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Ordinary Girls is a fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author.

Four years ago, Francesca's little brother, Simon, drowned, and Francesca's the one who should have been watching. Now Francesca is about to turn sixteen, but guilt keeps her stuck in the past. Then she meets four-year-old Frankie Sky, a

Twelve-year-olds Tinn and Cole, raised as human twins in sleepy Endsborough, risk their lives in the Wild Wood, Oddmire Swamp, and the Deep Dark to learn which is a goblin changeling with an important mission.

Through the stories of the eccentric characters who have bought, owned, and sold the one-cent magenta in the years in between, James Barron delivers a fascinating tale of global history and immense wealth, and of the human desire to collect.

Butter is about so much more than food. Elaine Khosrova details its surprisingly vital role in history, politics, economics, nutrition, even spirituality and art. From its humble agrarian origins to its present-day artisanal glory, butter has a fascinating story to tell, and Khosrova is the perfect person to tell it.

Placidia, a mere teenager herself, completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later, Placidia is bound for jail, accused of having borne a child in his absence and murdering it. What really transpired in the two years he was away?

Tim Johnston, whose breakout debut Descent was called 'astonishing,' 'dazzling,' and 'unforgettable' by critics, returns with The Current, a tour de force about the indelible impact of a crime on the lives of innocent people.

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"A stunning collection of reality-bending stories, teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original" --

Bina has never forgotten the time she and her mother ran away from home. Her mother promised they would hitchhike to the city to escape Bina's cruel father and start over.

A powerful novel about fighting bullying and Islamophobia and finding your voice-told with humour and heart by the award-winning author of If You Could Be Mine.

B. A. Shapiro, whose previous books have sold over half a million copies, once again weaves together historical and imagined characters to create a psychological art thriller, this time set in 1920s Paris and Philadelphia, where one fascinating woman must disguise her identity in order to reclaim it.

Twelve-year-old Natalia Rose Baleine Gallagher dreams of seeing whales on the beach near her new home, and is consumed with the prospect that her mother who abandoned her as a child loves and misses her, and wants Nat to find her.

As Ish fights cancer, she dreams in vivid detail about the Martian adventures she's always known she'd have and makes unexpected discoveries about love, fate, and her place in the vast universe. In this story Karen Rivers has once again created an unforgettable narrator who will pull readers into her orbit keep them riveted until the last page.

"In a collection of essays, the venerated television journalist celebrates our shared values, reminds us of what matters most in our great country, and shows us what patriotism looks like"--

Corinne LaMer defeated the wicked jumbie Severine months ago, but things haven't exactly gone back to normal in her Caribbean island home. Everyone knows Corinne is half-jumbie, and many of her neighbours treat her with mistrust.

Spending the summer with his hotel-developer father in Puerto Rico, seventeen-year-old Lucas turns to a legendary cursed girl filled with poison when his girlfriend mysteriously disappears.

Kammie Summers has fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into a popular club; now trapped in the dark, waiting to be rescued, Kammie thinks about the best and worst moments of her life so far in this unforgettable story about a bullied girl.

When the Manderley Resort opens, the exclusive beachfront hotel will offer its patrons the ultimate in luxury and high-tech security. But all the money in the world can't guarantee safety. As hotel manager Tessa and her employees ready the hotel for its invitation-only grand opening, a killer is in their midst. One by one, staff are picked off.

Antoinette's gift, puts her own life in danger, as each healing comes with an increasingly deadly price. As Rose - the centre of her daughter's life struggles with her own failing health, and Lily confronts her anguished past, they, and the men who love them, come to real size the sacrifices that must be made to keep this very special child safe.

This shattering novel is filled with storytelling sleight of hand. What appears to be a story of mothers and daughters, of sisterhood put to the test, of adolescent love and grown-up misconduct, and of history's long reach, becomes a provocative and compelling exploration of America's failure to find a language to talk about race.

Cruel Beautiful World examines the intricate, infinitesimal distance between seduction and love, loyalty and duty, and explores what happens when you're responsible for things you cannot make right.

A compulsively readable thriller that captures a teen's haunting descent into madness as she searches for her brother's killer.

When Orhan's brilliant and eccentric grandfather, who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs, is found dead in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. But his grandfather's will raises more questions than it answers.

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Orianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered, Orianna is accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets Amber and they experience supernatural events linking the girls together.

Shape-shifters disguise themselves as a litter of kittens and their owner is found murdered with a single puncture wound. Dinosaur bones from a recent dig go missing, and an unidentifiable beast starts attacking animals and people. Charlie calls on Abigail for help, and soon Abigail and Jackaby are on the hunt for a thief, monster, and a murderer.

Morris weaves together personal stories and practical matters, scientific fact and spiritual sensitivity, into a book about how we and our loved ones can achieve a greater sense of peace in dying, and so rediscover the art of living.