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"Spark & Heir" by E. L. Tenenbaum
As winter delays impending war, Evalena works quickly to solidify her power and clear her path to the throne. With shadow men at her call, she turns others into pawns in a plan that will stop at nothing and no one to get a long-desired conduit. Through its power and protection, Evalena will build an empire.
Bringing a queen to King Eryk’s court may have been Quirin’s path to return, but it cannot save him from the haunting memories of the sister he could not save. Worse, after embracing a legend of death, the monarchs may most need him to preserve life.
While Cal may have found relative safety at the palace, there’s but two people she can really count as allies. Moreover, King Eryk’s help is not without significant cost, so as Cal prepares to face her treasonous aunt, she must assert herself as a monarch worthy of the crown she lost.
As news of Evalena’s actions trickle across the sea, it’s clear she must be ended, and soon. But Evalena has always been one step ahead, leaving Quirin and Cal with little time to stop her before she succeeds. For as everyone has known for centuries, a conduit will always protect its guardian.
"Chatter" by Dana Gricken
Small town, big secrets...After a freak car accident, seventeen-year-old Zoey Mulligan is shocked to discover she can hear people’s thoughts. She hates it at first, but then realizes she can use it to her advantage—like outsmarting her opponents on the soccer field and learning her crush likes her back.
But when she finds out her stepmother never liked her, her true friends weren’t true at all, and her father sees her as a burden, Zoey moves back in with her mother in the small town of Driftwood. When she arrives, she hears a dark thought planning to kill people in town soon but can’t figure out who it's coming from.
Through their thoughts, Zoey discovers that everyone in town has a secret—from her mother, aunt, and soon-to-be-uncle to her new friends—with some of them being blackmailed by a mysterious figure known as the Watcher. Zoey must sift through their secrets and find out who’s planning murder—and stop them before they wreak havoc on her small town.
"This Above All" by Rachael Quisel
Roo Eaton slapped a no entry sign on his dating life—being asexual in a high school the size of a fishbowl isn’t exactly romance-friendly. But then, on a typical who-set-off-the-alarm-now escapade, he runs into Kate Fontaine—she’s Crestmont U-bound, the holy grail of theater schools, and Roo is plotting his own path there, too.
Juggling directing their senior year play, catching feels, and Kate’s closet full of skeletons (like, metaphorically, but with this girl, who knows?) Roo dives heart first into a mystery that would make even Sherlock raise an eyebrow. As he untangles this spaghetti bowl of secrets, he’s got to figure out how far he’ll go for a chance at being with his person at his dream school.
Will he update his relationship status, or just his understanding of who Kate really is? Packed with humor, heart, and aha moments, Roo’s story is about finding your own spotlight, even when everyone else seems to have written your script for you.
"Isolated From Anarchy" by Kim McMahill
When the sound of an incoming helicopter interrupts Ash and Caleb Solomon’s fishing, it reminds them that their mountaintop community of Beartooth may be isolated, but it’s no secret from the outside world.
Ash, Caleb, and the residents of Beartooth struggle to develop stronger defenses, a new source of electricity, and increase food production to survive the longer, colder winters resulting from the government’s geoengineering program. As the residents of Beartooth search for solutions to a growing number of threats, the rest of the world slips further into anarchy.
With few ways to protect themselves against intruders, the residents retreat from conflict, but will it be enough to save them from their first encounter with their ruthless neighbors?
"Weight of Water" by Jamie Seitz
The majority of Quinn Keaton’s life has been spent living in the shadow of her mother’s debilitating grief. After her brother Griffin's accidental drowning sixteen years ago, her mother retreated from the world with Quinn in tow. Water, strangers, heartache, and the unknown become possible threats to their small, safe life, so she created an insulated bubble where nothing could harm them. But now, Quinn isn't sure where her own insecurities and fears begin and where her mother's end.
When an opportunity arises for Quinn to spend her senior year abroad at an English boarding school, her mother demands she turn it down and threatens to disown her if she goes. Quinn's first act of rebellion opens the door to what her life could be if she is brave enough to live it.
As her world expands in England with new friends and a chance at love, Quinn wonders how she can ever go back to her previous life, even if it means letting her mother go.
"Holiday Hoofbeats" by Shannon Kennedy
The upcoming winter break at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington means Felicia Gibson and her brother, Jack, are already planning their trip home to what he calls the “wet” not western side of the mountains after final exams. While classes keep them busy, so does the time they spend training for future competitions with the college equestrian teams. Felicia rides in three-day eventing on her Warmblood gelding while Jack does Western Games on his off-the track, Thoroughbred.
Felicia and Jack had such an amazing time over Thanksgiving weekend visiting with their family and seeing the people they’d missed during fall semester. It thrilled Jack to spend so much time with his girlfriend, Vicky Miller in real life, since they’d been limited to phone calls, texts and emails while he was hundreds of miles away. Felicia had fun shopping with their younger sister, Robin and her friends on Black Friday.
When their plans implode for the holidays, Felicia and Jack must remain behind in Pullman, but their younger sister has other ideas. Is there a way to take Christmas to Pullman, Washington and reunite the family?
"Power of the One" by JT Adeline
In Hope Cemetery, in the quaint little town of Osceola, Wisconsin, a pentacle lays hidden under a slab of chipped and scarred concrete. It was created by the archangel Michael, and consecrated by the first coven, over two hundred years ago on the floor of what was once a church.
Cejay Daniels is going to use it to remove her protector and friends from Hell, then send the evil bastards who put them there to their lair and lock the gate for good. Getting them back is going to take her cousin Carmen’s new power. A strange one in the shape of a person with one-half light and the other half dark. The only problem is, Carmen’s afraid of her power. It’s going to take time, time they don’t have, for Carmen to learn to control her gift, or this fight will end before it begins.
Powers grow, friendships falter, ghosts pop in, and the demons use others as a conduit to gain control which makes Cejay feel like she’s being pulled in every direction without knowing which to take.
But Cejay Daniels is The One. Born with the blood of Lucifer and chosen before she was born by the Fates to end a curse began mistakenly by her ghostly friend, Aster, to save her dying infant son. She’ll end this fight alone and make a deal with the devil if she has to.
She is The One.
"Sky High" Christy J. Breedlove
In a post apocalypse world, a group of teenage orphans are determined to escape the tortures of a mile-high city government—a literal platform-city in the sky. They seek the refuge of a utopian society that they believe is rumored to exist.
However, all is not well when they reach terra firma. They escape a communist dictatorship only to land in a world of rogue tribes and hybrid monsters.
"Venom and Blaze" by Roz MacLaren
“During a time when unicorns roamed free and dragons cast shadows across the sun, the wise men and women of the land told stories of a troubled future. The legends whispered of a time when every baby born would be blonde, genial and entirely Good. But straight after it would emerge a baby with black hair, dark eyes – and an entirely different nature. They would be called Mirrors, and nobody would know from whence they came or what to do with them once they arrived.”
Venom wants a normal life where no one can tell her what to do, especially her father, King Viper.
Blaze wants to be free, after all, he has been imprisoned in a dungeon since he was a baby.
Thorn wants to get the girl, which is a shame, because the girl has other things on her mind.
At least one of them is going to be disappointed.
"Above the Abyss" by Kim McMahill
Beartooth, Wyoming has survived the first round of stratospheric aerosol injections intended to cool the planet, but predators have found their way to the community for the first time, and their closest neighbor is now ruled by an extremist faction.
Outside of Beartooth, Ash and Caleb Solomon encounter a group of geologists seeking refuge from the violence, division, hate, and corruption plaguing the nation. And, the Continuity in Crisis Bill suspending elections during times of crisis has passed, effectively ending democracy in America, pushing the country toward civil war.
Despite the many challenges within and outside their isolated, mountain community, abandoning Beartooth is no longer an option. Most of its residents believe their location above the abyss will protect them from predators, dangerous neighbors, and a country in crisis, but Ash and Caleb have seen and heard too much to ever feel safe again.
"Not a Sister Wife" by Shannon Kennedy
With the help of her best friend, Samantha Tiernan-Bradley, 14-year-old, Jeannine Vandermiller escaped from the Truth Keepers, a polygamous community in Montana where she’s lived her entire life.
The last thing she intended was losing her beloved family when she ran away because she didn’t want to marry the bishop of their fundamentalist church and become his latest celestial or spiritual wife. She always thought she’d marry the boy next door when he finished law school. They were supposed to have their Promise Ceremony this summer, but that was before the bishop chose her as his next sister-wife.
Jeannine feels all alone in Stewart Falls, Washington. Everything is so different, not just a brand-new school with harder classes for girls. There are strange clothes and forbidden activities like movies, cell phones, computers, jewelry, cheerleaders, and boys too! And Samantha has changed too. Jeannine wonders if she still trusts her best friend.
What can she do? Will she ever be able to return home? And does she want to?
"Stay Center" by Shannon J. Curtin
This is supposed to be 16-year-old Paige Race’s year. Paige knows it, her best friend and teammate Savannah (Van) Raguzzi knows it, and even her coach thinks she’ll earn the league title. But when transfer superstar Keith Nicholson beats out Van for a place on the team, Paige’s plans are, well, shot to hell. And Keith? He just happens to be the same arrogant and annoyingly attractive shooter who beat her last year (and was a giant ass about it).
All Paige wants is to beat Keith for the league championship and keep her friendship with Van as strong as ever, but with Van off the team and in the arms of a sketchy new boyfriend, their once effortless friendship becomes strained. With the pressure mounting, Paige’s dream of competing at the collegiate level becomes a real possibility and a scholarship for the league champion adds even more ferocity to the competition. The more time Paige spends at the range with Keith, the less time she has for Van (not that she notices). Worst of all, the more time she spends with her former rival, the less loathsome she finds him.
When Van doesn’t make it to the winter dance, Paige is forced to make a choice that could cost her the league championship title, her budding romance—even the friendship she’s desperate to save.
"No Horsing Around" by Shannon Kennedy
When the school year ends, Sierra and her friends plan to have a horsy good time riding their horses, teaching summer day camp, and helping their favorite riding instructor arrange a wedding to the local animal-control officer. Difficulties arise before they even pass their final exams. Robin wants to work at the vintage car lot with the beautiful, classic Mustangs she loves. However, her parents are sending her to horse camp whether she likes it or not and she doesn’t!
Meanwhile, Vicky intends to train horses. Does her dream job mean she can’t spend time with her boyfriend before he leaves for college? Horse camp brings in much needed income to the McElroy’s Shamrock Stable, so how can a talented athlete like Sierra tell her family she wants to join the high school basketball and soccer teams at their training camps instead of teaching little beginners again?
After a stunning performance in the spring musical, will Dani ever be able to let her glory-hungry parents know she’d rather be at the barn this summer, not on stage in a theatrical company in Oregon? Catch rider, CeCe worries she won’t be ‘emancipated’ and allowed to remain with the people who offered her a ‘real’ home but are her new friends too busy to help when she needs them most?
It’s a drama-rama summer at Shamrock Stable. What will the five of them do to stay together and ensure each girl’s dreams come true?
"Dr. Z and Matty Take Telegraph" by Ari Rosenschein
It’s the late ’90s—the final days before smartphones and the internet changed the teenage landscape forever. Zack and his mother have moved from Tempe to Berkeley for a fresh start, leaving behind Zack’s father after a painful divorce. A natural athlete, Zack makes the water polo team which equals social acceptance at his new school. Yet he’s more drawn to Matthias, a rebellious skater on the fringes, who introduces him to punk rock, record stores, and the legendary Telegraph Avenue.
As their friendship intensifies, Matthias’s behavior reminds Zack of his absent dad, driving a wedge between him and his mother. Complicating matters is Zaylee, a senior who boosts Zack’s confidence but makes him question his new buddy, Matthias. Faced with all these changes, Zack learns that when life gets messy, he might have to become his own best friend.
Dr. Z and Matty Take Telegraph is about how a friendship can challenge who we are, how we fit in, and where we’re going.
“Dr. Z and Matty Take Telegraph is a keenly and compassionately observed coming-of-age story that glows with truth and yearning. Reading this book feels the way falling in love and making a new best friend alight on the young and hungry heart.”
— Jeff Zentner, award-winning author of In the Wild Light
"The Mermaid Riot" by Joy E. Held
SERENA ROBINSON and TOBI DOYLE have been friends for sixteen years. Living next door to each other along the Ainsley River in South Carolina, they built sandcastles, played pirate ship, and collected shells virtually every day until a freak accident at the Robinson Phosphate Mine Company takes away someone near and dear to Tobi’s heart. From then on, Tobi’s mother, Mrs. Doyle, blames Serena’s father, Mr. Robinson and his thirst for money for her husband’s death. Serena and Tobi are torn apart by their parents’ animosities, and the lifelong friends must go their separate ways in a town devastated by a recent war.
When Serena and Tobi witness the neighborhood apothecary DR. NATHAN TRASK lifting a limp body from his fishing boat, they don’t realize they will be forced back together in a life-or-death effort to save the mermaid, MARI-MORGAN, from Dr. Trask’s greedy plans. Serena has tried for years to convince Tobi that mermaids are real—her nanny ROSIE told her so—but he doesn’t believe. However, Tobi discovers that not only do mermaids exist, but they have magical charms that are almost impossible to resist.
Serena may lose her best friend unless she can return the bewitching merwoman to the sea before she takes Tobi’s heart and soul to the bottom of the ocean.
"Refuge From the World" by Kim McMahill
Ashley McPhee arrived in Beartooth with her mom, Sara, when she was three years old. Ever since Ash can remember, life has been simple and peaceful. She enjoyed a carefree childhood, tending honey bees with her mom and spending time with her best friend, Caleb Solomon. But, life in their idyllic mountaintop community is changing.
After learning of the government’s plan to use a geoengineering process to cool the planet, Ash and Caleb realize they need to step up and take an active role in the community. Along with fear for how the process might impact their food supply, Ash learns her mom’s health is failing.
Sara doesn’t want Ash to face an uncertain future alone and nudges her and Caleb into marriage. Even though they have known each other most of their lives, Ash and Caleb’s relationship has changed drastically in a short period of time. They embrace the challenges of learning about each other, dealing with tragedy and grief, protecting their community from deadly predators and ruthless neighbors, and experiencing epic adventures, while trying to find solutions to a rapidly changing environment and deteriorating world.
"The X-Factor" by Rachel Anne Jones
"Amy would do anything to avoid her ex, but step-brothers are impossible to ignore.”
“It’s been a long four years. Amy is finally a college graduate. She’s excited about a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity. The only setback is it's far from home. She doesn’t know how she feels about leaving her family behind.
Her indecision grows when her step-brother Austin, aka her ex, shows up unexpectedly with a new fiancée. Jealousy hits Amy like a ton of bricks. She quickly calls for reinforcements in the form of her long-term boyfriend, Lee, while she tries to sort out her feelings. Amy tries to avoid Austin in close quarters, but he makes it difficult by cornering her at every opportunity.
When Amy discovers her mom is missing and Lee takes off, Austin is quick to step in to fill his place. Amy and Austin set off in search of her mother, and Amy can’t help but notice it feels like old times. This isn’t their first adventure together. It isn’t long and Austin takes over in every way, just like he did when they were together. Amy guards her heart while Austin attempts to break down her walls. What she doesn’t know is why.
Her every instinct tells her to run the other way, but she has to rescue her mother. It’s a long road to travel. Amy and Austin sift through the emotions of their past in order to find closure, causing buried feelings to re-surface, making it difficult to differentiate between the past and the present. Amy knows there’s no future with Austin, but she can’t help wishing there could be. If Austin isn’t a choice for her, why do all his actions suggest otherwise?
"Four O'Clock Montana Time" by Shannon Kennedy
14-year-old, Samantha Tiernan-Bradley and her soldier father always thought of each other at four o’clock, Montana Time regardless of where the U.S. Army assigned him. When they sent him to Afghanistan, he came back in a flag-draped coffin.
It’s always been just the two of them. Without him, Samantha feels all alone. Now, it’s four o’clock, Montana Time and she’s thinking about Dad. Is he thinking about her?
Then, she discovers her mother is alive! She’s coming to take Samantha away from her grandparents and a future in the fundamentalist, polygamous community that she and her father considered to be their ‘real’ State-side home. Dad’s plans for her included a Promise Ceremony and an arranged marriage since she’s soon to graduate from eighth grade, but Mom’s arrival changes everything.
Samantha’s had adventures before, but nothing prepares her for Stewart Falls, Washington with her mother, veterinarian, Dr. Cathy Tiernan. Academics for girls, movies, cell phones, computers, clothes, jewelry, cheerleaders, and boys too – just the whole culture….shock! What would Dad think?
How is she going to cope with all this? And what will she do at four o’clock, Montana Time?
"Light & Kingdom" by E. L. Tenenbaum
In the capital of AhrenCairn, Evalena finally feels a powerful pull of LightForce and sets out after her niece, intending to take the conduit by any means necessary. But as palace guards suddenly start appearing in the Southlands, a suspicious Cal flees.
Quirin can’t believe he pledged to bring the usurped queen to the very court that sent him away. Even more, he can’t guarantee he isn’t leading her into more danger than they’re running from. But Cal doesn’t know who to trust, and she just might be the leverage Quirin needs to return to his king's service.
With Evalena’s men at their backs and a deadly mountain pass looming ahead, Quirin must safely guide Cal to her one chance at winning back her throne.
If they can survive the journey there first.
"Angel of Time" by E. Graziani
Alice Ferro didn’t travel 500 years into the past to save her soulmate from persecution only to discover her journey had been in vain. Forced to return from 1512 Italy to 2029 Boston without him, she can’t focus on family, school, or friends as thoughts of Claudio constantly flood her mind. When she discovers her love’s future is dire, Alice decides she must return to the past to save him once and for all.
With a little help from her friends and a lot of determination, Alice sets off to rescue Claudio. Unfortunately, she hadn’t planned on things going so terribly wrong, and she soon finds her own life in peril.
Written with charm and intelligence, the sequel to Alice of the Rocks encompasses everything you could want in a young adult, time-travel romance. Adventure, true love, intrigue, and dynamic characters fill the pages alongside the elegant landscape of Renaissance Italy.