fate and fatalism

Rising high school senior Emily felt lucky until her mother's death, but now, with childhood friend Blake, she sets out to accomplish every exciting, scary, and intimidating task on her mother's bucket list.

"Dorothy finds herself completely alone. Roman is dead. The Chronology Protection Agency wants nothing to do with her. The Black Cirkus no longer trusts her...and Ash is gone. Dorothy has seen the evidence with her own eyes, she knows that she was the one who killed Ash. But she still has no idea how, when, or most importantly, why. But the discovery of several missing pages from the Professor's journal drives a narrow sliver of hope into her heart"--.

In a world where fairies are born from babies' first laughs and monsters are formed from humans' last sighs, a young half-fairy, half-monster is born after the Kavanagh family's grandfather and his granddaughter sigh and laugh at the same time. Born into the land of monsters, the curious new creature looks like a human and is taken under the wing of a group of gargoyles who use him to steal candy for them. When he happens upon the Kavanagh chocolate shop, the family thinks he has to be one of their own and invites him to live with them. However, the ogre King Thunderguts has his own nefarious plans for the boy and aims to get him back.

During a summer in wealthy Cross Cove with her estranged father and his new family, seventeen-year-old Maris Brown learns that her stepsister's boyfriend, Edison, is hiding something and Maris is intrigued.

Buddy wakes up in a garbage dump and, after finding other teddy bears there, becomes their leader as they embark on a perilous journey to fulfill their destiny.

"Sixteen-year-old Avery Roe wants to take her rightful place as the sea witch of Prince Island. When she foresees her own murder, a harpoon boy named Tane promises to help her change her fate and keep her island safe and prosperous, but salvation will require an unexpected sacrifice"--Provided by publisher.

A modern reworking of Oedipus Rex that tells the story of Walter Cousins who has an affair that leads to the birth of the future billionaire Internet tycoon Edward Aaron King who, as an adult, is led through a quest out of his control.

"According to eleven-year-old Annie, luck is never on her side causing her to be somewhat of a loner, but after some prodding by her social studies teacher Annie relunctantly tries her fortune at making friends"--OCLC.

"In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, 'ringed by a restless sea,' live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat, a girl as precious as amber but willful and wild. She'll marry and be tamed--the curse of all highborn girls--but risk her life for a season first to serve Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Bound by destiny, Melisto and Rhaskos--Amber and Clay--never meet in the flesh. By the time they do, one of them is a ghost. But the thin line between life and death is just one boundary their unlikely friendship crosses"--Provided by publisher.

"Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality. Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it. Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer--and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed"--Amazon.