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The Special Ones

Em Bailey · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Esther is one of the Special Ones: four young spiritual guides who live in a remote farmhouse under the protection of a mysterious cult leader. He watches them around the clock, ready to punish them if they forget who they are - and all the while, broadcasting their lives to eager followers...
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Beyond the Bright Sea

Lauren Wolk · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"An award-winning, well-researched, historical novel about an orphaned girl who sets out with her adoptive father to learn about her past despite the many dangers they face. A poignant story of belonging and the meaning of family." - Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor- Winner of the 2018...
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Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

Guillermo del Toro · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Fans of dark fairy-tales like The Hazel Wood and The Cruel Prince will relish this atmospheric and absorbing book based on Guillermo del Toro's critically acclaimed movie.Oscar winning writer-director Guillermo del Toro and New York Times bestselling author Cornelia Funke have come together...
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The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War

Various · Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

In a powerful collection, eleven internationally acclaimed writers draw on personal objects to bring the First World War to life for readers young and old.A toy soldier. A butter dish. A compass. Mundane objects, perhaps, but to the remarkable authors in this collection, artifacts such...
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Stealing Snow

Danielle Paige · Bloomsbury
Pages: 375
Format: Print book

From Danielle Paige, the New York Times bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die, comes a re-imagining of "The Snow Queen" fairy tale.Seventeen-year-old Snow has spent the majority of her life within the walls of the Whittaker Institute, a high security mental hospital in upstate...
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Elusion

Claudia Gabel · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 382
Format: Hardcover

The mind-blowing beginning of a futuristic series about the seductive nature of a perfect virtual world and how far one girl will go to uncover the truth behind the illusions.A new technology is sweeping the country. To enter Elusion®, you need an app, a visor, and a wristband, and you'll...
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The Gone Away Place

Christopher Barzak · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From Stonewall Honor author Christopher Barzak comes a haunting novel of love and loss, in which a series of tornadoes rips through a small midwest town, forever altering the lives of those who live there.Ellie heads up her high school yearbook, and until the tornadoes come, her biggest...
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Afterworlds

Scott Westerfeld · Simon Pulse
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld comes a smart, thought-provoking novel-within-a-novel that you won't be able to put down.Darcy Patel has put college on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds. With a contract in hand, she arrives in New York City with...
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99 Days

Katie Cotugno · Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of How to Love comes another stunning contemporary novel, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen.Molly Barlow is facing one long, hot summer - 99 days - with the boy whose heart she broke and the boy she broke it for . . . his brother.Day 1: Julia Donnelly eggs my house...
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Hunter

Mercedes Lackey · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover

They came after the Diseray. Some were terrors ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world. And some were like nothing anyone had ever dreamed up, even in their worst nightmares. Monsters. Long ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld...
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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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Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different

Karen Blumenthal · Feiwel and Friends
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover

"Your time is limited. . . . have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." -- Steve JobsFrom the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty, created Apple in his parents'...
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The Last Thirteen 13

James Phelan · Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Publishing
Format: Paperback

Sam is the first of the last 13 Dreamers to be revealed. Caught in a covert battle to preserve life as we know it, he must follow the clues to find twelve more Dreamers. Only this unique group can unravel the mysteries of an ancient prophecy and locate the long-lost key to Earth's survival....
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The Perilous Sea

Sherry Thomas · Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

Iolanthe and Titus continue their mission to defeat the Bane in this striking sequel to The Burning Sky - perfect for fans of Cinda Williams Chima and Kristin Cashore - which Publishers Weekly called "a wonderfully satisfying magical saga" in a starred review and Kirkus Reviews...
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The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: A Novel

Mohja Kahf · PublicAffairs
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African-American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets exploring...
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