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Lost Covenant: A Widdershins Adventure (Widdershins Adventures)
Lost Covenant
Ari Marmell
This third YA novel starring the young thief Widdershins combines the angst and vulnerability of any teenage girl with the high action of the best fantasy adventures. It's been six months since Widdershins and her own "personal god" Olgun fled the city of Davillon. During their travels, Widdershins unwittingly discovers that a noble house is preparing to move against the last surviving bastion of the Delacroix family. Determined to help the distant relatives of her deceased adopted father, Alexandre Delacroix, she travels to a small town at the edge of the nation. There, she works at unraveling a plot involving this rival house and a local criminal organization, all while under intense suspicion from the very people she's trying to rescue. Along the way she'll have to deal with a traitor inside the Delacroix family, a mad alchemist, and an infatuated young nobleman who won't take no for an answer.

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Stryker
Stryker
M. M. Wheezee
"Stryker" is a middle-grade novel, for ages 9 and up.Since his mom died a few years ago, Harold Stryker has been following her instructions: He lives all alone, in secret, in his house outside Los Angeles. He avoids, as best as he can, other kids, and certainly grown-ups. He keeps only his huge, gassy dog and his collection of power tools for company. But he's okay with all that. Until the big night of the little earthquake. And his plunge into a dangerous forgotten tunnel beneath his dining room floor. And his encounter with the sweet, terrifying girl baseball star named Tien Tang and the compulsive, camo-suited, overweight force of nature known officially as Bella but universally as Blunt. They push and pull him through an underground adventure with a bullying science teacher, a tasteless chef, a greedy criminal, hairy tarantulas (live), sabertooth cats (long dead), smelly mushrooms, old trolley cars, new subways, and a baker's dozen of illegal Asian immigrants who need to be rescued from a life of slavery in a California ghost town. Harold Stryker is okay with all that too. But those two girls are now his friends. And that has him shaking.

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Virginia White (Volume 1)
Virginia White
H.L. Cricket
Virginia White is an average teenage girl excited to start high school. She thinks her town of Compass is a place where nothing unexpected ever happens. Then one afternoon eerie dark clouds move in over her neighborhood and abruptly turn her world upside down. Now Virginia is being chased by a storm of evil that is relentless in its pursuit. Tossed into a world of unknown, she’s desperately searching for answers, barely staying ahead of those who will stop at nothing to control her. Will Josh, the attractive and tough outsider, help her find her way? Will the feelings between the two grow from their unlikely encounter? Or is he just another member of the Worshipers wanting nothing more than to use Virginia? She’s running from those who want her, and she’s running out of time. Virginia White is desperate for answers, she needs help, and more than anything else, she wants everyone to stop telling her…she’s dead.

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The Perpetual Motion Club
The Perpetual Motion Club
Sue Lange
Welcome to the high school of the future. The glee club is full of rock stars, the brainy kids hack permanent records, and the basketball players are as conceited as the cheerleaders. The walls are ablaze with six-foot-high logos of the hottest junk food, software, and clothing brands of the day. The popular kids are sponsored by Abercrombie, Microsoft, and Frito-Lay. You, on the other hand, can't even get a return text from Clearasil. Your best friend is a witch, your boyfriend a twerp. Your geometry teacher hates you and your mom is gleefully counting down the days until graduation. Guess it's time for another hit of iHigh.

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When the World Ends. . .
When the World Ends...
J. J. Marshall
"We're here as a terrorist cell looking to bring down the Board of Officials that essentially controls the entire Human Race. Those on Earth may have their own figures of authority in the Spheres but whether they ultimately live or die depends on decisions that the Board make. If we take them down then Humanity after they're gone can only be better" At the dawn of the 22nd Century, the Earth is dead. A lethal alien organism has rendered the planet uninhabitable and a small fraction of humanity has retreated to Space and the Moon. Those that remain on Earth are trapped in huge Spheres that encompass entire cities, tinted to defend against the deadly U.V. radiation that the atmosphere no longer protects Humanity from. 17-year-old Alec Corbett lives aboard the adapted International Space Station. One ordinary day in his mundane life he transforms his potential when he discovers information that could expose the corruption of the Board of Officials that now controls humanity. Armed with nothing but knowledge and his friend Jonah Jones by his side, Alec's righteous judgement leads them on a merciless and unforgiving path. For there is one key problem - the information comes from his father Landon Corbett; a member of the Board. Pitted against his own flesh and blood, Alec finds himself in a unique position to end the Board of Officials' dictatorship over Humanity. However, all is not as it seems and as the stakes grow increasingly higher, Humanity reaches the brink of all-out-war. Only Alec and his group of friends can peacefully negate the situation, but it all depends on whether or not anyone will listen to a 17-year-old boy.

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The Grave Winner (The Grave Winner Series Book 1)
The Grave Winner
Lindsey R Loucks
ONLY $4.99 FOR A LIMITED TIME! Leigh Baxton is terrified her mom will come back from the dead -- just like the prom queen did.While the town goes beehive over the news, Leigh bikes to the local cemetery and buries some of her mom's things in her grave to keep her there. When the hot and mysterious caretaker warns her not to give gifts to the dead, Leigh cranks up her punk music and keeps digging.She should have listened.Two dead sorceresses evicted the prom queen from her grave to bury someone who offered certain gifts. Bury them alive, that is, then resurrect them to create a trio of undead powerful enough to free the darkest sorceress ever from her prison inside the earth.With help from the caretaker and the dead prom queen, Leigh must find out what's so special about the gifts she gave, and why the sorceresses are stalking her and her little sister. If she doesn't, she'll either lose another loved one or have to give the ultimate gift to the dead - herself.

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SLEEPY HOLLOW (Sleepy Hollow Series Book 1)
SEVERED - A Tale of Sleepy Hollow
Dax Varley
Katrina is still haunted by her encounter with the Headless Horseman - the night he beckoned to her. Now he has risen again, slashing heads and terrorizing the quiet countryside. Her only joy during this dismal darkness comes when Ichabod Crane, a gorgeous young man from Connecticut, moves to Sleepy Hollow and their attraction turns to romance. When the Horseman marks Ichabod as his next victim, Katrina, despite dangerous efforts to save him, sees no other choice than for them to flee. But the Horseman awaits. Now it’s up to her to sever the horror and alter the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

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Kavishar: Reflections In A Wolf's Eyes
Kavishar: Reflections In A Wolf's Eyes
L. Kyle
A wolf as a boy’s beloved pet? Suburbia will never be the same again.Kavishar behaves like a dog in many respects – gentle, friendly, devoted to his master. In his mind, he is a dog, just like his best friend, a Siberian Husky. But Kavishar is actually a large young wolf, and his teenage master is the son of a fur trapper. When Kavishar’s master moves from the Yukon to an Alberta town, Kavishar struggles to adapt to life there. Alarmed by bustling town life, shunned by town dogs, Kavishar must fight for his life and freedom, and struggle to find a place where he belongs.“Kavishar” is a tale of love and heartbreak, hope and despair, friendship and ill-advised revenge. Above all, “Kavishar” explores what it means to be an outcast, and the struggle to rise above that stigma and be true to oneself and one’s beliefs.Publisher’s Advisory: This book is intended for readers aged 12 and above.Length: 466 pages (estimated).Praise from www.flayrah.com:“Kyle leads the novel to a breakneck, suspenseful, terrible conclusion.”“‘Kavishar’ is very well-written and well-plotted. The dangers, and the actions of the Good Guys to get out of them, are clever and believable.”

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