May 2019 list by L. Buehler
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After the Fire
by Will Hill
Before, she lived inside the fence. Before, she was never allowed to leave the property, never allowed to talk to Outsiders, never allowed to speak her mind. Because Father John controlled everything—and Father John liked rules. Disobeying Father John came with terrible consequences. But there are lies behind Father John's words. Outside, there are different truths. Then came the fire.
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The Everlasting Rose
by Dhonielle Clayton
A follow-up to The Belles finds Camille navigating the imperial forces of the evil Queen Sophia and forging ties with an underground resistance movement to find her kingdom's missing rightful leader, Princess Charlotte.
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The Fall of Crazy House
by James Patterson
Barely escaping the Crazy House alive, twins Becca and Cassie, now trained fighters, race to free the people of the former United States from a despotic government that threatens to turn the sisters into the very thing they hate.
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The Last Namsara
by Kristen Ciccarelli
Trying to escape her past and avoid her bleak future, Asha takes a chance to gain her freedom in exchange for the life of a powerful dragon.
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Once & Future
by Amy Rose Capetta
Resets the Arthurian legend in outer space, with King Arthur reincarnated as seventeen-year-old Ari, a female king whose quest is to stop a tyrranical corporate government, aided by a teenaged Merlin.
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People Like Us
by Dana Mele
When a girl is found dead at her elite boarding school, soccer-star Kay Donovan follows a scavenger hunt which implicates suspects increasingly close to her, unraveling her group of popular friends and perfectly constructed life.
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The Red Scrolls of Magic
by Cassandra Clare
The best-selling author of Lady Midnight and the award-winning author of The Lives of Tao present the first book in a new series in which High Warlock Magnus Bane and his Shadowhunter boyfriend, Alec Lightwood, combat a Parisian cult that Magnus accidentally founded years earlier.
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Sherwood
by Meagan Spooner
A gender-bending, romantic retelling of the Robin Hood legend finds Maid Marian stepping into a late Lord of Locksley's shoes to protect the town's oppressed citizens from the Sheriff of Nottingham, an effort complicated by an unwanted marriage proposal from Guy of Gisborne.
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The Similars
by Rebecca Hanover
This fall, six new students are joining the junior class at the elite Darkwood Academy. But they aren't your regular over-achieving teens. They're clones. And they're joining the class alongside their originals.
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When Summer Ends
by Jessica Pennington
A former community golden boy who was forced to quit pitching because of his sight loss, and a straightlaced girl navigating her own difficult challenges impulsively embark on a shared summer of self-discovery and taking chances.
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A Whole New World
by Liz Braswell
In an alternate take on the Disney film, Jafar, not Aladdin finds the lamp and uses it to attain power while a poor Aladdin and displaced Jasmine must unite the common people in rebellion against the evil usurper.
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Wicked Saints
by Emily A. Duncan
A debut novel inspired by the Joan of Arc legend follows the experiences of a peasant girl with a magical heritage who protects her people in a century-long holy war, until a brutal defeat forces her to work with a deadly adversary to stop a mad king.
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You'd Be Mine
by Erin Hahn
Warned by her Gran about the dark side of her country music legacy, the daughter of two tragically deceased stars reluctantly agrees to join the summer tour of a pop idol who needs her to join him to prevent him from being dropped by his music label, an arrangement that is complicated by fan speculation about a romance between them.
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