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The hit

2014
There is a new drug on the mean streets of Manchester which promises the most intense week of your life, and then you are dead--and after he watches a pop star die on stage, Adam thinks that his own life is so miserable that he might just as well try it.

These shallow graves

A young woman in nineteenth-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide, and she believes there is more than meets the eye, so in order to uncover the truth she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.

Just so happens

After years in London, Yumiko returns to Japan for her father's funeral. There, she confronts the rituals she has left behind - and her parents' expectations for her.

Amulet keepers

2015
Alex and Ren travel to London to defeat a Death Walker.

Ghostgirl

2009
Charlotte Usher has always struggled to fit in at her high school, but when she finds herself living in a parallel spiritual world after choking to death on a gummy bear, she tries to reconnect with the physical world while making new friends at her new school for the dead. Presented in Spanish.

Daughter of deep silence

2015
At fourteen, Frances survived a slaughter that claimed the lives of her parents and best friend, Libby, but she took on Libby's identity and wealth while plotting revenge against the powerful Wells family and now, at age eighteen, is ready to destroy them, including her first love, Grey.

How to fall

a Jess Tennant novel
2014
When sixteen-year-old Jess Tennant's mother takes her to spend the summer in the tiny English town where she grew up, people look at Jess as if they have seen a ghost due to her resemblance to her cousin Freya, who died shortly before Jess arrived and to whom Jess feels a strange connection.

Dark triumph

Left with nowhere else to turn, Sybella arrives at a convent for the god of Death and soon becomes an assassin for those who gave her refuge. Pushed back into a world she would rather leave behind, Sybella searches for a real purpose and finds something worth fighting for when she discovers an ally has been taken prisoner and she is the only one who can mount a rescue.

Grave mercy

In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.

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