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The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1 by Mokumokuren
It has Hikaru’s face. It has Hikaru’s voice. It even has Hikaru’s memories. But whatever came down from the mountains six months ago isn’t Yoshiki’s best friend. Whatever it is, it’s dangerous. Carrying on at school and hanging out as if nothing has changed―as if Hikaru isn’t gone―would be crazy...but when it looks so very like Hikaru...and acts so very like Hikaru.. -
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The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsLogen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies... -
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![Arising Son by Marie Montine]()
Arising Son by Marie Montine
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRyan Reyn has special abilities that allows him to help people with thier ailments.But he also has abilities that can annihilate everyone in the town, he just doesn't know it yet, and they are awakening...He goes to the one person who can help him with his conflicting nature.His Cassandra Wynstrom.Arising Son is the sequel to Mourning Grey, taking place twenty years after the Great War... -
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Nocte by Courtney Cole
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMy name is Calla Price. I'm eighteen years old, and I'm one half of a whole. My other half-- my twin brother, my Finn-- is crazy. I love him. More than life, more than anything. And even though I'm terrified he'll suck me down with him, no one can save him but me. I'm doing all I can to stay afloat in a sea of insanity, but I'm drowning more and more each day. So I reach out for a lifeline... -
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![No Time to Die by Elizabeth Chandler]()
No Time to Die by Elizabeth Chandler
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMessage from a dead girl... It's too late to call back. Jenny will never speak to Liza again. But it seems that even from beyond the grave, Liza is begging her sister for help.... They say it's a serial killer. Is it? Jenny can't afford to trust anyone. Now she's here, in Wisteria, anonymously registered at the Chase College theater camp where her sister died... -
![The Deep End of Fear by Elizabeth Chandler, Sandy Young]()
The Deep End of Fear by Elizabeth Chandler, Sandy Young
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLet Sleeping Ghosts LieTwelve years ago Kate's family left the Westbrook estate on a stormy night, just after young Ashley Westbrook drowned in an icy pond. Now kate, alone in the world, has returned to the estate to tutor another spoiled Westbrook child, Patrick. The seven-year-old says he talks to Ashley by the pond. He does dangerous, deadly things because, he says, "Ashley dared me to... -
![The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson]()
The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe Truly Devious series continues as Stevie Bell investigates her first mystery outside of Ellingham Academy in this spine-chilling and hilarious stand-alone mystery.Amateur sleuth Stevie Bell needs a good murder. After catching a killer at her high school, she's back at home for a normal (that means boring) summer... -
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White Walls by Lauren Hammond
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAdelaide Carmichael knows that she's lost her mind. She's aware that she's being sent to The Oakhill Institution, but she's been told that she's being sent there to get better. She's been told that the staff is there to help. And it doesn't take Adelaide long to discover that she was very, very wrong about The Oakhill Institution. Patients roam the halls like zombies... -
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Rise by Ellen Goodlett
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSisters Akeylah, Ren, and Zofi are all a step closer to their dying father's throne, a step closer to the crown that will allow one of them to rule over Kolonya. But the sisters' pasts continue to haunt them. Each hides a secret marked with blood and betrayal, and now their blackmailer is holding nothing back... -
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Happiness, Vol. 3 by Shuzo Oshimi
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA supernatural story of sexual awakening, growing up, and suburban vampirism, Happiness follows a dorky boy who is attacked by a girl in an alley. She sucks his blood and gives him a choice: life or death... -
![Every Ugly Word by Aimee L. Salter]()
Every Ugly Word by Aimee L. Salter
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWhen seventeen-year-old Ashley Watson walks through the halls of her high school bullies taunt and shove her. She can’t go a day without fighting with her mother. And no matter how hard she tries, she can’t make her best friend, Matt, fall in love with her. But Ashley also has something no one else does: a literal glimpse into the future... -
![Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven]()
Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensation and author of The Society for Soulless Girls… Penny Paxton is the daughter of an icon. Her supermodel mother has legions of adoring fans around the world, and Penny is ready to begin her journey to international adoration, starting with joining the elite Dorian Drama School... -
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The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFrom Ryan La Sala, the wildly popular author of Reverie, comes a twisted and tantalizing horror novel set amidst the bucolic splendor of a secluded summer retreat.Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance... -
![What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher]()
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher."When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania... -
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![We'll Never Be Apart by Emiko Jean]()
We'll Never Be Apart by Emiko Jean
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMurder. Fire. Revenge. That’s all seventeen-year-old Alice Monroe thinks about. Committed to a mental ward at Savage Isle, Alice is haunted by memories of the fire that killed her boyfriend, Jason. A blaze her twin sister Cellie set. But when Chase, a mysterious, charismatic patient, agrees to help her seek vengeance, Alice begins to rethink everything... -
![Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson]()
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart.Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists... -
![Never Never: Part Two by Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher]()
Never Never: Part Two by Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 56 ratings“Never forget that I was your first real kiss. Never forget that you’ll be my last. And never stop loving me between all of them. Never stop, Charlie. Never forget.” Silas races against time as more truths unravel, while others twist tighter together. And now, the stakes are higher as Silas’ control slips and others begin to point fingers... -
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This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsBravery, danger, and intense passion. How does obsession begin?Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are nearly inseparable. Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary adventures...until the day their adventures turn all too real. They stumble upon the Dark Library and discover secret books of alchemy and ancient remedies... -
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The Darkest Lie by Pintip Dunn
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“The mother I knew would never do those things. But maybe I never knew her after all.”Clothes, jokes, coded messages… Cecilia Brooks and her mom shared everything. At least, CeCe thought they did. Six months ago, her mom killed herself after accusations of having sex with a student, and CeCe’s been the subject of whispers and taunts ever since... -
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Ghosted by Emily Barr
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAriel's accidental meeting with a handsome stranger called Joe is completely perfect; they have a connection like she's never known before. They exchange numbers and agree to meet when he is back from a trip to France. But when Ariel messages him, the number Joe gave her is disconnected. He's ghosted her. She assumes she will never see him again.Except she does. Again and again... -
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Gilt Hollow by Lorie Langdon
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWillow Lamott’s best friend is a murderer, and no one in the small town of Gilt Hollow will let her forget it. For four long years, she’s tried to fade into the background—but none of that matters when Ashton Keller comes striding into school, fresh out of juvie and fueled by revenge. The moment their eyes meet, Willow no longer feels invisible... -
![Quinsey Wolfe's Glass Vault by Candace Robinson]()
Quinsey Wolfe's Glass Vault by Candace Robinson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYOUNG ADULT EDITION OUT OF PRINTA girl without answers. A boy who wants to help her. A mysterious museum that some see... And some don't...Perrie Madeline lives a simple life. Her only concern is deciding whether or not to let herself fully fall for August Hartley. That is, until a strange museum, known as Quinsey Wolfe’s Glass Vault, appears overnight and people around her begin to go missing... -
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Insanity by Lauren Hammond
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAdelaide Carmichael and Damien Allen couldn’t be more opposite. Adelaide’s mother abandoned her when she was ten years old, leaving her to be raised by her abusive and alcoholic father. Damien on the other hand came from a wealthy family, was a local celebrity, and seemed to have a bright future ahead of him... -
![Notes from My Captivity by Kathy Parks]()
Notes from My Captivity by Kathy Parks
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAdrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college; becoming a revered journalist like her idol, Sydney Declay; and making her late father proud of her... -
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![The Companion by Katie Alender]()
The Companion by Katie Alender
The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home... -
![The Masked Truth by Kelley Armstrong]()
The Masked Truth by Kelley Armstrong
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRiley Vasquez is haunted by the brutal murder of the couple she was babysitting for.Max Cross is suffering under the shadow of a life-altering diagnosis he doesn’t dare reveal.The last thing either of them wants is to spend a weekend away at a therapy camp alongside five other teens with “issues.” But that’s exactly where they are when three masked men burst in to take the group hostage... -
![Sorrow's Knot by Erin Bow]()
Sorrow's Knot by Erin Bow
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the world of Sorrow’s Knot, the dead do not rest easy. Every patch of shadow might be home to something hungry and nearly invisible, something deadly. The dead can only be repelled or destroyed with magically knotted cords and yarns. The women who tie these knots are called binders. Otter is the daughter of Willow, a binder of great power... -
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Verum by Courtney Cole
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe truth shall set you free. My name is Calla Price and I’m drowning. My new world is a dark, dark ocean and I’m being pulled under by secrets. Can I trust anyone? I don’t know anymore. The lies are spirals. They twist and turn, binding me with their thorns and serpentine tongues. And just when I think I have it figured out, everything is pulled out from under me... -
![The Unquiet by Jeannine Garsee]()
The Unquiet by Jeannine Garsee
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSixteen-year-old Rinn Jacobs has secrets: One, she’s bipolar. Two, she killed her grandmother. After a suicide attempt, and now her parents' separation, Rinn and her mom move from California to the rural Ohio town where her mother grew up... -
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Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsSenior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn’t going well. Her boyfriend, David, is studying in London. Her friends are obsessed with college applications. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain—questions about college, love, and life in general...Categorized as:
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Absent by Katie Williams
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhen seventeen-year-old Paige dies in a freak fall from the roof during Physics class, her spirit is bound to the grounds of her high school. At least she has company: her fellow ghosts Evan and Brooke, who also died there. But when Paige hears the rumor that her death wasn't an accident--that she supposedly jumped on purpose--she can't bear it. Then Paige discovers something amazing... -
![The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson]()
The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe Handmaid's Tale for a new generation . . . In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet's word is law, Immanuelle Moore's very existence is blasphemy... -
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The Vanishing Game by Kate Kae Myers
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Jocelyn follows clues apparently from her dead twin, Jack, in and around Seale House, the terrifying foster home where they once lived. With help from childhood friend Noah she begins to uncover the truth about Jack's death and the company that employed him and Noah... -
![Welcome to the Dark House by Laurie Faria Stolarz]()
Welcome to the Dark House by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhat’s your worst nightmare? For Ivy Jensen, it’s the eyes of a killer that haunt her nights. For Parker Bradley, it’s bloodthirsty sea serpents that slither in his dreams. And for seven essay contestants, it’s their worst nightmares that win them an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at director Justin Blake’s latest, confidential project... -
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![Initium by Courtney Cole]()
Initium by Courtney Cole
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsI never knew what the consequences would be. I say that like it’s a defense, an excuse. It’s not. It’s simply the truth. I never knew what he would become to me. Through everything, he’s become everything. My rock, my air, my love. My everything. And then…. Things changed. Because it was wrong. Because sometimes, our sons must pay for the sins of their fathers... -
![Clear: A Death Trippers Novel by Jessica Park]()
Clear: A Death Trippers Novel by Jessica Park
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsStella Ford’s grasp on reality is already loose, and it’s about to come undone. When the college junior flees Chicago and leaves her toxic family behind, she heads for coastal Maine to find the one person who brought her peace years ago: Sam Bishop. But the Sam she once knew now has painful secrets. Stella is determined to heal them both... -
![The Creeping by Alexandra Sirowy]()
The Creeping by Alexandra Sirowy
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsEleven years ago, Stella and Jeanie disappeared. Only Stella came back.Now all she wants is a summer full of cove days, friends, and her gorgeous crush - until a fresh corpse leads Stella down a path of ancient evil and secrets.Stella believes remembering what happened to Jeanie will save her. It won’t.She used to know better than to believe in what slinks through the shadows. Not anymore... -
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Happiness, Vol. 1 by Shuzo Oshimi
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsTHE THIRST Nothing interesting in happening in Makoto Ozaki’s first year of high school. HIs life is a serise of quiet humiliations: low-grade bullies, unreliable friends, and the constant frustration of his adolescent lust. But one night, a pale, thin girl knocks him to the ground in an alley and offers him a choice. Now everything is different. Daylight is searingly bright. Food tastes awful... -
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The Restless Dark by Erica Waters
Rated: 3.48 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEnter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk.The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast is hosting a contest to find his bones.Lucy was almost the serial killer’s final victim. Carolina is a true-crime fan who fears her own rage. Maggie is a psychology student with a little too much to hide.All of them are looking for answers, for a new identity, for a place to bury their secrets... -
![I Am Her Revenge by Meredith Moore]()
I Am Her Revenge by Meredith Moore
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsShe can be anyone you want her to be. Vivian was raised with one purpose in life: to exact revenge on behalf of her mother. Manipulative and cruel, Mother has deprived Vivian not only of a childhood, but of an original identity. With an endless arsenal of enticing personalities at her disposal, Vivian is a veritable weapon of deception. And she can destroy anyone... -
![Sapphique by Catherine Fisher]()
Sapphique by Catherine Fisher
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFinn has escaped from the terrible living Prison of Incarceron, but its memory torments him, because his brother Keiro is still inside. Outside, Claudia insists he must be king, but he doubts even his own identity... -
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Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth, Sara Lautman
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOur story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it The Plain Bad Heroine Society... -
![Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard]()
Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
#1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.In ultra-trendy Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four beautiful girls are hiding very ugly secrets. High school juniors Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily have grown apart since their best friend Alison DiLaurentis went missing three years ago... -
![Thorn Abbey by Nancy Ohlin]()
Thorn Abbey by Nancy Ohlin
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNothing is as it seems in this darkly romantic tale of infatuation and possession, inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. Becca was the perfect girlfriend: smart, gorgeous, and loved by everyone at New England’s premier boarding school, Thorn Abbey. But Becca’s dead. And her boyfriend, Max, can’t get over his loss. Then Tess transfers to Thorn Abbey... -
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![Chain Letter by Christopher Pike]()
Chain Letter by Christopher Pike
Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen Alison first read the chain letter signed "Your Caretaker," she thought it was some terrible sick joke. Someone, somewhere knew about tha tawful night when she and six other friends committed an unthinkable crime in the desolate California desert. And now that person was determined to make them pay for it.One by one, the chain letter was coming to each of them .. -
![The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude]()
The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude
Rated: 3.41 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStay on the roads. Don’t enter the woods. Never go out at night.Those are the rules in Rowan’s Glen, a remote farming community in the Missouri Ozarks where Ivy Templeton’s family has lived for centuries. It’s an old-fashioned way of life, full of superstition and traditions, and sixteen-year-old Ivy loves it... -
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The Fall by Bethany Griffin
Rated: 3.42 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMadeline Usher is doomed. She has spent her life fighting fate, and she thought she was succeeding. Until she woke up in a coffin. Ushers die young. Ushers are cursed. Ushers can never leave their house, a house that haunts and is haunted, a house that almost seems to have a mind of its own... -
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White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole punched into its heart. Lily is gone and her twins, Miranda and Eliot, and her husband, the gentle Luc, mourn her absence with unspoken intensity...Categorized as:
mystery suspense vampires legends & fairy tales fantasy paranormal witches contemporary -
![The Cemetery Boys by Heather Brewer, Z Brewer]()
The Cemetery Boys by Heather Brewer, Z Brewer
Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWhen Stephen is forced to move back to the nowhere town where his father grew up, he’s already sure he’s not going to like it. Spencer, Michigan, is like a town straight out of a Hitchcock movie, with old-fashioned people who see things only in black-and-white. But things start looking up when Stephen meets the mysterious twins Cara and Devon... -
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The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters
Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the spirit of a vengeful witch killed centuries before. Heather knew the stories were just that, until her best friend Becca began insisting the Red Lady was real--and she could prove it...
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