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White Cat

Holly Black - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

The first in a trilogy, this gritty, fast-paced fantasy is rife with the unexpected. Cassel comes from a shady, magical family of con artists and grifters. He doesn't fit in at home or at school, so he's used to feeling like an outsider. He's also used to feeling guilty - he killed his best...
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A Study in Charlotte

Brittany Cavallaro - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

The first book in a witty, suspenseful new trilogy about a brilliant new crime-solving duo: the teen descendants of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. This clever page-turner will appeal to fans of Maureen Johnson and Ally Carter.Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes;...
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The Splendor Falls

Rosemary Clement-Moore - Delacorte Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Can love last beyond the grave? Sylvie Davis is a ballerina who can’t dance. A broken leg ended her career, but Sylvie’s pain runs deeper. What broke her heart was her father’s death, and what’s breaking her spirit is her mother’s remarriage—a union...
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Sleepless

Thomas Richard Fahy
Format: Print book

SOMEONE ELSE WILLDIE SOONshe tells herself. SOMEONE ELSE WILL DIEAND I WILL BE RESPONSIBLE. "A few days after the first time youwalk in your sleep, you kill someone. That's how the end begins. "Emma Montgomery has been having gruesome nightmares. Even worse, when she wak
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Zero Day

Jan Gangsei - Hyperion, 2016.
Format: Print book

Eight years ago, Addie Webster was the victim of the most notorious kidnapping of the decade. Addie vanished-and her high-profile parents were forced to move on.Mark Webster is now president of the United States, fighting to keep the oval office after a tumultuous first term. Then the unthinkable...
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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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The Girl I Used to Be

April Henry - Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Format: Print book

When Olivia's mother was killed, everyone suspected her father of murder. But his whereabouts remained a mystery. Fast forward fourteen years. New evidence now proves Olivia's father was actually murdered on the same fateful day her mother died. That means there's a killer still at large....
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Lake Thirteen

Greg Herren
Format: Print book

It seemed like a good idea at the time ... Every summer three families take a trip together - this year it's to a remote resort in the mountains of upstate New York. Scotty, a teenager who's just come out, is nervous about how his friends will react to him. A late night vi
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The Twelve-Fingered Boy

John Hornor Jacobs - Carolrhoda Books
Format: Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old Shreve Cannon doesn't mind juvie. He's got a good business dealing contraband candy, and three meals a day are more than his drunk mother managed to provide. In juvie, the rules never change and everyone is the same. In juvie, Shreve has life figured out. Then the new fish...
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The May Queen Murders

Sarah Jude - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

Stay on the roads. Don't enter the woods. Never go out at night. Those are the rules in Rowan's Glen, a remote farming community in the Missouri Ozarks where Ivy Templeton's family has lived for centuries. It's an old-fashioned way of life, full of superstition and traditions,...
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I Hunt Killers

Barry Lyga - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

It was a beautiful day. It was a beautiful field.Except for the body.Jazz is a likable teenager. A charmer, some might say.But hes also the son of the worlds most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops...
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Kiss Kill Vanish

Jessica Martinez - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Love. Betrayal. Murder.Valentina is living a charmed, glittering life in Miami - falling in love for the first time, showered with gifts and affection by her father, surrounded by friends - when one shocking moment shatters everything she thought she knew about herself, her boyfriend, and her world....
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The Recruit

Robert Muchamore - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy on terrorists and international drug dealers. CHERUB agents hack into computers, bug entire houses,...
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Virals

Kathy Reichs - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show) , is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage "sci-philes" who live on a secluded island off the coast of South Carolina. When the group rescues a dog caged for medical...
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Jasper Jones

Craig Silvey - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor BookCharlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlies help. Terribly afraid but desperate...
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The Darkest Corners

Kara Thomas - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

"Gripping from start to finish . . . with twists that left me shocked." - Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen For fans of Gillian Flynn and Pretty Little Liars, The Darkest Corners is a psychological thriller about...
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Wink Poppy Midnight

April Genevieve Tucholke - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

The intrigue of The Raven Boys and the "supernatural or not" question of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer coalesce in this young adult mystery, where nothing is quite as it seems, no one is quite who you think, and everything can change on a dime. Every story needs a hero....
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Code Name Verity

Elizabeth Wein
Format: Paperback

This is an award-winning and bestselling tale of friendship and courage. Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a special operations executive. When a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends h
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I Am Not A Serial Killer

Dan Wells - Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it.He's spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential.He's obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn't want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he's...
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The Killer's Cousin

Nancy Werlin - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

Recently acquitted of murder, 17-year-old David has moved to Massachusetts to complete his senior year of high school. His aunt and uncle have offered him shelter--escape from the media's incessant questions and from the uncertain glances of his neighbors and ex-friends.His attic apartment...
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Dead Beautiful

Yvonne Woon - Hyperion Book CH
Format: Hardcover

On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Renée Winters was still an ordinary girl.  She spent her summers at the beach, had the perfect best friend, and had just started dating the cutest guy at school.  No one she'd ever known had died.  But all that changes when...
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