August 2020 list by L. Buehler
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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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The Damned
by Renée Ahdieh
A sequel to The Beautiful finds Celine confronting difficult truths and struggling to recover from injuries sustained on a night she cannot fully remember, before she and Bastien uncover dangerous forces that have been hiding for centuries.
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Girl, Serpent, Thorn
by Melissa Bashardoust
Cursed to be poisonous to the touch, Princess Soraya endures a life in seclusion before making fateful decisions about her twin’s upcoming wedding, a young man who is not afraid of her and a demon who holds the answers she seeks.
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Hawk
by James Patterson
Growing up hard and fast in gritty, post-apocalyptic New York City, 17-year-old Hawk, a teen who is not aware of her relation to Max, gives up her search for her biological family before realizing that she is being targeted by an assassin.
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Midnight Sun
by Stephenie Meyer
When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward's version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun.
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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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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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