Laurel Daneau is still reeling from the losses she endured during Hurricane Katrina. When her new boyfriend introduces her to meth, she spirals into addiction. But as she slowly becomes a shell of her former self, she longs to become whole again.
Ever since a betrayal destroyed her dreams, Hadley stays under the radar by baking cupcakes at her mom’s diner. When things start looking up and she gets a second chance --- and a cute, sweet guy walks into her life --- she must decide what she really wants.
Anthony Jones has never been outside his rough East Cleveland neighborhood when he’s given a scholarship to an elite prep school in Maine. As he tries to adapt to a world that will never fully accept him, he realizes that home is becoming a place where he no longer belongs.
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.
When Victor wakes up in the psych ward after taking a bottle of pills, his roommate is none other than Bull, the bully who drove him to attempt suicide. Things go from bad to worse --- until the boys discover they might just have something in common: a reason to live.
When the 16-year-old runaway Chap is mistaken for a missing boy named Cassiel, he takes on the boy’s identity, gaining the family and friends he’s always dreamed of having. But as he begins to unravel the mystery behind Cassiel’s disappearance, Chap realizes that he’s in much deeper danger than he could have imagined.
Seventeen-year-old Sadie has been in love with her best friend, Garrett, for two painful years. When he leaves for the summer and falls for another girl, Sadie decides she needs a total Garrett detox, and embarks on a summer of personal reinvention.
"Shorty" is a Haitian boy trapped among ruins when the earth explodes around him. Surrounded by bodies and desperately weak, death seems imminent. But then he becomes aware of another presence --- one reaching out to him across 200 years of history.
When their father dies, two sisters must support themselves and their mother, who is in a permanent vegetative state. With their sudden freedom, both girls also struggle with dark new temptations.
Shalini has just arrived in L.A. from India. Everything about her is different --- especially the fact that she has been engaged since she was three, to a boy back in India. But when she meets Toby, she begins to question everything she thought she knew about herself.
Haunted by memories of 9/11, popular high schooler Ben enlists in the army. After his convoy gets caught in an explosion, Ben is in a coma for two months. When he wakes up, he doesn't know where he is, and he doesn't remember anything about his old life.
The Darlings have just begun their second semester of ninth grade, and love is in the air. In the face of both joy and heartbreak, they know that they'll always have each other. Boys come and go, but the Darlings are still forever.
After Michael's parents die, he is invited to stay with his guardian in a desolate country house. He begins to suspect something is not quite right on the day he arrives when he spots a mysterious woman out in the frozen mists. But little can prepare him for the solitude of the house itself.
Colby and Bev have a long-standing pact: graduate, hit the road with Bev's band, and then spend the year wandering around Europe. But moments after the tour kicks off, Bev makes a shocking announcement: she's abandoning their plans --- and Colby --- to start college in the fall. But, somehow, the show must go on.
In this third installment of the Seven Realms series, readers experience spectacular entertainment as they consider many possibilities behind the intriguing mystery at the core of the story. An enthralling enigma surrounds a formidable magician and his distant ancestor, an ex-streetlord who has fallen in love with a princess heir.
Sutton Mercer watches from the afterlife as her long-lost twin, Emma Paxton, takes over her identity to solve her murder. But after ruling out her early leads, Emma still hasn’t found Sutton’s killer. A lot of people wanted her dead --- but one name keeps popping up: Thayer Vega.
Fourteen-year-old Ricki Jo always wanted to be popular. Now, she's on top of the world, even though her best friend Luke says he misses "plain old Ricki Jo." It takes a serious incident on Luke's farm for Ricki Jo to realize that being a true friend is more important than being popular.
This year Alex Patrick is head of the Mockingbirds, a secret society of students who police and protect her elite school’s student body. But when a secret drug ring springs up, each new clue drives a wedge between Alex and the people she loves most.
The Lucky One, an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ 2008 novel, is now in theaters. This highly anticipated release, starring Zac Efron, follows U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault as he goes in search of a girl he doesn’t know, whose photograph he found during his tour of duty in Iraq. But when he finally finds Beth, he can't bring himself to reveal his secret. For those who can't get enough of the film, be sure to check out the movie tie-in edition of the book.
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