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2024

Kansas, Missouri (KS/MO)

Nevada

CLOSER TO NOWHERE

PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE

Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina -- she\'s fearless. 
Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul -- her life.

Crank

Kaeleigh and Raeanne are 16-year-old identical twins, the daughters of a district court judge father and politician mother running for US Congress. Everything on the surface seems fine, but underneath run very deep and damaging secrets. What really happened when the girls were 7 years old in that car accident that Daddy caused? And why is Mom never home, always running far away to pursue some new dream? Raeanne goes after painkillers, drugs, alcohol, and sex to dull her pain and anger. Kaeleigh always tries so hard to be the good girl -- her father\\\'s perfect little flower. But when the girls were 9, Daddy started to turn to his beloved Kaeleigh in ways a father never should and has been sexually abusing her for years. For Raeanne, she needs to numb the pain of not being Daddy's favorite; for Kaeleigh, she wants to do everything she can to feel something normal, even if it means cutting herself and vomiting after every binge. 

How Kaeleigh and Raeanne figure out just what it means to be whole again when their entire world has been torn to shreads is the guts and heart of this powerful, disturbing, and utterly remarkable book.

IDENTICAL

Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they\'d rather be. For four high-school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there. 

Cara\'s parents\' unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love. Kendra covets the perfect face and body—no matter what surgeries and drugs she needs to get there. To score his perfect home run—on the field and off—Sean will sacrifice more than he can ever win back. And Andre realizes that to follow his heart and achieve his perfect performance, he\'ll be living a life his ancestors would never have understood. 

Everyone wants to be perfect, but when perfection loses its meaning, how far will you go? What would you give up to be perfect?

PERFECT

Nineteen years after Kristina Snow met the monster--crank--her children are reeling from the consequences. Instead of one big happy family, they are a desperate tangle of scattered lives united by anger, doubt, and fear. But when the thread that ties them together brings them face-to-face, they\'ll discover something powerful--the trust, hope and courage to begin to break the cycle.

FALLOUT

Five kids from different parts of the country, all living as best they can but searching for freedom, community, safety, family, love. What they don\'t expect is what can happen when those powerful little words, \"I love you\" are said for all the wrong reasons.

TRICKS