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Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

Caitlin Doughty - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen...
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The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

Sherry Thomas - Tu Books
Format: Hardcover

THE MAGNOLIA SWORD is the epic adventure I have always wanted: an intense, riveting, heart-pounding race against time coupled with a surprisingly tender forbidden love.--New York Times Bestselling Author Courtney MilanCHINA, 484 A.D.A Warrior in DisguiseAll her life, Mulan has trained for one purpose:...
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Cursed

Thomas Wheeler - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Look out for the original series starring Katherine Langford coming soon to Netflix! The Lady of the Lake is the true hero in this cinematic twist on the tale of King Arthur created by Thomas Wheeler and legendary artist, producer, and director Frank Miller (300, Batman: The Dark...
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Full Disclosure

Camryn Garrett - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The uplifting story of an HIV-positive teen, falling in love and learning to live her truth. "Romantic, funny, hopeful, and unflinchingly real." --Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon Vs. The Homosapiens AgendaSimone Garcia-Hampton is starting...
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The Girl from the Other Side: Siuil A Run Vol. 3

NAGABE. - Seven Seas
Format: Paperback

An ethereal fantasy from the editorial team behind the New York Times bestselling series The Ancient Magus' BrideIn a world split between the Inside and the Outside, those living in both realms are told never to cross over to the other side, lest they be cursed. A young girl named Shiva...
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Becoming Beatriz

Tami Charles - Charlesbridge Teen
Format: Hardcover

Beatriz dreams of a life spent dancing--until tragedy on the day of her quinceaera changes everything.Up until her fifteenth birthday, the most important thing in the world to Beatriz Mendez was her dream of becoming a professional dancer and getting herself and her family far from the gang...
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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 Truth Is

NoNieqa Ramos - Carolrhoda Lab
Format: Hardcover

A Bustle Book Club Selection A powerful exploration of love, identity, and self-worth through the eyes of a fierce, questioning Puerto Rican teen. Fifteen-year-old Verdad doesn't think she has time for love. She's still struggling to process the recent death of her best friend, Blanca;...
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The Book of Lost Saints

Daniel Jose Older - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

An evocative multigenerational Cuban-American family story of revolution, loss, and family bonds. Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hardly a trace. Now, shaped by atrocities long-forgotten, her foul-mouthed spirit visits her nephew, Ramon, in modern day New Jersey....
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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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Have a Little Faith in Me

Sonia Hartl - Page Street Kids
Format: Hardcover

"Saved!" meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before in this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that takes a meaningful look at consent and what it means to give it.When CeCe's born-again ex-boyfriend dumps her after they have sex, she follows him to Jesus camp in order to win him back....
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Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany

Andrew Maraniss - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

*"Rivaling the nonfiction works of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat....Even readers who don't appreciate sports will find this story a page-turner." --School Library Connection (starred review) "An insightful, gripping account of basketball...
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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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The Queen of Nothing

Holly Black - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times; color: #000000} He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king,...
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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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Scared Little Rabbits

A.V. Geiger - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

We stand in a tight cluster, high above the lake. One-by-one, we made our way up the narrow trail from the edge of campus. Now, we wait shoulder to shoulder behind the police tape. Nineteen summer students. All but one.When Nora gets accepted into her dream summer program at the prestigious...
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Eight Will Fall

Sarah Harian - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

"Adventurous and imaginative, Harian imbues the world of Demura with an infectious charm and energy, and just enough danger and darkness. A gorgeous fantasy that will hook readers from page one." -- Madeleine Roux, New York Times-bestselling author of the Asylum seriesLovers...
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