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1) XOXO
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
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Jenny?s never had much time for boys, K-pop, or really anything besides her dream of being a professional cellist. But when she finds herself falling for a K-pop idol, she has to decide whether their love is worth the risk. A modern forbidden romance wrapped in the glamorous and exclusive world of K-pop, XOXO is perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Maurene Goo. Jenny didn?t get to be an award-winning, classically trained cellist without choosing practice...
3) Agnes grey
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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2021
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I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me. Agnes Grey is forced to become a governess due to her family's circumstances, but struggles with the reality of disobedient children, disdainful employers and an isolated existence. Written from Anne's experience, this is a truly personal and moving coming-of-age story.
4) Loveless
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Pub. Date
2020
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Teenager Georgia discovers that everyone has different experiences of personal relationships as she finds out about and accepted her own identity.
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Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2024
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From the bestselling author of the Truly Devious books, Maureen Johnson, comes a new stand-alone YA about a teen who uncovers a mystery while working as a tour guide on an island and must solve it before history repeats itself. The fire wasn?t Marlowe Wexler?s fault. Dates should be hot, but not hot enough to warrant literal firefighters. Akilah, the girl Marlowe has been in love with for years, will never go out with her again. No one dates an accidental...
Author
Publisher
Morgan James Fiction
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Kaitlin, the social pariah of her high school, is so relieved to have made friends at Camp Overlook that she is willing to look past the camp's anomalies: creepy counselors, 24-hour video surveillance, and campers disappearing quietly into the night. Dr. Forsythe, the mastermind behind the Overlook experiment, explains that Kaitlin has a genetic gift--one which laid dormant until her stay at summer camp. Having never considered herself normal, let...
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Midnight's Twins volume 1
Publisher
Hot Key Books
Pub. Date
2020
Description
The first novel in a lyrical, endlessly inventive urban fantasy trilogy from debut author Holly Race Fifteen-year-old Londoner Fern is about to uncover a place that she could not have imagined in all her wildest dreams. Annwn is the dream mirror of our world, a place where Dreamers walk in their slumber, their dreams playing out all around them. An enchanted, mysterious place that feeds our own world - as without dreams, without a place where our...
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Poison's Kiss volume 1
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017
Description
A teenage assassin kills with a single kiss until she is ordered to kill the one boy she loves. This commercial YA fantasy is romantic and addictive like-- a poison kiss-- and will thrill fans of Sarah J. Maas and Victoria Aveyard. Marinda has kissed dozens of boys. They all die afterward. It s a miserable life, but being a visha kanya a poison maiden is what she was created to do. Marinda serves the Raja by dispatching his enemies with only her lips...
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Defy the Night volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury YA
Pub. Date
2021
Description
A spark of rebellion is all it takes to DEFY THE NIGHT. In a kingdom where sickness stalks the streets and only the richest can afford a cure, King Harristan and his brother Prince Corrick are forced to rule with an iron fist. Tessa Cade is a masked outlaw marked for death, but she likes it that way. Together with the mysterious, handsome Weston, she robs from the rich to help the poor, distributing food and medicine to those who need it most. As...
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Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 1
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Recounts the humorous events in a teenage girl's life.
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Jane Austen Murder volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2022
Description
In this second book of the Jane Austen Murder Mystery series, Tirzah Price takes readers for another fun, murderous romp through one of Austen?s beloved novels. Perfect for fans of The Lady Janies and Stalking Jack the Ripper. A Junior Library Guild pick! When eighteen-year-old aspiring scientist Elinor Dashwood discovers her beloved father slumped over the desk of his office study, she knows his death means dire straits for the Dashwood women. To...
12) The Getaway list
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Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Inescapably romantic and brimming with New York Times bestselling author Emma Lord's signature cheer, The Getaway List is an uplifting and romantic read and a love letter to New York. The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes that she has spent the last four years trying so hard to be a Good Kid for her mum that she has no idea who she really is anymore. The solution? Pack her bags and move to New York for the summer to stay with her best...
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The year is 1984, and life in Oceania is ruled by the Party. Under the gaze of Big Brother, Winston Smith yearns for intimacy and love - 'thought crimes' that, if uncovered, would mean imprisonment, or death. But Winston is not alone in his defiance, and an illicit affair will draw him into the mysterious Brotherhood and the realities of resistance. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' has been described as chilling, absorbing, satirical, momentous, prophetic and...
15) Begin again
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Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2023
Description
As usual, Andie Rose has a plan: transfer to the hyper competitive Blue Ridge State and chase her lifelong goal of becoming an iconic self-help figure. All it will take is ruthless organization, hard work, and her trademark unrelenting enthusiasm to pull it all together. But the moment Andie arrives, her plans go off the rails. Her rocky relationship with her boyfriend Connor only gets more complicated and she meets Milo who disrupts all her ideas...
16) Iron widow
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Pub. Date
2021
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Science fiction and East Asian myth combine in this dazzling retelling of the rise of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history.
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Sisters of Shadow volume 1
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2021
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Anne of Green Gables meets Diana Wynne Jones in this whimsical fantasy adventure perfect for teen readers. I don?t know who you are, or why you need me, but you hurt her again and I will make you pay... Alice has lived in the forest on the fringes of Alder Vale ever since her parents abandoned her. Alone, exiled, and feared by all. All except Lily. Nature has always been Lily?s tonic, and she never feels more alive than when she?s amidst the trees....
19) Beautiful wild
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Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2020
Description
High society intrigue and deliciously shocking scandals meet a gripping fight for survival in thissweeping romance, sure to thrill fans of Kiera Cass and Katie McGee. Vida Hazzard can see her future: aboard the heralded ?Millionaire?s Ship of the West,? she?ll charm the young scion Fitzhugh Farrar, resulting in a proposal of marriage. But Vida didn?t plan on Fitz?s best friend Sal, a rough-around-the-edges boy with a talent for getting under...
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Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Now: When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once mentioned the family she left behind when she moved to America after World War II. With the help of Paul, a charming Parisian student, she sets out to uncover the truth. However,...