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A Drop in the Ocean
by Lea Taranto
Sixteen-year-old Mira Durand has been checked into the Residency Adolescent Treatment Centre after years of bouncing between psych wards that only worsened her OCD and anorexia. Her punishing, religious compulsions—meant to keep her mother safe—leave her feeling like a “freak freak,” with only her journal for company. But on Ward 2, she finds a shrink who shares her love of fantasy and peers whose own high-risk behaviors make space for hers. As friendships form—including a first love—and trust slowly grows, Mira begins to glimpse a life beyond her rituals. Visiting her dying Gung Gung pushes her to confront the distortions fueling her compulsions and choose, however imperfectly, to fight for herself.
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The Dark Won't Wait
by David A. Poulsen
Dom's life revolves around cars and baseball until a chance connection to a high school audition hands him a major role in a psychological thriller. This would be exciting enough, except that real life begins to shadow the script in a very creepy way as an elusive girl and a local murder draw Dom out of his otherwise quiet shell. With a nod to Frederick Knott's famous play Wait Until Dark and its subsequent film, this book has it all -- drama, mystery, thrills aplenty, and contemporary teen humour.
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Seven Deadly Thorns
by Amber Hamilton
In the cursed Kingdom of Aragoa, all magic is punishable by death. So when Viola Sinclair’s dangerous shadow magic is exposed at Vandenberghe Academy, the queen marks her assassin with a seven-thorned rose—seven days to kill Viola or die himself. That assassin is Roze Roquelart: arrogant prince, fellow student, and the person Viola despises most. But Roze needs something only her magic can provide, and he’s willing to spare her—and fake an engagement—to get it. Forced into a fragile alliance, the two face lethal threats, buried secrets, and an unwelcome, magnetic pull. Their growing desire might save them…or doom Aragoa altogether.
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You've Found Oliver
by Dustin Thao
It’s been a year since his best friend, Sam, died. Even though Oliver knows he won’t get a response, he can’t stop texting Sam’s number, especially as the anniversary of his death approaches.
Then one day he accidentally hits the call button, and someone picks up.
The voice on the other end isn’t Sam—Sam’s number was reassigned and a stranger has been reading Oliver’s private and vulnerable messages for months. But Ben, an astronomy student in Seattle, won’t remain a stranger for long.
When they finally meet in person, their spark is undeniable. Everything seems perfect until Oliver discovers something strange that could keep them from being together.
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Songs for Ghosts
by Clara Kumagai
Seventeen-year-old Adam has just broken up with his boyfriend Evan and is not looking forward to the excruciating awkwardness at school for the rest of term or a whole summer stuck at home with his dad, stepmom and baby brother, Benji.
But then Adam discovers a diary in some boxes in the attic and is quickly enthralled by their poignant story. They were written by a young woman living in Nagasaki in 1911. Adam is enraptured by her life and loves, becoming totally absorbed in her story. And then he starts to be haunted by her ghostly presence . . .
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Minor Arcana Vol. 2
by Jeff Lemire
Inspired by the iconography of tarot, comics icon Jeff Lemire returns to his critically acclaimed meditation on small town life, family, community, grief, mortality, and the power of human connection.
In the second movement of the story, collected here for the very first time, Theresa is faced with critical decisions that determine her future with the love of her life, while confronting her own past and the mercurial relationships with family.
To find her future, Theresa must let go of her past... but will the past let go of her?
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For She Is Wrath
by Emily Varga
Framed for a crime she didn’t commit, Dania spends a year in prison plotting revenge against Mazin, the boy who betrayed her—and whom she still loves. After escaping with a fellow inmate to seek a stolen djinn treasure, she gains dark magic and a new identity to bring down those who wronged her. But as she faces Mazin and the fire between them reignites, Dania’s quest for vengeance becomes a dangerous game of deception and power. Caught between her thirst for revenge and her lingering love, she risks losing both her humanity and her heart.
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The House Saphir
by Marissa Meyer
Mallory Fontaine is a fraud—at least as a witch. Her only real magic is seeing ghosts, a talent far less useful than buyers of her bogus spells imagine. She and her sister scrape by running tours of the mansion where the first Saphir murders occurred, and Mallory prides herself on being an expert on the infamous Count Bastien Saphir. She never expects to meet his heir: Armand, charming, wealthy, and convinced the Fontaine sisters are the real deal. When he hires her to banish Le Bleu’s ghost from his estate, she eagerly accepts. But when a new murder strikes the House Saphir, Mallory must find the mortal killer, keep up her magical ruse—and face the possibility that her heart’s newest desire might be dangerous.
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A Fate So Cold
by Amanda Foody
For most of the year, Summer keeps Alderland safe—but for six savage weeks, Winter descends, destroying everything in its path. Magicians wield Summer wands to defend the realm, often at the cost of their lives. Domenic Barrow never wanted that fate, yet when the most powerful Summer wand awakens after a century, it Chooses him, hinting at an oncoming catastrophe. Ellery Caldwell, desperate to be the perfect Summer magician, accidentally forges the first Winter wand. Suddenly the two become the unprecedented Chosen Two, meant to confront the looming cataclysm together—and drawn irresistibly toward each other. But a devastating truth emerges: they aren’t destined partners, but eternal rivals, and only one can survive to save Alderland.
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Fade Into You
by Amber Smith
Bird and Jessa don’t have much in common. Bird is an aspiring poet, still finding herself after a transformative summer away at writing camp. Jessa lives for the discovery of new music, using it to block out the dysfunction waiting for her at home. They would never have crossed paths if it weren’t for one shared Their two best friends have started dating, and the relationship is threatening to ruin their senior year.
Tired of coming second to their friends’ romance, the girls come to the only logical they have to break their friends up. But the more time Bird and Jessa spend scheming, the more they start to realize they might have more in common than they thought.
Set in the late ’90s in a world full of change as much as possibility, Jessa and Bird relearn what it means to love themselves and receive love in return, and to dream for a future they never imagined.
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