July 2017 list by Shelly Ward
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Ash and Quill
by Rachel Caine
Imprisoned in Philadelphia after fleeing London, Jess and his band of exiles confront book-burning adversaries before striking a bargain to share their knowledge.
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Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy
by Ameriie
In this unique YA anthology, thirteen acclaimed, bestselling authors team up with thirteen influential BookTubers to reimagine fairy tales from the oft-misunderstood villains' points of view.
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Buried Heart
by Kate Elliott
Positioned at the heart of a revolution instigated by a Commoner class, Jessamy searches for a way to unite the warring classes in order to defend the land from enemy foreign attackers.
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Changes in Latitudes
by Jen Malone
Blaming her mother for her parents' recent divorce, Cassie makes summer plans to distance herself from her family only to find herself on a four-month sailing trip to Mexico with her mother and brother, a tense vacation is complicated by her attraction to a whip-smart deckhand.
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Coming Up for Air
by Miranda Kenneally
All of Maggie's focus and free time is spent swimming. She's not only striving to earn scholarships—she's training to qualify for the Olympics. It's not until Maggie's away on a college visit that she realizes how much of the "typical" high school experience she's missed by being in the pool.
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Daughter of the Burning City
by Amanda Foody
Coming of age within the smoldering borders of the Gomorrah Festival's traveling carnival of fantasy, Sorina uses her rare illusion-creating talents to create family members that she believes do not really exist, until one of them is murdered.
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First We Were IV
by Alexandra Sirowy
To cement their bond of friendship, four teens form a secret society devoted to perpetrating mischief that rights wrongs and pays back debts, but when their escapades gain unexpected attention, the friends discover that they will have to pay the ultimate price.
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I See London, I See France
by Sarah Mlynowski
Planning what she dreams will be the perfect European tour with her best friend, 19-year-old Sydney finds her vacation challenged by a cheating boyfriend, an unexpected crush and her mother's deteriorating mental health.
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Lucky In Love
by Kasie West
A diligent teen who believes more in hard work than luck astonishingly wins the lottery and is catapulted into a life of wealth and unwanted attention before she falls for a boy who does not seem to know about her circumstances.
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The Disappearances
by Emily Bain Murphy
Sent to live in a faraway rural community after their secretive mother's death, Aila and her younger brother are targeted by locals who blame their mother for a mysterious phenomenon.
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The Dragons of Nova
by Elise Kova
Cvareh returns home to his sky world of Nova with the genius crafter Arianna as his temperamental guest. The mercurial inventor possesses all the Xin family needs to turn the tides of a centuries-old power struggle, but the secrets she harbors must be earned with trust.
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The Ends Of The World
by Maggie Hall
Avery West and her friends must avert a deadly virus--and a murderous family set on ruling the world.
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The Library of Fates
by Aditi Khorana
A coming-of-age fantasy inspired by Indian folklore follows the efforts of a loving princess to sacrifice herself in marriage to a conquering emperor in order to protect her people only to be cast adrift alongside an enslaved oracle.
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The Last Magician
by Lisa Maxwell
Raised to steal magical artifacts from a sinister Order that traps her people in a magical New York, thief Esta uses her time-manipulating abilities to travel back to 1902 to steal an ancient spell book that a wizard plans to use to destroy all magic-wielding people.
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The Savage Dawn
by Melissa Grey
Challenged to master overwhelming powers after awakening the Firebird, Echo is pitted against a dark Dragon Prince who declares war.
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This Is How It Happened
by Paula Stokes
Waking up from a coma unable to remember the accident that has ended her near-famous boyfriend's life, Genevieve slowly pieces together the night's events, which have been blamed on another driver.
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Vanguard
by Ann Aguirre
A companion book to the best-selling trilogy reunites Deuce, Fade and Tegan as they embark on an epic voyage to help Szarok.
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Waste Of Space
by Gina Damico
Cast in a bogus reality show designed to emulate a space mission, 10 teens become subject to the drama and scrutiny of fame before their communication is severed and they are challenged to survive while trapped in a desert warehouse set.
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What Goes Up
by Katie Kennedy
Teenagers Rosa and Eddie, trainees in a top-secret space exploration and research program, must thwart the aliens' Earth-destroying mission by stealing their spacecraft and traveling extra-dimensionally to an alternate Earth.
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What To Say Next
by Julie Buxbaum
Distancing herself from her friends when she realizes that nobody she knows will understand the difficulties she is facing in the wake of her father's death, Kit impulsively sits at the lunch table beside longtime loner David.
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