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	Black Sheep
	
 by Rachel Harrison
Recommended by: Rachel 
 Returning home to the family farm for her beloved cousin Rosie's wedding, Vesper must reckon with her family's beliefs and her own crisis of faith when her homecoming unearths a terrifying secret.
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	Dark Ride
	
 by Louis Berney
Recommended by: Sarah V.
 Twenty-one-year-old easy-going stoner Hardy "Hardly" Reed steps up to the responsibility when he encounters two children who are clearly being harmed by someone.
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	Gideon the Ninth
	
 by Tamsyn Muir
Recommended by: Sarah S.
 Raised in a hostile undead world, a lesbian swordswoman becomes a bodyguard to a necromancer to secure her freedom in a solar system of dark magic and cutthroat politics.
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	Happiness Falls
	
 by Angie Kim
Recommended by: Sarah R. 
 When her father goes missing and the only witness is her younger brother Eugene who has Angelman syndrome and cannot speak, Mia finds their desperate search calling everything they know about him and themselves into question—and that the most personal secrets may be at the heart of his disappearance.
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	The Reformatory
	
 by Tananarive Due
Recommended by: Brandee
 In the Jim Crow South, 12-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., who can see ghosts, is sent to The Reformatory where boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, while his sister Gloria rallies everyone in Florida to get him out before it's too late.
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	Straight Shooter
	
 by Stephen A. Smith
Recommended by: Lori
 Revealing who he really is when the cameras are off, America's most popular sports media figure writes about the greatest highs and deepest lows of his life and career, while sharing his signature, uninhibited opinions about current political and social issues.
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