Young Power

Adena and Paedyn have always been inseparable. Fate brought them together when they were young, but friendship ensured they would always protect each other and the home they built in the slums of Loot. But now Paedyn—an Ordinary—has been selected for the Purging Trials, which means almost certain death. Now alone in Loot, Adena must fend for herself. After attempting to steal, she’s rescued by a mysterious man from the market. Mak’s shadowy past and secretive power set him apart from the other low-level Elites of Loot.

Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll—bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and the writer behind the Netflix adaptation starring Mila Kunis—delivers an “unflinching and evocative” (Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author) thriller in Bright Young Women. The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including a sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed.

It's been 18 months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine, since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died, one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her.

Could workaholic office lady Sei be a legendary Saint? Not according to the crown prince of another world, who summoned her and quickly declared a different girl was the real Saint!

Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she has albinism. She's a terrific athlete but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing - she is a "free agent" with latent mystical power.

Sei's life has just returned to a semblance of normal when she's once more summoned to the palace. A foreign prince is coming to the kingdom, ostensibly to study abroad, but his true intentions are shrouded in mystery. In order to protect Sei, the kingdom instructs her to hide her true identity as the Saint and retreat to the safety of the palace. While she complies at first, she soon finds herself drawn to the prince—especially when it becomes clear that she might be the only person who can help him.

Having a superpower is ordinary. Your power determines your entire life. But 17-year-old Ugene is powerless. He can’t read minds or enhance his strength. He can’t manipulate natural matter or heal injuries. Determined to find out why he is different, Ugene submits himself as a test subject at Paragon. But nothing is as it seems. All exits from the testing floor are sealed. Subjects endure brutal and sometimes deadly injuries. No amount of power can save them.

Adena and Paedyn have always been inseparable. Fate brought them together when they were young, but friendship ensured they’d always protect each other and the home they built in the slums of Loot. But now Paedyn – an Ordinary – has been selected for The Purging Trials, which means almost certain death. Now alone in Loot, Adena must fend for herself. After attempting to steal, it’s a mysterious man from the market who comes to her rescue. Mak’s shadowy past and secretive power set him apart from the other low-level Elites of Loot.

I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened in Ohio. John Smith, out there, on the run. To the world, he's a mystery. But to me . . . he's one of us.

The ongoing adventures of Taggart and his motley crew of family, friends, and on-again, off-again enemies as they try to stop a cataclysmic disaster from befalling the galaxy. Power is the seventh and final book in the Emberling series, an action-packed carnival ride of a space opera that will leave you breathless.

Now that Sei has performed multiple miracles in the capital and beyond, her reputation is on the rise, as are her business ventures. Unfortunately, not everyone harbors entirely noble intentions for the Saint. Some would use her for their own ends. That's why Sei's friends and benefactors want to help her start her own company, as well as to secure her official place in high society—before someone tries to claim everything she's made, and everything she is, for themselves.

For over two years, Sei has traveled the lands of the Kingdom of Salutania to purify the miasma and subdue the monsters that plague her new home. However, while Sei may soon bring this chapter of her life to a close, the next has already begun. The time has come for the Saint to choose her future husband. While Sei's heart has long since belonged to a certain icy-eyed knight, many others seek her hand in marriage. Now Sei and Albert must find a way to confess their feelings before a certain noble's ambitions tear them apart forever.

Sei's many accomplishments as the Saint have earned her a slew of marriage proposals, and it's honestly kind of a nightmare. Fortunately, she has the opportunity to escape all that with a trip to the Hawke Borderlands, the ancestral home of her dear Ice Knight, Albert Hawke. Less fortunately, she must go there in order to cleanse a new wellspring of miasma and the accompanying swarm of monsters. Little does she know, Albert is hoping the expedition will bear fruits beyond mere monster hunting. Will the Ice Knight finally make his move?

Sei's first journey abroad in this other world is to Zaidera and she's trying her hand at making magical amulets! She's also over the moon about her engagement to Albert. While busy with wedding preparations, Sei overhears how one of the members of First Prince Kyle's delegation to Zaidera is now bedridden with an unknown illness. Naturally, Sei can't just stand idly by, and, with that, her trip to Zaidera is hurriedly assured. However, upon her arrival, Kyle informs Sei that no one is sick and to make matters worse, the port has been closed, so they're now stuck abroad!

The worst day of Eric's life was capped off by him being kicked through a gateway into a universe filled with magic and monsters. To make matters worse, he had to fight for his life the moment he arrived. Nothing could have prepared him for a world where everything either wants to kill him or eat him.

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Grand Magus Yuri Drewes has risen from his coma, and he wants to teach Sei how to wield her magic. Just one problem: Yuri definitely suspects Sei's the Saint, but Sei's not ready to be outed. Even worse, under Yuri's tutelage, Sei's power continues to grow, and her true strength may soon be impossible to conceal.

A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop her magical powers, Sunny learned she had been chosen to lead a dangerous mission to avert an apocalypse, brought about by the terrifying masquerade Ekwensu. Now, stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny is studying with her mentor, Sugar Cream, and struggling to unlock the secrets in her strange Nsibidi book.

Ryan wakes up to find his contractor dad building walls to turn their big old house into a duplex. The family that moves into the other side includes Bizzy Horvat, the pretty girl he has a crush on at school. Bizzy claims her mother is a witch with the power to curse people with clumsiness or, in Bizzy’s case, astonishing beauty. When a bee gets caught in Bizzy’s hair, Ryan acts so quickly and radically to save her from getting stung that he attracts the attention of a group of micropotents - people with micropowers.

Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de’ Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife. In 1546, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, who would become Queen of Spain. Two years later, Catherine welcomed to her nursery the beguiling young Mary Queen of Scots, who would later become her daughter-in-law. Together, Catherine, Elisabeth, and Mary lived through the sea changes that transformed sixteenth-century Europe.