High school student Maggie Mitchell wakes up one morning with a pounding hangover. That’s almost to be expected on a decadent Spring Break vacation. What Maggie doesn’t expect, however, is to find herself accused of a close friend’s murder. Giselle Haverford is the gorgeous, wealthy daughter of Senator Robert Haverford. It was her idea to…
Eight disgruntled Warner Prep students are on their way from their Los Angeles homes to a remote Colorado ski retreat for a digital detox. This trip was almost none of their first choices for their high school’s annual Senior Excursion. Their chaperone, the tough but respected school counselor Ms. Silva, is adamant that this will…
Like everyone else with a healthy interest in pop culture and history, I already knew that the Medici family of Europe’s Renaissance period had quite the reputation for being terrible people. However, it was only with this novel, Caitlin Schneiderhan’s illuminating historical mystery for young adult readers, that I wholly understood why. In the early…
Life in Jamaica outside of the tourist hotspots is a far cry from the image of paradise its government wants to portray. With jobs scarce, many have turned to gangs or migrated overseas in order to make ends meet for themselves and their families. Deja’s mom is one of the latter, trying to make a…
Half-brothers Amir and Marcel Trudeau have never really gotten along. When restaurateur Martin Trudeau left his first wife Monica to marry his pregnant mistress Lily, the seeds were planted for a sibling rivalry that would last almost two decades. However misguidedly, Amir and Marcel grew up feeling that they had to compete for their father’s…
Seventeen-year-old Mona Perry is a girl on a mission. It’s the summer after high school graduation and she knows that this is the best, and perhaps only, time she’ll ever have in which to investigate the disappearance of up-and-coming singer Roxy Raines. Thirty years ago, young Roxy abruptly vanished after a headlining gig in her…
Lucy Michaels has spent far too many of her eighteen years attempting to allay her worrywart mother’s fears. Since her younger brother Clay died and her father left their family, Lucy has been responsible for keeping Joanny’s anxieties from becoming too overwhelming – a very heavy burden to ask of any child, never mind one…
Harlow Ford has been running with her mother Cora from an unknown something for as long as she can remember in And Don’t Look Back by Rebecca Barrow. Now just shy of eighteen, she’s gotten practiced at quietly leaving whatever town they’d been living in and slipping into a new life, miles away, for whatever…
Victorian England is a time of social upheaval as well as glorious technological and cultural progress. Enola Holmes, our young sleuth (or perditorian, as she prefers,) is discreetly practicing her trade while pursuing an education at the Women’s Academy. Perhaps more importantly for her peace of mind, she has finally reconciled with her overbearing older…
Despite being identical twins, the Sanchez sisters have wildly different personalities. The elder sister Lela is quiet and calm, while younger Delfi is brash and ready to break both rules and hearts. While the sisters have always had an uncanny ability to sense emotions and make “lucky” guesses, turning eighteen has kicked their paranormal powers…
