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Circle of Stones

Catherine Fisher · Dial Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

Three interwoven, spine-tingling historical thrillers from the New York Times bestselling author of Incarceron. Suspense, mysticism, and history encircle three separate but related narratives in this fantasy novel. Today, Sulis, a teenage girl with a mysterious past, arrives in Bath...
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Words and Their Meanings

Kate Bassett · Flux
Format: Book

Anna O'Mally is a born writer - gifted, perceptive, headed for the stars. Or she was, until the tragic death of her uncle Joe. He was barely older than Anna herself, and she worshipped the ground he walked on. Best of all, Anna got to live in the glow of knowing that she was the most...
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Cool Plastic Bottle and Milk Jug Science

Tammy Enz · Capstone Press
Pages: 31
Format: Print book

Why throw used plastic bottles and milk jugs in the reycling when you can reuse them yourself? These fun and informative science experiments and projects will keep readers entertained as they learn about scientific principles.
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I Believe in a Thing Called Love

Maurene Goo · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A funny young adult novel about a Korean-American girl who uses K-Drama techniques to snag the boyfriend of her dreams.Desi Lee knows how carburetors work. She learned CPR at the age of five. As a high school senior, she has never missed a day of school and never had a B. But in her charmed...
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The Last Forever

Deb Caletti · Simon Pulse; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Beginnings and endings overlap in this soaring novel of love and loss from bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti.Nothing lasts forever, and no one gets that more than Tessa. After her mother died, it's all she can do to keep her friends, her boyfriend, her happiness...
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Vietnam #5: Walking Wounded

Chris Lynch · Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck were best friends. So when one of them was drafted into the Vietnam War, the others signed up, too. They promised to watch out for one another. They pledged to come home together. Now, that pledge has been broken. One of the four has been killed in action....
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The Philippines

Walter G. Oleksy · C. Press/F. Watts Trade
Format: Book

Take a trip around the world with the latest entries in the Enchantment of the World series. From the volcanoes of Iceland to the hilltop castles of Germany, readers are transported to distant lands with the fascinating text and attention-grabbing photos in these books. Each country's...
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Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling

Lucy Frank · Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover

This novel-in-verse—at once literary and emotionally gripping—follows the unfolding friendship between two very different teenage girls who share a hospital room and an illness. Chess, the narrator, is sick, but with what exactly, she isnt sure. And to make matters worse, she must share...
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RoseBlood

Anita G Howard · Abrams Amulet
Pages: 425
Format: Print book

This YA novel from New York Times bestselling author A. G. Howard marks the beginning of a new era for fans of the Splintered series. Rune Germain moves to a boarding school outside of Paris, only to discover that at this opera-house-turned-music-conservatory, phantoms really do exist....
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An Enchantment of Ravens

Margaret Rogerson · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

Parents' Choice Silver Honors Winner A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts - even as she falls in love with a faerie prince - in this gorgeous debut novel.Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal...
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The Doorman's Repose

Christopher Raschka · NYR Children's Collection
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover

From Caldecott Award winner Chris Raschka, tales of unforgettable characters who live in a NYC apartment building "To the company of ur-New Yorkers like Stuart Little, Harriet the Spy, and Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, let me hold open the door for The Doorman's Repose. A new favorite."...
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BZRK Apocalypse

Michael Grant · Egmontusa
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The Matrix meets Inner Space in this third book in the BZRK trilogy from New York Times best-selling author Michael Grant.The staggering conclusion to the BZRK trilogy, from the author of GONE. The members of BZRK are preparing for their final stand. Noah and Sadie have seen death, and it holds...
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We Now Return to Regular Life

Martin Wilson · Dial Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The Face on the Milk Carton meets The Impossible Knife of Memory in this ripped-from-the-headlines novel that explores the power of being an ally - and a friend - when a kidnapped boy returns to his hometown. Sam Walsh had been missing for three years. His older sister, Beth, thought he was dead....
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Teach Me to Forget

Erica Chapman · Merit Press
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

Ellery wants to die. Nothing is going right. Her younger sister is dead, and her family is in a shambles. But on the day that she tries to end it all, even the gun won't work. When she tries to return it, she's intercepted by a security guard who also happens to be a boy in one of her classes,...
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The Light Fantastic

Sarah Combs · Candlewick
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Seven tightly interwoven narratives. Three harrowing hours. One fateful day that changes everything. Delaware, the morning of April 19. Senior Skip Day, and April Donovan's eighteenth birthday. Four days after the Boston Marathon bombing, the country is still reeling, and April's rare...
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