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Ace of Spades

Faridah
Format: Book

At Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also black, which makes them targets for a series of anonymous texts revealing their secrets to the entire student body. Both students were on track toward valedictorian and bright college...
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Rainbow and Black

Eri Takenashi
Format: Book

Amazing technicolor dream pet. Shirahoshi Kuroe is a college student who's tired of living in black and white- then an adorably strange creature brings all the colors of the rainbow into her life. Kuroe must learn what exactly this stange creature is as it expands her Monochrome existence.
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Witch Hat Atelier

Kamome Shirahama
Format: Book

In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch erybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give...
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The Crossroads at Midnight

Abby Howard - Iron Circus Comics
Format: Paperback

An old woman living alone on the edge of a bog gets an unexpected -- and unsettling -- visitor, throwing her quiet life into a long-buried mystery. An isolated backwoods family stumbles into good fortune for a time with a monstrous discovery in the lake behind their house, but that...
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The Last Halloween: Children

Abby Howard - Iron Circus Comics
Format: Paperback

The monster apocalypse is nigh, but never fear! Humanity is under the protection of . . . this crew? It's a lonely Halloween night for ten-year-old Mona. While everyone else is out having a ghoulishly good time, she's stuck inside without so much as a scary movie to watch. Just...
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The Little Mermaid:

J. M. Farkas

You know the story of the Little Mermaid - the girl who traded her tail for legs, her beloved sea for sand, to land the prince. Or do you? In this refreshingly subversive blackout poetry version of the classic fairy tale, a new and empowering message emerges from the depths: our g
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Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom

Sangu Mandanna - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Kiki Kallira has always been a worrier. Did she lock the front door? Is there a terrible reason her mom is late? Recently her anxiety has been getting out of control, but one thing that has always soothed her is drawing. Kiki's sketchbook is full of fanciful doodles of the rich Indian...
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Rules for Vanishing

Kate Alice Marshall - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In the faux-documentary style of The Blair Witch Project comes the campfire story of a missing girl, a vengeful ghost, and the girl who is determined to find her sister--at all costs.Once a year, a road appears in the forest. And at the end of it, the ghost of Lucy Gallows beckons....
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Redemptor (Raybearer Book 2)

Ifueko, Jordan
Format: electronic resource

The hotly anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times bestselling YA fantasy about Tarisai's quest to change her fate

For the first time, an Empress Redemptor sits on Aritsar's throne. To appease the sinister spirits of the dead, Tarisai must now anoint a council...
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Glitter

Aprilynne Pike - Random House
Format: Print book

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Aprilynne Pike comes a truly original new novel - Breaking Bad meets Marie Antoinette in a near-future world where the residents of Versailles live like it's the eighteenth century and an almost-queen turns to drug dealing to save...
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Ghostly Things Vol. 1

Ushio Shirotori - Seven Seas
Format: Paperback

An all-new, beautifully illustrated manga about a girl delving into the secrets of her supernatural house!With her father off overseas, Yachiho is left to move into a new house all by herself ... and it's a genuine haunted mansion, full of ghosts and spirits! But Yachiho is determined to tough...
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XOXO

Axie Oh

Jenny's never had much time for boys, K-pop, or really anything besides her dream of being a professional cellist. But when she finds herself falling for a K-pop idol, she has to decide whether their love is worth the risk. A modern forbidden romance wrapped in the glamorous an
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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot: A Novel

Marianne Cronin - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Graceful, intelligent, beautiful writing. Full of wisdom and kindness. It is just the kind of book I adore." - Joanna Cannon, author of the international bestseller The Trouble with Goats and SheepA charming, fiercely alive and disarmingly funny debut novel in the vein of John...
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Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure

Ryan North - Riverhead Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

Romeo loves Juliet. Or Rosaline. And Juliet loves Romeo. Or Viola. Or Orlando. It's Shakespeare as you've never played him before. In this choose-your-own-path version of Romeo and Juliet, you choose where the story goes every time you read! What if Romeo never met Juliet? What...
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Hana-Kimi

Hisaya Nakajo - VIZ Media LLC; Original edition
Format: Paperback

What happens when the hottest boy in school is a girl?!?Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T+. Mizuki Ashiya has such a crush on a track star named Izumi Sano that she moves from the U.S. to Japan to enroll in the all-male high school he goes to! Pretending to be a boy, Mizuki...
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High School Debut, Vol. 1

Kazune Kawahara - VIZ Media: Shojo Beat
Format: Hardcover

After blindly following the advice of fashion magazines and the like, Haruna fails to win the eye of any guy. Convinced that a coach is needed (just like when she trained for softball) , she recruits cute upperclassman Yoh Komiyama to instruct her on how to make herself more appealing....
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The Dead and the Dark

Courtney Gould - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

The Dark has been waiting -- and it won't stay hidden any longer. Something is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon. Teenagers are disappearing, some turning up dead, the weather isn't normal, and all fingers point to TV's most popular ghost hunters who have just come to town. Logan Ortiz-Woodley,...
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Martian Ghost Centaur

Mat Heagerty - Oni Press
Format: Paperback

The town of Southborough used to be a major tourism destination, drawing folks from all over in the hopes they'd spot the famous Sasquatch, reportedly seen in the town many times over the years. But it's been ages since anyone's spotted the 'squatch, and tourism is starting...
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The River: A novel

Peter Heller - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, this is a masterful tale of wilderness survival in the vein of Into the Wild and The Call of the Wild. It is the story of two college friends on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, whitewater, starvation,...
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The Guide: A novel

Peter Heller - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Kingfisher Lodge, nestled in a canyon on a mile and a half of the most pristine river water on the planet, is known by locals as "Billionaire's Mile" and is locked behind a heavy gate. Sandwiched between barbed wire and a meadow with a sign that reads "Don't Get Shot,"...
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