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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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Dread Nation

Justina Ireland - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller * Six starred reviewsAt once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar - a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.Jane...
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Hey, Kiddo

Jarrett J. Krosoczka - Graphix
Format: Hardcover

In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where...
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They Went Left

Monica Hesse - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A tour de force historical mystery from Monica Hesse, the bestselling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat.Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body...
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Frankly in Love

David Yoon - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller and #1 Indie Bestseller!Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong?Frank Li has two names. There's Frank Li, his American name. Then there's Sung-Min Li, his Korean name. No one uses his Korean name, not even his parents....
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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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Two Can Keep a Secret

Karen M. McManus - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

"When it comes to YA suspense, Karen M. McManus is in a league of her own. Fresh off her best-selling breakout One of Us Is Lying . . . the author has returned with a juicy second novel. It's even better than what came before." --EWThe New York Times bestselling...
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Little White Lies

Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

"I'm not saying this is Sawyer's fault," the prim and proper one said delicately. "But."Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a six-figure contract to parti
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We Hunt the Flame

Hafsah Faizal - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A BuzzFeed Pick for "YA Books You Absolutely Must Read This Spring"A Bustle's Most Anticipated 2019 YA ReleasePaste Magazine's Top 10 Most Anticipated YA Novels of 2019"Lyrical and spellbinding" -- Marieke Njikamp, #1 New York Times Bestselling...
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A Heart in a Body in the World

Deb Caletti - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

"This is one for the ages." - Gayle Forman, author of the #1 bestseller If I Stay "A book everyone should read right now." - The New York Times Book Review "A vital and heartbreaking story that brings together the #MeToo movement, the effects of gun violence,...
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No Exit: A Novel

Taylor Adams - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath.A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger's van. No help for miles. What would you do?On her way to Utah to see her dying mother,...
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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent,...
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With the Fire on High

Elizabeth Acevedo - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award longlist title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright.Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago's life...
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