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Justin #1

L J Alonge - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Print book

A street smart, action-packed basketball series from debut author LJ Alonge.Justin has a list of goals stashed under his mattress. Number 1 is "figure out life plans." Number 5 is "earn Zen Master rating in WoW." Nowhere on that list is "play the crew from Ghosttown,"...
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What to Expect the First Year

Heidi Murkoff - Workman Publishing Company; Third Edition edition
Format: Book

Some things about babies, happily, will never change. They still arrive warm, cuddly, soft, and smelling impossibly sweet. But how moms and dads care for their brand-new bundles of baby joy has changed -- and now, so has the new-baby bible. Announcing the completely revised third edition...
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Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case

Patricia Hruby Powell - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book

From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law, but their...
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Whichwood

TAHEREH MAFI - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Embark on a wondrous journey through the land of Whichwood in this stunning companion to Tahereh Mafi's acclaimed bestseller Furthermore.A Kirkus Best Book of the Year! "Deliciously descriptive prose. . . . Darkly fascinating." Kirkus "Unforgettable heroine."...
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Sleeper

Eric Walters - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Paperback

DJ jets across the Atlantic to England to follow a series of obscure clues and symbols he hopes will reveal the truth about his grandfather. In London, he stays with Doris, the elderly woman he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with. Laid up with a broken ankle, Doris has her grandchild, Charlie,...
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Social Networking

Peter K. Ryan - Rosen Central

Networking online is here to stay. Its one of the quickest ways to connect with others who wish to be found. Just as with every form of communication, online social networking has its own rules and etiquette. This book informs readers on the ways to use networking sites properly and to their...
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The Secret Life of Damian Spinelli

Carolyn Hennesy - Hyperion; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Brusque Lady . . . Please meet the Jackal at the bar in the Metro Court at 1000 PM sharp. Although it is somewhat past my his bedtime, he must speak with you on a grave matter concerning many of your clientele. Do not fail me him. Regards, The Jackal So begins an evening unlike any other...
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The Ring and the Crown

Melissa de la Cruz - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Magic is power, and power is magic... Once they were inseparable, just two little girls playing games in a formidable castle. Now Princess Marie-Victoria, heir to the mightiest empire in the world, and Aelwyn Myrddyn, a bastard mage, face vastly different futures. Quiet and gentle, Marie...
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Kissing in Italian

Lauren Henderson - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Travel, romance, intrigue, and fun, set against the backdrop of the glorious Italian countryside are what youll find in this companion to Flirting in Italian by Lauren Henderson, author of Kiss Me Kill Me.Its been a terrific summer in Italy so far. Violets summer studies program is interesting,...
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Second Thoughts

Cara Bertrand - Luminis Books, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

The continuing adventures of an ordinary teenage girl with extraordinary mental abilities, perfect for readers who love books and series such as Vampire Academy, Spellbound, and Sweet Peril   Secrets, lies, and looming deaths—all things Lainey Young deals with in a typical...
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Party Games: A Fear Street Novel

R. L. Stine - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

R.L. Stine's hugely successful young adult horror series "Fear" "Street" is back with the first new book in almost 2 decades. With more than 80 million copies sold around the world, "Fear" "Street "is one of the bestselling young adult series of all time....
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Silver Shadows: A Bloodlines Novel

Richelle Mead - Razorbill; Not Indicated edition
Format: Hardcover

Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets - and human lives.In The Fiery Heart, Sydney risked everything to follow her gut, walking a dangerous line to keep her feelings hidden...
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Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now

Dana L Davis - Inkyard Press
Format: Paperback

"Ive got seven days to tell the truth."For sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly, life hasnt been normal for a while. She lost her mom to cancer, and now she has to leave her hometown to live with the father shes never met. Anthony Stone is a rich man with four other daughters - and rules...
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77 Things You Absolutely Have to Do Before You Finish College

Halley Bondy - Zest Books,
Format: Paperback

College is about way more than just frats and finals: It's also a time when students can learn new skills, encounter different cultures, test out potential careers, and take a stab at something new just because it sounds cool. And in order to leave college a better, smarter, and more...
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Awesome Skateboard Tricks and Stunts

Lori Polydoros - Blazers; Lib/Psc edition
Format: Book

Pro skateboarders do a lot more than simply roll along on four wheels. They flip, twist, and spin while soaring high in the air. Fans roar in applause as riders do stunts like the Judo Air and the Kickflip McTwist. Check out these tricks and more big-air stunts inside!
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Astonishing X-Men: Exogenetic

Warren Ellis - Marvel Worldwide
Format: Hardcover

Collects Astonishing X-Men #31-35. Watch as the X-Men go up against all-new versions of some of their worst foes: genetically manipulated Brood missiles, meat Sentinels and an island monster modeled after Krakoa.
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Storm Siren

Mary Weber - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

There are few things more exciting to discover than a debut novel packed with powerful storytelling and beautiful language. STORM SIREN is one of those rarities. Ill read anything Mary Weber writes. More, please!-Jay Asher, New York Times bestselling author of THIRTEEN REASONS WHYStormSirenis...
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How I Discovered Poetry

Marilyn Nelson - Dial Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America's most celebrated poets. Looking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her development as an artist and young woman through...
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Independent Study: The Testing, Book 2

Joelle Charbonneau - Harcourt Brace and Company
Format: Hardcover

In the series debut The Testing, sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United Commonwealth government as one of the best and brightest graduates of all the colonies . . . a promising leader in the effort to revitalize postwar civilization. In Independent Study, Cia is a freshman at the University...
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Phoenix Island

John Dixon - Gallery Books
Format: Book

WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL John Dixon's critically acclaimed Phoenix Island reads like "Lord of the Flies meets Wolverine and Cool Hand Luke" (F. Paul Wilson, creator of Repairman Jack) . For fans of The...
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Incredibly Alice

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Get ready to start your own incredible, amazing liferight Alice McKinley is standing on the edge of something newand half afraid she might fall off. Graduation is a big dealthat gauntlet of growing up that requires everyone shes known since forever to make huge decisions that will fling...
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Jane Austen: A Life Revealed

Catherine Reef - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Jane Austens popularity never seems to fade She has hordes of devoted fans and there have been numerous adaptations of her life and work But who was Jane Austen The writer herself has long remained a mystery And despite the resonance her work continues to have for teens there has never...
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Wings

Elizabeth Richards - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Following the cliffhanger ending of Phoenix, Natalie finds herself separated from Ash and unexpectedly reunited with her parents, including the father she thought was dead. But she can only think of Ash. She hasn't heard a word of him since she and Elijah were brought to...
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Thomas Paine: Crusader for Liberty: How One Man's Ideas Helped Form a New Nation

Albert Marrin - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a compelling look at the life and impact of Thomas Paine and the profound power of ideas.Uneducated as a boy, Thomas Paine grew up to become one of the most influential writers of the 18th century. He brought the world Common Sense,...
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The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon

Carla Killough McClafferty - Carolrhoda Books
Format: Book

No picture accurately resembled him in the minute traits of his person . . . there was an expression of his face that no painter had succeeded in taking. --Londons New Monthly Magazine in 1790 George Washingtons face has been painted, printed, and engraved more than a billion times since...
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I'll Be There

Holly Goldberg Sloan - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Book

Emily Bell believes in destiny. To her, being forced to sing a solo in the church choir--despite her average voice--is fate: because it's while she's singing that she first sees Sam. At first sight, they are connected. Sam Border wishes he could escape, but there's nowhere for him to run....
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Knightology: A True Account of the Most Valiant Knights

DUGALD STEER - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

What does it really take to be a knight? Peruse this lavish novelty volume and be surprised.From the secret order of Round Table Knights comes a tell-all guide to the mythical occupation of knighthood - its history, mysterious quests, and puzzles that live on to this day. Inspired...
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Fake Me a Match

Lauren Barnholdt - Aladdin
Format: Print book

Avery LaDuke is in the market for a new best friend. Her former BFF, Sophie Burns, dumped her to hang out with the popular crowd at school. But the good news Avery's getting a new sister who's bound to be her new BFF too! Blake is her age and she's from New York. How cool...
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Children of the Holocaust

Alex Woolf - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Hardcover

The Holocaust remains one of the most shocking events of the 20th century, one that still resonates strongly today. Its Nazi perpetrators showed no mercy, not even to children, so it is often the experiences of the children of this era that speak to us most powerfully. Children of the Holocaust...
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Of Scars and Stardust

Andrea Hannah - Flux
Format: Paperback

After the attack that leaves her little sister, Ella, close to death in a snowy cornfield, Claire Graham is sent to live with her aunt in Manhattan to cope. But the guilt of letting Ella walk home alone that night still torments Claire, and she senses the violence that preyed on her sister...
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Jesus Jackson

James Ryan Daley - The Poisoned Pencil; 1 edition
Format: Book

Jonathan Stiles is a 14-year-old atheist who is coping with his first day of ninth grade at the fervently religious St. Soren's Academy when his idolized older brother Ryan is found dead at the bottom of a ravine behind the school. As his world crumbles, Jonathan meets an eccentric...
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Endangered

Eliot Schrefer - Scholastic Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

From National Book Award Finalist Eliot Schrefer comes the compelling tale of a girl who must save a group of bonobos -- and herself -- from a violent coup.Congo is a dangerous place, even for people who are trying to do good.When Sophie has to visit her mother at her sanctuary for bonobos,...
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More of Me

Kathryn Evans - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover

Teva goes to school, studies for her exams, and spends time with her friends. To the rest of the world, she's a normal teenager. But when she goes home, she's anything but normal. Due to a genetic abnormality, Teva unwillingly clones herself every year. And lately, home has become a battleground....
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The True Cost of Fashion

Louise Spilsbury - Crabtree Pub Co
Format: Print book

Who makes the clothes and accessories we buy on the high street and wear every day? What are the working conditions like for people who form part of the supply chain for the worlds fahion industry? This book looks at the impact our fashion choices have on our lives and on the environment...
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Belzhar

Meg Wolitzer - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover

Entertainment Weekly's Best YA Book of 2014TIME magazine Top YA of 2014"Wolitzer has imagined a world for young readers that celebrates the sacred, transcendent power of reading and writing." - The New York Times Book ReviewThere's a place where the lost go to be found....
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Now I Rise

Kiersten White - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated, mind-blowing New York Times bestselling sequel to Kiersten White's New York Times bestseller, AND I DARKEN - the series that reads like HBO's Game of Thrones . . . if it were set in the Ottoman Empire. A SISTER FILLED WITH...
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Piecing Me Together

Rene Watson - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

A timely and powerful story about a teen girl striving for success in a world that too often feels like it wants to break her. Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way....
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Ruby Red

Kerstin Gier - Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover

Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era!Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about...
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Steve Jobs: Insanely Great

Jessie Hartland - Schwartz & Wade Books
Format: Hardcover

This fast-paced and entertaining biography in graphic format is a perfect complement to more text-heavy books on Steve Jobs like Walter Isaacson's biography. Presenting the story of the ultimate American entrepreneur, who brought us Apple Computer, Pixar, Macs, iPods, iPhones and more,...
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That Inevitable Victorian Thing

E K JOHNSTON - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Speculative fiction from the acclaimed bestselling author of Exit, Pursued by a Bear and Star Wars: Ahsoka. Victoria-Margaret is the crown princess of the empire, a direct descendent of Victoria I, the queen who changed the course of history. The imperial tradition of genetically...
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Mirage

Tracy Clark - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

Seventeen-year-old Ryan Poitier Sharpe is a gutsy, outgoing girl who spends her summer days hurling herself out of planes at her parents' skydiving center in the Mojave Desert. Fiercely independent and willing to take risks, she challenges those around her to live life fully. But after...
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Kiss of the Rose Princess, Vol. 1

Aya Shouoto - VIZ Media LLC
Format: Paperback

Anise is granted four cards representing four gorgeous knights whom she can summon with a kiss.. Anise Yamamoto has been told that if she ever removes the rose choker given to her by her father, a terrible punishment will befall her. Unfortunately she loses that choker when a bat-like being...
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Marvel's The Avengers: Age of Ultron Prelude

Will Pilgrim - Marvel
Format: Print book

The Avengers make their explosive return to the big screen this spring, and we've got everything you need to prepare right here! First, relive the historic first meeting between Marvel's mightiest heroes as Loki's plot to gain ulti mate power sparks a worldwide manhunt, a vicious...
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Being Audrey Hepburn: A Novel

Mitchell Kriegman - St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In Being Audrey Hepburn, Clarissa Explains It All-creator, Mitchell Kriegman, tells the story of a 19-year-old girl from Jersey who finds herself thrust into the world of socialites after being seen in Audrey Hepburns dress from the film Breakfast at Tiffanys.Lisbeth comes from a broken...
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Closer

Roderick Gordon - Chicken House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Closer to victory...or closer to death? An army of darkness is on the march: Who won't escape with their life? The fourth book in the New York Times Bestselling TUNNELS series!At long last reunited with his dad, Will now spends his days exploring the "land of the second sun,"...
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Make: Rockets: Down-to-Earth Rocket Science

Mike Westerfield - Make Books
Format: Paperback

Make: Rockets, Down to Earth Rocket Science, is for all the science geeks who look at the moon and try to figure out where Neil Armstrong walked, watch in awe as rockets lift off, and want to fly their own model rockets.Starting from the ground up you how to build all sorts of rockets and associated...
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A Land of Permanent Goodbyes

Atia Abawi - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

A powerful novel of refugees escaping from war-torn Syria, masterfully told by a journalist who witnessed the crisis firsthand. In a country ripped apart by war, Tareq lives with his big and loving family . . . until the bombs strike. His city is in ruins. His life is destroyed. And those...
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The Death Cure

James Dashner - Delacorte Press; Exclusive Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Read the third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent. The first and second books, The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials, are now major motion pictures featuring the star of MTV's Teen Wolf, Dylan O'Brien;...
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Magic for Marigold

L.M. Montgomery - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

You Usually Hear Marigold Before You See Her. Her Laughter Always Seems to Run Ahead. Marigold Lesley doesn't think it strange at all to hold fascinating conversations with her cat. She also sees nothing wrong with having an invisible best friend who lives in the orchard. But as Marigold...
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Tai Chi Step-by-Step

Madeleine Jennings - Rosen Central
Format: Book

Describes the origins and meaning of the ancient Chinese art of tai chi, and provides instructions for some of the most common movements.
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Burnout

Adrienne Maria Vrettos - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

On the day after Halloween, Nan wakes up in a subway car. She is not dreaming. She doesn’t know where she’s been or what she’s done. She’s missing a whole day from her life. And she’s wearing skeleton makeup and a too-small Halloween costume that she doesn't...
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Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me.

NOT AVAILABLE. - HARPERCOLLINS
Format: Print book

In this groundbreaking debut essay collection, featuring never-before-seen photos, actress Lily Collins - star of Mortal Instruments and Rules Don't Apply - is opening a poignant, honest conversation about the things young women struggle with: body image, self-confidence, relationships,...
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Catherynne M. Valente - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

welve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket, who invites her on an adventure, implying...
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Summer of Yesterday

Gaby Triana - Simon Pulse
Format: Book

Back to the Future meets Fast Times at Ridgemont High when Haley’s summer vacation takes a turn for the retro in this totally rad romantic fantasy.Summer officially sucks. Thanks to a stupid seizure she had a few months earlier, Haley’s stuck going on vacation with her dad and his new family...
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Paint It: The Art of Acrylics, Oils, Pastels, and Watercolors

Mari Bolte - Capstone Press
Format: Paperback

Any master starts at the beginning. Dip your brush into oil, acrylic, and watercolor paints, and sharpen your pastels. Develop essential techniques that will propel your art from scribbles to masterpieces.
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Teeth: Vampire Tales

Ellen Datlow - HarperCollins; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

The first bite is only the beginning.Twenty of todays favorite writers explore the intersections between the living, dead, and undead. Their vampire tales range from romantic to chilling to gleefuland touch on nearly every emotion in between.Neil Gaimans vampire-poet in Bloody Sunrise is brooding,...
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1 Year, 100 Pounds: My Journey to a Better, Happier Life

Whitney Holcombe - Simon Pulse/Beyond Words
Format: Paperback

Part cheerleader, part drill sergeant, Whitney Holcombe chronicles how to transition from "the fat girl" to being a healthy, confident young woman.At age fourteen, Whitney Holcombe stepped onto her bathroom scale and a number glared up at her: 230. That number controlled her life...
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Even in Paradise

Chelsey Philpot - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

The Great Gatsby meets Looking for Alaska in this stunning debut novel.When Julia Buchanan enrolls at St. Annes at the beginning of junior year, Charlotte Ryder already knows all about her. Most people do . . . or think they do. Charlotte certainly never expects shell be Julias friend....
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Feuds: A Novel

Avery Hastings - Griffin
Format: Hardcover

In this breathless story of impossible love, perfection comes at a deadly cost. For Davis Morrow, perfection is a daily reality. Like all Priors, Davis has spent her whole life primed to be smarter, stronger, and more graceful than the lowly Imperfects, or "Imps." A fiercely ambitious...
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Money Boy

Paul Yee - Groundwood Books
Format: Book

Ray Liu knows he should be happy. He lives in a big suburban house with all the latest electronic gadgets, and even finds plenty of time to indulge in his love of gaming. He needs the escape. Its tough getting grades that will please his army veteran father, when speaking English is still...
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Frost

Wendy Delsol - Candlewick; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In this sequel to STORK Katla Leblanc has to employ her grit spirit and special gifts to rescue the boy she lovesAfter the drama of finding out that shes a Stork a member of an ancient and mystical order of women and that her boyfriend Jack is a descendent of the Winter People able to control...
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The Legacy

Gemma Malley - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

When a Pincent Pharmaceutical van is ambushed by the rebel group known as the Underground its contents come as a huge surprise-not drugs but corpses in a horrible state It appears that the pharmaceutical companys top drug Longevity-which is supposed to eradicate disease and ensure eternal...
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Faking Normal

Courtney C. Stevens - Harpercollins Childrens Books
Format: Print book

An edgy, realistic debut novel praised by the New York Times bestselling author of Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys, as "a beautiful reminder that amid our broken pieces we can truly find ourselves."Alexi Littrell hasn't told anyone what happened to her over the summer by her backyard...
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I'll Give You the Sun

Jandy Nelson - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times Bestselling story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, Nicola Yoon, Jonathan Tropper, Emma Straub, and Rainbow Rowell "We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same...
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Bravest Warriors Presents: Catbug's Treasure Book

Various . - Perfect Square
Format: Hardcover

Four teenage travelers traverse the universe saving those in need...though not always in the way youd expect...in fact...never! Along the way they meet aliens, phantoms and other interdimensionalsincluding everyones favorite, Catbug. Sometimes...they even meet themselves! In Catbugs Treasure...
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Life by Committee

Corey Ann Haydu - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

Secret: I kissed someone else's boyfriend. Assignment: Do it again.Like most who find Life by Committee, Tabitha is a little lost. Her best friend has ditched her, her Vermont town is feeling way too small, and she's falling head over heels for a guy named Joe - who already has a girlfriend....
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Sleep No More

Aprilynne Pike - HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Format: Hardcover

The blockbuster film Inception meets Lisa McMann's Wake trilogy in this dark paranormal thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Aprilynne Pike. This supernatural young adult novel is perfect for fans of Kelley Armstrong, Alyson Nol, Richelle Mead, and Kimberly Derting.Charlotte...
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Forensic anthropology

Angela Libal - Mason Crest Publishers
Format: Hardcover

"Welcome to the exciting world of forensic investigation--the science of solving crimes. This introduces the field of forensic anthropology, where scientists and criminal investigators use the human skeleton to solve some of the world's most mysterious and violent crimes. From the nineteenth-century...
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Drink, Slay, Love

Sarah Beth Durst - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

Pearl is a sixteen-year-old vampire . . . fond of blood, allergic to sunlight, and mostly evil . . . until the night a sparkly unicorn stabs her through the heart with his horn. Oops. Her family thinks she was attacked by a vampire hunter (because, obviously, unicorns don’t exist),...
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The Bodies We Wear

Jeyn Roberts - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A streetwise girl trains to take on a gang of drug dealers and avenge her best friend’s death in this thriller for fans of Scott Westerfeld and Robin Wasserman.   Heam: It’s the hottest drug around. Users are able to see Heaven—a place so beautiful, so indescribably...
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Thick as Thieves

NOT AVAILABLE. - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

Discover the world of the Queen's ThiefThick as Thieves is the eagerly anticipated new stand-alone novel set in the world of the Queen's Thief. New York Times-bestselling author Megan Whalen Turner's entrancing and award-winning Queen's Thief novels bring to life the world of the epics...
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Deadly

Julie Chibbaro - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York. Could the city's future rest with its most unlikely scientist If Prudence Galewski is ever going to get out of Mrs. Browning's esteemed School for Girls, she must demonstrate her refinement and charm by securing...
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Coda

Ted Staunton - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Paperback

When his brother Bunny vanishes from the Toronto City Hall skating rink Spencer a budding filmmaker finds himself plunged into the stuff of movie thrillers kidnapping terrorists intrigue a missing document a world-famous pop star disguises romance and a rogue alligator As he races the clock...
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Stay

Deb Caletti - Simon Pulse; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Clara’s relationship with Christian is intense from the start, and like nothing she’s ever experienced before. But what starts as devotion quickly becomes obsession, and it’s almost too late before Clara realizes how far gone Christian is--and what he’s willing to do to make...
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Seven Billion and Counting: The Crisis in Global Population Growth

Michael M. Andregg - Twenty-First Century Books
Format: Hardcover

"October 31, 2011, marked an uneasy milestone for Planet Earth. On this day, the global population surpassed seven billion. What does that mean for a world that, until the nineteenth century, was home to less than one billion people? Experts say it means the planet is in trouble. Some...
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May

Kathryn Lasky - Scholastic Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Book 2 in Kathryn Laskys shimmering quartet about mermaid sisters and supernatural love.May feels her life drying up. The sea calls to her, but her parents forbid her from swimming. She longs for books, but her mother finds her passion for learning strange. She yearns for independence,...
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Searching for Sky

Jillian Cantor - Bloomsbury, 2014.
Format: Print book

Sky and River have always lived on Island, the only world they've ever known. Until the day River spots a boat. Across Ocean, in a place called California, Sky is separated from River and forced to live with a grandmother she's just met. Here the rules for survival are different....
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Who R U Really?

Margo Kelly - Merit Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Theas overprotective parents are about to drive her nuts. They invade her privacy, ask too many questions, and restrict her online time so much that Thea feels she cant do any of the things her friends do. She barely has time to answer her emails! When she discovers a new role-playing game...
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

Candace Fleming - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover

"[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters,...
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Bite Club

Rachel Caine - NAL Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine is a first-class storyteller New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris After discovering that vampires populate her town college student Claire Danvers knows that the undead just want to live their lives But someone else wants them...
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Fateful

Claudia Gray - HarperTeen; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Eighteen-year-old maid Tess Davies is determined to escape the wealthy, troubled family she serves. It’s 1912, and Tess has been trapped in the employ of the Lisles for years, amid painful memories and twisted secrets. But now the Lisle family is headed...
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A Medal for Leroy

Michael Morpurgo - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

When Michael's aunt passes away, she leaves behind a letter that will change everything. It starts with Michael's grandfather Leroy, a black officer in World War I who charged into a battle zone not once but three times to save wounded men. His fellow soldiers insisted he deserved...
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Born at Midnight: Shadow Falls, Book 1

C. C. Hunter - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

Dont miss this spectacular new series that will steal your heart and haunt your dreams: Welcome to Shadow Falls camp, nestled deep in the woods of a town called Fallen. ... One night Kylie Galen finds herself at the wrong party, with the wrong people, and it changes her life forever. Her mother...
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Bleed Like Me

C. Desir - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Fault Line comes an edgy and heartbreaking novel about two self-destructive teens in a Sid and Nancylike romance full of passion, chaos, and dyed hair. Seventeen-year-old Amelia Gannon just Gannon to her friends is invisible to almost everyone in her life. To her parents,...
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Between Here and Forever

Elizabeth Scott - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

Abby accepted that she can't measure up to her beautiful, magnetic sister Tess a long time ago, and knows exactly what she is: Second best. Invisible. Until the accident. Now Tess is in a coma, and Abby's life is on hold. It may have been hard living with Tess, but it's nothing...
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Teen Spirit

Francesca Lia Block - HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Format: Hardcover

Francesca Lia Block, critically acclaimed author of Weetzie Bat, brings this eerie and redemptive ghost story to life with her signature, poetic prose. It's perfect for fans of supernatural stories with a touch of romance like the Beautiful Creatures series by Kami Garcia and Margaret...
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Death Sworn

Leah Cypess - Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book

When a young sorceress is exiled to teach magic to a clan of assassins, she will find that secrets can be even deadlier than swords. Teen Vogue proclaimed, "It's impossible not to fall deep into the dark yet alluring world of sorcery and secret assassins." A dangerous and eerie...
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Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

Pamela S Turner - Charlesbridge
Format: Print book

Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival...
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Captive

Aimée Carter - Harlequin Books Teen
Format: Hardcover

The truth can set her free For the past two months, Kitty Doe's life has been a lie. Forced to impersonate Lila Hart, the Prime Minister's niece, in a hostile meritocracy on the verge of revolution, Kitty sees her frustration grow as her trust in her fake fianc cracks, her real...
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The Returning

Christine Hinwood - Dial
Format: Hardcover

An engrossing epic tale with a cast of characters that will hijack your heart Cam Attling having lost an arm is the only one from his town of Kayforl to return after twelve years of war All his fellow soldiers were slain and suspicion surrounds him When his betrothal to Graceful Fenister...
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My Future Ex-Girlfriend

Jake Gerhardt - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Brimming with humor and hope, this contemporary tween comedy is perfect for fans of Tommy Greenwald and Megan Schul. What happens when you finally capture the attention of your first crush? Do you suddenly know what to do? Do you magically learn the secrets of love? Not even close. Follow...
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Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD

Allison Britz - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder - and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side - in this powerful and inspiring memoir.Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable...
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Boundary

Heather Terrell - Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover

After surviving the Hunger Games-like Testing, Eva becomes the Aerie’s first female Archon. The second installment of the Books of Eva continue the harrowing struggle between past and present, Aerie and Boundary.Eva is the first Maiden in Aerie history to train as an Archon: a sacred...
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Mistwalker

Saundra Mitchell - Harcourt Brace and Company
Format: Hardcover

When Willa Dixon's brother dies on the family lobster boat, her father forbids Willa from stepping foot on deck again. With her family suffering, she'll do anything to help out - even visit the Grey Man. Everyone in her small Maine town knows of this legendary spirit who haunts...
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A Dog in the Cave: The Wolves Who Made Us Human

Kay Frydenborg - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

We know dogs are our best animal friends, but have you ever thought about what that might mean? Fossils show we've shared our work and homes with dogs for tens of thousands of years. Now there's growing evidence that we influenced dogs' evolution - and they, in turn, changed ours. Even...
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yolo

Lauren Myracle - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

Through texts and messages, the mega-bestselling, beloved Internet Girls series followed the ups and downs of school for three very different, very close friends. Now it's freshman year of college for the winsome threesome, and *everything* is different. For one, the best friends are facing...
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Barron's SAT Subject Test Literature, 7th Edition

Christina Myers-Shaffer M.Ed. - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Paperback

Updated to reflect the latest subject tests in literature, this manual presents two diagnostic tests and seven full-length practice tests. Students will also find:A review of the seven literary elements that form the basis for the testMaterials to help strengthen critical reading skills,...
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The Spiritglass Charade: A Stoker & Holmes Novel

Colleen Gleason - Chronicle Books (CA)
Format: Hardcover

Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you're the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood, so to speak. After the Affair of the Clockwork Scarab, Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes are eager...
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We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a true story

Josh Sundquist - Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Format: Hardcover

Josh Sundquist only ever had one girlfriend. For twenty-three hours. In eighth grade.Why was Josh still single? To find out, he tracked down the girls he had tried to date and asked them straight up: What went wrong?The results of Josh's semiscientific, wholly hilarious...
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Starfall

Michael Griffo - K-Teen
Format: Paperback

"In the newest book in Michael Griffo's mesmerizing Darkborn Legacy series, a small Nebraska town becomes a battleground in a fight between light and dark--and one girl must look to the stars to reclaim her life. Dominy Robineau will never be just a girl again. At sixteen, a curse...
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Silence

Becca Fitzpatrick - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The breathtaking conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Hush, Hush Saga.The noise between Patch and Nora is gone. They've overcome the secrets riddled in Patch's dark past...bridged two irreconcilable worlds...faced heart-wrenching tests of betrayal, loyalty and trust...and...
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Leaving China: An Artist Paints His World War II Childhood

James McMullan - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Hardcover

A memoir in paintings and words by internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and teacher James McMullan. A Booklist Top 10 Biography for Youth"It is this dreamlike quality of my memories that I wanted to capture in some way in the paintings that accompany the text--to suggest...
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Last true love story

Brendan Kiely - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Print book

"Hendrix and Corrina bust Hendrix's grandfather out of assisted living, and leave LA for New York in pursuit of freedom, truth, and love"--
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Samurai

Adrienne Lee - Capstone Press
Format: Book

To the Samurai, death on the battlefield was considered an honor. Casting their fears aside, these warriors lived and died by the code of bushido. Learn the ins and outs of these brave fighters lives, including what fueled their loyalty, the weapons they used, and how their legend lives...
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Chasing the Storm: Tornadoes, Meteorology, and Weather Watching

Ron Miller - 21st Century
Format: Book

Huge, towering clouds build up in the skyits a super cell. The Doppler radar indicates that the system is rotating. But is there a funnel Is it touching the ground Only a storm chaser can confirm when a tornado is presentand help meteorologists warn nearby towns. Whenever severe weather...
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Deception's Princess

Esther Friesner - Random House Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

Some lies lead to true adventure. . . .Maeve, princess of Connacht, was born with her fists clenched. And it's her spirit and courage that make Maeve her father's favorite daughter. But once he becomes the High King, powerful men begin to circle--it's easy to love the girl who brings...
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People Like Us

Dana Mele - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A sharp psychological thriller that's just right for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and Pretty Little Liars--this story will seduce, mislead, and finally, betray you.Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself entirely. Now she's...
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My Best Friend, Maybe

Caela Carter - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Right before they started high school, Colette's best friend, Sadie, dumped her. Three years later, Colette is still lonely. She tries to be perfect for everyone left in her life: her parents, her younger brothers, her church youth group, even her boyfriend, Mark. But Colette is restless....
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The Mirk and Midnight Hour

Jane Nickerson - Random House Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

A Gothic thriller and captivating love story set in Civil War Mississippi Seventeen-year-old Violet Dancey has been left at home in Mississippi with a laudanum-addicted stepmother and love-crazed stepsister while her father fights in the war - a war that has already claimed her twin brother....
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Signed, Skye Harper

Carol Lynch Williams - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover

In trying to reunite with her mother, Winston discovers the many meanings of family and finds friendship in an unexpected place in this coming-of-age novel from the author of Waiting, which Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review, called "exceptional" and Glimpse, which BOOKLIST called...
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Bad Call

Stephen Wallenfels - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

It was supposed to be epic. During a late-night poker game, tennis teammates Colin, Ceo, Grahame, and Rhody make a pact to go on a camping trip in Yosemite National Park. And poker vows can't be broken. So the first sign that they should ditch the plan is when Rhody backs...
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Haunt Me

LIZ KESSLER - Candlewick

Haunting and intensely romantic, Liz Kessler's latest novel features a teen girl for whom falling in love could mean losing her heart - and maybe her life.When her family moves after a rough year, Erin feels instantly at home in her new bedroom - even after she realizes that she's not the only...
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Beautiful LEGO: Wild!

Mike Doyle - No Starch Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Scenes from nature spring to life in Mike Doyle's latest curated collection of LEGO art, Beautiful LEGO: Wild! From botanical marvels to adorable critters - as a sea otter family made from 3,500 LEGO pieces - every page is sure to delight the artist and naturalist in all of us.Interviews...
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I Am the Mission

Allen Zadoff - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

He was the perfect assassin.Boy Nobody: No name. No past. No remorse. At least until he began to ask questions and challenge his orders -- until he fell in love with his target. Now The Program is worried that its valuable soldier has become a liability. Boy Nobody, haunted by the outcome...
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Queen of Someday

Sherry D Ficklin - Clean Teen Publishing, 2014.
Format: Print book

Before she can become the greatest empress in history, fifteen-year-old Sophia will have to survive her social-climbing mother's quest to put her on the throne of Russia - at any cost. Imperial Court holds dangers like nothing Sophia has ever faced before. In the heart of St. Petersburg,...
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Small Town Sinners

Melissa Walker - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Print book

Lacey Anne Byer is a perennial good girl and lifelong member of the House of Enlightenment, the Evangelical church in her small town. With her drivers license in hand and the chance to try out for a lead role in Hell House, her churchs annual haunted house of sin, Laceys junior year is looking...
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Tantalize: Kieren's Story

Cynthia Leitich Smith - Candlewick; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Illustrated by hot new talent Ming Doyle, Cynthia Leitich Smith's TANTALIZE is reimagined as a graphic novel-- seen through Kieren's werewolf eyes.As a hybrid werewolf, Kieren is destined to join an urban Wolf pack and learn to master his shift. Soon, he'll leave everything...
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Zac and Mia

A. J. Betts - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book

"When I was little I believed in Jesus and Santa, spontaneous combustion, and the Loch Ness monster. Now I believe in science, statistics, and antibiotics." So says seventeen-year-old Zac Meier during a long, grueling leukemia treatment in Perth, Australia. A loud blast of Lady...
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Mafia Girl

Deborah Blumenthal - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

What's in a name? Everything ... if you have my name." At her exclusive Manhattan high school, seventeen-year-old Gia is the most hated/loved girl in school. Why? Her father doesn't have a boss. He is the boss--the capo di tutti cappi, boss of all bosses. Not that Gia cares....
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Love and First Sight

Josh Sundquist - Little
Format: Print book

In his debut novel, YouTube personality and author of We Should Hang Out Sometime Josh Sundquist explores the nature of love, trust, and romantic attraction. On his first day at a new school, blind sixteen-year-old Will Porter accidentally groped a girl on the stairs, sat on another student...
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North and South Korea (Opposing Viewpoints)

Noah Berlatsky - Greenhaven Press
Format: Library Binding

Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications.; This title explores issues related to North...
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Writing term papers with cool new digital tools

Joe Greek - Rosen Central
Format: Paperback

In the not-too-distant past, students were expected to turn in only handwritten or typed papers. However, with today's ease of access to the Internet and free applications, teachers are now expecting students to go beyond the confines of text-only productions. Various online programs make...
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Road Rash

Mark Huntley Parsons - Random House Childrens Books
Format: Hardcover

A teenage drummer finds out what life is really like on tour with a rock band in this funny and bittersweet YA novel. For anyone who loved Almost Famous or This Is Spinal Tap. After being dropped from one band, sixteen-year-old drummer Zach gets a chance to go on tour with a much better...
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Shattered

Mari Mancusi - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

A girl at the end of the world. Two brothers fighting for opposite sides. And a dragon who can save them all...Or set the world on fire.Trinity's world changed forever the day she stole Emmy's egg. Now she's on the run with the last living dragon and twin brothers from a war-torn...
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WWE 2K18 - PlayStation 4

2K (Firm) - 2K
Format: Video Game

Seriously, THE BIGGEST ROSTER EVER! Dominate the ring with TONS of your favorite WWE, NXT and legendary Superstars! We're not kidding, WWE 2K18 offers the most complete roster of the biggest and brightest WWE and NXT Superstars and Legends to ever grace a WWE ring! ...
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Spirit of a Mountain Wolf

Rosanne Hawke - Scarlet Voyage
Format: Hardcover

Fourteen-year-old Razaq Khan lives in the Pakistani tribal area of Kala Dhaka, Black Mountain. When an earthquake devastates his family home, Razaq's dying father tells him to travel to his uncle Javaid. A man preying on orphans lures Razaq to the city with the promise of finding his uncle....
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School of Fear 3: The Final Exam

Gitty Daneshvari - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Check out the laugh-inducing, phobia-reducing final book in the School of Fear trilogy! Is school out forever at the School of Fear? A nosy reporter is planning a scandalous expose on eccentric Mrs. Wellington and her unorthodox teaching methods, and the news is sure to put an end to the school....
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Steadfast

Claudia Gray - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

The second book in the dazzling Spellcaster series from New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray is perfect for fans of the Beautiful Creatures and Hex Hall series.Nadia, Mateo, and Verlaine saved Captive's Sound from the dark Sorceress Elizabeth ... or so they thought. Despite their...
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The Babysitter Murders

Janet Ruth Young - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Everyone has weird thoughts sometimes. But for seventeen-year-old Dani Solomon, strange thoughts have taken over her life. She loves Alex, the little boy she babysits, more than anything. But one day, she has a vision of murdering him thats so gruesome, she cant get it out of her mind....
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Star Trek 1: The Galileo Seven

Mike Johnson - Abdo Publishing Company
Format: Library Binding

The adventures of the new Enterprise crew continue in this re-imagining of the classic episode "The Galileo 7"! Mr. Spock finds himself in command of a stranded shuttle crew fighting for survival, in a tale featuring the new cast from the blockbuster STAR TREK film! Aligned...
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Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey

Nick Bertozzi - First Second
Format: Paperback

Ernest Shackleton was one of the last great Antarctic explorers, and he led one of the most ambitious Antarctic expeditions ever undertaken. This is his story, and the story of the dozens of men who threw in their lot with him - many of whom nearly died in the unimaginably harsh conditions...
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The Opioid Epidemic

Hal Marcovitz - Referencepoint Press
Format: Hardcover

When synthetic opioids were developed a quarter-century ago, many physicians believed the drugs would help alleviate the pain caused by severe injuries and debilitating diseases. But while the drugs do deaden pain, they can lead to devastating addiction as well as death through overdose....
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Bombay Blues

Tanuja Desai Hidier - Push
Format: Hardcover

Dimple Lala thought that growing up would give her all the answers, but instead she has more questions than ever. Her boyfriend is distant, her classmates are predictable, and a blue mood has settled around the edges of everything she does. It's time for a change, and a change is just...
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Critical World Issues: Human Rights

Brendan Finucane - Mason Crest
Format: Print book

Human rights are often taken for granted, but across the world people are still denied many basic rights: to have a home, an education, to be treated with dignity and be free to express religious or political beliefs. This book asks the fundamental questions about human rights today, including:...
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Desert Angel

Charlie Price - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Print book

Fourteen-year-old Angel wakes up one morning at her desert trailer home to discover her mother has been murdered by a lowlife named Scotty, who has vanished. Angel has no water, no weapon, but she knows that Scotty, an expert tracker and hunter, will surface soon in order to eliminate her as a witness....
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Peterson First Guide to Astronomy, Second Edition

Jay M. Pasachoff Professor of Astronomy - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Second Edition edition
Format: Book

Completely revised with all-new photographs and covering astronomical events through 2019 The second edition of the Peterson First Guide to Astronomy provides an up-to-date introduction to astronomy for beginners, featuring all-new photographs of recent events — such as one taken...
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Stem in Sports: Engineering

Tim Newcomb - Mason Crest Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Explains what the STEM fields are, and describes the role of engineering in designing and updating athletic clothing, facilities, and equipment in a wide variety of sports throughout the world.
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Leverage

Joshua C. Cohen - Dutton Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

A Top Ten Best Fiction Book for Young Adults as Selected by the American Library Association The football field is a battlefield Theres an extraordinary price for victory at Oregrove High It is paid on-and off-the football field And it claims its victims without mercy-including the most...
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Hammerin' Hank Greenberg: Baseball Pioneer

Shelley Sommer - Calkins Creek
Format: Print book

The first Jewish baseball hall-of-famer, Hank Greenberg battled anti-Semitism on and off the field. He was raised in New York City, the son of Romanian-Jewish immigrants, and went on to become a baseball legend. This thought-provoking biography follows him from his service during World...
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Paper Airplanes, Captain Level 4

Christopher L. Harbo - Capstone Press
Format: Library Binding

Are you a flying ace? Do you need a group of gliders that will challenge all of your folding skills? If so, take command with Paper Airplanes, Captain Level 4. From the Fighter Jet to the Screech Owl, the models in this book will prove that you've earned your wings.
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Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress

Nate Cooper - No Starch Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Build Your Own Website is a fun, illustrated introduction to the basics of creating a website. Join Kim and her little dog Tofu as she learns HTML, the language of web pages, and CSS, the language used to style web pages, from the Web Guru and Glinda, the Good Witch of CSS.Once she figures...
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The Centaur's Daughter

Ellen Jensen Abbott - Skyscape
Format: Hardcover

Abisina had found a home in Watersmeet--the community her father led until he was killed by the evil White Worm. But now, Watersmeet is as divided as the village she fled as an outcast. The land faces a new threat, and an uneasy alliances between the humans and the creatures will have...
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The Blue Castle

L.M. Montgomery - Sourcebooks Fire; Reprint edition
Format: Book

When Dreams Come True All her life, Valancy Stirling lived on a quiet little street in an ugly little house and never dared to contradict her domineering mother and her unforgiving aunt. Then she gets a letter—and decides that very day things need to change. For the first time in her life,...
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Rapture Practice: A True Story About Growing Up Gay in an Evangelical Family

Aaron Hartzler - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

A true story about finding salvation in the strangest places. Aaron Hartzler grew up in a home where he was taught that at any moment the Rapture could happen. That Jesus might come down in the twinkling of an eye and scoop Aaron and his family up to heaven. As a kid, Aaron was thrilled...
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Department 19

Will Hill - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Jamie Carpenter's life will never be the same. His father is dead, his mother is missing, and he was just rescued by an enormous man named Frankenstein. Jamie is brought to Department 19, where he is pulled into a secret organization responsible for policing the supernatural, founded more...
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The Cupid War

Timothy Carter - Flux; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Ricky Fallon had decided not to kill himself after all—moments before accidentally slipping off a bridge and plunging to his death. Now he’s a Cupid in the afterlife, helping high school students fall in love. The job would be cool if it weren’t for the dorky pink bodysuits,...
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Big-Animal Vets!

Mari Rich - Mason Crest,
Format: Print book

Travel the world to help animals with . . .BIG-ANIMAL VETS! Stare down a gorilla! Help save lions and giraffes! Fix a hippo with a toothache! For veterinarians working with large animals, that might just be a busy morning. Inside, travel the world with expert animal doctors as they go wherever...
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Breakthrough

A. L. Priest - Darby Creek Publishing
Format: Print book

Efram is new to Troy, Ohio, a town where football is everything. And as soon as he sets foot in Troy Central High, the school's head coach takes notice of Efram's perfect football build. Suddenly Efram is gearing up for practice—even though he has never played the game. Flick...
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Eternal: Shadow Falls: After Dark

C. C. Hunter - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

"Spectacular! I love Della's sarcastic and yet deeply sensitive perspective and can't wait to see how things unfold for her." -- Fresh FictionJust when Della feels like she's starting to figure out her life, she finds herself reborn ... and her new existence...
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If I Should Die

Amy Plum - HarperTeen
Format: Paperback

If I Should Die delivers a stunning, deeply satisfying conclusion to the international bestselling Die for Me series by Amy Plum. VOYA raved, "There is plenty of romance, danger, and unpredictable turns against a backdrop of Paris. Those looking for something beyond the Twilight series...
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Unleashed

Sophie Jordan - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Unleashed, the romantic, high-stakes sequel to New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan's Uninvited, is perfect for fans of such favorites as James Patterson's Confessions of a Murder Suspect.Davy has spent the last few months trying to come to terms with the fact that she tested...
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Othersphere

Nina Berry - K Teen/Kensington Publishing Corp.
Format: Print book

Dez thought she knew who her mother was, who she was. Thought she had friends, a boy who loved her, and a school where she finally fit in.But across the veil linking our world and the next lurks a monster which can annihilate. . .or liberate her. Now she must confront it there with help...
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Mean Girls: A Novel

MICOL OSTOW - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Hardcover

You know the story--or do you? Cady Heron grew up homeschooled in Africa with scientist parents as her teachers, monkeys as her classmates and the African plains as her playground. But when her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, she finds herself a stranger in a strange land: high...
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The Dolls

Kiki Sullivan - Balzer + Bray; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Pretty Little Liars meets Beautiful Creatures in this steamy southern suspense novel about a group of powerful teen voodoo queens who will do anything to get what they want.Eveny Cheval has just moved back to Carrefour, Louisianaa town she left fourteen years ago in the wake of her mothers...
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Meridian

Josin L. McQuein - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

The electrifying sequel to Arclight, which Pittacus Lore called "powerful and gripping." Those within the Arc thought that they were the last humans left after the world was destroyed—but they were wrong. There are more survivors. But there is also more to be afraid of. A suspenseful...
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Alien Contact

Marty Halpern - Night Shade Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Book

Are we alone? From War of the Worlds to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, ET to Close Encounters, creators of science fiction have always eagerly speculated on just how the story of alien contact would play out. Editor Marty Halpern has gathered together some of the best stories of the last...
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Adrenaline Crush

Laurie Boyle Crompton - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Dyna comes from a long line of risk-takers and is an avid thrill-seeker in her own right until she takes a terrible fall and shatters her leg Her life used to be about bike racing and rock climbing now its about staying home except for attending physical and group therapy...
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Thinking Critically Medical Marijuana

Bonnie Szumski - Referencepoint Press
Format: Book

Examines the controversy surrounding the legalization of marijuana for medical use, debating the drug's effectiveness, safety, and regulation.
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BZRK Apocalypse

Michael Grant - Egmontusa
Format: Hardcover

The Matrix meets Inner Space in this third book in the BZRK trilogy from New York Times best-selling author Michael Grant.The staggering conclusion to the BZRK trilogy, from the author of GONE. The members of BZRK are preparing for their final stand. Noah and Sadie have seen death, and it holds...
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The Nowhere Girls

Amy Lynn Reed - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

"A call-to-action to everyone out there who wants to fight back." - Bustle "Subversive anti-sexism - just try to put it down." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Cuts straight to the core of rape culture - masterfully fierce, stirring, and deeply...
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Clutch

Heather Camlot - Red Deer Press
Format: Paperback

It is 1946 in a poor Jewish neighborhood in Montreal where a few dollars equals a fortune, and no matter where you go you will find the best home cooking anywhere on Earth. It is also a million miles away from the posh mansions on the other side of town. But a 12-year-old boy can still...
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Traumatic Brain Injury: From Concussion to Coma

Connie Goldsmith - 21st Century
Format: Book

"Two soccer players collide on the field. A soldier in Afghanistan is thrown to the ground during a bomb explosion. A teen has an accident while riding her bike—and she isn't wearing her helmet. Each of these incidents can produce a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Of the 1.7 million...
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Valley of Fires: A Conquered Earth Novel

J. Barton Mitchell - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

VALLEY OF FIRES had won the 2014 RT BOOK REVIEWS Reviewers' Choice Awards for best Science Fiction Novel!J. Barton Mitchell's sci-fi tour de force Conquered Earth series concludes as the characters try and unite Earth's disparate survivors to overthrow its alien invaders once and for all.The...
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Wickedpedia

Chris Van Etten - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Book

Its the return of Point Horror for the Internet generation Dont open the door Dont answer your phone And whatever you do DONT turn on your computer Cole and Greg love playing practical jokes through Wikipedia They edit key articles and watch their classmates crash and burn giving oral...
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A Good Idea

Cristina Moracho - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Can the right kind of boy get away with killing the wrong kind of girl?Finley and Betty's close friendship survived Fin's ninth-grade move from their coastal Maine town to Manhattan. Calls, letters, and summer visits continued to bind them together, and in the fall of their senior year,...
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The Final Hour

Andrew Klavan - Thomas Nelson; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

"You're not alone. You're never alone." Charlie West has held on to that belief, but now he's starting to wonder. He went to bed one night an ordinary high-school kid. When he woke up, he was wanted for murder and hunted by a ruthless band of terrorists. He's been...
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Now and Forever

Susane Colasanti - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

What if your boyfriend was the world's biggest rockstar?Sterling is crazy in love with Ethan. Not only is he the sweetest boy she's ever met, but he's an incredibly talented guitarist, singer, and songwriter. And since forever, he's believed he has what it takes to be a star.When Ethan...
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Misfit

Jon Skovron - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Print book

Jael Thompson has never really fit in. Shes changed schools too many times to count. The only family shes ever known is her father, a bitter ex-priest who never lets her date and insists she attend the strictest Catholic school in Seattle. And her mother--well, she was a five thousand year...
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Vango: Between Sky and Earth

Timothee de Fombelle - Candlewick Press
Format: Hardcover

A breathless adventure from international award winner Timothe de Fombelle charts a desperate search for identity across the vast expanses of Europe.In a world between wars, a young man on the cusp of taking priestly vows is suddenly made a fugitive. Fleeing the accusations of police who blame...
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The Sound of Letting Go

Stasia Ward Kehoe - Viking
Format: Print book

For sixteen years, Daisy has been good. A good daughter, helping out with her autistic younger brother uncomplainingly. A good friend, even when her best friend makes her feel like a third wheel. When her parents announce they're sending her brother to an institution - without consulting...
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This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

Kenneth Oppel - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are nearly inseparable. Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary adventures... until the day their adventures turn all too real. They stumble upon The Dark Library, and secret books of alchemy and ancient remedies are discovered....
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