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ERIN BOWMAN · HarperTeen
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux, Jonathan Maberry, and horror films like 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, this pulse-pounding, hair-raising, utterly terrifying novel is the first in a duology from the critically acclaimed author of the Taken trilogy.After receiving a distress call from...
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Campfire

Shawn Sarles · jimmy patterson
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Be careful what stories you tell around the campfire... they just might come true. Fans of Scream and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will devour this chilling horror debut.While camping in a remote location, Maddie Davenport gathers around the fire with her friends and family...
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Lucky Little Things

Janice Erlbaum · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Eighth-grader Emma Macintyre could use some good luck. The popular kids at her school ignore her, the boy she likes is out of her league, and her best friend has been ditching her for the mean girls. Worst of all, her beloved Aunt Jenny died recently, leaving Emma and her single mom reeling...
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Spinning Silver

NAOMI NOVIK · Del Rey
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, called "a very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic" by The New York Times Book Review.Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father...
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Nyxia Unleashed

Scott Reintgen · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Discover book two in the sci-fi space trilogy that Bustle described as "The 100 meets Illuminae" and Marie Lu called, "a high-octance thriller."Emmett Atwater thought Babel's game sounded easy. Get points. Get paid. Go home. But it didn't take long for him to learn that...
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Bright We Burn

Kiersten White · Delacorte Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The tumultuous, edge-of-your-seat conclusion to the New York Times bestselling AND I DARKEN series--the epic saga that reads like HBO's Game of Thrones . . . if it were set in the Ottoman Empire. Who will live? Who will die? And who will rule triumphant?Haunted by the sacrifices he made...
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Fawkes: A Novel

Nadine Brandes · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Thomas Fawkes is turning to stone, and the only cure to the Stone Plague is to join his father's plot to assassinate the king of England.Silent wars leave the most carnage. The wars that are never declared, but are carried out in dark alleys with masks and hidden knives. Wars where...
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The Edge of Over There

Shawn Smucker · Revell
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The captivating sequel to the award-winning The Day the Angels FellBefore the Tree of Life, everything in Abra Miller's life had been predictable. But after the Tree and the lightning and the angels, everything felt tenuous, like holding a soap bubble in the palm of her hand. She spent...
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The Strays Like Us

CECILIA GALANTE · Scholastic Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the moment Fred (never Winifred!) spots a scruffy little mutt with sad eyes, she knows she's in big trouble. Toby's in bad shape, and Fred longs to rescue him from the old man with the mile-long mean streak who lives next door. But Margery -- the straight-talking woman who is fostering...
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Zen and Gone

Emily France · Soho Teen
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

With another aching deep dive into human spirituality, Emily France mines her home state of Colorado in a novel of a teen girl's harrowing search for her missing younger sister - and her own search for self.Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, Essence McKree feels older than any seventeen-year-old...
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