March 2020 list by K. Pearson
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Bent Heavens
by Daniel Kraus
Fed up with her missing father’s delusions about alien abductions, Liv endeavors to destroy her father’s “alien traps,” before an astonishing discovery forces Liv and her friend, Doug, to make an impossible choice.
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Bone Crier's Moon
by Kathryn Purdie
Trained since birth to become the matriarch of the ancient Bone Crier guides for the dead, Ailesse prepares to complete her rite of passage only to be kidnapped by the man and soulmate she is supposed to kill.
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Cloak of Night
by Evelyn Skye
Fighting to save their kingdom in the wake of the devastating Ceremony of Two Hundred Hearts and Empress Aki’s disappearance, Sora and her companions uncover a plot by the Dragon Prince and the god of war that reveals the unexpected dangers of ryuu magic.
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Deathless Divide
by Justina Ireland
A sequel to the best-selling Dread Nation finds a devastating loss throwing everything Jane believes into question, before encounters with familiar faces in Summerland enmeshes her in a maelstrom of deception and private demons.
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Ember Queen
by Laura Sebastian
Imprisoned in her own country for more than a decade, Princess Theodosia leads a misfit army of rebels to overthrow a terrifying Kaiserin usurper who would use dark magic to enslave the kingdom, in a conclusion to the trilogy that includes Lady Smoke.
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Harley in the Sky
by Akemi Dawn Bowman
The Greatest Showman meets This Is Us by way of Sarah Dessen in this heart-wrenching, hopeful contemporary novel about a multiracial teen who risks it all to follow her dreams by joining the circus, from the critically acclaimed author of Starfish.
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A Heart So Fierce and Broken
by Brigid Kemmerer
The curse is finally broken, but Prince Rhen of Emberfall faces darker troubles still. Rumors circulate that he is not the true heir and that forbidden magic has been unleashed in Emberfall. Loyalties are tested and new love blooms in a kingdom on the brink of war.
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The Kingdom of Back
by Marie Lu
Born with a gift for music, Nannerl Mozart has just one wish--to be remembered forever. As Nannerl's hope grows dimmer with each passing year, the talents of her beloved younger brother, Wolfgang, only seem to shine brighter. His brilliance begins to eclipse her own, until one day a mysterious stranger from a magical land appears with an irresistible offer. He has the power to make her wish come true--but his help may cost her everything.
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The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly
by Meredith Tate
When her enigmatic older sister goes missing in the wake of a drug deal gone wrong, band-geek Ivy follows a string of clues that reveal dark secrets and lead her toward the dangerous people who are holding her sister hostage.
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The Life Below
by Alexandra Monir
A sequel to The Final Six finds Naomi and her fellow teen astronauts investigating the fate of their predecessors on the Europa colony, while back on a deteriorating Earth, Leo works with a renegade scientist to warn the crew about hostile extraterrestrials.
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Most Likely
by Sarah Watson
Four best-friend high school seniors, one of whom is unknowingly destined to be the President, navigate private insecurities, ambitions and obstacles while supporting each other through their setbacks.
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Red Hood
by Elana K. Arnold
Living a quiet life with her grandmother in Seattle, Bisou Martel is attacked by a mysterious wolf on the night of her school’s homecoming before confronting difficult questions about her past and her growing sense of empowerment.
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The Sound of Stars
by Alechia Dow
Can a girl who risks her life for books and an alien who loves forbidden pop music work together to save humanity? This road trip is truly out of this world! A beautiful and thrilling read for fans of Marie Lu and Veronica Roth.
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Spindle and Dagger
by J. Anderson Coats
Elen must live a precarious lie in order to survive among the medieval Welsh warband that killed her family. For three years, Elen has had plenty of food, clothes to wear, and a bed to sleep in that she shares with the man who brought the warband to her door. Then Owain abducts Nest, the wife of a Norman lord, and her three children, triggering full-out war. As war rages, and her careful lies threaten to unravel, Elen begins to look to Nest and see a different life — if she can decide, once and for all, where her loyalties lie.
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Storm From the East
by Joanna Hathaway
While the Safire scheme to depose the last royal king in the South, Aurelia works with local journalists to inflame anti-Safire sentiment, determined to save the kingdom Athan has been ordered to destroy.
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Straight On Till Morning
by Liz Braswell
Enduring a dull life when her brothers depart for school, 16-year-old Wendy Darling is sent to Ireland to become a governess and writes tales of her imaginary adventures in Never Land before an unexpected deal with Captain Hook offers her a chance to escape.
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Thorn
by Intisar Khanani
A fantasy retelling of the “Goose Girl” fairy tale follows the experiences of a betrothed princess who is robbed of her identity by a mysterious sorceress before a threat against her betrothed prince compels her to make a dangerous choice.
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The Twin
by Natasha Preston
After sixteen-year-old Ivy's twin sister, Iris, moves in with her and their father, Ivy learns that Iris is trying to push her out of her own life--and may be responsible for their mother's death.
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The Vanishing Deep
by Astrid Scholte
Seventeen-year-old Tempe brings her dead sister back to life for twenty-four hours in hopes of unraveling the truth behind their parents' death.
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The Warrior's Curse
by Jennifer A Nielsen
Newly crowned Simon attends to royal duties and secretly harbors a love for the exiled Kestra, who embraces her growing magic to help protect the kingdom from the evil Lord Endrick.
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We Are Blood and Thunder
by Kesia Lupo
Lena, a cryptling, and Constance, the duke's banished daughter, must use their forbidden magic to discover who cast a spell over their homeland, shrouding it in deadly clouds and sealing it off.
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