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"It's 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack as the Second World War rages on. In the Bethnal Green neighborhood, Nellie Morris counts every day that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her. Three years into the war, she's grateful to hold on to remnants of normalcy. . . . After a chance encounter with Ray, an American airman stationed nearby, Nellie becomes enchanted with the idea of a broader world. Just when Nellie begins to embrace an exciting new life with Ray, a terrible incident occurs during an air raid one evening, and the consequences are catastrophic. As the truth about that night is revealed, Nellie's world is torn apart. When it seems all hope is lost, Nellie finds that, against all odds, love and happiness can triumph"--Provided by publisher.

"Welcome to the School of Here, an unsettling and peculiar place that feels nonetheless strangely familiar. A place full of codes, compromises, questionable conduct, and unspoken rules that are as illogical at times as they are unbreakable. At Here, society is highly stratified. The popular kids, the friend groups, the good students and the bad, the outcasts and the insiders are all ruled by a godlike prince. This year, things are stranger than ever: a self-effacing first-year student vanishes into thin air; a persecuted outsider delivers himself into permanent exile; a tyrannical older student meets his match; a prophetess tests her powers. Behind the scenes, a cabal of students conducts a top-secret investigation into an unexplained phenomenon at the heart of it all"--Provided by publisher.

Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn?t know died by suicide. A tenuous link?one text?bound the two dead students together and was enough for law enforcement to close the case. But they got it wrong and now someone is determined to set it right. Twelve years later, college friends gather to celebrate an engagement over a long overdue getaway on a swanky private island in Maine?with only one way in and one way out. Sierra Prescott, invited as a guest and unconnected to past events, is the only person who soon senses not all is what it seems.

In Fall River, Massachusetts, home to New England's infamous Bridgewater Triangle, Tessa must prove her brother innocent of murdering his girlfriend's parents with an axe, a mystery that proves all too close to the Lizzie Borden murders one hundred years earlier.

Ivy has spent years looking for her birth mother, but when she finally finds her on Bardsey Island, she is shocked by what greets her. According to folklore, the cormorants that fly over the remote Welsh isle are the terrifying witches of Arthurian legend and they are searching for Ivy. Her mum warned her not to come and to stay away from the lighthouse, but now it's too late. As the shadows draw closer, Ivy must look deep within herself if she wants to survive. For not every story in folklore is true, and some evils aren't what they seem.

Hiding as a servant in Count Montoni's mansion while tending to this family who all suffer a strange affliction on the full moon, Emile finds himself torn between two very different men as he fights for the love he deserves-- and his own survival.

As the newly crowned first Black king of England, seventeen-year-old James faces intense media scrutiny and a blackmailer intent on disclosing his deepest secrets, including his sexuality and hidden relationship.

Ruskin, Cinder, Groth, and Roke travel to the Shattered Shore to honor of Villinelle, and while there, the four dragons make discoveries that will help in the upcoming battle.

Amidst the ambition and competition at the elite Morton Academy, Liz, Taylor, Kat, Marcus, and Cole join forces to investigate a string of mysterious deaths and race to uncover the truth before more of the school's best and brightest fall victim.

Follows thirteen-year-old neurodivergent Maudie during an eventful summer in California with her father, where she struggles with whether to share a terrible secret about life with her mom and stepdad.