Andre Cross keeps his volatile temper on a sturdy leash—an implant auto-medicating him to subdue his violent impulses. Dreaming of leaving his dark past behind, he slaves away on Brulle’s perilous vertical farms, and peddles the drug...
Young adult fiction
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Author:Lutz, DamienSummary: - Author:Slade, ArthurSummary:
For Amber Fang, life used to be simple: study library science by day, read by night and, when she got hungry, enjoy an ethical meal straight from the jugular. Her mother taught her well. It's just good manners for vampires to eat...
- Author:Slade, ArthurSummary:
Amber Fang enjoys life's simple pleasures. A perfect evening for her includes a good book, a glass of wine and, of course, a great meal, preferably straight from the jugular. Raised to eat ethically, Amber dines only on delicious...
- Author:Slade, ArthurSummary:
Life as an ethical vampire isn't easy for Amber Fang. First, she has to track down and eat a murderer every month. Second, her mother is imprisoned in a bunker controlled by ZARC, a multinational arms dealer. Third, her fellow...
- Author:Gough, ErinSummary:
A fiercely funny, queer romantic comedy about two girls who can't stand each other, but join forces in a grand feminist plan to expose harassment and inequality at their elite private school. Harriet Price is the perfect student:...
- Author:Frank, E. R.Summary:
Teenage America, a not-black, not-white, not-anything boy who has spent many years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior, tries to piece his life together.
- Author:Umminger, AlisonSummary:
She was looking for a place to land. Anna is a fifteen-year-old girl slouching toward adulthood, and she's had it with her life at home. So Anna "borrows" her stepmom's credit card an runs away to Los Angeles, where her half-sister...
- Author:Moriarty, LauraSummary:
A powerful and thought-provoking YA debut from New York Times bestselling author Laura Moriarty. Imagine a United States in which registries and detainment camps for Muslim-Americans are a reality. Fifteen-year-old Sarah-Mary Williams...
- Author:Chao, GloriaSummary:
At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parents' master plan. Now a freshman at MIT, she is on track to fulfill the rest of this predetermined future: become a doctor, marry a preapproved...
- Author:McGee, KatharineSummary:
What if America had a royal family' If you can't get enough of Harry and Meghan or Kate and William, meet American princesses Beatrice and Samantha. Two princesses vying for the ultimate crown. Two girls vying for the prince...
- Author:Zoboi, Ibi AanuSummary:
On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie -- a good life. But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola's mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving...
- Author:Poirier, NadineSummary:
Amélia commence tout juste à accepter la présence de sa belle-mère dans sa vie, lorsque son père lui annonce ce qu'elle redoutait le plus : ils souhaitent emménager ensemble… à la campagne ! Déracinée de force, l'adolescente se retrouve...
- Author:Tahir, SabaaSummary:
Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, An Ember in the Ashes is an epic fantasy debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom. It's a story that's literally burning to be told.LAIA...
- Author:Mafi, TaherehSummary:
In this searing look into the world of a Muslim family in the wake of 9/11, a child of immigrants forges a blurry identity, falls in love, and finds hope, all in the midst of a modern war.
- Author:Spalding, AndreaSummary:
Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award and for the 2001 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award Fifteen-year-old Rowan, the daughter of foreign correspondents in Africa, finds herself beached for a summer with her cousins near...
- Author:Schwartz, DanaSummary:
Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who's just trying to survive in a city where it's too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter...
- Author:Poulsen, David A.Summary:
2018 Red Maple Award — Shortlisted • High Plains Book Award — Shortlisted, Young Adult category When Christian learns his great-grandfather helped build the A-bombs dropped on Japan, he wants to make amends … somehow. While attending...
- Author:Carter, KernSummary:
"Coi is just eighteen years old but has already survived years of physical and verbal abuse from her mother. After being kicked out of her mother's house at age fourteen, Coi has lived with her father, and together they'...
- Author:Garza Villa, JonnySummary:
"[Avi] Roque's warm and musical narration is utter perfection. They capture Ander and Santi's fear with vivid immediacy and also infuse their voices with bubbly happiness. In moments of tenderness, their breath catches....
- Author:Thibeault Jr, NormandSummary:
Quelques heures seulement s’étaient écoulées depuis l’intervention des mystérieux « Anges Gardiens » à la Tour Premium. Les plans du colonel Falcon mis en déroute, Jordan et ses compagnons venaient de réaliser l’impensable. De retour au...
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