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Chasing Brooklyn

Lisa Schroeder

Restless souls and empty hearts Brooklyn can't sleep. Her boyfriend, Lucca, died only a year ago, and now her friend Gabe has just died of an overdose. Every time she closes her eyes, Gabe's ghost is there waiting for her. She has no idea what he wants or why it isn't Lucca visiting her dreams. Nico can't stop. He's always running, trying to escape the pain of losing his brother, Lucca. Bu

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Shade

Jeri Smith-Ready · 309 pages

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The Dark Vault (The Archived, #1-2.5)

Victoria Schwab · 696 pages

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We Were Liars

E. Lockhart · 240 pages

A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends -- the Liars -- whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged

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The Night Country

Stewart O'Nan · 234 pages

"At midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another suffers severe brain damage. A year later, summoned by the memories of those closest to them, the three who died come back on a last chilling mission among the living.". "A strange and unsettling ghost story i

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The After Girls

Leah Konen · 303 pages

When their best friend Astrid commits suicide after high school graduation, Ella searches for answers while Sydney tries to dull the pain, and both girls look to uncover Astrid's dark secrets when they receive a mysterious Facebook message.

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Wintergirls

Laurie Halse Anderson · 288 pages

*“Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secret,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I am that girl. I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.* Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. But what

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The Vanishing Season

Jodi Lynn Anderson · 247 pages

For Maggie Larsen, the town of Gill Creek is only a stopgap before college and freedom. Until she meets Pauline and Liam. What starts as an uneventful year suddenly changes. Someone is killing teenaged girls, and the town reels from the tragedy.

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Marly's Ghost

David Levithan · 167 pages

Two of children's literature's brightest stars present this compelling novel about loss that puts a modern twist on Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. When his girlfriend Marly dies, Ben takes a painful journey through Valentine's Days past, present, and future. Young Adult. The spirit of Ben's girlfriend Marly returns with three other ghosts to haunt him with a painful journey though Valentine'

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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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The Diviners

Libba Bray · 608 pages

Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us? Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession w

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Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher · 288 pages

Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier.On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.Through

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The S-Word

Chelsea Pitcher · 320 pages

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The Bargaining

Carly Anne West · 403 pages

Grieving and guilty over a friend's death, Penny is not surprised when her mother sends her to live with her father and stepmother, April, but when April takes her to help restore an old house in a dense forest, weird occurences connected to missing children threaten Penny's safety and fragile mental health.

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The Haunted

Jessica Verday · 467 pages

Trying to forget the boy with whom she fell in love, Abbey returns to Sleepy Hollow and throws herself into school, her perfume making, and her friendship with Ben to get over Caspian, but Caspian, who is dead, is a Shade and Abbey is his destiny.

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Evermore

Alyson Noel

Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.

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Brother Odd

Dean Koontz · 417 pages

Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker natureThrough two New York Times b

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Silence

Michelle Sagara, Michelle Sagara West

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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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Come with Me

Ronald Malfi · 407 pages

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Dark Souls

Paula Morris · 294 pages

Sixteen-year-old Miranda Tennant arrives in York, England, with her parents and brother, trying to recover from the terrible accident that killed her best friend, and while in the haunted city she falls in love for the first time as two boys, one also suffering from a great loss and the other a ghost, fight for her attentions.

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Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer

Katie Alender · 292 pages

While in Paris, France on a class trip, Colette Iselin enlists the help of her charming French tour guide to help uncover a possible connection between Marie Antoinette, a series of gruesome murders, and perhaps her own family history, and he also gives her insights into herself. While in Paris on a class trip, Colette Iselin enlists the help of her charming French tour guide to help uncover a po

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State of Wonder

Ann Patchett · 353 pages

As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the insect-infested Amazon, she will be forced to surrender herself to the lush but forbidding world that awaits within the jungle. Charged with finding her former mentor Dr. Annick Swenson, a researcher who has disappeared while working on a valuable new drug, she will have to confront her own memories of tragedy and sacrifice as she jour

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