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The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow & Liz Lawson
Welcome to Castle Cove -- a town cursed with missing girls, bad boyfriends, family secrets, and some very steep cliffs.
Last summer, Alice Ogilvie's basketball star boyfriend, Steve, dumped her. Then she disappeared for five days. She's not talking, so where she went and what happened to her is the biggest mystery in Castle Cove, Or it was, at least. Because now, another one of Steve's girlfriends has vanished: Brooke Donovan. Alice's ex-best friend. And it doesn't look like Brooke will be coming back.
Enter Iris Adams, Alice's tutor. Iris has her own reasons for wanting to disappear, though unlike Alice, she doesn't have the money or the means. That could be changed by the hefty reward Brooke's grandmother is offering to anyone who can share information about her granddaughter's whereabouts. The police are convinced Steve is the culprit, but Alice isn't so sure, and with Iris on her side, she just might be able to prove her theory.
In order to get the… Read More

The Always War by Margaret Peterson Haddix
For as long as Tessa can remember, her country has been at war. When local golden boy Gideon Thrall is awarded a medal for courage, it's a rare bright spot for everyone in Tessa's town -- until Gideon refuses the ward, claimed he was a coward, and runs away. Tessa is bewildered, and can't help but follow Gideon to find out the truth. But Tess is in for more than she bargained for. Before she knows it, she has stowed away on a rogue airplane headed for enemy territory. But all that pales when she discovers a shocking truth that rocks the foundation of everything she's ever believed -- a truth that could change the world. Is Tessa brave enough to bring it into the light?
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2011

Betrayed (House of Night Series, Book #2) by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite group. Best of all, Zoey's made some new friends and she finally feels like she belongs -- like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend, or two.
Then the unthinkable happens: human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night, straining human-vamp tensions in Tulsa to a breaking point. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey's old life, she finds herself drawn into an intoxicating forbidden flirtation that threatens to distract her from the growing crisis. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night. Too late, Zoey begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those… Read More

Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk
Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow's only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar.
Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn't until the night a mysterious fire appears across the water that the unspoken question of her own history forms in her heart. Soon, an unstoppable chain of events is triggered, leading Crow down a path of discovery and danger.
Vivid and hear-wrenching, Beyond the Bright Sea is a gorgeously crafted and tensely paced tale that explores questions of identity, belonging, and the true meaning of family.
Dutton, Hardcover, 1st Edition, Later Printing, 2017

Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper Series, Book #4) by Kerri Maniscalco
Audrey Rose Wadsworth and Thomas Cresswell have arrived in America, a bold, brash land bursting with life. But lkie their beloved London, the city of Chicago has dark secrets. When the two attend the spectacular World's Fair, they uncover a sickening truth -- the once-in-a-lifetime event is tainted with reports of missing people and unsolved murders.
Audrey Rose and Thomas begin their investigations only to find themselves facing a serial killer unlike any they've encountered before. Identifying him is one thing, but capturing him -- especially within the infamous Murder Hotel he built as a confusing and terrifying torture lair -- is another.
Will Audrey Rose, together with her true love at last -- see her final mystery to its end? Or will she fall prey to her most cunning adversary yet?
Little, Brown and Company, Hardcovfer, 1st Edition, 3rd Printing, 2020

Claim to Fame by Margaret Peterson Haddix
It was a talent that came out of nowhere. One day Lindsay Scott was on the top of the world, the star of a hit TV show. The next day her fame had turned into torture. Every time anyone said anything about her, she heard it. And everyone was talking about Lindsay: fans, friends, enemies, enemies who pretend to be friends....
Lindsay had what looked like a nervous breakdown and vanished from the public eye. But now she's sixteen and back in the news: A tabloid newspaper claims that Lindsay is being held hostage by her father.
The truth? Lindsay has been hiding out in a small Illinois town, living in a house that somehow provides relief from the stream of voices in her head. But when two local teenagers try to "rescue" Lindsay by kidnapping her, Lindsay is forced to confront everything she's hiding from. And that's when she discovers there may be others who share her strange power. Lindsay is desperate to learn more, but what is she willing to risk to find the… Read More

Deadly Little Scandals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found during her debutante year only left her with more questions and one potentially life-ruining secret. When her cousin Lily ropes her into pledging a mysterious, elite, and all-female secret society called the White Gloves, Sawyer soon discovers that someone in the group's ranks may have the answers she's been searching for. Things are looking up until Sawyer and the White Gloves make a disturbing discovery near the family's summer home -- and uncover a twisted secret, decades in the making. No one is quite who they seem to be in this twisty, soapy, gasp-inducing sequel to Jennifer Lynn Barnes's unputdownable Little White Lies.
Freeform Books, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st printing, 2019

Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
When the Great Depression takes almost everything they own, Ellie's family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the untamed forests of nearby Echo Mountain. Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain. But there is little joy, even for Ellie, as her family struggles with the after math of an accident that has left her father in a coma. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie.
Determined to help her father, Ellie will make her way to the top of the mountain in search of the healing secrets of a woman known only as "the hag." But the hag, and the mountain, still have many untold stories left to reveal and, with them, a fresh chance at happiness.
Echo Mountain is a celebration of finding your own path and becoming your truest self. Lauren Wolk weaves a stunning tal of resilience, persistence, and friendship across three generations of families, set against the rough and ragged beauty of the mountain they… Read More

Escaping from Houdini (Stalking Jack the Ripper Series, Book #3)by Kerri Maniscalco
Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her ever-vexing companion, Thomas Cress well, set sail on the luxurious RMS Etruria en route to their next investigation in America. On board, the ship's seven nights of carnival entertainment -- starring a promising young escape artist -- prove to be the perfect distraction from the grim task that awaits. But the voyage quickly descends into a horror show when young women begin turning up dead.
For Audrey Rose, the Moonlight Carnival -- with its disturbing acts and bizarre characters -- becomes a nightmarish backdrop to her search for answers. With clues to the next victim's identity pointing to someone she loves, can Audrey Rose unravel the mystery before the killer's horrifying finale?
Jimmy Patterson Books, Hardcover 1st Edition, Later Printing, 2020

Fallen (Fallen Series, Book #1) by Lauren Kate
There's something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.
Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price's attention from the moment she see him on her first day at Sword & Cross boarding school in Savannah. He's the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are screwups, and security cameras watch every move.
Except Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce -- he goes out of his way to make that very clear. But she can't let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, Luce has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret... even if it kills her.
Dangerously exciting and darkly romantic, Fallen is a page-turning thriller and the ultimate love story.
Delacorte Press, Hardcover, 1st Edition, Later Printing, 2009

Grace and Glory (Harbinger Trilogy, Book #3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Trinity Marrow has lost the battle and her beloved Protector. Even with both demons and Wardens on her side, Trin may not win the war against the Harbinger.
Bringing Lucifer back to the world to fight the Harbinger is probably a really, really bad idea, but they're out of options -- and the world's ultimate fallen angel is the only being powerful enough to impact the outcome.
As Trin and Zayne form a new and more dangerous bond and Lucifer unleashes Hell on earth, the apocalypse looms and the world teeters on the end of forever. Win or lose, one thing is certain -- nothing will ever be the same.
Inkyard Press, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 2021

The House on the Gulf by Margaret Peterson Haddix
When Britt's older brother, Bran, lands a summer job house-sitting for the Marquises, an elderly couple, it seems like a great opportunity. Britt and Bran have moved to Florida so their mother can finish college, and the house-sitting income will allow their mom to quit her job and take classes full-time. Having never lived in a real house before, Britt is thrilled. There's only one problem: Britt starts to suspect her family isn't supposed to be there.
She's been noticing that Bran is acting weird and defensive -- he hides the Marquises' mail, and won't let anyone touch the thermostat, and discourages Britt from meeting any of the neighbors. Determined to get to the bottom of things, Britt starts investigating and makes a startling discovery -- the Marquises aren't who Bran has led her and their mom to believe. So whose house are they staying in, and why has Bran brought them there?
With unexpected twists and turns, award winner Margaret Peterson… Read More

Hunting Prince Dracula (Stalking Jack the Ripper Series, Book #2) by Kerri Maniscalco
Following the horrifying revelation of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth flees her home in Victorian London to enroll as the only female student in Europe's most prestigious forensics school. But it's impossible to find peace in the dark, unsettling Romanian castle that houses the school -- and was also once home to the depraved Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Prince Dracula.
When a series of troubling deaths brings whispers of Vlad's bloodthirsty return from the grave, Audrey Rose and her sharp-witted companion Thomas Cresswell, must unravel the cryptic clues that will lead them to the shadowlike killer -- living or dead.
Little, Brown and Company, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2017

Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment and offer her a six-figure contract to participae in debutante season. And she definitely never imagined she would accept. But when she realizes that immersing herself in her grandmother's "society" might mean discovering the answer tyo the biggest mystery of her life -- her father's identity -- she signs on the dotted line and braces herself for a year of makeovers, big dresses, bigger egos, and a whole lot of "bless your heart." The one thing she doesn't expect to find is friendship, but as she's drawn into a group of debutantes with scandalous, dangerous secrets of their own, Saywer quickly discovers that her family isn't the only mainstay of high society with skeletons in their closet. There are people in her grandmother's glittering world who are not what they appear, and no one wants Sawyer poking her nose into the past. As she navigates the… Read More

Marked (House of Night Series, Book #1) by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Enter the dark, magical world of the House of Night, a world very much like our own, except there vampyres have always existed. One minute, sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird is a normal teenager dealing with everyday high school stress. The next, she's Marked as a fledgling vampyre, forcing her to leave her odinary life behind and joine the House of Night, a boarding school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. That is, if she makes it through the Change -- and not all of those who are Marked do. It sucks to begin a new life, especially away from all her friends, and on top of that, Zoey is no average fledgling. She has been chosedn as special by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. Zoey discovers she has amazing powers, but along with her powers come bloodlust and an unfortunate ability to imprint with her human ex-boyfriend, who just doesn't know how to take "no" for an answer. To add to her stress, she is not the only fledgling at… Read More

My Own Lightning (Wolf Hollow, Book #2) by Lauren Wolk
It's been several months since the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, and the routine of daily life in Wolf Hollow has slowly returned. But for Annabelle McBride It's hard to move forward and make peace with what feels like thread-bare justice.
Newly warm summer days are about to bring a jolt of change on the winds of a powerful storm. In its wake, the search for her brother's missing dog will set Annabelle on a new path that brings her to unfamiliar doorsteps and reunites her with a too-familiary adversary -- Andy Woodberry, who was complicit in Betty's most terrible acts. Growing up and blazing her own trail will soon force Annabelle to reexamine deeply felt truths -- about people, about justice, about herself -- that had once seemed so uncomplicated.
Dutton, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2022

A Night Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin
For Ning, the only thing worse than losing her mother is knowing that i's her own fault. She was the one who unknowingly brewed the poison tea that killed her mother -- the poison tea tha now threatens to also take her sister, Shu.
When Ning hears of a competition to find the kingdom's greatest shennong-she -- masters of the ancient and magical art of tea-making -- she travels to the imperial city to compete. The winner will receive a favor from the princess, which may be Ning's only chance to save her sister's life.
But between the backstabbing competitors, the bloody court politics, and a mysterious (and handsome) boy with a shocking secret, Ning might actually be the one in more danger.
Feiwel and Friends, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 5th Printing, 2022

The Night in Question (An Agathas Mystery) by Kathleen Glasgow & Liz Lawson
Last October, Alice Ogilve's ex-best friend, Brook Donovan, was killed -- and if it weren'tf for Alice's unlikely alliance with her tutor, Iris Adams, and her library of the complete works of Agatha Christie, the wrong person would almost certainly be sitting in prison for the crime. The Castle Cove police aren't exactly great at solving crimes. In fact, they're notorious for not solving crimes.
Which is why, on the night of Castle Cove High's annual Sadie Hawkins dance, Alice takes the opportunity to explore Levy Castle -- the site of one of Castle Cove's most infamous deahts. Mona Moody -- the classic film star -- died there almost a century ago, and Alice is pretty sure the police got that investigation wrong, too. But before she can even think about digging deepre, whe walks right into the scene of a new crime. Rebecca Kennedy, on the ground in a pool of blood. And standing over Kennedy? Another one of Alice's ex-friends… Read More

Rage and Ruin (Harbinger Trinity, Book #2) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Half-angel Trinity and her bonded gargoyle protector, Zayne, have been working with demons to stop the apocalypse while avoiding falling in love. The Harbinger is coming... but who or what is it? All of humankind may fall if Trinity and Zayne can't win the race against time as dark forces gather.
As tensions rise, they must stay close together and patrol the D.C. streets at night, seeking signs of the Harbinger, an entity that is killing Wardens and demons with no seeming rhyme or reason. Forbidden to be with each other, Zayne and Trinity fight their feelings and turn to unusual sources for help -- the demon Roth and his cohorts. But as deaths pile up and they uncover a sinister plot involving the local high school and endangering someone dear to Zayne, Trin realizes she is being led....herded....played for some unknown end. As anger builds and feelings spiral out of control, it becomes clear that rage may be the ruin of them all.… Read More

The Raven Boys (Book I of The Raven Cycle) by Maggie Stiefvater
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them -- until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her.
His name is Gansey, and he's a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.
But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain. He is on a quest that has encompassed thre other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul whose emotions range from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher who notices many things but says very little.
For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem. But as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister… Read More