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Instructions for a Secondhand Heart

Tamsyn Murray · Poppy
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A moving novel about grief, guilt, and the unpredictability of love, for fans of Everything, Everything and All the Bright Places. Jonny knows better than anyone that life is full of cruel ironies. He's spent every day in a hospital hooked up to machines to keep his heart ticking. Then...
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A Step Toward Falling

Cammie McGovern · HarperTeen
Pages: 364
Format: Print book

Cammie McGovern follows up her breakout young adult debut, Say What You Will, with this powerful and unforgettable novel about learning from your mistakes, and learning to forgive. Told in alternating points of view, A Step Toward Falling is a poignant, hopeful, and altogether stunning...
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Crazy House

JAMES PATTERSON · jimmy patterson
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover

There were no charges. There was no trial. There will be no escape. Seventeen-year-old Becca Greenfield was snatched from her small hometown. She was thrown into a maximum-security prison and put on Death Row with other kids her age. Until her execution, Becca's told to fit in and shut...
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You Can't See the Elephants

Susan Kreller · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

One brave girl takes an extreme step to protect two abused childrenWhen thirteen-year-old Mascha is sent to her grandparents' for the summer, she spends her days bored and lonely at a nearby playground. There she meets Julia and Max, two young siblings who are incredibly shy and withdrawn....
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Smothered: A Novel

Autumn Chiklis · Wednesday Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

"Autumn Chiklis's debut novel, Smothered, is a hilarious, gimlet-eyed, and affectionate take on the familial catastrophes that occur when a recent college grad moves back home with her helicopter mom. Whether you have a mother, are a mother, or know a mother, you will love and laugh...
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Transgender People

Tamara Thompson · Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pages: 152
Format: Print book

Examines issues surrounding the transgender rights movement and community, including legal protection, military service, and gender reassignment for adults and children.
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Not If I See You First

Eric Lindstrom · Little
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

In the tradition of novels of Gayle Forman and John Green comes this extraordinary YA debut about a blind teen girl navigating life and love in high school.
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Little & Lion

Brandy Colbert · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A stunning novel on love, loss, identity, and redemption, from Publishers Weekly Flying Start author Brandy Colbert
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Human Rights in Focus: Human Trafficking

L K Currie-McGhee · Referencepoint Press
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

Globally, millions of people live in modern day slavery. Men, women, and children across the world are subject to forced labor and sexual exploitation at the hands of human traffickers. The challenges human trafficking victims face, the efforts to eradicate this crime, and how to assist...
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More Than We Can Tell

Brigid Kemmerer · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

With loving adoptive parents by his side, Rev Fletcher has managed to keep the demons of his past at bay. . . until he gets a letter from his abusive father and the trauma of his childhood comes hurtling back.Emma Blue's parents are constantly fighting, and her only escape is the computer...
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Interlude: A Novel

Chantele Sedgwick · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover

When Mia Cox finds out she can't donate her kidney to save her younger sister's life, she doesn't hesitate to jump on a plane to New York, convinced she can talk their estranged birth mother, Carmen, into donating hers instead. She doesn't know the city or how she'll find Carmen when she gets...
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Into the Hurricane

NEIL CONNELLY · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

TWO PEOPLE WITH LOSSESEli and Max both have good reasons to go to the lighthouse on Shackles Island. For Max, it's an old vacation spot, the rare location where she has only good memories -- so it's the right place to scatter her dad's ashes. For Eli, it's the highest point near his Louisiana...
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Orbiting Jupiter

Gary D. Schmidt · Clarion Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn,...
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Children of Blood and Bone: The OrÏsha Legacy

Tomi Adeyemi · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sabaa Tahir.They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us. Now we rise.Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha...
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Stranger Than Fanfiction

Chris Colfer · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Colfer comes a funny, heartbreaking, unforgettable novel about friendship and fame. Cash Carter is the young, world famous lead actor of the hit television Wiz Kids. When four fans jokingly invite him on a cross-country road trip, they are shocked...
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