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Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared for Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
2) Red Queen
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Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 1
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Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood -- those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess...
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An insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.
Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s...
Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s...
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To all the boys I've loved before volume 3
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As high school ends, Lara Jean looks forward to her father's remarriage and seeing her sister, but she must choose a college, prepare to leave home, and possibly leave her beloved Peter behind.
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The five Lisbon sisters are brought up in a strict household, and when the youngest kills herself, the oppression of the remaining sisters intensifies. As Therese, Mary, Bonnie and Lux are pulled deeper into isolation by their domineering mother, a group of neighborhood boys become obsessed with liberating the sisters. But what the boys don't know is, the Lisbon girls are beyond saving.
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"For the past six months, Arthur Moses's days have looked the same: He tends to his rose garden and to Gordon, his cat, then rides the bus to the cemetery to visit his beloved late wife for lunch. The last thing Arthur would imagine is for one unlikely encounter to utterly transform his life. Eighteen-year-old Maddy Harris is an introspective girl who visits the cemetery to escape the other kids at school. One afternoon she joins Arthur--a gesture...
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A rich Nigerian boy; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. When a vital new force takes root and flourishes, their lives converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls and women now have immense physical power-- they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And everything changes.
10) Everlife
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Everlife volume 3
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Tenley "Ten" Lockwood knows the fate of the Everlife rests on her ability to unite the realms and destroy the Prince of Ravens. When betrayal leads to defeat and Ten finds herself bonded to the enemy, an unthinkable choice may be the only answer.
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2022.
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In 1945, war widow Peggy, inheriting Orchard House from her husband's Aunt Maude, arrives to find a rambling property shrouded by dark mysteries, and finding Maude's teenage diary, searches for answers in these pages that reveal corrupted innocence and a violent tragedy bringing the past to the present.
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Magic, danger, and adventure abound for messenger Karigan G'ladheon in the second book in Kristen Britain's New York Times-bestselling Green Rider fantasy series
Karigan G'ladheon was once a Green Rider, one of the king of Sacoridia's elite magical messengers. In the messenger service, she was caught up in a world of deadly danger, and though she defeated the rogue Eletian who cracked the magical D'Yer Wall—which had protected...
Karigan G'ladheon was once a Green Rider, one of the king of Sacoridia's elite magical messengers. In the messenger service, she was caught up in a world of deadly danger, and though she defeated the rogue Eletian who cracked the magical D'Yer Wall—which had protected...
13) Bitter River
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Bell Elkins mysteries volume 2
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2013.
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An investigation into the murder of a pregnant teenage girl is complicated by county prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins's separation from the daughter who is living with her ex, Sheriff Nick Fogelsong's strange behavior, and a person from her past.
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Cyrus Haven novels volume 3
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2023.
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Successful psychologist and massacre survivor Cyrus Haven must cope with his brother's release from prison while investigating the murder of a man and the kidnapping of his daughter.
15) Bloodmarked
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Legendborn volume 2
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"When the leaders of the Order reveal that they will do everything in their power to keep the approaching demon war a secret, Bree and her friends go on the run so she can learn how to control her devastating new powers"--
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Peachtree Bluff novels volume 4
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2021.
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"When the Murphy women are in trouble, they know they can turn to their mother, Ansley. So when Caroline and her husband announce they are divorcing and fifteen-year-old Vivi acts out in response, Caroline can't think of anything to do besides leave her with Ansley for the holidays. As a storm heads toward Peachtree Bluff, Ansley and her husband are grateful they're planning to leave. But Vivi's recklessness forces the trio to shelter in place. The...
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Cyrus Haven novels volume 2
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2020.
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Seven years ago Evie Cormac was discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Her ability to tell when someone is lying helped Haven crack an impenetrable case. He starts digging into her past, but the closer he gets to uncovering answers about Evie's dark history, the more he exposes her to danger. Ultimately, both will have to decide if some secrets are better left buried and some monsters should never be named. -- adapted...
18) Kiss the dead
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"When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, she's faced with something she's never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people--kids, grandparents, soccer moms--all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. And where there's one martyr, there will be more... But even vampires have monsters that they're afraid of. And Anita is one of them." --...
19) Mirror sight
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Following her confrontation with Mornhavon, Green Rider Karigan G'ladheon lands in a sealed stone sarcophagus from which she must escape. And should she succeed, will she be walking straight into a trap created by Mornhavon himself?
20) The gilded ones
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The blood ceremony will determine whether Deka will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. But on the day of the ceremony her blood runs gold, the color of impurity. A mysterious woman comes to her with a choice: stay in the village and submit to her fate, or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like...
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