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Archenemies (Renegades Series #2)

MARISSA MEYER · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

The Renegades Trilogy continues, in this fiercely awaited second installment after the New York Times-bestselling Renegades by Marissa Meyer, author of the Lunar Chronicles. Time is running out.Together, they can save the world.But they each other's worst nightmare.Nova's double life is about...
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Grim Lovelies

Megan Shepherd · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"A magical dash through the streets of Paris. Part caper, part fairy tale, part opulent witch society, you'll be swept away by all of it. GRIM LOVELIES absolutely dazzles." - Kendare Blake, #1 NYT bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series"A darkly enchanting saga...
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Dream Country

Shannon Gibney · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The heartbreaking story of five generations of young people from a single African-and-American family pursuing an elusive dream of freedom."This novel is a remarkable achievement."--Kelly Barnhill, New York Times bestselling author and Newbery medalist"Beautifully epic."--Ibi...
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The Summoner's Handbook

Taran Matharu · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"The ability to summon is passed down through the blood..."Summoner: One who is gifted with the ability to summon demonic creatures that are emotionally connected to their human counterparts. As brought to life in the bestselling Summoner series, the magic of summoning is also...
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Crown of Thunder

Tochi Onyebuchi · Razorbill
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the sequel to the acclaimed Beasts Made of Night, Taj has escaped Kos, but Queen Karima will go to any means necessary--including using the most deadly magic--to track him down.Taj is headed west, but the consequences of leaving Kos behind confront him at every turn. Innocent civilians...
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The Darkest Star

JENNIFER L ARMENTROUT · Tor Teen
Pages: 368
Format: Book

In the world of the Lux, secrets thrive, lies shatter, and love is undeniable. #1 New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout brings her trademark drama and intrigue to a new romantic YA science fiction series with The Darkest Star. A girl pulled...
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The Lying Woods

Ashley Elston · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Owen Foster has never wanted for anything. Then his mother shows up at his elite New Orleans boarding school cradling a bombshell: his privileged life has been funded by stolen money. After using the family business, the single largest employer in his small Louisiana town, to embezzle millions...
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On Blood Road

Steve Watkins · Scholastic Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The last place on earth Taylor Sorenson wants to be is in Saigon in the middle of the Vietnam War. His mom dragged him here to visit his dad, who's stationed at the US embassy, and Taylor is bored out of his skull. One night, during an embassy dinner, he decides to sneak out to see the Tet celebrations...
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A Map of Days

ANONYMOUS. · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The #1 bestselling series returns with a thrilling new story arc set in America!Vintage photographs reveal the never-before-seen world of peculiar America with a stunning addition - full-color images.Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman...
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Little White Lies

Ace Atkins · Freeform
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"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 participate in debutante...
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A Sorrow Fierce and Falling

JESSICA CLUESS · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Magic, romance, and heart-pounding action bring the final book in the Kingdom on Fire series to a shocking and satisfying close. Justine Magazine says, "A pinch of Potter blended with a drop of [Cassandra Clare's] Infernal Devices.""Plot twists so good they will leave you reeling."--TRACI...
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The Second Life of Ava Rivers

Faith Gardner · Razorbill
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"A beautiful, moving, and thoughtful story about how far we're willing to go for family."- Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces Ava's disappearance was the crack in the Rivers family glacier. I wish I could explain to you how we were before, but I can't,...
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Shadow of the Fox

Julie Kagawa · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 400
Format: Book

Once Every Thousand Years... Every millennium, one age ends and another age dawns...and whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers holds the power to call the great Kami Dragon from the sea and ask for any one wish. The time is near...and the missing pieces of the scroll will be sought...
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The Brilliant Death

AMY ROSE CAPETTA · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

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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Blanca & Roja

ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The biggest lie of all is the story you think you already know.The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they're also rivals, Blanca as obedient and graceful as Roja is vicious and manipulative. They know that, because of a generations-old spell, their family is bound to a bevy...
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Wind Rider

P C CAST · Wednesday Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author of the House of Night series, P.C. Cast, brings us Wind Rider, an epic fantasy set in a world where humans, their animal allies, and the earth itself has been drastically changed. A world filled with beauty and danger and cruelty ... Mari, Nik, and their...
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Empress of All Seasons

Emiko Jean · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In a palace of illusions, nothing is what it seems.Each generation, a competition is held to find the next empress of Honoku. The rules are simple. Survive the palace's enchanted seasonal rooms. Conquer Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Marry the prince. All are eligible to compete--all...
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OtherEarth

Jason Segel · Delacorte Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Return to the series BuzzFeed compared to Ready Player One in the second book in a new fast-paced trilogy from New York Times bestselling authors Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller that's perfect for fans of HBO's Westworld. Simon saved his best friend, Kat, from the clutches of the Company...
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Invisible Ghosts

ROBYN SCHNEIDER · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Robyn Schneider, author of Extraordinary Means and The Beginning of Everything, delivers a sharply funny, romantic girl-meets-boy novel with a twist: boy-also-meets-girl's-ghost-brother.When one girl's best friend is her dead brother's ghost, romance can be tricky. Perfect for fans of John...
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Girls of Paper and Fire

NATASHA NGAN · jimmy patterson
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

*#1 on the Indie Next Kid's List**Goodreads Best Books of November**B&N Top Books of November**Publisher's Weekly Books of the Week**Hypable Most Anticipated YA Book Releases* Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could...
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The Boneless Mercies

April Genevieve Tucholke · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Frey, Ovie, Juniper, and Runa are the Boneless Mercies -- girls hired to kill quickly, quietly, and mercifully. But Frey is weary of the death trade and, having been raised on the heroic sagas of her people, dreams of a bigger life. When she hears of an unstoppable monster ravaging a nearby...
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The Light Between Worlds

LAURA E WEYMOUTH · HarperTeen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

What happens when you return to the real world after being in a fantastical one like Narnia? This YA debut by Laura E. Weymouth is perfect for fans of Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood and Lev Grossman's The Magicians.Six years ago, sisters Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell were swept away to a strange...
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Sawkill Girls

Claire Legrand · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

"Reader, hang on for dear life. Sawkill Girls is a wild, gorgeous, and rich coming-of-age story about complicity, female camaraderie, and power." - Sarah Gailey, author of River of Teeth"An eerie, atmospheric assertion of female strength." - Mindy McGinnis, author...
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Broken Things

LAUREN OLIVER · HarperCollins
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

It's been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods. Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend. That driven by their obsession with a novel called The Way into Lovelorn the three girls had imagined themselves into the magical world where their fantasies...
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Muse of Nightmares

LAINI TAYLOR · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated, thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer, from National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old.She believed...
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The Storyteller

Traci Chee · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling conclusion to the epic adventure that began with New York Times bestselling The Reader, "a series fantasy lovers will want to sink their teeth into." - BOOKLIST , starred reviewSefia is determined to keep Archer out of the Guard's clutches and their plans for war between...
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The Healer

DONNA FREITAS · HarperTeen
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A gorgeous and heartrending novel about love, family, and faith, perfect for fans of Laura Ruby, John Corey Whaley, and Jandy Nelson.Marlena Oliveira has - mysteriously, miraculously - been given the power to heal all kinds of ailments. People around the world believe she is a saint. But it all comes...
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A Very Large Expanse of Sea

Tahereh Mafi · HarperTeen
Pages: 320
Format: Book

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful, heartrending contemporary novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice. It's 2002, a year after 9/11. It's an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially...
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Villain

MICHAEL GRANT · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed author Michael Grant's globally bestselling Gone series continues with Villain, where old foes return and new ones rise, with action-packed scenes, gory battles, and plot twists that will leave readers scrambling for more. It's been four years since the events of GONE. The Perdido...
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Someday

DAVID LEVITHAN · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Every Day, soon to be a major motion picture starring Angourie Rice.Every day a new body. Every day a new life. Every day a new choice. For as long as A can remember, life has meant waking up in a different person's body every day, forced to live...
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Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel

VAL EMMICH · Poppy
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Dear Evan Hansen, Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why ... When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's griefover the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never...
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Light Years

Kass Morgan · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Ender's Game meets The 100 as hidden secrets and forbidden love collide at an interstellar military boarding school in a new sci-fi series from New York Times bestselling author Kass Morgan. Reeling from the latest attack by a mysterious enemy, the Quatra Fleet Academy is finally admitting...
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Swing

Kwame Alexander · Blink
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Things usually do not go as planned for seventeen-year-old Noah. He and his best friend Walt (aka Swing) have been cut from the high school baseball team for the third year in a row, and it looks like Noah's love interest since fifth grade, Sam, will never take it past the "best...
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The Devil's Thief

LISA MAXWELL · Simon Pulse
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

In this spellbinding sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Last Magician, Esta and Harte set off on a cross-country chase through time to steal back the elemental stones they need to save the future of magic. Hunt the Stones. Beware the Thief. Avenge the Past. Esta's parents were...
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Kingdom of The Blazing Phoenix

Julie C. Dao · Philomel Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

This fairy tale retelling lives in a mystical world inspired by the Far East, where the Dragon Lord and the Serpent God battle for control of the earthly realm; it is here that the flawed heroine of Forest of a Thousand Lanterns finally meets her match. An epic fantasy finale to that breathtaking...
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A Heart in a Body in the World

Deb Caletti · Simon Pulse
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A girl tries to outrun her demons in this searing, universal novel about the impact of gun violence, everyday sexism, rape culture, and internalizing - and overcoming - guilt from National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti.When everything has been taken from you, what else is there to do but run?...
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A Room Away From the Wolves

Nova Ren Suma · Algonquin Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Bina has never forgotten the time she and her mother ran away from home. Her mother promised they would hitchhike to the city to escape Bina's cruel father and start over. But before they could even leave town, Bina had a new stepfather and two new stepsisters, and a humming sense of betrayal...
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The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction

AMY BRASHEAR · Soho Teen
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Arkansas, 1984: The town of Griffin Flat is known for almost nothing other than its nuclear missile silos. MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction - is a fear every local lives with and tries to ignore. Unfortunately that's impossible now that film moguls have picked Griffin Flat as the location...
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It Wasn't Me

Dana Alison Levy · Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

THE BREAKFAST CLUB meets middle school with a prank twist in this hilarious and heartwarming story about six very different seventh graders who are forced to band together after a vandalism incident.When Theo's photography project is mysteriously vandalized at school there are five suspected...
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The Good Demon

Jimmy Cajoleas · Amulet Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Clare has been miserable since her exorcism. The preacher that rid her of evil didn't understand that her demon - simply known as Her - was like a sister to Clare. Now, Clare will do almost anything to get Her back. After a chance encounter with the son of the preacher who exorcised her,...
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Last Seen

Sara Shepard · Freeform
Pages: 304
Format: Book

The stakes are higher than ever in this third installment of The Amatuers, as Aerin finds herself kidnapped by the killer she knows all too well, and her friends must work to solve a puzzle laid out by the villain in order to save her. At first, the mystery they're tasked with seems...
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Bridge of Clay

RANDOM HOUSE. · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable and sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be lifechanging." The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world...
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Dry

Neal Shusterman · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.The drought - or the Tap-Out, as everyone...
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Skyward

Brandon Sanderson · Delacorte Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, and the internationally bestselling Mistborn series, comes the first book in an epic new series about a girl who dreams of becoming a pilot in a dangerous world at war for humanity's...
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For a Muse of Fire

Heidi Heilig · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

A young woman with a dangerous power she barely understands. A smuggler with secrets of his own. A country torn between a merciless colonial army, a terrifying tyrant, and a feared rebel leader. The first book in a new trilogy from the acclaimed Heidi Heilig blends traditional storytelling...
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The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

MACKENZI LEE · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor - even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it. A must-have for fans...
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The Lies They Tell

Gillian French · HarperTeen
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

With shades of E. Lockhart's We Were Liars, this dark and twisted mystery by the highly acclaimed author of Grit will be the page-turner of the year.Everyone in Tenney's Harbor knows about the Garrison tragedy. How an unexplained fire ravaged their house, killing four of the five family...
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The Dark Days Deceit

ALISON GOODMAN · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling, genre-bending conclusion to Lady Helen's demon-hunting adventures, set in the glittering Regency world.Lady Helen has retreated to a country estate outside Bath to prepare for her wedding to the Duke of Selburn, yet she knows she has unfinished business to complete. She and the dangerously...
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