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The Foreseeable Future

Emily Adrian · Dial Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Audrey Nelson is planning for her future after graduation, but she has no idea her future contains a swoony summer romance, Internet fame, or a nursing home.Audrey's life has been planned out for her since she was born, and now she's supposed to attend Whedon College in the fall,...
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The Traitor's Ruin

Erin Beaty · Imprint
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A captain with a secret.A spy with a mission.A kingdom on the verge of ruin.After proving her worth as a deft spy and strategic matchmaker, Sage Fowler is now comfortably positioned in high society as the royal tutor. When she learns of a secret mission, she jumps at the chance to serve...
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Ride On

GWEN COLE · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

In the near post-apocalyptic future, the skies are always gray and people are constantly searching for the sun. For teenage outlaw Seph, it's the only world he's ever known. With his horse, his favorite pistol, and his knowledge for survival passed down from his dead father, Seph...
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The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan

Gia Cribbs · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

No one wants me to tell you about the disappearance of Sloane Sullivan.Not the lawyers or the cops. Not her friends or family. Not even the boy who loved her more than anyone. And most certainly not the United States Marshals Service. You know, the people who run the witness protection...
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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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How We Roll

Natasha Friend · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Quinn is a teen who loves her family, skateboarding, basketball, and her friends, but after she's diagnosed with a condition called alopecia which causes her to lose all of her hair, her friends abandon her. Jake was once a star football player, but because of a freak accident -- caused...
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Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge

Lisa Jensen · Candlewick
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Filled with magic and fierce emotion, Lisa Jensen's multilayered novel will make you question all you think you know about beauty, beastliness, and happily ever after.They say Chteau Beaumont is cursed. But servant-girl Lucie can't believe such foolishness about handsome Jean-Loup...
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Light Filters In: Poems

NOT AVAILABLE. · HarperCollins
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience. In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman - known as @poeticpoison - does what she does best:...
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Now You See Her

LISA LEIGHTON · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A fast-paced and thrilling mystery, Now You See Her is a contemporary YA novel about a high school girl who switches bodies with her tennis rival after an accident - and must now unravel the secrets of their impossible connection.AMELIA has always felt like happiness is a serve she can't...
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Learning to Breathe

Janice Lynn Mather · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Indy struggles to conceal her pregnancy while searching for a place to belong in this stunning debut novel that's perfect for fans of Amber Smith and Sara Zarr.Indira Ferguson has done her best to live by her Grammy's rules - to study hard in school, be respectful,...
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Phoebe Will Destroy You

Blake Nelson · Simon Pulse
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Girl, Boy, and Paranoid Park comes a new novel about the obsessive vortex of falling in love in an impossible time and place.The summer I was seventeen I met this girl ... Nick has the best of moms and the worst of moms. On the upside, she's a distinguished professor...
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Notes from My Captivity

KATHY PARKS · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Like Siberia itself, this story is wild, mysterious, full of danger - and then, quite unexpectedly, captivates you with its beauty. I was so glad I went on the adventure." - Goldy Moldavsky, New York Times bestselling author of Kill the Boy BandNotes from My Captivity is a sharp,...
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Wild Blue Wonder

CARLIE SOROSIAK · HarperTeen
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"It's the rarest author who can pull off laugh-out-loud hilarious, profound, and breathlessly romantic, all in the most sparkling prose. That shortlist includes Rainbow Rowell, Nicola Yoon, and now, Carlie Sorosiak." - Jeff Zentner, Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King...
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Listen to Your Heart

Kasie West · Point
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Talking to other people isn't Kate Bailey's favorite activity. She'd much rather be out on the lake, soaking up the solitude and sunshine. So when her best friend, Alana, convinces Kate to join their high school's podcast, Kate is not expecting to be chosen as the host. Now she'll have...
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Spill Zone: The Broken Vow

SCOTT WESTERFELD · First Second
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Strange manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. Addison got close enough to the Spill Zone to touch it, literally. She survived the encounter,...
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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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Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It

KERRY WINFREY · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Jolie's a lot of things, but she knows that pretty isn't one of them. She has mandibular prognathism, which is the medical term for underbite. Chewing is a pain, headaches are a common occurrence, and she's never been kissed. She's months out from having a procedure to correct...
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