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Guile

Constance Cooper · Clarion Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Yonie Watereye lives in the bayou. The water there is full of guile, a power that changes people and objects. Yonie, 16, makes a living investigating objects affected by guile, but in fact it's her talking cat, LaRue, who has the power to see guile. Yonie becomes aware that someone...
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The Game of Lives

James Dashner · Delacorte Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From James Dashner, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, comes The Game of Lives, the final book in the Mortality Doctrine series, an edge-of-your-seat cyber-adventure trilogy that includes The Eye of Minds and The Rule of Thoughts. Michael used to live to game,...
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Love & Gelato

Jenna Evans Welch · Simon Pulse, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping debut novel filled with romance, mystery, and adventure.Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn't in the mood for Italy's famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She's only there because it was her mother's...
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Tess of the Road

Rachel Hartman · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Meet Tess, a brave new heroine from beloved epic fantasy author Rachel Hartman."Surprising, rewarding, and enlightening, both a fantasy adventure and a meta discourse on consent, shame, and female empowerment."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Not to be ignored. Absolutely...
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Slam

Nick Hornby · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover

Just when everything is coming together for Sam, his girlfriend Alicia drops a bombshell. Make that ex-girlfriend-- because by the time she tells him she's pregnant, they've already called it quits. Sam does not want to be a teenage dad. His mom had him at sixteen and has made it very...
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Miss Congeniality 2 - Armed and Fabulous

Sandra Bullock · Warner Home Video
Format: Video

F.B.I. operative Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) famously went undercover in a beauty pageant a while back, and now she's supposedly so recognizable that her only use to the agency is as a pretty public representative. Dumped by her boyfriend (whom Benjamin Bratt wisely decided not to portray...
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Summer Bird Blue

Akemi Dawn Bowman · Simon Pulse
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"A lyrical novel about grief, love, and finding oneself in the wake of a tragic loss." - Bustle "Grabs your heart and won't let go." - Book Riot Three starred reviews for this stunning novel about a mixed race teen who struggles to find her way back to her love of music...
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The Way You Make Me Feel

MAURENE GOO · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An NPR Best Book of 2018A Boston Globe Best Children's Book of 2018A We Need Diverse Books 2018 Must-ReadA TAYSHAS 2019 Reading List BookFrom the author of I Believe in a Thing Called Love, a laugh-out-loud story of love, new friendships, and one unique food truck.Clara Shin lives for pranks...
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Forest World

Margarita Engle · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning author Margarita Engle comes a lively middle grade novel in verse that tells the story of a Cuban-American boy who visits his family's village in Cuba for the first time - and meets a sister he didn't know he had.Edver isn't happy about being shipped off to Cuba to visit...
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The Last Star: The Final Book of The 5th Wave

Richard Yancey · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The highly-anticipated finale to the "New York Times "bestselling 5th Wave series The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They re down here, they re up there, they re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath...
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City of the Beasts

Isabel Allende · Harper Trophy; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold is about to join his fearless grandmother on the trip of a lifetime. An International Geographic expedition is headed to the dangerous, remote wilds of South America, on a mission to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast. But there...
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Things I Should Have Known

Claire Scovell LaZebnik · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

An unforgettable story about autism, sisterhood, and first love that's perfect for fans of Jenny Han, Sophie Kinsella, and Sarah Dessen. New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things Julie Buxbaum raved: "I couldn't put it down." Meet Chloe Mitchell, a popular Los Angeles...
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The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

DASHKA SLATER · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter.One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they...
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The Razor's Edge

W. Somerset Maugham · Vintage
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle,...
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Coach Carter

Thomas Carter · Paramount Pictures
Format: DVD video

Inspired by a true story, this inspirational account of a high school basketball coach who received high praise, and staunch criticism, for benching his entire undefeated team due to their poor academic performances.
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