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With the fire on high by Elizabeth AcevedoNavigating the challenges of finishing high school while caring for a daughter, talented cook Emoni Santiago struggles with a lack of time and money that complicate her dream of working in a professional kitchen. By the National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X. Availability: |
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Amnesty : a novel by Aravind AdigaA young undocumented immigrant in Sydney, Australia is forced to choose between risking deportation and reporting the murder of a female client. Availability: |
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Girl gone viral by Arvin AhmadiA 17-year-old prodigy in a technical boarding school engages in an escalating series of hacks and viral deceptions to gain an audience with the virtual reality billionaire behind her father's mysterious disappearance. Availability: |
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Internment by Samira AhmedSet in a futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence. Availability: |
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Emma by Jane AustenContent with her life and not interested in marriage, Emma Woodhouse, a rich and beautiful heiress, causes complications with her matchmaking schemes. Availability: |
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Lovely war by Julie BerryWhen immortals Ares and Aphrodite are caught in a World War II-era tryst by the latter's jealous husband, she defends her actions by imparting the tale of four young humans who became connected during World War I. Availability: |
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Sanctuary somewhere by Brenna DimmigAfter learning he is undocumented, high school senior Osmel struggles with the uncertain future ahead of him and harbors resentment towards his sister, who was born in the United States. Availability: |
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The night watchman : a novel by Louise ErdrichA historical novel based on the life of the National Book Award-winning author’s grandfather traces the experiences of a Chippewa Council night watchman in mid-19th-century rural North Dakota who fights Congress to enforce Native American treaty rights. Availability: |
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The Old Man and the Seaby Ernest HemingwayThis is the author's story of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman and his relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. The battle for his catch becomes one of survival against a band of marauding sharks. The story combines the simplicity of a fable, the significance of a parable, and the drama of an epic. Availability: |
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Dig by A. S. KingFive white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter. Availability: |
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Pop by Gordon KormanLonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water. Availability: |
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The gentleman's guide to vice and virtue by Mackenzi LeeVowing to make his yearlong escapade across Europe his last hurrah before taking over the family estate, Henry "Monty" Montague and his best friend Percy find themselves in the middle of a dangerous manhunt involving pirates and highwaymen. Availability: |
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The downstairs girl by Stacey LeeWhen the advice column she secretly writes becomes wildly popular, a young lady’s maid uses her influence to question her society’s fixed ideas about race and gender. Availability: |
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What every girl should know : Margaret Sanger's journey by Jennifer Ann MannIn this fictionalized biography, a teenage Maggie Higgins struggles to balance her responsibilities to her family, society's expectations for women, and her desire to pursue her education and plan for the future. Availability: |
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Where the world ends by Geraldine McCaughreanAn award-winning young adult novel by the best-selling author of Peter Pan in Scarlet traces the story of eight boys who participate in an annual bird-hunting expedition on a remote island only to become stranded when nobody arrives to take them home. Availability: |
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After the shot drops by Randy RibayTold from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood. Availability: |
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Redshirts by John ScalziEnjoying his assignment with the Xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose. Availability: |
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The fountains of silence : a novel by Ruta SepetysDrawn back to his mother’s homeland by the utopian promises of the Franco regime in 1957 Madrid, the photographer son of an oil tycoon bonds with a girl who raises his awareness about the lingering shadows of the Spanish Civil War. Availability: |
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Dear Martin by Nic StoneWriting letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him. Availability: |
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They called us enemy by George TakeiThe iconic actor and activist presents a graphic memoir detailing his experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the hard choices his family made in the face of legalized racism. Availability: |
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Brooklyn : a novel by Colm TóibínLeaving her home in post-World War II Ireland to work as a bookkeeper in Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey discovers a new romance in America with a charming blond Italian man before devastating news threatens her happiness. Availability: |
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Dragon hoops : From Small Steps to Great Leaps by Gene Luen YangAn introverted reader starts understanding local enthusiasm about sports in his school when he gets to know some of his talented athletic peers and discovers that their stories are just as thrilling as the comics he loves. Availability: |
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