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Title: S.T.A.G.S. Author: M.A. Bennett Pages: 296 Genre: Young Adult, Mystery, Thriller, Contemporary Publisher: Delacorte Press/Penguin Random House Canada Release Date: January 30, 2018 Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo *Received for review by publisher* Summary ( Goodreads ) Donna Tartt's  The Secret History  meets  Pretty Little Liars  in this propulsive, edge-of-your-seat novel that explores just how far the elite at an English boarding school will go to maintain the social order. There's no point hunting if there's no kill. At St. Aidan the Great School, or S.T.A.G.S., new things--and new people--are to be avoided. Unfortunately, Greer MacDonald, token scholarship student, is very much a new person. She has just transferred to S.T.A.G.S., and finds herself ignored at best and mocked at worst by the school's most admired circle of friends, the Medievals. So imagine Greer's surprise when this very group invites her to an exclusive weekend re...

Title: Bonefire Author: Krysten Ritter Pages: 288 Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Fiction Publisher: Hutchinson/Penguin Random House Canada Release Date: November 7, 2017 Buy: Amazon| Kobo | Chapters Indigo *Received for review by Penguin Random House Canada Summary:  ( Goodreads ) Should you ever go back? It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands. But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens’ biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends—just before Kaycee disappeared for good. Abby ...

Title: The Perfect Stranger Author: Megan Miranda Pages: 337 Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Fiction Publisher: Simon Schuster/Simon Schuster Canada Release Date: April 11, 2017 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo Summary ( Goodreads ) In the masterful follow-up to the runaway hit  All the Missing Girls , a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all. Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to rural Pennsylvania, where Leah can get a teaching position and both women can start again. But their new start is threatened when a woman with an eerie resemblance to Leah is assaulted by the lake, and Emmy disappears days later. Determined to find Emmy, Leah cooperates with Kyle Donovan, a handsome young police officer on the case. As they in...

Title : Don't Look Back Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout  Pages: 372 Genre: YA Publisher: Disney Hyperion/ Hatchette Book Group Canada Release Date: April 15, 2014 *ARC from Disney/Hatchette for review*   Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo |  Summary: ( Goodreads ) Samantha is a stranger in her own life. Until the night she disappeared with her best friend, Cassie, everyone said Sam had it all-popularity, wealth, and a dream boyfriend.  Sam has resurfaced, but she has no recollection of who she was or what happened to her that night. As she tries to piece together her life from before, she realizes it's one she no longer wants any part of. The old Sam took "mean girl" to a whole new level, and it's clear she and Cassie were more like best enemies. Sam is pretty sure that losing her memories is like winning the lottery. She's getting a second chance at being a better daughter, sister, and friend, and she's falling hard for Carson Ortiz, a...