fate and fatalism

Ever since Mary Anne threw away the chain letter she got in the mail, bad things have been happening to everybody in the Baby-sitters Club.

"In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration...but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city...set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her...Her ship carries one passenger...Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny"--.

The long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday unfolds as he leads an army of young demigods to stop Kronos in his advance on New York City, while the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster, Typhon.

Adri's, Catherine's, and Lenore's lives are intertwined but not in the way that one would think. Adri lives in 2065 Kansas, Catherine lives in 1930s Kansas, and Lenore lives in England in 1919. As Adri is preparing to go to Mars, she stays with her cousin in Kansas, where the training takes place. Upon settling in, she comes across letters written from Lenore to Beth. Through journals and, later, letters, Catherine narrates her own story of being in Kansas during the Dust Bowl.

College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet, and fall for each other, over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love?.

"Ava has spent her life in the shadows as a protector of royalty. For everything she has done well in her life, she still fails at being exactly who her kingdom wants her to be. She has little choice in her own future, and it's starting to seem like everyone around her in Avania wishes she was gone. A twist of fate gives her a new beginning. But, when the time comes where she can finally choose her own path, how will she decide between duty and destiny?"--Amazon.

In this modern retelling of the Persephone myth, Haden Lord, the disgraced prince of the Underrealm, is sent to the mortal world to entice a girl into returning with him to the land of the dead.

Nick Hayes is a genius when it comes to understanding the secrets of the universe; he can even travel through time. But no matter what he does, he can't seem to change the fate that awaits him personally--an accident will happen in 2011. Then in 1992, he discovers the truth that he's been lying to himself but doesn't know why. As the date draws nearer, Nick tempts fate one more time.

As the comet approaches, Taki--still occupying the body of Mitsuha--works to save the skeptical town, trying hard to convince them of impending doom.

After months of living in the body of Mitsuha, Taki suddenly finds himself stuck in his own. However, he can't forget the town and the girl he's never seen, so he sets out to find Mitsuha's village in the mountains from memory. His journey leads him into a reality he never could have imagined.