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New Young Adult December 2018
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Any Second
by Kevin Emerson
Kidnapped, abused, and brainwashed for five years, Elian is stopped in his mission to bomb a mall by Maya, who has crippling anxiety, and neither one will ever be the same again.
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Empress of All Seasons
by Emiko Jean
Training all her life to win her generation's magical competition and become the next empress of Honoku, Mari hides her identity as a forbidden half-supernatural being while bonding with a prince who has no desire to inherit the throne.
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Five Feet Apart
by Rachael Lippincott
A teen on the waiting list for a lung transplant faces an impossible choice when her infection risks prevent her from getting within five feet of the boy she loves, a fellow patient who is determined to experience life outside the hospital. Movie tie-in.
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Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix
by Julie C. Dao
A sequel to Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, an exiled Princess Jade reluctantly embarks on a quest to raise the Dragon Lords and defeat her ruthless empress stepmother, an endeavor that tests the limits of her resolve against the darkness growing inside of her.
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Little White Lies
by Jennifer Barnes
An 18-year-old auto mechanic, raised by a down-on-her-luck single mom, allows her wealthy estranged grandmother to bribe her into becoming a Southern debutante in the hope of learning the identity of her father.
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Love a la Mode
by Stephanie Kate Strohm
High school juniors Rosie Radeke and Henry Yi, both enrolled in an elite cooking program in Paris, must balance rivalry and romance.
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Skyward
by Brandon Sanderson
The best-selling author of the Mistborn books presents a first entry in a new series about a girl from a world under constant alien attack who dreams of becoming a war-time pilot to determine the fate of humanity's future.
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The Storyteller
by Traci Chee
A conclusion to the best-selling trilogy that began with The Reader finds Sefia resolving to protect her beloved Archer from a Guard plot against the Five Kingdoms, an effort that is complicated by an ancient prophecy about Archer's role in a fateful war.
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This Splintered Silence
by Kayla Olson
Prematurely elevated to be the leader of a space station when every first-generation crew member is wiped out by a deadly virus, Lindley navigates catastrophic challenges to help her people survive before a suspicious death reveals a killer in their midst.
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Umbertouched
by Livia Blackburne
Zivah and Dineas prepare for battle against the Amparan Empire as Zivah struggles with the effects of rose plague.
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The Heartbreakers
by Ali Novak
When her triplet sister Cara is diagnosed with leukemia, eighteen-year-old Stella puts her dreams on hold to move home and be with her family, but when she starts spending time with the lead singer of Cara's favorite band, will Stella resent him for taking her attention away from her sister--or will he help Stella find the courage to live her own life?
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The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
The daughter of devout immigrants discovers the power of slam poetry and begins participating in a school club as part of her effort to understand her mother's strict religious beliefs and her own developing relationship to the world.
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We'll Fly Away
by Bryan Bliss
Alternating between a third-person account of senior year and letters from death row, a young man untangles a chain of devastating circumstances that led to his conviction, from changes in a lifelong best friendship and the pursuit of an athletic scholarship to the possible losses of siblings in the wake of an alcoholic parent's incestuous attacks. By the author of No Parking at the End Times.
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