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Marney + Me Best Sisters 4Ever
Samantha Lane Ferguson just wants to be like everybody else. Unfortunately everybody else just happens to be rowdy teenage girls. She’s a seven-year-old genius trying to survive the seventh grade. But with her big IQ and even bigger mouth, she’s too smart for her own good. Marney, Sam’s older sister just wants to play basketball. An accident last year left both her legs paralyzed. She has become the star of her new school’s wheelchair basketball team. But the accident and memories of her old life are starting to take their toll on her.
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The world has come to an end. It doesn’t go out with a bang, or even a whimper. It goes out in an orgy of blood and the dead rising from their graves to feast on living flesh. As democracy crumples and the world melts into anarchy, five families in the U.S. rise to protect the survivors. The undead hate a humid environment, so they are migrating westward to escape its deteriorating effects. The survivors are constructing a wall in North Platte to keep the zombie threat to the west, while tyranny rules among the humans to the east. Capable but naïve Krista is 15 when the first attacks occur, and she loses her family and barely escapes with her life. She makes her way to the wall and begins a new life. But, as the undead threat grows and dictators brainwash those she cares about, Krista must fight not only to survive but also to defend everything she holds dear—her country, her freedom, and ultimately those she loves.
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How can you be a hero when you're already a legend? Despite the death of Grandma and her own diagnosis of incurable cancer, eighteen-year old Leandra returns to the magical realm of Finian Jahndra at the urgent request of her friend, Songcatcher. Prince Aspen needs Leandra and her enchanted flute to help repel an army of invading humans. Leandra hopes her health will return as well—but something is terribly wrong. The flute has no power and the invaders are killing important leaders. Leandra must find a way to rally the birds and humans of Finian Jahndra to defeat the growing dark force—before the magic dies forever.
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How do you man up when you’re down?When 16 year old Mat meets Elle she seems perfect. But over time Elle becomes more controlling and aggressive. Feeling like no one will believe him, Mat isolates himself more and more. Their relationship fragments then explodes.The Kiss Kill story is told in fragments using multiple texts and transmedia. Prose is combined with scripts, songs, notes, poems, comics, essays, texting and photos. Transmedia is used through blogs, YouTube, iTunes, Facebook and Twitter. Kiss Kill is written for interaction. Readers are encouraged to post comments, create their own YouTube, compose music and interact with each other, the author and the character, Mat, as well: http://whyidontgetgirls.wordpress.com About Jeni Mawter:I’m a storyteller. It’s what I do. Parts of my stories are true. Parts are made up and others have a little bit of truth that I’ve embellished. On my gravestone I used to think I wanted the inscription ‘Break the Rules’, but now I’m leaning towards ‘Jeni was here’.Jeni (J.A.) Mawter is the author of the hilarious ‘So’ series: So Gross!, So Feral!, So Sick!, So Festy!, So Grotty! and So Stinky! as well as the Freewheelers series: Unleashed!, Launched! and Extreme! (HarperCollins). She has also published non-fiction, poetry, verse narrative, songs and scripts.
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Alethea Eason’s newest book, The Heron’s Path, has all the grace of the river that flows through its pages. One steps lithely into the world of Katy and her delicate sister Celeste. It is a world where the old and the new mingle, the Old Ones hold a knowing but genteel sway and the country man perhaps shouldn’t be so trusting of his dulled senses. Will Celeste come to know the purpose of her wanderings and dreams? Will Katy and aged Olena be able to keep her from the clutches of the evil we-nei-la? Follow them “north to the true wilderness, dark with ancient trees, where the Nanchuti struggle to keep their sacred songs from vanishing.” Like the current of the river Talum that witnesses all within these pages, you too will be swept along in the adventure, sometimes in reflective pools, sometimes drawn inexorably to the falls… to find the Heron’s Path.
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HERE (YA Paranormal Romance) (Here Trilogy)
A ROMANTIC MYSTERY FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLA JAMES...-Nominated Best YA Fantasy at the 2012 UtopYA Book Convention.-"Wow! This first novel in the Here series is amazing!" -Hooked in a Book-"What an imaginative and unexpected story. I really loved Here!" -BellaBunnell-"This book was one of the best books I have ever read." -Bookworm846-"I was blown away!!" -Kathryn Grimes-"It is fast-paced, logical and the characters blazed on the page. I give this a 7 out of 5-star rating." -WandaMilo Mitchell’s life used to be charmed, but that was before her father died, she went a little crazy, and her best friends started acting more like strangers. One Saturday morning as she roams the land around her family's Colorado wind farm, tagging deer for a project that used to be her father's, Milo makes a big mistake: a dart from her stun-gun takes down a teenage guy.Dressed in a Brinoi tux and armed with a perfectly starched handkerchief, the guy looks like a young James Bond - or some country's missing, playboy prince. Trouble is, he could be either. Mr. Mystery has no idea who or where he is. Afraid her dart caused his amnesia, Milo takes him in, names him Nick, and tries to get used to a hot guy sharing her bedroom. But Milo's Nick is more than he appears. Soon the pair find his face in a newspaper obituary, and Nick beings to have memories of Milo—who is sure she’s never met him. If 'Nick' survived a plunge off a steep cliffside on his way to a family camping trip, why did Milo find him dozens of miles away, wearing a freshly pressed tuxedo? If he's just a high-school athlete, why does he have moves like Jason Bourne? And why does he feel more for her than his surviving family?When a train of black SUVs shows up on Mitchell property, Nick and Milo run—toward a shocking conclusion that could destroy both their worlds.ELLA JAMES' BOOKS:*Have appeared on numerous Amazon bestseller lists*Have been featured by Amazon as two of the top 100 teen e-reads of 2012*Have been nominated for best debut novel and best YA fantasy at UtopYAcon*Have been listed among the Top 10 Books of 2011*Have featured heroes rated among the Top 10 Best Book Boyfriends of 2011*Have been listed as Top Choice Books at the notable YA rating site Flamingnet.comFOR MORE FROM ELLA, check out her blog at www.ellajamesbooks.blogspot.com, or find her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ellajamesbooks
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