Take a look at our new book picks for teens and young adults this October! Includes titles by Lynn Painter, Courtney Gould, Safa Ahmed and more.
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The Soulmate Bakery
Safa Ahmed
Welcome to Maple Falls – a town full of wonder and magic, where pixie dust and the smell of enchanted cookies waft through the air, and all manner of fantastical creatures live in perfect bliss. Unless you’re Maya Reverie.
Kitchen witch, Maya just needs one thing in her life to go well. Done with being a walking disaster, she knows the exact thing that’ll help get her life on track – finding her soulmate. It shouldn’t be difficult; she has all the ingredients for the ultimate soulmate-finding-cookie.
But disaster strikes when her cookies end up at the town’s Annual Fall Bake Sale and wreak havoc. Maya will do anything to fix her latest mess. Even, ask Orion Hawthorne for help. The surly dragon-shifter has always been a thorn in her side, but he is the town’s best curse-breaker and she’ll need his help.
Because to fix this spell she’ll need to find her actual soulmate, confess and cast a counterspell of epic proportions. Easy.
Marionetta
Miriam Bonastre Tur
A mysterious circus. A missing friend. A dangerous deal.
Welcome! The show is about to begin!
Julia Lazarrett is happy with her honest, predictable life. But when her best friend Kamille convinces her to visit a travelling circus, they both get more than what they bargained for. Thrust into a world full of secrets, magic and death, Julia is forced to strike an impossible deal in order to survive.
Adapted in print from the viral Webtoon phenomenon, this first volume delivers exclusive new content, including never-before-seen illustrations and the first chapter of a new original story that fans can’t read online.
Until the Last Light Goes Out
Courtney Gould
Twenty-five years ago, the Ripley Memorial High School senior class entered the luxurious Kaleidoscope Key resort deep in the Florida Keys. Despite international intrigue and years of investigation, no one truly knows how the 183 students died.
And they never will, since the five survivors of the massacre have never spoken a word about what happened to them that night.
Paige Keller, daughter of one of the Kaleidoscope Key Massacre’s infamous survivors, has grown up determined to steer her life away from the unsolved mystery her ex-best friend, KJ, can’t leave alone. But when she’s called home on the 25th anniversary of the massacre, she finds that KJ has gone missing.
Paige knows there’s only one place KJ could be: the now-abandoned resort. When Paige and the remaining survivors’ kids go in after her, they’re forced to confront the past once and for all. Kaleidoscope Key is waiting. Once they find their way inside, there may not be a way out.
Apocalypse Baby
Anna Asher Penn
When teenagers Max and Kiran find a baby crying alone during a zombie attack, they make a split-second decision: rescue her.
Max has been surviving the wasteland solo since the ferinavirus outbreak turned humans into ravenous monsters called ferals.
Kiran has been safely hidden in a farming community – until ferals breach the walls. Now both are running.
Together, they trek across hostile territory toward a rumoured settlement, the baby strapped to their backs. But they’re opposites in every way. As constant friction sparks into friendship, then something deeper, they’re forced to navigate first love while keeping a helpless infant alive.
And themselves. In a world designed to kill them all.
Trust Fall
Lynn Painter
Julia is a small-town girl who loves her peaceful life. But when her family inherit a not-so-small fortune from her secret multi-millionaire neighbour, she is swept away to live in New York City and attend an elite private school for the super-rich.
It should be a dream come true, but Julia is struggling to fit in at her new school, and even worse, she’s failing. Enter Damion, the mysterious and handsome tutor who is hired to get Julia back on track.
Except Damion has a secret: he is a relative of the man who left everything to Julia’s family, and he doesn’t buy for a second that his Great-uncle would leave his fortune to strangers instead of family.
Damion schemes to earn Julia’s trust, so he can uncover what really happened. But the more time Damion spends with Julia, the more his plan begins to backfire, as he soon starts falling for her.
The Way We Become
Amber Smith
When Eden was raped by her brother’s friend Kevin, it was almost impossible to tell her family, let alone report to the police. But when Kevin’s own sister, Amanda, and his ex-girlfriend Gen also came forward, the girls found strength in their solidarity and did everything in their power to pursue justice.
Now, in the wake of the jury’s decision, they are expected to move on while still grappling with the grief and hurt from the events that turned their lives inside out.
With Amanda finishing high school, Eden adjusting to college, and Gen determining her path after graduation, each girl must chart her own course forward and discover the women they’ll become.
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