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Whatever Doesn't Kill You

de Elizabeth Wennick

When the man who murdered Jenna's father is released from prison, Jenna decides to confront him.

Cellular

de Ellen Schwartz

When Brendan is diagnosed with leukemia his life is turned upside down. With a smothering family and distant friends, all seems hopeless until he meets Lark, terminally ill yet full of life.

Mistle Child

de Ari Berk

Silas visits the ancestral home of the Umber family in this suspenseful and surreal contemporary ghost story, the second in the Undertaken trilogy.

Silas Umber has finally come into his own as the Undertaker...

Letting Go of Lisa

de Lurlene Mcdaniel

Nathan Malone has been homeschooled his whole life. He’s never spent much time with kids his own age and he’s never dated. His mother is now busy with his new twin sisters, so Nathan must enroll at the local...

Record Breaker

de Robin Stevenson

In 1963, cataclysmic world events threaten to overwhelm Jack as his family tries to deal with the death of his baby sister.

The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand

de Gregory Galloway

Adam Strand isn’t depressed. He’s just bored. Disaffected. So he kills himself—39 times. No matter the method, Adam can’t seem to stay dead; he awakes after each suicide alive and physically unharmed,...

Lake of Secrets

de Lael Littke

Can Carlene really be remembering things from a past life?

Strange, fragmented memories have been haunting Carlene since she and her mother came to Lake Isadora. The vivid recollections don't seem to relate to...

Road to Tater Hill

de Edith M. Hemingway

Annie struggles with grief after the death of her newborn sister.

Annie can always count on spending summers at her grandparents’. This summer should be even better because Mama is going to have a baby soon....

You Are Not Here

de Samantha Schutz

A startling novel about love and grief from the author of the acclaimed memoir I Don't Want to Be Crazy. Annaleah and Brian shared something special - Annaleah is sure of it. When they were together, they didn't...

A Hole in the Hedge

de Grace Casselman

An expert at fierce scowls, 12-year-old Kaitlin presents a tough face to the world. Still dealing with the loss of her mother to cancer, Kaitlin is less than kindly disposed to her stepmother and bratty half-sister....

Ruined: A Novel

de Paula Morris

A gripping supernatural mystery and romance set in post-Katrina New Orleans. Rebecca couldn't feel more out of place in New Orleans. She's staying in a creepy house with her aunt, who reads tarot cards. And...

Irises

de Francisco X. Stork

Two sisters discover what's truly worth living for in the new novel by the author of MARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD. TWO SISTERS: Kate is bound for Stanford and an M.D. -- if her family will let her go. Mary wants...

Devine Intervention

de Martha Brockenbrough

There is a great legend of the guardian angel who traveled across time and space for the human girl he loved, slaying those who would threaten her with a gleaming sword made of heavenly light. This is not that...

Lost on Brier Island

de Jo Ann Yhard

Fourteen-year-old Alex's life is in ruins. Her family ripped apart by unspeakable tragedy, she is stuck on Brier Island for the summer with her aunt. At first, Alex is desperate to escape this place where everyone's...

Lost on Brier Island

de Jo Ann Yhard

Fourteen-year-old Alex's life is in ruins. Her family ripped apart by unspeakable tragedy, she is stuck on Brier Island for the summer with her aunt. At first, Alex is desperate to escape this place where everyone's...

The Last Summer of the Death Warriors

de Francisco X. Stork

Two young men -- one dying of cancer, one planning a murder -- explore the true meanings of death and life in the tense and passionate new novel from the author of MARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD. When Pancho arrives...

Flyaway

de Lucy Christopher

If they saved the swan together, could she then save her friend? In a heartbeat, in a wingbeat, it happens. Isla's father falls. They're racing across the fields, following the swans flying in to winter at the...

A Map of the Known World

de Lisa Ann Sandell

From critically beloved author Lisa Ann Sandell comes this poignant, unputdownable story of a teen girl who learns to shake off her brother's shadow by becoming an artist. Cora Bradley dreams of escape. Ever...

If Only

de Carole Geithner

A stunning debut about one girl's journey through loss and grief. Corinna's world is crushed after her mother dies of cancer. How does she get through the funeral, trays of ziti, a father who can't communicate,...

Angels in Pink: Kathleen's Story

de Lurlene Mcdaniel

It’s the summer after sophomore year and Raina has convinced her best friends since the sixth grade, Kathleen and Holly, to spend their summer as “pink angels” in Parker-Sloan General Hospital’s summer...