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Steelheart

Brandon Sanderson · Delacorte Press
Pages: 386
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller that James Dashner called "fantastic," with "relentless" suspense and an "explosive" climax. And don't miss the rest of the Reckoners series, including Firefight - now a #1 New York Times bestseller - and Calamity, coming soon!Brandon...
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Looking for Jack Kerouac

Barbara Shoup · Lacewing Books
Format: Book

It wasnt Duke Walczaks fault that I took off for Florida, like Kathy thought. The truth is, we started getting sideways with each other on our class trip to New York and Washington D.C. nearly a year earlier—which, looking back, is ironic since she was the one dead set on going.From the author...
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Dead Zone

Robison Wells · Harper Teen
Pages: 373
Format: Hardcover

Homeland meets Marie Lu's Legend in the explosive sequel to Blackout, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Ally Condie called "a thrilling combination of Wells's trademark twists and terror. Fantastic!"It began with a virus. Then a series of attacks erupted across...
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We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a true story

Josh Sundquist · Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover

Josh Sundquist only ever had one girlfriend. For twenty-three hours. In eighth grade.Why was Josh still single? To find out, he tracked down the girls he had tried to date and asked them straight up: What went wrong?The results of Josh's semiscientific, wholly hilarious investigation are captured...
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Antigoddess

Kendare Blake · Doherty Associates
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The Goddess War begins in Antigoddess, the first installment of the new series by acclaimed author of Anna Dressed in Blood, Kendare Blake.Old Gods never die ... Or so Athena thought. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her skin, invading her lungs like a strange cancer, and Hermes...
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The Blackthorn Key

Kevin Sands · Aladdin
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Following a series of murders, an apothecary's apprentice must solve puzzles and decipher codes in pursuit of a secret that could destroy the world in this suspenseful debut novel."Tell no one what I've given you." Until he got that cryptic warning, Christopher Rowe was happy,...
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Caught Dead: A Rick Van Lam Mystery

Andrew Lanh · Poisoned Pen Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

One of the beautiful Le sisters is dead. Hartford, Connecticut’s small Vietnamese community is stunned. Mary Le Vu, wife of a poor grocery-store owner, is gunned down in a drive-by. Her twin sister insists dutiful Mary “wouldn’t be caught dead” in that drug-infested...
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The Battle of the Bulge: A Graphic History of Allied Victory in the Ardennes, 1944-1945

Wayne Vansant · Zenith Press
Format: Paperback

Fought in the winter of 1944-1945, the coldest season in over 100 years, the Battle of the Bulge still ranks as the single largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. Thirty-one American divisions - fully one-third of the U.S. Army raised during World War II - saw action in this...
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The Pretty App

Katie Sise · Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

The delightfully smart and funny companion to The Boyfriend App, about a mean girl who changes her ways. Author Katie Sise spins another fully loaded tale of technology, secrets, and big-time romance in this story of what it takes to be #trulybeautiful. Poor Blake Dawkins! She's rich,...
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It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!

Chelsea Clinton · Philomel Books
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

Get Informed! Get Inspired! Get Going! The New York Times bestselling book of empowerment for kids. Make a difference in your world!In a book that tackles the biggest challenges facing us today, Chelsea Clinton combines facts, charts, photographs and stories to give readers a deep understanding...
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A Girl Called Fearless: A Novel

Catherine Linka · St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

An Indie Next Pick!Avie Reveare has the normal life of a privileged teen growing up in L.A., at least as normal as any girls life is these days. After a synthetic hormone in beef killed fifty million American women ten years ago, only young girls, old women, men, and boys are left to pick...
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Femme

Mette Bach · Orca Book Pub
Pages: 175
Format: Hardcover

Academics have never been Sofie's strong point; she's too busy spending all of her free time with her boyfriend, Paul, the captain of her Surrey high school's soccer team. When her English teacher implements a new program that pairs her with straight-A student Clea, Sofie worries...
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The Secret Side of Empty

Maria E. Andreu · Running Press Kids
Format: Hardcover

A Junior Library Guild Selection, 2014 A 2014 National Indie Excellence Award winner young adult fictionA School Library Journal Top 10 Latino Books of 2014With graduation and an uncertain future looming, M.T. must figure out how to grow up in the only country shes ever called home......
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Timekeeper

Tara Sim · Sky Pony Pr
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

"Two o clock was missing. " In an alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, a damaged clock can fracture timeand a destroyed one can stop it completely. It s a truth that seventeen-year-old clock mechanic Danny Hart knows all too well; his father has been trapped in a Stopped...
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My Second Life

Faye Bird · Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

'The first time I was born, I was born Emma Trees. I had everything to live for. But I died. I was twenty-two.' Ana struggles to live a normal life, bombarded by memories of her previous life as Emma. The worst memories are of a little girl who drowned: was Emma responsible? Consumed...
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