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"We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren't sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country, and Horror Noire will get a little bit of everything they love--and a lot of what they fear--through a twisted blend of horror lenses, from the thoughtful to the terrifying. From haunted,...
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Having forsaken her crown for a chance to save her family, and the world, Vi Solaris washes up on the shores of Meru. She's wounded and barely alive. But Vi's fight for survival is only just beginning.
As a princess in a foreign land, everyone is after her.
The pirate queen Adela wants to sell her to the evil elfin'ra. The Twilight King wants to use her to settle an old score. And, perhaps most dangerous, is the scheming Lord of the Faithful who...
4) Fantasma
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When basketball player Castle Cranshaw--nicknamed Ghost--challenges an elite sprinter to a race and wins, he finds himself on the radar of an Olympic medalist track coach who wants to nurture his raw talent. But Ghost's anger and determination to outrun his past, could stand in the way of him making good use of his natural ability.
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After Rio saves Liselotte's party from a group of monsters controlled by Reiss, he impresses everyone on the battlefield. Later, he comes face-to-face with the man he despises, Lucius, and the two enter into an all-out-battle. Then, Rio discovers information about the person Miharu and the siblings are searching for: Sumeragi Satsuki. To complicate matters, Miharu becomes suspicious of Rio's true identity.
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When Rio reaches his parents' hometown in the Yagumo region, he meets his paternal grandmother, Yuba, and his older cousin, Ruri. He decides to stay in the village for the time being and helps improve their way of life, but Rio soon learns the shocking truth about his parents' deaths. After leaving his parents' homeland, Rio heads to the spirit village where Latifa and the others are waiting. Along the way, he rescues three people nearly captured...
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After a poor orphan named Rio gains magical abilities and memories of a life in modern Japan, his world is turned upside down. He is suddenly accepted into the most prestigious academy in the land where most of the noble children look down on him. Eventually, he embarks on an adventure to find his ancestral lands, and he soon encounters Latifa, a werefox girl enslaved by nobles and trained to become an assassin, and she has been sent to assassinate...
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Alexander, a boy living in ancient Athens, Greece dreams of being a great warrior, but he can barely lift a spear. When he's told to accompany the great athlete Dracon to the Olympic Games in Olympia, he details the journey and all of Dracon's training. But when he discovers that Dracon's been poisoned, Alexander will have to compete in his place and reveal the poisoners.
11) Worst year ever
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Griff returns to school after spending the summer in summer school to learn that he has the teacher who failed him before for science again, and his physical education teacher is the coach who kept him off the track team due to his low grades.
12) Salt the water
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A confrontation with a teacher and a family crisis force high school senior Cerulean Gene to drop out of twelfth grade and derails their dreams of moving cross-country and living off the grid.
13) Crystal caged
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With powers that weren't supposed to be touched by mortal hands, Vi Solaris is determined to free herself and the world from the deadly vortex it's trapped in. This mission has taken her to forbidden lands and has transformed her from a sheltered princess to a fearsome warrior. But the ultimate triumph requires the ultimate sacrifice, forcing Vi to choose between the last tethers to her humanity and the very people she's sworn to protect. Vi's story...
14) Plan A
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Sixteen-year-old Ivy's road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength, and above all, choice.
15) The scarlet veil
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Six months have passed since Célie took her sacred vows and joined the ranks of the Chasseurs as their first huntswoman. With her fiancé, Jean Luc, as captain, she is determined to find her foothold in her new role and help protect Belterra. But whispers from her past still haunt her, and a new evil is rising--one that Célie herself must vanquish, unless she falls prey to the darkness.
17) Cage of dreams
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"In this thrilling sequel and conclusion to the City of Nightmares duology, Ness is forced to make a twisted deal with the Nightmare Phantom--only to find herself embroiled in the explosive fallout of the agreement when a botched assassination attempt unleashes chaos into the City of Newham. City of nightmares duology series."--Provided by the publisher.
18) The changing man
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As a scholarship student at the prestigious Nithercott School, seventeen-year-old Ife feels like an outcast, but when a missing classmate reappears and acts strange, Ife teams up with two other students to investigate the school's decades-old legend of the Changing Man.
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"Cara Tang doesn't want to be haunted. Look, the dead have issues, and Cara has enough of her own. Her overbearing mother insists she be the "perfect" Chinese American daughter--which means suppressing her ghost-speaking powers--and she keeps getting into fights with Zacharias Coleson, the local golden boy whose smirk makes her want to set things on fire. Then she stumbles across Zach's dead body in the woods. He's even more infuriating as a ghost,...