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**2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Young Adult Fiction Quarter Finalist** Paperback: 234 pages Publisher: CreateSpace (June 10, 2010) Summary: Escaping from them had been difficult enough, now Laney needs to keep hidden. All she wanted was to be on her own. Laney is not like other girls... she has very special abilities that set her apart from others. How or why she came about these abilities is a mystery she has yet to unfold. Haunted by memories and flashbacks of the suffering she endured at the hands of her captors, she changes her appearance and hides out in a small town. Ignoring her own warnings, she begins a relationship with a local boy. The relationship turns dangerous when the boy begins developing similar abilities. This development does not fall under the radar of the men who are trying to recapture her. A young doctor's interest is piqued when he witnesses her mysteriously curing a young child's illness. He befriends her due to his growing fascination w...

The day of the week is Tuesday and we offer a teaser of one book we're reading. This week's choice is from the YA novel,  Stay by Deb Caletti. "You'd imagine with a feeling like that, a person could sleep easy.  I guess I was thinking, though, that if someone was walking around  outside, even right outside my window, you wouldn't hear those footsteps in the soft sand." Summary: Clara’s relationship with Christian is intense from the start, and like nothing she’s ever experienced before. But what starts as devotion quickly becomes obsession, and it’s almost too late before Clara realizes how far gone Christian is—and what he’s willing to do to make her stay. Now Clara has left the city—and Christian—behind. No one back home has any idea where she is, but she still struggles to shake off her fear. She knows Christian won’t let her go that easily, and that no matter how far she runs, it may not be far enough.... Stay by Deb Caletti, 320 pages, is publish...