Central Skagit Library District

"Nancy Wix, daughter of stage impresarios Eliza and Devil, is a born performer. But she is set apart, even from her unusual family, by the visions she has seen since she was a child. When a gifted medium reveals a way for Nancy to harness her troubling powers to keep the Wix's struggling theatre afloat, she grasps the opportunity with a desperate intensity. This is the age of spiritualism, and Nancy will see her star rise in a time when families decimated...

"Abandoned when she was tiny, Maisie Reynolds isn't scared of Hitler or his devastating bombs. Her life at Holly Bush orphanage is already miserable enough. Poor Maisie has never known love, only cruelty and as her birthday approaches, she can't wait to free herself from this cruel prison. But fate has other plans. Because now Maisie has a chance to care for the lost and forgotten survivors of the terrible war and bring kindness to Holly Bush House....

Edie Kits, who has an auditory processing disorder that makes it hard to understand words, gets help from a cute teaching assistant, Hudson, to pass her college French class.--

"On its surface, this is the story of a boy, Mike, and the girl he loses. It's the story of how he swears to do anything and everything to get her back. It's also the story of a world going to ruin, a world like our own, but seen through a very warped and cracked mirror. It's also the story of a story, a story told only in flashes and excerpts and summaries, a story that contains clues that could fix this broken world or end it once and for all."...

After Dee Moreno, seventeen, makes a deal with a demon, trading her heart for the chance of a good education, she becomes part of a group of "heartless" teens engaged in fighting a paranormal war.