Pretties


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The second installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend. Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she’s completely popular. It’s everything she’s ever wanted. But beneath all the fun—the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom—is a nagging sense that something’s wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally’s ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what’s wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold. Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life—because the authorities don’t intend to let anyone with this information survive.




Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.


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Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.




Unwritten Rules


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"Don't talk back, don't get in his way, and whatever you do, never, ever look him in the eyes." When Winter Kingston has to move to America to live with her aunt and cousins, she has no idea that her life is about to become a whole lot more... complicated. Her plan is simple: get good grades, stay out of trouble, and somehow find a way to get through her senior year. Finding out that her cousin takes part in illegal street fights at night is not part of the plan. Nor is getting thrown into a world of crime and danger. Enter Haze Adams-notorious player, street fighter, and Winter's cousin's enemy. He has rules. When Winter breaks them without a second thought, Haze finds himself drawn to the only girl who doesn't fear or want him. He makes a deal. Whoever wins the next fight gets the girl. And Winter is not having it. One thing is certain: Haze Adams always gets what he wants. And this time... He wants her. Let the internet sensation with over 23,600,000 readers take you on a heartwrenching adventure of forbidden love and suspense.




Saturn


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A novel of the ringed planet-and the humans who explore her




Sammy Keyes and the Night of Skulls


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"The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)" —Midwest Children's Book Review After being chased by a man wielding a shovel, scared silly by a mummy, and attacked by Heather Acosta, Sammy and her pals decide they've had their fill of monsters and head home to eat some candy. But along with bubble gum and chocolate bars, they discover something frightening in their trick-or-treating bags. Something that's definitely not sweet! Before they know it, Sammy and her friends are following suspicious gravediggers, ghoulish embalmers, and shady undertakers. And somebody is following them . . . The Sammy Keyes mysteries are fast-paced, funny, thoroughly modern, and true whodunits. Each mystery is exciting and dramatic, but it's the drama in Sammy's personal life that keeps readers coming back to see what happens next with her love interest Casey, her soap-star mother, and her mysterious father.




Unsticky


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STATE OF GRACE Money makes the world go round - that's what twenty-something Grace Reeves is learning. Stuck in a grind where everyone's ahead apart from her, she's partied out, disillusioned, and massively in debt. If she's dumped by another rock-band wannabe, squashed by anyone else at her cut-throat fashion job, or chased by any more bailiffs, Grace suspects she'll fall apart... GRACE UNDER PRESSURE So when older, sexy and above all, wealthy art-dealer Vaughn appears, she's intrigued against her will. Could she handle being a sugar daddy's arm-candy? SAVING GRACE Soon Grace is thrown into a world of money and privilege, at Vaughn's beck and call in return for thousands of pounds in luxurious gifts, priceless clothes - and cash. She's out of her depth. Where's the line between acting the trophy girlfriend, and selling yourself for money? And, more importantly, whatever happened to love?




Come Back to Me


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"I can't hold onto my memories long enough, I don't know who he is but I know he saved my life"Mia is drawn to Cole Parker and she doesn't know why but each time he is around, she can't stop the pull, drawing her into dark secrets and closer to her past.Jack wants Mia as his own but knows that to keep her means he has to keep her away from Cole.When her past and present intersect, both men will give her reasons to run, the question is...whose arms will she run into.




In Fury Lies Mischief


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She was everything that I wanted.He was everything that I despised.Until she wasn't.Until he wasn't.Killian Cornelii was a walking calamity. He reached inside of me and touched every single inch of my ruined soul, but he didn't just touch it. He caressed, petted, and captivated it. He tailored me to fit into the palm of his hands. The same hands that possess so much cruelty, were the very same that comforted me.I thought I knew him.He thought he knew me.This isn't a fairy tale, or some achingly beautiful story about two soul mates who instantly fall irrevocably in love with each other.This is a story about a love so painful, so rich, that it destroys everything and everyone around it.Including ourselves.Midnight Mayhem is the platform to which Killian performs his tricks on, but the greatest trick wouldn't come from him.It would come from me.Tricksters don't have hearts.They just pretend that they do.Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.




The Secret of the Little Flower


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Conan The Unconquered


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Conan defies the sorcerous power of the Cult of Doom for the sake of a beautiful young woman known only as Yasbet. From the glory of fabled Aghrapur, capital of Turan, to the demon-haunted wastes of the Blasted Lands, Conan proves himself the greatest hero of a bygone era of high adventure.