March 2018 list by S. Ward
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Blood Water Paint
by Joy McCullough
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women but is buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
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The Case For Jamie
by Brittany Cavallaro
While Jamie struggles through his senior year, Charlotte, on the run from Lucien Moriarty and her own mistakes, is manipulated into reforming their detective team by a quiet observer who wants to see them both suffer.
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Emergency Contact
by Mary H. K Choi
After a chance encounter, Penny and Sam become each other's emergency contacts and find themselves falling in love digitally, without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.
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Hero At The Fall
by Alwyn Hamilton
When gunslinging Amani Al'Hiza escaped her dead-end town, she never imagined she'd join a revolution, let alone lead one. But after the bloodthirsty Sultan of Miraji imprisoned the Rebel Prince Ahmed in the mythical city of Eremot, she doesn't have a choice.
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I Have Lost My Way
by Gayle Forman
A talented singer who is losing her voice, a gay teen on the brink of running away to find the boy he loves and a city newcomer reeling from a tragedy collide in Central Park and gradually reveal to each other the losses that have made them feel out of control.
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In Search Of Us
by Ava Dellaira
Relates the stories of Marilyn who, at age seventeen, fell in love with James, left her stage-mother, and set out on her own and Angie, her now seventeen-year-old daughter, who returns to Hollywood seeking her father.
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Lost Crow Conspiracy
by Rosalyn Eves
When the Praetheria she believed to be her peaceful allies begin wreaking havoc throughout her world, Anna turns for help to fellow outlaw Matyas, also known as the King of Crows, to outmaneuver devastating conspiracies.
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More Than We Can Tell
by Brigid Kemmerer
When Rev Fletcher and Emma Blue meet, they both long to share secrets, his of being abused by his birth father, hers of her parents' failing marriage.
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Not If I Save You First
by Ally Carter
Six years ago Maddie lived in Washington D.C. with her father, a Secret Service agent and her best friend Logan, the President's son; but after her father was wounded in an attempted kidnapping the two of them moved to a remote cabin in Alaska and Logan never replied to her letters--but now he has suddenly turned up on her doorstep.
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Obsidio
by Amie Kaufman
A conclusion the trilogy. Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao.
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Orphan Monster Spy
by Matt Killeen
After mother is shot at a checkpoint in 1939 Germany, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jewish teen agrees to help a mysterious man who asks her to help the resistance against the Third Reich by posing as the daughter of a wealthy Nazi to gain access to a scientist's weapon designs.
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Reflection
by Elizabeth Lim
When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death.
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Restore Me
by Tahereh Mafi
Taking over as the new Supreme Commander of Sector 45, Juliette Ferrars is challenged to use her power for good in the aftermath of a tragedy.
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The Astonishing Color Of After
by Emily X. R. Pan
A teen grieving the loss of her mother travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time and search for her mother's spirit while uncovering tragic family secrets.
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The Beloved Wild
by Melissa Ostrom
In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long.
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The Final Six
by Alexandra Monir
Drafted into the International Space Training Camp to train alongside other elites to establish a human colony on one of Jupiter's moons, a champion swimmer and a science genius become suspicious of the program's actual purpose.
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Squirrel Meets World
by Shannon Hale
Doreen Green, is a little too busy wiping out crime in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood to focus on her overdue homework. That's because she also happens to be Squirrel Girl. After foiling the nefarious plot of an amateur Super Villain, Squirrel Girl is finally finding her groove. Doreen, on the other hand, is still trying to navigate all the pitfalls that come with middle school.
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The Wicked Deep
by Shea Ernshaw
Three sisters, drowned as witches in Sparrow, Oregon, in the 1800s, return each summer for revenge but Penny, seventeen, is determined to stop them to save the boy she loves.
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Time Bomb
by Joelle Charbonneau
Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb goes off, and must fight to survive while discovering who among them is the bomber.
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