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New YA Materials October 6, 2020
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Watch over me
by Nina LaCour
A follow-up to the award-winning We Are Okay finds a newly graduated Mila emerging from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents. Simultaneous eBook.
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Return of the Thief
by Megan Whalen Turner
A conclusion to the best-selling series finds high king Eugenides preparing to defend the Lesser Peninsula from an invasion by the ruthless Mede empire, an effort that is complicated by a prophecy that foretells a king’s death. 100,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Lightbringer
by Claire Legrand
"Two queens, separated by a thousand years, must face their ultimate destinies--a second chance for salvation, or the destruction their world has been dreading"
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Thoughts & prayers : a novel in three parts
by Bryan Bliss
Coping with trauma a year after a school shooting takes the lives of classmates and a teacher, three students who hid under the same staircase struggle to move on when the reporters leave and the news cycle shifts to another story. By the author of We’ll Fly Away. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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We are not free
by Traci Chee
Growing up together in the community of Japantown, San Francisco, four second-generation Japanese American teens find their bond tested by widespread discrimination and the mass incarcerations of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Skyhunter
by Marie Lu
Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for Mara, the only free nation in the world, but when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front to Mara's capital, Talin senses there is more to him than meets the eye
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Hush
by Dylan Farrow
Journeying to the home of her world’s magic wielders when her family members succumb to magical deaths, justice-seeking Shae accepts a High Lord offer to train as a magical Bard before a forbidden relationship leads to dangerous revelations. A first novel. 100,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Splinters of scarlet
by Emily Bain Murphy
Avoiding magical powers that create a deadly toxin in her blood with every use, Marit Olsen risks using the magic to secure a job in a wealthy household where her friend and fellow orphan, Eve, has been adopted under mysterious circumstances. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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