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SOMETHING LIKE POSSIBLEHigh-achieving Madison has a plan, specifically The Plan, mapped out in her Life Notebook, detailing exactly what steps she needs to take to...
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SECOND CHANCE SUMMERChloe and Maddie have been besties since kindergarten, but a lot has happened by the summer after seventh grade, when both go to Camp Rosewood...
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HIS STUDY IN SCANDALIn the second School for Scoundrels novel, Alexandra, dowager Duchess of Chelmswich, is finally ready to claim her independence. Enjoying a...
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FROM ASH TO ASHESMira Singh is grieving a loss too shameful to talk about. Growing up in a mostly White suburb in Long Island after her family left Queens, she...
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SAGE SMILESOne of a trilogy, this poetry collection plainly announces its intentions to serve as “a gentle reminder that we don’t have to look far for...
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THE MISSINGThe book opens with “I Saw Him Sleeping,” in which the events of young Marcella’s troubled childhood land her in a Colorado detention center;...
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TWENTY SQUARE FEET OF SKIN“To consider my tattoos we must first consider skin. Skin is our barrier against the world, enveloping our body so that we won’t lose our...
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ARGREN BLUESixteen-year-old Alar thought being a rebel would be heroic. Unfortunately, he and the other members of the oss’stera resistance—dedicated to...
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IT'S TOTALLY NORMAL!Most of the content is written by mom Monica, an educator and psychologist who peppers in her own experiences, including those related to her...
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THE GRIEF ROCKA nameless young protagonist with light tan skin and shoulder-length brown hair copes with this rock, which is so large that it’s unwieldy....
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PRIDE AND JOYJoy can’t wait for big brother Noah to get home so they can bake cookies. But when Noah and his boyfriend, Miguel, arrive, their neighbor Jimmy...
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PERFECT SACRIFICESDevil worshipping death-metal guitarist Alec Lowell left all that behind to become a faith healer. In the same vein, his Satanist half-brother,...
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STORMLESSThe story starts with a seeming impossibility, as a Summoner from a Sect that’s been thought to be long extinct walks into King Avenos...
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UNDERGROUNDIn pursuit of the sneering giant who challenged him outside the gym one day and smashed his Olympic dreams along with his ribs, kickboxer Karim...
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TRANSMOGRIFY!Tilluster College couldn’t take away Rae’s magic, so instead they threaten to kill everyone Rae loves. Ari thought magic school would solve...
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IN ONE LIFE AND OUT ANOTHERDo you ever wonder how your life could have gone if just one thing had been different? In one version of Marin Greene’s life, her parents are...
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EASILY SLIP INTO ANOTHER WORLDBorn in 1944, Threadgill grew up in a Chicago whose airwaves were as catholic as they came: “I remember Mexican music, country music (which...
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BANANA BALLThe heroes of this charming story are the Savannah Bananas, a goofball gang of athletes whose motto is, “Fans First. Entertain Always.” At their...
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LINCOLN'S GODZeitz, a contributing writer at Politico and author of Lincoln’s Boys , provides a broad overview of the rapidly changing faith journey of...
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SIZEThe term polymath is overused these days, but in Smil’s case, it is appropriate. He is currently a professor of environmental studies at the...
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GLASSWORKSGlass—sometimes transparent, sometimes opaque, both sturdy and fragile—serves as the novel’s primary metaphor while anchoring its plot....
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A LINE IN THE SANDPowers returns to the subject of war and its collateral damage that he first studied in The Yellow Birds (2012), an acclaimed debut published...
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THE POSTCARDThe arrival in 2003 of an unsigned postcard, delivered to her mother Lélia’s postbox in Paris, bearing the names of four family ancestors...
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ELIXIRIn the third volume of her planned “Balkan quartet” (following Border and To the Lake ), Kassabova recounts her pilgrimage from the rural...
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RUBI RAMOS'S RECIPE FOR SUCCESSAware of all the sacrifices her Cuban parents make to send her to an exclusive Catholic school in Orange County, Rubi Ramos works hard to try to...
