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Sentinel by DrRichrd
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The story follows a young man who is framed by an underground CIA organisation he worked for. He tries to escape it's widespread claws. He is tested in so many ways that he never thought possible. The story is packed with action, drama and suspense. But the question is will he make it .......
The Crusaders by NuffSaid_TheScribe
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Superheroes. Once everywhere in the world, now an outlawed and feared concept. Those who are left are either officially endorsed by the government, or are vigilantes in hiding that are hunted by the world. But evil still exists, and there are those who must stop it. Now, a team from the past will reform to bring justice and order back to the world. They are known as the Crusaders.
Nixon by KatGee
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Nixon is the 3rd book in the Broken Series. (Ryan is the 1st, Brynn is the 2nd) Nixon leaves rehab early because he can't deal with being there anymore. His sister Kelis finds someone in need of a roommate so he moves in with the girl and gives her his middle name, Lucas. He quickly becomes addicted to the girl and once he gets one taste he's done for. He warns her about his past, about his name, but she ignores all the red flags, not realizing exactly how intertwined she is with the people from his past. He becomes enamored with her, feels like she was made for him while still battling the demons of his past and soon it all becomes too much for him to handle. He makes a heartbreaking decision, thinking it's what's best for both of them and everything changes. Trigger/Content Warning: this book contains mature content, talks of suicide, mental and physical abuse, selfharm, drug use, and addiction Cover designed by Anastasia Wright
Little Brother by CoryDoctorow
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.
Homeland by CoryDoctorow
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state. A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus’s hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It’s incendiary stuff—and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him—but he can’t admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. He’s surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. He can’t even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He’s not at all sure that just dumping the archive onto the Internet, before he’s gone through its millions of words, is the right thing to do. Meanwhile, people are beginning to shadow him, people who look like they’re used to inflicting pain until they get the answers they want. Fast-moving, passionate, and as current as next week, Homeland is every bit the equal of Little Brother—a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place.
Brynn by KatGee
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Brynn is the 2nd book in the Broken Series. (Ryan is the 1st) After a paternity issue in her senior year of highschool, Brynn ends up a single Mom. She lives on campus to be close to her baby's father and quickly becomes friends with her new neighbor Ryan. When Ryan talks her into going to a party at the Kappa house Brynn meets a guy who looks like he walked straight out of her dreams. In a moment of panic she concocts a lie that makes her relationship with this guy more complicated than she bargained for. As her lie unravels her best friend Ryan's life begins to come apart at the seams and everything around them quickly changes. Content/Trigger warning: this book contains mature content, talks of suicide, mental and physical abuse, selfharm, addiction, and alcohol abuse. Cover designed by Anastasia Wright
Confessions About Colton by colourlessness
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WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Seven letters, seven confessions, seven clues. Elliot Parker has what he needs to find out who killed his best friend... But is he hunting down the killer? Or is the killer hunting him? ***** When Colton Crest returns, unharmed, to his small town after mysteriously disappearing for two months, his best friend Elliot Parker breathes a sigh of relief. But days later, on the night before graduation, Elliot finds Colton in the lake. Dead. And on the day of his funeral, Elliot finds a letter in his jacket pocket with four words that send him spiralling: I killed Colton Crest. There are six more letters to find, six more confessions about Colton, six more clues to uncover why he was murdered. Elliot has no choice but to play this sick scavenger hunt, and with each new revelation, he begins to question whether he really knew Colton - or anyone else in that little town of dark secrets. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]
Dominating The Troublemaker by DangerouslyShady
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"Troublemaker" : a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice. →← "That's it!" Principal Griffin screams furiously, slamming his hand on the desk. "You're Expelled!" After being expelled for a third time, Roxanne and her father have no other choice but to move and restart their lives. Problem is, Roxanne can't change the way she is. Plus, it doesn't help that her new English teacher, Mr. Black brings out that side of her on purpose for amusement. Damien Black is a man who exudes the very word control, something that Roxanne hates with every cell in her body, except...she doesn't hate when he does it. Ironically she enjoys the challenge from an authority figure who won't back down. What happens when the uncontrollable wants to be controlled?
Crazy House by AnnaKayTallat
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Juliette Rivers is crazy. Or at least that's what her parents think, not to mention the doctors. But she knows the truth, that the things she sees are far from imaginary. And worse, those things are out to get her. But maybe, just maybe, a little craziness is exactly what she needs to save her. "Oh Juliette, come out come out wherever you are. Come on my dear, don't you want to play a game with me?" He purrs. His words send a shiver of horror throughout my body. "I know you are out there Juliette, I hear that frantic little heart of yours beating. I can practically see your perfect pale breasts heaving in panic." He takes a few more steps forward then stops. A moment later, I hear him chuckle. He had found me." WINNER OF @ViktoriaRay and @_Tattered's SHIVER CONTEST Cover by @nameeramariyam All Rights Reserved 2013
My Boyfriend's Sister (gxg) by gracie_lxpez
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Highest ranking(s): #1 in pride #1 in les #1 in drama #1 in girlxgirl #2 in lesbian #4 in gxg #5 in lgbt (PART ONE OF TWO) Jennifer, a young and beautiful girl from the suburbs of New York, is engaged to the love of her life, Danny. The two have been together for many years and everything seems to be going as planned... until Jennifer learns some unsettling information about her "perfect" fiancé. After confronting her fiancé and finding the accusations to be true, she splits from her high-school sweetheart only to find herself falling into the arms of Leah. The only problem is... Leah is Danny's little sister. How could this possibly work out? (Also, thanks Márcia for the cover😉)