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Silent Screams

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About Silent Screams:

For a group of friends, one mistake changed the course of their lives forever.

In the aftermath of a tragic school shooting, the group must find their own form of justice and a way to begin healing from a wound that just won’t stop hurting.

For them, the lines were drawn.

Right and wrong became blurred.

Friends became enemies.

Told from the perspective of four friends, we learn how one student’s revenge reigned terror over a school and a community– causing secrets to unfold and relationships to be tested.

A compelling and powerful story about a school shooting. A must read.

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John Drayven and the Altered Experiments

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About John Drayven and the Altered Experiments:

Look, there’s no easy way to tell you this, so I’ll go ahead and say it: your life might be in danger. See, someone injected Mina and me with a Vector serum without our knowledge. It makes people more of what they are. Some people become stronger. Others smarter. There are even a few who see dead people, or the future. I’m not going to lie, at first I thought the abilities were cool, but altered people die in terrible ways.
Why am I telling you this? Because the person who did this to us might do it to you too. And reading this book is the only way you’ll learn how to survive. Seriously, your life could depend on it. Don’t let anyone stop you.

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Montrose Paranormal Academy, Book 1: The Nexis Secret

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About Montrose Paranormal Academy, Book 1: The Nexis Secret:

Three power-hungry secret societies desperately want the strange girl who sees angels. For what? Beats me. Hi, I’m Lucy and I just discovered I’m not normal.

After my brother’s disappearance, I enrolled in the super-elite academy where he was last seen on U.S. soil. Now two totally gorgeous secret society guys are fighting over which club I get to join. Seriously? As if I want anything to do with the people who banished my brother.

But I need to play nice to get anyone from the Three Societies to talk to me. One problem. I’m too good at my job. When the Nexis Society president accidently spills a little-known family secret, I’m left scrambling to figure out who I really am.

I’ve always known my family was special, but now I’m about to find out why.

Not everyone’s happy I’m at Montrose Paranormal academy. The resident mean girls don’t appreciate my snarky attitude. The Three Societies all want me to join up. Plus, I have to figure out how to use my newfound powers without obliterating an entire city block. Oh yeah, and there’s some kind of crazy prophecy about me.

It’s tough staying under the radar when you’re a Chosen One. Well, I prefer badass heroine. Take your pick.

Montrose Paranormal Academy, The Nexis Secret is book 1 in the Montrose Paranormal Academy series for teens. It’s a Clean Academy Paranormal YA series full of slow burn romance, snarky dialogue, and urban fantasy adventure set in New York City. Think Shadow Hunters meets Shatter Me with a dash of Bloodline Academy.

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Cherokee Summer by Susan Antony

Cherokee Summer by Susan Antony

When Ace leaves home to spend the summer in Cherokee, North Carolina the last thing she expects to find is a boyfriend—until she meets Cherokee Tribe member John Spears. As Ace and John’s friendship blossoms, they find their life experiences mirror each other and they fall in love. Despite hurdles thrown by well-meaning family members and jealous frenemies, the star-crossed lovers remain committed to their mutual belief that the universe has drawn them together. However, when Ace sends John a strange text and then suddenly disappears, the two must rely on their trust in each other to save both their lives and their love.

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The Last Days of Childhood

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Lucy sees herself as overweight, unattractive, unloved. She worries about her forthcoming exams, is sexually confused and has been self-harming. What’s more, the coronavirus is sweeping across England and the UK seems certain to enter a period of lockdown. If the transition to adulthood isn’t difficult enough. Will she ever resolve her problems and find solace with Kell, a boy she’s known for years, or her beautiful classmate, Fortine?

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The Every Stone

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On the planet Precios, gemstones can cure everything from heartache to heartburn—unless you’re one of the children doomed to Devil’s Crown to mine them.  
 
All Yrund wants is to get back to her beloved home in the Sky Country, but escaping the powerful Mining Wield will take more than just courage. Especially when Yrund accidentally steals the only living stone found in centuries.  
 
Journey into a rich new world where wonder and peril are never far apart—a tale of poetry-loving pirates, rebel bands of herders, invisible forest creatures, and a mysterious gemstone with a mind all her own. 
 By turns heartwarming and harrowing, The Every Stone is about friendship, survival, and finding your power where you least expect it. 
 
Thirteen-year old Yrund was a goat herder before she was captured and condemned to dig for the very jewels forbidden by her people. 
 
Gem Beard was a pirate in the Long Sea before the Spice Wars relegated him to guarding children miles underground. 
 
The Mining Wield thinks it owns them both. But Yrund is determined to get out. That is if she can just stay alive…

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Valkyrie Playbook

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Sixteen-year-old Hilda has thought she was living with a mental illness for most of her life, but all of that changes when she meets Tyler, who claims to be einherjar, one of Viking god Odin’s warriors.

Tyler tries to convince Hilda that she’s a valkyrie, a supernatural, Norse being, responsible for culling the dead who are worthy of fighting alongside Odin and his wife, Freya, in the end of days battle of Ragnarök.

Hilda has a hard time believing Tyler’s story at first, but when he helps her astral project to Sessrúmnir, Freya’s domain in the afterworld, she realizes she has a role to play in the fate of the planet.

Can she prevent the world from suffering its catastrophic fate once Ragnarök has begun?

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Someone’s Story

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In his endearing coming-of-age book, B.A. Bellec writes about a group of weirdos that find and save each other from the dark depths of their minds. Someone’s Story is literally Someone’s story, as in a first-person narrative of a teenager that calls himself Someone. It starts with the news that he has to move to a bigger city with his father; adjusting to the city and his new school is going to be a challenge, especially because of his recent blackouts and his problems with making friends. Someone strives to be healthy mentally as he struggles with trauma, bullying, and his mother’s disappearance. When he meets Samantha at his new pizza delivery job, everything changes. He starts to make wonderful memories with new friends, while he also discovers some of their darkest secrets.

Someone’s Story is a mental-health novel done right! Reading Someone’s experiences gave me a closer feel and challenged me to reach out to others more. With themes of movies, music, business, jogging, drugs, abortion, and loss, B.A. Bellec fills his book with enough background to make it relatable and keep readers engaged. There is also some explicit language that makes it inappropriate for young readers. Someone’s Story is a quite relaxing read; it’s filled with love, friendship, and a search for balance. Though it’s a young adult novel, I recommend it to an older audience too because, apart from being a good read, depictions of the struggles that some people silently go through are vital for developing the right mindset for the good of all humanity.

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Sword of Light (The Four Keys, Book 1) by J.C. Lucas

About Featured Book: Sword of Light (The Four Keys, Book 1) by J.C. Lucas

“…You must find the four Keys to keep our worlds from burning…” After Andie’s nan died, she is taken to live with Celeste, an eccentric lady who claims to have been nan’s friend. There, she discovers a secret so incredible she can scarcely believe it. Worlds collide when she and her friends journey to reach the mysterious place known only as Finias. Will they rise to the challenge, or is the magical realm as good as gone already?

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The Last Days of Childhood

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Lucy sees herself as overweight, unattractive, unloved. She worries about her forthcoming exams, is sexually confused and has been self-harming. What’s more, the coronavirus is sweeping across England and the UK seems certain to enter a period of lockdown. If the transition to adulthood isn’t difficult enough. Will she ever resolve her problems and find solace with Kell, a boy she’s known for years, or her beautiful classmate, Fortine?

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Fated to Die

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A CURSED VILLAGE. A DOOMED MAIDEN. A LOVE TO RIVAL FATE.

Dark romantic retelling inspired by the Scottish folktale of the Washer Woman with a hint of Beauty and the Beast.

Never in a million years did Preya believe she’d be chosen by the curse on her village. Outcasted for her appearance, Preya has never bothered trying to fit in. Friends, balls, and romance are for eligible maidens, not a pariah who spends her time caring for her family. But this year is different.

Each Summer Solstice the Washer Woman enslaves a maiden of seventeen as her Messenger, a bearer of death to those who are Fated to Die. No maiden has ever survived her enslavement.

If Preya is to be the first, she must submit and follow the rules set by the Keeper. The mysterious boy is tasked with her training and, at all times, cloaked from her sight. His strict, domineering methods clash with his warm voice and gentle touch.

Preya doesn’t know how he’s connected to the curse, if he’s good or bad, human or monster, and why she’s drawn to him. When trusting him becomes her only chance at freedom, Preya discovers secrets about the Keeper and the past that change everything she thought she knew. Saving herself isn’t enough. She needs to break the curse, and she needs his help to do it.

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When Darkness Begins by Tina O’Hailey

When Darkness Begins by Tina O'Hailey

If you could change time to save your first love—even if it meant turning your back on the universe—would you?

It is time for the Vechey youth to earn their place as time-guardians. The near-immortal Vechey protect the universe from the devastating Manipulators—devourers of souls, mindless seekers of chaos. First, the youth must survive a mysterious and deadly ritual created by the all-powerful clan leader Eterili. Having regenerated thousands of times with the birth of each universe, Eterili is taking this one as hers and bending all in it to her grand designs.

Catha’s time-slipping skills are underdeveloped. She is time-blind—unable to see through time, unable to protect herself from the ritual. The Vechey shun her for being different. Her parents ignore her as if she were already dead.

Aithagg loves Catha unconditionally and will do anything to save her. He tries desperately to unlock the ritual’s mysteries and find a way to help Catha survive with him. Or will saving Catha enable the Manipulators to destroy the universe?

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Love Machine

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In the year, 2050, among the humans on the streets, there were these very few others. Others who were made in the biggest technology company, AITA (artificial intelligence and technological advancements), what humans call, the guardians. They were crossbreeds of humans and animals which had the highest Intelligent Quotient (IQ). They were created to protect all citizens with their special abilities. However, they had one enemy. The citizens called them the poachers. They are from another company, The Royal AI. This company was the second most advanced company and they wanted all the glory of AITA. To win them over, The Royal AI had to prove themselves worthy and they resolved to hunting down the guardians to kill them all off by creating their own crossbreeds. Life for the guardians were not that easy. Humans just did not understand one thing. These guardians they so often talk about did not want fame. They wanted something else…

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The Last Days of Childhood

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Lucy sees herself as overweight, unattractive, unloved. She worries about her forthcoming exams, is sexually confused and has been self-harming. What’s more, the coronavirus is sweeping across England and the UK seems certain to enter a period of lockdown. If the transition to adulthood isn’t difficult enough. Will she ever resolve her problems and find solace with Kell, a boy she’s known for years, or her beautiful classmate, Fortine?

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The Verindon Alliance by Lynne Stringer

About Featured Book: The Verindon Alliance by Lynne Stringer

As Princess Vashta of the Vendel finishes her combat training, she hopes she will lead their forces into battle against her race’s enemy, the Verindal. But when Brandonin, the heir to the Verindal throne, comes to see her father, it’s clear he desires peace, not war.
When the Vendel are attacked by a mysterious creature, Vashta’s people blame the Verindal. When Brandonin’s forces are attacked by the same creature, his people blame the Vendel. But could this danger come from somewhere new?
Vashta and Brandonin join forces, working together to try and stop this deadly enemy that threatens both their races, but can they defeat it on their own? Can they gather together a new force of both Vendel and Verindal to destroy this menace or will it mean the end of life on Verindon?

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Missing: A Suspense-Filled Mystery for Young Readers by Makenzie R. Casseday

Missing: A Suspense-Filled Mystery for Young Readers by Makenzie R. Casseday

When everything she knows is ripped away…

After coming to terms with the loss of her mother at a young age, Lola’s biggest struggle has been keeping the peace with a stepmother who doesn’t seem to get Lola for who she really is. Thankfully, Lola has her sister Bonnie (who she sometimes gets along with — that’s normal, right?), her best friend Sophia, and her doting father to support her while her love of the outdoors, flowers, and stars tend to ease her through.

Overall, Lola is a pretty ordinary girl living a fairly ordinary life, even with the occasional annoyance of being told to do something she doesn’t want to do. She goes to school. She does her chores. She does all the things that a normal kid her age would do, until everything is turned upside down! What does a girl do when everything she knows is ripped away? The people she counts on, the safety of her home, the truth that she’s always known, all suddenly torn from her grasp!

Makenzie R. Casseday’s debut novel is a suspense-filled adventure of loss and discovery for young readers. Robbery, abduction, lies, and even murder ensue as Lola sorts through the mystery of whom she can trust, makes peace with the truth of her past, and decides to move forward focusing on what is available to her now.

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City of Sound and Light

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Tera knows a secret…

Someone is going to die on election day. But that’s not what worries her.

She learned the secret from a dying spark, one of the fairy-like companions people in her world use to communicate, and she found the spark in her father’s office.

A radical leader is on the rise, and the old factions are determined to stop him at any cost. If anyone finds out her father’s involved, it might be the end of him. If anyone finds out what she knows, it might be the end of her.

The only way to keep her city, her family, and her life from ripping apart is to follow the spark deeper into this deadly game of politics that no one can know she’s playing.

Her only advantage is her obscurity. She has no following. No one listens to her or even knows her name. But that’s about to change.

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Altered Helix

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I didn’t want to take the traditional path. First, I wasn’t ready for college. Second, I was going to live with my best friend, Tiff, and work at the Haunted House. Third, did I mention the hot guy Josh that works there too?

The most exciting thing about Austria’s new job, at a local haunted house, was the fact that the toughest looking people screamed the loudest. But when she meets the boy without a home, Josh, Austria’s life takes intriguing and eventful turns. Up until now, Josh has managed to hang with his Street crowd, but they’re in danger, and so is Austria, the girl Josh recently fell for. The group finds themselves joining forces with previously considered enemies who also now find themselves in danger.

Deeply compassionate and full of twists, Altered Helix captures the struggle of polarized people that must work together for the greater good.

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The Goddess Twins

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“A black girl magic fantasy, perfect for the age of Beyonce.”

After years of traveling the world, black identical twins Aurora and Arden think they’ve settled into normalcy in Ohio. But days before their eighteenth birthday, the snarky twins develop powers in telekinesis and telepathy―at the same time that their famous mother, who’s on tour in London, disappears.
Searching for answers and determined to rescue her, the sisters unearth truths that threaten to extinguish their bond and demolish their strength as individuals. Can they trust their beguiling, newly discovered British cousins when they barely trust one another? Should they heed the warnings of their immortal grandmother, a Patoi-chatting goddess, who says she’s friendly with The Fates and can see inside a person’s very soul?
In order to succeed in their quest, these goddess twins must work together, master their powers, and unveil a horrifying, century-old family mystery. Otherwise, they may not live to see eighteen―or their mother again.

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The Spider Children by Bartholomew Lander

About The Spider Children by Bartholomew Lander:

The Warren family has always had its share of secrets. But when a perfectly formed human-spider hybrid is born to a scion of the bloodline, the newborn seems poised to turn science and society on their heads.

But she doesn’t.

Sixteen years later, the Warren brood has grown to three miraculous children. Spinneretta, the eldest, is interested in little more than living a normal life in their northern California hamlet. But when a young man named Mark arrives, claiming to hail from the Warren family seat, she is forced to reexamine everything she thought she knew about their lives in Grantwood.

And when Spinneretta’s younger sister is nearly kidnapped, the lives of the entire Warren family are thrown toward the brink of terrible revelation. An army of yellow-coated mercenaries, the death cult of an eldritch spider god, and the magic secrets of Mark’s blood—all things are connected in a web of lies, love, and mystery. What are the spider children? And can they unravel the mystery of their origins before it destroys them?

Book I of the Warren Brood trilogy.

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