A debut of profound depth about how grief can isolate us—and how it can open the world in magical ways. Suzy Swanson knows the real reason that Franny Jackson died. Everyone says that there’s no way to be certain…that it was an accident…that sometimes things just happen. But Suzy knows there must be a better explanation, a scientific one. Haunted by the loss of her best friend—and by a final, terrible moment between them—she retreats into a silent world of her own imagination. Convinced that Franny’s death was the result of a rare jellyfish sting, Suzy crafts a plan to prove the truth, even if it means traveling around the globe…alone. But the more she looks inward, the more she begins to recognize the astonishing wonder of the universe around her…and discovers the potential for love and hope in her own backyard. In achingly heartfelt writing, this powerful debut novel is the story of a young girl confronting life, death, and immortality in a way that is both uniquely her own and universal to us all.
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Inherit the Stars
Three royal houses ruling three interplanetary systems are on the brink of collapse, and they must either ally together or tear each other apart in order for their people to survive. Asa, the youngest daughter of the house of Fane, which has been fighting a devastating food crisis, believes she can save her family’s livelihood by posing as her oldest sister in an arranged marriage with Eagle, heir to the throne of Westlet, a planet rich with food, but desperate for the new energy source that Fane can provide. As Asa and Eagle begin to forge a genuine bond, will the appearance of her mother, a traitor who defected to the house of Galton and who holds secrets from her past, endanger the tenuous alliance?
The Accident Season
For fans of We Were Liars and How I Live Now comes an addictive, sexy, twisty YA novel you won’t want to miss.
Every October Cara and her family become inexplicably and unavoidably accident-prone. Some years it’s bad, like the season when her father died, and some years it’s just a lot of cuts and scrapes. This accident season—when Cara, her ex-stepbrother, Sam, and her best friend, Bea, are 17—is going to be a bad one. But not for the reasons they think.
Cara is about to learn that not all the scars left by the accident season are physical: There’s a long-hidden family secret underneath the bumps and bruises. This is the year Cara will finally fall desperately in love, when she’ll start discovering the painful truth about the adults in her life, and when she’ll uncover the dark origins of the accident season—whether she’s ready or not.
Nightfall
A story where edge-of-your-seat horror meets post-apocalyptic thriller, perfect for fans of Lois Lowry and The Mazerunner.
Night is coming.
On Marin’s island, sunrise doesn’t come every twenty-four hours—it comes every twenty-eight years. Each sunset, the townspeople sail to the south, where they wait out the long Night. None of the adults will tell Marin, Kana, or their friend Line exactly what happens when they leave the island, but when the three are accidentally left behind in the gathering dusk, they learn the truth: at Night, their town belongs to others, and those others want them gone.
Fleeing through the now-alien landscape that used to be their home, the three confront shocking transformations and uncomfortable truths about themselves. They are challenged to trust one another or perish. Marin, Kana, and Line must find their way off the island . . . before the Night finds them.
What We Saw
The party last Saturday night is a bit of a blur.
Kate Weston can piece together most of the bash at John Doone’s house: shots with Stacey Stallard, Ben Cody taking her keys and getting her home early—the feeling that maybe he’s becoming more than just the guy she’s known since they were kids. But when a picture of Stacey passed out over Deacon Mills’s shoulder appears online the next morning, Kate suspects she doesn’t have all the details, and begins to ask questions.
What really happened at the party after she left?
Who was still there?
What did they see?
When Stacey levels charges against four of Kate’s classmates, the whole town erupts into controversy. Facts that can’t be ignored begin to surface, and every answer Kate finds leads back to the same question: Where was Ben when a terrible crime was committed?
This story—inspired by real events—from debut novelist Aaron Hartzler takes an unflinching look at silence as a form of complicity. It’s a book about the high stakes of speaking up, and the razor thin line between guilt and innocence that so often gets blurred, one hundred and forty characters at a time.
Legacy of Kings
Imagine a time when the gods turn a blind eye to the agony of men, when the last of the hellions roam the plains and evil stirs beyond the edges of the map. A time when cities burn, and in their ashes, empires rise. Alexander, Macedonia’s sixteen-year-old heir, is on the brink of discovering his fated role in conquering the known world.
Weaving fantasy with the salacious and fascinating details of real history, New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Herman reimagines the greatest emperor the world has ever known: Alexander the Great, in the first book of the Blood of Gods and Royals series.
Illuminae
This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. That was before her planet was invaded. Now with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to fight their way onto the evacuating fleet with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.
But the warship is the least of their problems. A deadly plague has broken out. The fleet’s AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their enemy, and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a tangled web of data to find the truth, it’s clear only one person can help her bring it all to light . . . and it’s the ex-boyfriend she swore she’d never speak to again.
Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents—including emails, schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews and more—Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes.
Not If I See You First
Everyone has secrets. Everyone is a secret. In the tradition of novels by Gayle Forman and Matthew Quick comes a witty and poignant YA debut about a blind teen girl navigating life and love in high school. Parker Grant is a junior in high school who loves to run, has great friends, and isn’t afraid to speak her mind—especially when it comes to how stupid some people can be around a blind person like her. The only topic to avoid is how Parker feels about the boy who broke her heart in eighth grade…who has just transferred to her school. And as long as she can keep giving herself gold stars for every day she hasn’t cried since her dad’s death three months ago, she’ll be just fine. Right? Not If I See You First is an exploration of the blindness that comes with being a teenager (visually impaired or not). Combining a fiercely engaging voice with true heart, this story sheds light on those feelings of insecurity that exist in both new relationships and the oldest friendships.
A Step Toward Falling
Emily has nothing in common with Lucas. She’s a politically active senior with a heavy AP course load and he’s a football player on an undefeated team aiming for the first State Championship their high school has ever had. But one night, during a pivotal game, Emily and Lucas share a terrible experience: They witness Belinda, a student with disabilities, being attacked—and, for different reasons, both fail to intervene.
When their school finds out, they are forced to do community service at a center for people with disabilities as punishment. Lucas and Emily begin to realize that first impressions aren’t always right—both the impressions they had about each other as well as those about the people they work with at the center. Soon they feel like maybe they’re starting to make a real difference. Like they would be able to do the right thing, if they could do that night all over again. Like they could help not only those at the center but also each other.
But when Belinda finally returns to school, Emily and Lucas have to figure out if they can do anything that will actually help the one person they hurt most.
A History of Glitter and Blood
Sixteen-year-old Beckan and her friends are the only fairies brave enough to stay in Ferrum when war breaks out between the immortal fairies, the subterranean gnomes, and the tightropers sent to liberate the fairies. In order to earn money and buy food, Beckan and her friends turn tricks for the gnomes—a risky proposition, as gnomes are known for eating fairies, leaving them alive yet still feeling the pain of their devoured limbs. As the fairies venture into this underworld, they find themselves tentatively forming unlikely friendships with the gnomes themselves. When Beckan meets Piccolo, a tightroper, he joins their circle and introduces them all to his vision for the future of Ferrum, and soon these teens find themselves united by a common goal. However, there is more to Piccolo and his plans than Beckan realizes, and she soon finds herself caught between her loyalty to her friends, her desire for peace, and a love she never expected.