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The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy | Goodreads
Aila Quinn’s mother has always been a mystery. When she dies, Aila and brother are sent to Sterling, a rural town where her mother grew up. With mysteries of its own, the experiences that weave life together vanish every seven years. Sterling always suspected Mrs Quinn was somehow responsible for these “Disappearances” so Aila must bear the brunt of their blame. As the next Disappearance nears, she begins to unravel the dual mystery of why the Disappearances happen and who her mother truly was.

Who’s That Girl by Blair Thornburgh | Goodreads
Nattie McCullough has always been that under-the-radar girl, but when last summer’s crush, smoking-hot musician Sebastian Delacroix writes a chart-topping single called “Natalie”, she second guesses their awkward non-kiss. To help keep her mind off of Sebastian, she throws herself into planning the school’s LGBTQIA dance where Nattie begins to develop feelings for her good friend Zach. Nattie is determined to figure out once and for all if her brief moment with Sebastian was the stuff love songs are made of—or just a one-hit wonder.

Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy | Goodreads
In this unique YA anthology, thirteen acclaimed, bestselling authors team up with thirteen influential BookTubers to reimagine fairy tales from the often misunderstood villains’ points of view. These fractured, unconventional spins on classics like “Medusa,” Sherlock Holmes, and “Jack and the Beanstalk” provide a behind-the-curtain look at villains’ acts of vengeance, defiance, and rage–and the pain, heartbreak, and sorrow that spurned them on. No fairy tale will ever seem quite the same again!

Dream Me by Kathryn Berla | Goodreads
Zat, a dreamer from the future where most no longer dream and Earth is a desolate wasteland. Dreams of Earth and a fiery-haired beauty named Babe, Zat risks everything to travel back in time and live in Babe’s dreams… Babe begins to have strange dreams of a boy named Zat, but they come at the cost of nearly crippling migraines. Outside of the dreams, her life pales in comparison to her growing love for Zat. As they spend together in her dreams, her pain increases, and Zat begins to question the reality of his existence.

Solo by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess | Goodreads
Told in poetic verse, Solo tells the story of seventeen-year-old Blade Morrison, whose life is bombarded with scathing tabloids and a father struggling with just about every addiction under the sun—including a desperate desire to make a comeback. Haunted by memories of his mother and his family’s ruin, Blade’s only hope is in the forbidden love of his girlfriend. But when he discovers a deeply protected family secret, Blade sets out on a journey across the globe that will change everything he thought to be true.

Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton | Goodreads
Adam has just been diagnosed with schizophrenia. He sees and hears people who aren’t there: Rebecca, a beautiful girl who understands him; the Mob Boss, who harasses him; and Jason, the naked guy who’s unfailingly polite. It should be easy to separate the real from the not real, but he can’t. As Adam starts fresh, he begins a drug trial that helps him ignore his visions and when he meets Maya, he wants to be the great guy that she thinks he is. But the miracle drug begins to fail, and Adam will do anything to keep Maya from discovering his secret.

Sovereign by April Daniels | Goodreads
Only nine months after her debut fighting under the name Dreadnought, Danny Tozer is already a scarred veteran. Between her newfound celebrity and her demanding cape duties, Dreadnought is stretched thin, and it’s only going to get worse. From her troubled family life to her disintegrating friendship with Calamity, there’s no trick too dirty for a new villain to use against her. Dreadnought will be forced to confront parts of herself she never wanted to acknowledge while an old enemy waits in the wings to unleash a plot that will scar the world forever.

The Color Project by Sierra Abrams | Goodreads
Bernice Aurora Wescott has one thing she doesn’t want anyone to know her name, until she meets Levi. But while Levi is everything she never knew she needed, giving up her name would feel like a stamp on forever. When unexpected news of an illness in the family occurs, she is pushed to the breaking point. She loses herself in a charity organization called The Color Project, but Bee must hold together her family, but to do that, she needs Levi. She’ll have to give up her name and let him in completely or lose the best thing that’s ever happened to her.

First We Were IV by Alexandra Sirowy | Goodreads
It started for pranks, fun, and forever memories. A secret society – for the four of us. We made the pledge and danced under the blood moon on the meteorite in the orchard. In the spot we found the dead girl five years earlier. And discovered the ancient drawings way before that. But then, others wanted in. Our seaside town had secrets. History. What started as a secret society, ended as justice. Revenge. Death. Rebellion.

Little Monsters by Kara Thomas | Goodreads
Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she stepped into a brand-new life, which is eerily charming compared with the wild highs and lows of the old one. Her new circle of friends start acting distant and when they don’t invite her to a party, one of her friends never makes it home. The town starts looking to the new girl for answers and she’s about to learn some very important lessons: Sometimes appearances can be deceiving. Sometimes when you’re the new girl, you shouldn’t trust anyone.

Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody | Goodreads
Sorina is amongst many unusual members of the traveling circus and stands apart as the only illusion-worker born in hundreds of years. Her rare talent creates illusions that others can see, feel and touch, with personalities all their own. But when one is murdered, Sorina must track down the culprit which leads her to self-proclaimed gossip-worker Luca and into a haze of political turmoil and forbidden romance. But as the killer continues murdering Sorina’s illusions, she must unravel the horrifying truth before they all disappear.

What To Say Next by Julie Buxbaum | Goodreads
When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, everyone is surprised, most of all Kit and David. Kit appreciates David’s blunt honesty—in fact, she finds it bizarrely refreshing. David welcomes Kit’s attention and her inquisitive nature. When she asks for his help figuring out the how and why of her dad’s tragic car accident, David is all in. But neither of them can predict what they’ll find. Can their friendship survive the truth?

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Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry | Goodreads
There is one version of my story that everyone knows. And then there is the truth. How I went from being Peter Pan’s first—and favourite—lost boy to his greatest enemy. Peter brought me to his island because there were no rules and no grownups to make us mind. He brought boys from the Other Place to join in the fun, but Peter’s idea of fun is sharper than a pirate’s sword. Because it’s never been all fun and games on the island. Our neighbours are pirates and monsters. Peter promised we would all be young and happy forever.

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig | Goodreads
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover – working as a history teacher at a London comprehensive. Here he teaches kids about wars and witch hunts as if he’d never witnessed them first-hand. He can try to tame the past that is fast catching up with him.

The Color Project by Sierra Abrams | Goodreads
Bernice Aurora Wescott has one thing she doesn’t want anyone to know her name, until she meets Levi. But while Levi is everything she never knew she needed, giving up her name would feel like a stamp on forever. When unexpected news of an illness in the family occurs, she is pushed to the breaking point. She loses herself in a charity organization called The Color Project, but Bee must hold together her family, but to do that, she needs Levi. She’ll have to give up her name and let him in completely or lose the best thing that’s ever happened to her.

Ten Dead Comedians by Fred Van Lente | Goodreads
As the story opens, nine comedians of various acclaim are summoned to the island retreat of legendary Hollywood funnyman Dustin Walker. The group includes a former late-night TV host, a washed-up improv instructor, a ridiculously wealthy “blue collar” comic, and a past-her-prime Vegas icon. All nine arrive via boat to find that every building on the island is completely deserted. Marooned without cell phone service or wifi signals, they soon find themselves being murdered one by one. But who is doing the killing, and why?

The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell | Goodreads
In modern day New York, magic is all but extinct and the Mageus, the remaining few who have an affinity for magic, live in the shadows. Esta is a talented thief, and she’s been raised to steal magical artifacts from the sinister Order. With her innate ability to manipulate time, Esta pilfers from the past collecting these artifacts. And all of Esta’s training has been for one final job: traveling back to 1902 to steal an ancient book containing the secrets of the Order before the Magician can destroy it and doom the Mageus to a hopeless future.

Tin Man by Sarah Winman | Goodreads
This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of overbearing fathers. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. But then we fast forward a decade or so, to find that Ellis is married to Annie, and Michael is nowhere in sight. Which leads to the question, what happened in the years between? This is almost a love story. But it’s not as simple as that.

Final Girls by Riley Sager | Goodreads
Ten years ago, Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. She became a member of a club no one wants to belong to—a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Quincy is doing well until one of the Girls is found dead and another Girl appears on Quincy’s doorstep. She’s intent on making Quincy relive the past and when new details about Lisa’s death come to light, Quincy’s life becomes a race against time as she tries to unravel Sam’s truths from her lies, and, most crucially, remember what really happened at Pine Cottage, before what was started ten years ago is finished.

The Atlas of Forgotten Places by Jenny D. Williams | Goodreads
After a long career as an aid worker, Sabine Hardt has retreated to her native Germany for a quieter life. But when her American niece Lily disappears while volunteering in Uganda, Sabine must return to places and memories she once thought buried in order to find her. In Uganda, Rose Akulu—haunted by a troubled past with the Lord’s Resistance Army—becomes distressed when her lover Ocen vanishes without a trace. Side by side, Sabine and Rose must unravel the tangled threads that tie Lily and Ocen’s lives together—ultimately discovering that the truth of their loved ones’ disappearance is inescapably entwined to the secrets the two women carry.

Nights of the Living Dead: Anthology by Jonathan Maberry and George Romero | Goodreads
In 1968 the world experienced a brand new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero’s landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The novel returns to that night, to the outbreak, to where it all began with a collection of all new tales set during the 48 hours of that legendary outbreak. Nights of the Living Dead includes stories by some of today’s most important writers: Brian Keene, Carrie Ryan, Chuck Wendig, Craig Engler, David J. Schow and David Wellington plus original stories by Romero and Maberry!

Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton | Goodreads
Adam has just been diagnosed with schizophrenia. He sees and hears people who aren’t there: Rebecca, a beautiful girl who understands him; the Mob Boss, who harasses him; and Jason, the naked guy who’s unfailingly polite. It should be easy to separate the real from the not real, but he can’t. As Adam starts fresh, he begins a drug trial that helps him ignore his visions and when he meets Maya, he wants to be the great guy that she thinks he is. But the miracle drug begins to fail, and Adam will do anything to keep Maya from discovering his secret.

The Fifth Doll by Charlie N. Holmberg | Goodreads
Matrona’s life is centered on pleasing her parents. But a visit to Slava, the local tradesman, threatens to upend it. She discovers a strange collection of painted nesting dolls—one for every villager and opens the doll with her father’s face which causes him to act strangely. When Slave learns what she’s done, he gives Matrona stewardship over the dolls—whether she wants it or not. Forced to open one of her own dolls, she falls deeper into the grim power of Slava’s creations. But nothing can prepare her for the profound secret hiding inside the fifth doll.

Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine | Goodreads
Gina Royal is the definition of average, but when a car accident reveals her husband’s secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor.  Although she’s still the target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to do with her husband’s crimes, Gwen dares to think her kids can finally grow up in peace. But a body turns up in the lake—and threatening letters start arriving from an all-too-familiar address. Gwen Proctor must keep friends close and enemies at bay to avoid being exposed.

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