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The Brilliant Death
AMY ROSE CAPETTA - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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For Teodora DiSangro, a mafia don's daughter, family is fate. All her life, Teodora has hidden the fact that she secretly turns her family's enemies into music boxes, mirrors, and other decorative objects. After all, everyone in Vinalia knows that stregas - wielders of magic - are figures... |
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Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas - SWOON READS
Format: Hardcover
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Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him.When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then... |
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Each of Us a Desert
Mark Oshiro - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning author Mark Oshiro comes a powerful coming-of-age fantasy novel about finding home and falling in love amidst the dangers of a desert where stories come to lifeXochitl is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking her troubled village's stories into its arid winds.... |
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From Dust, a Flame
Rebecca Podos - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover
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Rebecca Podos, Lambda Award-winning author of Like Water, returns with a contemporary Jewish fantasy of enduring love, unfathomable loss, and the power of stories to hold us together when it seems that nothing else can.Hannah's whole life has been spent in motion. Her mother has kept... |
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The Heartbreak Bakery
A. R. Capetta - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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"What's done is done."Unless, of course, it was done by my brownies. Then it's getting undone.Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Being dumped is no different, except now Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer... |
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I Wish You All the Best
Mason Deaver - Push
Format: Hardcover
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When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection,... |
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo
Format: Hardcover
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"That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other." And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: "Have you ever heard of such a thing?"Seventeen-year-old... |
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The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets
Gayle E Pitman - Abrams Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBTQ+) community in reaction to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich... |
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Summer Bird Blue
Akemi Dawn Bowman - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover
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"A lyrical novel about grief, love, and finding oneself in the wake of a tragic loss." - Bustle "Grabs your heart and won't let go." - Book Riot Three starred reviews for this stunning novel about a mixed race teen who struggles to find her way back to her love... |
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Summer in the City of Roses
Michelle Ruiz Keil - Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover
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All her life, seventeen-year-old Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother, Orr. But this summer, with their mother gone at an artist residency, their father decides it's time for fifteen-year-old Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp. When their father brings Iph to a work... |
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