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With a death sentence hanging over his head, Kellen is forced to abandon his clan and his home. Living as an outlaw, he relies on his wits and allies, the mysterious wanderer Ferius and thieving squirrel cat Reiches, to survive the unforgiving borderlands. Then he meets Seneira, a young woman cursed with a deadly plague by a ruthless mage. Similarly afflicted Kellen is compelled to help, and it's not long before he's entangled in a conspiracy of magic, blackmail and murder. Loyalties are tested as Kellen races to find the mage responsible before he can claim any more victims.

Sixteen-year-old Iduna harbors a dark secret. On the surface, she is an Arendellian village girl, an aspiring inventor, and the best friend of Prince Agnarr, but she is also secretly Northuldra, despised and distrusted by Arendellians.

Tress Montor's family used to mean something, until she didn't have a family anymore. Felicity Turnado has a secret: she was with the Montors the night they disappeared. Now she can't look at Tress without feeling shame and guilt. But a Halloween costume party at an abandoned house provides the ideal situation for Tress to pry the truth from Felicity. Tress will have her answers, or settle for revenge.

Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City. His plan is to bide his time until he can graduate, and move to Austin with his twin sister, Clementine. So when Clementine deviates from their master plan right after Waylon gets dumped, he creates an audition tape for his favorite TV drag show. What he doesn't count on is the tape getting accidentally shared with the entire school. So Waylon and Hannah decide there's only one thing to do: run for prom court.

In this searing look into the world of a Muslim family in the wake of 9/11, a child of immigrants forges a blurry identity, falls in love, and finds hope, all in the midst of a modern war.

Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low profile to become a political challenger.

Lou spent her whole life running. Now it's time to go home and claim what is rightfully hers. But she is no longer the Lou her friends knew. Darkness has settled over her, and it will take more than love to drive it out.

Bright but anxious teenager Aleisha is working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a list of novels that she's never heard of before. When she passes along the list to a lonely widower, a connection between two lonely souls is formed, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again.

As the football team's varsity tight end, Russell Boudreaux has a singular goal: to get a scholarship and play on the national stage. But when his best friend is unfairly arrested and kicked off the team, Rus faces an impossible choice: speak up or live in fear. Desperate for change, Rus kneels during the national anthem. In one instant, he falls from local stardom and becomes a target for hatred. But he's not alone. With the help of his best friend and an unlikely ally, Rus will fight for his dreams, and for justice.

When Jenna Dallas and Adam Cole find Colleen O'Dell's body floating off the shore of their coastal town, the community of Gardiners Bay is shaken. But even more shocking is the fact that her drowning was no accident.