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The Circle: Taken

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About The Circle: Taken:

From USA Today, Washington Post, Amazon Charts and Goodreads Best Fiction Finalist bestselling author Sejal Badani and a group of young adult writers comes an exhilarating new YA series.

Abandoned at eleven with no memory of her family, Alexia seeks her true identity. Under the new government’s regime, sixteen year-olds are evaluated for their desire to harm others. Throughout the test, Alexia struggles to conceal her psychic ability to read the past and future of anyone she touches. When her secret is revealed, Alexia is taken to an island where other highly skilled agents and readers like her train to survive.

As Alexia gains more control over her abilities, she desperately tries to piece together her elusive past. In her quest for the truth, Alexia’s loyalties are tested when forced to make an impossible choice between those she loves and the family she can’t remember.

A spell-binding adventure of friendship, love, unforeseen twists and learning that our most dangerous enemies are often the people we trust the most. A captivating novel filled with forbidden romance and shocking betrayals that demands the question – Can One Decision Determine Your Destiny?

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Two Like Me and You

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Called, “both intimate and epic,” by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review, Two Like Me and You by Chad Alan Gibbs is a coming of age teen adventure full of romance and laugh out loud humor. Fans of John Green’s Paper Towns and Looking for Alaska and Robyn Schneider’s The Beginning of Everything will find what they’re looking for in this debut young adult novel.

Edwin Green’s ex-girlfriend is famous. We’re talking cover-of-every-tabloid-in-the-grocery-store-line famous. She dumped Edwin one year ago on what he refers to as Black Saturday, and in hopes of winning her back, he’s spent the last twelve months trying to become famous himself. It hasn’t gone well.

But when a history class assignment pairs Edwin with Parker Haddaway, the mysterious new girl at school, she introduces him to Garland Lenox, the nursing-home-bound World War II veteran who will change Edwin’s life forever.

The three escape to France, in search of the old man’s long-lost love, and as word of their hilarious adventure spreads, they become media darlings. But when things fall apart, they also become the focus of French authorities. In a race against time, who will find love, and who will only find more heartache?

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Two Like Me and You by Chad Alan Gibbs

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About Two Like Me and You by Chad Alan Gibbs

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Called, “both intimate and epic,” by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review, Two Like Me and You by Chad Alan Gibbs is a coming of age teen adventure full of romance and laugh out loud humor. Fans of John Green’s Paper Towns and Looking for Alaska and Robyn Schneider’s The Beginning of Everything will find what they’re looking for in this debut young adult novel.

Edwin Green’s ex-girlfriend is famous. We’re talking cover-of-every-tabloid-in-the-grocery-store-line famous. She dumped Edwin one year ago on what he refers to as Black Saturday, and in hopes of winning her back, he’s spent the last twelve months trying to become famous himself. It hasn’t gone well.

But when a history class assignment pairs Edwin with Parker Haddaway, the mysterious new girl at school, she introduces him to Garland Lenox, the nursing-home-bound World War II veteran who will change Edwin’s life forever.

The three escape to France, in search of the old man’s long-lost love, and as word of their hilarious adventure spreads, they become media darlings. But when things fall apart, they also become the focus of French authorities. In a race against time, who will find love, and who will only find more heartache?

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SLIP

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All 17-year-old Xavier can think about is graduating high school and moving to a place where no one will look twice at him. Everyone at school thinks he’s gay, but he’ll take the rumors over everyone knowing his truth. For 17-year-old, Natasha, life’s pretty good. She’s popular, has two best friends, and is dating the captain of the football team, the object of Xavier’s crush.

After witnessing a traumatic event at a Halloween bash, Xavier and Natasha experience a night which forces them to view the world through each other’s eyes. Soon Natasha is faced with the grim realization that her identity dictates how the people in her life treat her. Meanwhile, it’s a concept which Xavier knows painfully well. As they struggle to accept certain truths of their own realities, they can tell no one what’s happening to them. No one would believe them anyway, because they barely believe it themselves.

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Leftover Girl by C.C. Bolick

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About Leftover Girl by C.C. Bolick

Jes can’t remember anything before she was found barefoot in the headlights of an old Ford. At fifteen, she has adjusted to moving without notice and never fitting in, but everything changes with her adopted mom’s hometown. There Jes falls for her mom’s nephew, a love she hides when his betrayal leaves her isolated and driven to unravel the past.

After Jes befriends a strange new student, she discovers an unbelievable secret: he’s from another planet and searching for a missing girl who just might be her. As Jes will learn, truth comes at a cost, but will she give up love to find out?

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Sorcery and Sirens by Iris Woodbury

About Sorcery and Sirens by Iris Woodbury

Sorcery and Sirens (Magic and Dreams: Book One)

Crystal’s life is a mess.
Homecoming sucks, her best friend wants nothing to do with her, and she has nothing better to do than hang out at a lame medieval faire with Stu and her other friends.
Just when she’s starting to relax and have fun, she finds a doorway in a changing room. Curious, she enters to find a parallel world. The boy she’s been crushing on is there but everything else is bizarre. Demanding to be taken back to the faire despite how hot Jake is, Crystal discovers Stu is missing.
Heartbroken and thoroughly confused, Crystal’s search for Stu begins a wild adventure that brings her deeper into a mysterious land where no one is who or what they seem.
Along the way, she must battle her own personal demons, strange and frightening new creatures, and must find a sacred dagger or else her world and friends will vanish forever.
Great. No pressure.

Sorcery and Sirens is perfect for lovers of magic, vampires, sirens and snarky teens. Fans of Tricia Barr and Jaymin Eve will love this.

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Bandit Boyz 2 by: Amere Dozier

About Bandit Boyz 2 by: Amere Dozier:

Darrell Harris is finished serving his fifteen year prison sentence after killing his father and moves to Los Angeles, California with his movie writer sister, Erica. When Darrell meets his sister’s fiancée, Deshaun they become friends while they work to help get him on his feet. In the process Darrell finds out some things about Deshaun that may cause danger for him and his sister. He ends up having to find a way to protect he and sister .

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Difference Maker: Overcoming Adversity and Turning Pain into Purpose, Every Day (Teen Edition)

About Difference Maker: Overcoming Adversity and Turning Pain into Purpose, Every Day (Teen Edition):

You’ve been hit and wounded. Life hasn’t turned out to be what you expected, wanted, or hoped for. No one seems to care. You feel alone and isolated.
Something is wrong. You can sense it. Your heart says, “There’s got to be more.”
Yes, there is.
It’s time to turn things around. It’s time to expose the lies you’ve been fed about yourself and embrace the truth.
What’s the truth?
You’re a Difference Maker. And it’s time to start living that way.
For more than 30 years, multiple award-winning author and speaker Gary Roe has been helping teens and adults heal from past wounds, discover who they are, and live with passion and purpose. With more than a dozen books and 600 articles in print, he has become a trusted, inspirational voice to thousands of wounded hearts.

“Life is about overcoming,” Gary frequently says. Join him on the Difference Maker journey. You’ll be glad you did.

In this Teen Edition of Difference Maker, you’ll discover…
• The incredible power lies have had over you and your heart.
• What the common lies are out there, and how they are affecting you.
• How to expose the lies you’ve been fed, one by one.
• The truth about yourself and those around you.
• How to embrace the truth and begin to think and live differently.

As you choose to think differently and begin to heal and grow, you’ll also learn…
• How to conquer obstacles like fear, anxiety, anger, depression, self-harming behavior, and suicidal thoughts.
• Why you’re here and what your mission is.
• How to avoid thoughts, behavior, and habits that threaten your wellbeing and will scuttle your mission.
• How to embrace healthy, mission-building thoughts, behavior, and habits that will propel you forward.
• How to live with more purpose and passion than you dreamed possible.

No matter what has happened to you or around you, you can heal and grow. You can overcome adversity and turn pain into purpose, every day. You can transform losses into gains. Difference Maker can show you how.

You are a Difference Maker. The world needs you.

Accept the challenge. Let the Difference Maker adventure begin.

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Gems of Fire by Diane E. Samson

About Gems of Fire by Diane E. Samson

Palace of Sunderland. Paradise to the peasants. Prison to sixteen-year-old Anna, daughter of the king. She can never escape the castle’s cold walls and scorning disapproval of her father and his brute royal counsel, Seamus. She’ll always live in the shadow of her late mother the queen. Will they ever see her for who she really is?
A riding accident lands Anna in the hands of traders who sell her as a slave in distant Kasdod to none-other than her father’s enemy, Lord Anwar. After overhearing a dangerous plot to conquer Sunderland and kill the royal family, Anna must escape and warn her father, even if it means facing her greatest enemy.
With the doom looming over her, Anna is approached by a dangerous-looking man in the dark. He claims to want to help her, but can she trust him with her secrets? The perils of the journey ahead will push Anna to the limit and answer the one question that has always plagued her. Will she ever be enough?

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No Fences in Alaska by Glen Sobey

About No Fences in Alaska by Glen Sobey

A troubled teen flees to Alaska to start a new life with her grandpa, even as his fades.

Their worlds are about to come crashing down…

Harper Lyon’s life is spinning out of control. Sixteen years old in high school, she threatens her parents with suicide unless she can meet her drug-dealing boyfriend, a college student who doesn’t know she’s pregnant.

Cooper Lyons, her estranged grandfather, lives in rural Alaska with only his dog and cat for company. He has just been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, and he doesn’t plan on letting the disease run its course.

When Harper calls her grandfather, he welcomes the opportunity to help her and redeem his previous failure with his daughter Heather, who died from a drug overdose years ago.

Harper needs to escape her parents and decide what to do about the baby. She and her grandpa are worlds apart, but they may be exactly what the other needs.

Can they save each other?

“A love letter to family relationships and Alaskan life, No Fences in Alaska is a gratifying young adult novel. . . . a coming-of-age story set against the arresting backdrop of the Alaskan wilderness.” —5 Star Foreword Review

“All told, readers will find No Fences in Alaska impossible to put down.” —Starred Blueink Review

“Sobey pens a gorgeously written novel on loss, family relationships, keeping secrets, and most of all, love. This dazzling novel dares us to understand the fragility of life, the intimate losses, the small battles, and the daily human triumphs that change us the most. ‘Masterful!'” — Authors Reading Review

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The Circle: Taken by Sage Sask

About The Circle: Taken by Sage Sask

From USA Today, Washington Post, Amazon Charts Bestselling author and Goodreads Best Fiction Finalist Sejal Badani comes an exhilarating new YA series.

Abandoned at eleven with limited memories, Alexia seeks her identity. Under the new government’s regime, sixteen year-olds are evaluated for their desire to harm others. Alexia struggles to conceal her psychic ability and is taken to an island where other highly skilled agents and readers like her train to survive.

A spell-binding adventure of friendship, love and unforeseen twists. A captivating novel filled with forbidden romance and shocking betrayals that demands the question – Can One Decision Determine Your Destiny?

Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars :
“The book was amazing. I loved every second of it. It had a lot of twist and turns that I was not expecting by any means. Fantastic Job! Will be reading more books by this Author!” – NetGalley Review
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“I LOVED it. The characters in this novel struggle with love, friendship, dealing with right vs. wrong, figuring out who they REALLY are and deciding what they’re meant to do in life. The complex characters are truly fascinating…Additionally, the plot is just so intricate and organized…it’s seriously interesting and kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. I would definitely recommend this book.” — Educator Review NetGalley
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Amazon Review
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved It!
“The Circle: Taken” is an excellent YA novel that is sure to appeal to the masses of readers. The plot is truly gripping and will keep you guessing and wanting more with each and every turn of the page. The protagonist, Alexia, is a young girl who is struggling to find herself in the midst of chaotic and tumultuous times. This story really has it all: love, loss, strength, courage, chaos, and so much more. Regardless of what your favorite genre is, “The Circle” has something in store for everyone and will make you desperately want answers to all of Alexia’s questions.
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Amazon Review
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing story with exciting twists along the journey
The circle taken is an amazing story. I found myself hooked from the first page when I began to read about an 11 year old girl training to be a warrior. Alexia has a secret past and at 16 must now take the test to decide her future. With her talents, she finds herself sent away and forced to train for survival. The story follows the 16 year old alexia as she trains and tried to recover the memories of the past. This is one of the best adventures I have read in awhile. I found the characters to be relatable and believable. I would recommend this one to everyone who likes adventure stories that focus on a female heroine. Check this one out folks it is a really good read.
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Amazon Review
5 out of 5 stars Must read young adult novel
“The Circle: Taken” is well written, exciting tale following Alexia, a young girl with psychic powers who was abandoned as a child. We follow her as she comes of age in a society where every teen is tested and determined if they are a danger to others. Sage Sask writing brings Alexia and the world around her to life and draws you into the struggles she is facing. This book kept me on the edge of my seat as Alexia tries to conceal her powers and as she is trying to find out more about who she is.
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“A diverting, character-driven sci-fi tale with a compelling protagonist…a thoroughly engrossing launch of a prospective series.” — Kirkus Review

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Lucky Star

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Teenager Ben Somerset has three great loves in his life: Sherlock Holmes, designer clothes and a certain song by Madonna. And then Susie appears.
Set in England in the summer of 1984 Lucky Star tells of Ben’s introduction to the world of shoplifting, music, politics, love and heartbreak.

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The Dream Defenders by Neal DenHartog

About The Dream Defenders by Neal DenHartog

When teenager Nolan Erling discovers the existence of a secret organization governing the dreaming world while the population sleeps, he expects his dreams to be safe. Instead, he unwitting lets loose dangerous nightmares that possess the ability kill. If he can’t find a way to contain them, no dreamer will be safe, and neither will the organization that defends them.

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Birth Right: Galak’s Rising

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Sale price: $.99
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“As young adult to new adult readers absorb an engrossing tale of survival, they receive a vivid story of wandering hearts, resolute minds, and a leader who thinks himself too old to rule until he becomes a prisoner and sparks a revolution in hearts and minds.” D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review

“A brilliant start to the series…
In a cyborg-ruled world where destruction of technology has reduced civilization to a few ancient tribes and secret underground dwellings, humans and Valki, the genetically enhanced humans, are barely surviving their brutal treatment at the hands of a superpower cyborg, until a pair of Valki twins revolt and pave way for a new beginning. A mixture of science fiction and high fantasy, Birth Right keeps readers engrossed with its interesting premise, intriguing plot, and compelling narrative.” Prairies Book Review

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Stratagem by Christina Hagmann

About Stratagem by Christina Hagmann

Being dragged out of a car and shoved into a darkened trunk might make a normal girl feel helpless, but Meda isn’t just any girl, and the boys who kidnapped her have no idea who or what they are dealing with.

At seventeen years old, Meda is ripped from her family to train as a shape-shifting operative for the Agency. It’s her job to seek out and discredit political figures.

While on a high stakes mission, Meda is kidnapped by three teenage boys. It’s the last thing she needs. She’s behind schedule, and if the mission fails, her family pays the price. However, the longer she spends playing hostage, the more information she gathers on her kidnappers. Fueled by revenge, the boys are gathering intel on the Agency in hopes to take them down.

Allegiance and family are tested to their limits as bullets fire from all sides. Meda finds herself caught in a political conspiracy that shakes her to her core, and it’ll take all her strength to trust her own instincts and stop following orders.

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The Gator Pit by J. Morneau

About The Gator Pit by J. Morneau

Lured on by his freshman classmate and friend (dubbed Mole by most), Tod Whitney believes he’s taken the easy route through life when he hops onto Mole’s fast track fueled by dishonesty and bullying. But has he? Gradually, Tod’s natural instincts are noticeably at odds with Mole’s. The highs that Mole experiences when the pair inflicts cruelty on others are Tod’s lows—lows that still haunt him three and a half years later when, as a high school grad, he feels compelled to tell his story. It is the most unlikely of friends who softens Tod’s heart and opens his eyes to the issues of his past, but his story does not end there. It proves more difficult than Tod could have imagined to leave his past and Mole behind, and he learns that doing so comes at a heavy price.

Note to Parents and Teachers:
This timely coming-of-age novella has been classroom tested and is age appropriate. Echoing the findings of bully consultant Dr. Malcolm Smith in his Courage to Care program, the story invites discussion of classic bully behaviors and mindsets, the forces of peer pressure and the desire to belong, the role of core family values, the potential support of the bystander, and both hope and encouragement for both victims and perpetrators.
A separate comprehensive discussion guide is available on Amazon.

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How to Avoid Unplanned Pregnancy WITHOUT Using Contraceptive Drugs

About How to Avoid Unplanned Pregnancy WITHOUT Using Contraceptive Drugs:

This easy to read book explores the physical and emotional sides to intimacy, ways to assess a relationship, its longevity and techniques to help prevent Unplanned Pregnancies (UP) safely and naturally. Here is possibly everything you need to know about well forgotten natural ways for avoiding UP.

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The Weavers by Robert Gage

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Cyrus Farrier is supposed to be learning how to run the country, preparing to take over, to lead, like he was born to do. Instead, he’s trapped, away from home, over the border, alone. Or not…

The Weavers are coming, twisting and turning the Threads of reality to get what they want. Politics and power, history and betrayal, the Threads are everywhere and everything, even for those who have no idea they even exist.

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Behold Ellowee by TL Harty

About Behold Ellowee by TL Harty:

A girl learns her family history comes with special gifts and responsibilities that will change the course of her life, including a secretive royal post.

She’s never wanted anything less…

Muriel was shipped off to her grandparent’s house every summer. She enjoyed the break from school and loved her grandparents dearly, but would describe these months as uneventful…even boring. Not this time.

Strange changes in Muriel ensured this summer would be different from the very beginning. Grammy’s history lessons hold many answers, but Muriel is too busy awkwardly coming of age to comprehend the full weight of their meaning.

As the summer progresses, she reluctantly navigates her new reality while learning long-kept family secrets. These secrets explain why her mother left when she was three, and how a normal life may never be attainable.

Now as an adult, Muriel is still attempting to deny her lineage- until tragedy strikes. It is then that Muriel receives the final piece of the puzzle and understands what is required of her. The temporary guide that has been assigned to her can only help so much. Muriel must first embrace a history she has tried so desperately to forget.

Destiny is rarely your own.

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Unlikely Soldiers Book One (Civvy to Squaddie) by Deb McEwan

About Unlikely Soldiers Book One (Civvy to Squaddie) by Deb McEwan:

Goodreads and Amazon Reviewer
“Deb McEwan has created a beautiful portrait of the times, with just the right touch of romance.”

Goodreads and Amazon Reviewer
“Deb McEwan puts passion, skill and dedication into every page. This one will have you teary, hooked and feeling all the wiser. For the older readers, you’re in for a special trip down memory lane. For the younger readers, get ready to have your eyes opened to how the world used to be.”

In a small Welsh village, naïve teengager Michelle Warbutton is devastated by a shocking family secret. Forced to rethink her future, she longs to see the world.
In Yorkshire and already world-weary, Guy Halfpenny is desperate to escape his miserable life.
Both have limited choices.
Their paths aren’t destined to cross until they join the British Army – where their futures are determined by the chain of command.
Discover how lives are shaped, friendships forged and loves won and lost in this gripping, coming of age adventure of love, humor, and tragedy.

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