April 2021 list by L. Buehler
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Counting Down With You
by Tashie Bhuiyan
Karina Ahmed has a plan. Keep her head down, get through high school without a fuss, and follow her parents' rules, even if it means sacrificing her dreams. When her parents go abroad to Bangladesh for four weeks, Karina expects some peace and quiet. Instead, one simple lie unravels everything. Tutoring the school's resident bad boy was already crossing a line. Pretending to date him? Out of the question. But Ace Clyde does everything right, he brings her coffee in the mornings, impresses her friends without trying, and even promises to buy her a dozen books (a week) if she goes along with his fake-dating facade. Though Karina agrees, she can't help but start counting down the days until her parents come back. T-minus twenty-eight days until everything returns to normal, but what if Karina no longer wants it to?
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Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
by Joya Goffney
Quinn keeps lists of everything, from the days she’s ugly cried, to 'Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud' and all the boys she’d like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. By writing her fears on paper, she never has to face them in real life. That is, until her journal goes missing. Then an anonymous account posts one of her lists on Instagram for the whole school to see and blackmails her into facing seven of her greatest fears, or else her entire journal will go public. Quinn doesn’t know who to trust. Desperate, she teams up with Carter Bennett, the last known person to have her journal, in a race against time to track down the blackmailer. Together, they journey through everything Quinn’s been too afraid to face, and along the way, Quinn finds the courage to be honest, to live in the moment, and to fall in love.
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Infinity Reaper
by Adam Silvera
A follow-up to Infinity Son finds Emil investigating a past he wants to escape to find an antidote to the Reaper’s Blood that is killing Brighton, while Maribelle’s thirst for revenge compels her down a dangerous path.
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Kate in Waiting
by Becky Albertalli
Contrary to popular belief, best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker are not codependent. But when Kate and Andy’s latest long-distance crush shows up at their school, everything goes off-script. Matt Olsson is talented and sweet, and Kate likes him. She really likes him. The only problem? So does Anderson.
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Last Chance Books
by Kelsey Rodkey
Nothing will stop Madeline Moore from taking over her family’s independent bookstore after college. Nothing, that is, until a chain bookstore called Prologue opens across the street and threatens to shut them down. Madeline sets out to demolish the competition, but the guy who works over at Prologue seems intent on ruining her life. Not only is he taking her customers, he has the unbelievable audacity to be, extremely cute. But that doesn’t matter. Jasper is the enemy and he will be destroyed. After all, all’s fair in love and (book) war.
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Mirror's Edge
by Scott Westerfeld
Disguising themselves to infiltrate the city of her birth, Frey and her beloved Col find their efforts to safeguard honorable leadership in Shreve complicated by the hidden agenda of Frey’s twin, Rafi.
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The Serpent's Curse
by Lisa Maxwell
Separated while tracking down the elemental stones needed to stop the angry goddess Seshat, Esta and Harte become stranded on opposite ends of a continent before finding themselves confronted by an adversary beyond their imagining.
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Tokyo Ever After
by Emiko Jean
Discovering in her senior year of high school that the father she has never met is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izzy is introduced to the realities of being a princess while trying to understand conniving relatives, a hungry press, a handsome bodyguard and thousands of years of tradition.
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Wings of Ebony
by J. Elle
Taken away from her Houston neighborhood by the father she never knew in the aftermath of her mother’s murder, a Black teen arrives on a hidden island of magic, where she discovers her half-god identity and responsibility in helping protect the mortal and immortal worlds.
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