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The Corruption of Hollis Brown
by K. Ancrum
Hollis Brown feels trapped in his struggling small town but then meets Walt, a spirit adrift for generations, who takes over Hollis' body and mind, until Walt and Hollis start to work together and an unspeakable bond grows between them.
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Royal Heirs Academy
by Lindsey Duga
King Leander Eldana has ruled Ashland for 50 years without naming an heir, requiring his four teenage grandchildren to compete at their glamorous boarding school for the inheritance of the European kingdom, in a novel with secret alliances, enemies-to-lovers romance and revenge.
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Bemused
by Farrah Rochon
Five teenaged sisters learn their mother is the Goddess of Memory and that she's been hiding from the gods of Mount Olympus to keep her daughters safe, in the origin story of the five Muses from Disney's Hercules.
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Honeysuckle and Bone
by Trisha Tobias
Carina Marshall wants to reinvent herself in Jamaica, her mother's homeland, where she has an au pair gig for a wealthy, politically powerful family, but when strange things start happening to her, she must figure out what is haunting her.
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All the Love Under the Vast Sky
by Kip Wilson
Twelve short stories in verse written by best-selling and award-winning authors explore the highs and lows of love—romantic, platonic, familial and self-love, in an anthology that embraces the messiness and joy of all kinds of love.
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| Artifice by Sharon CameronTo keep her family afloat during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Isa sells a forged Rembrandt to the Nazis, pulling her into dangerous work smuggling Jewish babies to safety and forging more art. This immersive historical thriller is ideal for fans of Ruta Sepetys and Elizabeth Wein. |
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| Wings in the Wild by Margarita EngleSoleida flees Cuba alone when her parents are arrested for their artistic expression. In Costa Rica, she meets Daniel, a Cuban American boy escaping California’s wildfires and helping refugees. Together, they work to protect both artistic freedom and the environment. Read-alikes: K.X. Song’s An Echo in the City; Laura Taylor Namey’s With Love, Echo Park. |
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| The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee by Ellen OhWhile grappling with her family’s narrow vision for her future, Mina draws a webcomic inspired by K-dramas and superheroes. When a freak storm sends her into her own webcomic, she must defeat the villain she created and return to reality. This novel grounds its high-drama plot in sincere emotional growth. |
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| A Forgery of Roses by Jessica S. OlsonMyra is a Prodigy, able to heal people through portrait painting. Desperate for the money she would earn for bringing the governor’s son back from the dead, she puts herself in the path of a murderer. Read-alikes: Margaret Robinson’s An Enchantment of Ravens; Renee Ahdieh’s The Beautiful. |
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The Art Thieves
by Andrea L. Rogers
In 2052, Stevie, a Cherokee girl working at a museum in Texas, with the world in a constant cycle of drought and superstorm, ice and fire, discovers it's about to get a whole lot worse when a mysterious boy from the future arrives and tells her what's to come.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up!
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Centerville Library
111 W. Spring Valley Rd.
Centerville, OH 45458
(937) 433-8091
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Woodbourne Library 6060 Far Hills Avenue Centerville, OH 45459
(937) 435-3700
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