Violet was never supposed to be a dragon rider. Her future was meant for the words, to live in the archives as a scribe. But then her father dies and she’s left to the will of her mother — the Commanding General – who sends her to the dragon riding academy instead. The problem is, you either graduate or you die. Violet isn’t ready for the first challenge just to enter the school, the boy that calls her Violence, or the physical strain put on her already fragile body. Violet takes it one day at a time, surprising herself until the dreaded moment when the dragons get to pick their riders. Will they see her as the weak person she is, or give her a chance?
Read MoreWhen Ever is sent to a summer program in Taipei, she thinks that her world is over. There’s no auditioning for her dance scholarship, and her parents won’t even let her take her dancing gear with her. All they want her to do is focus on going to medical school in the fall. Yet this prestigious summer program is not what anyone expected. As soon as she arrives, Ever is informed of the rules – sneak out to the clubs at night, show up half drunk to your classes the next day, and try to meet your future spouse. Ever loves the break from her parents’ control, but rebelling against her parents’ wishes might just be the exact opposite of what she needs. As her life slowly spirals out of control, Ever is forced to come to grips with what she really wants.
Read MoreThe City Beautiful is about a Jewish immigrant named Alter living in Chicago during the World’s Fair. All he’s trying to do is keep his head down and earn enough money to bring the rest of his family to America. What he’s not prepared for is being possessed by his friend’s dybbuk after his friend is found dead in the fair. Led to believe that the death was no mere accident, Alter reconnects with someone from his past while searching to find who might have killed his friend.
Read MoreThree siblings. One born with a gift. The other two left to figure out their own place in life. After the collapse of the sugar cane industry in Hawaii, the Flores family tries to survive, even moving to a new island in hopes of better opportunities. Hope eventually comes when their middle son falls overboard and is saved by sharks. The story spreads, bringing a little wealth to the family, especially when that same son heals a friend’s hand after a bad firecracker accident. But one day, his gift seems to disappear, or at least his ability to use it. As he falls down a dark hole, his two siblings fight to realize their own place in it all when their parents only seem to have eyes for the golden boy. The three of them find their way to the mainland, where the touch of Hawaii is gone, and they struggle to keep on the paths that have brought them there until a tragic brings them running back to Hawaii.
Read MoreLiving in the shadow of her mother’s past, Immanuelle tries her best to abide by the rules of her society. But as the other girls grow into themselves and are marked as brides, Immanuelle still feels different. Then one day, walking home from town with her goat, the worst happens. She goes into the forbidden Darkwood where she stumbles onto the very thing that haunts it - the witches. And these witches have a gift for her. The diary of her dead mother. A diary that spells out a curse. When the first curse is bestowed upon her home, Immanuelle tries to find a fix that just ends up leading her down to a path of questioning the society she was born into.
Read MoreNo one knows what Kiera does with her free time. They don’t know that she’s created an online video game that’s over 500,000 strong. They don’t know that she’s created a safe gaming environment for black people. And they don’t know that she’s scared when one of the gamers winds up dead over a dispute about the game. As the news travels the world, bringing awareness to the very real fact that her game may be discriminating, Kiera struggles to show that she’s just wanting black people to feel like themselves for once. But then an unknown entity threatens to bring down everything that Kiera and the game stand for.
Read MoreEsha is a legend, but no one knows. It’s only in the shadows that she moonlights as the Viper, the rebels’ highly skilled assassin. She’s devoted her life to avenging what she lost in the royal coup, and now she’s been tasked with her most important mission to date: taking down the ruthless General Hotha. Kunal has been a soldier since childhood, training morning and night to uphold the power of King Vardaan. His uncle, the general, has ensured that Kunal never strays from the path—even as a part of Kunal longs to join the outside world, which has been growing only more volatile. Then Esha’s and Kunal’s paths cross—and an unimaginable chain of events unfolds. Both the Viper and the soldier think they’re calling the shots, but they’re not the only players moving the pieces. As the bonds that hold their land in order break down and the sins of the past meet the promise of a new future, both rebel and soldier must make unforgivable choices. - Goodreads
Read MoreThis isn’t a story just rooted in science fiction. It’s a story about the anger of an entire race. About how they’ve been mistreated and used. It’s about one young boy’s struggle with falling into the system, never to know if he’ll really make it out. It’s a narrative of emotions beautifully written as a way to see the world through a black person’s eyes.
Read MoreMakeda wants nothing more than to make it to college nationals and graduate college. But no matter how hard she runs, neither will come true if she can’t get a scholarship to stay in school. She fights harder and harder, trying to prove herself, but everything seems stacked against her. From her decision to change schools, to her other teammates, Makeda feels her dreams slip through her fingers until she’s forced to fight for the most important person in her life. Herself.
Read MoreKhai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions—like grief. And love. He thinks he’s defective. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride.
As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. When the opportunity arises to come to America and meet a potential husband, she can’t turn it down, thinking this could be the break her family needs. Seducing Khai, however, doesn’t go as planned. Esme’s lessons in love seem to be working…but only on herself. She’s hopelessly smitten with a man who’s convinced he can never return her affection. With Esme’s time in the United States dwindling, Khai is forced to understand he’s been wrong all along. And there’s more than one way to love. - Goodreads
Read MoreGood Luck Girls they are called, but Good Luck Girls they’re most certainly not. Told that they would be given food and safety, most families sell their girls for the idea that it’s a better future. They forget what the girls have to do to earn that future. When Clementine goes upstairs for her first night, she never expected to walk out alone, having killed the man that was supposed to be her first. But then again, no one ever talks about the rough ones that hold you down, choking the life out of you. Aster will do anything to protect her sister. So she devises a plan, a plan that can take Clementine and three other girls out of the Welcome House for good. But to truly be free, they have to remove the tattoos that mark them as Good Luck Girls. On the run from the law, the nasty Raveners that guard the Welcome Houses, and the man whose brother Clementine killed, they race to the only chance to be free of their pasts.
Read MoreAffinities hold powerful magic, but instead of being honored, they’re locked away and sold into indentured servitude. Essentially shunned from society, thought of as less than human. Ana, the princess of the Cyrillian Empire, doesn’t know any different until she discovers that she too is an Affinity. Locked away, she barely escapes when she’s accused of her father’s murder. She fights to prove her innocence, finally discovering how the world really runs and the corrupt veins that run straight to her empire. Ana frees a con man, a man she hopes will help her find the real person that murder her father so she can clear her name. They make a Trade, but the con man has other ideas, wanting instead to reestablish his place in Cyrillian’s under belly crime ring.
Read MoreThe Wayward Children series is about children searching to find where they fit in. And when that isn’t available in their world, secret doors open up for them, taking them exactly where they’re meant to be. Some children stay forever, perfectly happy behind the doors, but others find their way back to their original worlds forever changed, fighting to return even if it could mean death. They might have missed their families. They might have missed the comforts of home. Yet still they try to find their doors back. Out of her own door, knowing the struggles of the returning children, Eleanor opens a home for these children, hoping to make each stay as logical or illogical as she can for them. Together, the children can commiserate and grow and hopefully find their door again. These books are about their travels, their pasts, and sometimes their futures.
Read MoreHaving your parents researching alien life doesn’t mean that you’re prepared for everything. Olivia and her sister Viola show up at their next parent’s assignment just trying to fit in - Olivia counting down the days until she turns 18 and can take her sick twin sister back to Earth. When their dad gets an extra assignment to scan a decommissioned ship, he takes it, saying they need the extra money for upgrades. But on that deadly mission, he finds a lot more than expected and somehow that lot more makes its way down to the planet’s surface. Using all the knowledge that her parents taught her, Olivia fights to keep her sister alive as the alien life forms adapt to their new home, quickly becoming the apex predator.
Read MoreWhat if there was a chance to change your life? All you have to do is carry someone else's baby for nine months. The idea is very appealing to Jane who has hit a series of rough patches and just wants to do right for her infant daughter. From divorce to her sick cousin, she can’t seem to catch a break. So when the idea falls into her lap, she knows it’s the only way out of poverty. Leaving her daughter with family, Jane enters her nine month stint. Things don’t go as planned and she becomes worried the longer she’s away from her daughter. She tries to play the perfect host until she’s left with no other options.
Read MoreAlex’s life is the perfect blend of dreams come true and chaos - his mother is the first female President. With his life now on a stage and his mother up for re-election, nothing can go seriously wrong. Like an altercation with a Prince across the pond. After a horrifying tabloid scandal, Alex and Henry are forced to play nice and convince the world that they’re friends. But the more time they spend together, the more they learn that there’s something behind all the angst. The two set down a dangerous path that could ruin their lives and Alex’s mother’s re-election.
Read MoreOne thing after another and Queenie’s life hits a dead spin. It all started at her doctor’s office - she ‘was’ pregnant. As her longtime boyfriend asks for a break, Queenie can’t make herself tell him that she had a miscarriage. That maybe a break up isn’t the best thing right now. Things go from bad to even worse as she makes one wrong decision after another. She lets guys use her, friends walk all over her, and barely scrapes by at work. Eventually she hits rock bottom at the same time that her Jamaican community begins to disappear before her eyes.
Read MoreTen long years and, finally, Oliver can walk as a free man. Detective Colbourne just has one last favor. Since he’s going into the private sector, could Olvier tell him what really happened that night on the dock? But it doesn’t come down to one single moment. There are seven characters in this play and Oliver takes Colbourne to the start where their lives changed forever. When the life of the stage bled into reality.
Read MoreAsh and Solomon are best friends who live in different worlds. Ash’s is in the real world where she’s forced to watch Solomon spiral deeper into his delusions. Solomon lives in the Darkside where being different is persecuted. As things become dire in Ash’s world, Solomon’s magic begins to blend with reality and Ash wonders what really changed their lives when they were twelve. Together they learn about real monster as Ash prays that she can get her best friend back.
Read MoreAmanda and Rosalie have nothing in common - except for dating the same guy, Carter Shaw. Golden boy, extraordinaire, Carter is set to inherit his father’s company and since the start of High School, Amanda and Carter have been pushed as the end goal, the power couple. But Carter can’t stay faithful. Players can be played however and Rosalie does just that by using Carter as a front, trying to conceal her true feelings from her fundamentalist church and family. Amanda and Rosalie’s futures become threatened when they both receive text messages from Private. Private promises to not just destroy their futures but also their lives if they don’t do as instructed.
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