social classes

After two years of running, best friends Rose and Lissa are brought back to St. Vladimir's Academy, a private high school for vampires and half-bloods where the girls will discover intrigue, danger, and romance.

"Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerless without her lightning, tormented by her lethal mistakes. She lives at the mercy of a boy she once loved, a boy made of lies and betrayal. Now a king, Maven Calore continues weaving his dead mother's web in an attempt to maintain control over his country--and his prisoner"--Provided by publisher.

Two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love, and their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters, and true love finally triumphs.

Retold in graphic novel format, guardian-in-training Rose faces everything from misunderstandings between friends to fights among factions of Moroi during a school skiing trip as reports of horrific Strigoi attacks raise tensions, ultimately leading Rose and some of those closest to her into a battle that teaches her much about life, death, and love.

Heaven and Logan are persuaded to stay at Farthinggale Manor amidst the Tatterton wealth and privilege. Then the ghosts of Heaven's past rise up to destroy her happiness with scandal and jealousy.

Denied an education because of both her gender and background, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth cuts her hair and alters suits belonging to Will, her wealthy patron's grandnephew, to take his place at school while Will pursues a military career in nineteenth-century England.

Resurrected cyborg Alita, protector of a band of innocents in a utopian city where parents with artificial intelligence have begun hunting their children, faces off with a crazed, gigantic robot with the mind of a three-year-old.

Mrs. Bennet hunts for husbands for her five daughters, who offer no help themselves.

Holly Mathews lives at a retirement home for the super wealthy that her mother manages on expensive Mercer Island, but when she meets Malik Buchannan, grandson of one of the residents, she allows him to think that she is just visiting, so he will accept her as belonging to his A-list world--it is just supposed to be a summer fling, but soon she finds herself falling in love.

In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.