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Even If the Sky Falls

Mia Garcia · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

One midsummer night. Two strangers. Three rules: No real names. No baggage. No phones. A whirlwind twenty-four-hour romance about discovering what it means to feel alive in the face of one of life's greatest dangers: love.

Who would you be if you had one night to be anyone you want?

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The Ring and the Crown

Melissa de la Cruz · Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Magic is power, and power is magic... Once they were inseparable, just two little girls playing games in a formidable castle. Now Princess Marie-Victoria, heir to the mightiest empire in the world, and Aelwyn Myrddyn, a bastard mage, face vastly different futures. Quiet and gentle, Marie...
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The Nameless City

Faith Erin Hicks · First Second
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

Every nation that invades the City gives it a new name. But before long, new invaders arrive and the City changes hands once again. The natives don't let themselves get caught up in the unending wars. To them, their home is the Nameless City, and those who try to name it are forever...

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WAR GIRLS

Tochi Onyebuchi · Razorbill
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Two sisters are torn apart by war and must fight their way back to each other in a futuristic, Black Panther-inspired Nigeria.

The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky....
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Half Lost

Sally Green · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The magical, stunning conclusion to the internationally acclaimed Half Bad trilogy.

The Alliance is losing. Their most critical weapon, seventeen-year-old witch Nathan Brynn, has killed fifty-two people, and yet he's no closer to ending the tyrannical, abusive rule of the Council...
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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

MACKENZI LEE · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A Kirkus Prize nominee and Stonewall Honor winner with 5 starred reviews! A New York Times bestseller!

Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR and the New York Public Library!

"The queer teen historical you didn't know was missing from your life." - Teen Vogue

"A...

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Scrivener's Moon

Philip Reeve · Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

The final adventure in Philip Reeve's brilliant Fever Crumb trilogy.The Scriven people are brilliant, mad--and dead.All except one, whose monstrous creation is nearly complete--a giant city on wheels. New London terrifies the rest of the world, and an army of mammoth-riders gathers...
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The Book of Blood: From Legends and Leeches to Vampires and Veins

HP Newquist · HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Magnolia Award   HP Newquist takes young readers on an engaging tour of the world of blood, fromancient history to modern science—with an occasional trip to the very strange side ofthe most important tissue in our bodies. Oddly enough, scientists began to understandthis...
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This savage song.

Victoria Schwab · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

There's no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from acclaimed author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains - and friends or enemies - with the future of their home at stake....

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January

Gabrielle Lord · Kane Miller Book Pub
Format: Hardcover

On New Year's Eve Cal is chased down the street by a staggering, sick man with a deadly warning: They killed your father, they'll kill you--you must survive the next 365 days; hurled into a life on the run, the 15-year-old fugitive must somehow uncover the truth about his father's mysterious...
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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...
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