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Aru Shah, a twelve-year old girl of Indian descent, lives in an annex of the Museum of Ancient Indian Arts and Culture and is known to lie to her classmates at a rich Atlanta private day school to get them to view her traditional wardrobe as something exotic and not freaky.

Born on Eventide, Morrigan Crow's fated to die at midnight on her ninth birthday. She is spared when rescued by a mysterious stranger, and after they are chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, they escape to a secret city called Nevermoor.

CIA agent John Clark leaves the agency with several colleagues and creates an England-based multinational organization designed to battle terrorism.

Set in the magical Orisha kingdom, a young woman named Zelie Adebola witnesses the death of her mother and other magicians, called "maji," under the order of a ruthless king.

Simon Templar targets the lowlifes and corrupt politicians. He often leaves a calling card at his "crimes," a stick figure of a man with a halo.

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place.

Set in 1894, a church going English maid learns her scandalous father is alive and continuing his gruesome experiments on a remote tropical island.

A young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined, dangerous city of the near future. The city is littered with discarded experiments from the Company — a bio-tech firm now seemingly derelict. From one of her scavenging missions, Rachel brings home Borne, who is little more than a green lump, but exudes a strange charisma. And yet, little as she understands what or who Borne may be, she cannot give him up, even as Borne begins to grow and change in unexpected ways.

When a California state sponsored deal for diverted water falls through and the water mains in Southern California run completely dry. Stores of bottled water last only a matter of days, and the government can't mobilize fast enough to provide water for its 23 million citizens. A group of teenage friends are forced to band together when chaos breaks out in their community, and what ensues is a frighteningly real survival scenario.

Based on the classic 1950's children's book by Kay Thompson, Eloise jets off to Paris for Fashion Week and, along with one of Europe's top designers, finds herself chasing after a stolen dress.

A retro futuristic pop-up travel agency plans vacations to space for the public.

To avenge her sister's death and save her family's tea house, Aza Wu joins the culture of casters who battle with magic for money.

A group of dragonologists go on a globetrotting quest to keep a corrupt man from taking control of the world's dragons and using them to wipe out humanity.

A twentysomething woman learns she is a descendant of one of the feuding families made infamous in Romeo and Juliet. She travels to Italy and discovers that the 600-year-old curse is still in effect and her fate is tied to literature’s greatest lovers.

A betrayed murderess on a revenge campaign and a hard-drinking former cop team up to take down a crime lord.

The story of Laura Ingalls and her family who wander the west in search of a place to can call home.

Follows a divorced father suffering through a midlife crisis: His ex-wife is getting married to a nice guy, his college-bound daughter is pregnant, and he may die if he doesn't proceed with a medical operation.

A surrealist story about all the ways we hurt our friends without knowing it, and all the ways they stick around to save us.

Two teenage girls, Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, live in Sweet Valley, Calif. Jessica is the more conniving and materialistic of the sisters, and usually needs help from the more practical Elizabeth when her schemes go awry.