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LB messed up. Even though her best friend, Kat, says she's forgiven her for that whole using-science-to-make-herself-popular thing, things are still pretty weird between them. Then the bully from their old school, Courtenay, shows up -- pretending to be nice! Worst of all, Kat seems to ... like Courtenay? Just when she thought things were getting back to normal, LB's friendships are more confusing than ever! She needs a new hypothesis, and fast, to...

In the heart of Brooklyn, nestled between the bustling streets and the quiet waters of the bay, lies a neighborhood that has seen it all. Sunset Park, a place where cultures melded, dreams were forged, and lifelong friendships were woven into the very fabric of the community.Our story begins not with grand heroes or epic adventures, but with a group of eight friends who, over the years, discovered that the ordinary moments of life could be extraordinary...

You will talk about 2016. You will talk about The Lighted City. You will be brave and truthful. You will get to the bottom of what happened.Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian. Inseparable from a young age, they play The Lighted City, an imaginary world where they pretend to live together and can escape a childhood that seems both too sad and too grown-up. But The Lighted City isn' t without danger.Years later, Paul is struggling...

National Jewish Book Award Finalist: A "sophisticated and engaging" novel of three innocents drawn into a criminal scheme in modern-day Jerusalem (The Wall Street Journal). Brokenhearted haberdasher Isaac Markowitz has fled the Lower East Side for Israel, where he now assists a renowned elderly rabbi who tends to the hungry and hopeless in his courtyard. Tamar is an American hipster-turned-observant Jew who has come to Jerusalem to find a devout...

An unlikely friendship develops when Stephen takes in an abandoned alien as his guest.

BreakableThe Fragile Line Series~ Book eight Sadie Montgomery's mental health is teetering on a fragile line, though no one knows it. Rooted in the notion that she continues to be invincible, Sadie says and does whatever she wants without consequence. Staying focused on the future she wants and what she needs to do to get there seems to be the only thing that keeps her going. On the day of her best friend's wedding, Sadie makes two rash decisions...

Grace Soudley's life is coming apart at the seams. Recently divorced, she is still living in the beautiful yet crumbling old house her godmother left her, but unless she can find a fortune, the house will disintegrate around her. Artist Ellie Summers' life is unraveling too. She's pregnant, but her boyfriend is less than enthusiastic about parenthood, and her parents are not exactly inviting her to move back home. She has to come up with a new...

Identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica think the Mercandy mansion is haunted and that new student Nora Mercandy might be a witch, but Elizabeth wants to find out if the rumors are true.

After the death of her mother, Nancy is relocated to a place she's never known existed: her family's ancestral home, the haunted Spottswood Mansion, located in the quiet hamlet of Summer's End Louisana. Starting school at Talbot High without knowing anyone can be challenging. Still, Nancy is experiencing a tough time adjusting to her life as a Freshman, falling victim to bullying by Emma, the leader of the popular girl group The Posh Girls. But things...

Eccentric Fran wants a second chance. Thanks to her intimacy with Jane Austen, and the poet Shelley, she finds one. Jane Austen is such, a presence in Fran's life that she seems, to share her cottage and garden, becoming an imaginary friend. Fran's conversations with Jane Austen guide and chide her, but Fran is ready for change after years of teaching, reading and gardening. An encounter with a long-standing English friend, and an American writer,...