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THE WOMAN INSIDEThis dark, claustrophobic novel opens with a matter-of-fact police report: “The blinds are down, and all lights are off. Against the wall is a...
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A BOOK ABOUT YOU AND ALL THE WORLD TOOIn What Would You Do in a Book About You? (2021) and Me and You in a Book Made for Two (2022), Reidy invited readers to imagine the stories...
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POWERFUL YOUA round-headed human with skin the white of the page and their anthropomorphic animal friends traverse a world of options opened up by yes and...
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BEAR WITH METhe title shares three of just four words used throughout this story, which relies on well-paced sequential art to establish a child’s love of...
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ATOM BOMB BABYThe first installment in the author’s Riders of the Stars series takes place in a space-faring future in which human-colonized worlds throughout...
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CARDBOARD CITYNikola and older sister Saida are both teens, although they do not know their exact ages. Raised by their grandmother, they have grown up in...
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DIRECT SUNLIGHTSneed could teach a master class in opening sentences. Many of these witty stories open with a line that establishes the slightly off-kilter...
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THE LOWERINGIn 2019, a pandemic effectively stranded 39-year-old Lila Piper on the Caribbean island of St. Barts for quite a while. So, this self-described...
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ACCOUNTABILITYThe author argues that fighting climate change requires acknowledging the true cost of products, practices, and decisions beyond their literal...
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MR. SOn the first day of school, a light-skinned man carefully writes the words Mr. S on the blackboard and then, noticing that a tree has crashed...
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REASONS FOR WAKINGPhilip Rutledge lives a solitary life, teaching in the English department at Virginia’s Grainger University. “I hadn’t come to Grainger to have...
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SUMMER RENTALEighteen-year-old Riley March and four girlfriends—Cam, Val, Nia, and Blake— are off on a celebratory Independence Day weekend away, their last...
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FAT WITCH SUMMERTheodora “Thrash” Blumfeld-Wright didn’t expect her “knack” to show up in the library’s bathroom in full view of Cresca King, one of the three...
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AQUARIUMPower is famous for inventing aquariums, which enabled her to study “a 4-inch long octopus, the Argonauta argo .” The researcher, who was born...
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LOOTAbbas, the hero of James’ lively and symbolically rich third novel, is a poor 17-year-old artisan in Mysore in 1794 when he’s recruited by Tipu...
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FORGIVING IMELDA MARCOSFrom a hospital bed where he is suffering complications from kidney surgery, Angelito Macaraeg begins a letter to his estranged son. Lito...
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THE GRAVITY OF LIESSixteen-year-old Skye is accustomed to food insecurity and needing to parent her own mother, Mary, who spends her days sitting on the sofa,...
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WOLFPACKNine young women are being raised in a cult—though that’s a word they never use—the kind with a handsome male leader and strictly proscribed...
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EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOWInfluencers Nathan and Melissa Lo raised their family—16-year-old twins Honor and Atticus; high school senior Skye, and oldest siblings Wrangell...
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WHEN GIANTS BURNEleven-year-old Gerty is proud. She knows exactly what she wants and has the grit to get it. She seeks refuge from her survivalist parents in...
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CALL ME ADNANAdnan lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with Abu, Amma (who is pregnant), 13-year-old sister Aaliyah, and 2-year-old brother Riz. He dreams of playing...
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MAGDA, STANDINGPittsburgh resident Magda Augustin is a bright 16-year-old with large ambitions. Unfortunately, her father decrees that she must drop out of...
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KISMAT CONNECTIONArjun Mehta has been in love with best friend Madhuri Iyer since they were 13. As senior year begins, the duo sit down for their annual...
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TRIALFor his first novel in nearly a decade, popular thriller author Patterson heads to rural Georgia, where 18-year-old Malcolm Hill accidentally...
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THE IN-BETWEENAs Vlahos tells it, she wasn’t cowed at the thought of tending to patients whose recoveries were off the table. With family in the funeral...
