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ASHES It could happen tomorrow . . . An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions. Alex hiked into the woods to say good-bye to her dead parents and her personal demons. Now desperate to find out what happened after the pulse crushes her to the ground, Alex meets up with Tom—a young soldier—and Ellie, a girl whose grandfather was killed by the EMP. For this improvised family and the others who are spared, it’s now a question of who can be trusted and who is no longer human.

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ASHES It could happen tomorrow . . .

An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device,

wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions.

Alex hiked into the woods to say good-bye to her dead parents and her personal

demons. Now desperate to find out what happened after the pulse crushes her to the

ground, Alex meets up with Tom—a young soldier—and Ellie, a girl whose

grandfather was killed by the EMP.

For this improvised family and the others who are spared, it’s now a question of who

can be trusted and who is no longer human.

DON’T TURN AROUND

Sixteen-year-old Noa has been a victim of the system ever since her parents died. Now

living off the grid and trusting no one, she uses her hacking skills to stay anonymous and

alone. But when she wakes up on a table in a warehouse with an IV in her arm and no

memory of how she got there, Noa starts to wish she had someone on her side.

Enter Peter Gregory. A rich kid and the leader of a hacker alliance, Peter needs people

with Noa’s talents on his team. Especially after a shady corporation threatens his life in no

uncertain terms. But what Noa and Peter don’t realize is that Noa holds the key to a

terrible secret, and there are those who’d stop at nothing to silence her for good.

EVERY DAY

Every day a different body. Every day a different life.

Every day in love with the same girl.

There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace

with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid

being noticed. Do not interfere.

It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s

girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no

longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day

out, day after day.

EVERYBODY SEES

THE ANTS

Lucky Linderman didn't ask for his life. He didn't ask his grandfather not to come

home from the Vietnam War. He didn't ask for a father who never got over it. He didn't

ask for a mother who keeps pretending their dysfunctional family is fine. And he didn't

ask to be the target of Nader McMillan's relentless bullying, which has finally gone too

far.

But Lucky has a secret—one that helps him wade through the mundane torture of his

life. In his dreams, Lucky escapes to the war-ridden jungles of Laos—the prison his

grandfather couldn't escape—where Lucky can be a real man, an adventurer, and a hero.

It's dangerous and wild, and it's a place where his life just might be worth living. But

how long can Lucky keep hiding in his dreams before reality forces its way inside?

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years,

Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon

diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly

appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely

rewritten.

THE HEALING

Plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield’s intense grief over losing her daughter

crosses the line into madness when she takes a newborn slave child as her own and

names her Granada. Troubled by his wife’s disturbing mental state and concerned

about a mysterious plague that is sweeping through the plantation’s slave quarters,

Master Satterfield purchases Polly Shine, a slave woman known as a healer who

immediately senses a spark of the same gift in Granada. Soon, a domestic battle of

wills begins, leading to a tragedy that weaves together three generations of strong

Southern women.

THE LATTE REBELLION

Hoping to raise money for a post-graduation trip to London, Asha Jamison and her best friend

Carey decide to sell T-shirts promoting the Latte Rebellion, a club that raises awareness of mixed-

race students.

But seemingly overnight, their "cause" goes viral and the T-shirts become a nationwide social

movement. As new chapters spring up from coast to coast, Asha realizes that her simple marketing

plan has taken on a life of its own—and it's starting to ruin hers. Asha's once-stellar grades begin to

slip, threatening her Ivy League dreams, while her friendship with Carey hangs by a thread. And

when the peaceful underground movement spins out of control, Asha's school launches a

disciplinary hearing. Facing expulsion, Asha must decide how much she's willing to risk for

something she truly believes in.

OUTCASTS UNITED

The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town

Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s,

becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and

Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston’s streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of

cumin and curry, and kids of all colors playing soccer in any open space they could find. The town also became home

to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to unify Clarkston’s

refugee children and keep them off the streets. These kids named themselves the Fugees.

Set against the backdrop of an American town that without its consent had become a vast social experiment, Outcasts

United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees and their charismatic coach. Warren St. John documents the

lives of a diverse group of young people as they miraculously coalesce into a band of brothers, while also drawing a

fascinating portrait of a fading American town struggling to accommodate its new arrivals.

THE PREGNANCY PROJECT

Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she would end up a teen mom. After all,

her mother and her older sisters had gotten pregnant as teenagers; from an outsider’s

perspective, it was practically a family tradition. Gaby had ambitions that didn’t include

teen motherhood. But she wondered: how would she be treated if she “lived down” to

others’ expectations? Would everyone ignore the years she put into being a good

student and see her as just another pregnant teen statistic with no future? These

questions sparked Gaby’s high school senior project: faking her own pregnancy to see

how her family, friends, and community would react. What she learned changed her

life forever—and made international headlines in the process

TEN MILES PAST NORMAL

Janie Gorman wants to be normal. The problem with that: she’s not. She’s smart and creative and a little bit funky.

She’s also an unwilling player in her parents’ modern-hippy, let’s-live-on-a-goat-farm experiment (regretfully,

instigated by a younger, much more enthusiastic Janie). This, to put it simply, is not helping Janie reach that “normal

target.” She has to milk goats every day…and endure her mother’s pseudo celebrity in the homemade-life, crunchy

mom blogosphere. Goodbye the days of frozen lasagna and suburban living, hello crazy long bus ride to high school

and total isolation--and hovering embarrassments of all kinds. The fresh baked bread is good…the threat of

homemade jeans, not so much. It would be nice to go back to that old suburban life…or some grown up, high school

version of it, complete with nice, normal boyfriends who wear crew neck sweaters and like social studies. So, what’s

wrong with normal? Well, kind of everything. She knows that, of course, why else would she learn bass and join Jam

Band, how else would she know to idolize infamous wild-child and high school senior Emma (her best friend Sarah’s

older sister), why else would she get arrested while doing a school project on a local freedom school (jail was not part

of the assignment). And, why else would she kind of be falling in "like" with a boy named Monster—yes, that is his

real name. Janie was going for normal, but she missed her mark by about ten miles.

SERAPHINA

Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the

kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors,

and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's

anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high. Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both

sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is

murdered—in suspiciously draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering

with the captain of the Queen's Guard, the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs. While they

begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace, Seraphina struggles to protect her

own secret, the secret behind her musical gift, one so terrible that its

discovery could mean her very life.

VIRTUOSITY

Now is not the time for Carmen to fall in love. And Jeremy is hands-down the wrong guy for her to fall

for. He is infuriating, arrogant, and the only person who can stand in the way of Carmen getting the one

thing she wants most: to win the prestigious Guarneri competition. Carmen’s whole life is violin, and

until she met Jeremy, her whole focus was winning. But what if Jeremy isn’t just hot…what if Jeremy is

better?

Carmen knows that kissing Jeremy can’t end well, but she just can't stay away. Nobody else understands

her—and riles her up—like he does. Still, she can’t trust him with her biggest secret: She is so desperate

to win, she takes antianxiety drugs to perform, and what started as an easy fix has become a hungry

addiction. Carmen is sick of not feeling anything on stage and even sicker of always doing what she’s

told, doing what’s expected.

Sometimes being on top just means you have a long way to fall….

STARTERS

Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of

twenty and sixty. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run, living as squatters with

their friend Michael and fighting off renegades who would kill them for a cookie.

Callie’s only hope is Prime Destinations, a disturbing place in Beverly Hills run by a

mysterious figure known as the Old Man. He hires teens to rent their bodies to

Enders—seniors who want to be young again. Callie, desperate for the money that will

keep her, Tyler, and Michael alive, agrees to be a donor. But the neurochip they place in

Callie’s head malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her renter.

Callie soon discovers that her renter intends to do more than party—and that Prime

Destinations’ plans are more evil than she could ever have imagined. . .

THE RAVEN BOYS

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Eve," Neeve said. "Either

you're his true love . . . or you killed him."

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past.

Blue herself never sees them-not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks

directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby,

the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven

Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain. He has it all-family money, good

looks, devoted friends-but he's looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has

encompassed three other Raven Boys:

STEEL

A mysterious broken sword transports a modern teen through time to the deck of a

pirate ship. Stranded in the past, and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on

as crew. But a pirate's life is bloody and brief, and as she learns about the dark magic

that brought her there, she forms a desperate scheme to get home—one that risks

everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain!