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E Lockhart · Findaway World

Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. A bad romance, or maybe three.
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Empress of a thousand skies

Rhoda Belleza · Listening Library

Rhoda Belleza crafts a powerful saga of vengeance, warfare, and the true meaning of legacy in this exhilarating debut.
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Animal Rights

Noah Berlatsky · Greenhaven Pr
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Current Controversies: Animal Rights examines whether scientific testing violates animal rights, including whether it is cruel, the necessity of testing on primates, and the use of technology. It covers factory farming, and whether it violates animal righ; The Current Controversies series...
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Rise Above

Shannon Knudsen · Darby Creek Publishing
Format: Print book

Darius Burns is a second-stringer for the Troy Central High Trojans, but lately he's been stepping up his game. He even has a shot at the team's starting halfback spot. The biggest thing in his way is a guilty conscience. Because Darius hasn't improved through hard work alone....
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Stars and Galaxies

Giles Sparrow · Cavendish Square
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

Stars and Galaxies examines how galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda work and the stars and planets within them. Detailed illustrations and clear charts help explain these complicated topics.
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Embassy Row #1: All Fall Down

Ally Carter · Scholastic Press
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover

Grace Blakely is absolutely certain of three things:1. She is not crazy.2. Her mother was murdered.3. Someday she is going to find the killer and make him pay.As certain as Grace is about these facts, nobody else believes her -- so there's no one she can completely trust. Not her grandfather,...
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The Fandom

Anna Day · Scholastic Inc.
Format: Audio CD

Violet's in her element. Cosplay at the ready, she can't wait to feel part of her favorite fandom: The Gallows Dance, a mega book and movie franchise that she and her friends know EVERY WORD of (canon and fanfic included) . But at Comic Con, a freak accident transports Violet...
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Maria

Sylvia Aguilar Zeleny · Epic Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

While living in Santa Barbara and attending a private school, Maria's life was comfortably boring. Then her sister died, her father lost his job, and the whole family was forced to start over. When they move to the barrio in East L.A. to live with Maria's grandma Maria recovers...
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Waterfall

Lauren Kate · Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen books comes WATERFALL, a novel about love, betrayal, and epic consequences—a world-altering tale told by a girl whose tears have the power to raise the lost continent of Atlantis. This second novel in the Teardrop series...
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Lauren Myracle · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

Through texts and messages, the mega-bestselling, beloved Internet Girls series followed the ups and downs of school for three very different, very close friends. Now it's freshman year of college for the winsome threesome, and *everything* is different. For one, the best friends are facing...
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The Pearl Thief

Elizabeth Wein · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 325
Format: Hardcover

Before Verity . . . there was Julie.When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly what she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize...
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Finding Felicity

Stacey Kade · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Felicity meets Fangirl in this contemporary novel about a young woman who must leave behind her fantasy life - inspired by her favorite WB show from the 1990s - and create a real one at college.Caroline Sands has never been particularly good at making friends. And her parents' divorce...
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Auto Racing

Andrew Luke · Mason Crest
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

From the time cars were invented just before the turn of the 20th century, men have loved driving fast in them. It was almost a compulsion of pioneers like Emile Levassor and Karl Benz to make their machines go fast. Racing fever began in Europe, with races happening from point to point,...
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The Handy Mythology Answer Book

David A. Leeming · Visible Ink Press
Format: Book

Stories centuries in the making, and many centuries worth of stories, are an integral part of modern society. Whether modern or ancient, every culture has its myths. Mythology forms our understanding of our origin, history, and traditions. They tell of our heroes and deities. Myths are vehicles...
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