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Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz
18 ratingsNameless is wrestling with more violent visions of the future when his next mission comes with the assurance, This one will be easy. It’s a promise that leaves Nameless dangerously unprepared.It seems straightforward enough: Get a foot in the door by posing as a potential investor in a lucrative underground business—then bring the place down from the inside. There’s more here than meets the eye... -
Black by Elin Peer
10 ratings"Some people grow up with caring families, summer camps, and birthday parties. Not me! If you saw me, your first thought would be: Goth girl – and then you would look the other way, like everyone else. But that’s okay, I get it, and I don’t care. Caring is a luxury I can’t afford. My life isn’t about caring... -
Hunter by Stasia Black
14 ratingsSnow White’s on the run and sexier than ever… ISOBEL:I’m on the run from my evil stepmother but no one can know.Least of all my new boss and major pain in the ass, Hunter Dawkins.We might have had one amazing night together but the next morning he went colder than a Wallstreet banker’s heart during a charity ball.I have zero tolerance for assholes in my life. No thank you... -
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks
28 ratingsImaginary friend Budo narrates this heartwarming story of love, loyalty, and the power of the imagination—the perfect read for anyone who has ever had a friend . . . real or otherwise.Budo is lucky as imaginary friends go. He's been alive for more than five years, which is positively ancient in the world of imaginary friends...Categorized as:
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Reversione: Reset the Future by Chris A. Jones
10 ratingsMankind had spent decades trying to overcome an impending ecological global disaster. By the late 23rd century the disaster that they were attempting to prevent was at hand, and there was no reversing the damage... -
Book of Orlando by Laura Lascarso
6 ratingsHenri has a policy of not interfering with human affairs—he’s a courier of souls, no more, no less—until he happens upon a boy who reminds him there is goodness and light amidst the sorrow.Orlando is in a vulnerable situation when Henri intercedes on his behalf and initiates the bond between them... -
Edge of Eternity by Randy Alcorn
14 ratingsImagine Being Pulled Into the Hereafter. While You’re Still Alive. A disillusioned business executive whose life has hit a dead-end, Nick Seagrave has lost loved ones to tragedy and his family to neglect. Now, at a point of great crisis, he unbelievably and inexplicably finds himself transported to what appears to be another world... -
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
26 ratingsAn extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side... -
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
34 ratingsThe Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud tells the haunting story of a young man who narrowly survives a terrible car wreck that kills his little brother. Years later, the brothers’ bond remains so strong that it transcends the normal boundaries separating life and death. Charlie St. Cloud lives in a snug New England fishing village... -
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
24 ratingsA poignant and suspenseful retelling of a classic fairy tale set in a war-torn world. In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel... -
Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King
24 ratingsLucky Linderman didn't ask for his life. He didn't ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vietnam War. He didn't ask for a father who never got over it. He didn't ask for a mother who keeps pretending their dysfunctional family is fine. And he didn't ask to be the target of Nader McMillan's relentless bullying, which has finally gone too far... -
Deadly Little Games by Laurie Faria Stolarz
20 ratingsHigh school juniors Camelia and Ben have discovered a powerful bond: They both possess the power of psychometry, the ability to see the future through touch. For Ben, the gift is a frightening liability. When he senses a strong threat or betrayal, he risks losing control. Camelia's gift is more mysterious. When she works with clay, her hands sculpt messages her mind doesn't yet comprehend... -
Bastial Explosion by B.T. Narro
10 ratingsAs Effie and her roommates learn firsthand the true savagery of their enemies, anger and grief threaten to overtake them. While dealing with internal turmoil, each student also must come to terms with his or her role in battle...and soon. The Krepps have twice the numbers of Kyrro, and the frightfully strong creatures are eager to kill... -
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
44 ratingsAn alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereOne day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village... -
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Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
42 ratingsA page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print... -
A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba
16 ratingsA new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city—small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived...Categorized as:
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Ghost by Carole Cummings
10 ratingsDwelling in the land of Ada and defending magic users called the Jin, Fen Jacin-rei is a trained assassin and an Untouchable, one whose mind hosts the Voices of the Ancestors, spirits of long-dead magicians. His fate should be one of madness and solitude, yet Fen Jacin-rei desperately clings to his sanity and ferociously protects the family he loves... -
Bastial Steel by B.T. Narro
10 ratingsDragged to an unfamiliar continent transformed by war and monstrous creatures, Cleve's path home has never been less clear. With a place in a king's plot, a princess who wants to marry him, and the companionship of a brash Sartious mage, Cleve learns that--while some battles are won with a sword--others are played out through a more delicate dance.But Cleve has never been one for delicacy...Categorized as:
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Greenland by David Santos Donaldson
8 ratingsA dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl--in which Mohammed's story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction.In 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell...Categorized as:
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The Haunting of Shadow Hill House by Caroline Clark
6 ratingsA move for a better future becomes a race against the past. Something dark lurks in Shadow Hill House and it is waiting. DOWNLOAD FOR FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED After her husband lost his job Jenny moves her family to the remote and beautiful Shadow Hill House. It is to be a new start. A safe place for daughter Abby to grow up and a new business teaching art for her... -
My Name is Mina by David Almond
18 ratingsThere's an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. It's been there for an age. I keep on saying that I'll write a journal. So I'll start right here, right now. I open the book and write the very first words: My name is Mina and I love the night. Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum...Categorized as:
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Escape from Asylum by Madeleine Roux
18 ratingsThe nightmare is just beginning.Ricky Desmond has been through this all before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn’t belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once... -
The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball
12 ratingsWith his debut novel, Samedi the Deafness, Jesse Ball emerged as one of our most extraordinary new writers. Now, Ball returns with this haunting tale of love and storytelling, hope and identity.When Selah Morse sees a young woman get hit by a speeding taxicab, he rushes her to the hospital. The girl has lost her memory; she is delirious and has no identification, so Selah poses as her boyfriend... -
The Innkeeper's Son by Jeremy Brooks
10 ratingsBefore Desirmor came and broke the peace of the Alexidus monarchy with his army of dark beasts, Princess Harmony Alexidus spoke a prophecy of his rise and fall. He would destroy the warriors of the Harven Mountains. He would make the princess his eternally unwilling bride. Then he would wrap the world in a veil of darkness so tight, the people would forget that light ever existed... -
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Still Life with Tornado by A.S. King
18 ratingsA heartbreaking and mindbending story of a talented teenage artist's awakening to the brokenness of her family from critically acclaimed award-winner A.S. King.Sixteen-year-old Sarah can't draw. This is a problem, because as long as she can remember, she has "done the art." She thinks she's having an existential crisis... -
The Girl in the Castle by James Patterson, Emily Raymond
18 ratingsBeloved #1 bestselling author James Patterson delivers a thrilling novel about a teen caught between two worlds and the truths that could set her free—or trap her foreverMy name is Hannah Dory and I need you to believe me Hannah Doe is brought to Belman Psych, kicking and screaming, told she is suffering from hallucinations and delusions...Categorized as:
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Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory
16 ratingsIn 1968, after the first zombie outbreak, Wanda Mayhall and her three young daughters discover the body of a teenage mother during a snowstorm. Wrapped in the woman’s arms is a baby, stone-cold, not breathing, and without a pulse. But then his eyes open and look up at Wanda — and he begins to move...Categorized as:
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Where the Trains Turn by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
6 ratingsI don’t like to think about the past. But I cannot stop remembering my son.Emma Nightingale prefers to remain grounded in reality as much as possible. Yet she’s willing to indulge her nine year-old son Rupert’s fascination with trains, as it brings him closer to his father, Gunnar, from whom she is separated... -
The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris
24 ratingsThe wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher's every move, buffeting her from the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and baby Rosette, safe... -
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
52 ratingsWhen sixteen-year-old Pi Patel finds himself stranded in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with only a menacing 450-pound Bengal tiger for company, he quickly realizes that the only way to survive is to make sure the tiger is more afraid of him than he is of it... -
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, Russell Munson
43 ratingsThis is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves...people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they’ll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than ever they dreamed.Jonathan Livingston Seagull is no ordinary bird...Categorized as:
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
55 ratingsThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired.Paulo Coelho’s masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found... -
Of Things Gone Astray by Janina Matthewson
12 ratingsOn a seemingly normal morning in London, a group of people all lose something dear to them, something dear but peculiar: the front of their house, their piano keys, their sense of direction, their place of work.Meanwhile, Jake, a young boy whose father brings him to London following his mother’s sudden death, finds himself strangely attracted to other people’s lost things...Categorized as:
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Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
39 ratingsFive interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation...Categorized as:
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The Tethering by Megan O'Russell
10 ratingsAll Jacob Evans wants is to win the heart of Emilia Gray, but with order in the magical world crumbling, war threatening, and Emilia’s boyfriend living across the hall, he may never have the chance.After losing everything he has ever known, Jacob is tossed into a world of magic. The Dragons, a group of rebel wizards, are threatening to expose the existence of magic to humans... -
The School of Possibilities by Seita Parkkola
6 ratingsStorm is being forced to attend the School of Possibilities for troubled youth. But Storm notices that something strange is going on at his new school. The students are not... normal.Soon he's being spied on, followed by classmates — and worst of all, forced to accept the headmaster's perfectly behaved daughter as his girlfriend...Categorized as:
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Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
20 ratingsNew York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearPart fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age novel, this novel tells the story of Isobel Fairfax, a girl growing up in Lythe, a typical 1960s British suburb... -
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
42 ratingsIn After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychological insight are distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.Nineteen-year-old Mari is waiting out the night in an anonymous Denny’s when she meets a young man who insists he knows her older sister, thus setting her on an odyssey through the sleeping city...Categorized as:
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Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey
18 ratingsTwo people. Infinite lifetimes. One impossible choice.Thora and Santi are strangers in a foreign city when a chance encounter intertwines their fates. At once, they recognize in each other a kindred spirit—someone who shares their insatiable curiosity, who is longing for more in life than the cards they’ve been dealt. Only days later, though, a tragic accident cuts their story short... -
Be Not Afraid by Cecilia Galante
6 ratingsMarin spends a lot of time avoiding things. She avoids thinking about her mother's suicide and what she could have done to prevent it. She avoids looking at people directly-because she can see their pain as bright, colorful shapes. And she avoids Cassie Jackson, who used her in a sinister ritual months ago, although Marin's not exactly sure why...Categorized as:
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The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
39 ratingsIn a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat—vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone... -
The Magician's Lie by Greer Macallister
24 ratingsWater for Elephants meets The Night Circus in The Magician's Lie, a debut novel in which the country's most notorious female illusionist stands accused of her husband's murder—and she has only one night to convince a small-town policeman of her innocence. The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half on stage... -
I Crawl Through It by A.S. King
16 ratingsFour talented teenagers are traumatized-coping with grief, surviving date rape, facing the anxiety of standardized tests and the neglect of self-absorbed adults--and they'll do anything to escape the pressure. They'll even build an invisible helicopter, to fly far away to a place where everyone will understand them... until they learn the only way to escape reality is to face it head-on... -
Black As Snow by Nick Nolan, Todd Haberkorn
6 ratingsSebastian Black is a god amongst men: he’s devastatingly handsome and charismatic—and telepathic. So when his scheming mother, prophetess Kitty Black, announces that her son is the “next species of man,” the world begins taking notice. Together, Kitty and Sebastian forge a spiritual movement that celebrates “divine evolution” while warning of a mass extinction... -
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The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
24 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Practical Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning.Be careful what you wish for. A small town librarian lives a quiet life without much excitement. One day, she mutters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by lightning... -
The End of the Day by Claire North
16 ratingsCharlie has a new job. He gets to travel, and he meets interesting people, some of whom are actually pleased to see him.It's good to have a friendly face, you see. At the end.But the end of all things is coming. Charlie's boss and his three associates are riding out, and it's Charlie's job to go before.Sometimes he is sent as a courtesy, sometimes as a warning. He never knows which... -
The Society of S by Susan Hubbard
16 ratings"If you ever want to hide from the world, live in a small city, where everyone seems anonymous."That's the advice of twelve-year-old Ariella Montero, who lives with her father in Saratoga Springs, New York, in a house haunted more by secrets than by memories...Categorized as:
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Just in Case by Meg Rosoff
16 ratingsAfter his younger brother narrowly avoids a serious fall, fifteen-year-old David Case realizes the fragility of life and senses impending doom. He changes his name, assumes a new identity, new clothing and new friends, and dares to fall in love.Justin Case is convinced fate has in for him.And he's right... -
Hawkes Harbor by S.E. Hinton
16 ratingsAn orphan and a bastard, Jamie Sommers grew up knowing he had no hope of heaven. Conceived in adultery and born in sin, Jamie was destined to repeat the sins of his parents--or so the nuns told him. And he proved them right. Taking to sea, Jamie sought out danger and adventure in exotic ports all over the world as a smuggler, gunrunner--and murderer... -
Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke
24 ratingsEvery story needs a hero.Every story needs a villain.Every story needs a secret.Wink is the odd, mysterious neighbor girl, wild red hair and freckles. Poppy is the blond bully and the beautiful, manipulative high school queen bee. Midnight is the sweet, uncertain boy caught between them. Wink. Poppy. Midnight. Two girls. One boy...
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