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Wednesday, October 16

Not a Drop to Drink

Mindy McGinnis - Katherine Tegen Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

Fans of classic frontier survival stories, as well as readers of dystopian literature, will enjoy this futuristic story where water is worth more than gold. New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant says Not a Drop to Drink is a debut "not to be missed." With evocative, spare...
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The Sacrifice Box

MARTIN STEWART - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A horror story about friendship, growing up, and finding a place in the world: Gremlins meets The Breakfast Club by way of Stephen King and Stranger Things.In the summer of 1982, five friends discover an ancient stone box hidden deep in the woods. They seal inside of it treasured...
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The Undertaking of Lily Chen

Danica Novgorodoff - First Second
Format: Paperback

In The Undertaking of Lily Chen, Deshi, a hapless young man living in northern China, is suddenly expelled from ordinary life when his brother dies in an accident. Holding Deshi responsible for his brother's death, his parents send him on a mission to acquire a corpse bride to accompany...
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LIFEL1K3

Jay Kristoff - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Illuminae Files comes the first book in a new series that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Terminator, and all adrenaline.On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap....
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I Kill Giants Fifth Anniversary Edition TP

Joe Kelly - Image Comics; 5 Anv edition
Format: Comics

- I Kill Giants tells the story of Barbara Thorson, an acerbic fifth-grader so consumed with fantasy that she doesn't just tell people that she kills giants with an ancient Norse warhammer - she starts to believe it herself. The reasons for Barbara's troubled behavior are revealed...
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Little Monsters

Kara Thomas - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Pretty Little Liars, Little Monsters is a new psychological thriller, from the author of The Darkest Corners, about appearances versus reality and the power of manipulation amongst teenage girls. Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with...
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Girls with Sharp Sticks

Suzanne Young - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

Westworld meets The Handmaid's Tale in this start to a thrilling, subversive near future series from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young about a girls-only private high school that is far more than it appears to be.Some of the prettiest flowers have the sharpest...
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Mary: The Summoning

Hillary Monahan - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

There is a right way and a wrong way to summon her.Jess had done the research. Success requires precision: a dark room, a mirror, a candle, salt, and four teenage girls. Each of them--Jess, Shauna, Kitty, and Anna--must link hands, follow the rules . . . and never let go.A thrilling fear...
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Last Things

Jacqueline West - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

"Anders Thorson, front man of his metal band, Last Things, is unusually gifted for a teenager, but strange things in the Minnesota woods near his hometown are threatening him. Thea, the new girl in town, says she's there to protect him, but is that the whole truth?"--
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Keep This to Yourself

Tom Ryan - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

It's been a year since the Catalog Killer terrorized the sleepy seaside town of Camera Cove, killing four people before disappearing without a trace. Like everyone else in town, eighteen-year-old Mac Bell is trying to put that horrible summer behind him - easier said than done since Mac's...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2019
 

Heartwood Box

Ann Aguirre - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover

Heartwood Box is a dark, romantic YA suspense novel with an SF edge from New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre ... In this tiny, terrifying town, the lost are never found.When Araceli Flores Harper is sent to stay with her great-aunt Ottilie in her ramshackle Victorian...
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The Undoing of Thistle Tate

Katelyn Detweiler - Margaret Ferguson Books
Format: Hardcover

Famous teen author Thistle Tate struggles to keep her biggest secret: the real identity of the author of her bestselling books.Thistle Tate is a glittering wunderkind--only seventeen, and a bestselling author of the wildly successful Lemonade Skies series, with the highly anticipated...
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Starworld

Audrey Coulthurst - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

In a novel in two voices, a popular teen and an artistic loner forge an unlikely bond - and create an entire universe - via texts. But how long before the real world invades Starworld?Sam Jones and Zoe Miller have one thing in common: they both want an escape from reality. Loner Sam flies...
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Nyankees Vol. 1

Atsushi Okada - Yen Press
Format: Paperback

Protecting your turf, keeping other guys from pawing at your girl, showing everyone whos boss--its all in a days work when youre a street thug...or a street cat!
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The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1

KAIU SHIRAI - VIZ Media LLC
Format: Paperback

The children of the Grace Field House orphanage have their happy lives upended when they find out they're being raised to be fed to demons. Can they escape their fate before it's too late?Life at Grace Field House has been good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams...
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Skyward Volume 1: My Low-G Life

JOE HENDERSON - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

One day, gravity on Earth suddenly became a fraction of what it is now. Twenty years later, humanity has adapted to its new low-gravity reality. And to Willa Fowler, a woman born just after G-day, it's...well, it's pretty awesome, actually. You can fly through the air! I mean, sure, you can also...
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Middlewest Book 1

Skottie Young - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

The lands between the coasts are vast, slow to change, and full of hidden magics. The town of Farmington has been destroyed sending an unwitting adventurer and his vulpine companion in search of answers to quell a coming storm that speaks his name. From author SKOTTIE YOUNG (I HATE FAIRYLAND,...
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Symptoms of a Heartbreak

Sona Charaipotra - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

"A tender YA romance set in the thick of the medical world." -- Entertainment WeeklyThe youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds -- and falls head over heels -- in the contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak. Fresh from...
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Warhead: The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World

Jeff Henigson - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

An often hilarious and always relevant memoir about one teen boy's battle with brain cancer and his Starlight Children's Foundation wish: to meet Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and plead for nuclear disarmament and world peace.It's 1986, and Jeff is an average fifteen-year-old:...
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Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi

F. C. Yee
Format: Hardcover

F. C. Yee's The Rise of Kyoshi delves into the story of Kyoshi, the Earth Kingdom-born Avatar. The longest-living Avatar in this beloved world's history, Kyoshi established the brave and respected Kyoshi Warriors, but also founded the secretive Dai Li, which led to the corr
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