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stay up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom

Khodi Dill - Annick Press
Format: Hardcover

An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice.Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don't know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive...
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All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

Circe Moskowitz - Amberjack Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the Dark. We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren't sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country,...
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The Collectors: Stories

M. T. Anderson - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections.. From David Levithan's story about a non-binary kid collecting...
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Star Wars: The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life

Zoraida Córdova - Disney Lucasfilm Press
Format: Hardcover

Thrilling short stories featuring fan favorite characters from the beloved High Republic series each written by a New York Times bestselling author.. The High Republic authors share unmissable short stories that bridge Phases, resolve mysteries, and offer tantalizing hints of what is to come....
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Unnecessary Drama

Nina Kenwood - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of It Sounded Better in My Head comes a deliciously entertaining enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy about two high school nemeses who end up sharing a house together their first year of college. Eighteen-year-old Brooke is the kind of friend who not only remembers...
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Rogue Heart (Rebel Seoul)

Axie Oh - Tu Books
Format: Hardcover

NEO BEIJING, 2201. Two years after the Battle of Neo Seoul, eighteen-year-old telepath Ama works by day in a cafe and moonlights as a lounge singer in a smoky bar at night. She's anonymous, she's safe from the seemingly never-ending war, and that's how she'd like to stay....
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Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice

Anna Lapera - Levine Querido
Format: Hardcover

"Anna Lapera expertly voices a young girl's middle school trials, but with a voice so unique and heartfelt you will be cringing one moment and cheering the next. She weaves a distinctive story filled with humor, family heartache, and secrets while a young girl releases the fear...
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The Way I Am Now (The Way I Used to Be)

Amber Smith - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

Eden and Josh decide to give their relationship another chance in this much anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller The Way I Used to Be that explores how to move forward after trauma - in life and in love.. Eden and Josh never had a fair shot at a healthy relationship. When...
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Jane Jacobs: Champion of Cities, Champion of People

Rebecca Pitts - Triangle Square
Format: Paperback

The first biography of Jane Jacobs for young people, the visionary activist, urbanist, and thinker who transformed the way we inhabit and develop our cities.. Jane Jacobs was born more than a hundred years ago, yet the ideas she popularized - about cities, about people, about making a better...
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Wearing My Mother's Heart

Sophia Thakur - Candlewick Press
Format: Hardcover

Performance poet Sophia Thakur offers a powerful new collection touching on intergenerational relationships, finding your voice, and what it means to be a woman.. In her heartfelt second poetry collection, Sophia Thakur takes us on an emotionally charged journey through the lives of women...
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