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Lovely War

Julie Berry · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Read the novel New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network Kate Quinn called "easily one of the best novels I have read all year!" A sweeping, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates--and the hearts--of four mortals...
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Four Dead Queens

Astrid Scholte · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington may seem harmless, but she's, in fact, one of Quadara's most skilled thieves and a liar. Varin, on the other hand, is an honest, upstanding citizen of Quadara's most enlightened region, Eonia. He runs afoul of Keralie when she steals a package from...
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Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

Jeff Zentner · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Anyone can break your heart--Jeff Zentner can also make you laugh out loud!" --RAINBOW ROWELL, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carry On and Eleanor & ParkFrom the Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King comes a contemporary novel about two best friends who must...
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Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat #1

Johnny Marciano · Penguin Workshop
Pages: 224
Format: Book

"Applaud for KLAWDE. Two paws up!"--Dav Pilkey, creator of the Dog Man series. "Funny, savage, and brilliant, Klawde is the pet I wish I had."--Max Brallier, author of the New York Times Best Seller The Last Kids on Earth Klawde is not your average cat. He's an emperor...
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The Deceivers

Kristen Simmons · Tor Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Kristen Simmons, the author of the Article 5 series and Metaltown, brings her remarkable imagination to this intrigue-filled contemporary drama where good kids are needed to do some very bad things in The Deceivers. Welcome to Vale Hall, the school for aspiring con artists. When Brynn Hilder...
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Fly Girls Young Readers' Edition: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

Keith O'Brien · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From NPR correspondent Keith O' Brien comes this thrilling Young Readers' edition of the untold story about pioneering women, including Amelia Earhart, who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s - and won. In the years between World War I and World...
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Girl at the Grave

TERI BAILEY BLACK · Tor Teen
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In Girl at the Grave, debut author Teri Bailey Black unearths the long-buried secrets of a small 1850s New England town in this richly atmospheric Gothic tale of murder, guilt, redemption, and finding love where least expected.A mother hanged for murder.A daughter left to pick up the pieces...
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The Heart Forger

Rin Chupeco · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback

In The Bone Witch, Tea mastered resurrection -- now she's after revenge... No one knows death like Tea. A bone witch who can resurrect the dead, she has the power to take life...and return it. And she is done with her self-imposed exile. Her heart is set on vengeance, and she now possesses...
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Bloodleaf

Crystal Smith · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Enchanting, visceral, and twisty" - New York Times bestselling author of Ash Princess, Laura Sebastian "BLOODLEAF feels like a classic in the making." - Sara Holland, New York Times bestselling author of Everless A roar of a dark and luscious epic fantasy that's layered...
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The Perfect Candidate

Peter Stone · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From debut author Peter Stone comes a heart-stopping, pulse-pounding political thriller that's perfect for fans of Ally Carter and House of Cards. When recent high school graduate Cameron Carter lands an internship with Congressman Billy Beck in Washington, DC, he thinks it is his ticket...
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The Belles

Dhonielle Clayton · Freeform
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

Camellia Beauregard is a Belle. In the opulent world of Orleans, Belles are revered, for they control Beauty, and Beauty is a commodity coveted above all else. In Orleans, the people are born gray, they are born damned, and only with the help of a Belle and her talents can they transform...
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Superman: Dawnbreaker

Matt de la Pe?a · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The blockbuster DC Icons series that began with Leigh Bardugo's Wonder Woman, Marie Lu's Batman, and Sarah J. Maas's Catwoman continues with the story of the world's first super hero--SUPERMAN--from award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author MATT DE LA PEÑA.When the dawn...
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Field Notes on Love

Jennifer E. Smith · Delacorte Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Windfall and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight returns with a meet-cute romance about Hugo and Mae, two teens who are thrown together on a cross-country train trip that will teach them about love, each other, and the futures they can build for themselves.It's...
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The Shadowglass

Rin Chupeco · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic finale to The Bone Witch series! Tea's dark magic eats away at her, but she must save the one she loves most, even while her life -- and the kingdoms -- are on the brink of destruction.In the Eight Kingdoms, none have greater strength or influence than the asha, who hold elemental...
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The Music of What Happens

Bill Konigsberg · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Max: Chill. Sports. Video games. Gay and not a big deal, not to him, not to his mom, not to his buddies. And a secret: An encounter with an older kid that makes it hard to breathe, one that he doesn't want to think about, ever.Jordan: The opposite of chill. Poetry. His "wives"...
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An Affair of Poisons

Addie Thorley · Page Street Kids
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"An indulgent and exhilarating adventure... The only cure is to finish it."- Lyndsay Ely, author of Gunslinger GirlAfter unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, seventeen-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother's Shadow Society in a horrifying...
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Star Wars Queen's Shadow

E. K. Johnston · Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

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The Everlasting Rose

Dhonielle Clayton · Freeform
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

With a price on her head, the evil Queen Sophia out for blood, and no idea who to trust, Camellia Beaureguard, the former favorite Belle, must race against time to find the ailing Princess Charlotte, who has disappeared without a trace. Sophia's imperial forces will stop at nothing to keep...
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Warrior of the Wild

Tricia Levenseller · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An eighteen-year-old chieftain's daughter must find a way to kill her village's oppressive deity if she ever wants to return home in this Viking-inspired YA standalone fantasy from Tricia Levenseller, author of Daughter of the Pirate King. How do you kill a god? As her father's chosen heir,...
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The Kiss List

Sara Jo Cluff · Monster Ivy Publishing
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover

Kissing: A glorious pastime.High school student Camille Collins' favorite hobby is kissing her boyfriend, Dylan. Dylan's a decent guy, but he's got his sights on something more. So he dumps Camille and spreads a rumor that she's a bad kisser.With the help of BFFs Hayley and Kaitlyn, Camille...
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Good Girls Stay Quiet

Jo Cassidy · Monster Ivy Publishing
Pages: 338
Format: Paperback

There's safety in silence... Fifteen-year-old Cora Snow has a secret only her "Daddy" and her journal know about. Aside from Daddy, the only people Cora talks to are her teachers and imaginary friends. She obeys all of Daddy's commands, like calling him "Daddy," to keep...
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The Gift of the Seer

K. B. Laugheed · K.B. Laugheed
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover

Katie O'Toole's epic adventure began in The Spirit Keeper (Plume 2013) when she was rescued from a 1747 frontier massacre in Pennsylvania only to find herself chosen as the "Spirit Keeper" of a dying Indian Seer. She hesitated to accept this mysterious obligation until she fell...
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Stolen Enchantress: Beauty and the Beast meets The Pied Piper

Amber Argyle · Starling Books
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

Any girl who goes into the Forbidden Forest never comes out again. Except the one who did. Larkin should have been watching her little sister, should have paid more attention to the trees looming over her family's fields. Now Sela is gone. Knowing full well the danger of the forest and its beast,...
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Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific: The Incredible Story of U.S. Submarines in WWII

Deborah Hopkinson · Scholastic Press
Pages: 367
Format: Hardcover

Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific tells the incredible story of America's little known "war within a war" -- US submarine warfare during World War II.Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US entered World War II in December 1941 with only...
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Deathcaster

Cinda Williams Chima · HarperTeen
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover

In this indispensable conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Shattered Realms series, master storyteller Cinda Williams Chima delivers spellbinding action, bittersweet reunions, and dazzling revelations.Warrior Alyssa ana'Raisa would do anything to protect her home, the Fells, and her legacy,...
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A Question of Holmes

Brittany Cavallaro · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In the explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes series, Holmes and Watson think they're finally in the clear after graduating from Sherringford ... but danger awaits in the hallowed halls of Oxford.Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson finally have a chance to start...
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The Queen's Resistance

Rebecca Ross · HarperTeen
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Red Queen and Grave Mercy comes the captivating sequel to the Renaissance France-inspired epic fantasy The Queen's Rising.Brienna is a mistress of knowledge and is beginning to settle into her role as the daughter of the once disgraced lord, Davin MacQuinn. Though she'd just...
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If You're Out There

Katy Loutzenhiser · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Funny, engrossing, and one-of-a-kind. If You're Out There completely swept me away." - Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Leah on the OffbeatPart whip-smart suspense tale, part touching story of friendship, this is an extraordinary debut about a determined...
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Within These Lines

Stephanie Morrill · Blink
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From Stephanie Morrill, author of The Lost Girl of Astor Street, comes Within These Lines, the love story of a girl and boy torn apart by racism during World War II.Evalina Cassano's life in an Italian-American family living in San Francisco in 1941 is quiet and ordinary until she falls...
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SHOUT

Laurie Halse Anderson · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans...
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Girls with Sharp Sticks

Suzanne Young · Simon Pulse
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Westworld meets The Handmaid's Tale in this start to a thrilling, subversive near future series from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young about a girls-only private high school that is far more than it appears to be.Some of the prettiest flowers have the sharpest thorns. The Girls...
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A Conspiracy of Stars

Olivia A. Cole · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

Enter the vivid and cinematic world of Faloiv in the first book of this dazzling YA sci-fi/fantasy series, perfect for fans of Carve the Mark, Red Rising, and These Broken Stars. Octavia has always dreamed of becoming a whitecoat, one of the prestigious N'Terra scientists who study the natural...
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Heroine

Mindy McGinnis · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

An Amazon Best Book of the Month! A captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis - the deadliest drug epidemic in American history - through the eyes of a college-bound softball star. Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a visceral and necessary novel about addiction,...
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Izzy Tristan

Shannon Dunlap · Poppy
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

AN INDIES INTRODUCE PICK (WINTER/SPRING 2019) Izzy, a practical-minded teen who intends to become a doctor, isn't happy about her recent move from the Lower East Side across the river to Brooklyn. She feels distanced from her family, especially her increasingly incomprehensible twin...
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The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe

Ally Condie · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Who do you become when you have nothing left to lose? There is something Poe Blythe, the seventeen-year-old captain of the Outpost's last mining ship, wants far more than the gold they tear from the Serpentine River. Revenge. Poe has vowed to annihilate the river raiders who robbed...
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Sherwood

Meagan Spooner · HarperTeen
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Danielle Paige, Marissa Meyer, and Alex Flinn will devour New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner's next fierce fairy tale-inspired story, which Illuminae author Amie Kaufman calls "a kick-ass, gender-flipped feminist retelling."Robin of Locksley is dead. Maid...
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Tin Heart: A Novel

Shivaun Plozza · Flatiron Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author of All the Bright Places Jennifer Niven calls emerging talent Shivaun Plozza's charming and romantic second YA novel, Tin Heart, "from cover to cover swoon-worthy, moving, deep, and funny"!When Marlowe gets a heart transplant and a second chance at life, all she wants...
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Fear of Missing Out

Kate McGovern · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Everyone has a fear of missing out on something -- a party, a basketball game, a hangout after school. But what if it's life that you'll be missing out on? When Astrid learns that her cancer has returned, she hears about a radical technology called cryopreservation that may allow her to have...
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Wicked Saints: A Novel

Emily A. Duncan · Wednesday Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Prepare for a snow-frosted, blood-drenched fairy tale where the monsters steal your heart and love ends up being the nightmare." - Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Star-Touched Queen"This book destroyed me and I adored it."- Stephanie Garber,...
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Sky Without Stars

JESSICA BRODY · Simon Pulse
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of The Lunar Chronicles, this sweeping reimagining of Les Misérables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet-colony of Laterre.A thief. An officer. A guardian....
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The Beast Player

Nahoko Uehashi · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Nahoko Uehashi's The Beast Player is an epic YA fantasy about a girl with a special power to communicate with magical beasts and the warring kingdom only she can save.
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XL

Scott Brown · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Fiercely funny, honest, and poignant, this story of a growth spurt gone wrong is perfect for readers who love Becky Albertalli and Jesse Andrews.WIll Daughtry is a late bloomer--at least, that's what everyone tells him. On his sixteenth birthday, Will is just shy of five feet, and he is bitterly...
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Defy the Fates

Claudia Gray · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The stunning finale to the Defy the Stars trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars and Bloodline. Hunted and desperate. Abel only has one mission left that matters: save the life of Noemi Vidal. To do that, he not only has to escape the Genesis authorities,...
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Night Music

Jenn Marie Thorne · Dial Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Music has always been Ruby's first love. But has it ever loved her back?Slip behind the scenes of the classical music world one hot, anything-can-happen, New York City summer."Delightful...Hits all the right notes." --Mackenzi Lee, author of The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and VirtueRuby...
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Mirror, Mirror: A Twisted Tale

Jen Calonita · Disney Press
Pages: 352
Format: Book

Mirror, Mirror: A Twisted Tale poses the question, what if the Evil Queen poisoned the prince?   Following her beloved mother's death, the kingdom falls into the hands of Snow White's stepmother, commonly referred to as "the Evil Queen" by those she rules. Snow...
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The Devouring Gray

Christine Lynn Herman · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Branches and stones, daggers and bones,They locked the Beast away.After the death of her sister, seventeen-year-old Violet Saunders finds herself dragged to Four Paths, New York. Violet may be a newcomer, but she soon learns her mother isn't: They belong to one of the revered founding families...
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White Rose

Kip Wilson · Versify
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"In a searing indictment of silent complicity, White Rose shines a light on one remarkable young woman's insistence on the power of truth, no matter the cost. A timely call to resistance." - Joy McCullough, author of Blood Water Paint "White Rose is a resonant testament to courage....
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We Rule the Night

Claire Eliza Bartlett · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Two girls use forbidden magic to fly and fight--for their country and for themselves--in this riveting debut that's part Shadow and Bone, part Code Name Verity.Seventeen-year-old Revna is a factory worker, manufacturing war machines for the Union of the North. When she's caught using illegal...
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