Books with title Between

Sometimes death is just the beginning... It just figures that the love of Lindsey Water's life isn't alive at all, but the grim reaper, complete with a dimpled smile and Scottish accent. After transporting souls to heaven for the last 300 years, Aiden MacRae has all but given up on finding the one whose love will redeem him and allow him entry through the pearly gates. Torn between her growing attraction to Aiden and heaven's siren song, Lindsey must learn the hard way whether love really can transcend all boundaries.

For the past thirty years Aden has devoted his life to fight aside England as the head knight during the Edwardian war. Aden creates a reputation for himself as the most vicious warrior on the battlefield only to protect a deep secret as hidden as possible. When the secret is exposed he is forced to strike a deal with a stranger to save his family. His soul is condemned to eternity as he is obligated to stand as the leader of a war unknown to mankind. When his family is taken from him, Aden is ashamed and defrauded by the deal he once believed was a gift. He sets upon a journey to rid of the curse which takes him across the world to Lithium City in the twentieth century. After centuries of searching, Aden finally finds a young man by the name of Josh Krestin. During a freak accident Josh becomes the new vessel for the curse that centuries ago was cast upon Aden. As Josh's life crumbles, he discovers abilities he believed impossible for any human to possess and a dark world he never knew that coexisted with the daily world he lives in. As a new life unfolds for him his old life starts to fade from existence. He soon encounters that the future he once desired and dreamed of, may no longer be his choice to make

When good girl Lucy Montone, or Peaches-n-Cream as her family likes to call her, is shocked by the sudden announcement of her parents divorce, she starts sixth grade with her world turned upside down. Peaches, desperately wants things to be like they used to. This seems impossible when she learns that her best friend has just dropped her for someone else and that the certified school creep considers her his favorite target. Worst of all, she will be forced to decide between her parents in a heated custody battle. On the edge of thirteen, Peaches discovers that life can take an unpredictable course and that sometimes breaking the rules and letting go are part of growing up and making the unthinkable choice.

From the award-winning author of Nona & Me comes a stunning new novel about two teenagers separated by cultural differences, their parents’ expectations and twenty kilometres of barbed-wire fence.Is it possible for two very different teenagers to fall in love despite high barbed-wire fences and a political wilderness between them?Anahita is passionate, curious and determined. She is also an Iranian asylum seeker who is only allowed out of detention to attend school. On weekdays, during school hours, she can be a ‘regular Australian girl’.Jono needs the distraction of an infatuation. In the past year his mum has walked out, he’s been dumped and his sister has moved away. Lost and depressed, Jono feels as if he’s been left behind with his Vietnamese single father, Kenny.Kenny is struggling to work out the rules in his new job; he recently started work as a guard at the Wickham Point Detention Centre. He tells Anahita to look out for Jono at school, but quickly comes to regret this, spiraling into suspicion and mistrust. Who is this girl, really? What is her story? Is she a genuine refugee or a queue jumper? As Jono and Anahita grow closer, Kenny starts snooping behind the scenes … ‘An urgent, compelling and transcendent love story of our times.’ —Alice Pung‘I want everyone to read this book right now.’ —Fiona Wood‘A beautiful, raw and timely book.’ —Melina MarchettaClare Atkins has worked as a scriptwriter for many successful television series, including All Saints and Home and Away. Her debut novel, Nona and Me, won the 2016 Book of the Year in the NT Literary Awards, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards, longlisted for the 2015 Inky Awards, and highly commended for the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.

No matter what, she'll find her. In this universe or the next.When her best friend Bea vanishes right in front of her, Ana Moon returns home in shock. But her house looks different. Her parents are acting strange. Something is wrong ...Enter the mysterious Malik, who tells Ana that she has Fallen into a world that is not her own - one of seven versions of Earth she will have to travel through to get Bea back.Guided by Malik and his Pathfinders, Ana sets off on a journey that will force her to question everything she knows about the universe. Lying in wait are the sinister Order, monstrous Reapers and a rogue Pathfinder bent on reaching the elusive seventh world - and who will destroy anyone who stands against them.To find Bea, Ana will have to use every skill she has learned along the way. If she fails, it won't just be her best friend that's lost forever...A fiercely paced science fiction thriller, perfect for fans of Marie Lu.

Elizabeth Valchar-pretty, popular, and perfect-wakes up the morning after her eighteenth birthday party on her family's yacht, where she'd been celebrating with her six closest friends. A persistent thumping noise has roused her. When she goes to investigate, what she finds will change everything she thought she knew about her life, her friends, and everything in between. As Liz begins to unravel the circumstances surrounding her birthday night, she will find that no one around her, least of all Liz herself, was perfect-or innocent. Critically acclaimed author Jessica Warman brings readers along on a roller-coaster ride of a mystery, one that is also a heartbreaking character study, a touching romance, and ultimately a hopeful tale of redemption, love, and letting go.

Set in the 1970s, "In Between" deals with the struggle of a perfectionistic teen's crippling anxiety and depression. The story's heroine, Erin Barnes, wants more than anything to hide her disorders from others while facing the often unfriendly territory of adolescence in a strict and often cruel religious community. A cautionary tale of how well people can hide their despair.

Young Chance N. Counter thought her life was nothing more than a series of meaningless, random events. But when she finds some crinkly yellow pages from an old book, with the same drawing of a shadowy door in each one, this all suddenly changes. Pages in hand, and armed with only a flashlight, Chance finds one of the shadowy portals and steps into the place between night and day... it is the place where nightmares and fairytales and creatures that go bump in the night were created. It is the place of lore and legend and dreams, and the place where the Shadow King reigns supreme. But to leave, Chance, along with a new ally (who happens to be a talking fox) must summon all of her courage and use all of her wit to travel through this bizarre world and find her way home.

Between Us is the story of two teenagers – Jono and Anahita – falling in love for the first time. There’s just one thing standing between them: twenty kilometres of barbed wire fence. Anahita lives in the Wickham Point Immigration Detention Centre, where asylum seekers are detained while they wait to be ‘processed’ by the Australian government. The two teenagers meet at Darwin High School. Anahita travels from Wickham Point to school each day, passing through metal detectors, checkpoints and enduring multiple roll calls on the detention centre bus. Jono has no idea about any of this. All he knows is that there’s a beautiful new girl with dark eyes, who keeps looking over in his direction ... is it possible she likes him? Between Us is a playful and bittersweet novel about starting a new romance with someone whose life circumstances are miles from yours. Jono is athletic, musical and self-assured. He sees himself as 100% Australian, despite his Vietnamese heritage. He’s had girls keen on him before and hasn’t been interested ... but Anahita is different. He doesn’t know that she lives in a three by three metre room with her mother, and shares a bunk bed with her younger brother. He doesn’t know that she has to participate in activities to earn credits to buy a phone card to call him for half an hour. Or that she’s allocated an hour of internet time a day, with guards patrolling behind her to make sure she’s only doing homework. And she doesn’t want to tell him either. She wants to try to maintain the feeling of having something special, something secret, between them. It’s one area of her life in which she can pretend to be relatively normal ... but for how long?

When Elanor's near-death experience opens a door to a world inhabited by bold, beautiful Madeline, she finds her life quickly spiraling out of controlFourteen-year-old Elanor Moss has always been an outcast who fails at everything she tries―she's even got the fine, white scars to prove it. Moving was supposed to be a chance at a fresh start, a way to leave behind all the pain and ugliness of her old life. But, when a terrible car accident changes her life forever, her near-death experience opens a door to a world inhabited by Madeline Torus . . . Madeline is everything Elanor isn't: beautiful, bold, brave. She is exactly what Elanor has always wanted in a best friend and more―their connection runs deeper than friendship. But Madeline is not like other girls, and Elanor has to keep her new friend a secret or risk being labeled "crazy." Soon, though, even Elanor starts to doubt her own sanity. Madeline is her entire life, and that life is drastically spinning out of control. Elanor knows what happens when your best friend becomes your worst enemy. But what happens when your worst enemy is yourself? With her debut novel, The In-Between, Barbara Stewart presents a bold new voice in teen fiction.

Sadie Criswel is a teenage vampire misfit who can’t do anything right. After flunking out of University, where she couldn’t keep up with her vampire peers, she’s persuaded her parents to let her try human high school, where she hopes to better fit in.Now attending Jefferson High, Sadie makes new friends… and foes. To thwart a new set of mean girls, she accidentally ends up running for Homecoming Queen. And though she’s still dating Kade, from University, Jefferson’s resident bad boy catches her eye. But her new school adventure raises more questions about her existence. Why does her science teacher look so much like her vampire boyfriend? Why does her previous vampire teacher follow her to Jefferson High? And why does Harper, her new close friend, seem so familiar yet have so many secrets of her own?After Pen, a member of the Firsts, reveals important clues about why Sadie is different from other vampires, pieces of the puzzle fall into place. But it’s not until real danger confronts Sadie and Harper that they realize their past and present are tied together, raising the biggest question of all: Who can Sadie trust?