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College Weekend

R.L. Stine · 147 pages

Nothing can ruin Tina Rivers' big weekend at Patterson College with her boyfriend, Josh Martin. She's so excited, she doesn't even mind that her cousin, Holly, will be tagging along. But when Tina and Holly arrive, Josh is gone. His roommate, Christopher Roberts, says Josh is stuck in the mountains, delayed by car trouble. That's weird -- Josh never mentioned he was going away. It gets even weirde

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Chop, Chop

L.N. Cronk

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Bite Club

Rachel Caine

College student Claire Danvers discovers that an extreme sport pitting vampire against vampire--and sometimes vampire against human--is being broadcast on the internet from Morganville, Texas.

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This Present Darkness

Frank E. Peretti · 508 pages

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12 Ashton is just a typical small town. But when a skeptical reporter and a prayerful, hardworking pastor begin to investigate mysterious events, they suddenly find themse

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April Fools

Richie Tankersley Cusick

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Dead Scared

Sharon Bolton · 399 pages

Going undercover as a vulnerable college student when a suspicious rash of suicides occurs at Cambridge University, DC Lacey Flint finds her tragic past and insecurities rendering her a more susceptible target than she realized.

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Red is for Remembrance

Laurie Faria Stolarz · 320 pages

Soon after beginning her freshman year at Beacon University, Stacey, a hereditary witch, befriends the college president's fourteen-year-old daughter and tries to help her cope with nightmares that foretell murder.

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Fog

Caroline B. Cooney · 218 pages

Christina comes from her island home to the mainland of Maine to go to school, never guessing at the evil waiting for her. The principal, Mr. Shevvington, is handsome and Mrs. Shevvington is a dedicated teacher, therefore making the school seem ideal. However when Anya begins to lose her mind, Christina knows the Shevvingtons are behind it. Suspicions are confirmed when the attention is on her whe

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My Secret Admirer

Carol Ellis · 184 pages

**He had said, "I'll be keeping my eye on you."** Jenny is new in town. With her parents away, she is all alone in an isolated house. The looming mountains frighten her; the days are hot and stifling. But she already has a secret admirer who courts her with sweet messages and flowers. Jenny also has an enemy. Someone leaves a dead rattlesnake at her door. A sinister black motorcycle chases her

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Body Bags: A Jenna Blake Body of Evidence

Christopher Golden · 247 pages

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Shadowlands

Kate Brian · 328 pages

Rory Miller had one chance to fight back and she took it. Rory survived and the serial killer who attacked her escaped. Now that the infamous Steven Nell is on the loose, Rory must enter the witness protection with her father and sister, Darcy, leaving their friends and family without so much as a goodbye. Starting over in a new town with only each other is unimaginable for Rory and Darcy. They

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The Tunnels

Michelle Gagnon · 299 pages

The crime scenes are both grim and otherworldly. The bodies of two female students are found mutilated and oddly positioned in the dark labyrinth beneath the school—haunting symbols painted on the walls above them.In her decade tracking serial killers, FBI special agent Kelly Jones has seen some of the worst humanity can inflict. Yet the tragedy unfolding at her alma mater chills her to the bone.

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Sanctum

Madeleine Roux

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Destiny Rising

L.J. Smith

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Dreamfall

Amy Plum · 290 pages

Seven teenagers who suffer from debilitating insomnia agree to take part in an experimental new procedure to cure it because they think it can t get any worse. But they couldn t be more wrong.

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Road to Nowhere

Christopher Pike · 218 pages

A Dark And Stormy Night. Teresa Chafey is running away from home. Driving north along the California coast, she picks up two mysterious hitchhikers: Poppy Corn and Freedom Jack. Together the three of them tell stories: Teresa of her devastating relationship with her boyfriend, Poppy of a sad young woman she once knew, and Freedom of a talented young man with a violent temper. Yet as they tal

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The Unseen

Alexandra Sokoloff · 364 pages

After experiencing a precognitive dream that ends her engagement and changes her life forever, a young psychology professor from California decides to get a fresh start by taking a job at Duke University in North Carolina. She soon becomes obsessed with the files from the world-famous Rhine parapsychology lab experiments, which attempted to prove ESP really exists. Along with a handsome profess

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Fear University

Meg Collett · 342 pages

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Suicide Med

Freida McFadden · 522 pages

Nobody wants to go to a school nicknamed Suicide Med. *One suicide. Every year.* Heather McKinley has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She doesn’t even care about her medical school’s grisly history of suicides—it can’t happen to her. But **after Heather’s longtime boyfriend dumps her and she finds herself failing anatomy, her world starts to crumble**. The pressure is intense. People

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Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo · 480 pages

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospi

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A Drop of Night

Stefan Bachmann · 439 pages

Seventeen-year-old Anouk has finally caught the break she s been looking for she s been chosen to participate in an exclusive program that includes an all-expense-paid trip to France and a chance to explore the hidden underground Palais des Papillons, or Palace of Butterflies. Along with four other gifted teenagers, Anouk will be one of the first people to set foot in the palace in more than two h

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The Evolution of Mara Dyer

Michelle Hodkin

Mara Dyer knows she isn't crazy. She knows that she can kill with her mind, and that Noah can heal with his. Mara also knows that somehow, Jude is not a hallucination. He is alive. Unfortunately, convincing her family and doctors that she's not unstable and doesn't need to be hospitalised isn't easy. The only person who actually believes her is Noah. But being with Noah is dangerous and Mara is in

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The Siren

Tomi Adeyemi

Emery Coleman attends Dartmouth on a scholarship and joins a cultlike group known as the Sirens. (Ages 16 to 18)

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The Game: The Valley

Krystyna Kuhn

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