novels

"A taut thriller set in Florida's desolate panhandle, part coming-of-age story, all hard-boiled noir. Eighteen-year-old Travis Hollister is always the stranger who comes to town. As a twelve-year-old escaping a disordered and unhappy home and parents who loved hard but couldn't make it work, Travis left the Midwest to spend a summer with his grandparents in the Deep South. There he met Delia, the love of his life, who, tragically, was beyond his reach for two reasons-she was his aunt and she was sixteen years old. That summer made Travis guilty of crimes discovered and undiscovered. For his public wrongs, he did time, six years in a Nebraska reform school. For his undiscovered wrongs, he suffers mightily and wants desperately to be shriven. Can he achieve redemption or is he bound for the hell on earth he can imagine all too well? Driven by his need to rejoin the human community, he becomes the stranger who arrives in Panama City, Florida, searching for Delia, the aunt who was the idol of his twelve-year-old passion. Who is she now? What have the years done to her? Will she welcome the return of Travis or fear it? What will she do about the return of the stranger she once held to her teenage heart"--.

Follows 17-year-old Will as they struggle with the aftermath of parental abuse and learn to a forge a new life for themself.

When seventeen-year-old Latavia is presented as a human sacrifice to an ancient beast, she is determined to do whatever it takes to survive--even if that includes making a deal with the monster and endangering her crush and family.

Willa and nonbinary android Saudade travel back to 1891 Italy to find the editbook and prevent whatever caused the cataclysm, but Faraz is hot on their heels with plans of his own.

James, a senior in high school, channels his energy into aiding a struggling LGBTQ+ youth support group and going to punk shows with his friends, until he falls for Orsino, a telepathic trans boy whose visions of impending doom challenge James's limited perception of what is possible.

Presents the full script of the original "Star Wars" audio drama "Tempest Runner," set during the High Republic Era of the galaxy. The Jedi have captured the Tempest Runner Lourna Dee of the Nihil pirates, the most fearsome monster who has been ravaging the High Republic, but they don't know it: Lourna disguised herself as just another Nihil raider before her capture. Now, without her ship, without her crew, her gear, she must chart her own path to her glorious escape--but friendships she makes along the way in Jedi captivity may lead to her redemption instead.

A disaster at the treaty signing on Jedha brings renewed violence after five years of conflict on Eiram and E'ronoh. The royal heirs of both planets reach out to the Jedi to help fight the Path of the Open Hand, whom the Jedi suspect caused the Jedha disaster in the first place.

Having spent years suffering from his weird, wasting sickness, Mateo has now learned the darker truth about himself, and vows to do anything--even betraying Lia, the girl he has feelings for, the one person in the world who has made him think about anything but his sickness and his research. Meanwhile, Anwei's rage grows after Knox nearly died in the tomb disaster and she also finds out her brother--the one she has been desperate to avenge all this time--is not only alive, but well and being raised by the monster she has vowed to hunt.

Told from alternating perspectives, seventeen-year-old frenemies Jonah and Dylan pretend to date after a homecoming disaster, but their plan begins to crumble when they unexpectedly start falling for each other.

After giving up her dreams of becoming a professional photographer, high school senior Kenzie Reed tries to appease her parents by taking an interest in the family optometry business and making up a fake boyfriend named Jacob Miller. She learns on their family's trip to Hawaii that her parents have invited her "boyfriend" Jacob along. Playing along with the ruse, Kenzie gets to know the stranger they've invited while exploring the sights and allure of Hawaii, soon realizing their lie may be true love.