May 2019 list by L. Buehler
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Again, But Better
by Christine Riccio
Feeling unfulfilled by a first college year spent entirely studying, a pre-med student signs up for a semester abroad in London, where her pursuits of friendship, romance and adventure are complicated by fish-out-of-water realities.
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Aurora Rising
by Amie Kaufman
Relegated by a misguided act of heroism to a squad comprised of his school's hopeless misfits, a graduating cadet in a 24th-century space academy rescues a centuries-hibernating girl from interdimensional space only to be swept up in an interstellar war millions of years in the making.
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The Candle and the Flame
by Nafiza Azad
The death of a powerful leader and echoes of a violent past draw a young woman from a thriving Silk Road city into a magical war between two clans of formidable djinn.
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Finale
by Stephanie Garber
A conclusion to the best-selling series that includes Legendary finds Tella struggling to choose between the throne-claiming Legend and a former enemy, while Scarlett faces the impossible in the wake of a life-changing discovery.
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Girl Gone Viral
by Arvin Ahmadi
A 17-year-old prodigy in a technical boarding school engages in an escalating series of hacks and viral deceptions to gain an audience with the virtual reality billionaire behind her father's mysterious disappearance.
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Kingsbane
by Claire Legrand
A follow-up to the best-selling Furyborn finds the anointed Rielle working to repair the angel Gate and turning spy to protect her beloved prince, while her future successor Eliana races against time to prevent her own corruption and save a dying friend.
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Let Me Hear a Rhyme
by Tiffany D. Jackson
Three Brooklyn teens plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he is still alive, in a vibrant standalone novel by the NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Monday's Not Coming.
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The Lost Coast
by Amy Rose Capetta
Summoned by a spell halfway across the country to the Lost Coast, Danny finds herself among the Grays, a coven of openly queer witches who challenge her perspectives and ask for her help finding a missing group member, before the discovery of a dead boy reveals a malevolent enemy.
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The Rule of Many
by Ashley Saunders
Fleeing a death sentence into the relative safety of Canada, fugitive twins Ava and Mira join a gifted young programmer and an abused labor-camp escapee in a growing rebellion against the power-grabbing Governor Roth.
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Theodore Boone: The Accomplice
by John Grisham
Theodore Boone, the ever-clever lawyer-in-training, returns in this newest adventure from the best-selling master of the modern legal thriller to find one of Theo’s best friends, Woody Lambert, under arrest for a crime he didn’t commit, a situation that compels Theo to focus his skills on exonerating Woody and shielding him from an unforgiving youth court system.
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We Are the Perfect Girl
by Ariel Kaplan
A warmhearted retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac finds two teens, the outgoing Aphra and the beautiful Bethany, working together in an unintentionally escalating deception to win the heart of a mutual crush.
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With the Fire on High
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Navigating the challenges of finishing high school while caring for a daughter, talented cook Emoni Santiago struggles with a lack of time and money that complicate her dream of working in a professional kitchen.
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