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Love & Grief: Find Healing, Meaning, and Purpose in Life After Loss

Emily P Bingham - Wellfleet Press
Format: Hardcover

Learn to embrace grief, manage it, and identify coping strategies with this practical, comforting, and inspirational guide.. Every grief journey is different, but we all need reminders, comfort, and inspiration to come to terms with making necessary changes after a loss, recognizing what...
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Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself

Monica Edinger - Zest Books ™
Format: Paperback

Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is perhaps the most well known of the autobiographies that exist. Using this narrative as a primary...
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If Only I Had Told Her

Laura Nowlin - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

An intensely emotional and gripping companion novel to Laura Nowlin's USA Today and New York Times Bestselling novel If He Had Been With Me about the love that both breaks and heals us. Perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and Jenny Han.If only I'd told her that I loved her years...
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Rebel Skies

Ann Sei Lin - Tundra Books
Format: Hardcover

Ann Sei Lin's enchanting and action-packed debut, first in a series, will sweep readers away to an aerial world of magic, danger and political intrigue. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Lim, Kalynn Bayron and the films of Studio Ghibli.. Kurara has never known any other life than being...
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Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Legacy of Yangchen (Chronicles of the Avatar Book 4)

F. C. Yee - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi and Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Shadow of Kyoshi comes a thrilling new chapter in the Chronicles of the Avatar series and page-turning follow-up to Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Dawn of Yangchen....
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When You Were Mine: The Novel That Inspired the Movie Rosaline

Rebecca Serle - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED ROSALINE - NOW A HULU MOVIE From the New York Times bestselling author of One Italian Summer and In Five Years comes an intensely romantic modern recounting of the greatest love story ever told - narrated by the girl Romeo was supposed to love.What's in a name,...
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A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic

Yi Shun Lai - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A teen's fight for suffrage turns into one of survival when her crew's Antarctic expedition ship gets stuck in the ice in this historical novel told in journal entries perfect for fans of Gary Paulsen and The Downstairs Girl.. November 1914. Clara Ketterling-Dunbar is one of twenty-eight...
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Sky's End (Above the Black)

Marc J Gregson - Peachtree Teen
Format: Hardcover

Plummet into a kill-or-be-killed competition where a scrappy underdog hell-bent on revenge must claw his way to the top in this thrilling YA fantasy debut. Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving...
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My Throat an Open Grave

Tori Bovalino - Page Street YA
Format: Hardcover

Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away to the Lord of the Wood. Growing up in the small town of Winston, Pennsylvania feels like drowning. Leah goes to church every Sunday, works when she isn't at school, and takes care of her baby...
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The Prisoner's Throne (The Stolen Heir)

Holly Black - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated conclusion to the Stolen Heir duology by #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black. An imprisoned prince. A vengeful queen. And a battle that will determine the future of Elfhame.
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Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear

Robin Wasley - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A painfully average teen's life is upended by a magical apocalypse in this darkly atmospheric and sweepingly romantic novel perfect for fans of The Raven Boys, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The Rest of Us Just Live Here. . High school is hard enough to survive without an apocalypse...
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Daughter of the Bone Forest (Witch Hall Duology, 1)

Jasmine Skye - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Two girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ever closer in Jasmine Skye's high-stakes, queernormative dark fantasy debut, Daughter of the Bone Forest.. Rosy is a bone familiar, gifted with the power to shift into animals marked with...
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ASAP

Axie Oh - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Axie Oh's ASAP is the much anticipated companion novel to beloved romance XOXO, following fan favorites Sori, the wealthy daughter of a K-pop company owner, and Nathaniel, her K-pop star ex-boyfriend, in a swoon-worthy second chance love story.Sori...
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Pangu's Shadow

Karen Bao - Carolrhoda Lab ®
Format: Hardcover

There are no second chances in the Pangu Star System. Ver and Aryl, apprentices at the most prestigious biology lab among the system's moons, know this better than anyone. They've left behind difficult pasts and pinned their hopes for the future on Cal, their brilliant but demanding...
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Kindling

Traci Chee - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a standalone fantasy set against a war-ravaged world where kindling warfare - the use of elite, magic-wielding teenage soldiers - has been outlawed. In this rich and evocative novel, seven kindlings search for purpose and identity...
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All This Twisted Glory (This Woven Kingdom, 3)

Tahereh Mafi - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated third novel in the This Woven Kingdom series, full of powerful magic, searing romance, and heartbreaking betrayal, from the award-winning and bestselling author of the Shatter Me series. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Sabaa Tahir, and Tomi Adeyemi.As the long-lost...
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Flight Plan

Eric Walters - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Paperback

When all technology breaks down and he's far from home, thirteen-year-old Jamie learns he's stronger (and braver) than he thought he was in this dystopian adventure.Thirteen-year-old Jamie's plane is just taking off when something goes terribly wrong. The lights go out, communications...
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Lady of Disguise (A Dericott Tale)

Melanie Dickerson - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Only the hidden treasure will allow Louisa and her sister to gain their freedom.England, 1388. All her life, Louisa's dreamed of finding the rumored "Giant's Treasure," a collection of ancient, lost riches said to be hidden on a mountaintop in Scotland, guarded by a fierce...
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Where the Dark Stands Still

A. B. Poranek - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

A girl with dangerous magic makes a risky bargain with a demon to be free of her monstrous power in this young adult fantasy perfect for fans of An Enchantment of Ravens and House of Salt and Sorrows.. Liska knows that magic is monstrous, and its practitioners are monsters. She has done...
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Skater Boy

Anthony Nerada - Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover

In this YA pop punk debut about queer romance and destroying labels, a teen risks everything to write his own story. Perfect for fans of Sonora Reyes and Adib Khorram.. Stonebridge High's resident bad boy, Wesley "Big Mac" Mackenzie, is failing senior year - thanks to his unchecked...
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The Collectors: an Anthology

A.S. King - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections.. From David Levithan's story about a non-binary kid collecting...
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