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All the bright places
by Jennifer Niven
Meeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world
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Before I fall
by Lauren Oliver
After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha Kingston relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself. 75,000 first printing.
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Bone Gap
by Laura Ruby
Treated as an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, Finn is the only witness to an abduction, but his inability to distinguish between faces hampers his ability to help with the investigation and subjects Finn to further ridicule
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Burnout
by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Months after coming out of alcohol and drug rehab, high school student Nan wakes up on the subway the day after Halloween with short hair, a torn Halloween costume, the words "Help me" on her chest, and no idea how she got there
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The cellar
by Natasha Preston
For months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet
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Compulsion
by Heidi Ayarbe
Poised to lead his high school soccer team to its third straight state championship, 17-year-old star player Jake Martin struggles to keep hidden his nearly debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Denton Little's deathdate
by Lance Rubin
A tale set in a world where everyone knows the day on which they will die finds Denton preparing for his imminent demise and wondering about a mysterious purple rash before a stranger's warning raises suspicions about shady government characters. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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The diviners
by Libba Bray
The award-winning author of Beauty Queens presents an evocative mystery in New York City of the Roaring 20s, where Evie O'Neill immerses herself in the world of glamorous Ziegfield girls and speakeasies before helping her uncle, a folklore museum curator, solve a rash of occult-based murders.
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Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
A first young adult novel by the author of Attachments follows the year-long, star-crossed romance between two 1980s high school misfits whose intelligence tells them that first loves almost never last but whose feelings prevent them from remaining as practical.
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Game : The Sequel to "I Hunt Killers"
by Barry Lyga
After solving a deadly case in the small town of Lobo's Nod, seventeen-year-old Jazz, the son of history's most infamous serial murderer, travels to New York City to help the police track down the Hat-Dog Killer
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Hate list
by Jennifer Brown
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain
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Oblivion
by Sasha Dawn
Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.
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Paper towns
by John Green
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
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Salt to the sea : a novel
by Ruta Sepetys
Frantically racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive. By the award-winning author of Out of the Easy. Simultaneous eBook.
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Six of crows
by Leigh Bardugo
Offered a chance to participate in a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams, criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker recruits a team of talented associates to organize a plot that is threatened by their mutual enmity. Simultaneous eBook.
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The storyteller : a novel
by Jodi Picoult
Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who's particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs--and to wonder if his request would be murder or justice.
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Trust me, I'm lying
by Mary Elizabeth Summer
Orchestrating petty scams at an exclusive Chicago private school where her grifter father would have her mingle with the privileged elite, Julep teams up with a hacker sidekick and her school's most popular boy to rescue her father when he disappears.
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We were liars
by E. Lockhart
A modern, sophisticated suspense tale by the National Book Award finalist author of The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks follows the revolutionary activities of four friends who turn against each other in the wake of trauma, differing political views and a devastating secret.
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Bubonic panic : when plague invaded America
by Gail Jarrow
Traces the efforts of doctors to halt the spread of the plague during the 1900 outbreak in San Francisco, discussing how political leaders tried to keep the epidemic from being publicized and the scientists working to unlock the secrets of the disease
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Defiance
by Nechama Tec
Chronicles the activities of a group of Jewish partisans in Belorussia during World War II, who were responsible for the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews
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Red madness : how a medical mystery changed what we eat
by Gail Jarrow
One hundred years ago, a mysterious and alarming illness spread across America's South, striking tens of thousands of victims. No one knew what caused it or how to treat it. People were left weak, disfigured, insane, and in some cases, dead. Award winning science and history writer Gail Jarrow tracks this disease, commonly known as pellagra, and highlights how doctors, scientists, and public health officials finally defeated it. Illustrated with 100 archival photographs, Red Madness includes stories about real life pellagra victims and accounts of scientific investigations.
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Truce : The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
by Jim Murphy
With World War I raging on the battlefields of Europe, an unexpected and miraculous event unfolded one Christmas evening; in defiance of their commanding officers' orders, a truce was declared by soldiers on opposing sides, who stopped fighting to engage in a spontaneous Christmas celebration with their "enemies." By a two-time Newbery Honor-winning author.
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