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Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences.
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Bad Cree: A Novel
Jessica Johns - Doubleday
Format: Paperback
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In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed... |
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Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. * "A new and necessary American voice."... |
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Chlorine: A Novel
Jade Song - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts pressure on young... |
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Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, 1)
Rebecca Yarros - Entangled: Red Tower Books
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general―also known as her tough-as-talons mother―has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon... |
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The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph
Oksana Masters - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Oksana Masters, the United States' most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, tells her jaw-dropping story of triumphing over extraordinary Chernobyl disaster-caused physical challenges to create a life that, by example, challenges everyone to push through what is holding... |
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I Will Greet the Sun Again: A Novel
Khashayar J. Khabushani - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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A poetic, open-hearted debut about an Iranian American boy searching for his place in the world - "exquisite, heartbreaking, incredibly beautiful" (Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water) K just wants to be an American boy - shooting hoops with his two older brothers and riding... |
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Maame: A Novel
Jessica George - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys--and the guilt--of trying to find your own way in life." --Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author"Meeting Maame feels like falling in love for the first time: warm, awkward, joyous, a little bit heartbreaking... |
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Starter Villain
John Scalzi - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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Following the bestselling The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi returns with Starter Villain, another unique sci-fi caper set in the strangest of all worlds, present-day Earth.Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.Sure,... |
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The Talk
Darrin Bell - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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"A moving portrait . . . funny and touching, intellectually and emotionally stimulating. There's pride and prejudice, family drama, and a love story. I loved this book. You will too." -- Victor LaValle, author of The ChangelingDarrin Bell was six years old when his mother... |
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Whalefall: A Novel
Daniel Kraus - MTV Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Martian meets 127 Hours in this "powerfully humane" (Owen King, New York Times bestselling author) and scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who's been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen... |
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