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Seventeen-year-old Penny is a lead dancer at the Grande Teatro, a finishing school where she and eleven other young women are training to become the finest ballerinas in Italy. Tucked deep into the woods, the school is overseen by a mysterious and handsome young master who keeps the girls ensconced in the estate. But when flashes of memories of a life very different from the one she thinks she's been leading start to appear, Penny begins to question the world around her. With a kind and attractive kitchen boy, Cricket, at her side, Penny vows to escape the confines of her school and the strict rules she has to follow. But at every turn, the Master finds a way to stop her, and Penny must find a way to escape the school and uncover the secrets of her past before it's too late.

Growing up under the care of a loving aunt, an orphaned judo student with a mixed heritage reevaluates her perspectives on happy endings while searching for evidence proving that she is related to a famous rom-com celebrity.

After a farmer brings them a goblin egg, Ivy and Grandmother are stuck with a shrieking, mischievous baby until Ivy decides to brave the dark forest to find the goblin's family.

"A teenage blacksmith with social anxiety is forced to go on the run to protect the world from the most powerful magical sword she's ever made"--.

Eighteen-year-old Twist, one of the most daring street artists in London, does not have much, but when he finds himself on the run from the police, he knows that he could be about to lose the last thing he has left - his freedom.

"After a brutal revolution Callipolis is ravaged by famine and the Pythians are ready for revenge, so it's up to Annie, Lee, and newcomer Griff to decide what to fight for, and who to love"--Provided by publisher.

Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers a sickly cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

"Based on a true story, a stray dog befriends an orphan boy in a refugee camp on a Greek island"--Publisher.

"Fleeing from the queen's accusation of murder and sorcery, Everley Donovan--the girl with the clock heart--must catch Killian Markham, the fugitive prince guilty of the crimes for which she's been condemned. She follows him into the realm of the Silver-Clouded Plain, where flesh-eating behemoths thrive, long-lost gods hide, and an artifact of destructive force awaits the death grip of the immortal prince. But the elusive relic threatens more than the very power that drives her clock heart. In Killian's hands, it can lead to the dismantling of the seven worlds. This is Everley's destiny: The time of reckoning is at hand"--OCLC.

"[Relates] the adventure[s] of William Tyce, a boy without parents, who grows up near a river in the rural Midwest. In a glossary-style list, he imparts his particular wisdom on subjects ranging from asphalt paths, betta fish, and mullet to mortal betrayal, nihilism and revelation"--OCLC.