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What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers' ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions. Yet despite an environment of rampant fear-mongering, boyd finds that teens often find ways to engage and to develop a sense of identity. Boyd's conclusions are essential reading not only for parents, teachers, and others who work with teens but also for anyone interested in the impact of emerging technologies on society, culture, and commerce in years to come. Offering insights gleaned from more than a decade of original fieldwork interviewing teenagers across the United States, boyd concludes reassuringly that the kids are all right. At the same time, she acknowledges that coming to terms with life in a networked era is not easy or obvious. In a technologically mediated world, life is bound to be complicated.

A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. But this love has conditions: they agree it will last only one hour, and it will be only make-believe. When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that what happened between them seemed perfect only because they were pretending it was. Moments like that happen only in fairy tales. One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in love-at-first-sight is stripped away the day he meets Six: a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality. Unfortunately for Daniel, finding true love doesn’t guarantee a happily ever after . . . it only further threatens it. Will an unbearable secret from the past jeopardize Daniel and Six’s only chance at saving each other?

WATTYS WINNER!!! Paris Hilton, angry about the character of Willow Pape in Kim Kardashian Hollywood, uses her magic powers to trap Kim Kardashian inside the game, forever. Kim must escape the game and get back to the real world in order to defeat Paris once and for all.

A storm is coming. The Originals aren't done with Ava and her friends. They have motives far beyond defeating the Hunters. Now, they are willing to take everything Ava holds dear--with reasons beyond sight. A prophecy tells of a boy and girl with special blood running through their veins finding each other. The prophecy tells of the end of them all.

Life as a vampire isn't so easy. Especially for Ava Sumner who is different from her new vampire family. She sees things differently. She has a harder time connecting with William, her blood bond. She has natural instincts that take most vampires months to master. Not to mention, she's descended from a long line of Hunters, beings who are thought to be immune to the bite of a vampire. There's a name for what Ava is now, something so rare and mysterious: Unnatural.

Over two months ago, Ava's life was turned upside down with the bite of a vampire. Since then she's struggled with love and loss and her mother, the Hunter who won't stop searching for the cure to vampirism. In the third installation of the Diary of a Vampire series, Ava is faced with going back home to the town that hasn't changed much except for the compelled residents and the unknown force controlling them. All while the Hunters are searching for the cure that could put an end to Ava and everyone she cares about.