Kate and Marilyn are best friends. That is, they used to be. This book delves into the shaky relationship of two girls with a history together that is speeding farther into the distance each day. One minute they hate each other, the next they need their past friendship desperately. One thing is certain, they are growing apart, and neither is sure how to cope with this fact. A coming of age story that approaches the common teenage dramas that many girls growing up encounter.
Naya Adams is starting anew. After her parents deaths years before, she leaves for a fresh start in one of the most respected theater schools in New England. With her follows her abusive, controlling boyfriend, Seth. While walking into her first class she feels this pull, pulling her towards Etash, her Twin Flame. Twin Flames, they later learn, are two parts of one soul, who look for each other for eternity. They are meant to be together but there is one problem, Seth, so they constantly try to avoid one another and the pull.
Earth Girl, set hundreds of years in the future, offers a stunning vision of humanity’s future. We can regrow limbs, we have marvelous technology, and we have colonized many other planets. In a matter of seconds, we can transport between these planets through special portals…. All except for the taboo “apes,” humans who were born without the immune system needed to survive on other planets. They are abandoned at birth on Earth.
Kylie Galen has been fighting for her life for so long she knows nothing else. Of course, she’s always had help from her best friends, like a snarky vampire and a witch in training. Not to mention the blue-eyed werewolf and a green-eyed fey fighting for her love. It’s just another day for Kylie when an old enemy comes back stronger, obsessed with destroying her. But this time, she doesn’t want help. This time, she wants to do it alone, but will her ambition get her killed?
A young girl named Kaya has been away from her village for a while and when she comes back her first sight of it is not good. When she sees it, she can see smoke coming from the village buildings and that the ancient pine was pulled down and burned. All of this was the result of the Ookami- the wolf clan. The wolf clan had taken many of Kaya's people as slaves and some of the ones that were taken were part of her family-the chieftain’s family.
From the point of view of three different girls: Maddie, Jo, Skylar, and Emma, it takes place in the five years the four best friends were in camp and when they came back to reunion. They made a pact to stay best friends forever, but when they come back to camp will they be able to keep it? Through terrible fights, boys, and a whole lot of drama they put their relationship through the ultimate test.
In The Brewster Boys and the Eve of Infamy, protagonists Pete and Jon find themselves forcibly fleeing the clutches of a Nazi sympathizer, but what little solace they find in 1941 Hawaii is promptly ruptured by the impending attack on Pearl Harbor. Time-traveling henchmen swarm the island’s beaches, and a Japanese fleet prowls the Pacific. Entangled in the plot to thwart military history, the Brewster boys, along with cohorts Abby and Chuck, must dodge stray bullets and enemy forces in their struggle to right the past.
The Kissing Booth starts out simple enough: Elle and her best friend, Lee, have to come up with a booth for the school festival, and what better thing to do than a Kissing Booth?
What Elle and Lee didn’t think of was what one simple kissing booth could lead to.
After all, Elle never thought that Lee’s older brother, Noah, would show up at the kissing booth; or that she’d be having her very first kiss with him. One kiss can cause so much trouble.
The Spirit of the Heart is a collection of stories from Ismael Nuno's life. He details highlights of his medical career, and explains how he struggled to balance his family life with his career. The stories are uplifting and hopeful, and peppered with sorrowful moments. He tells about how he achieves his life's goal of becoming a successful heart surgeon, and he explains the highs and lows of journey to that point.
