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Squire
by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas
GRAPHIC NOVEL. Hiding her status as a girl from conquered lands while training as a Squire on her quest to become a Knight, the only path to true citizenship, Aiza navigates friendships and rivalries until she discovers the military’s endgame.
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Light from uncommon stars
by Ryka Aoki
SCIENCE FICTION. To reclaim her damned soul, a gifted, but cursed violinist must take on seven students and try to entice each to trade their soul for fame while a starship captain races to stop the end of existence.
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The handmaid's tale
by Margaret Atwood
DYSTOPIAN FICTION. A chilling look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
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Firekeeper's daughter
by Angeline Boulley
MYSTERY FICTION. Treated like an outsider in both her hometown and on the Ojibwe reservation, a half-Native American science geek and star hockey player places her dreams on hold in the wake of a family tragedy. A first novel.
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
DYSTOPIAN FICTION/CLASSIC. A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit, in a chilling novel of a frightening near-future world.
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Any sign of life
by Rae Carson
DYSTOPIAN FICTION. Waking up from a deadly illness to a world that has perished, Paige Miller struggles to endure her new reality and learns that there are worse things than being alone.
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We are not free
by Traci Chee
HISTORICAL FICTION. Growing up together in the community of Japantown, San Francisco, four second-generation Japanese American teens find their bond tested by widespread discrimination and the mass incarcerations of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
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The one hundred years of Lenni and Margot : a novel
by Marianne Cronin
FICTION. Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, 17-year-old Lenni and 83-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create 100 paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
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Mexican Whiteboy
by Matt De La Pena
FICTION. As a child of a Mexican father and blonde, blue-eyed mother, Danny finds it difficult that everyone thinks they know who and what he is just by the color of his skin and so goes to spend time with his father in Mexico in the hopes of getting in touch with his roots and the person he believes himself to be.
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The witch's heart
by Genevieve Gornichec
FANTASY FICTION. A subversive reimagining of Norse mythology traces the experiences of a banished witch whose unexpected passionate relationship with the trickster Loki produces three remarkable offspring before her family is targeted by wrathful gods.
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Four fish : the future of the last wild food
by Paul Greenberg
NONFICTION. A seafood journalist who has written for National Geographic traces the history of bass, cod, salmon and tuna fishing while assessing the critical state of today's commercial fishing industry, citing the roles of over-fishing and fish farming while recommending specific protections.
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Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
by Gail Honeyman
FICTION. A socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness
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The library of the dead by T. L. Huchu FANTASY FICTION. Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghost talker, and she now speaks to Edinburgh's dead - carrying messages to the living - but when she learns someone is bewitching children she investigates and discovers an occult library, a taste for hidden magic, and a wealth of Edinburgh's dark secrets.
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How lucky : a novel
by Will Leitch
MYSTERY. Unable to speak or move without a wheelchair, Daniel, spending hours observing his neighborhood from his front porch, believes he has witnessed the kidnapping of a young college student and vows to solve this mystery.
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Dairy queen
by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
FICTION. After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
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How to do nothing : resisting the attention economy
by Jenny Odell
NONFICTION. An award-winning strategic guide to restructuring the capitalist perspectives that define success today explains how to recognize one’s attention as an active resource that readers can deliberately refocus to arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and achievement.
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A silent voice. 1
by Yoshitoki Ōima
GRAPHIC NOVEL/MANGA. Shoya Ishida seeks redemption years after bullying Shoko Nishimiya, an elementary school classmate with impaired hearing whom he taunted to such a degree that she was forced to change schools.
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Heartstopper. Volume 1
by Alice Oseman
GRAPHIC NOVEL. A heartwarming celebration of friendship, first love and coming out follows the unlikely relationship between a shy teen and a popular rugby player who become more than friends while navigating the ups and downs of high school.
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The bell jar : a novel
by Sylvia Plath
FICTION/CLASSIC. Chronicles one young woman's emotional breakdown as she journeys from the glamorous world of Manhattan publishing to the isolation of the asylum.
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The field guide to the North American teenager
by Ben Philippe
FICTION. When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."
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Aristotle and Dante dive into the waters of the world by Benjamin Alire SáenzIn this sequel to the critically acclaimed Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Ari and Dante are determined to forge a path for themselves in a world that doesn’t understand them.
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Call me Indian : from the trauma of residential school to becoming the NHL's first Treaty Indigenous player
by Fred Sasakamoose
MEMOIR. Fred Sasakamoose, torn from his home at the age of seven, endured the horrors of residential school for a decade before becoming one of 120 players in the most elite hockey league in the world. He has been heralded as the first Indigenous player with Treaty status in the NHL, making his official debut as a 1954 Chicago Black Hawks player on Hockey Night in Canada and teaching Foster Hewitt how to pronounce his name. After twelve games, he returned home. He continued to play for another decade in leagues around Western Canada. This isn't just a hockey story; Sasakamoose's groundbreaking memoir intersects Canadian history and Indigenous politics, and follows his journey to reclaim pride in an identity that had previously been used against him.
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I must betray you
by Ruta Sepetys
HISTORICAL FICTION. In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country.
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The girls I've been
by Tess Sharpe
MYSTERY. When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel.
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Lore Olympus. Volume one
by Rachel Smythe
GRAPHIC NOVEL. Offers a contemporary retelling in graphic novel format of the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades.
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What big teeth
by Rose Szabo
HORROR: Returning to Maine after years at boarding school, Eleanor Zarrin barely remembers her monstrous family, but she sets off a series of events that could destroy them all.
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The Lincoln highway
by Amor Towles
FICTION. In June of 1954, 18-year-old Emmett Watson, released after serving 15 months for involuntary manslaughter, discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car and have hatched a different plan for Emmett’s future.
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