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1) Dead-End Job
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Frances works the night shift at a local convenience store, dividing her time between restocking shelves and working on her art. Her routine is broken one night when Devin comes into the store. He claims to be the son of a famous local artist and offers her advice on her drawings. Although he seems to know way too much about her, Frances decides that he is odd but harmless. By the time she realizes the danger she is in, Devin is completely obsessed...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
For Henry Franks, death is everywhere. It claimed his mother a year ago, in an accident that robbed him of his memory and left him covered with horrific scars. It’s in his skin, leaving him numb to pain no matter how hard he tries to hurt himself. It obsesses his distant father, who buries himself in his work at the morgue. And it’s stalking the streets, where a serial killer’s path of destruction reveals the dark truth of Henry’s past. ...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After the attack that leaves her little sister, Ella, close to death in a snowy cornfield, Claire Graham is sent to live with her aunt in Manhattan to cope. But the guilt of letting Ella walk home alone that night still torments Claire, and she senses the violence that preyed on her sister hiding around every corner. Her shrink calls it a phobia. Claire calls it the truth. When Ella vanishes two years later, Claire has no choice but to return to Amble,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Jane and Holly have jumped into the river off Swallow’s Nest Bluff hundreds of times. But one day, Holly’s jump goes wrong. Her body never comes up, yet something else does—a sad creature of mud, full of confusion and sorrow. It’s Holly, somehow, trapped and mixed up with the river. And if Jane can’t do something to help, Holly will take everybody down with her—even the people she loves the most. Blending Looking for Alaska’s...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
EVERYTHING CAN BE HACKED, EVEN THE TRUTH. Will this fact set Sienna free or plunge her into an even bigger lie? Sienna Lewis lives in a world constantly threatened by a hacktivist group known as SWARM. After SWARM executes its deadliest attack yet, Sienna and her three college friends learn they have been chosen for the ELIXIR Project—a master plan designed to overthrow SWARM—and participation is mandatory. As she faces the deadly challenges...
Author
Series
Resistance novels (Tracy Lawson) volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Tommy and Careen have been vilified in the media for the Resistance's failed attempt to take down the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense. Both teens struggle to survive the circumstances that thrust them into the national spotlight, and this time, they don't have each other to lean on. They're on opposite sides. Even though both the OCSD and the Resistance believe Careen's convincing defection, Tommy refuses to believe her loyalties have shifted....
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A homeless teen with nothing to lose. A corrupt politician with everything to lose. What could possibly go wrong? On the run from local drug dealers, a young hacker hides out in the U.S. Capitol and soon finds himself entangled in a dastardly political conspiracy. When thirteen-year-old Boot doesn’t have the money to pay his mom’s drug dealer, he must flee or face certain death at the hands of the gang leader who rules his DC neighborhood. The...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A high school intern facing deportation. A plot to bribe a Supreme Court Justice. A case that could ignite a nation? Fifteen-year-old Kasie has always been an exceptionally gifted student. Unfortunately, she’s also an undocumented immigrant. Ever since her parents were deported during a politically motivated ICE sweep, she’s been living with her friend’s family, in fear of ICE. But she’s continued to excel at school, and with the support of...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the strange mountain foothills town of Hawthorn, where sixteen-year-old Harper Spurling finds herself increasingly obsessed with the diary of a local 1860s pioneer girl while a serial killer runs unchecked through the area, dumping his victims into the town’s dark river. As Harper’s curiosity leads her closer and closer to the killer, she’ll have to think fast or join the killer’s growing list of victims. Because in Hawthorn, a...
10) The Devil's Tree
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Kaitlyn didn't believe in ghosts—not until one killed her boyfriend and her best friend. Now she must stop the spirit haunting the Devil's Tree, or she could be next. Seventeen-year-old Kaitlyn wants to escape her drunk mama and her trailer park home life to enjoy a Saturday night off work. Instead, her boyfriend, Hunter, convinces her to go with him and their best friends, Dylan and Keisha, to photograph a desolate tree with an evil past. A terrifying...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Tera knows a secret... Someone is going to die on election day. But that's not what worries her. She learned it from a dying spark, one of the fairy-like companions people in her world use to communicate, and she found the spark in her father's office. A radical leader is on the rise, and the old factions are determined to stop him at any cost. If anyone finds out her father's involved, it might be the end of him. If anyone finds out what she knows,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A teen artist on the run. A daring heist at the National Gallery. A painting worth the price of freedom? On the run from the state of Virginia, a talented teen artist takes refuge in the Smithsonian Castle and uncovers a plot to steal one of the nation’s most prized works of art. Fifteen-year-old Brooke has been bounced between foster homes for half her life. With her rare and exceptional ability to draw and paint, Brooke knows she’s not normal....
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Nearly two years have passed since the events which took place in the first set of books, The Maura DeLuca Trilogy… Maura has finally made peace with her transformation into a creature she never imagined could be real… much less one she might become. With her newfound existence comes the benefit of family, friends and allies who fill her life and heart with a love like she has never experienced during all the years she has lived with her melancholy,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The eighth installment of the award-winning, #1 New York Times Michael Vey and his fellow members of the Electroclan were finally able to put the threat of the Elgen behind them and move on with their lives. Adjusting to the normal life of jobs and college may have been difficult, but they managed and are now looking forward to getting back together for a reunion during school break. But what they don’t know is that Hatch and his glows—the...
15) The Last Orphans
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
One horrifying day will change the life of sixteen-year-old Shane Tucker and every other kid in the world.In a span of mere hours, the entire adult population is decimated, leaving their children behind to fend for themselves and deal with the horrific aftermath of the freak occurrence. As one of the newly made elders in his small town, Shane finds himself taking on the role of caretaker for a large group of juvenile survivors. One who just happens...
16) Deceivers, The
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Pretty Little LiarsWelcome to Vale Hall: a school for aspiring con artists. When Brynn Hilder is recruited to the elite Vale Hall, she can’t believe her luck. Vale means a new life, away from her mom's loser boyfriend Pete and her run-down neighborhood. But Brynn soon learns that she hasn’t been recruited because of her straight A's — she’s been chosen because up until now, her extracurriculars involved conning rich North Shore kids out of...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
YALSA Quick Pick Award Winner Named by Huffington Post Ariel's birthday weekend looks to be the event of the season, with a private concert by rock star Hudson Winters on the grounds of her family's east coast estate, and all of Ariel's elite prep school friends in attendance. The only person who's dreading the party is Sera, Ariel's former best friend, whose father is forcing her to go. Sera has been the school pariah since she betrayed Ariel,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Surrender Your Sons is an LGBTQ+ YA mystery / thriller that expertly blends together humor, horror, and heart, in a wholly unique read like no other. A blend of Lost and Lord of the Flies … just with gay teenagers taking the horrors of the world head on.
A 2020 Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth selection
A 2020 Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Books selection
A 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Bronze Winner, Young Adult Fiction
Connor...
20) Ricochet
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Tati sends a saliva sample to a DNA ancestry testing site, her results come back inconclusive. What’s wrong with her DNA? And does it have to do with her unexplained seizures and the beckoning tunnel she sees during them?
What Tati discovers is more than she could have ever imagined possible. Parallel universes exist and her abnormal DNA compels and condemns Tati and her other selves—shy Ana, privileged Tatyana, and on-the-run...
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