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Three Pasts. Two Fates. One Choice.Once a humble orphan existing in the shadows of the brutal Establishment, Lucian “Lucky” Spark has evolved from lone vigilante to “The Torch Keeper," a fiery symbol of the valiant resistance. Lucky now leads the heroic fight to restore justice and liberty to the downtrodden survivors of a world devastated by geological catastrophe and tyranny.But as the Torch Brigade prepares to launch a final, desperate gambit against the ruthless forces controlled by his former companion, the mysterious Cassius Thorn, Lucky struggles with the secret of his own true identity. Is he the spark of hope destined to unite a nation and finally end this destructive crusade? Or is he truly the dark catalyst of the past, intent on reducing the remnants of humanity to smoldering embers?With the fates of his brainwashed brother, Cole, and genetically transformed love, Digory Tycho, caught in the crossfire of epic war, Lucky's final choice may have apocalyptic consequences for an entire world.•About the Author: Steven dos Santos is author of THE TORCH KEEPER novels, a Young Adult Post-Apocalyptic series. Book One, THE CULLING, was released in March of 2013, and named an American Library Association 2014 Rainbow List Top Ten Selection. Book Two, THE SOWING, was released in 2014. The third book in The Torch Keeper series, THE RAISING, will be released in January of 2016. Steven’s latest novel, DAGGER, is a Young Adult Paranormal Espionage Adventure, released in September of 2015. Steven is a Team Member of We Need Diverse Books and is represented by literary agent, Ginger Knowlton of Curtis Brown, Ltd. Steven studied Motion Picture production at University of Miami and graduated from Florida International University with a B.S. Degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Television Broadcasting program. He is a passionate advocate of LGBT rights.

Fifteen-year-old American-born Juliana Martin-Drake attempts to solve a murder while visiting a seaside artists’ colony in England.About the Author: Kathryn Reiss is the author of many mysteries for children and teens, including Time Windows, an ALA Best Books for Young Adults, and Edgar Award nominees, Pale Phoenix and Paper Quake. She lives with her family in northern California and is a Professor of English at Mills College.

When brutally murdered bodies start appearing in the casinos of Las Vegas, each with a string of nonsense numbers tattooed on their wrist, the FBI is stumped by a killer that uses different methods for every victim. Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals must call on all their gifts to crack the code and get inside the head of an UNSUB driven to follow a very specific pattern to a specific—and gruesome—ending. As statistician Sloane faces the ghosts of her past and immerses herself in the pattern, the rest of the Naturals must come together to face off against a seemingly invincible killer. Meanwhile, Cassie is battling demons of her own: for the first time in five years, there’s been a break in her mother’s case. The answers she’s been waiting for are just out of reach. But as the stakes of the Vegas murders rise, Cassie and the others may have to go all in just to make it out of Sin City alive.•About the Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes has written over a dozen acclaimed young adult novels, including the first two books in this series, The Naturals and Killer Instinct. She has advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science. She received her PhD from Yale University and is now a professor of psychology. You can find her online at www.jenniferlynnbarnes.com or follow her on Twitter @jenlynnbarnes.

Abbey Hanover's parents have just inherited a run-down old house in Seacliffe, Massachusetts. Being forced to spend the summer there is bad enough, but the place gives Abbey the creeps. Especially when she learns that Felicity Crane, a teenaged girl who lived there 300 years before, was falsely accused of being a witch...and hanged. Then Abbey meets Zachariah, a guy who wears weird-looking clothes and talks strangely. So does Elspeth, who breaks into Abbey's house one night and threatens her with a knife. Soon Abbey makes a shocking discovery: Zachariah and Elspeth are really time travelers from the long-ago past! Now, as Abbey suddenly finds herself hurtling back through time, she meets the real Felicity Crane. Can Abbey save Felicity from the hangman's noose...or will she be the one who's branded as a witch--and sentenced to die? "This time-travel suspense novel has an extra twist. Not only does the narrator, Abbey Harmon, find herself traveling back to the days of the Salem witch trials, but also she leaves her own reality in 1963, giving teen readers a good look at what life was like when their parents were in high school. Staub provides a good mix of history, humor, and romance as well as a high level of suspense without gratuitous violence as Abbey searches for a way to alter history and save Felicity Crane and an unidentified stranger (who turns out to be Abbey herself) from being hung as witches. Abbey is intelligent, witty, and believable, without being too good to be true. The 1960s family dynamic is right on target, and the author handles the vagaries of time travel in a convincing and consistent manner. A refreshing step-up from much that's available for young adults who read horror fiction." Jeanne Triner, BooklistAbout the Author: New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than eighty novels, best known for the single title psychological suspense novels she writes under her own name. Those novels and the women's fiction she writes under the pseudonym Wendy Markham also frequently appear on the USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookscan bestseller lists.Wendy will launch MUNDY’S LANDING, her fourth suspense trilogy for Harpercollins, in 2015 as well as LILY DALE, a new hardcover cozy mystery series for Crooked Lane. A two-time finalist for the prestigious Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award, she’s won the 2008 RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense, the 2007 RWA-NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement, an RWA Rita award, and five WLA Washington Irving Prizes for Fiction. She previously published a dozen adult suspense novels with Kensington Books as well as the acclaimed young adult series LILY DALE with Walker/Bloomsbury. Earlier in her career, she published in a broad range of genres under her own name and various pseudonyms, and has co-authored and ghostwritten for a number of celebrities. Wendy lives in the New York City suburbs with her husband and sons.

Three Pasts. Two Fates. One Choice. Once a humble orphan existing in the shadows of the brutal Establishment, Lucian “Lucky” Spark has evolved from lone vigilante to “The Torch Keeper," a fiery symbol of the valiant resistance. Lucky now leads the heroic fight to restore justice and liberty to the downtrodden survivors of a world devastated by geological catastrophe and tyranny. But as the Torch Brigade prepares to launch a final, desperate gambit against the ruthless forces controlled by his former companion, the mysterious Cassius Thorn, Lucky struggles with the secret of his own true identity. Is he the spark of hope destined to unite a nation and finally end this destructive crusade? Or is he truly the dark catalyst of the past, intent on reducing the remnants of humanity to smoldering embers? With the fates of his brainwashed brother, Cole, and genetically transformed love, Digory Tycho, caught in the crossfire of epic war, Lucky's final choice may have apocalyptic consequences for an entire world.

When forced to switch to a rival high school before the end of her junior year, Blythe’s carefully laid out plans for a perfect future begin to unravel. At first she thinks that being the principal’s daughter is the worst part, then an unflattering viral picture of Blythe has everyone laughing at her the first day. Although vengeance was never her thing, Blythe vows to abolish the Senior Scramble, a long-revered school scavenger hunt. Afterwards, things don’t go to plan, though. To make amends, she teams up with Senior, Luke—the surly head of the hunt and so-called-journalist who first posted her picture. Together they defy Blythe’s father and take the Senior Scramble underground. Blythe soon realizes that Luke isn’t so bad after all. In fact, she’s drawn in by his sly geekish wit, spontaneous Shakespearean quotes, and peering gaze.As Blythe speeds through the scavenger hunt, she faces expulsion, an arrest, and a split from her best friend. But she won’t give up. If she wins the Senior Scramble, she just might win back her reputation. And maybe even win Luke’s heart.•About the Author: Kristin Walker grew up in the Pennsylvania countryside, finally landing at Penn State where she earned a BA in Theatre Arts. In addition to being an actor, Kristin worked at many things on her way to becoming an author. She was a lifeguard, a nanny, a beginning ballroom dance instructor, a library circulation clerk, and very nearly a nurse. 7 CLUES TO WINNING YOU is her second novel. Her first one, A MATCH MADE IN HIGH SCHOOL, was published in 2010. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in LADYBUG, WEE ONES, and two CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL books. Kristin lives in a Philadelphia suburb with her husband and three sons.

When brutally murdered bodies start appearing in the casinos of Las Vegas, each with a string of nonsense numbers tattooed on their wrist, the FBI is stumped by a killer that uses different methods for every victim. Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals must call on all their gifts to crack the code and get inside the head of an UNSUB driven to follow a very specific pattern to a specific—and gruesome—ending. As statistician Sloane faces the ghosts of her past and immerses herself in the pattern, the rest of the Naturals must come together to face off against a seemingly invincible killer. Meanwhile, Cassie is battling demons of her own: for the first time in five years, there’s been a break in her mother’s case. The answers she’s been waiting for are just out of reach. But as the stakes of the Vegas murders rise, Cassie and the others may have to go all in just to make it out of Sin City alive.•About the Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes has written over a dozen acclaimed young adult novels, including the first two books in this series, The Naturals and Killer Instinct. She has advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science. She received her PhD from Yale University and is now a professor of psychology. You can find her online at www.jenniferlynnbarnes.com or follow her on Twitter @jenlynnbarnes.

In the FBI’s Naturals program, Cassie Hobbes has found a family and a purpose—but she’s never lost sight of her original goal to uncover the truth about her mother’s murder. Now she’s reeling from a stunning discovery: Lorelai Hobbes is alive, and held captive by a powerful and twisted cult of serial killers who call themselves the Masters. Their bloody legacy stretches back generations, and Cassie fears that they will have twisted her beloved mother into something else entirely.Worse, the Masters have started killing again. With every body found, Cassie and her friends get closer to the truth at the bottom of the sadistic rabbit hole. But it soon becomes clear that the Masters’ reach goes farther and deeper than the Naturals could have imagined, and that even as they close in on Cassie’s mother, they may be playing right into the Masters’ hands.

The last place fifteen-year-old Juliana wants to be is halfway around the world in Blackthorn, England, an idyllic seaside artists' colony her mother has dragged her off to while her parents weather a trial separation. Juliana misses her father terribly and doesn't understand why her mother needs to travel so far to resurrect her artistic self, which she claims to have lost in the marriage. Soon after they arrive in the tiny village of Blackthorn, the artists' colony is set on its heels by the murder of one of its own. Juliana feels compelled to solve the crime, but she is shocked and frightened when it seems that clues in the matter are hitting a little too close to home. Can she figure out who the murderer is before anyone else--herself included--gets hurt?

When her escape pod falls to earth, crashing in Ypsilanti Bloc, privileged seventeen-year-old Alice Walshe is dashed from the wonderland of wealth and prosperity into a ruined, walled city overrun with militias, gangs, and even cannibals. On top of this horror, her younger brother’s escape pod is missing.Alice isn’t naïve – she’s always known blocs like Ypsilanti exist, left behind after a foodborne illness ravished the country decades earlier and left pockets of severe urban decay in its wake. Men like her father - a major player at Cerulean Holdings - renew the devastated blocs and bring stability back into the areas. But, Ypsilanti is even worse than the tales she’s heard, and rumor has it the bloc is faced with the threat of extermination by Cerulean, not renewal.Trapped within Ypsilanti’s borders and left for dead, Alice teams up with a pair of teen scavengers who tracked the wreck of her pod. Despite their rough exterior and vulgar speech, they’re her only option for navigating the hostile and violent environment of Ypsilanti, finding her brother, and getting out of No-Man’s-Land alive.•About the Author: James Knapp was born in New Hampshire in 1970, and has lived in the New England area since that time. He developed a love of reading and writing early on, participating in young author competitions as early as grade school, but the later discovery of works by Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov turned that love to an obsession.He wrote continuously through high school, college and beyond, eventually breaking into the field with the publication of the Revivors trilogy (State of Decay, The Silent Army, and Element Zero). State of Decay was a Philip K. Dick award nominee, and won the 2010 Compton Crook Award. He has also written Ember, The Burn Zone, and Fallout under the pseudonym James K. Decker.He now lives in MA with his wife Kim.

*This is the only edition authorized by the author.*Sam Hollister and his stepsister, Leesha, head home from boarding school for the holidays. But when they arrive, Cameron the butler looks an awful lot like Frankenstein. Why does Mom insist on being called “Mummy?” And why does she look like one, too? Why does Dad sleep during the day? And why does little brother grow fuzzier during a full moon? Sam and Leesha must figure out how to break the spell before they are turned into monsters, too—and Christmas joy becomes a Christmas nightmare . . .Check out the website! http://www.holiday-monsters.comAbout the Author: Dian Curtis Regan is the author of many books for young readers, ranging from picture books to young adult novels. Titles include the popular Princess Nevermore, Rocky Cave Kids, The World According to Kaley, the Ghost Twins series, and the SpaceBoy series.Dian has lived in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Venezuela. Presently, she lives in her home state of Colorado. http://www.diancurtisregan

*This is the only edition authorized by the author.*Roses are red.Violets are wilted.Why do you walkso stiff and so stilted?Something is very strange about the new girl in Joey Ocean’s class. Her name is Xia Dedd. She never speaks, and her hair blows in the breeze—even inside.There is one thing Xia can do: “mind talk” with Joey. He learns that Dr. Samedi is experimenting on humans and Xia is one of his unfortunate subjects. Together they must find a way to stop the evil doctor before it’s too late for Xia. And possibly, humankind!Check out the website! http://www.holiday-monsters.comAbout the Author: Dian Curtis Regan is the author of many books for young readers, ranging from picture books to young adult novels. Titles include the popular Princess Nevermore, Rocky Cave Kids, The World According to Kaley, the Ghost Twins series, and the SpaceBoy series.Dian has lived in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Venezuela. Presently, she lives in her home state of Colorado. http://www.diancurtisregan.com