February 2021 list by K. Pearson
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Be Dazzled
by Ryan La Sala
Raffy is determined to win a cosplay competition that could lead to art school admission and respect for his talent, but being paired with his main competitor, ex-boyfriend Luca, complicates things.
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A Complicated Love Story Set in Space
by Shaun David Hutchinson
Noa, DJ, and Jenny awake on a spaceship, unaware of how they got there or what is coming, but soon Noa and DJ are falling in love.
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Don't Tell a Soul
by Kirsten Miller
All Bram wanted was to disappear--from her old life, her family's past, and from the scandal that continues to haunt her. The only place left to go is Louth, the tiny town on the Hudson River where her uncle, James, has been renovating an old mansion.
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The Ever After: From the World of the Trylle
by Amanda Hocking
In the magical world of the Trylle, Ulla Tulin continues her search for family and discovering of secrets in the legendary First City, but is held hostage by the Alvolk and spends time trying to regain her memories.
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Every Single Lie
by Rachel Vincent
High school junior Beckett's life is turned upside-down when she discovers a dead baby in her small-town high school's locker room, and her police detective mother investigates while cyberbullies claim it is Beck's child.
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Girl on the Line
by Faith Gardner
Life’s tough when you didn’t expect to be living it. But now that Journey has a future, she apparently also has to figure out what that future’s supposed to look like.
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Glimpsed
by G. F. Miller
As eighteen-year-old high school Fairy Godmother Charity faces an existential crisis and blackmail from Noah, on whom she has a crush, she learns a great deal about her magic and herself.
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Happily Ever Afters
by Elise Bryant
essa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She’s rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she’s a true leading lady is in her own writing—in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend and #1 devoted reader.
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If I Tell You the Truth
by Jasmin Kaur
Kiran flees her home in Punjab for a fresh start in Canada after a sexual assault leaves her pregnant. But overstaying her visa and living undocumented brings its own perils for both her and her daughter, Sahaara.
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Into the Heartless Wood
by Joanna Ruth Meyer
Deep in the wood lives a witch queen and her eight tree siren daughters. For centuries, they have harvested souls to feed the heartless tree, using its power to grow their ever reaching kingdom of ash, birch, and oak.
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The Knockout
by Sajni Patel
When Kareena Thakkar finally admits she is a top-level Muay Thai fighter, knowing that might further alienate her from her Indian community, her classmates, especially handsome Amit, enthusiastically support her.
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The Meet-Cute Project
by Rhiannon Richardson
High school junior Mia, who hates romantic comedies, must endure the "meet-cute" encounters her best friends set up to help her find a date for her sister's wedding.
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Monsters Among Us
by Monica Rodden
When Catherine Ellers returns home after her first semester at college, she is seeking refuge from a night she can barely piece together, dreads remembering, and refuses to talk about. She tries to get back to normal, but just days later the murder of someone close to her tears away any illusion of safety.
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The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss
by Amy Noelle Parks
Evie Beckham has always been too occupied with her love of math and frequent battles with anxiety to want to date. Besides, she’s always found the idea of kissing to be kind of weird. But by senior year, thanks to therapy and her friends, she’s feeling braver than before. Maybe even brave enough to enter the national math and physics competition or flirt back with the new boy.
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Shadow City
by Francesca Flores
While Aina reluctantly conspires with her former criminal boss to prevent a corrupt general from returning to take over the government, she secretly learns to use blood magic to defeat both men, hoping to secure freedom for herself and her city.
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Siege of Rage and Ruin
by Django Wexler
Isoka and her crew of mage-bloods return to Kahnzoka with the legendary ghost ship, and join the rebellion helmed by her sister, Tori.
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Tales from the Hinterland
by Melissa Albert
Before The Hazel Wood, there was Althea Proserpine’s Tales from the Hinterland...Journey into the Hinterland, a brutal and beautiful world where a young woman spends a night with Death, brides are wed to a mysterious house in the trees, and an enchantress is killed twice―and still lives.
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This Will Be Funny Someday
by Katie Henry
Izzy is used to keeping her thoughts to herself—in school, where her boyfriend does the talking for her, and at home, where it’s impossible to compete with her older siblings and high-powered parents. When she mistakenly walks into a stand-up comedy club and performs, the experience is surprisingly cathartic.
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Unchosen
by Katharyn Blair
For Charlotte Holloway, the world ended twice. The first was when her childhood crush, Dean, fell in love—with her older sister. The second was when the Crimson, a curse spread through eye contact, turned the majority of humanity into flesh-eating monsters.
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We Free the Stars
by Hafsah Faizal
A conclusion to the duology that began with We Hunt the Flame finds Zafira, Nasir and Kifah navigating limited resources, reluctant allies and a fearful kingdom to finish a captive Altair’s plan to restore magic to all of Arawiya.
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Wench
by Maxine Kaplan
When Tanya's guardian dies, having lost her home and the tavern where she has spent most of her life, she sets out on a perilous quest to petition the queen for help.
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When You Look Like Us
by Pamela Harris
When you look like us—brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades—everyone else thinks you’re trouble. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must’ve brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister Nicole just got caught up with her boyfriend—a drug dealer—and his friends. But she’s been gone too long. Nic, where are you?
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Written in Starlight
by Isabel Ibañez
Catalina Quiroga is a condesa without a country. She’s lost the Inkasisa throne, the loyalty of her people, and her best friend. Banished to the perilous Yanu Jungle, Catalina knows her chances of survival are slim, but that won’t stop her from trying to escape. Her duty is to rule.
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You Have a Match
by Emma Lord
A new love, a secret sister, and a summer she'll never forget. A hilarious and heartfelt novel of romance, sisterhood, and friendship... When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it's mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone tree climber. Best friend to Leo and Connie.
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