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  • Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

    Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 161 ratings
    Check out the #1 New York Times bestseller Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, called “a surefire hit” by Entertainment Weekly.   "The secrets burrowed in this seemingly placid small town...are so suburban noir they would make David Lynch clap with glee..
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    suspense  mystery  contemporary  abuse  dark  young adult  humor  rape
  • Pieces for You by Genna Rulon

    Pieces for You by Genna Rulon

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Samantha Whitney survived unimaginable tragedy only to discover she had been betrayed by a man who claimed to love her. Shattered, Sam spends months at a safe haven trying to piece herself back together. Ready or not, the time has come for her to return home. As Sam struggles to resume a life that no longer feels familiar, she finds unwavering support in an unexpected, familiar face...
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  • The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis

    The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    A contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives. Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn’t feel bad about it.Three years ago, when her older sister, Anna, was murdered and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best—the language of violence. While her own crime goes unpunished, Alex knows she can’t be trusted among other people...
  • Game by Barry Lyga

    Game by Barry Lyga

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Billy grinned. “Oh, New York,” he whispered. “We’re gonna have so much fun.” I Hunt Killers introduced the world to Jazz, the son of history’s most infamous serial killer, Billy Dent. In an effort to prove murder didn’t run in the family, Jazz teamed with the police in the small town of Lobo’s Nod to solve a deadly case...
  • Before I Break by Portia Moore

    Before I Break by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Out of the past six years of my life, I only remember about half of it. After a dozen doctors and thousands in medical bills, I was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder--one that causes me to lose track of time. Sometimes it’s hours, days or even weeks with no recollection of anything. The good thing is it's been almost two years since I had my last ‘black out’...
  • Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas, Abby McDonald

    Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas, Abby McDonald

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    It's Spring Break of senior year. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise, and a few other close friends are off to a debaucherous trip to Aruba that promises to be the time of their lives. But when Elise is found brutally murdered, Anna finds herself trapped in a country not her own, fighting against vile and contemptuous accusations...
  • The Old Wheel by Gregory Ashe

    The Old Wheel by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Blackmail. Breakups. Boys. Trouble always comes in threes.Life is different for Jack Moreno. Good. Definitely good. Well, better, anyway.He’s back in school (although classes are harder than he expected). And his dad is healthy (which means he’s worrying again about things like Jack’s curfew and, oh yeah, grades)...
  • The Dead List by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    The Dead List by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    It's Ella's senior year of high school and she and her best friend Linds plan to make it the best year ever. At Brock Cochran's end of summer pool party, the girls vow to have as much fun as possible before they head off to different colleges next fall. But when Ella is mysteriously attacked on her way home from the party, everything changes...
  • Cruel Legacy by Dakota Lee

    Cruel Legacy by Dakota Lee

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    A NEW LIFEThat’s what the move to canyon falls was supposed to offer me. A chance to leave my past behind.But day one I manage to paint a target on my back and the vindictive boys who run this school, Pax, Finn and Holdendecide to turn me into their personal punching bag.They try it all. Liquidated accounts. Public humiliation. Every prank and act of horror designed to break me.I’ve endured worse...
  • Persuasion by T.K. Leigh

    Persuasion by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I came to Hawaii to get answers about my sister’s death.But that all changes when I meet her.Beautiful. Charming. Haunted.And the last thing I need in my life.But that doesn’t mean I can stay away from her, a powerful force pulling me toward her when all rationale tells me to keep my distance.So we make an agreement.One week. No names. No falling in love.It’s the perfect plan...
  • I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

    I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dad? Jasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the criminal's point of view. And now bodies are piling up in Lobo's Nod...
  • The End of Gods by Con Template

    The End of Gods by Con Template

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In every Kingdom, every government entity, and every secret society, there is an epic era that defies the boundaries of times and immortalizes itself in the history books. These unforgettable eras are unpredictable by nature and rare in occurrence. The centuries may come and go and such an extraordinary era may never grace the lives of those who live for it...
  • Hometown Girl Memories by Kirsten Fullmer

    Hometown Girl Memories by Kirsten Fullmer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "I was crying one minute and laughing the next. A definite must read!" Winnie is content in her role as the reining matriarch of Smithville, but when a letter arrives from a long-lost friend, the door to her past is reopened. Memories come flooding in, drawing her back to 1968, her college days; a time filled with people and events she hasn’t allowed herself to recall...
  • Hate List by Jennifer Brown

    Hate List by Jennifer Brown

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets...
  • Scarred, Part 3 by Kylie Walker

    Scarred, Part 3 by Kylie Walker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After agreeing to attend a Gala in New York with Derek, Chloe stumbles into her worst nightmare. Vince Donovan...District Attorney of New York...Jesse Donovan's father. RUN... is the only thought firing in her head. When Derek finally catches up with her, she realizes that her world has been flipped upside down and out of control. Chloe now decides to let the flood gates open...
  • Unstable by Alexandra Ivy

    Unstable by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 10 ratings
    WHEN IT COMES TO KILLINGA dead man in a cemetery isn’t news—unless he’s found on top of a grave, with a bullet through his head. The body belongs to Jude Henley, who was supposed to be buried below. Instead, the grave contains the remains of Staci Gale, thought to have run away nearly three decades ago...
  • Right Behind You by Gail Giles

    Right Behind You by Gail Giles

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When he was nine, Kip set another child on fire. Now, after years in a juvenile ward, he is ready for a fresh start. But the ghosts of his past soon demand justice, and he must reveal his painful secret...
  • Born Wrong by C.M. Stunich

    Born Wrong by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    When you're born wrong, sometimes you get bent and you get f*cked. Sometimes your life takes you places you don't want to go.Sometimes, it does. Dax McCann is as cold as ice. I'm intrigued by him. But I can't get close to him either. His music strokes my soul, butchers my broken heart. I wish he'd see me, but he only sees her...
  • Tough Luck by C.M. Stunich

    Tough Luck by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    * This is NOT the last book in the series. There will be later books featuring Turner and Naomi again, and they also appear in this volume quite a bit. ;) Ronnie McGuire is my target. But I wish he wasn't. I didn't sign up for this destruction, this pain. In his music, I hear his soul crying out for me...
  • The Execution by Ruby Vincent

    The Execution by Ruby Vincent

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 33 ratings
    They think they won. The Elite thought it would end at the battle, but I'm taking them to war. I will topple Landon, Michael, and Cole off their thrones even if it means bringing the system to its knees. Tensions are boiling beneath the surface of Breakbattle Academy. Protests are erupting, the lower classes are fighting back, and the Elites aren’t as invulnerable as they thought...
  • Locked and Loaded by Nenia Campbell

    Locked and Loaded by Nenia Campbell

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer... Christina Parker agreed to go to work for the BN because she thought it would keep her and her loved ones safe. But the BN's training facility is more like a prison than a school, and rumors about her illicit relationship with an IMA assassin make assimilation difficult - if not impossible...
  • Ómorphi by C. (Cody) Kennedy

    Ómorphi by C. (Cody) Kennedy

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Hauntingly beautiful, a book that you never wanted to end because you were so much a part of the characters lives. When you finish the book you want to know more, to pick up the phone and call Christy. Magically written, the voices and setting of the story were so clear you lived each moment with the characters...
  • What She Found in the Woods by Josephine Angelini

    What She Found in the Woods by Josephine Angelini

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Magda just wants to forget what happened. But there's a nightmare lurking —and it's coming for her...This is Magda’s last chance. Recovering from a scandal at her elite New York City private school that threw her life into a tailspin, she’s shipped off to live with her grandparents in the Pacific Northwest for the summer...
  • Brake: A Serialized Dark Romantic Suspense by Skye Callahan

    Brake: A Serialized Dark Romantic Suspense by Skye Callahan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's no stopping as the bitter feud between brothers, Colt and Devlin, speeds out of control. From Colt's pawn to Devlin's captive, Aubrey is caught even deeper in their pact to destroy one another. Imprisoned in darkness, she fights for her life--and her sanity. Her only hope is a cocky and sadistic car thief who is already wrestling with his own demons...
  • Girl, Stolen by April Henry

    Girl, Stolen by April Henry

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of the car while her stepmom fills a prescription for antibiotics. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, the car is being stolen. Griffin hadn't meant to kidnap Cheyenne and once he finds out that not only does she have pneumonia, but that she's blind, he really doesn't know what to do...
  • Shattered Legacy by Caitlyn Dare

    Shattered Legacy by Caitlyn Dare

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mia Thompson wants only one thing: to survive Gravestone University, graduate, and get far far away from her hometown and its archaic traditions.But she’s about to become a pawn in a game she doesn’t understand.Bexley Danforth wants only one thing: to keep his head down, survive four years at college, and get far far away from his past and the mistakes that haunt him...
  • All the Little Lights by Jamie McGuire

    All the Little Lights by Jamie McGuire

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 30 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jamie McGuire comes a riveting tale of first love that starts young but runs deep. The first time Elliott Youngblood spots Catherine Calhoun, he’s just a boy with a camera, and he’s never seen a sadder and more beautiful sight. Both Elliott and Catherine feel like outcasts, yet they find an easy friendship with each other...
  • He Found Me by Whitney Barbetti

    He Found Me by Whitney Barbetti

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    When I was seventeen, I disappeared. I walked out the door of my apartment with a backpack and never looked back. I left the life of Cora Mitchell behind, seeking freedom from my real-life nightmare. But my freedom came with a cost. I lived a fictitious life for the next six years, never letting anyone close enough to see underneath the facade that was Andra Walker...
  • Conviction by Amanda Lance

    Conviction by Amanda Lance

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Falling in love with each other was unlikely. Surviving their adventure was doubtful. Living without each other: impossible. To everyone else, it may look like she’s leaving for college, but for Addie Battes, it is the beginning of another adventure. She and her kidnapper Charlie Hays have found a way to be together and eluded authorities...
  • Clean Slate by E.J. Fechenda

    Clean Slate by E.J. Fechenda

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Clean Slate, Book Two of The New Mafia Trilogy, a battered and bruised Natalie Ross leaves her family and boyfriend behind in Philadelphia and makes her way to Los Angeles to seek forgiveness from her estranged best friend, Chelsea. Natalie wants to start over and forget all about the past year she spent as the girlfriend of an enforcer for the Philly Mob...
  • Cheerleading Can Be Murder by Carissa Ann Lynch

    Cheerleading Can Be Murder by Carissa Ann Lynch

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Getting on the cheerleading squad is hard enough without a psycho on the loose… For Harrow High freshman Dakota Densford, life should be easy. All she has to worry about is talking to cute boys and remembering her locker combination. But when cheerleading tryouts draw near, she learns the cards are stacked against her—spots on the varsity team are limited...
  • Dead Girls Don't Lie by Jennifer Shaw Wolf

    Dead Girls Don't Lie by Jennifer Shaw Wolf

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Rachel died at two a.m . . . Three hours after Skyler kissed me for the first time. Forty-five minutes after she sent me her last text. Jaycee and Rachel were best friends. But that was before. . .before that terrible night at the old house. Before Rachel shut Jaycee out. Before Jaycee chose Skyler over Rachel. Then Rachel is found dead...
  • By a Thread by R.L. Griffin

    By a Thread by R.L. Griffin

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Stella's future was set, and it was a bright one. She was engaged to a man she adored, and was headed to law school in the fall. Tragically, her perfectly planned future ends just as it was beginning. With no ties to family or friends, Stella finds herself alone in a new city, spiraling out of control. Her typical day comes to a close with her passed out on the floor; sometimes clothed...
  • Love Grudge by Chantal Fernando

    Love Grudge by Chantal Fernando

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Their love will ignite a war in this Romeo and Juliet retelling from gripping New York Times bestselling author Chantal Fernando.Romeo I was born to rule the Devils MC. Every decision, every move I made was to further that goal—until I met Julianna...
  • Shine by Lauren Myracle

    Shine by Lauren Myracle

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    When her best guy friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover who in her small town did it. Richly atmospheric, this daring mystery mines the secrets of a tightly knit Southern community and examines the strength of will it takes to go against everyone you know in the name of justice...
  • Crash and Burn by Michael Hassan

    Crash and Burn by Michael Hassan

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    On April 21, 2008, Steven "Crash" Crashinsky saved more than a thousand people when he stopped his classmate David Burnett from taking their high school hostage armed with assault weapons and high-powered explosives. You likely already know what came after for Crash: the nationwide notoriety, the college recruitment, and, of course, the book deal...
  • Marrow by Tarryn Fisher

    Marrow by Tarryn Fisher

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    In the Bone there is a house. In the house there is a girl. In the girl there is a darkness. Margo is not like other girls. She lives in a derelict neighborhood called the Bone, in a cursed house, with her cursed mother, who hasn’t spoken to her in over two years. She lives her days feeling invisible...
  • Liar Liar by L.A. Cotton

    Liar Liar by L.A. Cotton

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An angsty and gritty romance duet from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Wicked Bay series and Rixon High series.Moving to Credence is supposed to be the fresh start Becca Torrence desperately needs.But it’s about to become her worst nightmare...
  • How to Lead a Life of Crime by Kirsten Miller

    How to Lead a Life of Crime by Kirsten Miller

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A meth dealer. A prostitute. A serial killer. Anywhere else, they’d be vermin. At the Mandel Academy, they’re called prodigies. The most exclusive school in New York City has been training young criminals for over a century. Only the most ruthless students are allowed to graduate. The rest disappear. Flick, a teenage pickpocket, has risen to the top of his class...
  • Cut Me Free by J.R. Johansson

    Cut Me Free by J.R. Johansson

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Charlotte barely escaped from her abusive parents. Her little brother, Sam, wasn't as lucky. Now she's trying to begin the new life she always dreamed of for them, but never thought she'd have to experience alone. She's hired a techie-genius with a knack for forgery to remove the last ties to her old life...
  • My Sweet Audrina by V.C. Andrews, The Real Virginia Andrews

    My Sweet Audrina by V.C. Andrews, The Real Virginia Andrews

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    V.C. Andrews, author of the phenomenally successful Dollanganger series, has created a fascinating new cast of characters in this haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and the suffocating power of parental love. Audrina Adare wanted so to be as good as her sister. She knew her father could not love her as he loved her sister. Her sister was so special, so perfect-- and dead...
  • Modern Monsters by Kelley York

    Modern Monsters by Kelley York

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Vic Howard never wanted to go to the party. He’s the Invisible Guy at school, a special kind of hell for quiet, nice guys. But because his best friend is as popular as Vic is ignored, he went… And wished he hadn’t. Because something happened to a girl that night. Something terrible, unimaginable, and Callie Wheeler’s life will never be the same...
  • Clarity - The Complete Series by Loretta Lost

    Clarity - The Complete Series by Loretta Lost

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This bundle contains all three books in the Clarity series: Clarity Clarity 2 Clarity 3 Synopsis: Her world has always been dark, but he might be able to change everything... Fiercely independent Helen Winters was born completely blind, but she vowed never to let her disability keep her down...
  • The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia

    The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    I’ve become an expert at avoiding things that could hurt me—which means I will figure out how to stay away from Marco Leone.Seventeen-year-old Frankie Devereux would do anything to forget the past. Haunted by the memory of her boyfriend’s death, she lives her life by one dangerous rule: Nothing matters...
  • Love and Other Cages (Love and Other Sins) by Emilia Ares

    Love and Other Cages (Love and Other Sins) by Emilia Ares

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 6 ratings
    In the intricate dance of fate, Mina, a diligent high school senior, is abruptly torn from her ordinary life by an underground criminal organization, thrusting her into an unfamiliar and challenging world. Oliver, a man who has recently emerged from the shadows of abandonment, grapples with the harsh reality of Mina's abduction...
  • Without A Trace by Danielle Steel

    Without A Trace by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a powerful story about fighting for a chance at happiness—whatever the cost.Charles Vincent seems to have it all—a beautiful wife, two successful children, and a well-paying career. Yet happiness remains out of reach. He is trapped in a loveless marriage and his job is simply a paycheck...
  • The Row by J.R. Johansson

    The Row by J.R. Johansson

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A death sentence. A family torn apart. One girl’s hunt for the truth.Seventeen-year-old Riley Beckett is no stranger to prison. Her father is a convicted serial killer on death row who has always maintained that he was falsely accused. Riley has never missed a single visit with her father. She wholeheartedly believes that he is innocent...
  • Armed and Dangerous by Nenia Campbell

    Armed and Dangerous by Nenia Campbell

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It's hard to adjust to the trials and tribulations of college when you've been the focal point in a web of intrigue and murder. Christina Parker, now a student at a small liberal arts college in central Arizona, is still trying to forget the man who took her through hell and back one year ago. She was doing just fine, too, until said man appeared again, out of the blue...
  • Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews

    Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 50 ratings
    Olivia dreamed of a sun-filled love, a happy life. Then she entered Foxworth Hall...V.C. Andrews' thrilling new novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions -- of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride...
  • You Can Trust Me by Wendy Heard

    You Can Trust Me by Wendy Heard

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Summer and Leo would do anything for each other. Inspired by the way each has had to carve her place in a hostile and unforgiving world, and united by the call of the open road, they travel around sunny California in Summer's tricked-out Land Cruiser. It's not a glamorous life, but it gives them the freedom they crave from the painful pasts they've left behind...
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