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WHERE WE GO AT NIGHT Trixie Godfrey has no plans to leave Woods Crossing after graduation. No college for her. No gap year travel. No, Woods Crossing is all she'll ever have, all she'll ever need . How could she leave it behind, with a family estate she's set to inherit and the fae realm lurking just at the edge of the trees? Not that Trixie's interacted much with the fae (or, as her Mama has always called them, those aberrations ). Pops won't let her get too close, for one. He keeps promising to take her to the other side, but it's never happened. Which is why she can't leave now, with real adulthood looming. Once she's an adult, he won't be able to say no. But on the night of her graduation, Trixie makes a mistake. She stays out too late. Wasn't her plan. Wasn't her fault. But she's stuck sneaking home way past curfew just to find the front door open... and her Pops in the kitchen, split wide...

HEARTS ON THE TABLE Violet Cesari is a girl who knows her mind. She'd rather be organizing with the suffragists than sitting at home working on her embroidery. She'd rather be thrashing men at the cards table than courting whatever lord her father has picked for her. And she'd rather her transgender twin Seb live the life he deserves than whatever life their father dictates for the both of them. Even if that means fleeing their father's oppressive household together in the middle of the night. England might be their father's home, but Italy has always been the twins' safe haven. And that's where they're headed now that their father's house is no longer home. The only problem? There's a bit of a war on... and the passenger ship that was meant to bring them to Italy has been struck by a U-boat instead. When Violet washes ashore on a nearby island, she's only certain of two things: her twin is still a...

SURVIVAL SHOW Taryn Beck's barely hanging on. A refugee who fled a flooded south England, she's been stuck in limbo for years. Not enough food. Not enough housing. Not enough work, and not enough promise for her future. In other words, she's perfect for Project Population (not that she particularly wants to die). But Taryn has one ray of hope in her life. Not for herself, but for her brother. Her chronically ill brother, who needs medication to live. Medication they can't get. Medication she can get for him, if she lands a spot on the next season of Starmaker , Network G's most popular reality TV competition. She's got the voice, if nothing else. The rules are simple: young women from all over the globe audition, and if they make the cut, they'll be invited to the show. Network G's looking for an all-new girl pop sensation: singer-songwriter-dancers all around. And Taryn knows she has what it takes to be part of DOL...

MY KILLER FAMILY REUNION Jayshree has always felt invisible in her own family, and she's (mostly) okay with that. She doesn't get invited to hang out with the cousins in the basement during the family reunion, but she also doesn't get annoying aunts and uncles asking her questions she doesn't want to answer. The only one who pays attention to her, really pays attention to her, is Grand Mom. Everybody loves Grand Mom. They have to. As the wealthy matriarch of the family, keeping in Grand Mom's good graces is vital. There's an inheritance on the line. Grand Mom may be unkillable (or so she always jokes), but she isn't exactly getting any younger. But this year's family reunion comes with a special announcement: Grand Mom's changed the will. It's not an even division between her children of her expensive properties in India. She's naming three specific heirs, and she needs Jayshree's help to vet the can...

THE SECRET TO BELONGING You have always been invisible in your own family. Quieter, milder, and more level-headed than your drug addict brother. Your parents have never had to worry about you, so they haven't. They haven't worried about your struggles. Your hopes and dreams. Your plans for the future. Anything for your brother, and you are nothing but an afterthought (if even that). When your parents spend the college fund your grandfather left you on more drug rehab and legal bills for your brother, you decide you have to get out, whatever way possible. And if that means a scholarship for exchange students to a remote part of Norway, so be it. Even life in a frozen land above the Artic Circle, where you don't speak the language or know the customs, will be better than this. Anything will be better than being nothing. THOUGHTS This book is hard. It hurts. It...

THE SEASON OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS Ten years. That's how long Ellie was meant to be asleep. Ellie and her brother and her mother and her father. Kept in a cryogenic stasis to escape the tyrannical anti-science regime that has taken over the United States and threatened the lives of every scientific-minded individual in the U.S. People like doctors, nurses, researchers. People like Ellie's grandmother, who invented a vaccine for the common cold. People like Ellie's father, who has a lab at the nearby university. Ten years was supposed to be enough time for the country to sort itself out, but here Ellie is, awake. Awake, early and alone. Only three years have passed since she froze, and while the government "saved" her from her cryogenic slumber, her family wasn't so lucky. Which means she's all alone facing ReAdmittance into proper society... THOUGHTS ...