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  • Spy x Family, Vol. 10 by Tatsuya Endo, 遠藤達哉

    Spy x Family, Vol. 10 by Tatsuya Endo, 遠藤達哉

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 21 ratings
    An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an assassin and a telepath!Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world...
  • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 55 ratings
    Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax...
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  • The Dauntless by Jillian Dodd

    The Dauntless by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Save the Prince. Save the World. Spy Girl.Huntley Von Allister's cover is firmly in place.She's brilliantly completed her first four missions.But she is done.Done working for Black X.Done trying to untangle the mystery of what got her mother killed.And very, very done with love...
  • The Phoenix by Jillian Dodd, Hayden Bishop

    The Phoenix by Jillian Dodd, Hayden Bishop

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the sixth book in a sizzling series filled with action and adventure. Fans of The Selection and The Hunger Games will discover a heart-pounding thrill ride of espionage and suspense set in glittering high society.A single sentence is muttered from the lips of an assassin dangling from a four-story building, “It starts in Montrovia...
  • Hunting November by Adriana Mather

    Hunting November by Adriana Mather

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Surviving a few weeks at the world's most lethal boarding school was one thing. But now comes the real test: Can November Adley find her missing father before her enemies find her? Subterfuge is the name of the game in this sequel to Killing November.After surviving a crash course in espionage at the mysterious Academy Absconditi, November has only one purpose: finding her missing father...
  • The Echelon by Jillian Dodd, Hayden Bishop

    The Echelon by Jillian Dodd, Hayden Bishop

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the seventh book in a sizzling series filled with action and adventure. Fans of The Selection and The Hunger Games will discover a heart-pounding thrill ride of espionage and suspense set in glittering high society.
The Echelon’s plan to change the shape of the world is succeeding. The disease was released. People are dying...
  • The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 52 ratings
    Avery’s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about.To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers...
  • The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Four brothers. Two missions. One explosive read. Jennifer Lynn Barnes returns to the world of her #1 bestselling Inheritance Games trilogy, and the stakes have never been higher.    Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger...
  • The Valiant by Jillian Dodd, Hayden Bishop

    The Valiant by Jillian Dodd, Hayden Bishop

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the fourth book in a sizzling series filled with action and adventure. Fans of The Selection and The Hunger Games will discover a heart-pounding thrill ride of espionage and suspense set in glittering high society...
  • A Harvest of Thorns by Corban Addison

    A Harvest of Thorns by Corban Addison

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corporate executive with nothing left to lose.In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of workers, mostly young women...
  • Obsession by Traci Hunter Abramson

    Obsession by Traci Hunter Abramson

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Pop singer Kendra Blake grew up in the spotlight as the daughter of a prominent actor. Now famous in her own right, she’s had enough with bodyguards shadowing her every move. So when a bomb goes off backstage at one of her concerts, she gives in to her urge to flee. In search of the privacy she’s lacked her whole life, Kendra escapes to a remote cabin in Arizona...
  • Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis

    Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Inheritance Games meets Ocean's Eleven in this cinematic heist thriller where a cutthroat competition brings together the world's best thieves and one thief is playing for the highest stakes of all: her mother's life.At only seventeen years old, Ross Quest is already a master thief, especially adept at escape plans...
  • This Golden State by Marit Weisenberg

    This Golden State by Marit Weisenberg

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Winslow family lives by five principles:1. No one can know your real name.2. Don’t stay in one place too long.3. If you sense anything is wrong, go immediately to the meeting spot.4. Keeping our family together is everything.5. We wish we could tell you who we are, but we can’t. Please—do not ask...
  • Christie, Agatha - The ABC Murders by Christie Agatha

    Christie, Agatha - The ABC Murders by Christie Agatha

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    When Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already looking into the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one letter down, twenty-five to go.There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling card is to leave the ABC Railway Guide beside each victim's body...
  • Unbelievable by Sara Shepard

    Unbelievable by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling series The fourth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars. Four pretty little liars’ charmed lives have turned into living nightmares. Emily’s been shipped off to Iowa to live with her überconservative cousins. Aria’s boyfriend is behind bars—because of her...
  • Grace in Autumn: - A Novel - by Lori Copeland

    Grace in Autumn: - A Novel - by Lori Copeland

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's November, and as the island residents prepare for the coming months of cold and snow, they are surprised by God's unexpected lessons of humility, trust, and hope. Authors Lori Copeland and Angela Hunt revisit the Island of Heavenly Daze in the second book of the highly acclaimed series about a small town where angelic intervention is commonplace and the Thanksgiving feast a community affair...
  • Twelve by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Twelve by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 28 ratings
    Cassie Hobbes has been working with the FBI since she was a teenager. Now twenty-three years old, she and her fellow Naturals have taken over running the program that taught them everything they know. As a unit, they're responsible for identifying new Naturals--and solving particularly impossible cases...
  • Perfect by Sara Shepard

    Perfect by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The #1  New York Times  bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars and the upcoming HBO spin-off series Pretty Little Original Sin ! In Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four perfect-looking girls aren’t nearly as perfect as they seem. Aria can’t resist her forbidden ex. Hanna is on the verge of losing her BFF. Emily is freaking out over a simple kiss...
  • The Man He Never Was by James L. Rubart

    The Man He Never Was by James L. Rubart

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    What if You Woke up One Morning and the Darkest Parts of Yourself Were Gone? Toren Daniels vanished eight months back, and his wife and kids have moved on—with more than a little relief. Toren was a good man but carried a raging temper that often exploded without warning. So when he shows up on their doorstep out of the blue, they’re shocked to see him alive. But more shocked to see he’s changed...
  • Run by Francine Pascal

    Run by Francine Pascal

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A repackage of a smart and sexy series whose heroine was born without the fear gene.Gaia is a brilliant, beautiful girl who is trained in three kinds of martial arts, has a reflex speed that’s off the charts, and can climb mountains, box, wrestle, and break codes in four languages. She has no trouble throwing a grown man over her shoulders...
  • The Deceivers by Kristen Simmons, Soneela Nankani

    The Deceivers by Kristen Simmons, Soneela Nankani

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Vale Hall, the school for aspiring con artists.When Brynn Hilder is recruited to Vale, it seems like the elite academy is her chance to start over, away from her mom's loser boyfriend and her rundown neighborhood...
  • A Question of Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro

    A Question of Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    In the explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes series, Holmes and Watson think they’re finally in the clear after graduating from Sherringford…but danger awaits in the hallowed halls of Oxford. Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson finally have a chance to start over...
  • They Call Me Alexandra Gastone by T.A. Maclagan

    They Call Me Alexandra Gastone by T.A. Maclagan

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When your life is a lie, how do you know what’s real?Alexandra Gastone has a simple plan: graduate high school, get into Princeton, work for the CIA, and serve her great nation. She was told the plan back when her name was Milena Rokva, back before the real Alexandra and her family were killed in a car crash...
  • Sam by Francine Pascal

    Sam by Francine Pascal

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A repackage of a smart and sexy series whose heroine was born without the fear gene.Gaia is a brilliant, beautiful girl who is trained in three kinds of martial arts, has a reflex speed that’s off the charts, and can climb mountains, box, wrestle, and break codes in four languages. She has no trouble throwing a grown man over her shoulders...
  • Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart

    Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Jenny Silver's trip to the Pyrenees is intended to be more than a welcome holiday in a beautiful part of France. Perturbed by a letter from her cousin Gillian who has been like a sister to her, Jenny has come to Gavarnie in an attempt to discover why Gill has entered a convent. On arrival, however, she finds herself caught up in a mesh of intrigue...
  • Velvet Undercover by Teri Brown

    Velvet Undercover by Teri Brown

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Samantha Donaldson’s family has always done its duty for the British Crown. In the midst of World War I, seventeen-year-old Sam follows in their footsteps, serving her country from the homefront as a Girl Guide and messenger for the intelligence organization MI5...
  • Get Even by Gretchen McNeil

    Get Even by Gretchen McNeil

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars in Gretchen McNeil’s witty and suspenseful novel about four disparate girls who join forces to take revenge on high school bullies and create dangerous enemies for themselves in the process. Bree, Olivia, Kitty, and Margot have nothing in common—at least that’s what they’d like the students and administrators of their elite private school to think...
  • Savannah from Savannah by Denise Hildreth Jones, Denise Hildreth

    Savannah from Savannah by Denise Hildreth Jones, Denise Hildreth

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I'm coming home to prove something..to my city, my mother, and myself. It is a place known to most as Savannah. It is a place known to me as home. I wish I could tell you it was my love for this city that precipitated my return. But I did not return out of a mere longing for home. I returned because I have something to prove to home. I am Savannah...from Savannah...
  • At Sea by Emma Fedor

    At Sea by Emma Fedor

    Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Cara and Brendan first meet, she’s fresh out of college, recovering from the recent death of her mother and spending time on Martha’s Vineyard while trying to figure out her next steps. She’s swept away by Brendan’s humor and charm and intoxicated by his thrilling, dangerous secret: he claims that he can breathe underwater.He shows Cara his gills...
  • Ink and Ashes by Valynne E. Maetani

    Ink and Ashes by Valynne E. Maetani

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Claire Takata has never known much about her father, who passed away when she was a little girl. But on the anniversary of his death, not long before her seventeenth birthday, she finds a mysterious letter from her deceased father, addressed to her stepfather. Claire never even knew that they had met...
  • Ink and Ashes by Valynne E. Maetani

    Ink and Ashes by Valynne E. Maetani

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Claire Takata has never known much about her father, who passed away ten years ago. But on the anniversary of his death, she finds a letter from her deceased father to her stepfather. Before now, Claire never had a reason to believe they even knew each other...
  • Lock & Mori by Heather W. Petty

    Lock & Mori by Heather W. Petty

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In modern-day London, two brilliant high school students—one Sherlock Holmes and a Miss James “Mori” Moriarty—meet. A murder will bring them together. The truth very well might drive them apart. Before they were mortal enemies, they were much more… FACT: Someone has been murdered in London’s Regent’s Park. The police have no leads...
  • They're Watching You by Chelsea Ichaso

    They're Watching You by Chelsea Ichaso

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    When a secret society has you in their sights, it can lead to power, privilege... or death.It's been two weeks since Polly St. James went missing. The police, the headmistress of Torrey-Wells Academy, and even her parents have ruled her a runaway. But not Maren, her best friend and roommate...
  • The Spies That Bind by Ally Carter

    The Spies That Bind by Ally Carter

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Listening Length: 2 hours and 55 minutesAn original novella and prequel to Ally Carter's New York Times best-selling Gallagher Girls series, exclusively on Audible.The first day at a new school is tough for any kid, but it's especially scary when you're going to a school for spies...
  • Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan

    Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan

    Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    I’m the daughter of murdered parents.I’m the friend of a dead girl.I’m the lover of my enemy.And I will have my revenge.   In the wake of the devastating destruction of the luxury yacht Persephone, just three souls remain to tell its story—and two of them are lying. Only Frances Mace knows the terrifying truth, and she’ll stop at nothing to avenge the murders of everyone she held dear...
  • The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro

    The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro

    Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Watson and Holmes: A match made in disaster.Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a winter-break reprieve after a fall semester that almost got them killed. But Charlotte isn’t the only Holmes with secrets, and the mood at her family’s Sussex estate is palpably tense...
  • The Midnight Dance by Nikki Katz

    The Midnight Dance by Nikki Katz

    Rated: 3.22 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When the music stops, the dance begins.Seventeen-year-old Penny is a lead dancer at the Grande Teatro, a finishing school where she and eleven other young women are training to become the finest ballerinas in Italy. Tucked deep into the woods, the school is overseen by the mysterious and handsome young Master who keeps the girls ensconced in the estate – and in the only life Penny has never known...
  • A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo

    A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo

    Rated: 3.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 18 ratings
    The most important thing is that Jess Wong is Angie Redmond's best friend, even if Angie can't see how she truly feels. It's okay that Jess is the girl on the sidelines that nobody notices. That means she's free to watch everyone else and be at Angie's side. But when Angie starts falling for Margot, a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess can already see what's going to happen...
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