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Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend

Karen Blumenthal - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Bonnie and Clyde may be the most notorious--and celebrated--outlaw couple America has ever known. This is the true story of how they got that way.Bonnie and Clyde: we've been on a first name basis with them for almost a hundred years. Immortalized in movies, songs, and pop culture references,...
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Stranger Things: Runaway Max

Brenna Yovanoff - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Don't miss this gripping, emotional prequel to the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things! The never-before-told backstory of the beloved Dig Dug maven, Max Mayfield, written by New York Times bestselling author Brenna Yovanoff.This must-read novel, based on the hit Netflix series,...
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Exposing Torture: Centuries of Cruelty

Hal Marcovitz - Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Format: Library Binding

Torture. According to Henry Shue, professor of politics and international relations at the University of Oxford in England, "No other practice except slavery is so universally condemned in law and human convention. Yet, unlike slavery ... torture is widespread and growing." Why is torture...
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Skip

Molly Mendoza - Nobrow
Format: Hardcover

A colorful, unpredictable postapocalyptic world comes alive in Skip, when two unlikely friends, Bloom and Gloopy, find themselves tossed from dimension to dimension. Gloopy is running toward adventure, and away from their home and friends who don't understand their creative talent....
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Loki: Where Mischief Lies

Mackenzi Lee - Marvel Press
Format: Hardcover

An epic tale across the realms. A deadly power that spans millennia. A story of struggle and betrayal, this adventure is told through the patchwork past of Marvel's most misunderstood mischief-maker of all time: Loki: Trickster. God of Asgard. Brother.This is the first of three young adult...
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The Stranger Things Field Guide: Everything you need to know about the weird, wonderful and terrifying world of Hawkins and the Upside Down

Nadia Bailey - Smith Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Let this unofficial field guide take you deep into the world of Stranger Things - and discover everything you need to know about the world of Hawkins, the Upside Down, and the making of the cult Netflix series.Stranger Things - that perfectly created television world of 80s Indiana complete...
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The Avant-Guards Vol. 1

Carly Usdin - BOOM! Box
Format: Paperback

When Charlie transfers to the Georgia O'Keeffe College of Arts and Subtle Dramatics, she struggles to find her feet, but winds up exactly where she belongs...in the school's (terrible) basketball team.As a transfer student to the Georgia O'Keeffe College for Arts and Subtle...
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K-Pop Style: Fashion, Skin-Care, Make-Up, Lifestyle, and More

Dianne Pineda-Kim - Racehorse
Format: Paperback

Everything About the Fashion and Style of Korean Pop Music Step up and join the K-Pop revolution now! K-Pop, Korea's infectious and high-energy pop music scene, features fashionable and talented singers and eye-popping visuals. Now you too can learn to dress and style yourself just...
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Ye

Guilherme Petreca - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback

Jaw-dropping artwork breathes stunning life into a mute boy's fantastic odyssey through time and space in this award-winning debut from the booming Brazilian comic scene.Ye is a curious young man, named after the only sound he knows how to make. His voice must have been stolen by the Colorless...
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Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis

Alexis Coe - Pulp/Zest Books
Format: Book

In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation—it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fiancée Freda Ward, but when their love...
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November 13

The Tenth Girl

Sara Faring - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

Simmering in Patagonian myth, The Tenth Girl is a gothic psychological thriller with a haunting twist.At the very southern tip of South America looms an isolated finishing school. Legend has it that the land will curse those who settle there. But for Mavi -- a bold Buenos Aires native...
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The Rest of Us Just Live Here

Patrick Ness - HarperTeen
Format: Paperback

Six starred reviews! A new YA novel from novelist Patrick Ness, author of the Carnegie Medal- and Kate Greenaway Medal-winning A Monster Calls and the critically acclaimed Chaos Walking trilogy, The Rest of Us Just Live Here is a bold and irreverent novel that powerfully reminds us that...
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Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories

JUNJI ITO - VIZ Media LLC
Format: Hardcover

A best-of story selection by the master of horror manga.This volume includes nine of Junji Ito's best short stories, as selected by the author himself and presented with accompanying notes and commentary. An arm peppered with tiny holes dangles from a sick girl's window ... After...
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My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

British Deer Society. - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Paperback

Twelve romantic holiday stories by twelve bestselling young adult authors edited by Stephanie Perkins.If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, youre going to fall...
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Winter Town

Stephen Emond - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Every winter, straight-laced, Ivy League bound Evan looks forward to a visit from Lucy, a childhood pal who moved away after her parents divorce. But when Lucy arrives this year, shes changed. The former "girl next door" now has chopped dyed black hair, a nose stud, and a scowl....
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Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black

Marcus Sedgwick - Walker Books US
Format: Hardcover

Harry Black is lost between the world of war and the land of myth in this illustrated novel that transports the tale of Orpheus to World War II-era London.Brothers Marcus and Julian Sedgwick team up to pen this haunting tale of another pair of brothers, caught between life and death in World...
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Carve the Mark

Veronica Roth - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

Fans of Star Wars and Divergent will revel in internationally bestselling author Veronica Roth's stunning new science-fiction fantasy series.On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favored by fate, everyone develops a currentgift, a unique power meant to shape...
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Fawkes: A Novel

Nadine Brandes - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

"Fawkes is the perfect mix of history and magic." - Cynthia Hand, New York Times bestselling author of My Lady JaneThomas Fawkes is turning to stone, and the only cure to the Stone Plague is to join his father's plot to assassinate the king of England.Silent...
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Shiver

Maggie Stiefvater - ‎Scholastic Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

From a dazzlingly talented young writer, a haunting and original supernatural romance in the vein of TWILIGHT.

For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf--her wolf--is a chilling presence she cant seem to live without....
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Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

Guillermo del Toro - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Fans of dark fairy-tales like The Hazel Wood and The Cruel Prince will relish this atmospheric and absorbing book based on Guillermo del Toro's critically acclaimed movie.Oscar winning writer-director Guillermo del Toro and New York Times bestselling author Cornelia Funke have come together...
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Nov 6, 2019

Gork, the Teenage Dragon: A novel

GABE HUDSON - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A TODAY Show Summer Pick An Amazon Summer Beach Reads Pick A Barnes & Noble Best New Fiction of the Month Pick "Hilarious. . . . Gork is less Game of Thrones and more The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with fire-breathing characters...
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The Last True Poets of the Sea

Julia Drake - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

From a stunning new voice in YA literature comes an epic, utterly unforgettable contemporary novel about a lost shipwreck, a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life. "Profound and page-turning." --Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times best-selling...
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I Know You Remember

Jennifer Donaldson - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Jennifer Donaldson is back with another twisted thriller perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Sadie.Zahra Gaines is missing. After three long years away, Ruthie Hayden arrives in her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska to this devastating news. Zahra was Ruthie's best friend--the...
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By Any Means Necessary

Candice Montgomery - Page Street Kids
Format: Hardcover

Heart-wrenchingly honest, fans of Brandy Colbert and Nicola Yoon will anticiapte this poignant reflection on what it means to choose yourself.On the day Torrey moves and officially becomes a college freshman, he gets a call that might force him to drop out before he's even made it through...
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Girls of Storm and Shadow

Natasha Ngan - jimmy patterson
Format: Hardcover

In this mesmerizing sequel to the New York Times bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire, Lei and Wren have escaped their oppressive lives in the Hidden Palace, but soon learn that freedom comes with a terrible cost.Lei, the naive country girl who became a royal courtesan, is now known...
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The Library of Lost Things

Laura Taylor Namey - Inkyard Press
Format: Hardcover

From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds of her books. There, she can avoid the crushing reality of her mother's hoarding and pretend her life is simply ordinary. But when a new property manager becomes more active...
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WAR GIRLS

Tochi Onyebuchi - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Two sisters are torn apart by war and must fight their way back to each other in a futuristic, Black Panther-inspired Nigeria.The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky. In a war-torn...
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The Grace Year

Kim Liggett - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

The Instant New York Times Bestseller!A speculative thriller in the vein of The Handmaid's Tale and The Power. Optioned by Universal and Elizabeth Banks to be a major motion picture!"A visceral, darkly haunting fever dream of a novel and an absolute page-turner....
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Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir

Nikki Grimes - Wordsong
Format: Hardcover

"This powerful story, told with the music of poetry and the blade of truth, will help your heart grow."--Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and Shout"[A] testimony and a triumph."--Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way DownIn her own voice, acclaimed...
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The Beautiful

Renée Ahdieh - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Rene Ahdieh returns with a sumptuous, sultry and romantic new series set in 19th century New Orleans where vampires hide in plain sight.In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans is a safe...
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