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  • The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

    The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 32 ratings
    Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children’s author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner’s life in this absorbing and whimsical novel.“Clever, dark, and hopeful . .
  • From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender

    From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 20 ratings
    Alexis is the last girl you'd expect to sell her soul. She already has everything she needs--an adorable boyfriend, the perfect best friend, and a little sister who's finally recovering after being possessed by an evil spirit, then institutionalized. Alexis is thrilled when her sister joins a club; new friends are just what Kasey needs...
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  • Velocity by Abigail Boyd

    Velocity by Abigail Boyd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The final book in the "Gravity" series. The end is finally here. After being threatened by Phillip Rhodes, Ariel confronts her father and finds out just how deeply the conspiracies in town run. She discovers more about what she is and where she came from...
  • The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Psychic...or psychotic? Anna knows her family is crazy. But when she goes to visit her aunt and uncle for the summer and learns that her uncle’s charred body has been found, her life reaches a new level of insanity. Her erratic aunt’s “psychic” abilities are exaggerated by her grief, and have become borderline violent...
  • MeruPuri, Vol. 1 by Matsuri Hino

    MeruPuri, Vol. 1 by Matsuri Hino

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    All high school freshman Airi Hoshina ever wanted was to someday live in a cozy home with a loving husband, and find joy in the little things in life. As a result, she makes it her daily mission to get to school on time because school legend has it that the longer one's non-tardy streak is, the better boyfriend one will find...
  • Ranma ½, Vol. 1 by Rumiko Takahashi

    Ranma ½, Vol. 1 by Rumiko Takahashi

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Ranma Saotome never thought a martial arts training mission to China would turn out like this! An accidental dunk in a cursed spring changes boy Ranma into a young girl, every time he is splashed with cold water...
  • If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley

    If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Perfect for fans of Laura Ruby, Laurie Halse Anderson, and Mindy McGinnis, Kyrie McCauley's stunning YA debut is a powerful story about the haunting specter of domestic violence and the rebellious forces of sisterhood and first love.Tens of thousands of crows invading Auburn, Pennsylvania, is a problem for everyone in town except seventeen-year-old Leighton Barnes...
  • Blue is for Nightmares Collections by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Blue is for Nightmares Collections by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With over 500,000 in print, this best-selling series about a teen witch has cast a spell upon young adults across the world! In commemoration of this remarkable success, each volume—Blue is for Nightmares, White is for Magic, Silver is for Secrets, and Red is for Remembrance—has been updated with a new cover...
  • The Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah

    The Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A heartfelt novel of shedding secrets, facing the past, and embracing the magic of love and family by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars.After the untimely deaths of her aunt and mother, young Riley Mays moved from Chicago to her cousins’ Wisconsin farm...
  • The Reason by Marley Gibson

    The Reason by Marley Gibson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's not everyday you have a premonition of your own demise. But two months after Kendall had a vision of her own death, all is well in her world. Maybe some cosmic wires got crossed. Then Kendall gets a request by the mayor of Radisson to investigate the mayoral manor. Emily and Loreen warn her against it: This spirit is dangerous. But not even they can see just how dangerous...
  • The Cracks in the Kingdom by Jaclyn Moriarty

    The Cracks in the Kingdom by Jaclyn Moriarty

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The second in Jaclyn Moriarty's brilliant, acclaimed fantasy trilogy, THE COLORS OF MADELEINE! Princess Ko's been bluffing about the mysterious absence of her father, desperately trying to keep the government running on her own. But if she can't get him back in a matter of weeks, the consequence may be a devastating war...
  • Forevermore by Cindy Miles

    Forevermore by Cindy Miles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On a misty cliffside, mystery and romance await. . . . Ivy Calhoun's life has been turned upside down. Her new stepdad has uprooted Ivy and her mom, bringing them to live in an actual castle in the misty Scottish countryside. There are stone-faced servants and shadowy corridors, and the ancient walls seem full of secrets. Ivy is at once frightened and intrigued...
  • Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch

    Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Willow has never felt like she belonged anywhere and is convinced that the only way to find a true home is to travel the world. But her plans to act on her dream are put on hold when her aloof and often absent mother drags Willow to Salem, Massachusetts, to wrap up the affairs of an aunt Willow didn’t even know she had. An aunt who may or may not have been a witch...
  • Seven Minutes in Heaven by Sara Shepard

    Seven Minutes in Heaven by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    MY SISTER WANTS THE TRUTH.BUT SOMETIMES THE TRUTH HURTS.For months, my long-lost twin, Emma, has been living my life and trying to solve my murder. She's unearthed dark secrets about my friends, my family, and my tangled past. But when it comes to finding my killer, she keeps running into dead ends.Until my body shows up in Sabino Canyon...
  • Chasing the Red Queen by Karen Glista

    Chasing the Red Queen by Karen Glista

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Donja Bellanger, suffering after the death of her father, finds herself in dire straits when her mom takes a new husband. Forced not only to move to a strange city, but to share a room with her glamorous, new stepsister, Makayla Hampton, her life spirals out of control. Makayla lures her from goth to glam, straight into an exclusive club, not only for wealthy elites but Immortal Descendants...
  • Fatal Charm by Linda Joy Singleton

    Fatal Charm by Linda Joy Singleton

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this vivid fifth volume of The Seer series, Sabine Rose is reunited with her ill grandmother Nona and her friends at Sheridan Valley. But the excitement of curing Nona-and discovering love with someone new-doesn't outweigh the burden of her father's dark secret: a daughter no one but Sabine knows about. Riddled with curiosity, Sabine uses astral projection to spy on her half sister Jade...
  • Discovering by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Discovering by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    After finally learning who was behind her mother’s death, Calla still doesn’t understand why it happened. Somewhere out there, someone seems to share the powerful psychic abilities that allow Calla to see not only into the past, but to the Other Side—someone who apparently doesn’t want to be found...
  • Echoes by Melinda Metz

    Echoes by Melinda Metz

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can't believe she did that . . . . . . at four-thirty I have to . . . . . . I hate this place . . . Rae Voight is losing her mind. When she walks down the halls of Sanderson Prep, she hears voices . . . even when no one is talking. Other people's thoughts crowd her head, a confusing tangle of insecurities and dark secrets...
  • Uncovering Cobbogoth by Hannah L. Clark

    Uncovering Cobbogoth by Hannah L. Clark

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Norah Lukens needs to uncover the truth about the fabled lost city of Cobbogoth. After her archaeologist uncle’s murder, Norah is asked to translate his old research journal for evidence and discovers that his murder was a cover-up for something far more sinister...
  • Moment of Truth by Michael Pryor

    Moment of Truth by Michael Pryor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aubrey has a difficult choice to make to save his friends when Albion erupts into war—and it could cost him his life   The war that has been looming for so long finally erupts, sending Albion and the continent into chaos. Aubrey, George, and Caroline are brought into a top-secret espionage unit and sent on a mission to investigate a mysterious magical facility on the Gallia–Holmland border...
  • Visions by Kimberly Readnour

    Visions by Kimberly Readnour

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ★★★★★ 5 Star Readers' Favorite "The seamless prose fruitfully rewards the well-crafted plot, making it a completely accomplished novel that is easy for readers to enjoy."— Lit Amri, Readers' Favorite Book One of a Thrilling Trilogy Having clairvoyance isn’t easy..
  • My Date From Hell by Tellulah Darling

    My Date From Hell by Tellulah Darling

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sophie Bloom’s junior year has been a bit of a train wreck. After the world’s greatest kiss re-awakened Sophie’s true identity as Persephone (Goddess of Spring and Savior of Humanity), she fought her dragon-lady guidance counselor to the death, navigated mean girl Bethany’s bitchy troublemaking, and dealt with the betrayal of her backstabbing ex, Kai (sexy Prince of Darkness)...
  • False Covenant by Ari Marmell

    False Covenant by Ari Marmell

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s been over half a year, now, since the brutal murder of Archbishop William de Laurent during his pilgrimage to the Galicien city of Davillon. During that time, the Church of the Hallowed Pact has assigned a new bishop to the city—but it has also made its displeasure at the death of its clergyman quite clear. Davillon’s economy has suffered beneath the weight of the Church’s displeasure...
  • The Guidance by Marley Gibson

    The Guidance by Marley Gibson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kendall and her ghost hunting team is the talk of Radisson, Georgia, but one person isn’t so pleased. Courtney Langdon doesn’t appreciate Kendall’s new popularity or her relationship with Jason, Courtney’s ex.So Courtney begins dabbling in the paranormal world. At first it’s all a game to draw attention away from Kendall. But Courtney doesn’t know what she’s getting into—or what wants in her...
  • Witch Ball by Linda Joy Singleton

    Witch Ball by Linda Joy Singleton

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sabine is finally starting to feel accepted at her new high school. She's friends with the popular girls and even has a cute boyfriend. But Sabine also has a dark secret-she's psychic, and was forced to leave her old school after she accurately predicted the death of a football player...
  • The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker

    The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Enchanting, mysterious, and deeply romantic, The Lighthouse follows a young woman's breathtaking journey far from home to discover where she truly belongs.Something strange is happening in Seabrook. The town's lighthouse–dormant for over thirty years and famously haunted–has inexplicably started shining, and its mysterious glow is sparking feverish gossip throughout the spooked community...
  • Last Dance by Linda Joy Singleton

    Last Dance by Linda Joy Singleton

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sabine can't wait to show off her new boyfriend at the upcoming school dance, but she's also worried about her grandmother, Nona, who's suffering from a fatal hereditary illness. The only cure lies within a remedy book, lost long ago. Determined to save Nona, Sabine goes to Pine City to visit a distant relative who may have clues...
  • Sword Play by Linda Joy Singleton

    Sword Play by Linda Joy Singleton

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Help her," insists the spirit of Kip, the jock from her old school who died in a car accident. But his cryptic message is the last thing on Sabine's mind as she packs up to move back home. She's not happy about leaving her friends, her boyfriend, and Nona who's gravely ill, but won't dare challenge her mother's orders...
  • Lion's Legacy by Lev A.C. Rosen

    Lion's Legacy by Lev A.C. Rosen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Tennessee Russo’s life is imploding. His boyfriend has been cheating on him, and all his friends know about it. Worse, they expect him to just accept his ex’s new relationship and make nice...
  • This Heart of Mine by C.C. Hunter

    This Heart of Mine by C.C. Hunter

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A new heart saved her life—but will it help her find out what really happened to its donor?Seventeen-year-old Leah MacKenzie is heartless. An artificial heart in a backpack is keeping her alive. However, this route only offers her a few years. And with her rare blood type, a transplant isn’t likely. Living like you are dying isn’t all it’s cracked up to be...
  • Believing by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Believing by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    After her tumultuous summer in Lily Dale, Calla has decided to stay, hoping to unearth more about her mother’s untimely death.  As she starts school at Lily Dale High and begins to explore her relationships with Jacy and Blue, her visions begin to occur with greater urgency. There may be a killer on the loose, and he may be after Calla for her role in solving his first victim’s disappearance...
  • Magician's Muse by Linda Joy Singleton

    Magician's Muse by Linda Joy Singleton

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Final Book in Linda Joy Singleton's Popular Paranormal Series, The Seer A whisper, too soft to swirl wispy candle smoke, carried across time, beyond life and death—and was heard. "Our bargain is sealed. My secrets will be yours-when the girl dies...
  • Cross My Heart, Hope to Die by Sara Shepard

    Cross My Heart, Hope to Die by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    IT'S NOT EASY BEING ME.BUT MY TWIN SISTER HAS NO CHOICE.When I died two months ago, my killer told my twin sister to become me - or else. Now Emma has it down to a T. She tosses her hair with the signature Sutton Mercer flip and can lead a Lying Game prank with the best of them. She's even repairing my relationship with my adoptive family. The only thing she hasn't done is solve my murder...
  • The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon K. Garrity

    The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon K. Garrity

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A 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...
  • Twisted by Sara Shepard

    Twisted by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    It’s been a year since the torturous notes from A stopped and the mystery of Alison DiLaurentis’s disappearance was finally put to rest. Now seniors in high school, Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily are older, but they’re not any wiser. The pretty little liars have more secrets than ever - twisted secrets that could destroy the perfect lives they’ve worked so hard to rebuild...
  • Hide and Seek by Sara Shepard

    Hide and Seek by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    MY FRIENDS AND I USED TO PLAY LYING GAMES.NOW MY TWIN SISTER IS LIVING ONE.When I was alive, my family seemed picture-perfect. My adoptive parents adored me, and my little sister, Laurel, copied my every move. But now that my long-lost twin, Emma, has taken my place to solve my murder, we’re both learning just how flawed my family really is...
  • Secrets of the Time Society by Alexandra Monir

    Secrets of the Time Society by Alexandra Monir

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There exists a secret society where one's ability to travel through time is "gifted" to members only by blood. Those who try to enter the society quickly come to realize that time is a force not to be reckoned with...
  • The Deep by Helen Dunmore

    The Deep by Helen Dunmore

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The third spellbinding story about Sapphy and Conor's adventures in the powerful and dangerous underwater world of Ingo. A devastating flood has torn through the worlds of Air and Ingo, and now, deep in the ocean, a monster is stirring. Mer legend says that only those with dual blood -- half Mer, half human -- can overcome the Kraken...
  • Tide Knot by Helen Dunmore

    Tide Knot by Helen Dunmore

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I can't go back in the house. I'm restless, prickling all over. The wind hits me like slaps from huge invisible hands. But it's not the wind that worries me. It's something else, beyond the storm... Sapphire and her brother Conor can't forget their adventures in Ingo, the mysterious world beneath the sea. They long to see their Mer friends once more...
  • Taurus Eyes by Bonnie Hearn Hill

    Taurus Eyes by Bonnie Hearn Hill

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Having been accepted into the summer writing camp in Monterey, CA, Logan worked so hard for in "Aries Rising," she is on her way to becoming a real published author She needs to impress the camp's instructor, Henry Jaffa, a renowned journalist, paranormal investigator, and fellow Aquarian, whom she hopes will see the promise in her writing and become her mentor...
  • Vanished by Kate Brian

    Vanished by Kate Brian

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Against all odds, Reed Brennan re-established Billings as an underground literary society. She and the new initiates created a glamorous secret headquarters and were ready to show Easton Academy that even though Billings House is gone, the Billings Girls are stronger than ever. But before Reed had a chance to revel in her success, something horrible happened: Noelle disappeared...
  • Never Have I Ever by Sara Shepard

    Never Have I Ever by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    My perfect life was a lie.Now I'd do anything to uncover the truth.Not long ago, I had everything a girl could wish for: amazing friends, an adorable boyfriend, a loving family. But none of them know that I'm gone--that I'm dead. To solve my murder, my long-lost twin sister, Emma, has taken my place. She sleeps in my room, wears my clothes, and calls my parents Mom and Dad...
  • Awakening by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Awakening by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Calla thought that her boyfriend breaking up with her in a text message was the worst thing that could ever happen to her. But just two weeks later, her mother died in a freak accident, and life as she knew it was completely over. With her father heading to California for a new job, they decide that Calla should spend a few weeks with the grandmother she barely knows while he gets them set up...
  • The Third Eye by Lois Duncan

    The Third Eye by Lois Duncan

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When Karen closes her eyes, the visions come. Through time and space, she sees a place where stolen children sleep. And if Karen denies a young policeman's request for help, the children may never go home again. Lois Duncan presents a ticking clock mystery with thrills at every turn...
  • Two Truths and a Lie by Sara Shepard

    Two Truths and a Lie by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Sutton Mercer watches from the afterlife as her long-lost twin, Emma Paxton, takes over her identity to solve her murder. But after ruling out her early leads, Emma still hasn’t found Sutton’s killer. A lot of people wanted her dead—but one name keeps popping up: Thayer Vega...
  • The Lost Boys by Lilian Carmine

    The Lost Boys by Lilian Carmine

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An intensely addictive romance novel about girls, ghosts, and forbidden love, ideal for fans of Stephenie Meyer  Fate has brought them together. But will it also keep them apart? Having moved to a strange town, 17-year-old Joey Gray is feeling a little lost, until she meets a cute, mysterious boy near her new home...
  • Destiny by Gillian Shields

    Destiny by Gillian Shields

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Destiny , the fourth and final book in Gillian Shields’s romantic, gothic Immortal series, Helen, Evie, and Sarah, the Sisters of the Mystic Way, must use their powers to battle for their souls.   Malevolent forces haunt Wyldcliffe Abbey School for Young Ladies, the girls’ elite boarding school on the English moors. Dr. Franzen, an evil man from Helen’s past, has taken over as headmaster...
  • Unbroken by Paula Morris

    Unbroken by Paula Morris

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome back to New Orleans. Where the streets swirl with jazz and beauty. Where the houses breathe with ghosts. A year ago, Rebecca Brown escaped death in a New Orleans cemetery. Now she has returned to this haunting city. She is looking forward to seeing Anton Grey, the boy who may or may not have her heart. But she also meets a ghost: a troubled boy who insists only she can help him...
  • Amber House by Kelly Moore, Larkin Reed

    Amber House by Kelly Moore, Larkin Reed

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "I was sixteen the first time my grandmother died . . ." Sarah Parsons has never seen Amber House, the grand Maryland estate that's been in her family for three centuries. She's never walked its hedge maze nor found its secret chambers; she's never glimpsed the shades that haunt it, nor hunted for lost diamonds in its walls. But all of that is about to change...
  • Thin Space by Jody Casella

    Thin Space by Jody Casella

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ever since the car accident that killed his twin brother, Marshall Windsor has been consumed with guilt and crippled by secrets of that fateful night. He has only one chance to make amends, to right his wrongs and set things right. He must find a Thin Space—a mythical point where the barrier between this world and the next is thin enough for a person to step through to the other side...
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