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One of Us Is Lying

Karen M. McManus - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation...
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Kara Thomas and Karen McManus, an addictive, twisty crime thriller with shades of Serial and Making a Murderer about a closed local murder case that doesn't add up, and a girl who's determined to find the real killer--but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.Everyone...
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Anna Dressed in Blood

Kendare Blake - Tor Teen; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing...
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All Your Twisted Secrets

Urban, Diana - HARPERCOLLINS


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The Waking Dark

Robin Wasserman - Random House Children's Books
Format: Book

The Waking Dark is "a horror story worthy of Stephen King" (Booklist) and "a book you won't soon forget" (Cassandra Clare, author of the Mortal Instruments series) - perfect for readers of Gillian Flynn and Rick Yancey. They called it the killing day....
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Through the Woods

Emily Carroll - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

Discover a terrifying world in the woods in this collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories that includes the online webcomic sensation "His Face All Red," in print for the first time.Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that...
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Bonechiller

Graham McNamee
Format: Paperback

Danny is sick of running. Harvest Cove is the latest nowhere place he's drifted through with his dad. In summer, people come to stay in cottages on the vast lake. In winter, Harvest Cove is a ghost town hidden away in Canada's Big Empty. Danny's been running forever, but Harvest...
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They Wish They Were Us

Jessica Goodman - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Gossip Girl meets One of Us Is Lying with a dash of The Secret History in this slick, taut murder mystery set against the backdrop of an exclusive prep school on Long Island.In Gold Coast, Long Island, everything from the expensive downtown shops to the manicured beaches, to the pressed...
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The Infects

Sean Beaudoin - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

A feast for the brain, this gory and genuinely hilarious take on zombie culture simultaneously skewers, pays tribute to, and elevates the horror genre.Seventeen-year-old Nero is stuck in the wilderness with a bunch of other juvenile delinquents on an Inward Trek. As if that werent bad enough,...
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Burn Our Bodies Down

Rory Power - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls comes a new twisty thriller about a girl whose past has always been a mystery--until she decides to return to her mother's hometown . . . where history has a tendency to repeat itself.Ever since Margot was born, it's...
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Thirteen Days to Midnight

Patrick Carman - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Audiobook

You are indestructible. Three whispered words transfer an astonishing power to Jacob Fielding that changes everything. At first, Jacob is hesitant to use the power, unsure of its implications. But there's something addictive about testing the limits of fear.Then Ophelia James, the beautiful...
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Grown

Tiffany D Jackson - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

"Grown exposes the underbelly of a tough conversation, providing a searing examination of misogynoir, rape culture, and the vulnerability of young black girls. Groundbreaking, heart-wrenching, and essential reading for all in the #MeToo era." - Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times...
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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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White Fox

Sara Faring - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

-- After their world-famous actor mother disappeared under mysterious circumstances, Manon and Thas left their remote Mediterranean island home -- sent away by their pharma-tech tycoon father. Opposites in every way, the sisters drifted apart in their grief. Yet their mother's unfinished...
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Don't Look Behind You

Lois Duncan - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

April Corrigan's life is turned upside-down when she when she learns that her father has been working secretly undercover for the FBI. When his testimony convicts a notorious drug dealer, the whole family must relocate and enter the Federal Witness Security Program. April's entire way of life...
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Dead Girls Don't Write Letters

Gail Giles
Format: Hardcover

Sunny Reynold's sister, Jazz, dies in a fire. Then one day a letter arrives, a letter from Jazz. A girl follows. But she can't possibly by Jazz--or can she? She seems to know all the family secrets, but Not-Jazz clearly has a few secrets of her own. Compelling, edgy, and suspenseful, Dead...
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City of Bones

Cassandra Clare - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Paperback

Discover this first installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and "prepare to be hooked" (Entertainment Weekly) .When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder...
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Bonechiller

Graham McNamee
Format: Paperback

Danny is sick of running. Harvest Cove is the latest nowhere place he's drifted through with his dad. In summer, people come to stay in cottages on the vast lake. In winter, Harvest Cove is a ghost town hidden away in Canada's Big Empty. Danny's been running forever, but Harvest...
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