November 2019 list by B. Goodman
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500 Words or Less
by Juleah Del Rosario
High school senior Nic, seventeen, tries to salvage her tattered reputation by helping her Ivy League-obsessed classmates with college admission essays and finds herself in the process.
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Angel Mage
by Garth Nix
More than a century has passed since Liliath crept into the empty sarcophagus of Saint Marguerite, fleeing the Fall of Ystara. But she emerges from her magical sleep still beautiful, looking no more than nineteen, and once again renews her single-minded quest to be united with her lover, Palleniel, the archangel of Ystara. It's a seemingly impossible quest, but Liliath is one of the greatest practitioners of angelic magic to have ever lived, summoning angels and forcing them to do her bidding.
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The Athena Protocol
by Shamim Sarif
As a member of the Athena Protocol, an elite organization of female spies who enact vigilante justice around the world but are prohibited from using deadly force, Jessie Archer is forced to go rogue after breaking the rules and must fight not only a dangerous human trafficker she’s been hunting but also members of her former team who have been ordered to bring her down.
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The Beautiful
by Renée Ahdieh
In 19th century New Orleans, Celine, a dressmaker from Paris, becomes embroiled in a murder mystery that's connected to a glamorous supernatural cohort.
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Crier's War
by Nina Varela
An elite Automae who has discovered that she possesses a feared human emotion and a human girl seeking to avenge the death of her family forge an unexpected relationship that becomes a catalyst for war.
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Cursed
by Frank Miller
Nimue grew up an outcast. Her connection to dark magic made her something to be feared in her Druid village, and that made her desperate to leave. That is, until Red Paladins slaughter her entire village, and Nimue's fate is forever altered. Charged by her dying mother to reunite an ancient sword with a legendary sorcerer, Nimue is now her people's only hope.
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The Good Luck Girls
by Charlotte Davis
The country of Arketta calls them Good Luck Girls—they know their luck is anything but. Sold to a "welcome house" as children and branded with cursed markings. Trapped in a life they would never have chosen. When Clementine accidentally murders a man, the girls risk a dangerous escape and harrowing journey to find freedom, justice, and revenge in a country that wants them to have none of those things. Pursued by Arketta's most vicious and powerful forces, both human and inhuman, their only hope lies in a bedtime story passed from one Good Luck Girl to another, a story that only the youngest or most desperate would ever believe. It's going to take more than luck for them all to survive.
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The Grace Year
by Kim Liggett
Dreaming of a life outside the strict society that criminalizes teen girls and banishes them into the wild to be “purified,” 16-year-old Tierney discovers that many of the banished girls are being poached and sold on the black market.
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The Library of Lost Things
by Laura Taylor Namey
Escaping into books to cope with her mother’s hoarding disorder, literary genius Darcy Wells faces the loss of the only home she has ever known and considers confiding in a former teen pilot, who is navigating his own diminishing prospects.
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Now Entering Addamsville
by Francesca Zappia
Zora Novak is framed for a crime she didn't commit--in a town obsessed with ghosts, will she be able to find the culprit and clear her name before it's too late?
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Scars Like Wings
by Erin Stewart
A year after the fire that destroyed Ava Lee's world, her aunt and uncle have decided she should go back to high school. Be "normal" again. Whatever that is. Ava knows better. There is no normal for someone like her. And forget making friends—no one wants to be seen with the Burned Girl. But when Ava meets a fellow survivor named Piper, she begins to feel like maybe she doesn't have to face the nightmare alone.
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The Speed of Falling Objects
by Nancy Richardson Fischer
Danny Warren is no stranger to falling. After losing an eye in a childhood accident, she had to relearn her perception of movement and space. Now Danny keeps her head down, studies hard, and works to fulfill everyone else's needs. When her dad calls with an offer to join him to film the next episode of his popular survivalist show, Danny jumps at the chance to prove she's not the disappointment he left behind. But when their small plane crashes in the Amazon, and a terrible secret is revealed, Danny must find her own inner strength to light the way home.
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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
by Laura Ruby
Abandoned in a Depression-era Chicago orphanage with her sister, a young woman endures injustice, poverty and violence while struggling to survive in the years leading up to World War II.
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Tarnished Are the Stars
by Rosiee Thor
A secret beats inside Anna Thatcher's chest: An illegal clockwork heart. Anna works cog by cog—donning the moniker Technician—to supply black market medical technology to the sick and injured, against the Commissioner's tyrannical laws. Nathaniel Fremont, the Commissioner's son, has never had to fear the law. Determined to earn his father's respect, Nathaniel sets out to capture the Technician. But the more he learns about the outlaw, the more he questions whether his father's elusive affection is worth chasing at all.
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