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When a teenage actress discovers her father was murdered, she must choose between the life she planned and the legacy she was born into. Convinced her father’s fatal plane crash was sabotage rather than pilot error, sixteen-year-old Emma is approached by Mrs. B, a controller for a secret organization known as The Authority.

A Face Like Glass is an astonishing and imaginative novel from the Costa Award winning author of The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge. In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare – wines that can remove memories...

A knight at last, Alanna of Trebond heads out to seek adventure in the desert of Tortall. Captured by desert tribesmen, she is forced to prove herself in a magical duel to the death. But her real challenge doesn't come until after she wins. As the first female shaman, Alanna must fight to change...

A Face Like Glass is an astonishing and imaginative novel from the Costa Award winning author of The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge. In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare – wines that can remove memories...

“This special book dares us to embrace audacious hope. Amber Appleton is my hero.” —Sara Zarr, author of Once Was Lost and National Book Award finalist Story of a Girl Amber Appleton lives in a bus. Ever since her mom’s boyfriend kicked them out, Amber, her mom, and her totally loyal...

Our Flag Means Death meets The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue in this YA historical fantasy about three queer teens facing down a secret magical society. Cas has a rule: Don’t tell anyone. Not about the nagging gender discomfort, and certainly not about the prophetic visions of...

Arizona Territory, 1871. Seven-year-old Talks Like Thunder can’t imagine life outside of her Apache family. So after both her parents succumb to deadly disease, her heart is ripped in two when her estranged grandfather takes her to his Chiricahua village. And as she blossoms into a young woman, her extraordinary insights into ancient mystical beliefs transform her into a fierce warrior. Preparing to defend their sacred land from invading White men, the driven protector falls for a fellow fighter and his words of a brighter future.

With King Lohar dead and a usurper queen in power, Gul and Cavas face a new tyrannical government that is bent on killing them both. Their roles in King Lohar's death have not gone unnoticed, and the new queen is out for blood. What she doesn't know is that Gul and Cavas have a connection that runs deeper than romance, and together, they just might have the strength and magic to end her for good. Then a grave mistake ends with Cavas taken prisoner by the government.

Bloomsbury presents No Time Like Now by Naz Kutub, read by Chirag Naik. A teen finds himself in a race against time when he learns he's given away more years than he has left to live in this thought-provoking speculative romp. It's been one year since Hazeem's father passed away unexpectedly...

Coley es una chica de dieciséis años que se enfrenta al verano en soledad. Obligada a mudarse a un pueblecito de la zona rural después de perder a su madre, no se encuentra en posición de arriesgar su, ya de por sí, frágil corazón. Pero cuando conoce a Sonya, la atracción es inmediata. A Coley le preocupa no ser digna de ella. Hasta ahora, siempre que se ha enamorado, todo le ha salido mal. Y Sonya nunca ha estado con una chica antes. ¿Qué pasará si no es capaz de ser vista con Coley? ¿Qué pasará si, al abrir su corazón, Coley lo pierde todo?

High school junior Chase Jackson is the infamous Outlaw, a celebrated midnight crime fighter caught in an ancient clash between order and corruption. The world only sees the mask, not the young man balancing his secret identity against love. Rumors surface of a growing evil within Los Angeles, and powerful strangers are searching for the reclusive vigilante, whispering truths about his illness. Despite his desperate attempts for peace, the Outlaw is being drawn into war with the dangerous Infected.