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Alenna Shawcross and the others who escaped the wheel are working toward an all-out assault on the United Northern Alliance. The plan is to dismantle it from the inside - and Alenna is one of the few people who can access the organization's inner sanctum. But when she returns to the home she has nearly forgotten, she encounters old friends and is swept into a secret plan that puts everything she loves in danger.

With Cayne's fate in the hands of his enemies and Julia spirited away to the covert Stained compound, the two are separated by impenetrable walls and a gulf of unanswered questions. Soon Julia learns the truth about the Stained and the plans they have for her, the compound is attacked, and a new group is running from an unwanted destiny, searching the globe in pursuit of the knowledge that just might save them all.

Karen DeSonne is used to pretending to be something she's not. All her life, she's passed as a normal all-American teenager; with her friends, with her family, and at school. Passing cost her the love of her life. And now that Karen's dead, she's still passing - this time, as alive. Meanwhile, Karen's dead friends have been fingered in a high-profile murder, causing a new round of anti-zombie regulations that have forced nearly all of Oakvale's undead into hiding.

In a moment of envy and desperation, Heather Gannis, Gaia's nemesis, allows Gaia's uncle, Loki, to inject her with the fearless serum - and it works, for a while. However, she is growing increasingly distracted and nervous. She approaches Gaia for help. But Gaia has been betrayed too often to let her guard down.

In a city full of police controversies, hippie artist punk houses, and overzealous liberals, Portland, Oregon, is a place where even its fiction blurs with its bizarre realities. Brand-new stories by: Gigi Little, Justin Hocking, Christopher Bolton, Jess Walter, Monica Drake, Jamie S. Rich (illustrated by Joelle Jones), Dan DeWeese, Zoe Trope, Luciana Lopez, Karen Karbo, Bill Cameron, Ariel Gore, Floyd Skloot, Megan Kruse, Kimberly Warner-Cohen, and Jonathan Selwood.

The forest is full of secrets. And who knows them better than Nessa Kurland, a 16-year-old cross-country star with a secret of her own: She can transform at will into a werewolf, and her power grows stronger with every moon. Nessa returns home from a run with her pack to find an FBI raid and the shocking news that her mother, Vivian, is being arrested for violations so serious she may be facing life in prison. What did Nessa's mother, a small-town vet tech, do to threaten Homeland Security?

After Sunita's beloved pet cat, Mittens, gets injured on her watch, she wonders if vet work is right for her. She takes an internship at a research lab, but learns that they test on animals and eventually put them to sleep. Sunita loves animals, but can she find a way to work with them without harming them?

Jo Spencer is a girl who knows what to be and how to be it - straight-A student, cheerleader, May Queen, popular and cute and virginal, and in perfect control. But halfway through her first year in college in the early '70s, her carefully normal life explodes and she comes completely undone. In The Cheer Leader, Jo Spencer looks back, as if she were watching reruns of old syndicated TV shows, to figure out what happened.

My memory is lost. Gone. I can’t remember my name or magîk. I don’t know what happened to our ruler or why the jungle is transforming and becoming even wilder. Who is the guard, and why is he angry? And why do I feel safe with a deadly panthera? Arriving in Pûleêr, I hope to find relief among the magî and, hopefully, some answers. Instead, the laws of nature change before my eyes, and the dangers of the jungle are nothing compared to this twisted utopia.

Finally sure of her feelings for Ed, Gaia is devastated after an attempt is made on his life, especially since she cannot seem to go back to her formerly fearless state, prompting her to isolate herself from him and her other friends.

My Little Red Book is an anthology of stories about first periods, collected from women of all ages from around the world. The accounts range from light-hearted (the editor got hers while water skiing in a yellow bathing suit) to heart-stopping (a first period discovered just as one girl was about to be strip-searched by the Nazis). The contributors include well-known women writers (Meg Cabot, Erica Jong, Gloria Steinem, Cecily von Ziegesar), alongside today's teens. And while the authors differ in race, faith, or cultural background, their stories share a common bond: they are all accessible, deeply honest, and highly informative.

Gaia Moore is genetically enhanced not to feel fear, so in an important Truth or Dare game with Mary and Ed, she chooses Dare every time. The game expands to include the entire city as their playing field, but then screeches to a grim halt when Mary is nearly murdered by her old drug dealer.

Seventeen-year-old Gaia Moore is genetically enhanced to be fearless. Since moving to New York, she has befriended Mary, a lesbian whose lifestyle Gaia defends. But by doing so, everyone assumes she and Mary are an item, including Mary's brother's friend Sam. Gaia must show him how she truly feels.

By law, any child born in Idara is free, even if that child is born in a slave brothel. Unfortunately, Cinder has grown into a beauty that surpasses even the renown of her mother and grandmother, making her far too valuable a commodity to lose. The slaveholder calls in Cinder’s debts. Forcing Cinder to play a game where her very freedom is the prize. The man most interested in buying Cinder is Adar - a prince with a wicked reputation that masks a kindness Cinder cannot fathom. In his glittering world of prestige and power, she discovers the game for her freedom is a smaller move.

In the 21st century, the pioneers who tame Earth's sister planets - the Sunspacers - venture into the frontiers of deep space. From the scorching mines of Mercury to the icy voids beyond Pluto's orbit, these visionaries develop Earth's sunspace and spearhead humanity's expansion into the galaxy.

Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and a mama who's not exactly sober most of the time. Everyone in town knows the Dickinsons are a bad lot, but Bo doesn't care what anyone thinks. Agnes Atwood has never gone on a date, never even stayed out past 10, and never broken any of her parents' overbearing rules. Rules that are meant to protect their legally blind daughter - protect her from what, Agnes isn't quite sure.

Gaia is shocked to learn "Loki" is her uncle, not her father. Now, with Loki captured and back in New York, Gaia and her father can hold the reunion of their dreams - and Gaia finally learns the truth of her mother's murder and her father's disappearance. Gaia wants to return to New York, but can it be possible for Gaia and her friends to live normal lives now?

I finally have Sam. I finally have a family. I finally have a way out. What's so bad about that?

On the Moon’s far side, shielded from Earth’s radio cacophony, Americans are building a radio-astronomy observatory. Russians sift the dust of a lunar “sea” for helium-3 to run future fusion reactors. Commercial robots, remotely operated from Earth, roam the Moon’s near side in a hunt for mineral wealth. Why chase distant asteroids for precious metals? One-time asteroids must lie close beneath the much-bombarded lunar surface. Then a prospecting robot encounters a desiccated, spacesuited figure. An alien figure.

David. He's Intriguing. Intelligent. Pensive. Penetrating. Mysterious. Dangerous. And interested. But most importantly...He's not Sam.