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Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday

Natalie C. Anderson · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Forced to become a child soldier, a sixteen-year-old Somali refugee must confront his painful past in this haunting, thrilling tale of loss and redemption for fans of A Long Way Gone and What is the What When Abdi's family is kidnapped, he's forced to do the unthinkable: become a child...
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Mixing Live Sound: An Application Guide for the Audio Technician

Gregg J Boonstra · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 76
Format: Paperback

A step by step guide for the everyday person wanting to learn how to mix live sound for a band or a show. This fact filled guide gives you the foundation you need to become a great audio engineer. This book is written as a basic guide to help the everyday person serve as a great audio technician....
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Evermore

Sara Holland · HarperTeen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling series!Jules Ember confronts the girl who is both her oldest friend and greatest enemy in the highly anticipated sequel to Everless, praised by New York Times bestelling author Stephanie Garber as "an intoxicating blend of blood, secrets, and haunting...
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Mastering Media with the Raspberry Pi: Media Centers, Music, High End Audio, Video, and Ultimate Movie Nights

Ralph Roberts · Apress
Pages: 222
Format: Paperback

Create and maintain Raspberry Pi-based entertainment systems in a comprehensive and fun manner. Instead of front-loading a bunch of theory and minutia, this book takes a more practical approach of showing what's needed when it's needed. You'll first explore the possibilities and options...
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Echo North

Joanna Ruth Meyer · Page Street Kids
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Epic and engrossing. Magic pulsates through every page. . .Readers will ache when it's over and want to start all over again. A lush, captivating new twist on beloved fairy tales." -- Kirkus, starred review"...a compelling, satisfying romantic adventure with metafictional...
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Brave

Jennifer L. Armentrout · Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

Ivy Morgan hasn't been feeling like herself lately. Not like anyone can blame her. After all, being held captive by a psychotic fae prince hell-bent on permanently opening the gates to the Otherworld is bound to leave some mental scars. It's more than that, though. Something dark...
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My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life

RACHEL COHN · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"I'm here to take you to live with your father. In Tokyo, Japan! Happy birthday!"In the Land of the Rising Sun, where high culture meets high kitsch, and fashion and technology are at the forefront of the First World's future, the foreign-born teen elite attend ICS-the...
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The Dark Calling

Kresley Cole · Valkyrie Press
Format: eBook

New intrigues, adventures, and stunning revelations fill the penultimate installment of #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole's electrifying Arcana Chronicles. In a world teetering on the edge . . . When Evie receives life-changing - and possibly game-changing - news, she has trouble...
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Circle of Shadows

Evelyn Skye · Balzer Bray
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling new fantasy series full of magic and betrayal - from Evelyn Skye, New York Times bestselling author of the Crown's Game series.Sora can move as silently as a ghost and hurl throwing stars with lethal accuracy. Her gemina, Daemon, can win any physical fight blindfolded and with...
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The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Tales from Alagaësia

Christopher Paolini · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The internationally bestselling fantasy sensation is back, with brand-new stories set in the world of Eragon and the Inheritance Cycle!A wanderer and a cursed child. Spells and magic. And dragons, of course. Welcome back to the world of Alagaesia.It's been a year since Eragon departed Alagaesia...
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Come Find Me

Megan Miranda · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and The Perfect Stranger comes a captivating thriller about two teens who connect when each discovers a mysterious radio frequency, which suggests their family tragedies are mysteriously connected.After surviving an infamous...
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Genius: The Revolution

LEOPOLDO GOUT · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Three teen geniuses from diverse backgrounds must take down an online terrorist ring, rescue an imprisoned father, and prepare for their final showdown with a misguided mastermind in this third and final book in the Genius YA trilogy by Leopoldo Gout.How do we stop him? We beat him at his own game....
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A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II

ELIZABETH WEIN · Balzer Bray
Pages: 384
Format: Book

The gripping true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II - from Elizabeth Wein, award-winning author of Code Name VerityIn the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat....
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George Washington's Secret Six

Brian Kilmeade · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

A page-turning middle-grade adaptation of the New York Times bestseller about George Washington's top-secret spy ring that helped defeat the British.The American Revolution is well under way in 1776, but things are looking bleak for General George Washington and his Continental Army....
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The Cursed Sea

LAUREN DESTEFANO · Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The second in an exciting fantasy duology about a princess cursed to turn any living thing she touches into gemstone from Lauren DeStefano, the bestselling author of the Chemical Garden series. Perfect for fans of Shannon Hale and Renée Ahdieh. Wil, the exiled princess of northern Arrod,...
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Predator's Gold

PHILIP REEVE · Scholastic Press
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

With the great Traction City of London completely destroyed, Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw travel across the world, trading with other airships and adventuring on the exciting and exotic routes of the Bird Roads. When their little scrapyard aircraft is pursued by rocket-firing gunships,...
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29 Dates

Melissa de la Cruz · Inkyard Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"A heartwarming, sparkling romantic comedy about what happens when what your heart wants and what your parents want don't match ... Melissa de la Cruz enchants and delights in her usual style. Completely unputdownable!" - Sandhya Menon, New York Times bestselling author of When...
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A Darkling Plain

PHILIP REEVE · Scholastic Press
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback

London is a radioactive ruin.But Tom and Wren discover that the old predator city hides an awesome secret that could bring an end to the war. But as they risk their lives in its dark underbelly, time is running out. Alone and far away, Hester faces a fanatical enemy who possesses the weapons...
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Jealousy

Lili St. Crow · Razorbill; Later Printing edition
Format: Paperback

It?s a good thing Dru Anderson is fast. Because the sucker chasing her isn?t slowing down?and he won?t rest until he has tasted her blood and silenced her heart . . . Dru?s best friend, Graves, and her strange and handsome savior, Christophe, are ready to help her take on the ultimate evil....
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Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card

Sara Saedi · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In development as a television series from Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine production company and ABC Studios!The hilarious, poignant, and true story of one teen's experience growing up in America as an undocumented immigrant from the Middle East, perfect for fans of Mindy Kaling and Trevor...
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Before She Ignites

JODI MEADOWS · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

"A fully realized fantasy world complete with dragons, treachery, and flawed characters discovering their courage. I couldn't put it down!" - C. J. Redwine, New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow QueenFrom the New York Times bestselling co-author of My Plain Jane...
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Between Frost and Fury

CHANI LYNN FEENER · Swoon Reads
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Delaney might have done her job a little TOO well...and now her life has once again been turned upside down by aliens, this time by a deadly (and devastatingly handsome) alien prince in this explosive second installment of Chani Lynn Feener's The Xenith Trilogy. Delaney has been kidnapped...
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Imprison the Sky

A.C. Gaughen · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"[A] fantasy romance in the vein of books by Sabaa Tahir, Renee Ahdieh." - School Library Journal on Reign the EarthThe sweeping Elementae series continues with a heroine so powerful she can command the sky . . .Stolen from her family as a child, Aspasia has clawed her way up the ranks...
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A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Brigid Kemmerer · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

In a lush, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer gives readers another compulsively readable romance perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer.Fall in love, break the curse.It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. Cursed by a powerful enchantress...
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Stain

A G Howard · Amulet Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

After Lyra - a princess incapable of speech or sound - is cast out of her kingdom of daylight by her wicked aunt, a witch saves her life, steals her memories, and raises her in an enchanted forest . . . disguised as a boy known only as Stain. Meanwhile, in Lyra's rival kingdom, the prince...
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The Cold Is in Her Bones

Peternelle van Arsdale · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

One girl must uncover secrets of the past to save her friend from a terrible curse in this dark and mesmerizing story of love, revenge, and redemption inspired by the myth of Medusa.Milla knows two things to be true: Demons are real, and fear will keep her safe. Milla's whole world...
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The Wicked King

Holly Black · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince.You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.The first lesson is to make yourself strong.After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude...
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The Gilded Wolves

ROSHANI CHOKSHI · Wednesday Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Set in a darkly glamorous world The Gilded Wolves is full of mystery, decadence and dangerous but thrilling adventure. Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this...
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Two Can Keep a Secret

Karen M McManus · Delacorte Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying is back with an all-new, page-turning mystery perfect for fans of Riverdale!Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five...
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High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction

David Sheff · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Just Say Know! With drug education for children more important than ever, this nonfiction book draws on the experiences of the NY Times bestselling father/son team of David and Nic Sheff to provide all the information teens and tweens need to know about drugs, alcohol, and addiction.From...
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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea

Melissa Fleming · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary true story of one teen refugee's quest to find a new life -- now adapted for young readersA Hope More Powerful Than the Sea tells the story of Doaa Al-Zamel, a Syrian girl whose life was upended in 2011 by her country's brutal civil war. She and her family escape...
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Even If I Fall

Abigail Johnson · Inkyard Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Brooke and Heath should never have become friends, let alone fallen in love A year ago, Brooke Covington lost everything when her beloved older brother, Jason, confessed to the murder of his best friend, Calvin. Brooke and her family became social pariahs, broken and unable to console one another....
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1919 The Year That Changed America

Martin W. Sandler · Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed author Sandler examines the pinnacle events of 1919 and their relevance to significant issues in American life today.1919 was a world-shaking year. America was recovering from World War I and black soldiers returned to racism so violent that that summer would become known as the Red Summer....
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Mortal Engines: Movie Tie-in Edition

Philip Reeve · Scholastic Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

*"Reeve's [Mortal Engines] remains a landmark of visionary imagination." --School Library Journal, starred reviewEmerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon London will feed. In the attack,...
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Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

Marieke Nijkamp · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

This anthology explores disability in fictional tales told from the viewpoint of disabled characters, written by disabled creators. With stories in various genres about first loves, friendship, war, travel, and more, Unbroken will offer today's teen readers a glimpse into the lives of disabled...
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Slayer

Kiersten White · Simon Pulse
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White comes a brand-new series set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that introduces a new Slayer as she grapples with the responsibility of managing her incredible powers that she's just beginning to understand.Into every generation...
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Forget Me Not

Elliah Terry · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Astronomy-loving Calliope June has Tourette syndrome, so she sometimes makes faces or noises that she doesn't mean to make. When she and her mother move yet again, she tries to hide her TS. But it isn't long before the kids at her new school realize she's different. Only Calliope's neighbor,...
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Exo

Fonda Lee · Scholastic Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

It's been a century of peace since Earth became a colony of an alien race with far reaches into the galaxy. Some die-hard extremists still oppose their rule on Earth, but Donovan Reyes isn't one of them. His dad holds the prestigious position of Prime Liaison in the collaborationist government,...
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The Wingsnatchers: Carmer and Grit, Book One

Sarah Jean Horwitz · Algonquin Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A stunning debut about a magician's apprentice and a one-winged princess who must vanquish the mechanical monsters that stalk the streets and threaten the faerie kingdom. Aspiring inventor and magician's apprentice Felix Carmer III would rather be tinkering with his latest experiments...
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Inventing Victoria

Tonya Bolden · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In a searing historical novel, Tonya Bolden illuminates post-Reconstruction America in an intimate portrait of a determined young woman who dares to seize the opportunity of a lifetime.As a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, Essie's dreams are very much at odds with her reality. Ashamed...
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Undying

AMIE KAUFMAN · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Trapped aboard the Undying's ancient spaceship and reeling from what they've learned there, scavenger Mia and academic Jules are plunged into a desperate race to warn their home planet of the danger humanity's greed has unleashed. From the mountains of Spain to the streets of Prague, the sequel...
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

ERIKA L SNCHEZ · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award Finalist!Instant New York Times Bestseller!The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes...
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DRAGONKYN

Nathan Smith Jones · iread books
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback

Marc used to think he was pretty ordinary, but he also used to think ice cream trucks didn't sell ice cream and dragons were just fairy tales. Now he knows better. With skin that can't be burned and strange powers he can't explain, Marc soon discovers the truth: he carries ancient,...
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Random Illustrated Facts: A Collection of Curious, Weird, and Totally Not Boring Things to Know

MIKE LOWERY · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Trivia meets its match. Did you know that Napoleon was once attacked by rabbits? Or that the Mars Rover sang itself "Happy Birthday"? How about the odd ingredient Civil War soldiers used to make coffee? From Jupiter's diamond showers to why pirates wore eye patches to the delightful...
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Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America

GAIL JARROW · Calkins Creek
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

In this nonfiction title for young readers ages 10 to 14, acclaimed author Gail Jarrow explores in riveting detail the famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast from 1938; she highlights the artists behind the broadcast, the broadcast itself, the aftermath, and the repercussions of "fake...
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The Crescent Stone

Matt Mikalatos · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A girl with a deadly lung disease . . .A boy with a tragic past . . .A land where the sun never sets but darkness still creeps in . . .A bargain that brings life, but may cost more than anyone can imagine . . .Madeline Oliver has never wanted for anything, but now she would give anything...
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96 Words for Love

Rachel Roy · jimmy patterson
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

James Patterson Presents a modern retelling of a classic Indian legend, 96 Words for Love is a touching coming-of-age story that reads like Eat, Pray, Love for teens.Ever since her acceptance to UCLA, 17-year-old Raya Liston has been quietly freaking out. She feels simultaneously lost and trapped...
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