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The Sun Down Motel

Simone St. James · 338 pages

Upstate NY, 1982. Viv Delaney knows something isn't right at the Sun Down motel, where she works as a night clerk, and she's determined find out what. Upstate NY, 2017. Carly Kirk has always been fascinated by her aunt Viv who disappeared from the Sun Down before Carly was born. Using a small inheritance from when her mom dies, Carly leaves college to figure out what happened to her aunt thirty-fi

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Turtles All the Way Down

John Green · 304 pages

**SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD AZA NEVER INTENDED** to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at sake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter,

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The Winter People

Jennifer McMahon · 408 pages

West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter. Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted th

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Dust

Arthur Slade · 180 pages

"Robert's brother vanishes and he has to find him. This award-winning book offers a new sophistication to young adult fiction, and a terrifying take on the psychology of fear" Cf. Our choice, 2003.

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Gothikana

Runyx

An unusual girl. An enigmatic man. An ancient castle. What could go wrong? An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she expects though is an old, secluded castle on top of a mountain riddled with secrets, deceit,

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Missing

Kelley Armstrong · 384 pages

The best thing about being a teen in Reeve's End is that I'll be able to leave soon. Like my best friend did. Like my sister did. Most of us go. There's nothing here but abandoned mines and an empty future. I'm better off taking my chances elsewhere. The only thing I'll miss is the Kentucky wilderness that has always been my refuge. But that changed the day I found Lennon. Left for dead, ble

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Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn · 297 pages

WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her legSince she left town eight years a

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Home Before Dark

Riley Sager · 389 pages

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Good Girl, Bad Blood: The Sequel to a Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson · 424 pages

More dark secrets are exposed in this addictive, true-crime fueled sequel when Pip finds herself in another deadly case. Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But she will have to break that promise w

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Topeng Anak Baik-Baik (Good Girl, Bad Blood)

· 444 pages

Pip bukan lagi detektif. Dengan bantuan Ravi Singh, dia meluncurkan siniar true-crime tentang kasus pembunuhan yang mereka pecahkan bersama di tahun lalu. Siniar mereka viral, tapi Pip sudah berjanji pada keluarganya bahwa dia tidak akan jadi detektif lagi. Sayangnya, janji itu terpaksa dilanggar. Seseorang yang dia kenal, menghilang. Tak seorang pun tahu di mana Jamie Reynolds berada setelah mala

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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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Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose · 272 pages

Beth's life hasn't worked out the way she planned. After her father walked out on their family with a note simply saying 'I'm sorry', she became obsessed with finding him. An obsession that destroyed her relationship with her husband and her daughter. She just has her dying mother left, Beth taking care of her as best she can until she breathes her final, shocking words: **Your father. He didn'

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Stranger with My Face

Lois Duncan · 250 pages

Have you ever been haunted by the feeling that someone is spying on you, lurking around your house and yard, even entering your bedroom? Are your friends plotting against you when they say they've seen you do things you know you haven't done? What's going on -- and does Laurie really want to find out?

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Beware the Wild

Natalie C. Parker · 341 pages

A teenaged girl and her boyfriend must find her older brother after he wanders into their town's swamp and a mysterious girl appears in his place.

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You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

Alexandra Kleeman · 293 pages

"A missing-person mystery told from the point of view of the missing person; an American horror story that concerns sex and friendship, consumption and appetite, faith and transformation, real food and reality television; and ... a wholly singular view of modern womanhood"--Dust jacket flap.

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Solitary

Travis Thrasher · 391 pages

When Chris Buckley moves to Solitary, North Carolina, he faces the reality of his parents' divorce, a school full of nameless faces--and Jocelyn Evans. Jocelyn is beautiful and mysterious enough to leave Chris speechless. But the more Jocelyn resists him, the more the two are drawn together. Chris soon learns that Jocelyn has secrets as deep as the town itself. Secrets more terrifying than the bul

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Walk of the Spirits

Richie Tankersley Cusick · 328 pages

When Miranda Barnes first sees the sleepy town of St. Yvette, Louisiana, with its moss-draped trees, above-ground cemeteries, and her grandfather’s creepy historic home, she realizes that life as she knew it is officially over. Almost immediately, there seems to be something cloying at her. Something lonely and sad and . . . very pressing. Even at school and in the group project she’s been thrown

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Disappearance at Devil's Rock

Paul Tremblay · 368 pages

When her fourteen-year-old son disappears during a summer sleepover at Devil's Rock, Elizabeth and other residents of the town begin to see his ghost throughout the town, which leads her to believe that he is dead. She tries to maintain a sense of calm to help her younger daughter, Katie, but her anxiety builds when she begins to find crumpled pages of Tommy's journal which contain disturbing con

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Blue Lily, Lily Blue

Maggie Stiefvater · 400 pages

Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things, though, is how easily they can be lost.

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The Hollow

Jessica Verday

When Abbey's best friend, Kristen, vanishes at the bridge near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, everyone else is all too quick to accept that Kristen is dead…and rumors fly that her death was no accident. Abbey goes through the motions of mourning her best friend, but privately, she refuses to believe that Kristen is really gone. Then she meets Caspian, the gorgeous and mysterious boy who shows up out of n

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Deep and Dark and Dangerous

Mary Downing Hahn · 187 pages

Ali goes on vacation in maine with her aunt dulcie, and her baby cousin emma. soon emma and ali meet a sassy girl named sissy, who is a bad influence on emma. Sissy keeps talking about a girl named teresa, who drowned back when claire, Ali's mom, and dulcie were little kids, and whose body was never found. At first Ali thinks that sissy is just trying to scare her and emma, but soon figures out wh

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Burn Our Bodies Down

Rory Power · 352 pages

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Pines

Blake Crouch · 313 pages

"Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels ... off.

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Anna Dressed in Blood

Kendare Blake

For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.

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