January 2019 list by K. Pearson
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The Afterlife of Holly Chase
by Cynthia Hand
On Christmas Eve five years ago, seventeen-year-old Holly Chase was visited by three Ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she’d become. They tried to convince her to mend her ways. She didn’t. And then she died.
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The Bigfoot Files
by Lindsay Eagar
Sharing her cryptozoologist mother's obsession with tracking down mythical monsters, 12-year-old Miranda starts to question her priorities in the wake of friendship estrangements, slipping grades and unpaid household bills, before a last reluctant monster hunt goes terribly wrong.
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The Brilliant Death
by Amy Rose Capetta
Using her out-of-control transformative powers to eliminate her Mafia family's enemies, Teodora disguises herself as a boy and travels across the mountains in search of a wise shapeshifter who can teach her how to control her powers and defeat her nation's corrupt ruler.
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Call of the Last Survivor: An Unofficial Fortnite Novel
by Ken A. Moore
Of all the squads in what remains of the known world―that is, after the onset of “The Storm” and the mysterious zombie hordes that came with it―no squad has a reputation like Squad #43! Helmed by the valiant Mikaleh (a mighty Soldier) and her sidekick Janet (a stalwart and even-tempered Constructor), they’re known across the multiverse of servers as the deadliest dispatchers of Mist Monsters and Husks in all the land.
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Exit Plans For Teenage Freaks
by 'nathan Burgoine
Being the kid abducted by old Ms. Easton when he was four permanently set Cole’s status to freak. At seventeen, his exit plan is simple: make it through the last few weeks of high school with his grades up and his head down.
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The Girl With the Broken Heart
by Lurlene McDaniel
An inspirational story about love, tragedy, heartbreak, and renewal as a young woman deals with her serious health issues, a fractured family life, and the prospect of romantic love while trying to remain focused on her studies and a lifelong dream.
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The Incredible True Story Of the Making Of the Eve of Destruction
by Amy Brashear
A nuclear missile silo community in 1984 Arkansas is thrown into chaos when a Hollywood director chooses the town as the site for a nuclear holocaust production, prompting the daughter of an absent Strategic Air Command officer to investigate a catastrophic detonation.
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The Infinite Pieces Of Us
by Rebekah Crane
Esther Ainsworth, a mathematics whiz who has been exiled to a small New Mexico community by her father to erase a big secret from her past, struggles to forget her first love and make friends with people who will accept her.
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It's Only the End Of the World
by J. A. Henderson
Charlie thinks he has a pretty normal life until a girl with a bossy A.I. attached to her brain stem reveals his parents are radical computer hackers and he must help her prevent the end of the world by the hands of an evil corporation.
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The Light Between Worlds
by Laura E. Weymouth
Six years ago, sisters Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell were swept away to a strange and beautiful kingdom called the Woodlands, where they lived for years. But ever since they returned to their lives in post-WWII England, they have struggled to adjust. Ev desperately wants to return to the Woodlands, and Philippa just wants to move on. When Ev goes missing, Philippa must confront the depth of her sister’s despair and the painful truths they’ve been running from.
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Paper Girl
by Cindy R. Wilson
I haven’t left my house in over a year. My doctor says it’s social anxiety, but I know the only things that are safe are made of paper. My room is paper. My world is paper. Everything outside is fire. All it would take is one spark for me to burst into flames. So I stay inside. Where nothing can touch me.
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Phantom Wheel: a Hackers Novel
by Tracy Deebs
Believing they are being recruited by the CIA, a group of teen hackers are prompted to take a hacking aptitude test, which one of the group refuses to take and reveals that the group has, in fact, been tricked into creating the world's most devastating virus. By the award-winning author of Doomed.
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Queer As a Five-Dollar Bill
by Lee Wind
What if you knew a secret from history that could change the world? Wyatt is fifteen, and nobody in his homophobic small town of Lincolnville, Oregon, knows that he's Gay. Not even his best friend (and accidental girlfriend) Mackenzie. Then he discovers a secret from actual history: Abraham Lincoln was in love with another guy!
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The Resolutions
by Mia Garcia
Growing apart as their senior year approaches, four longtime friends adapt their annual New Year's tradition by making dare-oriented resolutions for each other that test their bonds and compel them to consider alternative life paths.
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Shatter the Suns
by Caitlin Sangster
Sev must decode her mother's last words to find the cure to Sleeping Sickness before Dr. Yang can use it to blackmail people into submitting to his rule.
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Strange Days
by Constantine J. Singer
Alex Mata doesn't want to worry about rumors of alien incursions--he'd rather just skate and tag and play guitar. But when he comes home to find an alien has murdered his parents, he's forced to confront a new reality: aliens are real, his parents are dead, and nobody will believe him if he tells. On the run, Alex finds himself led to the compound of tech guru Jeffrey Sabazios, the only public figure who stands firm in his belief that aliens are coming.
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This Cruel Design
by Emily Suvada
Cat reluctantly teams up with an enemy to correct a flawed vaccine before the Hydra virus spirals out of control, an effort that is complicated by revelations about Cat's past.
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The Wren Hunt
by Mary Watson
When the ancient magic once controlled by her family is usurped by the destructive Judges, Wren embarks on a dangerous undercover assignment among her enemies and finds her efforts to save her people complicated by her growing love for the wrong person.
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