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All involved
by Ryan Gattis
A tale set against the backdrop of the 1992 race riots triggered by the Rodney King trial acquittal details a series of murders committed outside of the active rioting zones by gang members who would use the chaos to settle old scores. 150,000 first printing.
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Between the world and me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Told through the author's own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of his life comes a bold and personal investigation into America's racial history and its contemporary echoes.
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Bones & all
by Camille DeAngelis
A young outcast abandoned by her mother embarks on a journey to find her long-lost father in the hopes of learning the truth about her cannibalistic impulses, a shameful obsession that has forced her to relocate multiple times.
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Futuristic violence and fancy suits
by David Wong
Reluctantly traveling to the city in a violent near-future, a recent college grad learns that her late estranged father was the head of a superhero negotiator organization that has been fighting a surreal mob and its self-proclaimed mastermind leader. By the author of This Book Is Full for Spiders.
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Girl at war : a novel
by Sara Novi
When her happy life in 1991 Croatia is shattered by civil war, 10-year-old Ana Juric is embroiled in a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers before making a daring escape to America, where years later she struggles to hide her past. A first novel.
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Half the world
by Joe Abercrombie
Fifteen-year-old girl soldier Thorn learns the ways of war in the king's army while falling in love for the first time. By the New York Times best-selling author of Half a King.
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Humans of New York : stories
by Brandon Stanton
A follow-up to the best-selling Humans of New York shares the frank and intimate human stories of some of the individuals depicted in the author's acclaimed photographic census.
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Sacred heart
by Liz Suburbia
The children of Alexandria are just trying to live like normal teens, and Ben Schiller is no exception. But her relationship with her best friend is changing, her sister is hiding a dark secret, and tragedy looms. Also: where are all the parents?
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The unraveling of Mercy Louis : a novel
by Keija Parssinen
A superstitious oil town in Texas is sent into a tailspin when the star player of their championship girls' basketball team mysteriously collapses on the season's opening night and is followed by other girls who seem to suffer from the same peculiar condition. 25,000 first printing.
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Armada : a novel
by Ernest Cline
Struggling to complete his final month of high school only to glimpse a UFO that exactly resembles an enemy ship from his favorite video game, Zack Lightman questions his sanity before becoming one of millions of gamers tasked with protecting the Earth during an alien invasion. By the best-selling author of Ready Player One.
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Bohemian gospel : a novel
by Dana Chamblee Carpenter
In 13th-century Bohemia, a girl named Mouse, who was born with unnatural senses and an uncanny intellect, breaks church law to save the wounded King Ottakar and then agrees to accompany him back to Prague as his personal healer.
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Boo : a novel
by Neil Smith
A misfit victim of a school shooter lands in an afterlife exclusively for 13-year-olds, where he finds unexpected happiness and friendship with a boy who appears to be another victim of the same shooter. By the author of Bang Crunch. Original.
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The book of Aron
by Jim Shepard
Aron and a handful of boys and girls in the Warsaw Ghetto smuggle and trade things through the "quarantine walls" to keep their people alive until he is rescued by a Jewish-Polish doctor and advocate of children's rights who instills within him the importance of letting the world know the atrocities they have all suffered at the hands of the enemy.
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A darker shade of magic
by Victoria Schwab
Serving as an ambassador of his own world while carrying messages to parallel-universe Londons with respective magical abilities and conflicts, Kell hides his secret smuggling activities only to be set up with a forbidden object from a dark dimension. By the author of The Near Witch.
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Finders keepers : a novel
by Stephen King
A follow-up to Mr. Mercedes follows the experiences of an irate fan whose obsession with a reclusive writer leads to an act of violence, the discovery of a hidden manuscript decades later and a young boy's desperate struggle for survival. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author.
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The fire sermon : a novel
by Francesca Haig
In a world turned primitive following a nuclear fire, every person is born with a twin and of each pair, one is an Alpha, perfect in every way, and the other is an Omega, burdened with a deformity that makes them ostracized; and psychic Cass, a rare Omega, dares to envision a world of equality.
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The fold
by Peter Clines
Despite the secret gifts he was born with, Marco Leland is content to live a quiet life in a small New England town, until an old government friend tells him that DARPA scientists have invented a device that could make teleportation a reality; but the scientists that are working on the device are changing, people are dying and reality itself seems to be ... warping.
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Girl underwater
by Claire Kells
After her plane crashes into a mountain lake, 19-year-old competitive college swimmer Avery Delacorte, one of only five survivors, must rely on her teammate Colin Shea in ways she never thought possible to survive sub-zero temperatures, minimal supplies and the dangerous wilderness.
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The girl who slept with God
by Val Brelinski
When the moral-minded eldest daughter of a 1970s Idaho family returns from a missionary trip and claims she is pregnant with God's child, her strong-willed sister and she bond with fellow outcasts while awaiting the birth. Readers-group guide online. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.
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A head full of ghosts
by Paul Tremblay
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when 14-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of what at first seems to be acute schizophrenia, a condition which only gets worse, leading them to believe it's actually demonic possession, as they become the center of a reality TV show. 75,000 first printing.
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Karen Memory
by Elizabeth Bear
A tale set in late 19th-century steampunk Seattle finds orphaned Karen working in a high-quality bordello, where she confronts a powerful man who owns a dangerous mind-control machine. By the Hugo Award-winning author of Shattered Pillars.
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Martin Marten
by Brian Doyle
A high school freshman, Dave, thinks about his future and impending adulthood and setting off on his own and crosses paths with an adolescent pine marten, named Martin, who is also leaving his family of small woodland creatures behind as he embarks on the unknown.
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Mort(e)
by Robert Repino
As a race of intelligent ants prepares to render the human race extinct, former housecat turned war hero Mort(e), while taking on the most dangerous missions, embarks on a dangerous journey to the heart of the Colony in search of his pre-transformation friend—a dog named Sheba. Original. $40,000 ad/promo.
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Mycroft Holmes : a novel
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Co-written by the NBA All-Star, an original novel starring the enigmatic brother of Sherlock Holmes follows the early partnership between Mycroft, a rising star in the government; and his best friend, Cyrus Douglas; as they investigate a series of murders in Trinidad.
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Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
by Irin Carmon
In a lively illustrated biography of the feminist icon and legal pioneer, readers can get to know the Supreme Court Justice and fierce Jewish grandmother, who has changed the world despite our struggle with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, standing as a testament to what a little chutzpah can do. 100,000 first printing.
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Our endless numbered days
by Claire Fuller
"Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. They repair the hut, bathe in water from the river, hunt and gather food in the summers and almost starve in the harsh winters. They mark their days only by the sun and the seasons. When Peggy finds a pair of boots in the forest and begins a search for their owner, she unwittingly unravels the series of events that brought her to the woods and, in doing so, discovers the strength she needs to go back to the home and mother she thought she'd lost. After Peggy's return to civilization, her mother begins to learn the truth of her escape, of what happened to James on the last night out in the woods, and of the secret that Peggy has carried with her ever since"
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Positive
by David Wellington
After testing positive for the zombie virus, Finnegan must wait out the incubation period in a special facility for people who are “positives,” but ends up in world where the zombies may be less dangerous than the humans. 50,000 first printing.
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Slade house : a novel
by David Mitchell
Follows the narrative of five different people who disappear through a mysterious door in an unassuming alleyway to visit the titular house and also vanish completely from the outside world. By the author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. 150,000 first printing.
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Sorcerer to the crown
by Zen Cho
While trying to discover why England's magical stocks are drying up, Zacharias Wythe, freed slave and Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers, meets an unusual woman whose power could alter the nature of sorcery in all of Britain.
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Speak : a novel
by Louisa Hall
Exploring the creation of artificial intelligence and illuminating the very human need for communication, connection and understanding, a thought-provoking novel is told from the perspectives of five very different people from different times and places. 40,000 first printing.
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Thing explainer : complicated stuff in simple words
by Randall Munroe
The New York Times best-selling author of What If? and the creator of the webcomic xkcd uses line drawings and common words to provide simple explanations for how things work, including microwaves, bridges, tectonic plates, helicopters and much more. 250,000 first printing.
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Updraft
by Fran Wilde
After accidentally breaking Tower Law, the Singers demand that Kirit become one of them, instead of passing her wingtest and becoming a Trader like her mother, in Spire, a city of living bone high above the clouds.
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Uprooted
by Naomi Novik
A tale inspired by the "Beauty and the Beast" story follows the experiences of Agnieszka, who becomes the latest girl chosen to serve an immortal wizard who protects their village from the malevolent forces of a nearby forest.
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The watchmaker of Filigree Street
by Natasha Pulley
When a strange watch saves his life, warning him of a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, telegraphist Thaniel Steepleton goes in search of its maker and meets Keita Mori, a Japanese immigrant who remembers the future, and soon Thaniel discovers that nothing in this world is certain.
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