January 2021 list by L. Buehler
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Breathless
by Jennifer Niven
When her college ambitions are upended by her father’s sudden abandonment, an aspiring writer relocates with her mother to a mosquito-infested island off the coast of Georgia, where her efforts to rebuild are complicated by a local photographer’s complicated secret.
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Don't Ask Me Where I'm From
by Jennifer De Leon
Reinventing herself at a privileged white suburban high school to get by in the face of escalating racial tensions, a first-generation American-LatinX teen is forced to take a stand when she discovers that her absent father cannot legally return home.
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Elatsoe
by Darcie Little Badger
Imagine an America very similar to our own. This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples. Elatsoe lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry.
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The Henna Wars
by Adiba Jaigirdar
When Nishat, an Irish girl of Bengali heritage, sees her old friend Flávia again, she feels attracted, but when they both enter a school contest as henna artists, their feelings for each other become more complicated.
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Heroine
by Mindy McGinnis
Determined to see her softball team through a historic tournament run despite severe injuries, Mickey Catalan is prescribed painkillers that initially help, before high pressure leads to an out-of-control addiction.
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Poisoned
by Jennifer Donnelly
When her heart is stolen by a huntsman amid whispers that she is too kind and naïve to rule, a princess with beautiful red lips, white skin and black hair survives with the help of seven mysterious strangers before finding the courage to reclaim her destiny.
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Reverie
by Ryan La Sala
While recovering from an attack that leaves him without his memory, gay teenager Kane Montgomery stumbles into a world where dreams known as reveries take on a life of their own, and it is up to Kane and a few unlikely allies to stop them before they spillover into the waking world.
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Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Separated from her mother in the years following a painful ICE raid, Sia drives into the desert and lights prayerful candles on every new moon before an astonishing night when her mother emerges from a blue spacecraft that crashes in front of her car.
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Where Dreams Descend
by Janella Angeles
A star showgirl endeavors to win a high-risk magician’s competition in order to secure her freedom, an effort that is complicated by an enigmatic circus keeper and a brooding judge with a dark past.
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