January 2017 list by Shelly Ward
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Beauty And The Beast: Lost In A Book
by Jennifer Donnelly
Belle finds an enchanted book in the Beast's library called Nevermore that carries her into a glittering new world. Good stories take hold of us and never let us go, and once Belle becomes lost in this book, she may never find her way out.
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Blood Red Snow White
by Marcus Sedgwick
Leaving his unhappy marriage in England to work as a journalist in Russia, Arthur Ransome finds himself at the center of the revolution. He is suspected of being a spy by both sides who seek to use him for their own purposes.
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Caraval
by Stephanie Garber
Whatever you've heard about Caraval, it doesn't compare to the reality. It's more than just a game or a performance. It's the closest you'll ever find to magic in this world.
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Carve The Mark
by Veronica Roth
Living on a violent planet where everyone manifests a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from opposing countries, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.
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Children of Eden
by Joey Graceffa
As an illegal second child hiding from the world and living vicariously through her twin brother, Rowan makes a reckless decision to go out into the world for one night of adventure and becomes a renegade on the run.
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The Door That Led To Where
by Sally Gardner
Accepting a legal clerk position after failing out of school, AJ receives an old key labeled with his birth date before discovering a portal to the past, where he and his scrappy friends investigate a 200-year-old crime.
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The Edge of Everything
by Jeff Giles
It's been a shattering year for seventeen-year-old Zoe, who's still reeling from her father's shocking death and her neighbors' mysterious disappearance. Then on a cold night in Montana, she and her brother are brutally attacked in the woods--only to be rescued by a mysterious bounty hunter they call X.
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Four-Four-Two
by Dean Hughes
Follows the experiences of a young Japanese-American soldier who confronts dangerous conditions in his segregated regiment while his family endures life in an internment camp.
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Frail Human Heart
by Zo Marriott
Crushed by the defeat of the Shikome, Mio has little time to grieve with the final battle between two gods coming to a head and London being their battlefield.
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Gap Life
by John Coy
Deciding to take a gap year between high school and college due to feeling that his parents' expectations about education and a medical career are not right for him, Cray befriends Rayne, a girl also taking a gap year, who helps him find a job.
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Holding Up The Universe
by Jennifer Niven
Struggling to pick up the pieces of her life after her mother's death and ostracized by her peers because of her weight, Libby is tangled up in a cruel high school game with a charismatic boy whose disability prevents him from recognizing faces.
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Illusion
by Martina Boone
Barrie must rescue her beloved and her family from evil spirits that cursed Watson Island centuries ago.
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Last Seen Leaving
by Caleb Roehrig
Becoming a prime suspect when his girlfriend disappears after a night spent together, Flynn struggles to uncover the truth without revealing his own dangerous secrets. A first novel.
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A List Of Cages
by Robin Roe
When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he's got it made. Then the doctor asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers that the boy is Julian--the foster brother he hasn't seen in five years.
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The Lost Property Office
by James R Hannibal
Possessing an unusual talent for finding lost things, 13-year-old London youth Jack searches for his missing father, a member of a secret society of detectives for the Crown being targeted by a greedy Clockmaker who seeks to obtain a powerful relic.
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Mind Games
by Heather Petty
In modern-day London, sixteen-year-old Miss James "Mori" Moriarty and classmate Sherlock Holmes set out to discover who is framing Mori for the Regent's Park killings.
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The Reader
by Traci Chee
Fleeing into the wilderness after her father's brutal murder, Sefia learns how to hunt, track and steal in order to survive before embarking on a quest to rescue the beloved aunt who is her mentor, an effort that is shaped by a magnificent book.
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A Shadow Bright And Burning
by Jessica Cluess
Forced to reveal her powers of spontaneous combustion in order to save a friend, Henrietta, a first female supernatural in centuries, is invited to train as one of Her Majesty's secretive royal sorcerers in fulfillment of a prophecy.
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Wayfarer
by Alexandra Bracken
Robbed of the powerful object she needed to save her mother, traveler Etta is stranded far from home and the privateer she loves before resolving to destroy the astrolabe, a mission that is challenged by a shattering revelation.
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Windwitch
by Susan Dennard
A follow-up to Truthwitch finds privateer, prince and windwitch Merik struggling to outmaneuver a shadow man who haunts the Nubrevnan streets, murdering innocents before turning his victims into undead minions.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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