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It had taken her a couple hours to make the trek on the hike. It was just her on the trail, no one else. Aside from the twigs snapping with each step, it was silent. Leaves fell as if it were already snowing in winter. She pushed a blond streak of hair back towards the loose pony tail. Her fingers brushed the fancy stud earrings from that stressful meeting yesterday. She shivered at the thought. Her lip twitched, missing its usual lip-gloss sheen. Pushing the thought away wasn’t working... Freezing up in front of all those people. She tucked a piece of straightened blond hair behind an ear, and gently tugged down the bottom of her suit. She heard her boss clear her throat... Quickly she blinked those striking green eyes, vanishing that flash of reality. Her taught face relaxed into its normally soft features.
She hesitated a moment before emerging through the trees. This was her retreat from reality. In front of her lay the top of the mountain, a rocky surface. Her, alone in this place. She tossed the scuffed backpack carelessly behind her, and took off running and twirling up the rock.
It took her a double take to fully appreciate the view. It made her freeze in her tracks, her mouth hung open in awe. Mountains jutted out of the earth. Lakes nestled in between. The complete cliché “not a cloud in the sky” must have originated here. Just beyond, the ocean stretched, blending with horizon: endless... endless possibilities. A smile curved a corner of her mouth. It seemed as if it had been a long time, as if you needed to keep up practice with smiling, despite how silly it may sound. The smile broadened. It spread like a forest fire, brightening her entire face. A twinkle met at the corner of her eye.
She wandered toward the center and lowered herself to the ground. As she rolled up her faded jeans, the silence became less deafening since she was the only one who could break it. How was it things as big as mountains wouldn’t make a sound, while the slightest things could still make such a commotion?
She lay down on her back, slowly drifting to sleep. As sleep overcame her, her muscles relaxed, the tension disappearing. She didn’t dream of the real world. There were no worries of waking up late, or getting stuck in traffic. She solely dreamt of mountains and lakes, of lapping waves, of the ocean. The endless, endless ocean.
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The Chosen One:
Skin Hunger:
Sadima lives in a world where magic has been banned, leaving poor villagers prey to fakes and charlatans. A "magician" stole her family's few valuables and left Sadima's mother to die on the day Sadima was born. But vestiges of magic are hidden in old rhymes and hearth tales and in people like Sadima, who conceals her silent communication with animals for fear of rejection and ridicule. When rumors of her gift reach Somiss, a young nobleman obsessed with restoring magic, he sends Franklin, his lifelong servant, to find her. Sadima's joy at sharing her secret becomes love for the man she shares it with. But Franklin's irrevocable bond to the brilliant and dangerous Somiss traps her, too, and she faces a heartbreaking decision.
Centuries later magic has been restored, but it is available only to the wealthy and is strictly controlled by wizards within a sequestered academy of magic. Hahp, the expendable second son of a rich merchant, is forced into the academy and finds himself paired with Gerrard, a peasant boy inexplicably admitted with nine sons of privilege and wealth. Only one of the ten students will graduate -- and the first academic requirement is survival.
Sadima's and Hahp's worlds are separated by generations, but their lives are connected in surprising and powerful ways in this brilliant first book of Kathleen Duey's dark, complex, and completely compelling trilogy.
Wherever Nina Lies:
Nina was beautiful, artistic, wild . . . and adored by her younger sister, Ellie. But one day, without any warning, Nina disappeared. Two years later, Ellie can't stop thinking about her sister. Although everyone else has given up hope that Nina will return, Elile just knows her sister is out there, somewhere. If only Ellie had a clue where to look. And then she gets one, in the form of a mysterious drawing tucked into the pages of a book. Determined to find her sister, Ellie takes off on a crazy, sexy, cross-country road trip with the only person who believes she's got a chance -- her hot, adventurous new crush. Along the way, Ellie finds a few things she wasn't planning on. Like love. Mysteries. Lies. And something far ore shocking -- the truth.
Identical:
Do twins begin in the womb?Or in a better place?
Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family -- on the surface. Behind the facade each sister has her own dark secret, and that's where their differences begin.
For Kaeleigh, she's the misplaced focus of Daddy's love, intended for a mother whose presence on the campaign trail means absence at home. All that Raeanne sees is Daddy playing a game of favorites -- and she is losing. If she has to lose, she will do it on her own terms, so she chooses drugs, alcohol, and sex.
Secrets like the ones the twins are harboring are not meant to be kept -- from each other or anyone else. Pretty soon it's obvious that neither sister can handle it alone, and one sister must step up to save the other, but the question is -- who?
Ash:
In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted.The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash's capacity for love-and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.Entrancing, empowering, and romantic, Ash is about the connection between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the deepest grief.
-M.
Dead is a State of Mind
Dull Boy
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