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Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children

No Solicitations

No Visitors

No Quests... Read more about Every Heart a Doorway

THE HABIT OF NARRATION, of crafting something miraculous out of the commonplace, was hard to break. Narration came naturally after a time spent in the company of talking scarecrows or disappearing cat...

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It's no longer safe for Harry at Hogwarts, so he and his best friends, Ron and Hermione, are on the run. Professor Dumbledore has given them clues about what they need to do to defeat the dark wizard, Lord Voldemort, once and for all, but it's up to ... Read more about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Thetwomenappearedoutofnowhere,afewyardsapartinthenar- row, moonlit lane. For a second they stood quite still, wands di- rected at each other's chests; then, recognizing each other , they stowed their ...

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New York Times bestseller David Arnold's most ambitious novel to date; Station Eleven meets The 5th Wave in a genre-smashing story of survival, hope, and love amid a ravaged earth.

When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the worl... Read more about The Electric Kingdom

Years ago, long before the narration of her father turned unreliable, dissolving like one of those Sweet’N Lows in his favorite stale black tea, Nico would climb into his armchair and sit in his lap a...

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From the author of A Walk to Remember comes a moving tale of redemption and first love when a rebellious teenager decides to spend the summer with her estranged father in a North Carolina beach town.

Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's lif... Read more about The Last Song

No, scratch that. She wasn’t just visiting her dad. Visiting implied a weekend or two, maybe even a week. She supposed she could live with a visit. But to stay until late August? Pretty much the entir...

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"An author to watch!"-Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read

The first novel in a captivating three-book series about modern womanhood, in which a young Black woman must rely on courage, laughter, and love-and the support of he... Read more about Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

Ancient Enemy - it's been asleep for centuries and now it's awake. It wants things ... and you have to give it what it wants ...

Seven hundred years ago the Anasazi people built massive cities in what is now the southwestern United States ...

and th... Read more about Ancient Enemy

Stella remained perfectly still; she listened for sounds of movement around the dark room, but all she could hear was heavy breathing, some snoring, and the ceaseless wind that howled around the trail...

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Wilder,

When I left that night, I had every intention of coming back to you. To us. But no matter how hard I wish for what I want, there are some things in life that aren't meant to be.

I don't expect you to understand. You've already moved on, livi... Read more about Love Always, Wild

It didn’t matter how many times I saw the number. I couldn’t believe it. Number three. I stared at the screen, read the headline over and over. Atlanta’s Own Wilder Welles Soars Straight to the Top wi...

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Discover the world of the Shadowhunters in the first installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and "prepare to be hooked" (Entertainment Weekly). City of Bones is a Shadowhunters novel.

When Clary Fray heads out to the ... Read more about City of Bones

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” the bouncer said, folding his arms across his massive chest. He stared down at the boy in the red zip-up jacket and shook his shaved head. “You can’t bring that thing in...

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A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It's not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. T. Kingfisher's new novel begins the tale of a murderous band of criminals (and a scholar), th... Read more about Clockwork Boys

Slate grimaced and blotted her nose on her sleeve. It wasn’t that the herbal scent wasn’t a vast improvement—the ancient stone keep had been meant to hold prisoners in, not let odors out. The entire l...

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For Nina Askew, turning forty means freedom-from the ex-husband, freedom from their stuffy suburban home, freedom to focus on what she wants for a change. And what she wants is something her ex always vetoed-a puppy. A bouncy, adorable puppy.

Instea... Read more about Anyone But You

the door, determined to pick herself out the perkiest birthday present on four paws. So what i f yesterda y had been her fortieth birthday? Forty was a good age for a woman. It meant freedom. Especial...

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