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Legendborn

Tracy Deonn - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn's YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic.After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old...
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Cemetery Boys

Aiden Thomas - SWOON READS
Format: Hardcover

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him.When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then...
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Nothing More to Tell

Karen M McManus - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying comes a new page-turning mystery. Be sure to keep your friends close . . . and your secrets closer.Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher - a story that made headlines...
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Anatomy: A Love Story

Dana Schwartz - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry.Jack Currer is a resurrection man who's just trying to survive in a city where it's too easy to die.When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist's Society, Hazel thinks...
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Undead Girl Gang

LILY ANDERSON - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Veronica Mars meets The Craft when a teen girl investigates the suspicious deaths of three classmates and accidentally ends up bringing them back to life to form a hilariously unlikely--and unwilling--vigilante girl gang.Meet teenage Wiccan Mila Flores, who truly could not care...
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Belladonna

Adalyn Grace - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Adalyn Grace brings to life a highly romantic, Gothic-infused world of wealth, desire, and betrayal. Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being - and each...
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Gallant

Victoria Schwab - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

Everything casts a shadow. Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. A seam, where the shadow meets its source.#1 New York Times-bestselling author Victoria Schwab weaves a dark and original tale about the place where the world meets its shadow,...
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Squad

Maggie Tokuda-Hall - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

"People call them all kinds of names - creeps, jerks. But the right word is predator. And that's who we hunt. Becca wants what every high-schooler does: to have a group of friends, a squad. But Becca's new friends are more than a clique, they're a pack, and this pack is hungry....
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Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel (Miss Peregrines Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel, 1)

Ransom Riggs. - Yen Press
Format: Hardcover

When Jacob Portman was a boy, his grandfather regaled him with stories of his fantastic life at Miss Peregrines home during the Second World War, even sharing photos of the remarkable children with whom he resided. As Jacob grew up, though, he decided that these photos were obvious fakes,...
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Skin of the Sea

Natasha Bowen - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

A way to survive.
A way to serve.
A way to save.

Simi prayed to the gods, once. Now she serves them as Mami Wata - a mermaid - collecting the souls of those who die at sea and blessing their journeys back home.

But when a living boy is thrown overboard, Simi...

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The Ivies

Alexa Donne
Format: Hardcover

Everyone knows the Ivies: the most coveted universities in the United States. Far more important are the Ivies. The Ivies at Claflin Academy, that is. Five girls with the same mission: to get into the Ivy League by any means necessary. I would know. I'm one of them. We disrupt class...
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The Mary Shelley Club

Goldy Moldavsky
Format: Book

New York Times–bestselling author Goldy Moldavsky delivers a deliciously twisty YA thriller that's Scream meets Karen McManus about a mysterious club with an obsession for horror.

New girl Rachel Chavez is eager to make a fresh start at Manchester...

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A Lesson in Vengeance

Victoria Lee
Format: Hardcover


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The Inheritance Games

Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Cinderella story with deadly stakes and thrilling twists, perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and Knives Out. Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies...

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Jackaby

William Ritter - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Hardcover

"Miss Rook, I am not an occultist," Jackaby said. "I have a gift that allows me to see truth where others see the illusion--and there are many illusions. All the world's a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain."A...
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Only a Monster

Vanessa Len - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

The sweeping romance ofPassengermeets the dark fantasy edge ofThis Savage Song in this stunning contemporary fantasy debut from Vanessa Len, where the line between monster and hero is razor thin.Don't forget the rule. No one can know what you are. What we are. You must never tell anyone...
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