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Christine Riccio · Wednesday Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Shane has been doing college all wrong. Pre-med, stellar grades, and happy parents ... sounds ideal -- but Shane's made zero friends, goes home every weekend, and romance ... what's that? Her life has been dorm, dining hall, class, repeat. Time's a ticking, and she needs a change -- there's...
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Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer Vol. 3

Nick Spencer · Marvel
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

J. Jonah Jameson, former publisher of the Daily Bugle, former mayor of New York City, has a new job - as a shock jock! It's the perfect job for the outspoken Jonah, but is the world ready for a JJJ who's...pro-Spider-Man?! More importantly, is Peter Parker ready? His post-secret-identity...
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The Boy Next Story: A Bookish Boyfriends Novel

Tiffany Schmidt · Amulet Paperbacks
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

This is the second title in a paperback original series about a girl whose classic literary crushes manifest in real life, this time told from Rory Campbell's point of view and inspired by the timeless classic Little Women. Rory likes Toby, but Toby likes Rory's sister Merrilee,...
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Carmilla

Kim Turrisi · Kids Can Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

An adaptation of Shaftesbury's award-winning, groundbreaking queer vampire web series of the same name, Carmilla mixes the camp of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the snark of Veronica Mars, and the mysterious atmosphere of Welcome to Nightvale.Newly escaped from the stifling boredom of a small...
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Firefly Vol. 1

Greg Pak · BOOM! Studios
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

A new era of Firefly starts here, as the secret history of the Unification War is revealed at last!From Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Avengers) comes a new era of Firefly, as the definitive story of the Unification War is told at last! Captain Malcolm Reynolds thought he could...
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Girl Gone Viral

Arvin Ahmadi · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Warcross and Black Mirror, Girl Gone Viral is the inventive and timely story of a seventeen-year-old coder's catapult to stardom.For seventeen-year-old Opal Hopper, code is magic. She builds entire worlds from scratch: Mars craters, shimmering lakes, any virtual experience...
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Happily and Madly

Alexis Bass · Tor Teen
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Alexis Bass' Happily and Madly is a mature, twisty, compulsively readable YA suspense novel about a young girl who embraces a fate bound in love and mystery. Maris Brown has been told two things about her destiny:1. She will fall happily and madly in love.2. She could be dead before she turns...
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I Wish You All the Best

Mason Deaver · Push
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

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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Lovestruck

Kate Watson · Flux
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Sixteen-year-old cupid-in-training Kali is in an Olympus-sized mountain of trouble. Rule number one in arrow-toting matchmaking: don't stick yourself. But accidents happen, and Kali instantly falls hard for her indie rock, bass-playing target, Benicio. The God of Love is going to kill...
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Mera: Tidebreaker

Danielle Paige · DC Ink
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Princess Mera is teenage royalty and heir to the throne of Xebel, a penal colony ruled by the other no-so-lost land under the sea, Atlantis. Her father, his court and the entire kingdom are expecting her to marry and introduce a new king. But Mera is destined to wear a different crown....When...
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Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 12

Bisco Hatori · VIZ Media LLC; Original edition
Pages: 200
Format: Kindle Edition

by Bisco Hatori Curious about Haruhi's standard of living, the Host Club members pay her a visit at home. While the guys do their utmost to be polite, everything they do seems to backfire, especially for poor Tamaki! On top of it all, he trips and lands o
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The Pursuit of Miss Heartbreak Hotel

Moe Bonneau · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Ours is an age-old tale of two betties, apple-Jacks forever, when suddenly one goes ace gorgeous and then, naturally, massive popular. Said popular betty ditches other unsaid, unpopular betty for superhit cool crowd. Girls don't speak again for four years, until a chance meeting reunites...
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The Rest of the Story

Sarah Dessen · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a big-hearted, sweeping novel about a girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasn't seen since she was a little girl - and falls in love, all over the course of a magical summer. Emma Saylor doesn't remember a lot about...
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Sorcery of Thorns

Margaret Rogerson · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

"If you are looking for magic you will find it inside this book. Sorcery of Thorns is a bewitching gem, full of slow burning romance, loyal friendships, and extraordinary world building. I absolutely loved every moment of this story." - Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling...
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Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider Vol. 1

Seanan McGuire · Marvel
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

Gwen Stacy, the Spider-Woman of Earth-65, makes her sensational return! And she's picking up right where she left off, fighting crime through her home reality - unaware that it sits on the precipice of interdimensional calamity! Spider-Geddon is about to rock Gwen's world! Finding...
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Teeth in the Mist

Dawn Kurtagich · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A genre-bending epic horror-fantasy, inspired by the legend of Faust, that spans generations as an ancient evil is uncovered--perfect for fans of Kendare Blake and Ransom Riggs. Before the birth of time, a monk uncovers the Devil's Tongue and dares to speak it. The repercussions will be felt...
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Venom by Donny Cates Vol. 2

Donny Cates
Format: Paperback

The blockbuster hit of summer 2018 continues! Eddie Brock's alien symbiote has been disobeying its human host - but the reason why only leads to new questions about the creature and its other-worldly origins!COLLECTING: VENOM (2018) 7-12
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Wreck: A Novel

Kirstin Cronn-Mills · Sky Pony
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes loss has its own timetable. Set on the shores of Lake Superior, Wreck follows high school junior Tobin Oliver as she navigates her father's diagnosis of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) . Steve's life as a paramedic and a runner comes to an abrupt halt just as Tobin is preparing...
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