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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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After her best friend Jenna dies, eighteen-year-old Amelia mysteriously receives a rare edition of her favorite book and traces it back to a bookstore in Michigan where she encounters the elusive young author and begins to learn how to live without Jenna.
4) We are okay
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Marin hasn't spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she's tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced...
5) Aerie
Author
Series
Magonia novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Aza Ray is back on earth. Her boyfriend, Jason, is overjoyed. Her family is healed. She's living a normal life, or as normal as it can be if you've spent the past year dying, waking up on a sky ship, and discovering that your song can change the world. As in, not normal. Part of Aza still yearns for the clouds, no matter how much she loves the people on the ground. When Jason's paranoia over Aza's safety causes him to make a terrible mistake, Aza...
Author
Series
We were liars volume 1
Language
English
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If You Like One of Us is Lying, Read These!
McKinney March Madness
Mystery Fiction - YA
Read It and Weep - YA
McKinney March Madness
Mystery Fiction - YA
Read It and Weep - YA
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Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
7) Layoverland
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Two teens, one stuck atoning for her sins and one destined for heaven, fall in love in purgatory in this darkly hilarious and heartfelt rom-com, perfect for fans of The Good Place.Beatrice Fox deserves to go straight to hell. At least, that's what she believes. Her last day on Earth, she ruined the life of the person she loves most — her little sister, Emmy. So when Bea awakens from a fatal car accident to find herself on an airplane headed who...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Debut author and Jason and AlexaScottSkyler, whose sister Kate—the sister who is more like a mother, the sister who is basically Skyler's everything—was crossing the bridge when it collapsed. As the minutes tick by without a word from the hospital staff, Skyler is left to wonder how she can possibly move through life without the one person who makes her feel strong when she's at her weakest.In his riveting, achingly beautiful debut, Richard Lawson...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
-- Praise for -- Kirkus * "From the first page to the last, Valentine has crafted a masterpiece." — -- Booklist " -- The Sunday Times "Beautifully written...this latest creation is her most spectacular yet." — -- Finding Violet Park * “Lucas’ pitch-perfect voice and authentic family relationships...and the poignant, coming-of-age mystery will stay with the reader long after the book ends. Valentine’s debut novel shines richly.” —...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Rakmen Cannon's life is turning out to be one sucker punch after another. His baby sister died in his arms, his parents are on the verge of divorce, and he's flunking out of high school. The only place he fits in is with the other art therapy kids stuck in the basement of Promise House, otherwise known as support group central. Not that he wants to be there. Talking doesn't bring back the dead. When he's shipped off to the Canadian wilderness with...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor, featuring stunning artwork by Jim Kay. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting-- he’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every...
12) One Small Thing
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
-- Publishers Weekly “Erin Watt always delivers a high-octane story with plenty of twists. One Small ThingUSA Today “Happily Ever After” Blog
Author
Series
White rabbit chronicles volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Kat Parker's spirit returns, insisting Frosty the Ice Man partner with rogue slayer Camilla Marks--the one who betrayed them all, leading to Kat's death. But when Anima rises from the grave to become a force the slayers may not have the strength to overcome, Frosty, Camilla, and all the slayers will have to work together to survive.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Louna's years working at her mother's wedding planning business--as well as the tragic end of her first love--have shaped her cynical views on romance, but the arrival of serial-dater Ambrose may start to change Louna's mind and give her a second chance at love.
15) Revolution
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Readers of -- Praise for -- Bulletin A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book Amazon.com Best Book of the Year (STAR, Starred (STARThe Bulletin (STARKirkus Reviews
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Language
English
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"Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another"
17) Frozen Beauty
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
-- Even though everyone is quick to jump to conclusions, Tessa is certain that her sister’s killer wasn’t Boyd, the boy next door whom they’ve all loved in their own way. Still, there are too many details that don’t add up, too many secrets tucked away in the past. But no matter how fiercely Tessa searches for answers, at the core of that complicated night is a truth that’s heartbreakingly simple.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
-- God Incredibly, Violet agrees to go—if their dysfunctional family tags along for the ride. With all nine members stuffed into a wonky old paratransit bus, including their controlling older sister and distant mother, Indigo must find a way to face insecurities she’s spent a lifetime masking and step up to lead the trip. As she deals with outrageous mishaps, strange lodgings and even stranger folks along the way, Indigo will figure out how to...
Author
Series
Forest of Hands and Teeth trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and...
20) Where She Went
Author
Series
If I stay volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times Picking up several years after the dramatic conclusion of If I Stay And don't miss Gayle's newest novel, JUST ONE DAY and the forthcoming companion, JUST ONE YEAR.
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