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Let's Talk About Love

CLAIRE KANN · Swoon Reads
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Striking a perfect balance between heartfelt emotions and spot-on humor, this debut features a pop-culture enthusiast protagonist with an unforgettable voice sure to resonate with readers.Alice had her whole summer planned. Nonstop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite...
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The Driving Book: Everything New Drivers Need to Know but Don't Know to Ask

Karen Gravelle · Bloomsbury USA Childrens; Updated edition
Format: Print book

Even after taking Driver's Ed and passing that dreaded road test, there are so many things new drivers need to learn about the practical aspects of driving that will only come from experience. Handing over the keys is a traumatic rite of passage for parents, and they will sleep better...
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Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices

Lisa Charleyboy · Annick Press
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and visually stunning anthology from some of the most groundbreaking Native artists working in North America today. Truly universal in its themes, Dreaming In Indian will shatter commonly held stereotypes and challenge readers to rethink their own place in the world. Divided...
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I Hunt Killers

Barry Lyga · AudioGO
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

Jazz is a likable teenager. A charmer. But hes also the son of a (now incarcerated) infamous serial killer, and Dear Old Dad (as Jazz calls him) has taught Jazz everything he knows. But what Jazz doesnt know is whether or not he is destined to follow in his fathers footsteps. He knows...
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Game Seven

Paul Volponi · Speak
Pages: 261
Format: Print book

A fastball of a book by Paul Volponi - an author who knows sports and suspense! Julio Ramirez Jr. lives in the shadow of his famous father. Not just because Julio Senior is a pitcher for the Miami Marlins and famous for his scorching fastball, but because he defected from Cuba, leaving...
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Mapping the Bones

Jane Yolen · Philomel Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling and award-winning author of The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen, comes her first Holocaust novel in nearly thirty years. Influenced by Dr. Mengele's sadistic experimentations, this story follows twins as they travel from the Lodz ghetto, to the partisans in the forest,...
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Ask the Passengers

A.S. King · Little
Pages: 293
Format: Book

Astrid Jones desperately wants to confide in someone, but her mother's pushiness and her father's lack of interest tell her they're the last people she can trust. Instead, Astrid spends hours lying on the backyard picnic table watching airplanes fly overhead. She doesn't know the passengers...
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Me and Miranda Mullaly

Jake Gerhardt · Puffin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

"Jake Gerhardt's debut novel is sweet, knowing, and a super-fun read. Takes you right back to the awkwardness and earnestness of adolescence, with a lot of cringe and even more laughs." - Patton Oswalt, New York Times bestselling author, comedian, and actorThey each have...
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One-Punch Man, Vol. 1

ONE · Viz Media
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

A manga series that packs quite the punch! Nothing about Saitama passes the eyeball test when it comes to superheroes, from his lifeless expression to his bald head to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking guy has a not-so-average problem - he just can't seem to find...
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The Demon King: A Seven Realms Novel

Cinda Williams Chima · Hyperion Book CH; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Times are hard in the mountain city of Fellsmarch. Reformed thief Han Alister will do almost anything to eke out a living for himself, his mother, and his sister Mari. Ironically, the only thing of value he has is something he can't sell. For as long as Han can remember, he's...
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Seed

Lisa Heathfield · Running Press Kids
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

All that Pearl knows can be encapsulated in one word: Seed. It is the isolated community that she was born into. It is the land that she sows and reaps. It is the center of her family and everything that means home. And it is all kept under the watchful eye of Papa S.At fifteen years old,...
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The Disasters

M. K. England · HarperTeen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The Breakfast Club meets Guardians of the Galaxy in this YA sci-fi adventure by debut author M. K. England.Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it's not exactly a surprise when he's kicked out of the elite Ellis Station Academy in less than twenty-four hours....
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Die for You

Amy Fellner Dominy · Delacorte Press
Pages: 292
Format: Print book

Not everything is as perfect as it seems in this dark romance by A Matter of Heart author, Amy Dominy. Theirs was the perfect love story. After Emma Lorde's parents' divorce forces her to move halfway across the state of Arizona to live with her father, Emma must face her senior year...
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Pretty Little Liars

Sara Shepard · HarperTeen; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Gossip thrives amid the Mercedes-Benzes, mega mansions, and perfectly manicured hedges in the exclusive town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania. Behind their big Gucci sunglasses, beneath their perfectly pressed Polos, everyone has something to hide, especially high school juniors Spencer, Aria,...
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Lies My Girlfriend Told Me

Julie Anne Peters · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover

When Alix's charismatic girlfriend, Swanee, dies from sudden cardiac arrest, Alix is overcome with despair. As she searches Swanee's room for mementos of their relationship, she finds Swanee's cell phone, pinging with dozens of texts sent from a mysterious contact, L.T. The most recent...
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