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Where the Rhythm Takes You

Sarah Dass · Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion, Where the Rhythm Takes You is a romantic, mesmerizing novel of first love and second chances. Seventeen-year-old Reyna has spent most of her life at the Plumeria, her family's gorgeous seaside resort in Tobago. But what once seemed like paradise...
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Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

Joya Goffney · HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by debut author Joya Goffney is an own voices story of an overly enthusiastic list maker who is blackmailed into completing a to-do list of all her worst fears. It's a heartfelt, tortured, contemporary YA high school romance. Fans of Jenny Han's To All the Boys...
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From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

Paula Yoo · Norton Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A compelling account of the killing of Vincent Chin, the verdicts that took the Asian American community to the streets in protest, and the groundbreaking civil rights trial that followed. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers...
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The Girl in the Headlines

Hannah Jayne · Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

The headlines say she killed her family. The truth? She doesn't remember.Andrea McNulty goes to sleep on her eighteenth birthday with a near-perfect life: she's a high school field hockey star, a doted-upon big sister, the beloved daughter of two happy parents. But when she wakes...
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Wizards RPG Team · Wizards of the Coast
Format: Hardcover

Explore the lands of Eberron in this campaign sourcebook for the world's greatest roleplaying game.

This book provides everything players and Dungeon Masters need to play Dungeons & Dragons in Eberron - a war-torn world filled with magic-fueled technology, airships and lightning...
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D&D Waterdeep Dragon Heist HC

Wizards RPG Team · Wizards of the Coast
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Experience the ultimate urban treasure hunt in this adventure for the world's greatest roleplaying game.

Welcome to Waterdeep, City of Splendors! You're summoned by Volothamp Geddarm, famous explorer and raconteur, to complete a simple quest. Is anything ever really simple though?...
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Candlekeep Mysteries

Wizards RPG Team · Wizards of the Coast
Format: Hardcover

Candlekeep attracts scholars like a flame attracts moths. Historians, sages, and others who crave knowledge flock to this library fortress to peruse its vast collection of books, scribbled into which are the answers to the mysteries that bedevil them. Many of these books contain their own mysteries...
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Dungeons & Dragons Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Wizards RPG Team · Wizards of the Coast
Format: Hardcover

Clash with the gods of Theros in this campaign sourcebook for the world's great roleplaying game.Play DUNGEONS & DRAGONS in the MAGIC: THE GATHERING world of Theros - a realm shaped by the wrath of gods and the deeds of heroes, where champions vie for immortal favor and a place...
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You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves

Diana Whitney · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

Created and compiled just for young women, is filled with works by a wide range of poets who are honest, unafraid, and skilled at addressing the complex feelings of coming-of-age, from loneliness to joy, longing to solace, attitude to humor. These unintimidating poems offer girls a message...
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition

Anton Treuer

From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why
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This Poison Heart

Kalynn Bayron · Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch.When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers,...
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Rise to the Sun

Leah Johnson · Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

From the author of You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson delivers a stunning novel about being brave enough to be true to yourself, and learning to find joy even when times are unimaginably dark.Olivia is an expert at falling in love . . . and at being dumped. But after the fallout...
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Ali Cross: Like Father, Like Son

James Patterson · Jimmy Patterson
Format: Hardcover

Ali Cross just solved his first real case. Alex Cross knows it's only a matter of time before his son finds his way into more trouble. Neither of them expected Ali to get caught up in another case so quickly. Ali and his friends were just hanging out in Anacostia Park...then they became...
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Any Way the Wind Blows

Rainbow Rowell · Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong.In Any Way the Wind Blows, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha...
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The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!

Clint McElroy · First Second
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In the second Adventure Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family's wildly popular D&D podcast) , we rejoin hero-adjacent sort-of-comrades-in-arms Taako, Magnus, and Merle on a wild careen through a D&D railroad murder mystery. This installment has a little of everything:...
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The Betrayed

Kiera Cass · HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Can you follow your heart when it's already broken?

After fleeing Coroa and leaving the memory of her beloved Silas behind, Hollis is unsteadily adjusting to life in Isolte. The Eastoffe family's affection is a balm on her weary spirit, though Etan, a surly cousin with a deep...

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Thrive

Kenneth Oppel · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

.The alien invasion of Earth is imminent. But maybe not all the aliens are united. A rebel faction has reached out to Anaya, saying there's a way to stop the larger invastion--a way for humand and hybrids and cryptogens to work together. Can they be trusted? Or is this a trap?It's...
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Namesake: A Novel

Adrienne Young · Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Trader. Fighter. Survivor.With the Marigold ship free of her father, Fable and its crew were set to start over. That freedom is short-lived when she becomes a pawn in a notorious thug's scheme. In order to get to her intended destination she must help him to secure a partnership with...
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Indivisible

Daniel Aleman · ?Hachette Book Group and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Over the past few years, however, the fear that their undocumented immigrant parents could be sent back to Mexico has started to fade. Ma and Pa have been in the United...
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Only the Pretty Lies

Rebekah Crane

Convention doesn't carry much weight in Alder Creek. It doesn't in Amoris Westmore's family either. Daughter of a massage therapist and a pothead artist, inheritor of her grandmother's vinyl collection, and blissfully entering her senior year in high school, Amoris never

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When the World Was Ours

Liz Kessler · Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Three friends. One memory. Vienna. 1936. Three young friends - Leo, Elsa, and Max - spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped apart from one another. With their lives taking them across...
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Middletown

Sarah Moon · Dreamscape Media; Unabridged edition
Format: Audiobook

Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen-year-old sister Anna is more traditionally feminine; she loves boys and staying out late. They are sisters, and they are also the only family each can count on. Their dad has long been out of the picture,...
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Pumpkin

Julie Murphy · HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Return to the beloved world of Julie Murphy's #1 New York Times bestselling Dumplin' - now a popular Netflix feature film starring Jennifer Aniston - in this fabulously joyful, final companion novel about drag, prom, and embracing your inner Queen. Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat,...
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I Hope You're Listening

Tom Ryan · Dreamscape Media; Unabridged edition
Format: Audiobook

In her small town, seventeen year-old Delia Dee Skinner is known as the girl who wasn't taken. Ten years ago, she witnessed the abduction of her best friend, Sibby. And even though she told the police everything she remembered, it wasn't enough. Sibby was never seen again. At night,...
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A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray · Delacorte Press
Pages: 16
Format: Paperback

It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception...
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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

Roseanne A. Brown · Balzer Bray
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The first in a gripping fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a collision course to murder each other despite their growing attraction - from debut author Roseanne A. Brown. Perfect for fans of Tomi...
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One Great Lie

Deb Caletti · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice with the charismatic and brilliant Luca Bruni, it's a dream come true. Writing is her passion, she loves Bruni's books, and going to that romantic and magical sinking city gives her the chance to solve a long-time...
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Go the Distance: A Twisted Tale

Jen Calonita · Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

After Hercules proves he''s a true hero and regains his godship, all seems right in the world. That is, until Zeus tells Meg that she can''t be with Hercules because she''s, well, mortal. Luckily, Hera has a solution, offering Meg a chance to prove herself worthy...
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Strange Creatures

Phoebe North · Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

From acclaimed author Phoebe North comes a riveting, unexpected, and beautiful contemporary novel about a girl whose brother mysteriously disappears, the family and friends he leaves behind, and the stories - real and imagined - that they tell themselves to fill the empty space.From the moment...
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Hearts Unbroken

CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH · Candlewick
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith turns to realistic fiction with the thoughtful story of a Native teen navigating the complicated, confusing waters of high school - and first love.

When Louise Wolfe's first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native...
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Instructions for Dancing

Nicola Yoon · Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with...
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Enduring Freedom

Trent Reedy · Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Baheer, a studious Afghan teen, sees his family's life turned upside down when they lose their livelihood as war rocks the country. A world away, Joe, a young American army private, has to put aside his dreams of becoming a journalist when he's shipped out to Afghanistan. When...
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Star Wars The High Republic: Out of the Shadows

Justina Ireland · Disney Lucasfilm Press; Media tie-in edition
Format: Hardcover

Featuring Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh, Jedi Padawan Reath Silas, and many more!
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Six Crimson Cranes

Elizabeth Lim · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"A dazzling fairytale full of breathtaking storytelling." --Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of CaravalShiori'anma, the only princess of Kiata, has a secret. Forbidden magic runs through her veins. Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal...
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One-Punch Man, Vol. 22

ONE
Format: Paperback

Life gets pretty boring when you can beat the snot out of any villain with just one punch.Nothing about Saitama passes the eyeball test when it comes to superheroes, from his lifeless expression to his bald head to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking guy has a not-so-average...
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Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke

Andrew Maraniss · Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Andrew Maraniss comes the remarkable true story of Glenn Burke, a "hidden figure" in the history of sports: the inventor of the high five and the first openly gay MLB player. Perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James Brown. On October...
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Ace of Spades

Faridah Abike-Iyimide · Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school's senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. After all, not only does it look great on college applications, but it officially puts...
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Blackout

Dhonielle Clayton · Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark.A summer heatwave blankets New York City in darkness....
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The Taking of Jake Livingston

Ryan Douglass · Putnam
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one of the few Black students at St. Clair Prep. Both are a living...
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Summer in the City of Roses

Michelle Ruiz Keil · Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover

All her life, seventeen-year-old Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother, Orr. But this summer, with their mother gone at an artist residency, their father decides it's time for fifteen-year-old Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp. When their father brings Iph to a work...
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The Lucky List

Rachael Lippincott · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

weaves a captivating, heartfelt love story about learning who you are, and who you love, when the person you've always shared yourself with is gone.Emily and her mom were always lucky. Every month they'd take her lucky quarter, select lucky card 505, and dominate the heatedly competitive...
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Like Other Girls

Britta Lundin · Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

After getting kicked off the basketball team for a fight that was absolutely totally not her fault (okay maybe a little her fault) , Mara is dying to find a new sport to play to prove to her coach that she can be a team player. A lifelong football fan, Mara decides to hit the gridiron...
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That Weekend

Kara Thomas · Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Cheerleaders, comes a thriller about best friends on a weekend getaway that goes horribly, dangerously wrong. THREE BEST FRIENDS, A LAKE HOUSE, A SECRET TRIP -- WHAT COULD GO WRONG?It was supposed to be the perfect prom weekend getaway. But it's clear something...
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