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Sometimes revival would be initiated by regular preaching or the customary pulpit exchanges between two ministers. Through their efforts, New England experienced a "great and general Awakening" between and characterized by a greater interest in religious experience, widespread emotional preaching, and intense emotional reactions accompanying conversion, including fainting and weeping.

It is estimated that between 20, to 50, new members were admitted to New England's Congregational churches even as expectations for members increased. By , the Awakening had begun to wane. Revivals would continue to spread to the southern backcountry and slave communities in the s and s.

The Great Awakening aggravated existing conflicts within the Protestant churches, often leading to schisms between supporters of revival, known as "New Lights", and opponents of revival, known as "Old Lights". Old Lights saw the religious enthusiasm and itinerant preaching unleashed by the Awakening as disruptive to church order, preferring formal worship and a settled, university-educated ministry.

They mocked revivalists as being ignorant, heterodox or con artists. New Lights accused Old Lights of being more concerned with social status than with saving souls and even questioned whether some Old Light ministers were even converted. They also supported itinerant ministers who disregarded parish boundaries. Congregationalists in New England experienced 98 schisms, which in Connecticut also affected which group would be considered "official" for tax purposes.

It is estimated in New England that in the churches there were about one-third each of New Lights, Old Lights, and those who saw both sides as valid. Around Separatist congregations were organized throughout the region by Strict Congregationalists.

Objecting to the Halfway Covenant , Strict Congregationalists required evidence of conversion for church membership and also objected to the semi—presbyterian Saybrook Platform , which they felt infringed on congregational autonomy. Because they threatened Congregationalist uniformity, the Separatists were persecuted and in Connecticut they were denied the same legal toleration enjoyed by Baptists, Quakers and Anglicans.

The Baptists benefited the most from the Great Awakening. Numerically small before the outbreak of revival, Baptist churches experienced growth during the last half of the 18th century. By , there were over Baptist churches in New England. This growth was primarily due to an influx of former New Light Congregationalists who became convinced of Baptist doctrines, such as believer's baptism. In some cases, entire Separatist congregations accepted Baptist beliefs as a body.

Evangelicals considered the new birth to be "a bond of fellowship that transcended disagreements on fine points of doctrine and polity", allowing Anglicans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and others to cooperate across denominational lines. While divisions between Old and New Lights remained, New Lights became less radical over time and evangelicalism became more mainstream.

In part, this was due to the growth of the New Side and the numerical decline of the Old Side. In , the pro-revival party had around 22 ministers, but this number had increased to 73 by The Great Awakening inspired the creation of evangelical educational institutions. The Great Awakening was not the first time that Protestant churches had experienced revival; however, it was the first time a common evangelical identity had emerged based on a fairly uniform understanding of salvation , preaching the gospel and conversion.

The major figures of the Great Awakening, such as George Whitefield , Jonathan Edwards , Gilbert Tennent , Jonathan Dickinson and Samuel Davies , were moderate evangelicals who preached a pietistic form of Calvinism heavily influenced by the Puritan tradition, which held that religion was not only an intellectual exercise but also had to be felt and experienced in the heart.

The first stage was conviction of sin , which was spiritual preparation for faith by God's law and the means of grace. The second stage was conversion, in which a person experienced spiritual illumination, repentance and faith. The third stage was consolation , which was searching and receiving assurance of salvation. This process generally took place over an extended time. Conviction of sin was the stage that prepared someone to receive salvation, and this stage often lasted weeks or months.

As Calvinists, revivalists also preached the doctrines of original sin and unconditional election. Due to the fall of man , humans are naturally inclined to rebel against God and unable to initiate or merit salvation, according to the doctrine of original sin. Unconditional election relates to the doctrine of predestination —that before the creation of the world God determined who would be saved the elect on the basis of his own choosing.

The preaching of these doctrines resulted in the convicted feeling both guilty and totally helpless, since God was in complete control over whether they would be saved or not. Revivalists counseled those under conviction to apply the means of grace to their lives. These were spiritual disciplines such as prayer , Bible study, church attendance and personal moral improvement.

While no human action could produce saving faith, revivalists taught that the means of grace might make conversion more likely. An issue that had to be addressed were the intense physical and emotional reactions to conviction experienced during the Awakening. Samuel Blair described such responses to his preaching in , "Several would be overcome and fainting ; others deeply sobbing, hardly able to contain, others crying in a most dolorous manner, many others more silently weeping.

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And sometimes the soul exercises of some, thought comparatively but very few, would so far affect their bodies, as to occasion some strange, unusual bodily motions. The conviction stage lasted so long because potential converts were waiting to find evidence of regeneration within their lives. The revivalists believed regeneration or the new birth was not simply an outward profession of faith or conformity to Christianity.

They believed it was an instantaneous, supernatural work of the Holy Spirit providing someone with "a new awareness of the beauty of Christ, new desires to love God, and a firm commitment to follow God's holy law. Regeneration was always accompanied by saving faith, repentance and love for God—all aspects of the conversion experience, which typically lasted several days or weeks under the guidance of a trained pastor. Following this illumination, converts placed their faith in Christ, depending on him alone for salvation. At the same time, a hatred of sin and a commitment to eliminate it from the heart would take hold, setting the foundation for a life of repentance or turning away from sin.

Revivalists distinguished true conversion which was motivated by love of God and hatred of sin from false conversion which was motivated by fear of hell. True conversion meant that a person was among the elect, but even a person with saving faith might doubt his election and salvation. Revivalists taught that assurance of salvation was the product of Christian maturity and sanctification. The treatise Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards was written to help converts examine themselves for the presence of genuine "religious affections" or spiritual desires, such as selfless love of God, certitude in the divine inspiration of the gospel, and other Christian virtues.

It was not enough, however, to simply reflect on past experiences. Revivalists taught that assurance could only be gained through actively seeking to grow in grace and holiness through moritification of sin and utilizing the means of grace. In Religious Affections , the last sign addressed by Edwards was "Christian practice", and it was this sign to which he gave the most space in his treatise.

The search for assurance required conscious effort on the part of a convert and took months or even years to achieve. The new style sermons and the way in which people practiced their faith breathed new life into religion in America. Participants became passionately and emotionally involved in their religion, rather than passively listening to intellectual discourse in a detached manner.

Ministers who used this new style of preaching were generally called "new lights", while the preachers who remained unemotional were referred to as "old lights". People affected by the revival began to study the Bible at home. This effectively decentralized the means of informing the public on religious matters and was akin to the individualistic trends present in Europe during the Protestant Reformation.

The Awakening played a major role in the lives of women, though they were rarely allowed to preach or take leadership roles. They became more independent in their decisions, as in the choice of a husband. The autobiography of Hannah Heaton —94 , a farm wife of North Haven, Connecticut , tells of her experiences in the Great Awakening, her encounters with Satan , her intellectual and spiritual development, and daily life on the farm.

Phillis Wheatley was the first published black female poet, and she was converted to Christianity as a child after she was brought to America. Her beliefs were overt in her works; she describes the journey of being taken from a Pagan land to be exposed to Christianity in the colonies in a poem entitled "On Being Brought from Africa to America. She was a Rhode Island schoolteacher, and her writings offer a fascinating glimpse into the spiritual and cultural upheaval of the time period, including a memoir, various diaries and letters, and her anonymously published The Nature, Certainty and Evidence of True Christianity The First Great Awakening led to changes in Americans' understanding of God, themselves, the world around them, and religion.

In the southern Tidewater and Low Country, northern Baptist and Methodist preachers converted both white and black people. Some were enslaved at their time of conversion while others were free. Caucasians began to welcome dark-skinned individuals into their churches, taking their religious experiences seriously, while also admitting them into active roles in congregations as exhorters, deacons, and even preachers, although the last was a rarity. The message of spiritual equality appealed to many slaves, and, as African religious traditions continued to decline in North America, black people accepted Christianity in large numbers for the first time.

Evangelical leaders in the southern colonies had to deal with the issue of slavery much more frequently than those in the North. Still, many leaders of the revivals proclaimed that slaveholders should educate their slaves so that they could become literate and be able to read and study the Bible. Many Africans were finally provided with some sort of education. George Whitefield's sermons reiterated an egalitarian message, but only translated into a spiritual equality for Africans in the colonies who mostly remained enslaved.

Whitefield was known to criticize slaveholders who treated their slaves cruelly and those who did not educate them, but he had no intention to abolish slavery. He lobbied to have slavery reinstated in Georgia and proceeded to become a slave holder himself. Despite his stance on slavery, Whitefield became influential to many Africans.

Samuel Davies was a Presbyterian minister who later became the fourth president of Princeton University. While I lived in my own country, I knew nothing of that Jesus I have heard you speak so much about. I lived quite careless what will become of me when I die; but I now see such a life will never do, and I come to you, Sir, that you may tell me some good things, concerning Jesus Christ, and my Duty to GOD, for I am resolved not to live any more as I have done. Davies became accustomed to hearing such excitement from many blacks who were exposed to the revivals.

He believed that blacks could attain knowledge equal to whites if given an adequate education, and he promoted the importance for slaveholders to permit their slaves to become literate so that they could become more familiar with the instructions of the Bible. The emotional worship of the revivals appealed to many Africans, and African leaders started to emerge from the revivals soon after they converted in substantial numbers.

These figures paved the way for the establishment of the first black congregations and churches in the American colonies. The idea of a "great awakening" has been contested by historian Jon Butler as vague and exaggerated. He suggested that historians abandon the term Great Awakening because the 18th-century revivals were only regional events that occurred in only half of the American colonies and their effects on American religion and society were minimal.

Professor Alan Heimert sees a major impact, but most historians think it had only a minor impact. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This section needs expansion with: You can help by adding to it. History in the United States. Articles of Religion Assurance of salvation Conditional preservation of the saints. Four sources of theological authority. John Wesley Charles Wesley. Holiness movement Conservative holiness movement Pentecostalism Evangelicalism.

Evangelical revival in Scotland. Evangelicalism in the United States. Old and New Light. Afrikaners Huguenots Pilgrims Puritans other English dissenters. Methodism portal Calvinism portal Baptist portal Evangelical Christianity portal. British Christians usually refer to the revivals—collectively and more simply—as 'the evangelical revival. Poems By Phillis Wheatley. Retrieved April 8, A Religious History of the American People 2nd ed. Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the s to the s.

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Why she fell apart so completely. For once, she will just get to be. For generations, the Milbourn women have lead extraordinary lives—and died young and tragically. Granddad calls it a legacy, but Ivy considers it a curse. Why else would her mother have run off and abandoned her as a child? But when her mother unexpectedly returns home with two young daughters in tow, all of the stories Ivy wove to protect her heart start to unravel.

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All she wanted was to get away from her parents, her problems, her life. All she needs is one night to be anyone she wants. Julie is desperate for a change. But between her super-clingy team leader and her way-too-chipper companions, Julie feels more trapped than ever. In a moment of daring, she ditches her work clothes for DIY fairy wings and heads straight into the heart of Mid-Summer Mardi Gras, where she locks eyes with Miles, an utterly irresistible guy with a complicated story of his own.

She jumps at the chance to see the real New Orleans, and in one surreal night, they dance under the stars, share their most shameful secrets, and fall in love. But their adventure takes an unexpected turn when an oncoming hurricane changes course. As the storm gains power and Julie is pulled back into chaos she finds pretending everything is fine is no longer an option. London has been destroyed in a blitz of bombs and disease. The only ones who have survived are children, among them Gwen Darling and her siblings, Joanna and Mikey. He and his Marauders stalk the streets snatching children for experimentation.

Until the day they grab Joanna. As Gwen sets out to save her, she meets a mysterious boy named Pete. Pete offers the assistance of his gang of Lost Boys and the fierce sharpshooter Bella, who have all been living in a city hidden underground. But in a place where help has a steep price and every promise is bound by blood, it will cost Gwen. Their parents are engaged, which makes them step-sisters. Even if it means putting their own feud aside to separate their parents. One big, miserable group of exes and enemies together allow secrets to unfold and plans to be plotted.

Sixteen-year-old Solomon is agoraphobic. But how can she prove she deserves a spot there? It starts with a list of fears. Unable to see her two moms clearly. Unable to read the music for her guitar. One step closer to losing the things she cares about the most. For a while, the only thing that keeps Hailey moving forward is the feeling she gets when she crosses something off the list. Then she meets Kyle. He mumbles—when he talks at all—and listens to music to drown out his thoughts. So Hailey talks him into making his own list. Together, they stumble into an odd friendship, helping each other tackle one after another of their biggest fears.

But fate and timing can change everything. And sometimes facing your worst fear makes you realize you had nothing to lose after all. As the daughter of an expert astrologer, Wilamena Carlisle knows that the truth lies within the stars.

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So when she discovers a rare planetary alignment, she is forced to tackle her worst astrological fear — The Fifth House of Relationships and Love. In the concluding book in the otherworldly Taking trilogy, Kyra struggles to understand who she is as she races to save the world from complete destruction. Ever since Kyra was abducted by aliens and then returned to earth, she has known there was something different about her.

Now she knows the truth: Her alien captors replaced all her human DNA with their own—gifting her with supernatural powers like incredible healing, enhanced eyesight, and telekinesis. And is she, as her enemies believe, meant to play some key role in helping an impending alien invasion? Is it programmed into her, something inescapable? Or can she fight that destiny?

No matter what the truth is, Kyra is sure of one thing: She just rescued the love of her life, Tyler, and she is not going to stand by and let anyone hurt him or her friends. Whatever it takes, Kyra will do everything in her power to save the world…even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.

Ember Crow is missing. To find her friend, Ashala Wolf must control her increasingly erratic and dangerous Sleepwalking ability and leave the Firstwood. Willa Parker, th and least-popular resident of What Cheer, Iowa, is headed east to start a new life. Did she choose this life? But when she meets peculiar, glittering Remy Taft, the richest, most mysterious girl on campus, she starts to see a foothold in this foreign world—a place where she could maybe, possibly, sort of fit in. When Willa looks at Remy, she sees a girl who has everything. But for Remy, having everything comes at a price.

And as she spirals out of control, Willa can feel Remy spinning right out of her grasp. But Fletcher has little time to dwell on these new revelations when the king announces a deadly challenge to the graduating students at Vocans. One that involves entering Orc territory to complete a risky mission. With loyal demons by their sides, commoners and nobles, dwarves and elves must overcome barriers of class and race and work together to triumph. With everything stacked against him, Fletcher must use everything in his power to fight his way to victory. Liz Grant is about to have the summer of her life.

She and her friend MacKenzie are getting invited to all the best parties, and with any luck, Innis Taylor, the most gorgeous guy in Bonneville, will be her boyfriend before the Fourth of July. A million years ago, he was her best friend, but that was before he ditched her for a different crowd. And how many more people will get hurt when the truth finally comes out? In , baby Aphra is found among the reeds and rushes by two outcast witches.

Even as an infant, her gifts in the dark craft are clear. But when her guardians succumb to an angry mob, Aphra is left to fend for herself. She is shunned and feared by all but one man, the leper known as Long Lankin. Now, in , Cora and Mimi, the last of a cursed line, are trapped in an ancient home on a crumbling estate in deepest winter, menaced by a spirit bent on revenge.

Are their lives and souls forfeit forever? Cassidy Emmerich is determined to make this summer—the last before her boyfriend heads off to college—unforgettable. Now, instead of being poolside with him, Cass is over a hundred miles away, spending the summer with her estranged father and his family at their bed-and-breakfast at the Jersey Shore and working as the newest counselor at Camp Manatee. Bryan Lakewood is sick of nevers. Cass is expecting two months dealing with heartbreak.

Bryan is expecting a summer of tough adjustments. Neither of them is expecting to fall in love. But Addie is determined to prove the science of love—because Addie Emerson does believe in science. And by artificially stimulating those chemicals, the brain can totally be tricked into falling in love. So Addie decides to apply that knowledge—and make her classmates fall in love—to win the coveted Athenian Award for Science in her elite private school. But a mysterious new guy keeps messing with her plans. With backstabbing competitors—including her former lab partner, the preppy, wealthier-than-thou Dex—and more than one pair of star-crossed lovers—can Addie manage to salvage her experiment and win the Athenian?

And what happens if she does the unthinkable—and falls in love? Everyone wants to be someone. Just as their hopes begin to gleam like stars through the California smog, Madison Brooks goes missing. And all of their hopes are blacked out in the haze of their lies. But looks can be deceiving. When her parents disappear, her life and her Perfect Girl charade begins to crumble, and her scheme to put things right just takes the situation from bad to so much worse.

If she were telling it straight, friendship might not be the right word to describe their alliance, since Drea and her new associates could not be more different. She s rich and privileged; they re broke and, well, criminal. But Drea s got a secret: When it turns out they share a common enemy, Drea suggests they join forces to set things right. Sometimes, to save the day, a good girl s gotta be bad. There are only three things that can get seventeen-year-old Molly Byrne out of bed these days: Even if he does ask her out every…single…day.

But—sarcastic drum roll, please—nothing can stay the same forever. When Molly finds out FishTopia is turning into a bleak country diner, her whole life seems to fall apart at once. Soon she has to figure out what—if anything—is worth fighting for. As she grants wishes under the watchful eye of the Afrit council, she remains torn between her two worlds—human and Jinn.

Straddling the line becomes impossible. Aware of her unique abilities, Azra must not just face but embrace her destiny. But when the role she must play and those she must protect expand to include a circle of Jinn greater than her own, Azra will be forced to risk everything.

Blue Riley has wrestled with her own demons ever since the loss of her mother to cancer. When the devil changes the terms of their deal, Blue must reevaluate her understanding of good and evil and open herself to finding family in unexpected places. Adrian Piper is used to blending into the background at his Texas high school.

He may be a talented artist, a sci-fi geek, and gay, but those traits only bring him the worst kind of attention. In fact, the only place he feels free to express himself is at his drawing table, crafting a secret world through his own Renaissance art-inspired superhero, Graphite. But in real life, when a shocking hate crime flips his world upside-down, Adrian must decide what kind of person he wants to be. Gena short for Genevieve and Finn short for Stephanie have little in common.

Book-smart Gena is preparing to leave her posh boarding school for college; down-to-earth Finn is a twenty-something struggling to make ends meet in the big city. But they share a passion for Up Below, a buddy cop TV show with a cult fan following. Gena is a darling of the fangirl scene, keeping a popular blog and writing fan fiction. Maguire is bad luck. No matter how many charms she buys off the internet or good luck rituals she performs each morning, horrible things happen when Maguire is around. Like that time the rollercoaster jumped off its tracks.

Or the time the house next door caught on fire. Or that time her brother, father, and uncle were all killed in a car crash—and Maguire walked away with barely a scratch. But then she meets Jordy, an aspiring tennis star. Maguire knows that the best thing she can do for Jordy is to stay away. But it turns out staying away is harder than she thought. After sampling an experimental polio vaccine brewed on a remote island off St.

Being seventeen forever with him is a dream. But soon a group of religious fanatics, the Church of Light, takes note. On the run, Emma is tragically separated from Charlie. For the next hundred years, she plays a cat-and-mouse game with the founding members of the Church of Light and their descendants. Over the years, a series of murders—whose victims all bear more than a passing resemblance to her—indicate that her enemies are closing in. After an escape gone wrong, Phee barely made it out of Castra alive. But Cash, the leader of the rebellion, is still missing—and Charles Benroyal is to blame.

Caught between grief and blinding thoughts of revenge, Phee fights for the resistance, gaining new allies and, perhaps, making new enemies, too. But no one is prepared for the sacrifices Phee will have to make to win this war once and for all. Marshall Holt is a loser. He drinks on school nights and gets stoned in the park. He is at risk of not graduating, he does not care, he is no one. But quickly she begins to see the benefit of silence. It frustrates the heck out of her parents.

And it also gets the attention of her handsome Math teacher, Mr Holdsworth…. Tess sets out to discover the identity of her real father. Whatever the reason, summer is the perfect time for love to bloom. Twelve Love Stories , written by twelve bestselling young adult writers and edited by the international bestselling author Stephanie Perkins, will have you dreaming of sunset strolls by the lake. So set out your beach chair and grab your sunglasses. You have twelve reasons this summer to soak up the sun and fall in love.

Vika Andreyeva can summon the snow and turn ash into gold. Nikolai Karimov can see through walls and conjure bridges out of thin air.

They are enchanters—the only two in Russia—and with the Ottoman Empire and the Kazakhs threatening, the Tsar needs a powerful enchanter by his side. The defeated is sentenced to death. Raised on tiny Ovchinin Island her whole life, Vika is eager for the chance to show off her talent in the grand capital of Saint Petersburg. But can she kill another enchanter—even when his magic calls to her like nothing else ever has? Trixie Watson has two very important goals for senior year: After all, the war of Watson v.

West is as vicious as the Doctor v. Daleks and Browncoats v. Alliance combined, and it goes all the way back to the infamous monkey bars incident in the first grade. For some people, silence is a weapon. Growing up, she learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing.

Now, after years of homeschooling with loving adoptive parents, Mallory must face a new milestone—spending her senior year at public high school.

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Rising sophomore Travis and his best friend, Creature, spend a summer in a Eugene, Oregon, trailer park dealing with cancer, basketball, first love, addiction, gang violence, and a reptilian infestation. Breaking up with her boyfriend is not how Veda planned on starting her summer. And so she sets out on the love quest of a lifetime: All she has to do is kiss twenty-six boys with twenty-six different names—one for each letter of the alphabet.

But just when Veda thinks she has the whole kissing thing figured out, she meets someone who turns her world upside down. Dreams bring nothing but death and grief, and Tess refuses to accept that she may be destined for the same madness that destroyed her mother. Until her disturbing dreams become the only means of saving Lord Ravencross, the man she loves, and her friends at Stranje House from Lady Daneska and her lover, the Ghost-agent of Napoleon, who has escaped from Elba. Can the young ladies of Stranje House prevail once more?

Or is England destined to fall into the hands of the power-mad dictator? Six teens legally liberated from parental control—the bad boy, the good girl, the diva, the hustler, the rocker, and the nerd—all share a house in Venice Beach and they all have one thing in common: One is caught in a forbidden romance with a Hollywood hearttrob while another puts her dreams on the line for one little kiss. And before they know it, the friends are fighting like family.

But when an uninvited houseguest and a deadly accident entangle them in a conspiracy none of them saw coming, pulling together is the only way out. Alone, none of them can cover up the lies. Together, none of them can be trusted. Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from the poverty in Chinatown, and an education at St.

With martial law in effect, she is forced to wait with her classmates for their families in a temporary park encampment. But what can one teenaged girl do to heal so many suffering in her broken city? The night of the party is hazy at best. But she knows what Adam did to her twin sister, Grace, and she knows he had to pay for it. And one night a note is shoved through her open window, threatening Joy that all will be revealed.

Now the anonymous blackmailer starts using Joy to expose the secrets of their placid hometown. After their failed escape attempt, Cora, Lucky, and Mali have been demoted to the lowest level of human captives and placed in a safari-themed environment called the Hunt, along with wild animals and other human outcasts.

They must serve new Kindred masters—Cora as a lounge singer, Lucky as an animal wrangler, and Mali as a safari guide—and follow new rules or face dangerous consequences. And Leon, the only one who successfully escaped, has teamed up with villainous Mosca black-market traders. Separated and constantly under watch, she and the others must struggle to stay alive, never mind find a way back to each other. Gave death a face to put back in our face, because they knew that was the only way to crush us.

It will end where it began, where it had been from the beginning, on the battlefield of the last beating human heart. Kelsey was raised to see danger everywhere. A few days later, she arrives home to face her greatest fear: She and her mother have drilled for all contingencies—except this one. Luckily, Ryan is as skilled at emergency rescues as Kelsey is at escape and evasion.

To have a chance at a future, Kelsey will have to face all her darkest fears. Because someone is coming for her. But when he rescues a stranger and riots begin to sweep the country, Joshua has to face the world beneath—the world deep inside him—to make heartbreaking choices that will change his life forever.

Celebrating her escape from East Germany and the success of her new film, teen starlet Pagan Jones returns to Hollywood to reclaim her place among the rich and the famous. When Devin reappears with an opportunity for Pagan to get back into the spy game, she is eager to embrace the role once again—all she has to do is identify a potential Nazi war criminal. A man who has ties to her mother. But when a beloved teacher gives her his worn copy of The Bugglegum Reaper —a mysterious, out-of-print cult classic—the rebel within Nanette awakens.

As she befriends the reclusive author, falls in love with a young troubled poet, and attempts to insert her true self into the world with wild abandon, Nanette learns the hard way that rebellion sometimes comes at a high price. When Frannie Little eavesdrops on her parents fighting she discovers that her cousin Truman is gay, and his parents are so upset they are sending him to live with her family for the summer. Together, they embark on a magical summer marked by slowly unraveling secrets.

Her work keeps her headaches at bay, but it means she must lie to everyone she loves, including her longtime boyfriend, Charlie. But as her love life gets more complicated, so do her visions. People halfway around the world seem to be in danger…and people in her own backyard, too. Thomas is supposed to leave for the army in the morning. His father was Army. His brother, Jake, is Army—is a hero, even, with the medals to prove it. Everyone expects Thomas to follow in that fine tradition. And so when his long-estranged friend Mallory suggests one last night of adventure, Thomas takes her up on the distraction.

Over the course of this single night, Thomas will lose, find, resolve, doubt, drive, explore, and leap off a bridge. Who will return to Nil, and in the end, who will survive? In this thrilling final installment of the Nil series, the stakes have never been higher: Soon one Nil truth becomes painfully clear: An entire country has been lied to. Silver Blackthorn was supposed to be one of the privileged few, chosen to serve and help rebuild a shattered nation.

Tales of her defiance have spread across the land. King Victor and the Minister Prime want her dead, the resistance groups are desperate for her help. As her travels take her into the far reaches of an unknown land, she is forced to make new friends and hunt for new allegiances. Sidney and her friends must race to find the origin of a storm that has hit their small island home—turning every animal into savage weapons—in this suspenseful thriller from New York Times bestselling author, Thomas E.

Now a storm is bearing down on Benediction, a hurricane that will bring devastating winds and rain, rising tides…and something else. Something deadly; something that will transform all the things that creep, crawl, and flutter into instruments of terror and death. That feeling when her ex ripped her heart out of her chest and she never saw it coming. Because even famous people are ghosted by guys sometimes. And it sucks just as much. After getting her heart shattered, Lily is taking herself out of the spotlight and heading to a small island in middle-of-nowhere Maine with her closest friends.

She has three months until her fall tour starts-three months to focus on herself, her music, her new album. She loves Noel-but she loves her fans, too. And come August, she may be forced to choose. David Piper has always been an outsider. Only his two best friends know the real truth: David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school Leo Denton has one goal: Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in his class is definitely not part of that plan.

When Leo stands up for David in a fight, an unlikely friendship forms. But things are about to get messy. Because at Eden Park School secrets have a funny habit of not staying secret for long , and soon everyone knows that Leo used to be a girl. As David prepares to come out to his family and transition into life as a girl and Leo wrestles with figuring out how to deal with people who try to define him through his history, they find in each other the friendship and support they need to navigate life as transgender teens as well as the courage to decide for themselves what normal really means.

And if people assume Daisy herself is gay? Sarah is forced to take a summer poetry class as penance for trashing the home of a famous poet in this fresh novel about finding your own voice. But when that boy turns out to be a troublemaker who decided to throw a party at a cottage museum dedicated to renowned poet, Rufus Baylor, everything changes.

For Sarah, Baylor is a revelation. Through his classes, Sarah starts to see her relationships and the world in a new light—and finds that maybe her happy ending is really only part of a much more interesting beginning. Not only must she care for her sick mother, she has to scrape together rent money by selling illegal herbal cures. But none of that compares to the threat of the vengeful Sleeping Prince whom the Queen just awoke from his enchanted sleep. When her village is evacuated as part of the war against the Sleeping Prince, Errin is left desperate and homeless.

Silas promises to help her, but when he vanishes, Errin must journey across a kingdom on the brink of war to seek another way to save her mother and herself. But what she finds shatters everything she believed about her world, and with the Sleeping Prince drawing nearer, Errin must make a heartbreaking choice that could affect the whole kingdom.

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