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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

Jesmyn Ward - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race - collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation - are "thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that...
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Kelly Regan Barnhill - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2017 Newbery Award The New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016 A Publishers Weekly Best Book...
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Another Brooklyn: A Novel

Jacqueline Woodson - Amistad Press
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where...
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You'll Grow Out of It

Jessi Klein - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

PEOPLE'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR! ONE OF NEW YORK TIMES' NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016!INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer,...
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You Will Know Me: A Novel

Megan E Abbott - Little
Format: Print book

One of the Best Books of 2016--NPR, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Elle, Thrillist, Publishers Weekly, Time Out New York, Self and KirkusThe audacious new novel about family and ambition from "one...
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The Memory Book

Lara Avery - Poppy
Format: Hardcover

They tell me that my memory will never be the same, that I'll start forgetting things. At first just a little, and then a lot. So I'm writing to remember.
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The Flame Never Dies

Rachel Vincent - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

For fans of Cassandra Clare and Richelle Mead comes the unputdownable sequel to The Stars Never Rise, a book Rachel Caine, author of the bestselling Morganville Vampires series, called "haunting, unsettling, and eerily beautiful." ONE SPARK WILL RISE. Nina Kane was born...
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The Gilded Cage

Melissa Albert - Henry Holt
Format: Print book

After growing up on a farm in Virginia, Walthingham Hall in England seems like another world to sixteen-year-old Katherine Randolph. Her new life, filled with the splendor of upper class England in the 1820s, is shattered when she discovers the corpse of her brother George in a lake on the estate-the...
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Poisoned Blade

Kate Elliott - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In this thrilling sequel to World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott's bestselling young adult debut Court of Fives, a girl immersed in a high-stakes competition holds the fate of a kingdom in her hands.Jessamy is moving up the ranks of the Fives--the complex athletic contest favored...
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Requiem of the Rose King, Vol. 1

Aya Kanno - VIZ Media LLC
Format: Print book

Richard, the ambitious third son of the House of York, believes he is cursed, damned from birth to eternal darkness. But is it truly fate that sets him on the path to personal destruction? Or his own tormented longings? Based on an early draft of Shakespeare's Richard III, Aya Kanno's...
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The Giant Smugglers

Chris Pauls - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Print book

Charlie Lawson's only summer excitement in small-town Wisconsin came from kicking butt in video games, where he's the undisputed Total Turbo champ. Now it's time to go back to middle school, where nine long months of boredom await. But then Charlie stumbles onto something big happening...
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Nevernight

Jay Kristoff - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Nevernight is the first in an epic new fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author, Jay Kristoff.In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.Daughter...
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The Leaving Season

Cat Jordan - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

Middie Daniels calls it the leaving season: the time of year when everyone graduates high school, packs up their brand-new suitcases, and leaves home for the first time.This year Middie's boyfriend, Nate, is the one leaving, heading to Central America for a year of volunteering after graduation....
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The Leaving Season

Cat Jordan - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

Middie Daniels calls it the leaving season: the time of year when everyone graduates high school, packs up their brand-new suitcases, and leaves home for the first time.This year Middie's boyfriend, Nate, is the one leaving, heading to Central America for a year of volunteering after graduation....
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Entangled

Amy Rose Capetta
Format: Book

Alone was the note Cade knew best. It was the root of all her chords. Seventeen-year-old Cade is a fierce survivor, solo in the universe with her cherry-red guitar. Or so she thought. Her world shakes apart when a hologram named Mr. Niven tells her she was created i
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Ghosts

Raina Telgemeier - Graphix
Format: Print book

Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Maya, is sick. Cat isn't happy about leaving her friends for Baha de la Luna, but Maya has cystic fibrosis and will benefit from the cool, salty air that blows in from the sea. As the girls...
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Becoming a Citizen Activist: Stories, Strategies, and Advice for Changing Our World

Nick Licata - Sasquatch Books
Format: Print book

Recent waves of social activism like the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter show that you can fight city hall--or any other powerful entity for that matter. Now comes the playbook for citizen activists wanting to improve the world around them from Nick Licata, admired Seattle city councilmember...
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Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Alamo All-Stars

Nathan Hale - Amulet Books
Format: Print book

From Nathan Hale, #1 New York Times bestselling author and Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List maker, comes the definitive graphic novel about the Alamo. Hale relays the facts, politics, military actions, and prominent personalities that defined the Texas Revolution in factual yet humorous...
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Throne of Glass 5

Sarah J Maas - Bloomsbury Usa
Format: Print book

The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those who don't.With her heart sworn to the warrior-prince by her side, and her fealty...
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As I Descended

Robin Talley - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves, Robin Talley, comes a Shakespeare-inspired story of revenge and redemption, where fair is foul, and foul is fair.Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school's ultimate power couple - but one thing stands between them and their perfect...
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Angel Catbird Volume 1

Margaret Eleanor Atwood - Dark Horse Comics
Format: Print book

Lauded novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate on one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of the year!On a dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by his own experiment and merges with the DNA of a cat and an owl....
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The Nest

Kenneth Oppel - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

Steve just wants to save his baby brother:but what will he lose in the bargain This is a haunting gothic tale for fans of Coraline, from acclaimed author Kenneth Oppel (Silverwing, The Boundless) with illustrations from Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen. For some kids summer is a sun-soaked...
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Finding Abbey Road

Kevin Emerson - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

Kevin Emerson's Exile trilogy combines the swoon-worthy romance of a Susane Colasanti novel with the rock 'n' roll of Eleanor & Park. Packed with mystery and music, Kevin Emerson's final volume in the Exile series is the pitch-perfect ending to Summer's journey of self-discovery and love...
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Labyrinth Lost

Zoraida Córdova - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Print book

"Enchanting and complex. Every page is filled with magic." -- Danielle Paige, New York Times best-selling author of Dorothy Must DieNothing says Happy Birthday like summoning the spirits of your dead relatives. Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation...and she hates...
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Watched

Marina Tamar Budhos - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Hardcover

Marina Budhos's extraordinary and timely novel examines what it's like to grow up under surveillance, something many Americans experience and most Muslim Americans know. Naeem is far from the "model teen." Moving fast in his immigrant neighborhood in Queens is the only...
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The Faery Reel: Tales From the Twilight Realm

Ellen Datlow - Viking
Format: Large print book

Faeries, or creatures like them, can be found in almost every culture the world over&150benevolent and terrifying, charming and exasperating, shifting shape from country to country, story to story, and moment to moment. In The Faery Reel, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have asked...
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The Fortunes

Peter Ho Davies - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

From the author of The Welsh Girl comes a groundbreaking, provocative new novel. Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures...
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Nerve

Jeanne Ryan - Dial
Format: Hardcover

For fans of The Hunger GamesA high-stakes online game of dares turns deadlyWhen Vee is picked to be a player in NERVE, an anonymous game of dares broadcast live online, she discovers that the game knows her. They tempt her with prizes taken from her ThisIsMe page and team her up with the perfect...
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Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit

Jaye Robin Brown - ‎HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

"A sweet, sexy, honest teen romance that just happens to involve two girls - all the more charming for being so very ordinary." - Kirkus

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Girl Mans Up

M-E Girard - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Lambda Literary Award Winner! "Pen is an inspiration to anyone whos struggled to be understood, and a vital addition to the growing world of genderqueer protagonists." - New York Times Book ReviewAll Pen wants is to be the kind of girl shes always been. So why does everyone have...
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The Magisterium

Holly Black - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

From Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes the third installment in the New York Times bestselling series that defies what you think you know about the worlds of good and evil.
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Invincible: The Ultimate Collection, Vol. 2

Robert Kirkman
Format: Paperback

In the aftermath of Mark's revelation concerning his father, he's forced to pick up the pieces of his life and carry on. The Ultimate Collection, Vol. 2 collects Invincible's struggle to become his own man, to stand on his own and live his own life. This is a can't-miss for
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Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Marvel
Format: Paperback

A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer T-Nehisi Coates (BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME) takes the helm, confronting TChalla with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman...
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The Arab of the Future 2: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984-1985: A Graphic Memoir

Riad Sattouf - Metropolitan Books
Format: Print book

The highly anticipated continuation of Riad Sattouf's internationally acclaimed, #1 French bestseller, which was hailed by The New York Times as "a disquieting yet essential read"In The Arab of the Future: Volume 1, cartoonist Riad Sattouf tells of the first years of his childhood...
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Batgirl Vol. 3: Mindfields

Cameron Stewart - DC Comics
Format: Paperback

THE BATTLE FOR BURNSIDE IS ON! She rides a cool motorcycle, swings a mean right hook, and has backup from the best crime-fighters in the biz, but Batgirls greatest weapon has always been her mind. As the brilliant Barbara Gordon, shes on the verge of a tech breakthrough that could transform...
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One-Punch Man Volume 1-25 Collection Books Set

ONE - Generic
Format: Paperback

This bundle contains volumes 1-25 of One-Punch Man. Life gets pretty boring when you can beat the snot out of any villain with just one punch. Nothing about Saitama passes the eyeball test when it comes to superheroes, from his lifeless expression to his bald head to his unimpressive physique....
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Batgirl Vol. 3: Mindfields

Cameron Stewart - DC Comics
Format: Paperback

THE BATTLE FOR BURNSIDE IS ON! She rides a cool motorcycle, swings a mean right hook, and has backup from the best crime-fighters in the biz, but Batgirls greatest weapon has always been her mind. As the brilliant Barbara Gordon, shes on the verge of a tech breakthrough that could transform...
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Yowamushi Pedal, Vol. 2

Wataru Watanabe - Yen Press
Format: Print book

Sakamichi Onoda's first race...and his first road racer!Sakamichi Onoda finds himself in his first real road race following his fateful encounter with fellow first-years and road-racing hopefuls--the driven ace, Shunsuke Imaizumi, and the gifted sprinter and "Speedster of Naniwa,"...
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Your Lie in April 9

Naoshi Arakawa - Kodansha Comics
Format: Paperback

COMBINED FORCES. "Want to commit double suicide with me?" Kaoris words echo in Koseis mind. What can he do for her now, while she is still hospitalized? At the Aiza home, Nagi sees her brother Takeshi fall deeper and deeper into a slump and wonders how to cheer him up. Amid their...
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Crooked Kingdom: A Sequel to Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

Crooked Kingdom: the highly anticipated sequel to Leigh Bardugo's thrilling #1 New York Times-bestselling Six of Crows.Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're...
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We Were Never Here

Jennifer Gilmore - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

In this exquisitely written and emotionally charged young adult debut, Jennifer Gilmore explores how sometimes the wounds you can't see are the most painful.Did you know your entire life can change in an instant?For sixteen-year-old Lizzie Stoller that moment is when she collapses out of the blue....
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Learning to Swear in America

Katie Kennedy - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

A Summer/Fall 2016 Indies Introduce selectionAn asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. A big, bad one. Maybe not kill-all-the-dinosaurs bad, but at least kill-everyone-in-California-and-wipe-out-Japan-with-a-tsunami bad. Yuri, a physicist prodigy from Russia, has been recruited to aid NASA...
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Kids of Appetite

David Arnold - Viking
Format: Print book

"A gorgeous, insightful, big-hearted joy of a book." - Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything The critically acclaimed author of Mosquitoland brings us another batch of unforgettable characters in this New York Times...
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How It Feels to Fly

Kathryn Holmes - Harper Teen
Format: Print book

A struggle with body dysmorphia forces one girl to decide if letting go of her insecurity also means turning her back on her dreams.Sam has always known she'd be a professional dancer - but that was before her body betrayed her, developing unmanageable curves in all the wrong places. Lately,...
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Draw the Line

Laurent Linn - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Paperback

After a hate crime occurs in his small Texas town, Adrian Piper must discover his own power, decide how to use it, and know where to draw the line in this "powerful debut" novel (Publishers Weekly, starred review) exquisitely illustrated by the author.Adrian Piper is used to blending...
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The Killer in Me

Margot Harrison - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Hasn't he lived long enough? Why not? I could take him like a thief in the night.
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Still a Work in Progress

Jo Knowles - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book

In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life while coping with his sister's secret struggle.Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring,...
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Lost in the Sun

Lisa Graff - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

From the author of A Tangle of Knots and Absolutely Almost, a touching story about a boy who won't let one tragic accident define him. Everyone says that middle school is awful, but Trent knows nothing could be worse than the year he had in fifth grade, when a freak accident...
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