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"Frustrated by an unfair arcade game, Colton throws himself into re-engineering the device at any cost. Mott quickly flushes his brother's creepy new pets down the drain, but the creatures have other plans. Aimee finally works up the courage to ditch her loud-mouthed, annoying friend at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. But when it comes to Five Nights at Freddy's, even the most ordinary seeming actions can reap horrible consequences." --.

"The chilling story of a girl who has visions of a dead girl--and the diary that will lead her to the truth behind the girl's tragic demise. All her life, Kara had been told she was born in her hometown. But she's always felt that wasn't quite right, just as she's had flashes of memories that weren't her own. Now that she's 12, those visions are becoming more frequent, more frightening . . . and when a mysterious diary shows up on her doorstep, she knows there's more to these visions than she once thought. Because this is the diary of a dead girl. The very girl who's been haunting her visions. In the pages of the diary, Kara learns this girl didn't just die--she was murdered. And Kara is the only one who can solve the mystery. With her best friend Sienna, Kara visits the town where this ghost girl met her end. If Kara isn't careful, she might meet her end there, too"--.

When the police come knocking at her door, Maybeth is worried her mother is caught up in their small town's drug scene again. Instead, the police are there to question Maybeth about her beloved and long-absent father. He has become the lead suspect in a string of unsolved murders across the country...and Maybeth may be the key to convicting him. Trapped between her scientific mind and her love for her father, Maybeth is forced to confront the reality of who her father really is--and what that might make her as well.

An autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront the demons lurking in Sam's past.

At an exclusive prep school on Long Island, Jill Newman looks forward to her senior year as a member of the school's most elite clique, the Players, until new evidence surfaces about the murder of her close friend Shaila.

Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball diamond. Bad body Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life. And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won't ever talk about any of them again. He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators conclude it's no accident. All of them are suspects. Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you'll go to protect them.

"Anxiety-prone Iris, secretly a witch, is surprised to be welcomed by a coven at her new high school, which soon teams up with their rivals to discover who murdered one of their own"--Provided by publisher.

The Ivies, five prep school elites who would kill to get into the colleges of their dreams, has a showdown after Liv gets into Harvard and queen bee Avery does not.

Sneaking the courage to speak out after she witnesses a murder late one night, thirteen-year-old Tia Lugo turns to her grandmother's favorite shopping spot--the botanica.

"Six friends. Rachel and Noah have been friends since they met at university. While they once thought that they might be something more, now, twenty years later, they are each happily married to other people, Jack and Paige respectively. Jack's brother Will is getting married, to the dazzling, impulsive Ali, and the group of six travel to Portugal for their destination weekend. Three couples. As they arrive at a gorgeous villa perched on a cliff-edge, overlooking towering waves that crash on the famous surfing beaches below at Nazare?, they try to settle into a weekend of fun. While Rachel is looking forward to getting to know her future sister-in-law Ali better, Ali can't help but rub many of the group in the wrong way: Rachel's best friend Paige thinks Ali is attention-seeking and childish, and while Jack is trying to support his brother Will's choice of wife, he is also finding plenty to disagree with Noah about. One fatal misunderstanding--but when Rachel discovers something about Ali that she can hardly believe, everything changes. As the wedding weekend unfolds, the secrets each of them hold begin to spill, and friendships and marriages threaten to unravel. Soon, jumping to conclusions becomes the difference between life and death"--Provided by publisher.