Best Adult Books
Category100 of 644 books70 recommendations totalBooks for adult readers recommended across fiction and nonfiction — literary novels, memoir, history and ideas. Substantive reading chosen by people whose recommendations are worth following.
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, for fifteenyearold Christopher everyday inte...
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller and one of the most talkedabout books of the year, Lisa Taddeo?s Three Women is ?the most indepth look at the female sex drive that?s been published in decades? (New York) and a ?groundbreaking... breathtaking? staggeringly intimate? (Entertainment Weekly) look at the sex lives of three real American women...

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The Complete Collection
A beautiful boxed set containing all seven Harry Potter novels in hardback. These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multiawardwinning series feature instantly pickupable new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers. It?s time to PASS THE MAGIC ON ?...

A Novel
También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams.Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large,...
This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." This highquality paperback features vibrant illustrations colorized by Rosemary Wells!Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's ...
The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be lifechanging." NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL"One of those monumental books th...
A Novel
From the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines a deeply compelling whatmighthavebeen: What if Hillary Rodham hadn?t married Bill Clinton In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she?s attending Yale Law School, and she?...

Little Brother, Book 1
Marcus, a.k.a w1n5t0n, is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system worksand how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves ca...
Tom dislikes spending the summer on his aunt's farm until he discovers a black fox in the forest and tracks her to her den....
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It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more though she never gives a single one of t...
Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a un...

A Story of Boston in Revolt
Johnny Tremain, winner of the 1944 Newbery Medal, is one of the finest historical novels ever written for children. As compelling today as it was seventy years ago, to read this riveting novel is to live through the defining events leading up to the American Revolutionary War. Fourteenyearold Johnny Tremain, an apprentice silversmith with a brigh...

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all.Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he?s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephan...

A Novel
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A Novel
A comingofage tale of fan fiction, family and first love. Cath is a Simon Snow fan.Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan..But for Cath, being a fan is her lifeand shes really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; its what got them through their mother leaving. Readin...
Hungry City Chronicles, Book 3
The third thrilling book in the stunning Predator Cities series!The mighty engines of Anchorage have been rusted and dead for years. The derelict city no longer roams the Ice Wastes, but has settled on the edge of the land that was once America. Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw are happy in the safety of a static settlement, but their daughter, Wren,...

Parts One and Two
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From #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called ?Devil Boy? by his classmates; ?God?s will? is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother?s devout faith...

Love, loss, friendship, and the betrayals of the past all collide in this first women_x0092_s fiction novel from New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren (Autoboyography, Dating You / Hating You).The story of the heart can never be unwritten.Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard...

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When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.Coraline will have to fight with all her wits and courage if she is to save ...
In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of selfdiscovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut.In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate th...
Chrestomanci, Book 5
Conrad is young, good at heart, and yet is apparently suffering from the effects of such bad karma that there is nothing in his future but terrible things. Unless he can alter his circumstances well, quite frankly, he is DOOMED.Conrad is sent in disguise to Stallery Mansion, to infiltrate the magical fortress that has power over the whole town of...
A Novel
A fresh, irresistible romcom from debut author Emma Lord about the chances we take, the paths life can lead us on, and how love can be found in the opposite place you expected.Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and allaround perfectionist. Her family may be falling apart, but their massive fastfood chain is booming mainly th...

Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents_x0092_ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga_x0092_s role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind...
Polly has two sets of memories...One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gatecrashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening adventures she embarked on with Tom Lynn after that. A...
For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it?s just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it?s her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn?t be any stricter?but that doesn?t seem to stop all kinds of men from coming into her life.Caught between the oldworld values of her Italian grandmother, the nononsense wisdom...

Seventeen, fashionobsessed, and gay, Abby Ives has always been content playing the sidekick in other people?s lives. While her friends and sister have plunged headfirst into the world of dating and romances, Abby?s been happy to focus on her plussize style blog and her dreams of taking the fashion industry by storm. When she lands a great interns...
I wonder what it would be like to be free Not to need wings because you don_x0092_t have to fly away from your countryAnita de la Torre is a twelveyearold girl living in the Dominican Republic in 1960. Most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared, Papi has been getting mysterious phone calls about butterflie...

A Novel
Two ChineseAmerican sisters?Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister?s protector; Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. When Lucia starts hearing voices, it is Miranda who must find a way to reach her sister. Lucia impetuously plows ahead, but the bitter constant is that ...

When Chloe Pierce_x0092_s mom forbids her to apply for a spot at the dance conservatory of her dreams, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles to the nearest audition. But Chloe hits her first speed bump when her annoying neighbor Eli insists upon hitching a ride, threatening to tell Chloe_x0092_s mom if she leaves him and his smelly dog, Geezer, ...

Betrothed since childhood to the prince of Mynaria, Princess Dennaleia has always known what her future holds. Her marriage will seal the alliance between Mynaria and her homeland, protecting her people from other hostile lands. But Denna has a secret. She possesses an Affinity for fire?a dangerous gift for the future queen of a kingdom where magic...
A Shade of Vampire, Book 1
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 13: 9781481280761.On the evening of Sofia Claremont's seventeenth birthday, she is sucked into a nightmare from which she cannot wake.A quiet evening walk along a beach brings her face to face with a dangerous pale creature that craves much more than her blood.She is kidnapped to an island where the sun is eternally ...

When fragile, sixteenyearold Hope Walton loses her mom to an earthquake overseas, her secluded world crumbles. Agreeing to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic, but also a member of a secret society of time travelers. Trapped in the twelfth century in the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Hope...

More Style, Less Stuff
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Nineteenyearold Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the villagethey've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go...

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Bloomington High School Lions' star goalie, Sebastian Hughes, should be excited about his senior year: His teammates are amazing and he's got a coach who doesn't ask anyone to hide their sexuality. But when his estranged childhood best friend Emir Shah shows up to summer training camp, Sebastian realizes the team's success may end up in the hands o...
Into every generation a Slayer is born_x0085_Nina and her twin sister, Artemis, are far from normal. It_x0092_s hard to be when you grow up at the Watcher_x0092_s Academy, which is a bit different from your average boarding school. Here teens are trained as guides for Slayers_x0097_girls gifted with supernatural strength to fight the forces of darkness. But while Nina_x0092_s m...

A twentyfirstcentury corporation invades the domain of a warlike sixteenthcentury Scottish clan in this "brilliantly imagined" timetravel adventure (Philip Pullman). The miraculous invention of a Time Tube has given Great Britain's mighty FUP corporation unprecedented power, granting it unlimited access to the rich natural resources of the past...

In this young Adult, debut, a teen must try to uncover his missing girlfriend's secrets without revealing his own. Flynn's girlfriend, January, is missing. The cops are asking questions he can't answer, and her friends are telling stories that don't add up. All eyes are on Flynnas January's boyfriend, he must know something.But Flynn is harboring ...

Goddess War, Book 1
The Goddess War begins in Antigoddess, the first installment of the new series by acclaimed author of Anna Dressed in Blood, Kendare Blake.Old Gods never die?Or so Athena thought. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her skin, invading her lungs like a strange cancer, and Hermes showed up with a fever eating away his flesh. So much for l...

A Percy Jackson and the Olympians Guide
A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your face, then I guess writing all this down will be my good deed fo...
Hardcover Boxed Set
An alternative cover edition of this ISBN can be found here.5 Book Paperback Boxed Set (new covers with poster)The Lightning ThiefThe Sea of MonstersThe Titan's CurseThe Battle of the LabyrinthThe Last Olympian An alternative cover edition of this ISBN can be found here.5 Book Paperback Boxed Set (new covers with poster)The Lightning ThiefThe Sea o...
Graham Russell and I weren_x0092_t made for one another.I was driven by emotion; he was apathetic. I dreamed while he lived in nightmares. I cried when he had no tears to shed.Despite his frozen heart and my readiness to run, we sometimes shared seconds. Seconds when our eyes locked and we saw each other_x0092_s secrets. Seconds when his lips tasted my fears, ...
Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd
The bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medalwinning Patrick Ness. Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don't quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there's a visitor at his window. It's ancient, el...

A Fablehaven Adventure (1)
The dragons that have been kept in sanctuaries want their freedom_x0097_and their revenge_x0097_and the world_x0092_s only hope is the reformation of the ancient order of Dragonwatch in this New York Times bestselling first novel of a new sequel series to Fablehaven from author Brandon Mull.In the hidden dragon sanctuary of Wyrmroost, Celebrant the Just, King of the...

By day, seventeenyearold Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only Black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at home, she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online roleplaying card game, SLAY. No one knows Kiera is the game developer, not her friends,...

A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a knowitall who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, th...

Rage of the Fallen (Book 8)
Who will be lost to the darkThomas Ward has served as the Spook's apprentice for three years. He has battled boggarts, witches, demons, and even the devil himself. Tom has enemies: The Fiend stalks him, waiting for a moment of weakness. The terrifying Morrigan, goddess of witches, warned him never to set foot on her homeland, Ireland.But now war h...
Based on a True Story
The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two elevenyearolds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours? walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" o...

While the Titanic and Lusitania are both welldocumented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the littleknown January 30, 1945 sinking in the Baltic Sea by a Soviet submarine of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German cruise liner that was supposed to ferry wartime personnel and refugees to safety from the advancing Red Army. The s...

Demon Apocalypse (The Demonata (6))
Fire! It's all around me, fierce, intense, out of control. I feel the hair on my arms singe and know I have only seconds before I burst into flames. Total panic. There's a horrible shrieking sound, piercing and destructive. My eardrums and eyeballs should burst. "It's hell!" I moan.One boy's life ripped to shreds before his eyes...One wrathful demo...

Howl's Castle, Book 1
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereSophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her o...
An awardwinning and inspiring novel. When Jessica's dreams are shattered, she puts herself back together?and learns to dream bigger than ever before. Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's not comforted by the news that she'll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when yo...
Daughter of the Clayr (The Abhorsen Trilogy)
Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Now, two years past the time when she should have received the Sight that is the Clayr's birthright, she feels alone, abandoned, unsure of who she is. Nevertheless, the fate of the Old Kingdom lies in her hands. With only her faithful companion, the Disreputable Dog, Lirael must undertake a d...

Simon Snow, Book 1
Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen.That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a...
A Novel
Boyhood meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this unconventional love story by awardwinning author Meredith Russo!Two kids, Morgan and Eric, are bonded for life after being born on the same day at the same time. We meet them once a year on their shared birthday as they grow and change: as Eric figures out who he is and how he fits into the world, and a...

He's the seventh son of a seventh son. His name is Thomas J. Ward and he's my gift to the County. When he's old enough we'll send you word. Train him well. He'll be the best apprentice you've ever had and he'll also be your last.'These were the words of Tom's Mam to the county Spook some years ago. As Tom, the Spook and their allies prepare to bat...
The sequel to Dread Nation is a journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America.After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother.But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on...

The Last Apprentice, Book 4
"I see your future clearly. Your master will be dead, and you will be alone. It would be better if you had never been born."Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts. But now a new danger is threatening Tom's world: the witches are rising and the three most powerful clans are uniting in order to...
Running. That's all that Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. But never for a track team. Nope, his game has always been ball. But when Ghost impulsively challenges an elite sprinter to a race and wins the Olympic medalist track coach sees he has something: crazy natural talent. Thing is, Ghost has something else: a lot of anger,...

The Darkest Minds, Book 1
When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government _x0093_rehabilitation camp._x0094_ She might have survived the mysterious disease that_x0092_s killed most of America_x0092_s children, but she and ...
Read the critical darling that Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network, called "easily one of the best novels I have read all year!" A sweeping, multilayered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fatesand the heartsof four mortals in their hands.They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, an...
A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
The Penderwick sisters busily discover the summertime magic of Arundel estate?s sprawling gardens, treasurefilled attic, tame rabbits, and the cook who makes the best gingerbread in Massachusetts. Best of all is Jeffrey Tifton, son of Arundel?s owner, the perfect companion for their adventures. Icyhearted Mrs. Tifton is less pleased with the Pend...

A thoughtprovoking and haunting novel about a creature that escapes from an artist's canvas, whose talent is sniffing out monsters in a world that claims they don't exist anymore. Perfect for fans of Akata Witch and Shadowshaper . There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Red A th...

Curse of the Gods, Book 1
Willa Knight: Dweller. Slave. Nonmagical being. In Minatsol, being a dweller means that you are literally no better than dirt. In fact, dirt might actually be more useful than Willa. Her life will be one of servitude to the sols, the magicblessed beings who could one day be chosen to become gods. At least her outer village is far removed from the...
Homeless. Hungry. Desperate.Doe has no memories of who she is or where she comes from.A notorious career criminal just released from prison, King is someone you don?t want to cross unless you?re prepared to pay him back in blood, sweat, pu$$y or a combination of all three.King?s future hangs in the balance. Doe?s is written in her past. When they c...

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In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his ...

Danny Walker, Book 1
The #1 Bestseller!Twelveyearold Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court but don't tell him that. Because no one plays with more heart or court sense. But none of that matters when he is cut from his local travel team, the very same team his father led to national prominence as a boy. Danny's father, still smarting from his...
Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an allwhite farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.Heartbreaking, funny, and beautif...
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Book One
Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart and bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for.Cover illustrator: Peter de Sève...
Switched
When Olivia Abbott moves to town, she's excited to join the cheerleading team and make new friends. Then she meets Ivy Vega. At first, Ivy, pale and dressed all in black, looks like Olivia's opposite. Then the girls look beyond the glittery pink blush and thick black eyeliner to discover they're identicalidentical twins!Olivia and Ivy are brimmin...

A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor BookCharlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night.Jasper tak...
Royally, Book 2
Some men are born responsible, some men have responsibility thrust upon them. Henry Charles Albert Edgar Pembrook, Prince of Wessco, just got the motherlode of all responsibility dumped in his regal lap.He_x0092_s not handling it well.Hoping to force her grandson to rise to the occasion, Queen Lenora goes on a muchneeded safari holiday_x0097_and when the Quee...
White House, Book 1
He's won the hearts of millions. But is he willing to lose his I met the president's son when we were both young. Matthew Hamilton was handsome, polished, and intelligent. I'd never met a guy like him. He promised me that he'd never run for president. I promised that if he did, I'd be by his side. Two terms later, an invitation to join Matthew Ham...

To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Book 1
Lara Jean keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her.They aren_x0092_t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she_x0092_s written. One for every boy she_x0092_s ever loved_x0097_five in all. When she writes, she can pour out her heart and soul and say all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes onl...
You_x0092_re not supposed to want the one who torments you. When my stepbrother, Elec, came to live with us my senior year, I wasn_x0092_t prepared for how much of a jerk he_x0092_d be. I hated that he took it out on me because he didn_x0092_t want to be here. I hated that he brought girls from our high school back to his room. But what I hated the most was the unwanted w...
Promised (The One Night Trilogy (1))
Livy notices him the moment he walks into the coffee shop. He's heartstoppingly stunning, with a blueeyed gaze so piercing she's almost too distracted to take his order. When he walks out the door, she thinks she'll never see him again. Then she finds the note he left on his napkin . . . signed M.All he wants is one night to worship her. No feeli...

A Novel (The Royals)
There is an alternate cover edition for this ASIN here.From strip clubs and truck stops to southern coast mansions and prep schools, one girl tries to stay true to herself.These Royals will ruin you_x0085_Ella Harper is a survivor_x0097_a pragmatic optimist. She_x0092_s spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends me...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around DystopianScience, Dystopian, Fiction, Teen, Young lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king's ministers set up an ac...

Serpent & Dove, Book 1
"A brilliant debut, full of everything I love: a sparkling and fully realized heroine, an intricate and deadly system of magic, and a searing romance that kept me reading long into the night. Serpent & Dove is an absolute gem of a book." ?Sarah J. Maas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Court of Thorns and Roses seriesBound as one, to love,...
From the founding member of We Need Diverse Books comes a powerful novel about identity, betrayal, and the meaning of family.By day, seventeenyearold Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Sou...
Practical Magic meets Nova Ren Suma?s Imaginary Girls and Laura Ruby?s Bone Gap in this lush, atmospheric new novel by acclaimed author Katrina Leno.A magic passed down through generations. An island where strange things happen. A summer that will become legend.Georgina Fernweh waits impatiently for the tingle of magic in her fingers?magic that has...
What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dadJasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say.But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was yearround. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could_x0097_from the criminal's point of view.And...
Ruthless People #1...the book that started it all......"One Marriage Two Bosses = 3X the Chaos." To the outside world, they look like American royalty, giving to charities, feeding the homeless, and rebuilding the city. But behind closed doors is a constant battle for dominance between two bosses, cultures, and hearts. Ruthless People is a romant...
A new kind of bighearted novel about being seen for who you really are.Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she's determined not to get too close to anyone. But when she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can't help but start to let him into her...
"If you don't put that ring on this minute, I'm going to take it back," Annie whispered in my ear. She leaned back, looking at me, her hands still on my shoulders, her eyes shining softly at me and snow falling, melting, on her nose. "Buon Natale," she whispered, "amore mio.""Merry Christmas, my love," I answered.From the moment Liza Winthrop meets...

Sea of Trolls, Book 1
?The Sea of Trolls blends ancient history and Norse epics with recognizable bits of Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings? (The New York Times).Jack is kidnapped by berserkers from his Saxon village in the year A.D. 793, an occurrence forewarned by his mentor the Bard. Captured by Viking chief Olaf OneBrow, Jack and his sister, Lucy, are swiftly tak...
Elements of Chemistry (Hypothesis) (Volume 1)
He is everything she doesn_x0092_t want, so why does she want him so badly From the New York Times Bestselling Author Penny ReidOne week.Private beach.Invisible girl.Jerkfaced bully.What_x0092_s the worst that could happenKaitlyn Parker has no problem being the invisible girl, which is why she finds herself hiding in various cabinets and closets all over he...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Coming, Of, Age, Teen lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

A Novel (Beautiful Disaster Series)
The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn_x0092_t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University's Walking OneNight Sta...
When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her wellintentioned but hopelessly oldfashioned grandmother. She knows that fr...

The Graphic Novel
The first ten lies they tell you in high school."Speak up for yourself?we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an endofsummer party by calling the cops, so now nob...
It_x0092_s graduation day for sixteenyearold Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. All Cia can think about_x0097_hope for_x0097_is whether she_x0092_ll be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing postwar...
Heat, Book 1
The #1 Bestseller!Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat along with aspirations of leading his team all the way to the Little League World Series. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his daytoday life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family's escape from Cuba, Michael's only family is his...
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