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Paradox strikes Kinsley’s life to the core in this binge-worthy conundrum that strangely moves the Ghost Hunting club from Louisiana to California and engulfs them in the most dangerous mystery yet. While divine intervention plays a role in saving their lives and they are brought into a treasure trove of unpatented inventions and unpublished manuscripts of a time traveler, who has mysteriously disappeared from Providence Place. Set a course with these teen sleuths as they venture into trouble and engage in their most daring adventure coming face to face with spiritual beings and the unknown.

Arri’s days had always been built around predictability, until one day, when a delivery of a dozen red roses arrived for her with an unsigned ominous message… “I look forward to making your acquaintance.” Despite all efforts to avoid the inevitable, her seemingly normal parents reckon with the one truth they had tried to avoid. Nicholas is coming, and he wants their daughter.

Good morning! Today is Jack's eighteenth birthday. Here's what's happened so far— He woke up from a dream about dissecting frogs and measuring the bubbles produced by llamas. He just missed a call from Bob, his grandmother. He's not sure she'll remember he exists—which makes him sad, because...

What if everything you remember is a lie? Freya Izquierdo and Fletcher Cohen believe they’re done with top-secret memory knifing. After successfully hacking a terrorist’s memories and foiling the Memory Ghosts’ next attack, they spend their school break intending to clear Fletcher’s dad...

A yeshiva is supposed to be a place where young Jewish men go to learn Torah. It follows an orderly, set routine. Decorum is observed. The food is occasionally palatable. The curriculum is predictable, following the tradition of centuries. In short, it is almost everything that Rabbi White's yeshiva is not.

It feels like a lifetime ago since Arri’s life was turned upside down, and there’s no going back to the peaceful existence she once knew. Because Arri is more than human — someone wants her dead. Arri has survived Nicholas's relentless attacks... so far. Consumed by the words of the "Old One’s" prophecy, the ancient vampire overlord is obsessed with making an example of her at any cost. But as Nicholas and his agents close in on her, her abilities grow — and new ones emerge — while she learns to embrace her hidden side. Is recognizing what she is and mastering her new self going to be enough?

In Mavis’s dystopian world, starvation, sacrifice, and poverty haunt a country trying to recover from The Great Patriotic War. Protected by a peacekeeping force, the nation struggles to coax profits out of a sprawling industrial complex to pay wartime reparations. In this world, the future of every citizen is decided on their 16th birthday during a single exam, The Selection. They either join Defense, Productivity, or Leadership. Mavis is assigned to a chemical plant to solve a productivity paradox and struggles with her colleagues as they race to meet the reparations deadline.

Navigating her way through nightmarish lands devoid of sunlight, Eyelet Elsworth races to free her beloved Urlick Babbit, the first person to understand and accept her - differences and all. Framed for murder and sentenced to execution, Urlick is running out of time. And the Commonwealth's tyrannical new ruler, Penelope Rapture, is strangely eager to speed up the clock.

Seventeen-year-old Eyelet Elsworth has only one hope left: to find her late father's most prized invention, the Illuminator. It's been missing since the day a mysterious flash wiped the sun from the sky. Living in darkness is nothing new to Eyelet. She's hidden her secret affliction all of her life—a life that would be in danger if superstitious townspeople ever guessed the truth. Orphaned when her mother is executed for a crime she did not commit, Eyelet sets out to track down the machine—her one and only chance at a cure.

Ever since his wife and child died, Jett King has spent his life avoiding change. But when his best friend invents time-travel, and a mysterious stranger claims his son is alive, Jett must choose to face a world he never knew existed. Follow his journey, as he meets the happy-go-lucky Robbie, the brave Parker, the mysterious Duke, and the devious Ivan. From a frozen wasteland, to a planet rumored to be alive, Jett searches for answers about his son, as well as the dark truth behind his best friend.