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Unrivaled
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noel comes the first book in
the Beautiful Idols series. With mystery, suspense, and an insiders-only look at
Los Angeles that echoes Gossip Girl's racy and real New York, fans of Pretty
Little Liars and readers who crave pulse-pounding romance will love Unrivaled.
Everyone wants to be someone. Layla Harrison wants to be a reporter. Aster
Amirpour wants to be an actress. Tommy Phillips wants to be a guitar hero. But
Madison Brooks took destiny and made it her own a long time ago. She's
Hollywood's hottest starlet, and the things she did to become the name on
everyone's lips are merely a stain on the pavement, ground beneath her
Louboutin heel. That is, until Layla, Aster, and Tommy find themselves with a VIP
invite to the world of Los Angeles's nightlife and lured into a competition where
Madison Brooks is the target. Just as their hopes begin to gleam like stars
through the California smog, Madison Brooks goes missing. . . . And all of their
hopes are blacked out in the haze of their lies.
Author's Bio
Alyson Noel is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three novels,
including the Immortals, Riley Bloom, and Soul Seekers series. With millions of copies in
print, her books have been translated into thirty-six languages and have made
numerous international bestseller lists. Born and raised in Orange County, California,
she's lived in both Mykonos and Manhattan and is now settled back in Southern
California, where she's working on her next book. You can visit her online at
www.alysonnoel.com.
Blacklist
Fans of Pretty Little Liars will crave the mystery and suspense in the second book
of #1 New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noel's Beautiful Idols series,
where celebrity worship is a dangerous game. Wannabe reporter LAYLA, aspiring
actress ASTER, and fledgling musician TOMMY joined the Unrivaled nightclub
competition for the same reason-they knew winning it would change their lives.
They just never imagined that somewhere along the way they'd become
entangled in the disappearance of mega starlet MADISON BROOKS. Now each of
them is smack in the center of a media frenzy that threatens to take all of them
down. Banding together to clear their names, the fierce adversaries become
temporary allies and vow to dig up the truth. But when Layla, Aster, and Tommy
team up with an unsuspecting insider, they will find that some secrets are best
kept in the grave.
Author's Bio
Alyson Noel is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three novels,
including the Immortals, Riley Bloom, and Soul Seekers series. With millions of
copies in print, her books have been translated into thirty-six languages and
have made numerous international bestseller lists.Born and raised in Orange
County, California, she's lived in both Mykonos and Manhattan and is now
settled back in Southern California, where she's working on her next book. You
can visit her online at www.alysonnoel.com.
Forever Geek (Geek Girl, Book 6)
My name is Harriet Manners and I'll be a geek forever... The FINAL book in the bestselling,
award-winning GEEK GIRL series is here! Harriet Manners knows almost every fact there is.
Modelling isn't a sure-fire route to popularity. Neither is making endless lists. The people
you love don't expect you to transform into someone else. Statistically you are more likely
to not meet your Australian ex-boyfriend in Australia than bump into him there. So on the
trip of a lifetime Down Under Harriet's to-do lists are gone and it's Nat's time to shine! Yet
with nearly-not-quite-boyfriend Jasper back home, Harriet's completely unprepared to see
supermodel ex Nick. Is the fashion world about to turn ugly for GEEK GIRL? It's time for
Harriet to face the future. Time to work out where her heart lies. To learn how to let go...
Author's Bio
Holly Smale is the author of the award-winning, bestselling Geek Girl series. She was
unexpectedly spotted by a top London modelling agency at the age of fifteen and spent the
following two years falling over on catwalks, going bright red and breaking things she
couldn't afford to replace. By the time Holly had graduated from Bristol University with a BA
in English Literature and an MA in Shakespeare she had given up modelling and set herself
on the path to becoming a writer. Geek Girl was the no. 1 bestselling young adult fiction
title in the UK in 2013. It was shortlisted for several major awards including the Roald Dahl
Funny Prize and the Branford Boase award, nominated for the Queen of Teen award and
won the teen and young adult category of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the
11-14 category of the Leeds Book Award. The GEEK GIRL series has been translated in 28
languages worldwide.
Release
The most personal and tender novel yet from Patrick Ness, the twice
Carnegie Medal-winning author of A Monster Calls. The most personal and
tender novel yet from Patrick Ness, the twice Carnegie Medal-winning
author of A Monster Calls. It's Saturday, it's summer and, although he
doesn't know it yet, everything in Adam Thorn's life is going to fall apart.
But maybe, just maybe, he'll find freedom from the release. Time is
running out though, because way across town, a ghost has risen from the
lake...
Author's Bio
Patrick Ness is the award-winning and bestselling author of the Chaos
Walking trilogy and the critically-acclaimed novels A Monster Calls, More
Than This and The Rest of Us Just Live Here. John Green has described him
as an insanely beautiful writer . He has won every major prize in children's
fiction, including the Carnegie Medal twice. He's also written the
screenplay for the film of A Monster Calls, now a major motion picture, and
the BBC Dr Who spin-off, Class. He lives in London.
The Hate U Give
Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she
was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy
balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal
shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr
says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed. Inspired by the
Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about
one girl's struggle for justice. Movie rights have been sold to Fox, with
Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games) to star.
Author's Bio
Angie Thomas was born, raised, and still lives in Jackson, Mississippi. A former
teen rapper, she recently won a Walter Dean Myers Grant, awarded by the We
Need Diverse Books campaign. The Hate U Give is her first novel. You can find
her on Twitter@acthomaswrites or visit her website, acthomaswrites.com.
Leaving New Jersey
This collection recounts the story of leaving America, where the
author was born, and of arriving in Australia, where she did not
plan to stay. It is a tale of unsettling and resettling, of leaving as
an ongoing process. Each micro-scene is a snapshot of time and
place - spanning decades and moments, continents and
conversations, wars, dreams and kitchen tables - to capture the
psychological and spatial tensions between 'here' and 'there'.
Leaving New Jersey is a lyrical re-experiencing of putting down
roots and tearing them up, an extraordinary poetic account of an
ordinary woman's quest for home.
Review
Alyson Noel Leaving New Jersey is a book rich in its insights,
generous in its honesty and trust, and (importantly) a most
engaging read. - Alex Skovron
The Last to Die
Sixteen-year-old Harper Jacobs and her bored friends make a pact to engage in a series
of not-quite illegal break-ins. They steal from each other's homes, sharing their keys and
alarm codes. But they don't take anything that can't be replaced by some retail therapy,
so it's okay. It's thrilling. It's bad. And for Harper, it's payback for something she can't put
into words-something to help her deal with her alcoholic mother, her delusional father,
and to forget the lies she told that got her druggie brother arrested. It's not like Daniel
wasn't rehab bound anyway. So everything is okay-until the bold but aggravating Alex,
looking to up the ante, suggests they break into the home of a classmate. It's crossing a
line, but Harper no longer cares. She's proud of it. Until one of the group turns up dead,
and Harper comes face-to-face with the moral dilemma that will make or break her-and,
if she makes the wrong choice, will get her killed.
Judith Tremayne is missing. She hasn't been online, nobody has heard from her. She
simply appears to have vanished, until Abbie Knox, a school nobody, receives a message:
"I want to come home". Suddenly everyone knows Abbie's name. The mean girls and
the misfits alike are obsessed with Jude's disappearance. Abbie finds herself at the
centre of a whirlwind of rumours, secrets and lies. Why would popular, fun Jude be
messaging loner, loser Abbie? Why would Jude disappear? Can Abbie bring her home?
Author's Bio
Kelly Garrett is a writer and amateur dog walker based in Portland, Oregon. The Last To
Die is her first novel.
All About Mia
One family, three sisters. GRACE, the oldest: straight-A student
AUDREY, the youngest: future Olympic swimming champion. And
MIA, the mess in the middle. Mia is wild and daring, great with hair
and selfies, and the undisputed leader of her friends - not attributes
appreciated by her parents or teachers. When Grace makes a shock
announcement, Mia hopes that her now-not-so-perfect sister will get
into the trouble she deserves. But instead, it is Mia whose life spirals
out of control - boozing, boys and bad behaviour - and she starts to
realise that her attempts to make it All About Mia might put at risk
the very things she loves the most.
Author's Bio
Lisa Williamson was born and grew up in Nottingham. She studied
drama at Middlesex University and since graduating has worked as
an actor on stage and TV. Between acting jobs Lisa temped in offices
across London, typing stories when no one was looking, one of which
eventually became The Art of Being Normal.
Perfect
The thrilling, shocking and romantic sequel to the bestselling YA debut FLAWED is
finally here. When we embrace all our flaws, that's when we can finally become
PERFECT...
Celestine North lives in a society that demands perfection. After she was branded
Flawed by a morality court, Celestine's life has completely fractured - all her freedoms
gone.
Since Judge Crevan has declared her the number one threat to the public, she has
been a ghost, on the run with the complicated, powerfully attractive Carrick, the only
person she can trust. But Celestine has a secret - one that could bring the entire
Flawed system crumbling to the ground.
Judge Crevan is gaining the upper hand, and time is running out for Celestine. With
tensions building, Celestine must make a choice: save only herself, or risk her life to
save all the Flawed. And, most important of all, can she prove that to be human in
itself is to be Flawed...?
Author's Bio
Cecelia Ahern was born and grew up in Dublin. She is now published in nearly fifty
countries, and has sold over twenty-four million copies of her novels worldwide. Two
of her books have been adapted as films and she has created several TV series. She
and her books have won numerous awards, including the Irish Book Award for
Popular Fiction for The Year I Met You. She lives in Dublin with her family.