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Chance Falls (Volume 1)
Chance Falls
Have you ever questioned your sanity? Thinking back now, it's funny to believe I would have given my life for her. Don't get me wrong, I would do the same now, but I don't think it would be quite the same noble gesture. Chance Falls is a young adult fiction novel which explores the growing relationship between two high school students as they take a journey in a fast-paced murder mystery. The only question is how can it be murder if no one is dead? In a gripping exploration of one's mental stability, Chance Falls is an unforgettable leap into the unknown. Is it love? Is it a murder? Is it fate? You Decide!

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Catching the Fever
Catching the Fever
All Brynn, Claudia, and Norah wanted was a normal sophomore year. You know, homecoming, photography class, watching Audrey Hepburn movies – that sort of thing. Well, it’s good they didn’t know what was coming because they would never have had the guts to show up. It’s pretty crazy what they went through to try to save the place - their school, that is. They can’t say they didn’t have fun ….even if they did have to steal a BMW. P.S. Justin Crew really is as hot as everyone says. They would know.

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Bullied (Book One in the Bullied Series)
STEPHEN KING: "PUT ME DOWN AS AN ENTHUSIASTIC CHRISTOPHER SMITH FAN. SMITH IS A CULTURAL GENIUS."DESCRIPTION: A paranormal thriller! The relentlessly bullied 18-year-old Seth Moore is gifted an amulet that ignites within him a wealth of supernatural powers. If Seth uses the amulet properly, it will protect him from those determined to crush him. But after so many years of being beaten down and humiliated, the question is whether Seth can resist creating a firestorm of horror when the bullies around him create one fatal, awful act that begs for revenge.Soon, all hell breaks loose. And when it does, a war builds against Seth as others vie to take control of the amulet and use its powers for themselves.BULLIED is an intense, paranormal thriller that moves at a break-neck pace. It is the first book in the BULLIED series.

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BRUXA The Secret Within
BRUXA The Secret Within
Gabriella is no ordinary seventeen-year-old girl. She is the last to carry her mother’s rare bloodline of Bruxa, an ancient secret order of witches. Settling into her late father’s estate, she is welcomed by a phantom presence that resurrects within her, a secret curse her father took to his grave ten years ago. Gabriella finally finds a sense of belonging and gains the affections of high school’s most desired boy, Joey Davale. Her newly found life becomes derailed when she learns her whole existence has been a lie, and the boy she’s falling for, is designed to destroy the very thing growing inside of her. Forced to conceal this truth, Gabriella embarks on a secret life that will drive her into the arms of Alvero, the embodiment of her darkest fear. Her newly found heritage traps her in a dangerous web of lies between two worlds and two loves. Her life will become more dangerous than she ever imagined. As the age-old battle between witches and vampires collide, will she fall prey to her heart or welcome the predator inside? The Intense and stylized, A.F.Costa’s debut is an alluring live wire full of intrigue and forbidden love. Bruxa: the secret within, powerful vision of witches and vampires will challenge your understanding and leave you craving more.

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Borrowing Abby Grace
Borrowing Abby Grace
Smart and sassy Abby Grace is a seventeen-year-old with a talent for getting out of trouble. Sent to repair the lives and loves of teenagers on the edge of disaster, Abby is the perfect girl for the job. She has everything going for her… except one thing: a body. This fast-paced and exciting episode is the first installment in an ongoing mystery series with a supernatural twist. Critical Acclaim for Borrowing Abby Grace“As you fall deeply into Borrowing Abby Grace, you'll find yourself hooked and yearning for more. Suspenseful, thrilling, and exciting! You'll find yourself sitting on the edge of your seat.” –Jodie Baker, Uniquely Moi Books"Borrowing Abby Grace is what you get when you take a dash of paranormal fiction, a handful of detective fiction, and a healthy dose of intrigue… one of my favorite reads of the year." -Jill PrzytarskiI“Borrowing Abby Grace is a clever, intelligent page-turner with a strong, likeable, witty female character that’s sure to turn young adults into life-long mystery lovers. Highly recommended.” -Claudine Wolk, author“Borrowing Abby Grace is a most unusual story that provides thought-provoking reading for young adults; the author demonstrates an agile mind and shows much promise.” –John H. Manhold, award-winning novelist“Borrowing Abby Grace is a modern day Quantum Leap for teens and tweens that boasts a fresh new voice, and which grabs you from the very first word. I dare you to stop reading once you’ve started.” –Angela Felsted “Girl Steals Guy rocked my world. Oh, I loved it so much I want to squeeze-hug it. Kelly Green knows how to handle the fast-paced stories and keep people engaged.” –Ashelynn, Gypsy Book Reveiws“Girl Steals Guy is a story unlike anything else I have ever read.” –Moirae, The Fates Book Reviews“What a joy this was to read. Green never fails to put a smile on my face with her clever adventures!” –Lisa, Read Me, Bookmark Me, Love MeEpisode 1When Abby Grace wakes up in the back of a van, she has no idea who she is, how she got there, or why anyone would want to kidnap her. After escaping her masked captors, she hurries home, only to discover that she unknowingly left her younger brother behind in the van. Unable to answer the police’s questions with her memories gone, she retreats to the safety of her bedroom where she tries to reconstruct her life. Just as she is settling into the belief that things will one day return to normal, she looks in the mirror—and sees a stranger’s face. As Abby learns next, she has become a Shadow, sent to inhabit the lives of strangers in trouble. With nothing to go on except the vague hints of her cute but maddening Guardian, a 19th century ghostly teenager named Will, Abby sets out to rescue the missing brother. But she will need all of her intelligence, fearlessness, and wit, because if she fails to find him in time, she will remain trapped in this unfamiliar body forever.Episode 2: Girl Steals GuyAvailable Now!Dropped into the life of a gorgeous senior with a heartbroken best friend, Abby Grace must navigate high school keg parties, football games and power couples as she discovers that love and revenge are sometimes the same thing. Episode 3: Top of the ClassAvailable Now!Abby finds herself in a boy’s body for the first time, where she has to fumble her way through a secret love affair, while getting to the bottom of a grade-tampering scandal that could send her to jail.

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Born Different
Born Different
Urban gritty inspirational story of breaking free from the chains that bind us all. Self harm or Love? Addiction or Recovery? Gabe is not a hero, he is damned to be different in a world where everyone seems to want to be the same. His friends are damned too, to lives unpredictable,though a life of crime,sex and drugs is calling. But Gabe has dreams of better things, and a secret that is so shameful it is killing him. Born Different is inspirational for young adults that wouldn't read inspirational books. Facing head on at full speed, depression, addiction, and all other issues that adults, old or young, face; self harm, alcoholism, suicide. Born different questions authority, society, morality and the universe All wrapped up in a modern urban fairytale like love story that takes you to the edge and back again. You might like it, it might just open your mind, it might just help you realise what you have to change.

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Blood of the Revenant
Blood of the Revenant
Something strange is happening in Returning City, something dangerous. Gabriel has never questioned things before. He knows that because he is a revenant like everyone else, he has to fight the not-family and hurt them to keep his own family safe. He has never questioned that the sky is always dark or that hungry things watch him from the forest.But in Returning City, everyone has secrets.Gabriel grew up believing that he was the same as everyone else. But now, things are changing. He begins to see strange, monstrous creatures instead of the people he has always known. Struggling to protect his family, Gabriel must turn to a mysterious stranger, but is she only helping him for her own dark purposes?In order to survive, Gabriel has to become more than he has ever been, and he will have to go against all he has ever known. Soon Gabriel will realize that something dangerous waits for him—his past—and that past holds a secret deadlier than anything he could ever imagine.

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Bionic
Bionic
In a gloomy City plagued with poverty and fear, accident victims can have lost limbs replaced with highly advanced prosthetics. But during surgery, their minds are altered forever. Wiped of all memories of home, these people are turned into obedient soldiers. Any opposition against the government is sniffed out and crushed, leaving little hope among the citizens for a better life. But today, it changes. And it begins with an unsuspecting Bionic named Zven.

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Beneath the Heavens
Beneath the Heavens
They heard about the Miracle Line because they were rich. They took it because they were dying. On a clear Janvius morning, eight passengers from an alternate universe board a luxury train bound for the Everlands, a mysterious island so clean it is said to cure every ailment of the flesh. Under their paranoid, chain-smoking engineer Fritz Carpenter, the passengers embark on a three-day journey to arrive in a utopia beautiful beyond imagination. But things at the Everlands are not as they seem. Each plagued by their personal manias, the new arrivals must figure out why their friends are turning up dead -- not from disease, but murder -- before their fragile lives prematurely unravel.

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Being Frank with Anne: A Poetic Tribute to Anne Frank
Being Frank with Anne
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Being Frank with Anne is a poetic interpretation of Anne Frank's diary. It can be used as a companion to the diary and has chronological dates that correspond with Anne's diary entries. It has been used by classrooms studying the Holocaust. Reviewed by Buddy Elias, Anne's first cousin, this book was also requested by Miep Gies before her passing at age 100. It follows the moods and emotions felt by Anne while hidden from view in the Secret Annexe.

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