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Fracture by Megan Miranda

By the time Delaney Maxwell was pulled from a Maine lake's icy waters by her best friend, Decker Phillips, her heart had stopped working.  She was dead.

But somehow Delaney survived-- despite the brain scans that show irreparable damage.  Everyone wants Delaney to be fine, but she knows she's far from normal.  Pulled by strange sensations she can't control of explain, Delaney now finds herself drawn to the dying, and when she meets Troy Varga, a boy who recently emerged from a coma with the same abilities, she is relived to share this strange new existence.  Unsure if her altered brain is predicting death or causing it, Delaney must figure out if their gift is a miracle, a freak of nature-- or something else much more frightening...

All These Things I've Done  by Gabrielle Zevin

Chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is increasingly scarce, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty.  And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the 16 year old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine-- going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant DA's son, and avoiding her loser ex-boyfriend.  That is until someone in her inner circle ends up poisoned by the chocolate her family manufactures and the police think she's to blame.  Suddenly, Anya finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight-- at school, in the news, and, most important, within her mafiya family.

You Against Me by Jenny Downham

If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge, right?.... When Mikey's sister claims a boy assaulted her, his world begins to fall apart.

If your brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him, don't you.... When Ellie's brother is charged with the offense, her world begins to unravel.

When Mikey and Ellie meet, two worlds collide.

Illuminated by Erica Orloff

Some loves are not meant to last.

Like Romeo and Juliet, Heloise and Abelard were doomed from the start, and their romance was destined to pass into history.  Yet when 16 year old Callie Martin discovers a diary hidden within an antique book, their story-- and hers-- takes on another life.  For the diary leads Callie to the brilliant and handsome August, who is just as mysterious as the secret hidden within the pages.

The attraction between the two is undeniable.  And as the truth behind the diary-- and that of Heloise and Abelard's ancient romance-- is unveiled, their romance becomes all-consuming.  Will their live-- a love that burns as bright as a shooting star-- flame out? Or will these star crossed lovers be able to defy history?

Legacy by Molly Cochran

When Katy Jessevar's widowed father exiles her to a boarding school in Whitfield, Massachusetts, fate opens the door to her future and her past.  Katy soon learns that like many of the old families in town, her never-spoken-of mother was from a notorious witching line, and that she, too, possesses special powers.  With dark forces converging on Whitfield, it's up to Katy to unravel her family's many secrets to save the boy she loves-- and the town itself-- from destruction.

Modelland by Tyra Banks

No one gets in without being asked.  And with her untamable hair, large forehead, and gawky body, Tookie De La Creme isn't expecting an invitation.  Modelland-- the exclusive, mysterious place on top of the mountain-- never dares to make an appearance in her dreams.  But someone has plans for Tookie.  Before she can blink her mismatched eyes, Tookie finds herself in the very place every girl in the world obsesses about.  And three unlikely girls have joined her.

Only seven extraordinary young women become Intoxibellas each year.  Famous. Worshipped.  Magical.  What happens to those who don't make it?  Well no one really speaks of that.  some things are better left unsaid.

Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma

Chloe's older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can't be captured or caged.  After a night with Ruby's friends goes horribly wrong and Chloe discovers a dead body floating in the reservoir, Chloe is sent away--- away from home, away from Ruby.

But Ruby will do anything to get her sister back, and when Chloe returns home at last, she finds a precarious and deadly balance waiting for her.  As Chloe flirts with the truth that Ruby has hidden deeply away, the fragile line between life and death is redrawn by the complex bonds of sisterhood.

The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary

The account presented in THE BORDEN TRAGEDY was excerpted and adapted from the unpublished memoirs of a (thus far) unknown lady of Fall River, MA.  Since the typewritten, unedited manuscript came to light at a 1990 estate sale, its provenance has been established to a satisfying degree.  As part of the contents of an unopened trunk, it resided since the turn of the century in the basement of a private archive in Boston.

The identity of the author is unknown but they leave tantalizing hints throughout the text.  Her apparent intimacy with the Borden family and her knowledge of Fall River's history and social structure have prompted theorists to champion several candidates, even the ambiguous and elusive "family friend", Miss Alice Russell.  

Presented in graphic novel format, this tale will delight old fans of the Borden lore and capture new ones.

The Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler

It's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives.  They've been best friends almost as long-- up until last November, when everything changed.  Things have been awkward ever since, but when Josh's family gets an America Online CD-ROM in the mail, his mom makes him bring it over so Emma can install it on her new computer.  When they sign on, they're automatically logged onto Facebook... but Facebook hasn't been invented yet.

Josh and Emma are looking at their profiles fifteen years in the future.  Their spouses, careers, homes, and status updates-- it's all there. But it's not what they expected.  And every time they refresh their pages, their future changes.  As they grapple with the ups and downs of what their lives hold, they're forced to confront what they're doing right-- and wrong-- in the present.

The Death Cure by James Dasher

Thomas knows that WICKED can't be trusted.  They stole his memories and locked him inside the Maze.  They forced him to the brink of death by dropping him in the wilds of the Scorch.  And they took the Gladers, his only friends, from him.  Now WICKED says that the time for lies is over.  That they've collected all the data they can from the Trials and will rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission: to complete the blueprint for the cure for the Flare.  But Thomas must undergo one final test.

What WICKED doesn't know, however, is that Thomas has already remembered far more than they think.  And it's enough to prove that he can't believe a word of what WICKED says.  The time for lies is over.  And the truth is more dangerous than Thomas could ever have imagined.

The Scorch Trials  by James Dasher

Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end.  No more puzzles.  No more variables.  And no more running.  Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back.  But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to.  Burned by sun flares and baked by a new brutal climate, the earth is a wasteland.  Government has disintegrated-- and with it, order-- and now Cranks, people cover in festering wounds and driven to murderous insanity by the infectious disease known as the Flare, roam the crumbling cities hunting for their next victim... and meal.

The Gladers are far from done running.  Instead of freedom, they find themselves faced with another trial.  They must cross the Scorch, the most burned-out section of the world, and arrive at a safe haven in two weeks.  And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.  Thomas can only wonder-- does he hold the secret to freedom somewhere in his mind? Or will he forever be at the mercy of WICKED? 

The Maze Runner by James Dasher

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name.  He has no recollection of his parents, his home, or how he got where he is.  His memory is empty.  But he's not alone.  When the lift's doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade, a large expanse enclosed by stone walls.  Just like Thomas, the Gladers don't know why or how they got to the Glade.  All they know is that every morning, for as long as anyone can remember, the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened.  Every night, for just as long, they've closed tight.  Every thirty days a new boy is delivered in the lift.  And no one wants to be stuck in the Maze after dark.

The Gladers were expecting Thomas's arrival.  But the next day, a girl is sent up-- the first girl ever to arrive in the Glade.  And more surprising yet is the message she delivers.  The Gladers have always been convinced that if they can solve the maze that surrounds the Glade, they might find their way home... wherever that may be.  But it's looking more and more as if the Maze is unsolvable.  And something about the girl's arrival is starting to make Thomas feel different.  Something is telling him that he just might have some answers-- if he can only find a way to retrieve the dark secrets locked within his own mind.

Made for Each Other (My Boyfriend is a Monster #2)  by Paul D. Storrie

Tom Stone stepped into Seward High and into Maria McBride's life like a bolt of lightning.  He's the perfect guy for Maria-- nice, smart, and well-built.  there's just one problem: his family.  Tom's father is the town's new funeral director, and business is booming.  The bodies are piling up thick and fast in Persephone Falls, Alaska, so Dr. Stone keeps Tom up late at night working in the funeral home.  And it's clear that Dr. Stone and his creepy assistant, Graves, don't want Maria around.

Maria knows Tom was made for her.  She's determined to find out what Dr. Stone has against her.  When Tom refuses to stand up to his father, Maria begins to stitch together the clues... and finds out the Stones are into recycling in ways she never could have imagined.

Twisted  by Sara Shepard

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.

Aria's jealous of her boyfriend's new exchange student.  Spencer's getting a little too cozy with her soon-to-be-stepbrother.  Hanna's one scandalous photo away from ruining her dad's Senate campaign.  And Emily will do anything to get a swim scholarship.  Worst of all: Last spring break in Jamaica, they did something unforgivable.  The girls are desperate to forget that fateful night, but they should know better than anyone that all secrets wash ashore... eventually.

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