January 2019 list by L. Buehler
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A Blade So Black
by L. L. McKinney
By day, Alice juggles a slipping GPA, a high-maintenance best friend, and an overprotective mom, but by night she heads to the dark realm known as Wonderland to battle monstrous creatures to save her mentor.
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City of Saints and Thieves
by Natalie C. Anderson
Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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Damsel
by Elana K Arnold
Required to slay a dragon and rescue a damsel to be his bride in order to inherit, a crown prince astonishs the girl of his choice, who has no memory of her capture by a dragon and who discovers unsettling truths about the legends shaping their lives.
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How to Hang a Witch
by Adriana Mather
After moving to Salem, Samantha Mather, a descendent of witch-hunter Cotton Mather, finds herself bullied by a group of students at her new school who are claiming to be descendants of the Salem Witch trial victims.
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OtherEarth
by Jason Segel
After discovering terrifying information about Otherworld, the Company's high-tech VR gaming experience, Simon and his friends are on the run, searching for Simon's old roommate. He may just be the key to shutting the Company down, although if they don't find him in time, it may be too late for not only them, but for all of humanity.
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People Like Us
by Dana Mele
When a girl is found dead at her elite boarding school, soccer-star Kay Donovan follows a scavenger hunt which implicates suspects increasingly close to her, unraveling her group of popular friends and perfectly constructed life.
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The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
The daughter of devout immigrants discovers the power of slam poetry and begins participating in a school club as part of her effort to understand her mother's strict religious beliefs and her own developing relationship to the world.
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The Safest Lies
by Megan Miranda
Living in hiding with a mother who has been a shut-in after a traumatic incident that led to her conception, Kelsey finds herself the subject of media coverage in the aftermath of a dramatic accident that coincides with her mother's disappearance.
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