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He bullied my sister. Now it’s his turn to pay. Ryker is the top of the Emerson Academy food chain, and he uses his power to remind everyone of just how powerless they are. Until now. When I see him picking on the most innocent girl in school for her weight, I snap. Ignoring him is no longer enough. No, my friends and I are going to make him pay.

Two months, six countries, one chance to fall in love . . . travel the world in this swoony enemies-to-lovers romance for fans of Love and Gelato, The Summer of Broken Rules and Jenny Han. Margot is That Girl – she's built her online audience from scratch and though her posts may seem shallow...

17-year-old Dovie doesn’t believe in magic even though she comes from a long line of women who can hear the bones of the dead sing, and for the past few years the bones have been crooning nonstop, calling out to Dovie to dig them up. Because there is a killer on the loose – someone is snatching hikers from the miles of tracks, leaving their mutilated bodies for Dovie to find. And the body count grows ever higher.

Luca Mason knows exactly who he is and what he wants: In six months, he’s going to be accepted into the Australian Ballet School, leave his fancy private high school, and live his life as a star of the stage—at least that’s the plan until he falls down a flight of stairs and breaks his foot in a way he can never recover from. With his dancing dreams dead on their feet, Luca loses his performing arts scholarship and transfers to the local public school, leaving behind all his ballet friends and his whole future on stage.

From acclaimed and #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a “sweet, nuanced, and reflective coming-of-age love story” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about an unassuming girl who learns to stand on her own while falling in love during a life-changing summer. Finley has...

The news about what happened to Dorian’s uncle rocks the town. Especially when a private school’s educator turns up dead. The focus surrounding the events that occurred that night shift, and no one knows that more than the legacy boys’ dark prince. Dorian’s looking for answers in the hours following the harrowing truths revealed in that video. We both are, and where we each end up finding them surprises no one more than me. When what’s lie and what’s truth suddenly appears indistinguishable, I find myself in a chillingly familiar place.

While everyone else seems to have their futures mapped out, Izzy is paralysed by the thought of making the wrong choice. Noah Park just wants a fresh start. Kicked out of his old school, he's now the new boy with a target on his back, and Ryan seems determined to make his life miserable.

Henry Page, a hopeless romantic and film buff, is smitten as soon as Grace Town walks into his classroom. But Grace - who looks in need of a good bath, is dressed in guy's clothing and walks with a cane - is unlike any leading lady he's ever obsessed over. And when Henry and Grace are both offered positions as editors of their high school newspaper, the mystery of Grace begins to captivate him. Why does she visit a graveyard every afternoon? What secret does she keep locked away in her bedroom?

Gwendolyn Adams has been canceled. The Preston Prep Devils made that clear after the incident that forced my sister Skylar to leave our academy. They wanted me to leave, too, but I refused. I’m sticking around to make sure they follow through on the deal the snobby, elite crew of jocks made with the administration. The arrangement is simple. No one ever speaks about what happened to Skylar again, and no one gets punished.

Eine Liebe, die nicht gebrochen werden kann - nur durch die Wahrheit. Lizzie Young hatte schon immer das Gefühl, dass sie für alles zu viel war. In jungen Jahren wurde bei ihr eine bipolare Störung diagnostiziert, so hatte sie immer das Gefühl, sie passe nicht zu ihrer Familie, nicht zu ihren Freunden und in keine Gemeinschaft. Lizzie möchte akzeptiert und verstanden werden, aber nur wenige Familienmitglieder oder Freunde verstehen sie wirklich und so trägt sie ihre Last und ihre Trauma mehr oder weniger alleine.

When his dad is caught embezzling funds from half the town, Rob goes from popular lacrosse player to social pariah. Even worse, his father’s failed suicide attempt leaves Rob and his mother responsible for his care. Everyone thinks of Maegan as a typical overachiever, but she has a secret of her own after the pressure got to her last year. And when her sister comes home from college pregnant, keeping it from her parents might be more than she can handle.

From the author of Some Girls Do comes another heartfelt YA sapphic romance—starring a baseball pitcher and a student umpire who are definitely not supposed to fall for one another. “Sapphic sports romance perfection. Swoony and romantic, but unafraid to tackle grief, family expectations...

Eden: Josh Evans and I have been best friends forever. He knows all my secrets, and I know all of his. So when he randomly asks me to help him lose his virginity, I sort of flip out. That's a question that sends your mind to places you've seriously never considered before. Like, you know. Having sex. With your best friend. Except Josh doesn't want to have sex with me-he wants me to help him find a girl. A nice girl who's funny and smart and cute. Except he already knows a girl just like that.... 

To get an audience, you have to give up something. A secret, a favor . . . something that hurts. Welcome to Thorne Point, where darkness rules. I enrolled at Thorne Point University to be closer to my brother. Now my world is falling apart. Ethan is missing. Every day I can't find him it plays on repeat. The search for answers turns up nothing and I'm running out of options. But there's a rumor on campus. And I'm desperate enough to seek out the Crows as my last resort. Wren Thorne's reputation precedes him, but I won't take no for an answer.

Die 17-Jährige New Yorkerin Ellis hat genaue Vorstellungen davon, wie ihre Zukunft aussehen soll: an der Columbia aufgenommen und Journalistin werden wie ihr erfolgreicher Vater. Als ihre Eltern sich vorübergehend trennen und ihre Mutter sie in die Kleinstadt Bramble Falls mitschleppt, um bei ihrer Tante und Cousine zu leben, bricht für die strebsame Ellis die Welt zusammen. Wie soll sie hier ihre Ziele verfolgen? Stattdessen findet im idyllischen Kleinstädtchen das alljährliche Herbstfestival statt, und Ellis muss aushelfen.

Nichts ist wie es scheint... Auftakt der fesselnden Royal Biker Romance. Tauch ein in die Welt von Harlington und seinen Bewohnern. Ja, dies ist eine royale Geschichte, aber lass dich von den goldenen Kronen und den Adelstiteln nicht täuschen. Ich bin kein edler Prinz, der auf einem weißen Pferd dahergeritten kommt und dich rettet, Goldlöckchen. Im Gegenteil. Ich bin derjenige, der dich in den Abgrund stößt. Du bist alles, was ich nie wollte. Alles, was ich verabscheue. Trotzdem hast du dich unter meine Haut gebrannt. Und jetzt, Goldlöckchen, kann uns keiner mehr retten.

I thought I knew pain. I thought I knew grief. I knew nothing. And nothing could compare to the moment Toby ripped my heart right out of my chest. Confirming all my worst fears. Shattering the very foundation my life has been built on. Deception is his weapon, and now I’m his victim. Rock bottom is a familiar place, and once again I’m trying to drag myself out of the pits of despair. But fate is an evil master, and before long I find myself with no other place to turn…but him. He might be cruel. Reckless. Dangerous. But I also know that he’ll do anything to right his wrongs.

When first-year university student Robyn Carter travels to Ghana for winter break, it's the first time she's been back since her mother's passing ten years prior. The trip is the perfect escape from her father's academic expectations and an opportunity to finally learn more about her mother, the one subject he refuses to discuss. The last person Robyn expects to meet is Osei Mensah, her grandmother's beloved neighbour and a budding photographer. The young creative is a big dreamer who wears his heart on his sleeve and is everything pragmatic Robyn shouldn't want.

Blair might be a little type-A, but she never thought of herself as completely overbearing … that is, until her two best friends drop her from their housing arrangement a week before her pre-college summer coding program is about to start. Blair knows if she switches to an on-campus dorm, her parents will make her give up her expensive sculpture class with her dream mentor in order to pay for it. Desperate, she agrees to be the fifth roommate to four off-campus sophomores who are also in a last-minute bind.

It's not that he's a bit of a nerd or likes to cosplay. It's not his taste in books. Techno-thrillers are cool, right? It's not that he's a gamer, or even how obsessed he is with movie and book quotes. No. His big secret, the one that keeps Noah up at night, is that he's gay. When that tightly sealed away part of him finally comes to a boil and he can't keep his secret any longer, Noah takes a chance and lets everyone in on his secret. All he wants is to be free of its burden and able to live his life as his true self.