B>For fans of Caraval and The Night Circus, this decadent and darkly enchanting YA fantasy, set against the backdrop of a Belle Époque-inspired hotel, follows seventeen-year-old Jani as she uncovers the deeply disturbing secrets of the legendary Hotel Magnifique./b>br>br>Seventeen-year-old orphan Jani dreams of leaving the cramped, filthy port town of Durc, but shes resigned to the reality of her life: working second shifts at a tannery to make ends meet and caring for her younger sister Zosa. That is, until the legendary Hotel Magnifique--the magical hotel that appears in a new location each morning--comes to town.br>;br>While they cant afford the exorbitant cost of a guests stay, Jani and Zosa can interview for jobs in the hotel. And luck is on their side--with just a stroke of ink on paper, and an intervention by the vexingly handsome bellhop, the two girls are hired and swept into a world of adventure and wonderment. But despite the allure, Jani quickly begins to realize that something isnt quite right. None of the staff seem to remember their homes, yet Janis memory is perfectly intact. Its clear that beneath the mysterious glamour, the hotel is hiding dangerous secrets.br>;br>Most dangerous of all is the maître dhôtel, a ruthless man who, Jani discovers, holds the hotel staff prisoner by the magical ink of the contracts they sign. But what Jani cant understand is why he wont let them leave. With Bel the bellhop as her guide and confidante, Jani embarks on a mission to uncover the secrets of the hotel and free Zosa and the other staff from the cruelty of the maître. To succeed, shell need to harness a power she never knew she had, but failure would mean a fate far worse than never returning home.
BOOK ONE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES Instant New York Times bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir Amazon's Best Young Adult Book of 2015 People's Choice Award winner - Favorite Fantasy Bustle's Best Young Adult Book of 2015 This novel is a harrowing, haunting reminder of what it means to be human -- and how hope might be kindled in the midst of oppression and fear. -- The Washington Post An Ember in the Ashes could launch Sabaa Tahir into JK Rowling territoryIt has the addictive quality of The Hunger Games combined with the fantasy of Harry Potter and the brutality of Game of Thrones . --Public Radio International " An Ember in the Ashes glows, burns, and smolders--as beautiful and radiant as it is searing." -- Huffington Post A worthy novel and one as brave as its characters. -- The New York Times Book Review Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear. It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empires impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. Theyve seen what happens to those who do. But when Laias brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empires greatest military academy. There, Laia meets Elias, the schools finest soldier--and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny hes being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined--and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.
A teenage sorcerers apprentice must solve her bosss murder in order to prove her innocence in this twisty, magic-infused murder mystery perfect for fans of Being an apprentice for one of the world''s most famous sorcerers has its challenges; Tabatha Zeng just didnt think they would include solving crime. But when her boss, the infamous fortuneteller Sorcerer Solomon, predicts his own brutal death--and worse, it comes true--Tabatha finds herself caught in the crosshairs.
The police have their sights set on her and Callum Solomon, her murdered bosss youngest son. With suspicion swirling around them, the two decide to team up to find the real killer and clear their own names once and for all.
But solving a murder isnt as easy as it seems, especially when the suspect list is mostly the rich, connected, and magical members of Sorcerer Solomons family. And Tabatha cant quite escape the nagging voice in her head asking: just how much can she really trust Callum Solomon?
Nothing is as it seems in this quick-witted and fantastical murder mystery.
B>For fans of Jenny Han and Jane Austen, a rom-com thats equal parts hilarious and heartfelt about the unexpected consequences of one teen''s quest to help her friends find love, from the author of A Taste for Love./b>br>br>High school junior Gigi Wong strives to be the best: the top student, the perfect friend, and the ideal daughter. But its tough when there''s always someone who is just a little bit better. With college applications looming, she can''t help but worry that she won''t make the cut. Thankfully, her best friend Kyle never fails to find the right words--and the perfect bowl of ramen--to cheer her up.br>;br>After her teacher, Ms. Harris, announces she''ll be nominating students for an app writing contest, Gigi is determined to be picked. After all, first prize is an exclusive tech internship, sure to make her application stand out. There''s only one problem: she doesn''t have a winning program. It isn''t until transfer student Etta admits she''s struggling to fit in at Superbia that Gigi stumbles on an idea. She''ll use her coding skills--and the matchmaking experience she''s gotten from weekends with Auntie Rose--to create a friend matching app! Etta will meet new people, and Gigi will guarantee her acceptance into college. It''s foolproof.br>;br>What Gigi doesn''t expect is for her app to go viral around school. Soon, she finds herself at the center of a scandal--and at odds with both Etta and Kyle. Can Gigi fix what went wrong, or will her desire to be perfect cost her the people she cares about most?br>;
In this heart-pounding, much-anticipated sequel to Its been five weeks since Io left Alante to follow the golden thread, and shes no closer to finding the god on the other end. She spends her days in constant, grueling travel and her nights worrying over the fate-thread she shares with Edei--which seems to be fraying. Making matters worse, she and Bianca soon realize that their only lead has shaken them off, snapped the golden thread, and disappeared.
But not before Io gathers some crucial clues. Her investigation leads her to a new mystery, a rash of sibling disappearances across the Wastelands that seems to be connected to the murders in Alante. And all signs point to Nanzy, the golden city, as the center of the whole conspiracy.
As Io and Bianca make their way to Nanzy, they make powerful enemies, find allies new and old, and uncover a horrifying plot that traces back centuries. The more Io learns, the more she begins to suspect that the future of the world may truly rest on her shoulders. But she will have to determine how much of the future is her choice--and how much is simply her fate.
@00000327@#1 international bestselling author of @00000373@Thirteen Reasons Why@00000155@ Jay Asher and co-author Jessica Freeburg brilliantly reimagine the classic Pied Piper legend as a powerful graphic novel about loneliness, love, and vengeance. Fans of Neil Gaiman and @00000373@Through the Woods @00000155@by Emily Carroll will devour this eerie, atmospheric retelling.@00000341@@00000341@@00000133@ @00000041@ldquo;A moving graphic novel about isolation, love, and retribution, this dark version of a familiar tale will remain with readers long after the last page is turned.@00000041@rdquo;--@00000327@@00000373@School Library Journal@00000155@@00000133@@00000341@ @00000341@ Long ago, in a small village in the middle of a deep, dark forest, there lived a lonely, deaf girl named Maggie. Shunned by her village because of her disability, her only comfort comes from her vivid imagination. Maggie has a gift for inventing stories and dreams of one day finding her fairy-tale love. @00000341@ @00000341@ When Maggie meets the mysterious Piper, it seems that all her wishes are coming true. Spellbound, Maggie falls hard for him and plunges headfirst into his magical world. But as she grows closer to the Piper, Maggie discovers that he has a dark side.@00000341@ @00000341@ The boy of Maggie@00000065@s dreams might just turn out to be her worst nightmare@00000048@ @00000341@ @00000341@With striking illustrations from Eisner-nominated artist Jeff Stokely, mixed with Jessica Freeburg's work on historic and legendary horrors, Piper is an exciting new departure for Jay Asher that deftly touches on the same themes of truth, guilt, and redemption that made @00000373@Thirteen Reasons Why@00000155@ a beloved bestseller.
"Infused with page-turning suspense, bittersweet romance, shocking twists, and tragic turns, Sterling has written a standout debut." --Dana Mele, author of People Like Us Hannah's a witch, but not the kind you're thinking of. She's the real deal, an Elemental with the power to control fire, earth, water, and air. But even though she lives in Salem, Massachusetts, her magic is a secret she has to keep to herself. If she's ever caught using it in front of a Reg (read: non-witch), she could lose it. For good. So, Hannah spends most of her time avoiding her ex-girlfriend (and fellow Elemental Witch) Veronica, hanging out with her best friend, and working at the Fly by Night Cauldron selling candles and crystals to tourists, goths, and local Wiccans. But dealing with her ex is the least of Hannah's concerns when a terrifying blood ritual interrupts the end-of-school-year bonfire. Evidence of dark magic begins to appear all over Salem, and Hannah's sure it's the work of a deadly Blood Witch. The issue is, her coven is less than convinced, forcing Hannah to team up with the last person she wants to see: Veronica. While the pair attempt to smoke out the Blood Witch at a house party, Hannah meets Morgan, a cute new ballerina in town. But trying to date amid a supernatural crisis is easier said than done, and Hannah will have to test the limits of her power if she's going to save her coven and get the girl, especially when the attacks on Salem's witches become deadlier by the day. Isabel Sterling's delightful, suspenseful debut is equal parts sweet romance and thrilling mystery. With everything she loves on the line, Hannah must confront this murderous villain before her coven--and any chance she has with the new girl--is destroyed.
When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the last place she expects to be sent is a human private school in Palm Springs, California.
The first book in Richelle Mead's brand-new teen fiction series - set in the same world as Vampire Academy.
When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the last place she expects to be sent is a human private school in Palm Springs, California. But at their new school, the drama is only just beginning.
Populated with new faces as well as familiar ones, Bloodlines explores all the friendship, romance, battles and betrayals that made the #1 New York Times bestselling Vampire Academy series so addictive - this time in a part-vampire, part-human setting where the stakes are even higher and everyone's out for blood.
The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimir's Academy was the deadliest ever in the school's history, claiming the lives of Moroi students, teachers, and guardians alike. Even worse, the Strigoi took some of their victims with them . . . including Dimitri.
He'd rather die than be one of them, and now Rose must abandon her best friend, Lissa-'the one she has sworn to protect no matter what-'and keep the promise Dimitri begged her to make long ago. But with everything at stake, how can she possibly destroy the person she loves most?
Receiving her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM in 1996, student Emma and her best friend, Josh, log on and discover themselves on Facebook, 15 years in the future, and learn astonishing things about their adult selves. Co-written by the award-winning author of Tangled and the best-selling author of Thirteen Reasons Why .
@00000327@What would you do to bring back someone you love? After the unexpected loss of his girlfriend, a boy suffering from delusions believes he can travel through time to save her in this gripping new novel from @00000373@New York Times @00000155@bestselling author Beth Revis.@00000133@@00000341@@00000341@"A story that@00000065@s both heartbreaking and hopeful." @00000327@--@00000373@Publishers Weekly@00000155@, starred review@00000341@@00000341@@00000133@@00000041@ldquo;Revis@00000065@s account of grief, loss, first love, and anguish, presented through a lens of mental illness, is a must-read.@00000041@rdquo; @00000327@--@00000373@VOYA@00000155@, starred review@00000341@@00000133@@00000341@@00000041@ldquo;A heartrending, beautifully complex look at mental illness, life, and loss. I tore through the pages, and, days later, this story still has a hold on me.@00000041@rdquo;@00000327@@00000327@ --@00000327@Alexandra Bracken, #1 @00000373@New York Times@00000155@ bestselling author of The Darkest Minds series and @00000373@Passenger@00000155@@00000133@@00000341@@00000133@@00000133@@00000341@Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he@00000065@s actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have "superpowers."@00000341@@00000341@ At Berkshire, Bo falls in love with Sofia, a quiet girl with a tragic past and the superpower of invisibility. Sofia helps Bo open up in a way he never has before. In turn, Bo provides comfort to Sofia, who lost her mother and two sisters at a very young age. @00000341@@00000341@ But even the strength of their love isn@00000065@t enough to help Sofia escape her deep depression. After she commits suicide, Bo is convinced that she's not actually dead. He believes that she's stuck somewhere in time -- that he somehow left her in the past, and now it's his job to save her. @00000341@@00000341@ Not since Ned Vizzini@00000065@s @00000373@It@00000065@s Kind of a Funny Story @00000155@has there been such a heartrending depiction of mental illness. In her first contemporary novel, Beth Revis guides readers through the mind of a young man struggling to process his grief as he fights his way through his delusions. As Bo becomes more and more determined to save Sofia, he has to decide whether to face his demons head-on, or succumb to a psychosis that will let him be with the girl he loves.
B>b>From rising star Jessica Goodman, author of /b>b>They Wish They Were Us/b>b>, comes a second slick, fast-paced thriller about two sisters vying for the top spot on their cross-country team and the new girl who threatens to take everything they''ve worked for away...until she disappears./b>/b>br>br>Ellie and Stella Steckler are only a year apart, but their different personalities make their relationship complicated. Stella is single-minded, driven, and intense. Cross-country running is her life and she won''t let anything get in the way of being the best. Her sister Ellie is a talented runner too, but she also lets herself have fun. She has friends. She goes to parties. She has a life outside of cross-country. br>br>The sisters do have one thing in common, though: the new girl, Mila Keene. Both Stella''s and Ellie''s lives are upended when Mila comes to town. Mila was the top runner on her team back home and Ellie and Stella see her as a threat. But Ellie can''t help but be drawn to her warm, charming personality. After her best friend moved away and her first boyfriend turned out to be a total jerk, Ellie''s been looking for a friend. To her surpise, Stella too can''t help but see Mila as funny, and strong--someone she can confide in, finally. As the two get closer, Stella becomes something she vowed she''d never be: distracted.br>br>With regionals approaching, the pressure is on. Each of their futures are on the line and friendship, or even something more, won''t get in their way. But then, suddenly, Mila goes out on a training run and never returns. No one knows what happened, but all eyes are on the Steckler sisters.
B>A teen girl disappears from her tiny town deep in the Louisiana bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston and Stephanie Perkins./b>br>br>La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World--and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey''s best friend, disappeared six months earlier.br>br>Grey can''t believe that her best friend vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. But as she digs into the night that Elora disappeared, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something--her grandmother Honey; her childhood crush Hart; and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave.br>br>When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayou--a stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the town''s bloody history--Grey realizes that La Cachette''s past is far more present and dangerous than she''d ever understood. Suddenly, she doesn''t know who she can trust. In a town where secrets lurk just below the surface, and where a murderer is on the loose, nobody can be presumed innocent--and La Cachette''s dark and shallow lies may just rip the town apart.
Book 1 in the breathtaking sci-fi space saga inspired by astrology that will stun fans of the Illuminae Files and Starbound series. At the dawn of time, there were 13 Houses in the Zodiac Galaxy. Now only 12 remain.... Rhoma Grace is a 16-year-old student from House Cancer with an unusual way of reading the stars. While her classmates use measurements to make accurate astrological predictions, Rho cant solve for x to save her life--so instead, she looks up at the night sky and makes up stories. When a violent blast strikes the moons of Cancer, sending its ocean planet off-kilter and killing thousands of citizens--including its beloved Guardian--Rho is more surprised than anyone when she is named the Houses new leader. But, a true Cancrian who loves her home fiercely and will protect her people no matter what, Rho accepts. Then, when more Houses fall victim to freak weather catastrophes, Rho starts seeing a pattern in the stars. She suspects Ophiuchus--the exiled 13th Guardian of Zodiac legend--has returned to exact his revenge across the Galaxy. Now Rho--along with Hysan Dax, a young envoy from House Libra, and Mathias, her guide and a member of her Royal Guard--must travel through the Zodiac to warn the other Guardians. But who will believe anything this young novice says? Whom can Rho trust in a universe defined by differences? And how can she convince twelve worlds to unite as one Zodiac? Embark on a dazzling journey with ZODIAC , the first novel in an epic sci-fi-meets-high-fantasy series set in a galaxy inspired by the astrological signs.
'This is spectacular sci-fi.' -- Booklist One final secret stands between Rho and the enemy. But will the devastating truth destroy her first? Rho, the courageous visionary from House Cancer, lost nearly everything when she exposed and fought against the Marad, a mysterious terrorist group bent on destroying balance in the Zodiac Galaxy. Now the Marad has disappeared without a trace, and an uneasy peace has been declared. But Rho is suspicious. She believes the Master is still out there in some other form. And looming over all are the eerie visions of her mother, who died many years ago but is now appearing to Rho in the stars. When news of a stylish new political party supported by her best friend, Nishi, sends Rho on another journey across the Galaxy, she uses it as an opportunity to hunt the hidden master and seek out information about her mother. And what she uncovers sheds light on the truth--but casts darkness upon the entire Zodiac world. Book 3 in the breathtaking sci-fi space saga inspired by astrology that will stun fans of the Illuminae Files and Starbound series.
Danielle Vega--YAs answer to Stephen King--once again brings major scares in the spine-tingling sequel to horror hit The Merciless , which MTV calls Mean Girls meets The Exorcist . Sofia is still processing the horrific truth of what happened when she and three friends performed an exorcism that spiraled horribly out of control. Ever since that night, Sofia has been haunted by bloody and demonic visions. Her therapist says theyre all in her head, but to Sofia they feel chillingly real. She just wants to get out of town, start fresh someplace else . . . until her mother dies suddenly, and Sofia gets her wish. Sofia is sent to St. Marys, a creepy Catholic boarding school in Mississippi. There, seemingly everyone is doing penance for something, most of all the mysterious Jude, for whom Sofia cant help feeling an unshakeable attraction. But when Sofia and Jude confide in each other about their pasts, something flips in him. He becomes convinced that Sofia is possessed by the devil. . . . Is an exorcism the only way to save her eternal soul? Readers wont be able to look away from this terrifying read full of twists and turns that will leave them wondering, Is there evil in all of us?
