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White space
by Ilsa J. Bick
A first entry in a planned two-part story is set in a blurred reality world where a deadly and horrifying plane of existence is located in the space between the known universes. By the award-winning author of the Ashes trilogy.
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The watcher in the shadows
by Chris Moriarty
In early twentieth-century New York, as thirteen-year-old Sacha Kessler, the Inquisitor's apprentice, faces enemies old and new that threaten him and his family, he changes his mind about learning magic
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Twelve minutes to midnight
by Christopher Edge
Writing popular horror tales under a male pseudonym for a best-selling literary magazine she will one day inherit, 13-year-old orphan Penelope Tredwell of Victorian England is asked to investigate strange occurrences at the local asylum.
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Through the skylight
by Ian Baucom
Living temporarily in Venice, American siblings Jared, Shireen and Miranda uncover a mystery surrounding magical objects and three children who lived centuries earlier and whose fates become intertwined with those of the modern children--along with a danger that has spanned the ages.
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The sweet dead life
by Joy Preble
After dying in a car accident, 14-year-old Jenna's older brother returns as an angel to help Jenna solve a mystery that not only holds the key to her survival, but also to their mother's mysterious depression and their father's disappearance.
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Strike three, you're dead
by Josh Berk
Lenny Norbeck and his friends The Mikes set out to investigate the suspicious death of a young pitcher at a Phillies game
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Shadow breakers
by Daniel Blythe
Moving to a dull seaside town where nothing interesting seems to happen, Miranda has a bizarre experience and wonders how much her teachers and classmates really know about a paranormal mystery with ties to tortured spirits from the past.
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Spies and Prejudice
by Talia Vance
Working as a private investigator who trails her client's unfaithful partners, Berry Fields disregards her unpopularity and examines emerging questions about her mother's death before reluctantly falling for newcomer Tanner, who harbors an unknown agenda. By the author of Silver.
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Sweet 16 to life : a Langdon Prep novel
by Kimberly Reid
Using skills gleaned from her police officer mother to save lives and expose deception at her exclusive private school, Chanti risks her freedom and reputation to protect an old friend from a vengeful gang member while mending fences with a reluctant ex-boyfriend. Original.
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Prep school confidential
by Kara Taylor
When Anne's misbehavior sends her from her Upper East Side prep school to a prestigious boarding school outside of Boston, her only goal is to get back home until her roommate, Isabella, is murdered and Anne decides to get to the bottom of the mystery, whatever the cost. Original.
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Nearly Gone
by Elle Cosimano
Mystery. At first, the cryptic messages in the newspaper's Missed Connections column just seem weird. But math genius Nearly Boswell quickly is convinced that the messages are coded clues to the recent string of murders at her high school -- murders for which she's being framed. To prove her innocence, Nearly will have to use not only her math and science knowledge to decipher the killer's puzzling clues, but also her unusual ability to sense people's emotions through touch. Smart, edgy, and darkly gripping, Nearly Gone is a great pick for fans of supernatural thrillers like Lisa McMann's Crash or Olivia Samms' Sketchy.
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Nobody's secret : a novel of intrigue and romance
by Michaela MacColl
When Emily Dickinson meets a young man who refuses to tell her his name she is intrigued, so when he is found dead in her family's pond in Amherst she is determined to discover his secret, no matter how dangerous it may prove to be
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No one else can have you
by Kathleen Hale
When the homecoming queen of a quiet and peaceful Midwest community is found murdered, the victim's best friend, Kippy, equips herself with her friend's secret diary and rallies her own tenacious spirit to track down the killer. A debut author. 40,000 first printing.
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Period 8
by Chris Crutcher
Dutifully telling the truth despite the trouble it causes for him, Paulie discovers that finding the truth can be even more problematic while attending Period 8, a class where truth-telling is encouraged but where a lying bully hides among the students. By the award-winning author of Deadline. 75,000 first printing.
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The Naturals
by Jennifer Barnes
"Seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a natural ability to read people, joins an elite group of criminal profilers at the FBI in order to help solve cold cases"
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Freaks
by Kieran Larwood
In Victorian London, a lonely band of misfits trapped in a sideshow put their extraordinary talents to use to solve the mysteries that no one else cares about, starting with the abduction of poor children from the banks of the Thames.
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Mojo [sound recording]
by Tim Tharp
When the bullying and lack of respect that have overshadowed his life painfully escalate after he discovers the dead body of a classmate, Dylan resolves to use his fledgling investigative powers to solve the case of a missing rich girl in hopes of improving his reputation. By the author of the National Book Award finalist, The Spectacular Now. Simultaneous.
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Killing Rachel
by Anne Cassidy
As her stepbrother, Joshua, continues to decipher the meaning of the cryptic murder notebooks, Rose wonders if the recent death of her former best friend may hold a clue to the disappearance of Rose's mother and Joshua's father.
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The girl who was supposed to die
by April Henry
When she awakens in a ransacked cabin not knowing who, or where she is, she only knows she must follow Cady and Ty to stay alive
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Find me
by Romily Bernard
A mainstream release of an award-winning debut follows the high-stakes adventure of foster teen Wick Tate, who uses her computer-hacking talents to investigate classmate Tessa Waye's suspicious suicide after receiving Tessa's diary containing a suspicious message. 60,000 first printing.
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Breaking glass
by Lisa Amowitz
When his longtime crush, Susannah, disappears the same night a drinking accident lands him in the hospital, Jeremy Glass investigates Susannah's disappearance after he begins receiving messages from her from beyond the grave
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The clockwork scarab : A Stoker & Holmes Novel
by Colleen Gleason
Roped into respective family businesses when two society girls go missing, Evaline, the sister of Bram Stoker, and Mina, the niece of Sherlock Holmes, overcome a fierce rivalry to investigate three mysterious gentlemen and a strange Egyptian relic
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Dead girls don't lie
by Jennifer Shaw Wolf
Jaycee and Rachel were best friends until a terrible night when their friendship faltered and Rachel was found dead, but her last text message starts Jaycee on a search that may prove Rachel's death was no random crime
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Asylum
by Madeleine Roux
A tale presented in the style of an integrated photo-novel finds intellectual misfit Dan arriving at a summer college prep program for gifted students and being required to sleep in a crumbling former psychiatric hospital, where he and his friends uncover disturbing secrets about the asylum's dark past. By the author of Allison Hewett Is Trapped. 100,000 first printing.
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The Book of Blood and Shadow
by Robin Wasserman
Her happy life shattered by a nightmarish evening that leaves a friend in a catatonic state, another dead and her boyfriend accused of murder, Nora resolves to prove her boyfriend's innocence and follows a violent trail to Prague, where she discovers a mysterious manuscript that purportedly offers the secret to ultimate knowledge and the ability to communicate with the divine. By the author of the Skinned trilogy.
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Cat Girl's day off
by Kimberly Pauley
High schooler Natalie Ng has always kept secret her talent for talking with cats, but when she learns--from a cat--that a celebrity has been replace by an imposter, she and her friends investigate, becoming movie extras to get the scoop
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Tokyo heist
by Diana Renn
Sixteen-year-old Violet agrees to spend the summer with her father, an up-and-coming artist in Seattle, but when her father's newest clients, the Yamada family, become victims of a high-profile art theft in which valuable van Gogh sketches are stolen from their home, everyone's lives--including Violet's and her father's--are in danger until they can produce the corresponding van Gogh painting.
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Ripper
by Stefan Petrucha
Growing up in an orphanage where he reads crime novels and dreams of becoming a detective, Carver Young is adopted by a detective from a world-famous agency and considers searching for his biological father before becoming entangled in the case of a brutal serial killer who is terrorizing New York City.
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A girl named Digit
by Annabel Monaghan
Hoping to shed her reputation as a geeky math whiz during her senior year at Santa Monica High, future MIT student Farrah "Digit" Higgins inadvertently cracks a terrorist group's number sequence and is forced to fake her own kidnapping while struggling to win the heart of a cute FBI agent. 35,000 first printing.
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Picture this
by Norah McClintock
When foster child Ethan becomes involved in a photography program for at-risk kids in an attempt to put his life on the right track, he finds himself in another difficult situation when he starts receiving threats from someone over what is on his camera
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Sleeping angel
by Greg Herren
When Eric Matthews wakes up in the hospital, he discovers that he has no memory of his accident, and that he is suspected of murdering a classmate
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The madman of Venice
by Sophie Masson
Journeying from London to Venice in 1602 to investigate pirate attacks on merchant ships, Master Ashby is entreated to find a Jewish girl who has disappeared from the Venice Ghetto amid a powerful countess's accusations of witchcraft.
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I hunt killers
by Barry Lyga
Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his father, but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer
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The night she disappeared
by April Henry
Horrified to discover that she was the actual target in a co-worker's abduction, pizza delivery girl Gabie teams up with another co-worker, Drew, to find the kidnapped girl. By the author of Girl, Stolen.
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Burning Blue
by Paul Griffin
Mystery. Popular, privileged Nicole Castro is one of the most beautiful girls at school -- until someone throws acid on her face in a crowded hallway and disappears. Now half of Nicole's face is permanently scarred, and the police haven't been able to determine her attacker's identity. But after Nicole and loner Jay Nazarro meet in the school psychologist's office, Jay, a talented hacker, resolves to find the culprit no matter what it takes. Told through narrative as well as through bits of evidence that Jay unearths, excerpts from Nicole's journal, and notes from her sessions with psychiatrists, this is a riveting read that, like Peter Abrahams' similarly gripping Reality Check, blends a dangerous investigation with romance.
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Dead girls don't write letters
by Gail Giles
Fourteen-year-old Sunny Reynolds is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died out of town in a fire months earlier. Reprint.
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The Girl in the Park
by Mariah Fredericks
When her best friend's murder in Central Park triggers a maelstrom of sensational gossip and headlines, shy Rain becomes increasingly convinced that there was more to the story than her victimized friend's party-girl reputation has led people to believe. By the author of The True Meaning of Cleavage.
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Cross my heart
by Sasha Gould
Venice, 1585. When 16-year-old Laura della Scala learns that her older sister, Beatrice, has died, she is removed her from the convent where her father forcibly sent her years earlier and ordered to marry Beatrice's repulsive fiancé, Vincenzo; to avoid this fate, she betrays Vincenzo to earn her way into a secret society, the Segreta, which Laura later comes to suspect might be responsible for her sister's death.
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The morgue and me
by John C. Ford
After getting a job in the local morgue after his senior year, Christopher's life is forever changed when he discovers a murder cover-up, gets involved in a dangerous investigation, and becomes partners with an attractive newspaper reporter whose ambitious nature puts them both in great danger.
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Waves
by Sharon Dogar
Fiction. Hal Ditton and his family have always spent blissful summers at their Brackinton beach house. This year's trip, however, will only intensify the pain the whole family has suffered since Hal's older sister Charley's late-night surfing accident last summer. She's been comatose ever since, but when the Dittons go to Brackinton without Charley, Hal is overwhelmed by thoughts that seem to belong to her. Is it possible that Charley is sending Hal her thoughts? This suspenseful book should especially appeal to readers who like Jodi Picoult's stories about families in crisis, or the supernatural narration of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.
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My father's son
by Terri Fields
When his father is arrested as a suspect in the string of vicious killings by the DB25 murderer, a young man must reconsider everything in his life and face the harsh reality that he may have never really known his father at all after all these years.
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The silver pigs : a Marcus Didius Falco mystery
by Lindsey Davis
Marcus Didius Falco finds himself in the midst of ancient Roman intrigue when he accepts a case from the beautiful Sosia Camillina, one that mushrooms into a plot to depose the emperor
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The body finder
by Kimberly Derting
Violet uses her uncanny ability to sense murderers and their victims to try to stop a serial killer who is terrorizing her town, and although her best friend and would-be boyfriend Jay promises to keep her safe, she becomes a target
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Shelter : a Mickey Bolitar novel
by Harlan Coben
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be
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Tin angel
by Shannon Cowan
When Ronnie, an outsider dealing with her mom's alcoholism, lets Lee, a fugitive activist, hide out at her family's former lodge in the mountains, she is accused of murder when the lodge burns down, resulting in the death of a generous man who stepped in to take care of her family. Original.
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Dancing in red shoes will kill you
by Dorian Cirrone
While struggling to make her dreams of becoming a professional ballerina become a reality, Kayla finds her efforts redirected when a pair of red pointe shoes with threatening and mysterious messages suddenly appears in different places at her school.
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I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
by Ally Carter
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission. Read by Renée Raudman. Book available.
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The king's arrow
by Michael Cadnum
In a tale set in England in 1100, eighteen-year-old Simon is invited to go on a royal hunt with the king's friend, Walter Tirrel, but when the king is killed by Tirrel's arrow, the two friends must flee for their lives while Simon tries to figure out if Tirrel's actions were accidental or intentional.
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Black Rabbit summer
by Kevin Brooks
Attempting a reunion on the night of the county fair, a group of childhood friends have a hard time putting past problems aside and so split up for good, but when a girl is found dead the following morning and Raymond is suspected, Pete has to reconsider past behaviors in relation to the crime at hand. Reprint.
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Rat life
by Tedd Arnold
Meeting a new friend with a troubled past seemed like an exciting twist to his dull life, but when Todd discovers that Rat is actually as dangerous as he seems, he begins to wonder if he may have had something to do with the body that was recently found in the Chemenga River. 10,000 first printing. Reprint.
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The dark days of Hamburger Halpin
by Josh Berk
When Will Halpin transfers from his all-deaf school into a mainstream Pennsylvania high school, he faces discrimination and bullying, but still manages to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a football player in his class
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The Diviners
by Libba Bray
Historical Fantasy. After her wild behavior lands her in hot water, privileged young Evie O'Neill is sent to live with her eccentric uncle in New York City -- a "punishment" that delights Evie, who can't wait to mix with Ziegfield girls and sneak into some big-city speakeasies (it's the Roaring Twenties). But when her Uncle Will, curator of the Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, is called on to help solve a rash of otherworldly murders, Evie is drawn in to the investigation because of a special ability she's tried to keep secret. Full of vivid period detail and intriguing characters and laced with shiver-inducing menace, this sprawling 1st in a series will thrill readers of supernatural mysteries and historical novels alike.
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