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Wylan's Laws of Emotion by thewriterj
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For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and for these two, their lives have been planned down to a science. For Wylan Olson, being yourself can be very stressful. Since she was young, her emotions have always been backwards. The embodiment of 'tears of joy,' that laughs to keep from crying, not many people understand her struggle. Mostly because she barely understands it herself, but she's making it...barely. All she wants to do is make something out of herself, and she's willing to work for it. Kwame Okari has been raised to be perfect. His parents' strict expectations at son leave no room for friendships, which they regard as frivolous. Their only concern is for him to be Ivy League, and he cannot afford to disappoint. He is a boy on a mission, with a clear objective: be first. And there's only one person standing in his way-Wylan. As the two develop a better understanding of each other, competing agendas complicate their relationship forcing them to decide which is more important: attraction or ambition, satisfaction or success, friendship or fruition, and lead them to wonder if one has to be mitigated for the other.
Turned Out by CxMall
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Ashleigh Dawson is a preachers daughter. She's always wanted to explore life outside of the just being a pk. Now Ashleigh is 21, living alone, and is finally able to achieve all of her free spirited dreams. (For a mature audience only.)
The Descendants - A Wattys Award Winner! by paulapdx
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❇️ 2018 WATTYS WINNER! The Originals category ❇️ - "The Breakfast Club" meets "Nancy Drew" in this most unusual YA Mystery. SUMMARY: Five high school students, with little in common other than being descendants of the town founders, are forced to work on a history project together. But when their history project uncovers evidence of a long-buried town secret, the kids must piece together the clues behind their discovery before its legacy comes back to haunt them. ***** Using ACTUAL, archival material (some dating as far back as 1776), The Descendants weaves a tale of mystery and intrigue, constructed entirely from real photographs, documents, and snippets of history from a small, rural town in New Hampshire. What Dan Brown did with conspiracy theories in "The DaVinci Code" and Ransom Riggs did with historical photographs in "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," I will attempt to do in "The Descendants," but with teen protagonists and the Cheshire County Historical Society. :-) Why? 'Cause I'm crazy like that! Yeah, I know...History?! Blah! But it actually turned out really fun! :-)
The Bone Society by Groovy_Jedi
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Desmond Grey is a bone, a member of a secret organisation called the Bone Society, tasked with investigating magical deaths in both the temporal and invisible worlds. When Desmond is assigned to a covert operation investigating the deaths of stiffs and heiresses of high ranking houses, he uncovers that the murders are merely footnotes to a much darker design. Hidden outside the line of sight is the House of Shadows, an obscure magical household with a devastating power harbouring a plot that will rock the entire invisible world to its foundations. People are dying; shadows are rising, and time is running out.
May-December | ✓ by saintc
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After filing his company for bankruptcy, Kyle's wife leaves him and his three-year-old son. Now a forty-two-year-old divorcee with no parenting skills or money, Kyle decides to move back to the small home town he grew up in. He should have lost all hope in love and romance, but there's something about Chaska, his son's preschool teacher, that just makes him feel like a college student in love again.
So I Might Be a Vampire - Book 1 (Original Version) by iamRodneyVSmith
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Bob has got to be the worst vampire in the world. Without a guide to learn how to be a good vampire, he's making it up as he goes along... while holding down a day job. [Previously Featured #2 Vampire ] ***** Everything I'm about to tell you is a lie. Well, except the parts that actually happened, but I'm supposed to let you guess which those are. The parts about me being a vampire, working at a porn shop, and being completely clueless about vampires, those are completely true. Oh, the parts about Claude, my best friend for life, being a gentleman thief? All true. This is NOT a misguided and sordid tell-all about being a modern-day vampire. (wink wink) My vampire club for accidental vampires, Friends of Vlad does not exist. Neither do vampires like the terrifying and beautiful Beatrice. There is no big bad vampire boss named Harry pushing vampires into the 21st Century. Also nope about the vampire club in the heart of Toronto and a big nope on Madame Vera's House of the Not-so-dead. I'm just an ordinary guy who became a vampire. Nothing unusual about that. Nothing at all... [BOOK ONE of CHASING THE SUN SERIES] REVIEWS: @DavidJThirteen Humour has to be one of the toughest genres to get right. This book really pulls it off. Thank you for an enjoyable, entertaining read! @SharylFriend This was awesome beyond mere words!!! Should be a BESTSELLER! @Signed_Sealed_96 This has been by far the best and funniest book I've read. I love this and I can't wait to tell my friends about this b'%&hing vampire story I read nonstop.
Wishtester by Nandi_taylor
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Wishtesters are the lowest of the low, the most pitiful beggars and crooks living on the fringes of society. And Faruq is itching to become one. Asking a wish of the Djinn, powerful beings who can grant almost anything the heart desires, is a privilege normally reserved for the exceedingly wealthy. But wishtesters may petition the Djinn without spending a single coin. The price for wishtesters is far greater than simple gold. **Best rank #143 in fantasy, #150 in adventure
The Art of Love (Student/Teacher Romance) by EmpressStar
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Imani wants to become an artist all while trying not to fall in love with her art instructor. *** 25-year-old Imani White knows love is for fools. After breaking up with her boyfriend who she had been with for over a year made her come to that conclusion. To keep from dwelling on it, she focuses her mind and heart on creating her art. So she has no time for falling in love again, but she might have to change her mind when Derrick Johnson enters her life and starts breaking down the walls that no one could bring down before him. 30-year-old Derrick Johnson hates being in love and doesn't have time for it in his life. He knows it's just a fallacy. Derrick realized that when he found out his fiance had cheated on him with his older brother. Derrick's focus is sorely on owning his own gallery and making his parents proud of him. Life has other plans when he meets Imani White. She creeps into his life and possibly into his heart. Will these two let love in or will their hearts stay ice cold? *** *Warning* This story will have strong sexuality and some cursing. Intended for readers 18+.
Holding On To Happy | ✔ by keahlovee
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Mia Perkins life is a wreck. Her friends aren't speaking to her, her dad and his new wife are having a baby and she's positive her mom hates her. Then there's Calvin Benton, her new neighbor who is a little too honest for her liking. But maybe honesty is just what she needs. *** This is an unedited first draft and my first book, so it's kind of terrible.
Hawthorne Heights by madandbougie
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Winner of the Watty's 2017 Awards ✿ Destruction is a form of creation; buildings crumbled as he walked past. Khari Spence, trapped in a city steeped in hatred, longs to embrace his true self even if it means risking everything. He finds a fragile refuge in an old apartment with peeling wallpaper and blank journal pages -- and hopefully in a girl. Milo Locke, disillusioned with the hollow lure of materialism, seeks to rid the ideologies her parents forced onto her. When their worlds collide, will they help each other heal from past wounds, or will their secrets tear them apart?