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A Game to Love: In Celebration of Tennis

Mike Powell · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

A Game to Love is the stunning publishing debut of award-winning sports photographer Mike Powell. Featuring 500 highly evocative images, the book celebrates the passion for tennis that exists around the world. Powell's extraordinary images capture the character and brilliance of the greatest...
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One Crow Alone

S. D. Crockett · Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

A new Ice Age is descending. . . .Food is expensive. Fuel is rationed. People are hungry, cold, and desperate.Living in an isolated Polish village with her grandmother, fifteen-year-old Magda Krol has no idea of the troubles sweeping across the planet. But when her village...
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Stitching Snow

R.C. Lewis · Hyperion
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

Princess Snow is missing.Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back-but that's assuming she wants to return at all.Essie has grown...
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Of Mice and Men SparkNotes Literature Guide

SparkNotes LLC · Spark Group
Pages: 75
Format: Book

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.
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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

Jack Gantos · Square Fish
Pages: 153
Format: Paperback

"They say I'm wired bad, or wired sad, but there's no doubt about it--I'm wired."Joey Pigza's got heart, he's got a mom who loves him, and he's got "dud meds," which is what he calls the Ritalin pills that are supposed to even out his wild mood...
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Inbetween

Tara Fuller · Entangled Teen
Format: Paperback

Since the car crash that took her father’s life three years ago, Emma’s life has been a freaky — and unending — lesson in caution. Surviving “accidents” has taken priority over being a normal seventeen-year-old, so Emma spends her days taking pictures...
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Jason and the Argonauts

Neil Smith · Osprey Publishing
Format: Paperback

The voyage of Jason and the Argonauts and their hunt for the Golden Fleece is one of the most enduringly popular of all of the Ancient Greek heroic myths. Accepting the quest in order to regain his kingdom, Jason assembled a legendary crew including many of Greece's greatest heroes...
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Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy

Elizabeth Kiem · Soho Teen; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

A new breed of spy novel combines classic thrills (The Americans, John Le Carre, and Alan Furst), Bolshoi intrigue, and elements of the paranormal.Marina is born of privilege. Her mother, Sveta, is the Soviet Union's prima ballerina: an international star handpicked by the regime....
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Been Here All Along

Sandy Hall · Swoon Reads
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Gideon always has a plan. It includes running for class president, becoming head of the yearbook committee, and having his choice of colleges. It does NOT include falling head over heels for his best friend, Kyle. It's a distraction, it's pointless -- Kyle is already dating the head cheerleader,...
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The A-Word: A Sweet Dead Life Novel

Joy Preble · Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover

Jenna Samuels and her guardian angel brother battle heavenly head-honchos and earthbound bullies in this hilarious, Texas-set follow up to The Sweet Dead Life. It's been almost a year since Jenna Samuel's stoner brother, Casey, bit the dust and returned as her guardian angel. A year...
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Sharp North

Patrick Cave · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 518
Format: Paperback

In a futuristic world will everyone be replaceable?Two centuries from now. The oceans have risen, the climate has transformed, and ancient war, disease and starvation has left its mark. Whilst much of the world has become unbearably hot, northern Europe is coming out of its deepfreeze years.Mira...
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Bluescreen

Dan Wells · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"Bluescreen is a stunning deluge of imagination, filled with suspense and twists and unforgettable characters. This book is just plain awesome." - James Dashner, bestselling author of The Maze RunnerFrom Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence, comes...
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Amelia O'Donohue Is So Not a Virgin

Helen FitzGerald · Sourcebooks Fire; Original edition
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

I Never Tell Other People's Secrets... Amelia O'Donohue was stunning. We all knew we were in the presence of tremendous beauty, humbled by her eyes and by her expensive designer clothes. We all deferred to her, waiting for her to initiate conversation, and hanging on every word...
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Scandal

Kate Brian · Simon and Schuster BFYR
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback

After her harrowing kidnapping, Reed returns to Easton to find the worst thing she can think of - Billings has been torn down. Finally, after years of controversy, the school's wealthiest female alumni have been overruled, and the historical dorm is gone from Easton Academy. How will...
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