Following her parent’s recent divorce, seventeen year old Lily Crawford is forced to leave New York behind and move with her mother and younger brother to the small, quiet town of Crescent Falls. With a few new friends and graduation around the corner, things are starting to look up. That is, until they begin to go terribly wrong. As the new girl from the big city, she is automatically accused when a student’s car is horribly vandalized and later becomes the prime suspect when peop...

A masterful twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist.Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens...

Winner of the National Book AwardJesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much ...

Every parent’s worst fear has become her reality…SOME LIESIt only takes a minute for Amy McMurray to run from her car to the cash machine. That brief, unforgivable minute is enough time for her infant son to be snatched from the back seat and for Amy’s family, her marriage, and her peace of mind to be shattered beyond repair.ARE TOO CLOSETo everyone who meets him, Carl Jorgenson seems an exemplary sin...

Sometimes you've got to give it a little Sass......I, Cassandra Straight, have loved Reed Shamrock to distraction since I was a teenager. I even watched him fall in love with someone else and almost get married.A year ago, when he walked into his house and found his fiancée’s face in his best friend’s crotch, his life changed forever and it hasn’t been the same since.On his first night out since the horrible incident, we run into the ex-ska...

A Lambda Literary Award Finalist from the author of Don’t Let Me Go. **“[A] gripping tale of love, hate of differences and owning up to who you are.”—**VOYARobert Westfall’s life is falling apart—everywhere but in math class. That’s the one place where problems always have a solution. But in the world beyond high school, his father is terminally ill, his mother is squabbling with ...

From the bestselling author of Before I Go, a “witty, inventive, and bittersweet” (Beth Hoffman, New York Timesbestselling author) love story for anyone who’s ever wanted something—or someone—just out of reach.Can you miss something you never had?Jubilee Jenkins is no ordinary librarian. With a rare allergy to human touch, any skin-to-skin contact could literally kill her. But after retreating into solitude for nearly ten years, J...

I've lit a fuse and I'm waiting for the explosion.All her life, sixteen-year-old Neva has lived in Homeland, completely cut off from the rest of the world.All her life, she has been told everything beyond is an unlivable wasteland.All this time, the government has fed her nothing but lies.Now, Neva keeps a tattered notebook under her mattress and fills it with the names of The Missing, those who have vanished with no explanation.

An edgy, realistic debut novel praised by the New York Times bestselling author of Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys, as “a beautiful reminder that amid our broken pieces we can truly find ourselves.”Alexi Littrell hasn’t told anyone what happened to her over the summer by her backyard pool. Instead, she hides in her closet, counts the slats in the air vent, and compulsively scratches the back of her neck, trying to make the outside hurt more than the inside does—and deal with t...

What would bring you happiness in a world that was suddenly empty?For Lucy Crane, the answer is simple: her daughter. When her husband is killed in a tragic accident, Lucy loses her desire to live, but only one thing keeps her going – her unborn daughter. Focusing on being a mother helps Lucy cope with her loss, but kids grow up and they leave home, eventually. Eighteen years after losing her first and only love, Lucy is faced with the opportunity to find the happiness for which sh...

Some schools have honor codes.Others have handbooks.Themis Academy has the Mockingbirds.From the glossy pages of its admissions brochure, the prestigious Themis Academy appears perfect in every way: exceptional academics, extraordinary students, the kind of extracurriculars to make an Ivy League proud, and zero instances of student misbehavior. But this boarding school isn't as pristine as it appears. There's a dark underbelly to the perfect record the Themis...

Destiny Weller and her twin sister, Livvy, were as close as two sisters could be–until Livvy chose to become a vampire, leaving Destiny behind. Now Destiny will do anything to bring Livvy back to the family. But in Livvy's world of endless darkness, she knows there is only one way she and Destiny can be reunited –– Destiny must become a vampire too. . . .Which sister will live to see the glow of the next full moon?Whose lips will savor the taste of night?Who will su...