Missing girls. No leads. Betrayal on a grand scale. The last thing Brielle Morales expects as a Seeker at Zodiac Academy is fitting in with ease. She’s always been quiet and awkward, but here, she’s managed to find training lessons with potential owners of a peculiar fight club, a library full of ancient texts that may give her a clue on her odd healing ability, and kiss her best friend’s brother. The only problem is, she actually likes the owners despite the danger they pose to the peculiar community, the texts are in the restricted section of the library, and Tom is dating someone else. When Tom’s girlfriend, Taylor, goes missing, she’s one of many girls that have disappeared at Zodiac Academy. Without any leads, Brielle and her team of Seekers are stuck. Until they realize Taylor may not be as missing as she seems, and, in fact, she may know a lot more about these missing girls than she’s willing to share. In order to get to the bottom of the case, drastic measures must be taken, and Brielle is willing to do it, no matter what. And if Tom stands in her way of unraveling the truth, she’ll just have to take him down too. Fans of Vampire Academy and X-Men are addicted to this new paranormal romance from a USA Today Best Selling Author! Scroll up and 1-click your copy today!
Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the entanglement of institutional structures and ideologies of family, race, and class to argue that adoption is powerfully implicated in the question of who can have a future in the twenty-first-century United States. With a unique focus on the role that social workers and other professionals play in mediating relationships between expectant mothers and prospective adopters, Kathryn A. Mariner develops the concept of “intimate speculation,” a complex assemblage of investment, observation, and anticipation that shapes the adoption process into an elaborate mechanism for creating, dissolving, and exchanging imagined futures. Shifting the emphasis from adoption’s outcome to its conditions of possibility, this insightful ethnography places the practice of domestic adoption within a temporal, economic, and affective framework in order to interrogate the social inequality and power dynamics that render adoption—and the families it produces—possible.
An undercover operation. Dark, deadly secrets. No one to trust. Brielle Morales still can't look at herself in the mirror. After the fallout from General Arbuckle's attack on the Academy of Peculiars and subsequent death, she is forced to come to terms with the fact that her choices nearly got her friends killed. She doesn't deserve redemption but when the AckPec dean offers it to her, she jumps at the chance. From this point forward, Brielle is a Seeker, an undercover spy at Arbuckle's own peculiar education facility, Zodiac Academy. Rumor has it that peculiars are being experimented on without their consent, and Brielle - along with Ellie Moyer - enrolls in the academy in order to discover the truth. As she starts to unravel the twisted secrets of Zodiac Academy, Brielle realizes that even her supposed allies are untrustworthy. Not even Ellie's gorgeous twin brother, Tom, is being completely truthful with her. Brielle has no choice then to trust in who she is, flaws and all, if she's ever going to figure out what's really going on at Zodiac Academy. Fans of Vampire Academy and X-Men are addicted to this new paranormal romance from a USA Today Best Selling Author! Scroll up and 1-click your copy today!
Never make a deal with a fae, they say. But sometimes there’s no choice, consequences be damned. As daughters of the Amadis royal family, my twin Brielle and I should have been helping our people rebuild civilization after the War of Armageddon. Instead, our mother does the unthinkable, possibly sparking a new war, and we’re whisked away to another realm to hide us from our enemies. When we return home, we discover our parents are missing, our people have scattered, and every faction hunts the Knight twins. Some are obsessed with claiming our formidable power for themselves. Others simply want us dead. Still, I can’t believe we’re home for less than a day when I end up as Winter Court’s prisoner in Faery. And it only gets worse from there. To protect my sister, I’ve made a deal with a fae that shatters any hopes for my own future. A dark prince ignites something in me that feels all wrong and oh, so right. And then there’s the enchanting princess I ache for . . . yet can never have. Foes become allies, friends become traitors, and one truth emerges with clarity: war is imminent. My only hope to protect everyone I love is to harness the dark power within me—a force that can save worlds or annihilate us all. If I fail to control it, someone else will. But to master it, I must face my most daunting opponent yet—myself. Knights of Souls and Shadows is the spinoff series of the internationally best-selling, award-winning Soul Savers series with over one million books read. You don’t need to read Soul Savers first. This new adventure is a series all on its own, featuring the next generation in their own pursuit to save the worlds—or at least try not to destroy them all. Recommended reading order: A Demon’s Promise An Angel’s Purpose Genesis: A Soul Savers Novella Dangerous Devotion Dark Power Sacred Wrath Unholy Torment Fractured Faith Age of Angels Part I: Awakened Age of Angels Part II: Lost Age of Angels Part III: Marked Sun & Moon Academy Book One: Fall Semester Sun & Moon Academy Book Two: Spring Semester Knights of Souls and Shadows All of Kristie Cook’s books are tied together in some way. To complete the full connection and for the whole experience, you might also want to read: Wonder: A Soul Savers Collection of Short Stories (falls on the timeline before Sacred Wrath) Prophecy of the Wolves: A Soul Savers Novella (formerly Supernatural Chronicles: The Wolves, falls on the timeline between A Demon’s Promise and An Angel’s Purpose) Book of Phoenix Trilogy: The Space Between, The Space Beyond, The Space Within (these fall on the timeline between Sacred Wrath and Unholy Torment) Havenwood Falls: Forget You Not, Lose You Not, Break Me Not, The Collector: Awakening, Savage Salvation (these take place before and lead up to the Sun & Moon Academy books)
The new exchange student means serious competition for Lauren and her friends—because at Canterwood Crest, only one rider can be at the top. Rankings on Canterwood’s intermediate team are falling into place—in Lauren’s favor. Then blond, beautiful foreign exchange student Carina arrives. The new girl puts on a million-watt smile, but it doesn’t dazzle LT. Carina is out to show Canterwood students just how riders from her home country of Sweden take the arena. And with a local show on the horizon, Carina’s especially ready to impress—which means Lauren and her friends better be especially ready to represent, because Carina’s in place to steal the spotlight.
In journal entries alternating between two timelines—before and after a tragic accident—Jennie Englund's heartfelt coming-of-age story, Taylor Before and After follows the year that changes one girl’s life forever. Before, Taylor Harper is finally popular, sitting with the cool kids at lunch, and maybe, just maybe, getting invited to the biggest, most exclusive party of the year. After, no one talks to her. Before, she’s friends with Brielle Branson, the coolest girl in school. After, Brielle has become a bully, and Taylor’s her favorite target. Before, home isn’t perfect, but at least her family is together. After, Mom won’t get out of bed, Dad won’t stop yelling, and Eli... Eli’s gone. Through everything, Taylor has her notebook, a diary of the year that one fatal accident tears her life apart. In entries alternating between the first and second semester of her eighth-grade year, she navigates joy and grief, gain and loss, hope and depression. How can Taylor pick up the pieces of what used to be her social life? How can her house ever feel like home again after everything that’s happened? And how can she move forward if she can’t stop looking back? An Imprint Book "Powerful... A resonant look at coming-of-age." —Kirkus Reviews A Junior Library Guild Selection
In Pennsylvania’s Amish country, Daisy Swanson is serving hot tea at a fundraiser for a homeless shelter—but tempers are getting heated too . . . Daisy’s orange pekoe is flowing at a fundraiser—and she’s also made a new friend, Piper, a young woman whose hopes for motherhood were dashed by a foul-up at a fertility clinic.But before they can settle into a long conversation, the event is disrupted by masked protestors who object to building a shelter in Willow Creek. Among the angry crowd is Eli—who left his Amish community some time ago, with help from a lawyer named Hiram. It just so happens that Hiram is also representing the fertility clinic in a class-action suit—and soon afterward, he turns up dead, felled by an insulin injection. Daisy can’t help but get drawn in, especially since Piper’s husband had been pretty steamed at the victim and didn’t hide it. She’d love to spend some time with the dog she and her boyfriend have just adopted—but first she 'll be straining to find a killer . . . Includes delicious recipes!
Alaric has returned from Castalia with the Topaz stone to heal Alena, if he can. A task that is vital to his journey, but he may already be too late. The Alliance must march on Castalia where a Dark Knight controls the largest army in the Seven Kingdoms. The walls of Castalia have never been breached and victory will be Bern's biggest challenge to date. It is time for the wizards to leave their island and join the army if the Alliance is going to have any chance of winning the final battle. It is going to take all of Alaric's skills to convince them.
Just caught sight of the new ER doc everyone is talking about—I'd know those killer cheekbones and that devastating grin anywhere… My world is ending—at least that's what it feels like! Not only did Dr. Ross Lane break my heart, he also upped sticks before my pregnancy test came back…positive! That baby is now the most beautiful little boy in the world—and I owe it to him to let Ross know he's a daddy. But that's one conversation I don't even know how to start….
Cinnia’s life is about to change. During a night out with friends, Cinnia is targeted by a strange fortune teller who reveals that her life is about to change. Well, Cinnia wouldn’t mind a little change in her life. She would love to get a position at a renowned scientific company, Sciecor. But would she regret her wishes? Things are not as they seem. Secrets hide in the basements at Sciecor, human appearing secrets that need her help. There are secrets that Cinnia doesn’t even know about herself. Kasen has been looking for Cinnia. When he moves in across the street from her, friendships change. And when mysterious things happen at his house, Cinnia and her friends begin to be concerned about their safety. Could he be an enemy or a key to help Cinnia discover the power she truly has?
