McGinnis, Mindy

"Lost in the Great Smoky Mountains, rising high school senior Ashley Hawkins must fight for survival without any tools, growing in awareness that the world is not tame, and neither are people"--OCLC.

"In a barren land, teenage Lucy is taken away from the community she has grown up in and searches the vast countryside for a new home"--Provided by publisher.

"When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends--fellow injured athletes, others with just time to kill--Mickey finds peaceful acceptance, and people with whom words come easily, even if it is just the pills loosening her tongue. But as the pressure to be Mickey Catalan heightens, her need increases, and it becomes less about pain and more about want, something that could send her spiraling out of control"--OCLC.

"While Khosa, whose marriage to King Vincent precludes her being sacrificed to the sea, struggles with her longing for Donil and for the rising water, Donil's twin Dara pursues vengeance against the leader of the Pietra, who destroyed the twins' people, the Indiri"--Provided by publisher.

Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn t feel bad about it. When her older sister, Anna, was murdered three years ago and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best. The language of violence.

"Khosa is destined to be sacrificed to the sea and struggles understand her destiny as the kingdom comes under attack and the ocean threatens to destroy them all"--Provided by publisher.

When Grace Mae is sent to the Boston insane asylum she is pregnant with her father's baby and mute. But when the staff of the asylum push her too far, her voice erupts as she acts out violently causing her to lose her baby. Locked away in the basement for her actions, Grace is discovered by a visiting doctor who sees a brilliance inside her mind. He sneaks her away to his asylum in Ohio where she assists him in solving a string of murders. But the pair soon find themselves in the sights of the murderer, and Grace will need to face the pain she has been hiding from within herself so she can survive.

"Sasha Stone knows her place first-chair clarinet, top of her class, and at the side of her Oxford-wearing boyfriend. She's worked her entire life to ensure her path to Oberlin Conservatory as a star musician is perfectly paved. But suddenly there's a fork in the road in the shape of Isaac Harver..."--OCLC.

"Sixteen-year-old Lynn will do anything to protect her valuable water source, but the arrival of new neighbors forces her to reconsider her attitudes"--.

Three years after her sister's murderer walked free and Alex Craft skillfully achieves her vengeance without detection, she begins to form a friendship with the preacher's daughter and draws the attention of popular Jack Fisher, until the dark side of Alex finds its way out.