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The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has selected 10 adult books with special appeal to teen readers to receive the 2021 Alex Awards. The awards, sponsored by the Margaret A. Edwards Trust and Booklist, were announced today during the American Library Association’s ALA Midwinter Virtual, held Jan. 22 - 26.
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Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse - Gallery / Saga Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic.A god will... |
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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Lambda Literary Award-winning author TJ Klune's breakout contemporary fantasyLinus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world.Arthur Parnassus... |
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The Impossible First
Colin O'Brady - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Colin O'Brady's awe-inspiring memoir recounts his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident and his gripping 932-mile crossing of the landmass of Antarctica solo, unsupported, and human powered - the first to accomplish this extraordinary feat. Prior to December 2018, no individual... |
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Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
Derf Backderf - Abrams ComicArts
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author Derf Backderf comes the untold story of the Kent State shootings - timed for the 50th anniversary On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots,... |
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The Kids Are Gonna Ask
Anthony, Gretchen - PARK ROW BOOKS
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In this poignant and humorous novel, twin siblings become a national phenomenon when they launch a podcast to find the biological father they never knew. "This journey is ours to start. And we hope you'll come with us--all the way to the end." Thomas and Savannah McClair aren't... |
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The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones - Gallery / Saga Press
Format: Hardcover
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Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood... |
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Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel
Emily M. Danforth - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"Brimming from start to finish with sly humor and gothic mischief. Brilliant." - SARAH WATERSThe Favourite meets The Haunting of Hill House in this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls, a wickedly whimsical... |
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Riot Baby
Tochi Onyebuchi - Tor.com
Format: Hardcover
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"Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether." -- Marlon JamesRooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both... |
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Solutions and Other Problems
Allie Brosh - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh - beloved author and artist of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller Hyperbole and a Half - returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays. Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories... |
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We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel
Quan Barry - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the widely acclaimed She Weeps Each Time You're Born comes a new novel, at once comic and moving. Set in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts (which in 1692 was Salem Village, site of the origins of the Salem Witch Trials) , it follows the Danvers High field... |
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2020 Alex Awards - https://tinyurl.com/2h2c595b
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