fiction

A solar storm knocks out power across the globe, forcing Aubrey Wheeler--still reeling from the revelation of her ex-husband's criminal activities and the son he left behind for her to raise--to become fierce protector of her suburban Illinois neighborhood. Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, Aubrey's neurotic brother, Thom, a wealthy tech company CEO, plans to ride out the apocalypse in his maximum comfort and security desert bunker. However, the siblings' complicated history will come back to haunt them, and at the end of the world the two will have to come to several reckonings before the real end.

Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai and an unusual girl named Marina witness an unsettling ceremony in a cemetery in Barcelona, which prompts them to investigate the origins of the ritual and leads them into a dark and mysterious world under the city.

When Mary Porter-Malcolm, a teen obsessed with nineteenth-century literature, starts at a new high school, she depends on her favorite literature to help her survive. She soon discovers that real life is very different from classic fiction.

When Halle Levitt arrives to spend senior year in her grandfather's small town, she meets Nash, her online best friend who thinks her online persona, Kels, is as confident and popular as he is. Halle tries to hide her secret identity while falling for Nash, but if she doesn't tell him, they have no future because Nash is in love with Kels.

Nine survivors of a decades-old tragedy come together each year to commemorate a high school tragedy, but when two of the survivors commit suicide in different years on the anniversary of the event, the remaining members come together to support one another and uncover the mystery of why the survivors are dying.

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year of high school.

About the time her parents tell her they can no longer afford her tuition at a prestigious Beijing international boarding school, Chinese American Alice Sun realizes that she can turn invisible. With all of her hopes riding on getting a scholarship to a prestigious school, getting a good job, and lifting her family out of poverty, Alice decides to use her abilities for profit, by hiring herself out to her classmates. However, when the jobs get increasingly dangerous and morally questionable, she begins to wonder if the sacrifice is worth it.

June Chu has resigned herself to being the "just good enough" girl--just good enough to get third place trophies and secret kisses from Rhys, her AP Bio partner, but not good enough to live up to the achievements of her seeming perfect older sister or her strict mother's expectations. Refusing to try too hard to get a full-ride scholarship, knowing she will fail anyway, June sets all her energy on getting Rhys to officially say they are in a relationship. Her plans go very wrong, and instead June flings herself into a new relationship, where the lines between love and sex are blurred and the pressure to plan out her future threatens to explode.

Book smart teen Lola's summer plans are derailed when she is sent to live with her grandmother in Mexico City and learns a family secret that changes her life forever. With the help of two new friends, Lola sets out to break a family curse and learns more about herself than she ever thought possible.

For their Nana's eightieth birthday party, Daisy Darker and her entire estranged family assembles on Nana's tidal island and in her disintegrating, Gothic house. When the tide comes in, the whole family will be trapped together on the island for eight hours, and, when a storm hits at midnight, one of them finds Nana's murdered corpse. Her death is followed one hour later by that of another family member, and Daisy realizes there is a killer among the Darkers.