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Katie is on the verge of her Rumspringa, the time in Amish life when teenagers can get a taste of the real world. But the real world comes to her in this dystopian tale with a philosophical bent. Rumors of massive unrest on the "Outside" abound. Something murderous is out there. Amish elders make a rule: No one goes outside, and no outsiders come in. But when Katie finds a gravely injured young man, she can't leave him to die. She smuggles him into...

After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.

College can really drive a person crazy . . . Am I losing my mind? That's the question that haunts Salem University student Cassidy Kirk when weird things start happening to her. A paper she slaved over for Psych 101 disappears. Cash vanishes from her bag. She shows up for a party that's not happening until next week. Then she's almost run down by a black car with tinted windows that no one else sees. Is she going crazy? Or is someone trying to kill...

The twelfth volume in the Last Apprentice series, the internationally bestselling fantasy adventure books that inspired the forthcoming major motion picture, Seventh SonSeventh Son, starring Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Olivia Williams, Antje Traue, Djimon Hounsou, and Julianne Moore as Mother Malkin.

I'm Madison Avery, in charge of heaven's hit squad . . . and fighting it all the way. When Madison died the night of her prom, she knew her life would never be the same. Now she has a powerful amulet, a team of rogue angels by her side, and the ability to flash forward into the future to see the shape of destiny. And of course, now she's finally with Josh-a perfect boyfriend who doesn't even mind that she's dead. But being dead has its disadvantages,...

When Molloy and her friends seek shelter from a storm, they get trapped inside Nightmare Hall with a crazed killer.

It's payback time when an accidental fire sends an avenging stalker after a group of college friends Victory Alexander and her buddies are celebrating Salem University's big team win with a barbecue in the woods. But when gusty March winds ignite a fire that rages out of control, Tory barely escapes the blaze in time. Basketball star Hoop Sinclair isn't so lucky. When Tory and her friends realize he's missing, it's too late to go back-or to tell anyone....

Jess can't wait to start freshman year at Salem University-but her new dorm room has a terrifying past There's a reason why they call it Nightmare Hall . . . Jessica Vogt gets a rude awakening when she moves into Nightingale Hall and learns that the previous spring, a student named Giselle hanged herself from a light fixture-in Jess's new room. Campus officials pronounced it a suicide. But did Giselle really kill herself? Or was it a setup? Strange...

"Redemption and grief, and the love that exists even when people are gone."—The Bookbag Not alive. Not dead. Somewhere in between lie the Beautiful Dead. It's all been building to this moment…After everything Darina has been through, she knows it's time. She must expose the secrets behind Phoenix's death and set him free for eternity, even though it means this will be their last good-bye. With her heart breaking more and more each day, Darina...

-- Something strange is happening at Ellerton High. Phoenix is the fourth teenager to die within a year. His street-fight stabbing follows the deaths of Jonas, Summer, and Arizona in equally strange and sudden circumstances. Rumors of ghosts and strange happenings rip through the small community as it comes to terms with shock and loss.Darina, Phoenix's grief-stricken girlfriend, is on the verge. She can't escape her intense heartache or the impossible...