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| Sisters in the Wind by Angeline BoulleyWhen Lucy meets someone who claims to help Native American foster kids reconnect with their communities, she’s skeptical. She’s also pretty busy trying to outwit a violent stalker. Fans of Angeline Boulley’s Firekeeper’s Daughter and Warrior Girl Unearthed will recognize familiar characters in this powerful mystery. |
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| Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories by Cynthia Leitich Smith, editorSandy June’s Legendary Frybread Drive-In is a food truck that appears wherever Indigenous people across North America need to meet. It provides the setting for the linked stories in this touching and magical anthology that takes readers from Hawai’i to Alaska to Manitoba and many liminal places in between. |
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Salvacion
by Sandra Proudman
With rising tension in Alta California after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, seventeen-year-old Lola de La Pena becomes the masked vigilante Salvacion to protect her family and town from a man wielding deadly magic, but her mission is complicated when she begins falling for Alejandro, a member of his dangerous entourage.
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| My Perfect Family by Khadijah VanBrakleWhen Leena’s estranged grandfather and great aunt come into her life for the first time, she begins to experience both the joys and the pressures of having family beyond her single mother. This thought-provoking coming of age story explores religion, race, and grief with nuance and compassion. |
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| The House of Quiet by Kiersten WhiteImpoverished children who fail to adjust to the Procedure meant to give them supernatural powers end up at the House of Quiet. Birdie gets a job there in order to find her missing sister, but instead she finds aristocratic teens who pull her into a dangerous conspiracy. Read-alikes: Ginny Myers Sain’s Dark and Shallow Lies; Quinn Diacon-Furtado’s The Lilies.
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| The Bad Ones by Melissa AlbertBefore Becca disappeared, she left clues only her former best friend Nora could decode. Now Nora must figure out how Becca’s disappearance ties to a childhood game of theirs. Fans of urban legends will enjoy this creepy supernatural horror laced with mystery.
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| Aisle Nine by Ian X. ChoTwo years ago, demon-spewing portals to hell opened all over the world, which are now managed by the Vanguard Corporation. When a portal opens in the discount store where Jasper works, he decides to take action and save the world himself. Read-alikes: Alex Brown’s Damned If You Do; Lorence Alison’s Solstice. |
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| The Dark We Know by Wen-Yi LeeHome for her abusive father’s funeral, art student Isadora Chang reunites with an estranged friend. Together they investigate their mutual friends' deaths. Is there a connection with the gruesome sketches Isadora doesn’t remember drawing? This enthralling Gothic novel spins horrors from childhood trauma and small-town secrets. |
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Portrait of a shadow
by Meriam Metoui
Clearing out her older sister Inez's studio, Mae is strangely drawn to a canvas painted with heavy layers of white in an ornate antique frame and decides to trace Inez's last steps in hopes of finding the truth, certain her disappearance is related to the painting.
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I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me
by Jamison Shea
Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. She will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. With retribution on her mind, she surpasses her bitter and privileged peers, leaving broken bodies behind her on her climb to stardom. But even as undeniable as she is, Laure is not the only monster around. And her vicious desires make her a perfect target for slaughter. As she descends into madness and the mystifying underworld beneath her, she is faced with the ultimate choice: continue to break herself for scraps of validation or succumb to the darkness that wants her exactly as she is -- monstrous heart and all. That is, if the god-killer doesn't catch her first.
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