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The confession of Hemingway Jones

After his father is killed in car accident, seventeen-year-old Hemingway Jones takes his father's body to Lifebank, the cryogenic preservation research center where he interns. Hemingway succeeds in bringing his father back to life, but he questions the life he has given him as his father's skin has turned ashen gray, he can't exist in temperatures above fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit, and hydrogen sulfide has become his only source of food. Facing arrest for his actions, Hemingway is given an offer: go to prison and leave his dad to die a second time, or replicate the experiment for the owner of the lab.

Good girls die first

The threat of blackmail lures sixteen-year-old aspiring photographer Ava and nine other teens--all with secrets they intend to protect whatever the cost--to an abandoned amusement park on Portgrave Pier, and when bad weather and magic cut them off from the mainland, Ava and the others begin turning on each other, one by one.

Paper covers rock

In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.

Everwild

Skinjacker Trilogy, Book 2
Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre, " is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.

Looking for Alaska

a novel
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Prepatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Edward's eyes

Edward is one of a large and close family that loves baseball, music, books, and each other, and when he unexpectedly dies and his parents donate his organs, his wonderful eyes go to a perfect recipient.

Kids of appetite

Teens Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco sit in separate police interrogation rooms telling about the misfits who brought them together and their journey sparked by a message in an urn.

The evolving truth of ever-stronger Will

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

49 days

Day 1. Gotta get up. Gotta keep moving. This map - it says I have to cross over here. Wait, what's that...? And so begins a graphic novel story unlike any other: 49 Days. In Buddhist tradition, a person must travel for forty-nine days after they die, before they can fully cross over. Here in this book, readers travel with one Korean American girl, Kit, on her journey, while also spending time with her family and friends left behind. Agnes Lee has captivated readers across the world for years with her illustrations for the New York Times Metropolitan Diary. Her debut graphic novel is an unforgettable story of death, grief, love, and how we keep moving forward.

Wintergirls

Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

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