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September 22, 2025 · In: 19th

Lee, Marty C. – The Academy of the Fae*

At a secret high school for human and fae students, the top subject is the fate of Earth.An advance ship of space fae volunteered their teens for an exchange program….

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September 22, 2025 · In: 19th

Lee, Marty C. – The War of the Fae

Being king should be easy…The war is over. Now that Shar is officially king, the eighteen-year-old has a new council and will replace rebellious lords with ones willing to uphold…

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September 18, 2025 · In: 19th

Daley, Tracy – Rise of the Captive: Descendants of Angels Book 3

Descendant and demon will have to set aside millennia of war to keep the earth from burning. The Unguarded Descendants have been rescued and brought to the Veil, but safety…

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September 11, 2025 · In: 19th

Lee, Courtney – Confessions of a Draculaholic

Carrie Webster’s life takes a strange turn after a car accident thrusts her into a world she doesn’t recognize. Waking up as Rebecca Bennett, a young woman visiting her generous…

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September 11, 2025 · In: 19th

Grantham, Tamara – Harleigh Sinclair and the Kingdom of the Bristol Skull

An Egyptian ankh. An Inuit mask. A Skinwalker’s scythe.Three Neotact artifacts have been found. Only the shield and sword remain.My name is Harleigh Sinclair. I have a gift to find…

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September 11, 2025 · In: 19th

Tatum, Daphne – These Tangled Roots

Some roots anchor you.Others entangle you.And some weave fire through your soul. Fifteen-year-old Destry Adams lives by one precept: stay under the radar. Only her best friend Camden knows about…

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August 28, 2025 · In: 19th

Lyon, Catherine – Dark and Deep: Rosie Canto Mysteries

Don’t dwell in the past—you might just die there. Rosie has finally found a way to use her memory-stealing powers for good, extracting traumatic moments from the minds of veterans…

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August 18, 2025 · In: 19th

Anderson, Sara K. – Fractured

Who do you trust when your own mind betrays you? Most people in New Bres are afraid of psychics. Psychics are afraid of Ryan Zamora. A psychic himself, Ryan is…

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August 18, 2025 · In: 19th

White, L.M. – The ATLAS Imperative

Peace was found… until the Imperative awoke Barin Johnson finally had everything he needed: safety from ATLAS, a thriving community, and the love of his life. But ATLAS never truly…

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August 18, 2025 · In: 19th

Snow, Craig & Jaleesa – Wayfinder: Republic of Steam Chronicles

Racing through the sands of Sadria to find the Wayfinder, Amelia and Ander must face not only deadly dangers but the secrets that could shatter them both. The Everblade nearly…

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July 9, 2025 · In: 19th

Skipper, Taryn – Between Tungsten & Gold

School, a job, a cute boy, and an overbearing sister—Alyona’s life is basically normal. Now if she can just fix her parents’ broken teleportation tech and save the world, she’ll…

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November 7, 2024 · In: 18th

Brianne, Natalie – Heart of the Meridian

Crossing the celestial expanse, a mythic hunter searches.In the midst of the Zodiac Insurgence, a shadowed enemy schemes.And hidden away in a distant vault, a timeworn relic holds a secret….

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November 2, 2024 · In: 18th

Bartholio, Christine – Confined

Val hasn’t seen the sun in eight years.Taken to the institution following the betrayal of her own mother, she was diagnosed with a mental disorder that plagues the youth of…

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October 24, 2024 · In: 18th

Kelly, Holly – Olympus High: The Lost Gods

Garden Grove, Washington has many secrets, and Jemma Ryan is one of them. Not that she knows that of course… Growing up in a small town, Jemma longs for the…

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October 24, 2024 · In: 18th

Hues, L. Blaise – The Final Victor

Hope is a risk. Fear is a choice. As the lines between friend and foe blur, Victor-27 can either embrace the mask he’s created or lean into the darker side…

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October 24, 2024 · In: 18th

Gunderson, Cindy – To Vanquish Darkness

For fans of One Dark Window and The Serpent and the Wings of Night comes a dark, delicious gothic fantasy about a woman who vows to vanquish the creatures of the dark haunting their…

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October 24, 2024 · In: 18th

McCoy, Anne – Starved

Managing a chronic illness like Type 1 Diabetes before the threat of an apocalypse sucked most of the time, but the rationing of food and medicine is quickly making it…

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October 24, 2024 · In: 18th

Daley, Tracy – Fall of the Guardian

When a Guardian disappears and secrets are exposed, a small group of friends discover the difference between knowing the future and choosing their destiny. The battle with the Triune is…

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October 24, 2024 · In: 18th

Mecham, Mary – Assassin of Fire and Sacrifice

To assassinate her target, she must marry her enemy. Azora has dedicated her life to exacting revenge on the phoenix shifters who murdered her parents. When Prince Tarquin of Pyren…

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October 11, 2024 · In: 18th

Frost, Crystal – Stars and Promise

Despair hangs heavily over Sentinel Clan after the last battle with the crimson-eyed rogues of Blood Moon. The stench of death taints the air as Jax struggles to pick up…

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September 16, 2024 · In: 18th

Lyon, Catherine – Dark and Bright

Rosie’s power to steal memories might stop a serial killer—if she’s willing to betray the boy she loves. For Rosie, stealing memories from Alzheimer’s patients is a necessary evil, a…

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September 16, 2024 · In: 18th

Anderson, Kate – Lonely Places

After a traumatic experience steals her younger sister Guthrie’s voice, sixteen-year-old Chase and her family move to an isolated fire lookout in Pando, a grove of Aspen tree clones connected…

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September 4, 2024 · In: 18th

Standage, L. L. – Call Me Henbane

Crippling social anxiety has silenced sixteen-year-old Maeve for most of her life. Now, it keeps her from achieving her dream to attend a prestigious karate camp in Kyoto, Japan. When…

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July 15, 2024 · In: 18th

Stutznegger, Lenore – Black Ruins Rise

Sight. Blue Haven has been blinded and bruised but will not rest until her twin is safe from the clutches of a murderous prince from a savage kingdom. Borrowing the…

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November 8, 2023 · In: 17th

Stevens, A. J. – Mere Mortal

IN A WORLD WHERE IMMORTALS entertain themselves by killing those who die forever, the only chance at survival for Mila and her Mortal tribe is to stay hidden. But when…

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November 8, 2023 · In: 17th

Daley, Tracy – Loss of the Unguarded

A high school football star discovers the Descendants of Angels live among us, and they are the ones in need of Guardians. Treadon Nelson meets an unguarded Descendant, Ellie, but…

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October 25, 2023 · In: 17th

Cassidy, Jo – A Darkness Below

Willow Marsh seems like a sleepy town… But something dark lurks in the water. Town legend says that hundreds of years ago all the children of Willow Marsh drowned in…

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October 15, 2023 · In: 17th

Kreitzer, C. F. – Blood Poisoning

In a world where the poor are used as a source of blood for the diseased elite, Aston is a prisoner. Trapped inside the walls of the king’s mansion, she’s…

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October 15, 2023 · In: 17th

Zeller, Mathilda – The Bee King

When the crops fail, the monsters come. When the monsters come, they buy the daughters. Alice would do anything to keep her sister and cousin out of the hands of…

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October 10, 2023 · In: 17th

Fitzgerald, Sara – Can You See Me

A gripping, intense, coming-to-age story with twists and turns that will leave you guessing and on the edge of your seat until the end. Ash and Kimberly uncover dark secrets…

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August 16, 2023 · In: 17th

Mera, Daniela A. – The Gilded Survivor

One house. Deadly secrets. She wanted to hide, but he wanted her to shine. Carmen Asbaje lived with fatal secrets. When the fiercely competitive Blood Tournaments drew near, she was…

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August 14, 2023 · In: 17th

Hibbert, Debbie – Necromancy the Musical

Wednesday meets High School Musical in this thrilling magical mystery debut, perfect for readers who enjoy the humor of Holly Smale and the mystical world of Rachel Hawkins. Behind the…

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August 3, 2023 · In: 17th

Hues, L. Blaise – Victor-27

Some friends have your back. Others stab it. My parents had really skudged up.The hatred for who they were and what they’d done far outlived them, almost growing as time…

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August 3, 2023 · In: 17th

Frost, Crystal – Moon & Ruin

It’s been three weeks since the Blood Moon pack issued their threat.Three weeks since Violet realized she was having premonitions.Three weeks since she was called a witch. With the fate…

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November 10, 2022 · In: 16th

Dew, Amanda – The End Seer

Aurora Reynolds stopped the terrorists controlling the weather, saved New York City from an unthinkable attack, and destroyed the Dream Machine. She should be a hero. So then why won’t…

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November 1, 2022 · In: 16th

Hunter, Ann – Dream Shatter

The Circle is robbing the dreams of its citizens. In Logan Kent’s world, disease, hunger, and war have all been resolved by the dreams of its citizens thanks to nanobots…

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October 21, 2022 · In: 16th

Adams, Angel – Angels Can’t Fall in Love (Or, How I Messed Up My Afterlife)

I didn’t mean to mess up my afterlife. It just…happened. I was always unlucky. I was born with an abnormality that made one leg shorter than the other. My parents…

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October 12, 2022 · In: 16th

Frost, Crystal – Sun & Blood

In a world of wolven, being average can get you killed. Without a wolf spirit of her own, Violet Draven is basically a souped-up human and an easy target. When…

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October 7, 2022 · In: 16th

Sanderson, Brandon and Patterson, Janci – Evershore

From number one best-selling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the final of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team…

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October 4, 2022 · In: 16th

Collings, Michaelbrent – Light-Years from Home

It was supposed to be a walk in the park—literally. Just a quick trip into Muir Woods to grab a few samples for a science lab, then back home again…

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September 8, 2022 · In: 16th

Smith, Kristin – Unbreakable

A terrible discovery that will change everything. Armed with valuable information, Sienna and her friends find asylum in the east coast province of Pride. While initially grateful for Pride’s open…

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September 7, 2022 · In: 16th

Dodson, Alicia Morley – Hidden Syzygy

After a werewolf neighbor infects Baxter family with the werewolf’s curse, daughter, Paige’s dreams of being a normal teenager in high school are ruined when creepy, black entities begin to…

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September 2, 2022 · In: 16th

Archer, Ali – Dragon Protocol

After a thousand years in space, the Eden colonists have finally found a world to call their own—if they can survive it.  With one side constantly drenched in light, the…

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July 20, 2022 · In: 16th

Stutznegger, Lenore – Blue Shadows Fall

“They wear the faces of your loved ones, but are more beautiful than you could ever imagine. Lovely things shouldn’t draw you in and kill you. You almost want them…

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