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Series
Selection series volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
"The opportunity to be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and pricelss jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her, and leaving her home to enter a fierce cmpetition for a crown she doesn't want. Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she begins to realize that the life...
3) Mortal heart
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
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Series
Twilight saga volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Although eighteen-year-old Bella joins the dark but seductive world of the Immortals by marrying Edward the vampire, her connection to the powerful werewolf Jacob remains unsevered.
6) Sapphique
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After his escape from the sentient prison, Incarceron, Finn finds that the Realm is not at all what he expected, and he does not know whether he is to be its king, how to free his imprisoned friends, or how to stop Incarceron's quest to be free of its own nature.
Author
Series
Winner's trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, and to her surprise, the two of them find they have a lot in common and are able to help each other find more productive ways to deal with their difficulties.
9) War storm
Author
Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Victory comes at a price. Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Cal's betrayal nearly destroyed her. Now determined to protect her heart--and secure freedom for Reds and newbloods like her--Mare resolves to overthrow the kingdom of Norta once and for all ... starting with the crown on Maven's head"--
10) What light
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Sierra's family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon-it's a bucolic setting for a girl to grow up in, except that every year, they pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. And leaving one always means missing the other. Until this particular Christmas, when Sierra meets Caleb, and one life eclipses the other. By reputation, Caleb is not...
11) Caraval
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Series
Language
English
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Romantasy - Adult/YA
Romantic Fiction - YA
If You Like Hunger Games, Read These!
Romantasy - Adult/YA
Romantic Fiction - YA
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Description
"Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister Tella live with their powerful and cruel father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over. But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away...
12) Incarceron
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
13) The cruel prince
Author
Series
Folk of the air volume 1
Language
English
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Enemies To Lovers - Adult/YA
Fantastical Fiction - YA
If You Like Six of Crows, Read These!
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Fantastical Fiction - YA
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Description
Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.
14) The giver
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Series
Language
English
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Dystopian (Adult/YA)
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TIME Magazine Best YA Reads
Dystopian (Adult/YA)
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TIME Magazine Best YA Reads
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Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
15) Graceling
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Series
Language
English
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Fantastical Fiction - YA
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Description
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
16) Glass sword
Author
Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world escalates, Mare, who has the red blood of the common folk but also the silver ability to control lightning, must fight against the darkrness that has grown in her soul.
17) Bone Gap
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
18) Burn for burn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Three teenaged girls living on Jar Island band together to enact revenge on the people that have hurt them"--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
20) Love, Stargirl
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
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