• Ash Princess - Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother was murdered before her eyes. Theo was crowned Ash Princess - a title of shame to bear in her new life as a prisoner. For 10 years Theo has been a captive in her own palace. She's endured abuse and ridicule of the Kaiser and his court. But she does have a weapon: her mind. And power isn't always won on the battlefield.

• The Scorpio Races - The Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At 19, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. Puck Connolly never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. She's the first girl to ever ride the competition. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen. 

• Daughters of Ruin - Rhea, Cadis, Suki, and Iren are called sisters but are enemies. A brutal war ravaged their kingdoms. Rhea’s father was the victor. As a gesture of peace, King Declan brought the daughters of his rivals to live under his protection—and his ever-watchful eye. For ten years they have trained together as diplomats and warriors, raised to unite their kingdoms in peace. But there is no peace among sisters, and all plans shatter when the palace is attacked. 

• Flame in the Mist - 17-year-old Mariko is sent to the imperial palace to meet her betrothed. But the journey is cut short when Mariko’s convoy is attacked by bandits who’ve been hired to kill Mariko before she reaches the palace. Mariko narrowly escapes to the woods, where she plots her revenge. Dressed as a peasant boy, she sets out to infiltrate the bandits and hunt down those responsible for the target on her back. 

• Royal Bastards - Tilla's father, a Lord, cast her aside as soon as he had trueborn children. Tilla secretly longs to sit by her father’s side, enjoying feasts with the rest of the family. Instead, she sits with the other bastards. At a feast honoring the visiting princess Lyriana, the royal shocks everyone by sitting at the Bastards’ Table. Before she knows it, Tilla is leading the sheltered princess on a late-night escapade. They stumble upon a crime they were never meant to witness.

• The Star-Touched Queen - Maya has a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction. Her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience. Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. But Akaran has secrets -- thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. Soon, Maya suspects her life is in danger. With the fate of the human and Otherworldly realms hanging in the balance, Maya must unravel an ancient mystery that spans reincarnated lives to save those she loves the most.

• The Winner's Curse - As a general's daughter, 17-year-old Kestrel enjoys an extravagant and privileged life. She impulsively buys, Arin, a slave, at the market. Though they try to fight it, they can't help but fall in love. In order to be together, they must betray their people . . . But to be loyal to their countries, they must betray each other. 

• The Cruel Prince - Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him--and face the consequences.

• The Kiss of Deception - Princess Lia doesn't want to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance. She flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. Lia then meets two mysterious and handsome strangers — unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. 

• Red Queen - Reds are commoners, ruled by superpowered Silver elite . Mare Barrow, a 17-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. Fearful of Mare's potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime.

• The City of Brass - Nahri has never believed in magic. On the streets of 18th-century Cairo, she's a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But the trade she uses to get by - palm readings, zars, healings - are all tricks. When Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she's forced to question all she believes. 

• Of Fire and Stars - Betrothed to the Prince of Mynaria, Princess Dennaleia's marriage will protect her people from other hostile kingdoms. But Denna possesses magic, and magic is forbidden in Mynaria. Now Denna has to learn the ways of her new kingdom while trying to hide her growing magic. But when an assassination leaves the kingdom reeling, Denna and the Prince's sister reluctantly join forces to search for the culprit. As the two work together, they discover there is more to one another than they thought - and soon their friendship is threatening to blossom into something more.

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• City of Bones - 15-year-old Clary Fray witnesses a murder by 3 teenagers covered with strange tattoos who are invisible to everyone else but her. They are Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. Clary's mother then disappears and Clary is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in her?

• The Darkest Part of the Forest - Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. At the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. In it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. The boy has slept there for generations, never waking. Until one day, he does… As the world turns upside down.

• This Savage Song - Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city—a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent—but he’s one of the monsters. 

• Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Meet mysterious art student Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real and she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands". She knows demons, calling them family, they the enemies of 'angels'. One of them is handsome soldier Akiva, who is strangely familiar...

• The Raven Boys - Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger. When she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, and his misfit friends, the real magic starts.

• Heroine Complex - Evie Tanaka is the personal assistant to Aveda Jupiter, San Francisco's most beloved superheroine. She's great at her job. Unfortunately, she's not as good at standing up for herself. Everything changes when Evie's forced to pose as her glamorous boss one night, and her darkest secret comes out: she has powers, too.

• Bruiser - When Brontë starts dating Brewster “Bruiser” Rawlins – the guy voted “Most Likely to Get the Death Penalty” her twin brother, Tennyson, doesn't like it. But then strange things begin to occur. Tennyson and Brontë’s scrapes heal unnaturally fast. What at first seems like good fortune turns out to be more than they bargained for.

• Tithe - Sixteen-year-old Kaye travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces her back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms.

• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - Walled cities called Coldtowns quarantine monsters and humans. Once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave. After a ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors are her ex-boyfriend, who's infected, and a mysterious boy. Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them, going straight to the wicked heart of Coldtown itself. 

• The Collector - Dante Walker is a soul collector. His job is simple, weed through humanity and label people with good or bad stamps. But Boss Man has given him a new assignment: Collect Charlie Cooper's soul within 10 days. Dante doesn't know why Boss Man wants Charlie, nor does he care. This assignment means only one thing to him, and that's a permanent ticket out of Hell. 

• Evil? - Stuart, a gay teenager living in a small conservative town in Canada dabbles in the occult. But when his 'alone time' in the shower becomes public knowledge, fallen angels appear in town, spreading righteous  judgement. 

• Liar - Micah is a compulsive liar. Over the years she's duped her classmates, her teachers, and even her parents. But then her boyfriend, Zach, dies under brutal circumstances. Was Micah really dating Zach? Or was Sarah his real girlfriend? And are the stories Micah tells about inheriting a 'family gene' real or are they something that only exists in her mind?

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• Generation Dead -  Teenagers are coming back from the dead. While scientists look for answers, Phobe's school attempts to be more welcoming of the “differently biotic." When Phoebe falls for Tommy Williams, the leader of the dead kids, her neighbor, Adam, the star of the football team, isn't happy. Adam has feelings for Phoebe that run much deeper than just friendship. But what if protecting Tommy is the one thing that would make Phobe happy?  

• The Summoning - After getting her period for the first time, Chloe Saunders can suddenly see ghosts. After making a scene at school, she gets herself locked up in Lyle House, a "special home" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems, full with other kids that aren't quite normal.

• White Hot Kiss - 17-year-old Layla's kiss kills anything with a soul. Half demon, half gargoyle, Layla has abilities no one else possesses. Raised among the Wardens - a race of gargoyles tasked with hunting demons - Layla hides her dark side. Especially from Zayne, the Warden she has a crush on. Then she meets Roth - a sinfully hot demon she an kiss because Roth has no soul. But when Layla discovers she's the reason for the violent demon uprising, trusting Roth could not only ruin her chances with Zayne... it could brand her a traitor to her family.

• Misfit - Jael Thompson has changed schools too many times to count. The only family she's ever known is her father, a bitter ex-priest who never lets her date and insists she attend the strictest Catholic school in Seattle. And her mother--well, she was a five thousand year old demon. On her sixteenth birthday, her father gives her a present that brings about some unexpected changes and bring her to the attention of a homicidal demon seeking revenge on her family.

• Demon's Lexicon - Nick and his brother, Alan, have spent their lives on the run from magic. Their father was murdered, and their mother was driven mad by magicians and the demons who give them power. The magicians are hunting the Ryves family for a charm that Nick's mother stole -- a charm that keeps her alive -- and they want it badly enough to kill again. 

• White Cat: The Curse Workers - Cassel comes from a family of curse workers -- people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they're all mobsters, or con artists. Except for Cassel. He hasn't got the magic touch. But Cassel begins to suspect he's part of a huge con game.

• Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - Nothing much exciting rolls through Violet White’s sleepy, seaside town… until River West comes along. River rents the guest house behind Violet’s crumbling estate, and as eerie, grim things start to happen, Violet begins to wonder about the boy living in her backyard. Is River just a crooked-smiling liar with pretty eyes and a mysterious past? Or could he be something more?

• Curse of the Sphinx - No one knows Hope exists. With her mom, she’s traveled from town to town. When her mother is brutally ripped away from her, Hope’s life shatters. Is this the fulfillment of Apollo’s curse, murder from the shadow monsters of the Underworld, or have the demigods finally found her? Orphaned and alone, Hope flees again, but this time there’s no one to teach her who to trust—or how to love.

• Dark Kiss -  Samantha is normally careful but couldn't pass up a surprise kiss from her crush, a kiss that did something strange to her. Now  she feels hungry all the time, but not for food. Then there's Bishop. If he's what Samantha thinks he is, he may be the only one who can help her. But something terrifying is closing in...

• Die For Me - When Kate Mercier's parents die in a tragic car accident, she moves in with her grandparents in Paris. There, she meets Vincent. As she begins to fall in love with Vincent, Kate realizes there's something unusual about him and his friends...

• Wake - For 17-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. She can't tell anybody about what she does they'd never believe her. They'd think she's a freak. Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant. 

• Soul Screamers: Volume 1 - Kaylee Cavanaugh can sense when someone near her is about to die. When that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. Literally. The hottest boy in school, Nash, seems to know more about the dark forces behind Kaylee's power than she does. Classmates start dropping dead. Only Kaylee knows who'll be next.

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• My Heart and Other Black Holes - 16-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. But she doesn't have the courage to do it alone. Roman, a teenage boy who's haunted by a family tragedy, is looking for a partner too. The Pair start to fill in each other's broken lives. But as their suicide pact becomes more concrete, Aysel questions whether she wants to go through with it.

• The Art of Starving - Matt hasn't eaten in days. The hunger clears his mind - and he needs to be as sharp as possible if he's going to find out  how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away. The less he eats the more he seems to have...powers. The ability to see things he shouldn't be able to see. The knack of tuning in to thoughts right out of people's heads. Matt decides to infiltrate Tariq's life, then use his powers to uncover what happened to Maya. 

• Words on the Bathroom Walls - Adam is navigating high school while living with paranoid schizophrenia. An experimental drug promises to help him hide his illness from the world. When Adam meets Maya, he desperately wants to be the normal, great guy. But as the miracle drug begins to fail, how long can he keep it together?

• Suicide Notes - 15-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year's Day to find himself in the psychiatric ward. Despite the bandages on his wrists, he's positive this is all some huge mistake. Jeff's not like the other kids in the hospital. But over the course of the next 45 days, Jeff begins to understand why he ended up here.

• The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary - Macy's school officially classifies her as "disturbed", but Macy isn't interested in how others define her. She's got more pressing problems: Her mom can't move off the couch, her dad's in prison, her brother's been kidnapped by Child Protective Services, and now her best friend isn't speaking to her. Writing in a dictionary format, Macy explains the world in her own terms.

• Am I normal Yet? - Evie wants is to be normal. And now that she's almost off her meds and at a new college where no one knows her as 'the girl who went nuts', the only thing left is getting boyfriend. But relationships can mess with anyone's head. The trouble is, if Evie won't tell her secrets, how can she prevent making a huge mistake? 

• Made You Up -  Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college. She's pretty optimistic about her chances until she runs into Miles. Didn't she imagine him? Before she knows it, Alex is making friends, going to parties, and falling in love. But Alex is used to being crazy. She's not prepared for normal. Can she trust herself? 

• Girl in Pieces - At 17, Charlie has already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget it through cutting; the pain washes out the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. Kicked out of a special treatment center when her insurance runs out, Charlie finds herself in the bright and wild landscape of Tucson, Arizona, where she begins the long journey of putting herself back together. 

• Skin - 14-year-old Donnie's older sister, Karen, develops an eating disorder. Donnie finds himself alone in his parents' faltering marriage and his new life as an outcast at school. Donnie makes it his responsibility to cure his sister's illness and fix his parents' issues, letting every part of himself disappear in the process. It is more important -- and somehow easier -- to figure out if today is a day when Karen is eating, or to know if Dad and Mom are sleeping in the same bedroom, than to deal with his own problems.

• Holding up the Universe - Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed "America's Fattest Teen." Following her mom's death, she's been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home. Now, Libby's ready: for high school, for new friends, for love. Everyone thinks they know Jack Masselin, too. He fits in. What no one knows is that Jack can't recognize faces. Even his own brothers are strangers to him. When the two get tangled up in a cruel high school game - which lands them in group counseling and community service - Libby and Jack are both pissed, and then surprised. Because the more time they spend together, the less alone they feel.

• Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock - Today is Leonard Peacock’s birthday. It is also the day he plans to kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather’s P-38 pistol. But first he must say good-bye to the four people who matter most to him. Speaking to each in turn, Leonard slowly reveals his secrets as the hours tick by and the moment of truth approaches. 

• Schizo - Miles is the ultimate unreliable narrator - a teen recovering from a schizophrenic breakdown who believes he is getting better - when in reality he is growing worse. Driven to the point of obsession to find his missing younger brother, Teddy, and wrapped up in a romance that may or may not be the real thing, Miles is forever chasing shadows. 

• Boy 21 - Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob. When his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common.

• The Foxhole Court - Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast, he's got a ton of potential—and he's the runaway son of the murderous crime lord known as The Butcher. The team is high profile and Neil doesn't need sports crews broadcasting pictures of his face around the nation. His lies will hold up only so long under this kind of scrutiny and the truth will get him killed.

• Bear Town - Beartown is a tiny community nestled deep in the forest. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys. Being responsible for the hopes of an entire town is a heavy burden, and the semi-final match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. 

• Here to Stay - When Bijan Majidi is called off the basketball team’s varsity bench and makes the winning basket in a playoff game, not everyone is happy that Bijan is the man of the hour: a cyberbully sends the entire school a picture of Bijan photoshopped to look like a terrorist. His mother is horrified, and the school administration is outraged. All Bijan wants is to pretend it never happened and move on, but the incident isn’t so easily erased. 

• Checked - To help his dog through cancer treatment, Conor gives up hockey and finds himself considering who he is without the sport that has defined him, and connecting more with his family and best friend. 

• Jerk Bait -  Tristan isn't close to his twin Robbie at all—until Robbie tries to kill himself. Forced to share a room to prevent Robbie from hurting himself, the brothers begin to feel the weight of each other's lives on the ice, and off. Tristan starts seeing his twin not as a hockey star whose shadow Tristan can't escape, but a struggling gay teen terrified about coming out in the professional sports world.

• Stupid Fast - Just before his sixteenth birthday, Felton Reinstein has a sudden growth spurt that turns him from a small, jumpy, picked-on boy with the nickname of "Squirrel Nut" to a powerful athlete, leading to new friends, his first love, and the courage to confront his family's past and current problems. 

• After the Shot Drops - Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood. 

• Game - If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him. 

• Dairy Queen - After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. 

• Whale Talk - Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.

• Jump - P.K. is rock-climbing out west with a guy she barely knows. At first, everything’s amazing. Not only are they climbing in awesomely beautiful national parks like Yosemite but they seem awesomely made for one another. Then the cops show up . . . with an arrest warrant. And P.K. has to decide who to believe: this amazing guy whom she trusts with her life—or the cops, who want her to believe that he may take her life. 

• All the Broken Pieces - Two years after being airlifted out of war-torn Vietnam, Matt Pin is haunted: by bombs that fell like dead crows, by the family -- and the terrible secret -- he left behind. Now, inside a caring adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events force him to choose between silence and candor, blame and forgiveness, fear and freedom. 

• Leverage - A violent, steroid-infused, ever-escalating prank between opposing high school athletic teams results in the assault and death of a student. An unlikely friendship between talented, but emotionally damaged fullback Kurt, and promising gymnast Danny, has the power to expose the truth and the bullies responsible. 

• Girl Overboard - After a snowboarding accident, Syrah Cheng, a billionaire's daughter, must rehabilitate both her knee and her self-esteem while forging relationships with those who accept her for who she is. 

• Gym Candy - Groomed by his father to be a star player, football is the only thing that has ever really mattered to Mick Johnson, who works hard for a spot on the varsity team his freshman year, then tries to hold onto his edge by using steroids, despite the consequences to his health and social life. 

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