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Burn the Kingdom Down
by Addie Thorley
One year ago, Rowenna Harrack, the crown princess of Tashir, left her homeland in a wedding dress of chains--sent away to the enemy nation of Vanzador as a captive bride. Now, Rowenna is dead. Brought home in a coffin after an alleged fall from a cliff. Second-born princess, Indira, knows her sister's death was no accident. Desperate for truth and vengeance, Indira agrees to wed the prince so she can infiltrate Vanzador, find Rowenna's murderer, and burn their kingdom to the ground. Indira's plan is simple, she will make nice until she can find out how to avenge her sister and free her country from the rival nation's stranglehold. But when Indira arrives, nothing is as terrible as Rowenna described. As Indira grows closer to her new husband, Prince Alaric, and uncovers more about Vanzador, the source of its powers, and what happened during Rowenna's final days, she's no longer sure what--and who--to believe. Because everyone, even her sister, has secrets. Deadly ones. Sharp as a dagger and just as deadly, Indira's daring quest for revenge and her romance forged in fury will keep you guessing and gasping until the breathless end. -Sarah Glenn Marsh, author of the Reign of the Fallen series
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The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams
by Michelle Kulwicki
In this adventure-packed portal fantasy, three teens discover a gateway to a mythical Labyrinth in the Appalachian Mountains Barren's Peak, West Virginia, is not a place anyone would call magical, but Thea LaGuerre calls it home. A high school drop-out whose mother died in an accident, Thea is stuck working part-time jobs just to make ends meet. The most she has to look forward to are barn parties where she can make out with Callum, the one interesting boy who moved to town six months ago. Thea doesn't know it yet, but Callum was sent to Barren's Peak to watch her. He was raised within the magicians' order, a shadowy organization meant to keep humanity safe from an underworld of monsters. Callum would sacrifice anyone, including himself, to help their cause, but he still can't help falling into Thea's orbit. She's the first person he's felt seen by since his childhood sweetheart, Oliver--who he hasn't seen since Oliver's banishment from the order. But Oliver hasn't given up on Callum or on magic. Following a magical creature's trail to Barren's Peak, Oliver happens upon Callum and Thea at a barn party that turns into a monster-overrun massacre. To save Callum and the girl he's protecting from a wave of deadly fairies, Oliver opens a portal for the three of them to flee into the Labyrinth. To get home again, Thea, Oliver, and Callum will have to work together to survive the Labyrinth's trials and discover the threads that brought them there. Labyrinth's End Duology Book 1
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Piper at the Gates of Dusk
by Patrick Ness
It's been twenty years since the monstrous war that almost tore New World apart, and there's a new generation on the planet. Todd and Viola's sons Ben and Max have known only peace growing up on the family farm outside a bustling human settlement. They dream of the usual things, like school and adventure, until the nightmares begin . . . A sudden sickness has infected the young people of New World with Noise in the form of their worst thoughts about themselves. Some suspect the Spackle, the indigenous people with whom humans have a very uneasy truce. Others wonder about a connection to a mysterious object looming in the sky. And then, one by one, the children of New World begin to disappear. Ben, with his mother's logical mind, and Max, with his father's courageous heart, become caught up in separate quests for answers, journeys that will test their beliefs in their parents, each other, and in their very existence on the planet. Patrick Ness makes a masterful return to New World in this timely work of science fiction, one that looks at the interplay of fear, power, and propaganda, and at the stories we tell ourselves.
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Release Me (Deluxe Limited Edition)
by Tahereh Mafi
Rosabelle Wolff had a plan. Now she wants revenge. To save her sister she needs to get back home and destroy the system that created her. Rosabelle's greatest strength is her ability to deaden her mind and body; it's the only way to survive the surveillance state of Ark Island. But lately her heart has been beating harder; her thoughts are spiraling; her defenses are coming undone. And there's only one person to blame. James Anderson had a plan. Now he has nothing but problems. Rosabelle might be the ally they need in a fight against The Reestablishment, but no one wants to trust an enemy assassin. It doesn't help that Rosabelle's not much of a talker, doesn't work well in groups, and kills people on instinct. Falling for her has cost James nearly everything--but keeping her safe might help save his world. If only he could convince his older brother. Aaron Warner Anderson has a headache. Something dark is coming, and Rosabelle's arrival is just a prelude. In her, he sees shades of himself he can't trust, and worse: he can no longer get a read on the girl. She's a dead battery, emanating no emotional feedback. At least not until James walks into a room...Volcanic romantic tension, breathless reveals, breakneck action--and a dystopian world that never stops raising the stakes: Welcome back to The New Republic.
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The Bloody and the Damned
by Becca Coffindaffer
In Trinity, a brutal metal world, eighteen-year-old Val, an assassin with outlawed teleportation powers, believes her identity is a secret until her sisters are kidnapped, forcing her to embark on a rescue mission that uncovers a conspiracy capable of upending Trinity.
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Girl Reflected in Knife
by Anica Mrose Rissi
After moving yet again with her unstable mother, seventeen-year-old Destiny experiences her first heartbreak and tells a lie that spirals out of control, forcing her to confront the blurred lines between truth and fantasy to reclaim her life.
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The Misdirection of Fault Lines
by Anna Gracia
Three Asian American teen girls look for direction in their lives as they compete against each other at an elite tennis tournament.
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They Want Us Dead
by CL Montblanc
When a true-crime meetup at a creepy Victorian mansion ends in a murder, seventeen-year-old Sam Tombs must work with their internet nemesis, Dylan, to clear their name and find the killer before their own death become tomorrows trending content.
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