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An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

Virginia Boecker · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Philippa Gregory meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this witty and thrilling action-adventure novel of star-crossed assassins in Elizabethan England. Perfect for fans of My Lady Jane and The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue.When Lady Katherine's father is killed for being an illegally...
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This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

Kheryn Callender · Balzer Bray
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A fresh, charming rom-com perfect for fans of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Boy Meets Boy about Nathan Bird, who has sworn off happy endings but is sorely tested when his former best friend, Ollie, moves back to town.Nathan Bird doesn't believe in happy endings. Although he's...
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The Brilliant Death

AMY ROSE CAPETTA · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

For Teodora DiSangro, a mafia don's daughter, family is fate. All her life, Teodora has hidden the fact that she secretly turns her family's enemies into music boxes, mirrors, and other decorative objects. After all, everyone in Vinalia knows that stregas - wielders of magic - are figures...
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That Night

AMY GILES · HarperTeen
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An evocative story by acclaimed author Amy Giles about tragedy, love, and learning to heal. The year since a mass shooting shook their Queens neighborhood has played out differently for Jess and Lucas, both of whom were affected by that night in eerily similar and deeply personal ways....
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All the Stars Denied

Guadalupe Garci?a McCall · Tu Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In a companion novel to her critically acclaimed Shame the Stars, Guadalupe Garcia McCall tackles the hidden history of the United States and its first mass deportation event that swept up hundreds of thousands of Mexican American citizens during the Great Depression.
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Salt

Hannah Moskowitz · Chronicle Books
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

Roaming the Mediterranean Sea on sailboats and hunting down monsters is the only life seventeen-year-old Indi and his siblings have ever known. He never loved it, but now that his parents are gone - vanished during a hunt three months ago - it's harder and harder to fight his desire...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New School Nightmare

Carolyn Nowak · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

An exciting and hilarious new middle grade story for anyone who likes (or doesn't like) vampires! Buffy Summers is just like any other student...except for the part where she's also a secret vampire slayer. In every generation, one girl is granted great strength to stand against...
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West

Edith Pattou · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

In the sequel to the beloved high fantasy East, Rose sets off on a perilous journey to find her true love when he goes missing in a thrilling tale of danger, magic, adventure, and revenge. When Rose first met Charles, he was trapped in the form of a white bear. To rescue him, Rose traveled...
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You Are The Everything

Karen Rivers · Algonquin Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Can you want something - or someone - so badly that it changes your destiny?Elyse Schmidt never would have thought so, until it happened to her. When Elyse and her not-so-secret crush, Josh Harris, are the sole survivors of a plane crash, tragedy binds them together. It's as if their...
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Runaways by Rainbow Rowell Vol. 2: Best Friends Forever

Rainbow Rowell · Marvel
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback

The Runaways are a family again! But a family needs a guardian, and the only Runaway who's got her life together is in middle school. And, even for a kid like Molly who likes her classes, that can be fraught with peril. Meanwhile, there's a new arrival as the gang welcomes Karolina's...
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OtherEarth

Jason Segel · Delacorte Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Return to the series BuzzFeed compared to Ready Player One in the second book in a new fast-paced trilogy from New York Times bestselling authors Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller that's perfect for fans of HBO's Westworld. Simon saved his best friend, Kat, from the clutches of the Company...
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This Cruel Design

Emily Suvada · Simon Pulse
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Cat thought the Hydra epidemic was over, but when new cases pop up, Cat must team up with an enemy to fix the vaccine before the virus spirals out of control in this thrilling sequel to This Mortal Coil, which New York Times bestselling author Amie Kaufman says "redefine's 'unputdownable.'"The...
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Come November

Katrin van Dam · Scholastic Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

It's not the end of the world, but it's starting to feel that way. On November 17, the Next World Society is planning to leave Earth behind and reboot human civilization on a planet unaffected by climate change and pollution. It sounds crazy to Rooney Harris, but to her mother and younger...
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Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse

Jane Yolen · Tor.com
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Finding Baba Yaga is a mythic yet timely novel-in-verse by the beloved and prolific New York Times bestselling author and poet Jane Yolen, "the Hans Christian Andersen of America" (Newsweek) .A young woman discovers the power to speak up and take control of her fate -- a theme...
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Imagine Us Happy

Jennifer Yu · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Some love stories aren't meant to lastStella lives with depression, and her goals for junior year are pretty much limited to surviving her classes, staying out of her parents' constant fights and staving off unwanted feelings enough to hang out with her friends Lin and Katie.Until...
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