but he could never have imagined by how much...Categorized as:
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The Blackened Blade by Isla Davon
Not many people get a second chance, let alone a second life.I died. Burning in a prison cell I spent years of my life rotting away in.I had been beaten, battered and bruised beyond repair...but not broken.Never broken.By whatever miracle, I’ve been brought back ten years into my past and before I was locked away...But to a different kind of hell…Wensridge Academy... -
Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, Vol. 8 by AidaIro
Kou has seemed depressed ever since he, Nene, and Hanako-kun returned from the Hell of Mirrors three days prior. To cheer him up, the three friends decide to go to a Tanabata festival held within one of the school’s Boundaries... -
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Saviour of the Pack by Heather G. Harris
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMy mum told me I could be anything I wanted to be – and it turns out that I want to be an alpha werewolf. I’m finally starting to get a hang of this alpha malarkey when destiny sticks her oar in once again.There’s a prophecy about me, and it’s time for me to find out what it says... -
Charm by Tracy Wolff
The instant #1 New York Times Bestselling Series Goodreads Most Anticipated YA Book of November Finally find out what happened during those missing four months, as the thrilling adventure continues! He’s under my skin… After Katmere, I shouldn’t be surprised by anything. Including the existence of a world beyond my world called the Shadow Realm... -
Devils' Day Party by C.M. Stunich
I crashed my shitty yellow VW Beetle into Calix’s Aston Martin. To be fair, he deserved it. But Calix and his friends, Barron and Raz, they don’t see it that way. Not that it matters. They’ve bullied me for years, and I’ve never known why. At least today, they have something real to be pissed about. All of which would be fine, if today was a normal day. But it’s not. It’s far from normal... -
Glimmer of Hope by Heather G. Harris
I’m Jinx, a run-of-the-mill private investigator … except I’m also a walking, talking lie detector. Oh, and I belong to magical realm known as the Other. Murder isn’t usually my gig, but when I’m hired to investigate the death of a dryad called Reggie, I agree to help out because I know his grieving widow... -
Orange 5 by Ichigo Takano
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 33 ratings...Categorized as:
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Revival of the Court by Heather G. Harris
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsDing dong, the bells are ringing.You are cordially invited to the Wedding of Jinx and Emory.Unfortunately, so are the Connection. A shocking arrest throws the guests into disarray and threatens my happily ever after. I think I can calm things down but they quickly go from bad to worse when I’m hauled bodily away from my own wedding...
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