August 2020 list by K. Pearson
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10 Things I Hate About Pinky
by Sandhya Menon
A latest entry in the series that includes There’s Something About Sweetie finds Ashish’s friends, Pinky and Samir, pretending to date each other to achieve respective goals during a Cape Cod summer, with disastrously uproarious results.
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All Eyes on Her
by L. E. Flynn
You heard the story on the news. A girl and a boy went into the woods. The girl carried a picnic basket. The boy wore bright yellow running shoes. The girl found her way out, but the boy never did…Everyone thinks they know what happened. Some say Tabby pushed him off that cliff― she didn’t even like hiking. She was jealous. She had more than her share of demons. Others think he fell accidentally―she loved Mark. She would never hurt him…even if he hurt her. But what's the real story?
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Being Toffee
by Sarah Crossan
Escaping her abusive home and moving into an abandoned house with an elderly dementia patient who mistakes her for someone else, Allison plays along before realizing how much the woman needs safe professional care.
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Burn Our Bodies Down
by Rory Power
Growing up alongside a mother who refuses to speak about the past, a teen who longs for a family discovers a photograph that leads to her mother’s hometown, where she encounters disturbing revelations.
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Chasing Starlight
by Teri Bailey Black
1938. The Golden Age of Hollywood. Palm trees and movie stars. Film studios pumping out musicals and gangster films at a furious pace. Everyone wants to be a star―except society girl and aspiring astronomer Kate Hildebrand. She’s already famous after a childhood tragedy turned her into a newspaper headline. What she craves now is stability.
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Court of Lions: A Mirage Novel
by Somaiya Daud
A conclusion to the duology that began with Mirage finds an isolated but capricious Amani risking charges of treason while Maram approaches her marriage to Idris under the condition that she must help hide Amani’s rebel associations.
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Dress Coded
by Carrie Firestone
Fed up with sexist dress codes and unfair conduct standards at a school where girls’ bodies are considered a distraction, Molly starts a podcast to protest the school’s disciplinary inequality before her small rebellion swells into a full-blown empowerment revolution.
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The Faithless Hawk
by Margaret Owen
When a leader’s death launches a ruthless bid for the throne by Queen Rhusana, chieftain Fie investigates a prophecy about a protective god to safeguard her fellow Crows against false allegations that blame them for a deadly plague.
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Ikenga
by Nnedi Okorafor
Nnamdi's father was a good chief of police, perhaps the best Kalaria had ever had. He was determined to root out the criminals that had invaded the town. But then he was murdered. Nnamdi has vowed to avenge his father, but he wonders what a twelve-year-old boy can do. Until a mysterious nighttime meeting, the gift of a magical object that enables super powers, and a charge to use those powers for good changes his life forever. How can he fulfill his mission?
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The Peasant's Dream
by Melanie Dickerson
A reverse Cinderella tale follows the experiences of a poor farmer’s son who uses his talents as a woodcarver to help support his family before falling in love with a sweet and beautiful girl he does not recognize, only to become entangled in a royal kidnapping plot.
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Set Fire to the Gods
by Sara Raasch
The daughter of a family of gladiators and a street fighter who possesses a rare elemental gift are forced to choose between loyalties when a revenge plot gone wrong inadvertently triggers a deadly conflict between their world’s elemental gods.
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The Shadow of Kyoshi
by F. C. Yee
Kyoshi’s place as the true Avatar has finally been cemented—but at a heavy cost. With her mentors gone, Kyoshi voyages across the Four Nations, struggling to keep the peace. But while her reputation grows, a mysterious threat emerges from the Spirit World. To stop it, Kyoshi, Rangi, and their reluctant allies must join forces before the Four Nations are destroyed irreparably.
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This Is My America
by Kim Johnson
Sending weekly letters to an organization she hopes will save her innocent father from death row, 17-year-old Tracy uncovers racist community secrets when her track star brother is wrongly accused of murder.
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Today Tonight Tomorrow
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
A bitter rivalry between two overachieving high school seniors erupts after one of them is named valedictorian on a day that finds them unexpectedly teaming up and falling for each other while competing against their fellow graduates during a farewell tour of Seattle.
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The Unleashed
by Danielle Vega
After everything that went down at Steele House, Hendricks just wants her life to return to normal. Prom is coming up and the school is in full preparation mode. Hendricks tries to pitch in, to mimic her best friend Portia's enthusiasm, but the events of the last few months still haunt her. Steele House. Raven. Eddie.
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Unravel the dusk
by Elizabeth Lim
A sequel to Spin the Dawn finds a heartbroken Maia returning to a kingdom on the brink of war, where she is forced to help keep the peace by impersonating the emperor’s bride-to-be in her hand-sewn dress of the sun, a deception that is complicated by her evolving demonic nature.
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The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope
by Sam Maggs
An original novel based on the world of Marvel comics series The Unstoppable Wasp finds Nadia Van Dyne leaving her work in the hands of a too-good-to-be-true A.I. sidekick before confronting illuminating realities about her own past.
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Vicious Spirits
by Kat Cho
A companion to Wicked Fox finds Miyoung and Jihoon’s efforts to start over in the wake of devastating losses supported by Somin and Junu, before Miyoung’s progressive illness forces them to consider a dangerous sacrifice.
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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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You're Next
by Kylie Schachte
Haunted by the unsolved murder of a classmate whose body she discovered, a teen with a reputation for nosiness witnesses the death of a former flame before uncovering a shocking conspiracy that puts her loved ones in mortal danger.
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