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Fear of Falling
Hannah R. Goodman
Synopsis: With two ex-boyfriends haunting her and a newly recovered alcoholic sister, seventeen-year-old Maddie Hickman has a lot to deal with. She begins her junior year steeped in self-pity and grief until she receives an anonymous letter. “Anonymous”, a student at Maddie’s school, is a guy who confesses to liking another guy. He’s terrified of coming out and being alienated by parents, peers, as well as the boy he likes– a jock with everything to lose if he’s outed to their homophobic high school. “Anonymous” begs Maddie to use her power as editor of the school newspaper to help him. The letter forces Maddie to step out of her grief and into the real world, where she soon finds herself imploring the school’s administration to publish an article protesting homophobia. When they refuse, she decides she has to go outside the lines to help Anonymous and other gay students. Even with the help of friends, Maddie must choose how far she is willing to go, especially when her safety and her own reputation are in jeopardy.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction
Master of Deceit
J. Edgar Hoover
Synopsis: Vintage paperback
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Nonfiction
The Taker
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy
Nothing Can Keep Us Together - Gossip Girl Novel
Synopsis: The eighth book in the Gossip Girl series. In great condition. Previos owner's name inside cover.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Chick Lit
Zen and the Art of Vampires
Katie MacAlister
Synopsis: Is it possible to love two vampires at the same time?

View our feature on Katie MacAlister’s Zen and the Art of Vampires.

Pushing forty and alone, Pia Thomason heads to Europe on a singles tour, hoping to find romance. What she finds are two very handsome, very mysterious, and very undead men. And she learns that where vampires are concerned, love isn’t the only thing at stake.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Worlds Burn Through (The Chronicles of Nowhere)
Synopsis: "Chloe Burke has had re-occurring nightmares of a fire and a strange boy with intense eyes for as long she can remember . The horror of her nightmares is replaced with the death of her father. It's been two months, but the pain is still fresh. After her father’s death her mum has become over protective for reasons unknown to Chloe. Chloe rebels and that's how she finds herself on the date from hell. Wanting to go home she instead finds herself in a terrifying situation, and then when the boy from her dream appears her world becomes filled with darkness and fire and everything changes... “ – Renu, The Page Turner

“Worlds Burn Through is an exceptional novel that blends the ever-growing genre of ‘paranormal (or supernatural) young adult’ and ‘high fantasy’.” – Ian Caithness, Dead Ink

Overview:
Worlds Burn Through is the first instalment in the paranormal novella trilogy, The Chronicles of Nowhere, by kindle bestselling author Vicki Keire. Supernatural Guardians and their Wards clash against a threat cut from science fiction cloth across the pages of this intense book, leaving reviewers demanding more.

“The characters are fleshed out, real, the dialog spare but right on, the scene-setting effortless. The story telling is so good you forget there’s an author. I’ve read Urban Fantasy by well-known writers who could take a lesson from Vicki Keire. “ – Julia Rachel, Goodreads Reviewer

“Worlds Burn Through is full of suspense and amped up my adrenaline through good old fashioned anxiety. I truly did fear for the characters and often held my breath, waiting to see how they were going to get out of some pretty dismal situations. Keire's writing is both streamline and mesmerizing. I will for sure be looking out for other books by this wonderful author.” – Jennifer Bielman, Reading and Writing Urban Romance

Paranormal action and romance fans alike will fall for Worlds Burn Through.

For those in love with The Chronicles of Nowhere trilogy already, you’ll also love:

** Continuing the battle from Worlds Burn Through, search for Shadowed Ground, the second instalment in the series.
** For Vicki Keire’s bestselling Angel’s Edge paranormal romance series, search for Gifts of the Blood.
** The Angel’s Edge series continues with Darkness in the Blood.
** And for more excellent paranormal fiction from Curiosity Quills Press, search for The Stein & Candle Detective Agency by Michael Panush.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal
First Visions: Second Sight Book One
Synopsis: Two years ago, 21-year-old Kate Edwards became deathly ill and slipped into a coma. While unconscious, she crept into the mind of a missing boy and awoke with the knowledge of his location. Friends and family were skeptical and wary of her new ability to see into the minds of others. Their fears prompted Kate to keep her psychic powers a secret. Feeling alienated, she dropped out of college and spent most of her days holed up at her mother's home.

Now another child has been abducted. Police detective Jared Corbett seeks out Kate for her help in solving the case. Reluctantly, Kate agrees and they must work together to bring 8-year-old Cori Preston home to her family. Although attracted to one another, Jared has a girlfriend with ties to the abduction case and Kate is sarcastic and guarded since her coma. With visions she can't control and an uncontrollable attraction to the detective, she wonders if she can leave the past behind and finally stop hiding from the world. Otherwise, Cori may be lost forever.

Mature YA/New Adult
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Mystery
Knee Deep
Jolene Perry
Synopsis: Shawn is the guy Ronnie Bird promised her life to at the age of fourteen. He's her soul mate. He's more uptight every day, but it's not his fault. His family life is stressful, and she's adding to it. She just needs to be more understanding, and he'll start to be the boy she fell in love with. She won’t give up on someone she’s loved for so long.

Luke is her best friend, and the guy she hangs with to watch girlie movies in her large blanketopias. He's the guy she can confide in before she even goes to her girlfriends, and the guy who she's playing opposite in Romeo and Juliet. Now her chest flutters every time he gets too close. This is new. Is Ronnie falling for him? Or is Juliet? The lines are getting blurry, but leaving one guy for another is not something that a girl like Ronnie does.

Shawn’s outbursts are starting to give her bruises, and Luke’s heart breaks as Ronnie remains torn. While her thoughts and feelings swirl around the lines between friendship and forever, she’s about to lose them both.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Chick Lit
Calixte: A Novel
Rosella Eleanor LaFevre
Synopsis: Will their love survive her insecurities?

A senior in high school, Calixte has spent a lifetime feeling lonely. One Friday night, she throws a party with the help of her uber-popular classmate Glory and Glory's sexy brother Howard. When Howard flirts with her, Calixte promises herself that she's not going to fall for this hottie. They'll hook up and that'll be it. But then he asks her to be his girlfriend. Things go well for the two at first but then it seems like her fears are getting the best of her.

This young adult novel is a deliciously exciting romance that'll make your heart race.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction
The 4975
Ann Fuller
Synopsis: The 4975 Academy of Self Defense brings life changing opportunities for anyone accepted. Hunter Gates begins to realize this as she’s branded as an ‘Elite’ student, a privilege offered to only the best ten students in the school of sixty pupils. With the help of cold and calloused self defence trainer Eamon, Hunter must trust herself and protect the ones around her to save her school and the family she finds within it.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Science Fiction
First Light (Project Five Fifteen)
Synopsis: What do you do when you’ve always dreamed of a hero; your knight in shining armour, only to find when he arrives he isn’t a hero at all?

... He’s a killer.

Ronnie Rose is trying to cope with the loss of her father; now it looks like she might lose everything else that’s dear to her too. Huge debts threaten to destroy her family, her childhood home and her future. Only one person cuts through her pain.

Kalen Smith has just moved to town. He’s trouble and everyone knows it. He and his mysterious friends keep to themselves and the town likes it that way.

But when Kalen mourns at her dad’s funeral, Ronnie wants to know why and her investigation plunges her into a dangerous world of murky government secrets, with deadly consequences. Ronnie knows she should walk away from Kalen before it’s too late. Problem is, she’s falling for him…

Can we choose who we fall in love with?
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Flutter Of Luv
LM Preston
Synopsis: Dawn, the neighborhood tomboy, is happy to be her best friend’s shadow. Acceptance comes from playing football after school with the guys on the block while hiding safely behind her glasses, braces, and boyish ways. But Tony moves in, becomes the star Running Back on her school’s football team, and changes her world and her view of herself forever.

This is a short story told in ten episodes similar to an anthology of short stories over the course of Dawn’s and Tony’s realization of how much they mean to one another.

Also there is a short story at the end called Hush A Bye My Baby Brother for the reader to enjoy along with samples of LM Preston’s other book

Look for THUNDERING LUV book 2 in the SUMMER LUV series.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Forbidden Fruit (Forbidden Trilogy)
Heather Lawton, Autumn Wiley, Jamie Reed, Anna Lee
Synopsis: When her parents die in an unsolved case of arson, Lily Grace is sent to live with her exceedingly wealthy and eccentric grandmother. Small town Lily must learn to survive as a high school senior at an exclusive prep school in the heart of Charleston, South Carolina. But fitting in at her new school and getting used to the affluent lifestyle may be the least of her worries. She is suddenly plagued by nightmares and haunted by monsters, all while falling desperately in love with the mysterious new boy, who has quite a few secrets of his own. Lily’s eyes open to a world she never knew existed as she begins the journey to discover who she is and what role she plays in the ultimate war between good and evil.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Series
Grace Awakening
Shawn L. Bird
Synopsis: Grace Awakening Book One: Awakening Dreams is an urban fantasy YA novel set in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Within the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, Greek gods are walking among the population and a battle is unfolding to the destroy love, beauty and radiance that makes all art and music possible. Grace only knows that she is incapacitated by the music of Ben, who seems sure that he's been in love with her forever. She also knows that she has become the target of mysterious attacks in school and around the city. As she awakens to the connection her dreams have to another world, Grace realizes she has a bigger destiny than she could have imagined. In Grace Awakening modern first love is entangled with ancient myth. It's Twilight meets Percy Jackson.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Grace Awakening Power
Shawn L. Bird
Synopsis: Fourteen year old Grace doesn’t know it yet, but she’s been around for three thousand years waiting to fulfill her destiny to become one of the Three Graces of Greek Mythology. Forces are battling for her love, her body and her destiny. Now all she needs to do is survive the war.

In Awakening Power, Grace has been sent to the Shuswap and must learn to live without her love’s physical presence in her life. As the attacks increase, Grace faces a battle to accept her destiny and to save the man she loves, their life together, and the joy, beauty and radiance that fuel all artistic endeavours in the world.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Halfway
Stephanie Void
Synopsis: The world of Halfway is the anti-Harry-Potter: the wizard school is part of a shadowy organization that takes the students by force from their families. And the outside world isn't much better: if you are a wizard, you are looked upon with fear because of what you represent.

In the midst of this, in secret, twins are born: a boy and a girl. They are Halfway, the rare offspring of humans and a now-extinct race of faeries.

But the twins don't remain a secret for long. Temet, the boy, is taken as a child by the wizards. Cemagna, the girl, vows to rescue him. But the only way to escape the wizards is to keep running...

This book is Book 1 of the Wizards and Faeries series.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Series

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