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The Atlas Six

The much-acclaimed BookTok sensation, Olivie Blake’s The Atlas Six–now newly revised and edited with further content material.

• A darkish educational debut fantasy with a longtime cult following that reads like THE SECRET HISTORY meets THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY

• The primary in an explosive trilogy

The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of misplaced information from the best civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians on the planet. Those that earn a spot among the many Alexandrians will safe a lifetime of wealth, energy, and status past their wildest goals, and every decade, solely the six most uniquely proficient magicians are chosen to be thought-about for initiation.

Enter the most recent spherical of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable entire, who exert uncanny management over each aspect of physicality. Reina Mori, a naturalist, who can intuit the language of life itself. Parisa Kamali, a telepath who can traverse the depths of the unconscious, navigating worlds contained in the human thoughts. Callum Nova, an empath simply mistaken for a manipulative illusionist, who can affect the intimate workings of an individual’s internal self. Lastly, there’s Tristan Caine, who can see by illusions to a brand new construction of actuality—a capability so uncommon that neither he nor his friends can totally grasp its implications.

When the candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they’re instructed they may have one 12 months to qualify for initiation, throughout which period they are going to be permitted preliminary entry to the Society’s archives and judged primarily based on their contributions to varied topics of impossibility: time and house, luck and thought, life and loss of life. 5, they’re instructed, will probably be initiated. One will probably be eradicated. The six potential initiates will struggle to outlive the subsequent 12 months of their lives, and if they’ll show themselves to be one of the best amongst their rivals, most of them will.

Most of them.

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The Ultimate Strife

Within the first e book of a visionary African- and Arabian-inspired fantasy trilogy, three girls band collectively in opposition to a merciless empire that divides folks by blood.

Pink is the blood of the elite, of magic, of management.
Blue is the blood of the poor, of staff, of the resistance.
Clear is the blood of the slaves, of the crushed, of the invisible.

Sylah goals of days rising up within the resistance, being instructed she would spark a revolution that may free the empire from the red-blooded ruling courses’ tyranny. That spark was extinguished the day she watched her household murdered earlier than her eyes.

Anoor has been instructed she’s nothing, nobody, a disappointment, by the one one that issues: her mom, probably the most highly effective ruler within the empire. However mud at all times rises in a storm.

Hassa strikes by the world unseen by higher courses, so she is aware of what it means to be invisible. However invisibility has its makes use of: It will possibly disguise probably the most harmful of secrets and techniques, secrets and techniques that may reignite a revolution.

Because the empire begins a set of trials of fight and ability designed to seek out its new leaders, the stage is ready for blood to move, energy to shift, and cities to burn.

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Our Final Days in Barcelona

When Isabel Perez travels to Barcelona to avoid wasting her sister Beatriz, she discovers a surprising household secret in New York Instances bestselling creator Chanel Cleeton’s new novel.

Barcelona, 1964. Exiled from Cuba after the revolution, Isabel Perez has discovered to protect her coronary heart and shield her household in any respect prices. After Isabel’s sister Beatriz disappears in Barcelona, Isabel goes to Spain looking for her. Becoming a member of forces with an unlikely ally thrusts Isabel into her sister’s harmful world of espionage, nevertheless it’s an unearthed piece of household historical past that transforms Isabel’s life.

Barcelona, 1936. Alicia Perez arrives in Barcelona after a tough voyage from Cuba, her marriage in jeopardy and her younger daughter Isabel in tow. Violence brews in Spain, the nation on the point of civil conflict, the rise of fascism threatening the world. When Cubans journey to Spain to hitch the Worldwide Brigades, Alicia’s previous comes again to hang-out her as she is unexpectedly reunited with the person who as soon as held her coronary heart.

Alicia and Isabel’s lives intertwine, and the previous and current collide, as a mom and daughter are compelled to decide on between their household’s expectations and following their hearts.

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Unmask Alice

Two teenagers, two diaries, two sordid scandals. All from the identical darkish place: a serial con artist who betrayed a grieving household, stole a lifeless boy’s identification, and swindled her method to the Nationwide Guide Awards.

First printed in 1971, Go Ask Alice shocked readers and reinvented the younger grownup style. Fifty years and 5 million copies later, Go Ask Alice is greater than well-known—it’s iconic. Even individuals who haven’t learn it know the fundamentals: Some teenager’s diary…she’s hooked on medication…it is perhaps pretend…doesn’t she die on the finish?

However Alice was solely the start.

In 1979, one other “actual” diary rattled the nation. The posthumous account of a boy lured into devil-worship, Jay’s Journal spurred the Satanic Panic—a literal witch hunt that lasted for many years, shattering lives and poisoning entire communities.

Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the Worlds Most Infamous Diaries is the true story of a young-adult blockbuster…of a terror that stalked Nineteen Eighties America…and of the ruthless charlatan behind each.

Creator and veteran radio/tv broadcaster Rick Emerson spent 5 years unearthing and assembling this superb and , almost unbelievable story: interviewing central and peripheral gamers, visiting key areas, and sifting by tens of hundreds of paperwork.

The story stretches from Hollywood to Quantico, and passes by a tiny patch of Utah desert referred to as “the fraud capital of America”. It’s the story of a doomed romance and an unhinged celeb. Of a lazy press and a public mob. Of two suicidal youngsters, and their exploitation by a literary vampire. Unmask Alice is the gripping true story of a pop-culture smash—and its ugly, ongoing fallout

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